pyrotek posted:They turned down GoT millions to work on that, wow You think that HBO is not throwing money and the "creators of Game of Thrones" "Producers of Game of Thrones" or whatever title they will pick to produce their next show? They basically had card blanche to do whatever show they wanted - and it seems that alternate history USA was their pick.
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FogHelmut posted:what's Dave Hill's next project? "The Life of Olly's Father - A Game of Thrones story"
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:I unironically want to know if the Iron Bank has to cut their losses and write off Westeros or if they finally back someone who can mitigate their bad lending decisions. It supported Euron and bought him 1000 ships. Their pollsters are really bad at predicting Westerosi politics.
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Jul 21, 2017 21:56
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TeaJay posted:At this point I will be happy when we (eventually) get Winds of Winter, but it's beginning to look like GURM is gonna croak before he has any chance to finish Dream of Spring. So if he will be adamant about no one being able to continue his work, the TV show might be the only source of an ending for the series we'll get? If we assume that he releases TWOW 2018/2019 the predicted release date of DoS would be somewhere around 2030, when GURM is around 80. So it might happen.
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Jul 23, 2017 14:44
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InFlames235 posted:Oh ok. Well I dunno why they didn't do that in other winters. I guess the best explanation is that he was waiting to build a big enough army of the dead over a long period of time before attacking. While there have been winters before, White Walkers have not appeared for quite some time. The only time that they seem to have fought with humanity seems to have been The Long Night.
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Jul 23, 2017 17:39
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My favorite part was that Whip Snake got the drop on Euron two times, but because she is fighting with a loving whip instead of an actual weapon, she is now dead. Oh is it just me or is Emilia Clarke a really lovely actress that has about one expression, which is fitting for nothing but season one episode 1-3 Dany?
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Jul 24, 2017 08:03
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Diddie posted:No way, she was great in Terminator 7. She's a rising star I tells ya I read yesterday (in an article about Ghost in the Shell) the actual problem with her performance in Terminator 7 was that GoT fans didn't recognize her because she was not wearing a wig, and that's why the movie bombed.
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Jul 24, 2017 10:13
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lezard_valeth posted:
To be fair, since season 5 there are no smart people on the show anymore - well except for Ramsay Bolton, master tactician. Just look at what Littlefinger did since then.
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Jul 24, 2017 10:33
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kater posted:Right. Not a retcon, just handled in the most brutally awkward way possible. They need to keep Missandei relevant to the show for some reason ... Like they could have had Missandei and Greyworm die and keep Selmy on the show, which would have been much more powerful going forward, as Selmy would have been a great adviser and verbal sparring partner for both Tyrion and Varys, but nope, that would probably have been seen as racist.
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Jul 24, 2017 10:41
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I don't think Cersei will battle Dany this season - anything that happens wrt battles will be skirmishes/battles between lesser forces. They had to show the weapon this soon to offer some credible threat to Dany's nukes.
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Jul 24, 2017 19:29
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Pump it up! Do it! posted:Littlefinger is probably the worst character in the show, I mean the dude is a creepy retard who just needlessly antagonizes powerful people. Which is pretty much the opposite of what he is in the books, in the books everyone likes him and Jaime even thinks that he would make a great hand of the king. The weirdest thing is that Aidan Gillen isn't a lovely actor either in other shows. His character in The Wire pretty much is book Littlefinger and he was brilliant as being superficially extremely charming but underneath a real shithead. The issue is that they simplified all the narratives in the show so much, that there simply is no plotting or intrigue after season 4. It's comically bad people being comically bad until they get dick slapped by the very good people or vice versa. On some GoT podcast they said that Aiden Gillen has hinted at his displeasure with the writing in the later seasons, so that might be a reason why he is going to get the Selmy treatment of an unfulfilling death
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SHOAH NUFF posted:they have to keep the balls or the Unsullied will just be a bunch of Varys looking guys They are castrated root and stem - but probably have a great steroid program to make up for that. In the books it's even mentioned that they are individually not as strong as "real man", but make up for it with discipline.
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Jul 24, 2017 21:11
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What is Dany going to do with the Dothraki after she is finished conquering Westeros? It seems that having a horde that is accustomed to raping and pillaging and doesn't speak the native language would be somewhat complicated and I doubt that the crown will have the income to have a standing army of 60k mounted fighters.
