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Watched the episode last night. drat, that was pretty hard to watch. Not sure I understand the people saying it turned them off the show though, at this point if you don't expect this sort of thing then you must be watching a different show than me. It was over the top with the grimness but it's not like GoT hasn't always been. It was to a rough extent this episode though. Something that especially got me was Ramsey essentially receiving the best news of his life as a direct result of mutilating and torturing a man. Having watched all the horrific things that happened to Theon and then seeing Ramsey get rewarded was way worse to me than Oberyn's head getting popped.
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Aristobulus posted:Eh...Ramsey didn't exactly get rewarded for torturing Theon, he got rewarded for recapturing the fort. Theon was just how he did it, true, but he probably would've got the same reward if he had found another way. True, and I really liked that his father was originally pissed at him for what he did, although I understand that was a result of the loss of value as a hostage as you said and not out of some moral reasoning. I don't know, I just hate watching torture, I can't stand the Saw movies for the same reason. Brutal deaths aren't too bad because they're normally quick and you have the knowledge that it's all tv to lessen the impact. Watching Theon and Ramsey though is just disgusting to me, it makes me feel really dirty to watch.
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Jun 3, 2014 15:42
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Shath Hole posted:Those scenes were very tough to watch, but I feel like they weren't over the top He literally cut off his dick and ate it. I mean it's GoT so it's sort of the nature of the beast but not over the top?
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Jun 3, 2014 15:56
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Shath Hole posted:He didn't eat it, he sent it to his father and sister Wait, really? This whole time I assumed that the sausage in the infamous gif was supposed to be Theon's dong.
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Jun 3, 2014 15:59
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Yeah The Mountain seemed like he won that pretty "handily"
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Jun 3, 2014 16:34
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Skeesix posted:How's this for an issue? The mountain is stabbed through the chest and is coughing up blood but he's quick enough to nab Oberyn immediately after getting knocked down? The guy who's been dancing around him all day while he was totally healthy? Oberyn can't roll away after getting knocked down and wag his finger sassily? It's been said a million times before but Oberyn wasn't in the same mindset in that moment that he was during the fight. When The Mountain was on his feet Oberyn was at 100% but once he thought he'd already won he allowed himself to get emotional and lose focus. This is why The Mountain got the jump on him.
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Jun 3, 2014 19:01
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SmellOfPetroleum posted:Yeah it's probably a frequent thought, but I missed the other posts. I mean her sister is right there too now but I'm sure they'll end up just missing one another because that's a trope that nobody seems to mind using ad naseum.
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Jun 3, 2014 19:48
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Kasonic posted:Why would you do this? It's ok, take comfort in the fact that if you're the kind of person who goes on random forums to spoil things for fans of a tv show you probably lead a pretty pathetic life. You may have read spoilers but he has to look himself in the mirror every morning.
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Jun 4, 2014 02:23
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Grim Up North posted:Ah, I must have misunderstood then. Yeah I think Sansa understands that Littlefinger, like everyone else in a position of power in the show, is capable of doing terrible things if necessary. That's why he asks her if she thinks she knows him, and if I'm remembering correctly she doesn't really give an answer to that. She doesn't know him, not really, but she does know that she's in a position where he wants her around for multiple reasons. That's enough for her to at least know he isn't an immediate threat, to her life anyways, and she can actually start making some drat forward progress. Regarding the show catching up with the books, GRRM has to be feeling pretty tense right now. At the rate that guy gets books out I can't see the books staying ahead without some serious filler in the show.
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Jun 4, 2014 14:16
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I think he's extending his number of books in the hopes that he'll kick the bucket before he finishes them and he never has to write a decent ending because how do you even make an ending to this series without either bumming everyone out or going against the established themes. Death is much simpler. Edit: Now that I think of it, GRRM dying and not finishing the series might just be the most perfect ending possible. PantsBandit fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Jun 4, 2014 14:33
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Even with Stannis the wall doesn't really have a chance of holding, right? The wildling army is pretty drat big.
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Jun 4, 2014 17:57
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precision posted:Also, punching his skull to a pulp would have looked way less stupid than what we got. I didn't think it looked particularly stupid. I don't have any doubt that if a guy that big were in that position over me he could cave my skull in by squeezing hard enough.
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Jun 4, 2014 20:18
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Are we really arguing about the quality of the special effects of a man having his skull popped like a grape? It was horrifying mostly because of the context, not just because of the action and gore.
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Jun 4, 2014 20:37
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Hedrigall posted:That is how images on 2D surfaces work. And now a goon is amazed by this simple fact and is gushing praise about "the way it was shot! Aren't they super clever guys!!!" Who gives a poo poo? You seem really mad about nothing.
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Jun 5, 2014 14:18
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I wonder if Shireen is aware that she briefly had a vagina demon as a half brother/sister/demon.
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Jun 5, 2014 15:12
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:She doesn't listen to Barristan because he hasn't killed anyone. Best swordsman my rear end. So Barristan is basically the Raiden of GoT.
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Jun 5, 2014 18:13
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Bobo the Red posted:Holy poo poo you guys are loving assholes. Stop talking about the books. Especially about when major events happen. There's been literally nothing since this conversation started that could be considered a spoiler but I do agree it should stop because it would be all too easy for someone to let one slip.
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Jun 5, 2014 18:51
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Shath Hole posted:I feel like Yara's claim to fame up to this point is getting finger banged by her brother I looked up Yara on google and found an article stating that they may have offered the part to Theon's real-life sister who is also an actress. But apparently after they told her what it would entail she appropriately responded with no gross what the gently caress is wrong with you.
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Jun 5, 2014 20:16
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Haha seriously what in the gently caress. That girl has a strange relationship with her brother.
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Jun 5, 2014 20:28
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:I think it's possible they're waiting for the battle at the wall to conclude. poo poo's gonna get corpsey, which means they could scoop up Mance's ranks and add them to their own with basically no effort. I mean they're basically immortal without dragon glass weapons, right? Which nobody makes anymore. So until the denizens of Westeros can get their collective poo poo together and start churning those things out the White Walkers get to do whatever they want. Although you do still need numbers to take down, say, a castle. Assuming they're even intelligent enough to do so. And wait they would need war machines to do that as well, or at least a battering ram or something.... Come to think of it why are we supposed to be afraid of these guys? PantsBandit fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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Jun 6, 2014 17:16
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Yeah seems like if he was going to have Jon Snow meet a guy named Bob for breakfast and then look over to see him get disemboweled by a White Walker at lunch but now instead of Bob his name is Tom and some charity just got $10,000 that it's a pretty good idea.
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Jun 6, 2014 17:44
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Accretionist posted:I'm thinking the risen are heat intolerant and would begin rotting anywhere south of Darth Maul's Ice Hotel. It makes sense that in low-fantasy you wouldn't have rot-proofed zombies. Oooh you just made me think of something, what if the White Walkers can actually cause areas around them to freeze when in large enough numbers? I can just imagine a final showdown at King's Landing, with the normal tropical climate replaced by freezing weather, Blackwater Bay frozen solid. But I mean Winter Is Coming anyways so I don't think they'll have to worry about rotting. PantsBandit fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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