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grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Shimrra Jamaane posted:

He'll be lead showrunner for the first GoT spinoff.

"Arya Murders EVERYBODY (except The Hound)"

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grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
God that episode was terrible. Somebody needs to give the writers a good hard smack.

YOU DO NOT BUILD DRAMATIC TENSION BY MAKING THE PROTAGONISTS STUPID

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

mastershakeman posted:

the protagonists are cersei and euron

Makes even less sense this way. You don't make protagonists seem unstoppable either because otherwise there's no credible threat for them to face.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

ultramiraculous posted:

On the subject of having no command structure or organization, the fact that nobody was there to rally up a group of dudes to defend Danny was super frustrating. It seems stupid until you notice that her allies are just kinda willy-nily killing whatever happens to be in their line of sight.

Daenerys had a dragon. Maaaaayyyybe they figured it was covered. Which it was.


GobiasIndustries posted:

She looked so happy :3:

I'm wondering what Sansa is thinking right now. One sibling comes back crippled and a head case, the other comes back kinda scary.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Shneak posted:

I think I saw a smirk from her when she was watching the sparring.

Not really, Sansa walked off with her mouth open when it ended.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
The show writers really do need to turn the rest of GoT in to a buddy-cop series. Arya/The Hound, Bronn/Tyrion, Brienne/Podrick and Jon/The Night King just getting in to a series of wacky adventures.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Abner Assington posted:

Definitely need that tactical realism when an army of armored dudes quivers in fear of a bunch of foreign hilljacks wearing fur (at best) riding horses.

Because it went so well for the Romans, amiright?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Abner Assington posted:


Parthians were so successful against fighting Roman legions because of horse archers.

The Dothraki did, in fact, have a bunch of horse archers.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Mons Hubris posted:

I thought Dany was going to be a little more tactical with her dragon. The Lannisters make a giant shield line and you just fly at it head on over the Dothraki? Approach perpendicular to your ground forces and get the whole line!

Where's the drama in that?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Pac-Manioc Root posted:

I thought they couldn't burn father and son for the same crime?

I'm not sure Daenerys really cares at this point. Besides, if you all you have is a giant fuckoff dragon, everything looks like a BBQ

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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drunken officeparty posted:

Who actuall did teach Arya to swordfight. She tells Brienne no one, but all she did there was wash dead bodies and get stabbed.

Arya trained under Syrio Forel as well as the Waif/Jaquen

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Maybe Dany just likes blowing poo poo up.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

Lycus posted:

What I learned: while the water dance is good for a petite person, a big clumsy knight can still can just kick the poo poo out of them.

Also, Sansa, knight Pod already, gently caress.

Let's be fair here - Brienne is one of the very best fighters around. I mean poo poo, she beat both The Hound and Jaime in single combat. The fact that Arya is able to fight her to a draw is impressive.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

skasion posted:

I posted about this earlier. I think it's supposed to imply together with a couple other bits that Sansa is disturbed by Arya being as obviously traumatized and violent as she is. Despite what she's been through, Sansa is still very much a traditional Westerosi lady and Arya's unladylike behavior has been a point of conflict between them since childhood. She can just about comprehend a freakish character like Brienne bucking gender conventions so hard, but for her own sister to be a stone cold bravo who keeps a list of people she wants to murder probably throws her off, especially on top of Bran having gone full Muad'dib and being nothing like she remembers. She's upset at how her family has changed. Anyway that's what I inferred. The writing and acting in this show is mediocre enough that it could easily be something completely different.

This is exactly what I got out of that scene.


Also, if you think Sansa is a little freaked out now just wait until she learns Arya basically murdered the entire Frey household.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

banned from Starbucks posted:

We have a new dickon now.

And he's gonna be dead real soon

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Gendry is going to end up on the Iron Throne after warhammering everyone in the face

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

RCarr posted:

The final scene is Arya pulling the Dany mask off, to Jon's surprise. "You thought you were loving your Aunt, but I am actually your sister!"

"Hot", says Jon, as they kiss.

Arya is not Jon's sister. They are cousins.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Arya is going to murder her way to the Iron Throne and rule with a murder-y fist. The Night King will see the trail of corpses she leaves and think "You know what? gently caress this noise, these idiots are just going to kill each other anyways." and leave. Thus Arya will save the 5% of Westeros' population she hadn't already killed.

The Hound will be kept around as her put-upon surrogate Dad.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

geeves posted:

Arya learns the Night King touched Bran. Arya thinks the Night King "touched" Brand and adds the Night King to her list.

Inadvertently ends the next Long Night; Dany burns Jon for making poo poo up.

That scene in Winterfell where Arya walks in on the sparring match and wants to train with Brienne? She was actually just returning from killing the Night King.

Yes I know The Wall is 300 miles away. I merely assume that there is an off-screen guild of wizards whose only job is to teleport people around at plot-convenient points.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Would've made more sense for Jorah to go to Dragonstone. Also would've been more helpful given that Dany's current military advisors are all idiots.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

This is not uncommon. Ever heard of Bolton Strid?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

bloom posted:

Being a colossal goonlord, I recently read a WH40k book. Even in that the main character calls out dual-wielding as something that's only done by nerds desperately trying to look cool.

Dual-wielding styles of combat absolutely existed in both Europe and Japan. They were almost never used, however.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Dickon, Dick-Off'd

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
So the Night King is actually the protagonist in GoT, right?