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Jul 24, 2017 22:07
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So in this season Davos is going to find Gendry in KL, where he is working as blacksmith again (keep in mind that Cersei wants him killed) and has him row his boat back to Dragonstone - where not only Mel is hanging out, who might want to burn him, but also a certain Dragon queen, who might want to burn him because he is the son of the usurper who killed her brother.
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Jul 26, 2017 07:43
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It's funny how all the ~great schemers~ basically only sucked since season 5: LF: - Gives Sansa to Boltons, where she gets raped - Bets on Stannis, who gets 20 manned - Secures victory in the North for Jon, for which he gets basically degraded to court jester with regards to his influence. - dies Tyrion: - almost loses Mereen - gets the Unsullied trapped on Casterly Rock Queen of Thrones: - gets her family nuked - allies with Dany only to see her castle and lands sacked and looted - dies Varys: - helps Tyrion lose Mereen - forges an alliance between Dany and Dorne/Reach, who get destroyed asap - gets constantly poo poo on by Red Priestesses Roose Bolton: - dies
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Aug 2, 2017 14:15
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hanales posted:Will you stop reading when George does the same? George is never going to kill Stannis because he is not going to release another book
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Item Getter posted:Isn't that another artifact of the book plot involving the fake Arya that doesn't make sense when you find and replace her with the real Sansa? Well, in the book it was more "LF had this rando northern girl hidden away in one of his brothels" - it's less making this great deal and more giving away a spare bike.
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Aug 2, 2017 17:16
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Look, Tyrion's most important job currently is to be Midget, the Date Doctor and get Dany and Jon snow to have epic boatsex.
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Aug 2, 2017 22:45
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Away all Goats posted:Interesting theory about Daenerys = Azor Azhai First of all, the show is not that clever, not by a long shot. They don't even mention Azor Ahai and have reduced the intrigue of the PtwP prophecy to the translation mistake. Second, Azor Ahai's sacrifices were done willingly and not because he listened to his most incompetent advisors, therefore they are very different from Danny's screw ups.
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Aug 3, 2017 06:24
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Pac-Manioc Root posted:I don't know that we can extrapolate one dude's martial prowess in single combat* to a whole House's military acumen. I mean I'm sure even the Tajik army could shake out a single, solitary awesome soldier. Loras led the van at Blackwater Bay and won the only legitimate tourney shown on the show - so yeah he was an able fighter. More importantly though, if Olenna knew she did not have good fighters, shouldn't they have made a plan to get the gold to safety or have given her some officers from Dorne to command her troops?
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Aug 3, 2017 15:01
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Elotana posted:How did Tyrion get from Dragonstone to the Reach The battle is in front of KL because reasons.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:It'd be pretty funny if Dickon dies in the war and the Tarlys have to turn to Sam as heir Dickon and Randall get toasted by Drogon next episode (5) because they don't bend the knee before Dany.
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Aug 4, 2017 20:15
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Sydin posted:She wasn't off put by Arya, she was off put by the smell of Littlefinger making GBS threads his pants over yet another absurdly OP fighter who isn't going to take his poo poo and wants to lop his head off. Actually she was pretending to be put off by Arya so they can have Littlefinger executed in shocking fashion in the season finale.
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disjoe posted:There's also the fact that NinjaArya represents the fact that she hasn't had the easiest life and adapted in order to survive and thrive. Sansa probably feels bad that Arya has had to do this in the first place. Well, she could have just gotten beaten and raped like Sansa - I'm sure that was fun. Oh and stripped naked in front of the whole court in King's Landing. And almost freeze near Winterfell.
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Aug 4, 2017 21:12
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Taking a girl into a cave is the one trick Jon knows to get laid - it works every time.
