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Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

TOOT BOOT posted:

Dear god it's even worse than I thought


He's working on all 4 spinoffs plus the new one he just announced and 4 wild cards books.

LMAO gently caress him

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Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

skasion posted:

I can think of LOTR, Goldeneye, Equilibrium, Patriot Games, and Black Death off the top of my head. Apparently, his character has died in about 1/3 of his movies.

My friend who had read the books was trying to talk me into watching GOT. He didn't spoil anything but the moment he mentioned Sean Bean was starring in it I asked in a second if he died and he just burst out laughing. It's always been a Sean Bean meme.

This was before season 1 even aired and I was like, 'okay so the Ned guy dies'

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

bloom posted:

They really dropped the ball wrt the giant. Like they've already established the giants are smart enough to use weapons like huge bows and can wreck things with something as simple as a burning log. So let's just have the giant unarmed and awkwardly swatting at speartips. :downs:

Like with everything else, their main priority while writing the battle scenes is plot convenience. Stuff that needs to happen will happen no matter how little sense it makes. The scenes are still visually impressive, but it sure would be nice if they would spend a little of their massive budget on competent writers.

People really do try their damnedest to complain about the stupidest poo poo, jesus christ.

e: Like he was surrounded by lancers or whatever with massive shields, what they'll just go, "Yeah hey giant man, we'll let you through our wall of shields to grab a weapon worthy of some retard on a dying forum."

Barreft fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jul 16, 2017

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Jeb! Repetition posted:

I think they're saying he should have had the weapon already? I dunno, I'm having a hard time following this conversation cause I haven't watched the last season since it aired and it didn't make much of an impression on me in the first place.

Wun Wun even ripped apart a dude while having no weapon in that scene.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Sydin posted:

Is Ed Sheeran a spoiler?

Who the hell is ed sheeran

google just brings up 'songwriter' like there aren't a million of those

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Tom Gorman posted:

he has a music video on youtube with almost 2 billion views its sorta hard to avoid if you're on the internet tbh

Well that is quite the accomplishment thx fam

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Calaveron posted:

Jorah's supposed to cure himself of his greyscale right

Yeah supposedly Sam will find a cure, with how the spoilers were put out and how the first episode went it looks like it's true but who knows. But after reading the spoilers months ago and in this first episode Sam encounters Jorah out of nowhere in Oldtown I can't see them not being true, at least for that plotline.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Euron said in some interview I was too high reading at the time and forget where from that he's going to be a worse villain then Ramsay, as in despised. With only a dozen episodes left I hope that's not the case cause they'd really have to ramp up the torture porn or some bullshit quickly. I guess he could rape and behead Arya or something but that's way too tryhard. Hopefully he don't do poo poo.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

InFlames235 posted:

The dorne alliance is already forged via the teleporting Varys who forged it and returned back to Dany's fleet all in one episode to end Season 6. The splitting forces makes sense as to how Euron captures Yara but just wondering where she'd split them to.

There was a timeskip. Same reason Euron has all his ships now.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Atarask posted:

Well if he captures and kills Tyrion...

Found it:

Game Of Thrones season 7: Euron Greyjoy actor says he’ll make Ramsay Bolton ‘look like a little kid’
http://metro.co.uk/2017/06/19/game-of-thrones-season-7-euron-greyjoy-actor-says-hell-make-ramsay-bolton-look-like-a-little-kid-6719273/

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

lezard_valeth posted:

Nah, the show doesn't have the balls. Everything "ballsy" the show did was because it happened in the books, but whenever they could get away with removing ballsy moments that might have harmed the popularity of a fan favorite character they did so.

Like Sansa getting raped? Forgot that scene in the books.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

lezard_valeth posted:

Nah, the show doesn't have the balls. Everything "ballsy" the show did was because it happened in the books, but whenever they could get away with removing ballsy moments that might have harmed the popularity of a fan favorite character they did so.

Like fan favorite Margery and her whole family minus grandmother getting blown up? I can't recall that from the books either.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

lezard_valeth posted:

Since when was Sansa a fan favorite character?

Everything twisted or morally ambiguous Tyrion, Jon or Daenerys did in the books was completely scraped in the case of the former 2, or played with fanfare BGM to lead the viewer into believing it was ok in the case of the latter.

Those 3 characters are untouchable in the show, at least till the very last 2 episodes of the final season.

Blame Ser Fatass Who Doesn't Write for that, not the showrunners.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Supreme Allah posted:

Ramsay was a crass animal that abused helpless idiots, Euron should be a reaver that everyone fears, not just the weird kid that hurts his pets.

