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Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
Some more cool speculation to tide you over till July.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUVr_lUxYf8

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Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

https://youtu.be/2WA5c4QHZLU


Watch to the end of the resurrection ship arc and no further.

From the miniseries and first season I kind of just assumed the human cylons were like grunts and the real cylons were this huge faceless enemy like they were in 33 (probably the best episode, also the first). The more we learnt about the cylons the more boring and less threatening they seemed.

Captain Splendid fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jun 14, 2017

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

emanresu tnuocca posted:

It's nice how Ed Sheeran knew the song secretly composed by Symon Silver Tongue in order to blackmail Tyrion!

I hope he ends up in a stew too. He took me right out of the episode.


Glad to see Thomas Turgoose is still getting work though.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Nail Rat posted:

The Iron Islands isn't one of the seven kingdoms, it's a little bastard territory. Is he king of some other kingdom in the books?

Dorne
The Reach
The Westerlands
The North
The Vale
The Stormlands
The Iron Islands


The Riverlands is the non-kingdom

:goonsay:

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Phi230 posted:

Was Domnhall Gleeson a member of the Nice Lannister Soldiers?

I thought so for a moment but no.


Here's little fisher boy though:

Captain Splendid fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jul 17, 2017

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
It was all just for Bran to give some expositional dialogue.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
I'm just glad we got yet another pronunciation of Ch'Vyalthan

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Oliver Reed posted:

Is it me or was the whole "Actually, your translation is wrong! It's technically the prince OR princess!" really awful

That would've worked so much better between a Valyrian and non-Valyrian speaker.

"Khaleesi, here is a grammar point which you obviously already know because you've established it as your loving mother tongue."


In other news, Spanish speakers all have 2 dads.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
"The CGI guys say we can't afford more than 30s of screentime, girl."

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

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RumbleFish posted:


The giant crossbow thing really annoys me as well -- I don't understand why they didn't just go with introducing the dragon horn. I don't think it would've been too late to do so and it would make more sense on multiple narrative levels, IMO.

The concept is fine, but the way it was revealed as a secret weapon was dumb.

"Our strategy is to do the same poo poo we did 300 years ago."

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

esperterra posted:

Missandei's tits looked suspicious. CGI suspicious.

It could be me looking for something that isn't there but it seemed like her head didn't quite move with the rest of her body, like an inverse bobblehead.

e.g.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

lezard_valeth posted:

I never understood why most of the conflicts both in the story and in sidestories spin around Westeros when the world looks like this

You've also got Sothoryos which extends gently caress-knows how far south but the story has to take place somewhere in the world I guess :shrug:


Even in Lord of the Rings you only see the tiniest snippet of the world.

The 5 Forts would be cool though, they're effectively the far East not-Chinese version of the Wall.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

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There was once a town made of planks.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Shibawanko posted:

Hahah that's true.

Wasn't Wales the term the Anglo Saxons used for anybody who wasn't them, particularly any Celts? Like "the other guys"


"Welsh" effectively means "foreigner"

Any time you get Germanic people next to non-Germanic people they give them the same name:


Ancient France was called Gaul

In Belgium the French speakers are Walloons

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
She should drop leaflets from Drogon's back.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

PostNouveau posted:

I mean, when you look at it that way, he won the game of thrones. Overthrow the crazy dictator, kill his son in an epic duel that everyone's always talking about, spend thirty years drunk as gently caress and banging hookers.

He got to be king but he lost his girl

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

BigglesSWE posted:

I really miss Jonathan Pryce.

Jim Broadbent ain't a bad replacement

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
I am so tired of these throne games.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Gorn Myson posted:

Euron is loving hilarious. Hes too good for this show.

"Oh noooooooooo. What a twat."

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

emanresu tnuocca posted:

This guy would also do in a pinch:

Ultimately I'm glad they didn't cast Michael Cera for the role.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

GoGoGadgetChris posted:

Uh.. I meant that as a serious question. Has the distance between these two places ever once been established?

In Season 1 Tywin has 2 weeks to get his rear end to Kings Landing from Casterly Rock.

That's all I got.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
That's better

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

drunken officeparty posted:

The Ironborn with the super deep voice that was in Winterfell with Theon is one of my most missed characters.

rip you deep voiced freak

Just watch the UK TV channel "Dave" and you'll hear him between every programme

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
Episode did not suck, will watch again in higher quality though.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

some guy on the bus posted:

For the people saying it's good, what did you think about the other episodes this season?

This is hard to believe.

I think this is the first episode where I had some emotional investment/conflict in a long time

Tyrion watching the battlefield while his best friend and brother are getting their asses handed to them

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

HannibalBarca posted:

my favorite part of the battle was the random shots of the Dothraki charging headlong into spear-and-shield walls, in classic Mongol fashion. Not really sure what was going on there, considering they're shown using horse archery in other shots, which seems much more prudent given the nature of the enemy army.

It's pretty accurate to the source material.

There was a battle between Dothraki and Unsullied where the Dothraki outnumbered them 3-1 or more...and they lost.

Because their honour dictated that they do nothing but smash headlong into spears over and over again.


Edit: 8 to 1

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

mastershakeman posted:

wait:, what battle was that?

and yeah the dothraki are super mongols who have no leaders or tactics

https://youtu.be/nhc283pXcjQ

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
People were saying the sea is freezing or something and he'll just walk around Eastwatch.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Oh, that makes it pretty lame then. They're more interesting as lucky podunk assholes than prophesied saviors.

Naw it's cool, just think of them in the same way you do for people who sell all their worldy possessions because the rapture's coming.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Jeb! Repetition posted:

The show's already getting rid of Littlefinger in like two episodes, and it should keep Bran because I like him no matter where he is on the spectrum.

From this point on I'm referring​ to him as Dr Branhatten.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Nail Rat posted:

:stare: How the gently caress does the fire not burn the poo poo out of the unprotected faces of the dudes?

They're masks :pseudo:

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Nail Rat posted:

Oh well that would explain that :downs:

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

WampaLord posted:

They didn't even talk about Rickon being dead, lmao.

"Where's Rickon, Sansa?"

"Who?"

The only person who keeps talking about Rickon is Jamie.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

WampaLord posted:

It's jarring and out of place that they don't verbally acknowledge it in any way.

The audience has forgotten him, they'd have to refer to him as " our other brother Rickon" which would be even more jarring

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
The last shot is just going to be a huge aerial zoomout à la Simpsons ending with Macumber's face.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

emanresu tnuocca posted:

Episode 5 plot outline leak - http://imgur.com/a/AkDWm

If this is real then the script is immediately garbage (so probably real)

He was clearly charging Dany, not Drogon. With a lance, not a sword.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
Made from a fallen star

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
I don't want a lower budget spin-off.

At the risk of brining up Battlestar Galactica again, the events before the series sounded cool enough.

They then gave us not one but two lovely prequel series that were boring as gently caress.

Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?

Coucho Marx posted:

Oh, hey, Kevin Eldon.





...oh, bye, Kevin Eldon!

He was also pantomime Ned Stark wasn't he?

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Captain Splendid
Jan 7, 2009

Qu'en pense Caffarelli?
Does the phrase "I wish you good fortune in the wars to come" turn up in the books?

Because it's loving dumb.

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