'Cause right now I'm thinking all these motherfuckers deserve to get killed, with possible exceptions for Gendry, Bronn and Davos.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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WampaLord posted:

He ended up getting all that money back in the end, anyway! :v:

https://imgur.com/22CvW4g

Gendry: Dispenser of Refunds

Davos didn't even bother to pick up the gold afterwards.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
TOO LATE, IMMERSION RUINED

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
My Episode 6 Predictions:
-We get a long shot of the Jon's group plodding out in to the Wilds beyond the Wall. After going 10 miles or so, they all realize that they forgot their hats and have to go back.
-The Hound calls Jon a oval office because his sword has a name. When it's pointed out that Longclaw is the Mormont family blade and was named many generations ago, Clegane turns and tells Jorah that his entire family were cunts. Jorah just sort of nods in agreement.
-Arya makes a very life-like carving of Tormund's head, puts it on a stick and spends a bunch of time trying to freak out Brienne at Winterfell. Littlefinger watches and continues to smile in that way that would make you want to Taser him if you ever met him in real life.
-Sansa rolls her eyes so far up in to her head they get stuck and Podrick has to smack them back down.
-Jaime tells Bronn that Cersei is pregnant, Bronn tells Jaime to stop loving his goddamned sister. Jaime looks at him in shock and Bronn tells him that yes, the entire continent already knows and that there are at least three very popular tavern songs about it so stop loving your goddamned sister.
-Jaime does not, in fact, stop loving his sister.
-We get a shot of Dany arguing with her advisors at Dragonstone about their next step. Finally Daenerys puts a stop to the argument and says that she's making a decision as their Queen and orders Chinese, even though Tyrion and Varys wanted Thai.
-Missandei gets Tyrion's order wrong on purpose.
-Later Dany sneaks off to a secret cave underneath the castle with Drogon and we find out that her dragons are actually just a bunch of cats in a large wooden frame covered by fabric. This is why we never see cats, Daenerys kidnapped them all.
-Archmaester Marwyn wanders around the Citadel looking for Sam, and realizes that he's left. He then goes and looks through the archives, and finds out that Sam took the only scroll that had instructions on how to poop. He shakes his fist in geriatric rage.
-Sam and Gilly travel to Winterfell hoping to talk to Jon but are told that he's gone. With nothing else to do, Sam helps Arya mess with Brienne by making a really good wig and fake beard for her carving.
-Jaime continues to gently caress his sister.

grack fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Aug 15, 2017

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Euron for the Iron Throne, because everyone else is a loving idiot.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!

lezard_valeth posted:

They made the right call this time. The dragon dieing really teared me up a bit even though a) I knew it was coming and b) it's fantasy CGI. Had they killed another minor good character like Tormund or the Hound, the dragon dieing shortly after would have overshadowed it, and that is no fitting way to off the Hound or Tormund Giantsbane :colbert:

We haven't gotten Cleganebowl yet, so The Hound can't die. Besides, he's going to end up with Brienne and they will have many very, very tall children.


I'm actually really, really surprised that Beric survived. What exactly is his place going to be in the story moving forward?

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
I'm just glad that the last conversation between Jon and Daenerys made sense. This episode was really the first time since they've met that Jon actually saw the side of Dany that all of her advisors talked about - she was willing to make a great personal sacrifice to save his life and didn't regret doing so. It makes perfect sense that Jon was willing to pledge his allegiance after all that.

I still don't think Clarke and Harrington have a lot of chemistry but at least it was better.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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WampaLord posted:

I really can't loving believe Arya just has a loving bag of faces. :cripes:

Wait, this isn't normal?



poo poo...

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Arrows and spears do, in fact, wobble in flight.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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WampaLord posted:

Do you not get that maybe you want to prioritize visual impact and not be "tactireal" in the tits and dragons show?

It'd have looked cooler if it flew straight, cause it's loving magic anyway.

90% of the posts in this thread are complaining about poo poo not being realistic and now you're complaining about something in the show actually being realistic.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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RC Cola posted:

Do dany and jon gently caress tho

Of course they do.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

COACH TOTORO SAY REFEREE CAN BANISH WHISTLE TO LAND OF WIND AND GHOSTS!
Daenerys is probably in a little bit of shock, as not only did one of her dragons just die she saw a giant army of undead and White Walkers for the first time.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Constant posted:

I read somewhere that in GRRM's universe dragons are asexual and can mate with each other at any time

I dont know why they dont just make more, give Drogon some fermented crab and let him take Rhaegal to poundtown :dong:

It would probably take a while for Davos to get that much crab.


Also, Drogon for the Iron Throne

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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Constant posted:

I skipped over the winterfell poo poo to get to the good stuff but upon watching it i think Arya is acting like a petulant little twat on purpose.

To get LF to play his hand and reveal his intentions to Sansa.

I think the story is basically straight as to how it's being presented - Littlefinger is trying to create a divide between Sansa and Arya that he can (somehow) benefit. I even think Maisie Williams' performance is okay - even though in the show Arya's gone through a ton of poo poo over the last few seasons, she's still very young and really not that experienced with politics.


The problem, of course, is that the story is loving preposterous to begin with. Why would Littlefinger try and divide the two? Does he see Arya as a threat? Is he trying to upset Sansa so she relies on him more? For a guy who's supposedly this master political tactician the whole thing is just stupid.

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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quote:

Q: Any dialogue before BOATSEX? A: none, Jon knocks on Dany’s door and they go at it

Ah, romance :allears:

grack
Jan 10, 2012

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gently caress Valyrian steel. Just launch like, 5000 jars of Wildfire at the Night King's army and have someone shoot some fire arrows in to it. Boom, army defeated, Jon gives a short speech about having to believe in yourself and everybody gets back to incest boning. Fade to black, cut to credits.

Post-credit scene we learn that aunt-nephew incest themed porn has become really popular and HBO is getting kickbacks from all the major porn sites.

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grack
Jan 10, 2012

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BOATSEX

Dany tells Jon that Daario was better in bed. Jon tells Dany that Ygritte had better breasts.

ANGRY BOATSEX

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