Oh I agree, it's just with only 12 episodes left I feel they'll have to do something big and dumb to get us to really hate Euron.

e: Joffrey went 42 episodes, Ramsay seemed to never end, and I'm assuming the last 6 episodes will be about the White Walkers. So that leaves us with 6 episodes to have Euron make Ramsay look like a child.

Barreft fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Jul 17, 2017

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

lezard_valeth posted:

Alternatively, Euron could end up being a salty loser that before being defeated blows the horn of Joramund (or w/e it's called) bringing down the wall.

Not sure that would make people hate him more than Ramsay, but maybe, just maybe the actor is over exaggerating to hype his own character.

Well yeah, that's basically what I think. Euron's actor knows he's the next "Big bad" so he hypes himself. My worry like I said is they'll do something retarded to make us hate him because there's only 12 episodes left.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Jeb! Repetition posted:

I have to confess, I liked that episode and I don't get why folks think the show is going downhill.

I thought it was a good episode. Everyone's just so drat negative, this isn't the Walking Dead

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Harton posted:

Yeah I didn't think about this last night but yeah she should be heading north. I will forgive if she heads that way after dudes said they missed their homes. That's all I'm in this for anymore is some good stark vibes. These stupid books. I feel sorry for all the people I got to read this poo poo back in the day.


Edit: like when Bran got to the wall last night I almost cried a tear. Not because it was overly emotional, but because it was a sign that something was actually about to happen after 20 years.

She is going to head north, it's already been spoiled.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Sydin posted:

Aren't the Tyrell's supposed to have a pretty baller army? So much for that :lol:

Didn't Tarly take most of them?

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Away all Goats posted:

Yeah but Tarly can't just tell the lord/soldiers sworn to House Tyrell what to do. Tarly is just one of many houses sworn to the Tyrells. Tarly only commands those directly sworn to Tarly and any houses under Tarly. But I'm probably putting more thought into this than the writers did so nevermind.

There aren't any Tyrells left in the show besides grandma who wed into the family. I'm sure most went with Tarly since he still had an intact house and is a good leader.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

TheLoquid posted:

This is by far the most ridiculous oversight of this season so far. The idea that there wouldn't be a massive anti-Cersei insurgency is so completely ridiculous

How does anyone know Cersei did it?

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Away all Goats posted:

Yeah for the sake of expediting the show's events that's probably how they wrote it. In reality a Tarly uprising in the absence of Tyrell authority would be met with other lesser Reach houses challenging the Tyrells, leading to a civil war.

But who cares! tits and dragons!

This isn't a book you have 7 episodes not 2000 pages.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Away all Goats posted:

All her political enemies just happened to die in a massive explosion in a building she was supposed to be in.

We live in a world of twitter, cell phone camera, etc, and Trump is still destroying the US. I doubt the peasants in King's Landing have any access to newspapers. Also fear by rule, King's Landing is basically North Korea now, why won't those North Koreans just rise up and protest Kim Jong Un?

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

CDHiggs posted:

Serious question?

Because of the wildfire? Because she was supposed to be there? Because she would be main suspect, largely due to the walk of shame she endured? Because of her rivalry with the cult?

How do any of the normal people know Cersei has any idea about wildfire? Or being there? Or that she even had a rivalry with them? The only people that know are the ones that should, like Jaime and Olenna.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Groovelord Neato posted:

she took a walk of shame through the city and it was once defended by the green napalm.

it doesn't even matter that they knew, it just has to be rumored. nobody knew joffrey was a child of incest for certain but it seemed all the peasants knew about it.

i'm lolling that anyone is defending this poo poo now. it's really bad plotting.

There's no way they'd do anything, like I said Cersei is basically Kim Jong Un, and no one is throwing him into a blender.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

TheLoquid posted:

The battle of the blackwater. Don't be a pedant.

Blackwater was Tyrion gathering the wildfire though?

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Groovelord Neato posted:

those people have been brainwashed from birth and he has total control of the military. it's a loving dumb comparison.

the praetorian guard killed emperors with regularity for a lot less.


he said don't be a pedant lmao

You... really think the people would go against Cersei when they know they're sure to die even trying? And as we've seen just this episode Cersei has total control of the military, unless the naval battle at Casterly Rock and the land battle at Highgarden never happened.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Groovelord Neato posted:

it's not just the peasants tho. it's them, all the nobles and poo poo. religion was pretty important back then. blowing up the sept should've driven most of the country into open revolt.

then again this is the show that just ignored "the north remembers" and gave the boltons no consequences for breaking the most sacred tradition and wiping out the most beloved house in westeros.