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Jeb! Repetition posted:That's probably what he does in Winds of Winter. In the books he explicitly ruled out marrying/loving Sansa himself and plans to marry her to Harry the Heir. It has to be said that he is much more self-aware in the books, where he recognizes the fact that everyone sees him as a ruthless schemer and sees the value of having public support - in contrast to the show where he seems to think that backstabbing a popular ruler makes you the next popular ruler... then again, that seems to be the rule in the show. Sydin posted:Yeah even if Ramsey was honestly a standup guy who would have treated Sansa well, Littlefinger sending his most precious political chip to the Boltons made zero sense. By Littlefinger's own admission, Sansa is/was the key to the North. Why wouldn't he marry her himself, use his recently acquired loyal Vale Knights to go reclaim her birthright and install her as Queen/Warden of the North, and then have both the North and the Vale in his pocket? Plus he'd get to bang his replacement for Cat as a bonus. I read somewhere that they wrote season 5 as they were filming, so maybe they planed on having LF ride in to aid Stannis and rescue Sansa, which would have made at least some sense, but changed their mind for reasons unknown. It's like the Arya in Braavos plot, which too could have ended a season early, but didn't. GaussianCopula fucked around with this message at 10:51 on Aug 5, 2017 |
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Bates posted:Who, at this point, got Valyrian steel weapons apart from Brienne and Arya? Jaime has Widow's Wail, Sam has Heartsbane, Jon has Longclaw.
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Gold made it into King's Landing. Jaime is not dead.
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Aug 5, 2017 15:26
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Proposition Joe posted:Why are there giant mesas near Kings Landing? You're going from not-France to not-Croatia, the only place that might have mesas in Westeros should be Dorne right? Because the writers wanted to invoke a Wild West settler atmosphere.
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Aug 5, 2017 15:48
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bloom posted:Gee, why would anyone follow this lady who can perform miracles and controls legendary beasts the world hasn't seen in hundreds of years? actually its less then 150 years since dragons were last seen. Groovelord Neato posted:but what about the slaves she freed. Given that she still supports absolute autocratic rule she did not so much free them as steal them for herself.
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Aug 5, 2017 17:21
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Groovelord Neato posted:speaking of patriots hater here's good old grrm: Someone should tell GRRM that the Patriots are going to continue to be in every AFC title game until he finishes Winds of Winter (they were in every since ADWD was released)
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Aug 5, 2017 17:59
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auzdark posted:Why hasn't old man Tarly lost his poo poo about the priceless family sword disappearing at the exact same time the disappointing son left to nerd school? Because it's not relevant to the plot and someone is going to need a Valyrian Sword in the final battle (he also could have send someone to Old Town to get the sword, given that he is now the Lord Paramount of the Reach)
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Aug 5, 2017 20:05
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Looking at the region around King's Landing just 3 seasons ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlKdIOQVP9U) and what it looks like today, they have a serious global warming problem. Maybe the White Walkers are just coming to solve it?
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Aug 5, 2017 20:28
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Fun observation: Both Littlefinger and Dany were right when they said it would be smarter to focus on the southern conflict first, given that we now know that the NK needed someone to bring him a loving dragon to cross the wall.
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Aug 6, 2017 08:53
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Peanut President posted:Wasn't Aegon the one who destroyed Harrenhal and the entire ruling family of the Reach? Yes.
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Aug 6, 2017 21:58
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I finally understood what reaction Sophie Turner was supposed to portray in her scenes with Arya - she is supposed to be afraid of her (or at least look like it). Only that way it makes sense that LF things him planting the letter has any effect. Very stupid but at least I now understand the plot writers want to tell.
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Aug 7, 2017 12:06
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Item Getter posted:Isn't episode 6 supposed to be the one with the big expedition where Viserion gets killed? Why's episode 5 called Eastwatch instead Because the fellowship will be at Eastwatch in episode 5 and in the North in episode 6.
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Aug 8, 2017 08:00
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In the sparring match the show WANTED you to think that Arya was at least an even match for Brienne - their inability to accurately portray it that way not withstanding.
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Lycus posted:Preston did all his batshit after ADWD, so his theories will never be proven or disproven because that will be the last book. Preston only read the books after the first season of the TV show - but he is probably one of the persons with the deepest knowledge of GRRMs complete works. But his ending would be sci-fi, which is probably a nono for the publisher.
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lezard_valeth posted:I'm sad there is only one more season left on the show cause I really want a stupid Kraken vs Dragon fight and this show isn't shy on it's budget for stupid fantasy fights. Aren't CGI on CGI fights a lot less expensive than CGI on real people fights?
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