You've obviously invested a ton of time making your own head-canon for this show, but things just aren't going the way you want/imagined it. Get over it.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

lezard_valeth posted:

I also love how during the first season Catelyn would travel incognito across the country and Varys would know about it, but now not once, not twice but thrice has a large fleet or army moved from one side of the map to the other and he didn't find out until like 2 days after they got hosed.

Those little birds in King's Landing were really good at their job. Whoever has control of them has control over the script.

They already mentioned Qyburn controls the little birds now.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Sydin posted:

Kinda makes you wonder why Robert was making GBS threads his pants so much at the thought of a Dothraki hoard crossing the narrow sea. We know from season one that their weapons can't pierce plate, and it looks like without the backing of a dragon they'd get owned by simple shieldwall tactics. And that's not even getting into the Vale Knights, which are like a 10k strong heavy cavalry unit fully decked out in plate.

Like I thought the whole deal was that they were horse archers and would use harassment tactics ala the Mongols, but no lol they're just light cav who will happily charge headlong into a wall of pikes.

They had horse archers as well.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

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?

loving christ

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

aBagorn posted:

I mean, obviously we'll never know, but the NK might have had a way to get through, and Viserion's death and rising made him go "gently caress it this will be easier"

This is shimra don't even bother. Just let him hate the show

e: he's also a Patriots fan iirc so just let him go

Barreft fucked around with this message at 04:29 on Aug 6, 2017

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

The leaked episode loving ruled. Maybe it's cause I've waited 10 years, maybe even 20? Jesus a long time for some north of the Wall stuff and White Walker stuff.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

lezard_valeth posted:

I think that the show greatly improves if you just close your eyes and listen to it. You won't have to see Arya's smug mug while she talks about Assassin Camp, Littlefinger's slimy evil grin while he does :moreevil: or



Whatever this is supposed to be

Or like, just know it's a tv show, one of the most popular ever and realize maybe you're expecting too much.

I can already see this thread ripping apart any awards this season gets even though it's like the most popular show ever. But goddammit a dozen goons know better than the 10 million watching it and pirating it as quickly as they can to get their fix.

http://ew.com/tv/2017/08/15/game-of-thrones-ratings-eastwatch/

quote:

Game of Thrones did it again: For the third time this season, the HBO drama set an all-time ratings record for the show and the network. Sunday’s fifth episode of the seventh season, “Eastwatch,” was seen by 10.7 million viewers — easily surpassing the previous week’s record of 10.2 million viewers, which edged out the season premiere’s then-record of 10.1 million.

And given HBO’s delivery system of repeats and online streaming services, plus DVR playback, actual viewership is considerably higher — the GoT season 7 premiere and the second episode have both racked up more than 30 million viewers each at this point.

pre-reply to what I know will be posted: I understand, you all know tv better than millions upon millions of people all around the world.

Barreft fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Aug 18, 2017

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Jeb! Repetition posted:

So if something's popular it must be good?

pop·u·lar
ˈpäpyələr/Submit
adjective
1.
liked, admired, or enjoyed by many people or by a particular person or group.
"she was one of the most popular girls in the school"
synonyms: well liked, favored, sought-after, in demand, desired, wanted; More
2.
(of cultural activities or products) intended for or suited to the taste, understanding, or means of the general public rather than specialists or intellectuals.
"the popular press"

.. Yes?

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

If it wasn't good, it wouldn't be popular, and it wouldn't have gotten all the seasons it has, HBO would have cancelled it.

But hey lets go back and critique Arya's face for some inane reason.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014


Now that is a total Trump "BOTH SIDES" post, don't even do that poo poo. Fox News is evil and state run, GOT is a show about tits and dragons enjoyed by million around the world.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

esperterra posted:

The Walking Dead is the most watched scripted show on television. Is that show also perfect and deserving of many awards?

Quote where I said GOT is perfect. I'll wait.

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

esperterra posted:

So I paraphrased a little.

k thanks

Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

precision posted:

I think they're setting up an oh poo poo moment when it's revealed the WWs are fireproof. Lingering on the NK just strolling over flames etc

Yeah I'm thinking in the end only obsidian/valyrian steel can actually kill them. They made a point to show that's how they made the white walkers, so that's how they ultimately destroy them. Also remember the WW at Hardhome who just walked through the fire to kill the Thenn and beat Jon's rear end.

e: massively beat

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Barreft
Jul 21, 2014

Jeb! Repetition posted:

Massively beat Jon's rear end, got it.

What is your problem?

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