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Nail Rat posted:Humans who look like book belters kind of don't exist There are definitely some people who fit the bill, but in this particular case it's pituitary gigantism. This is pretty much how Naomi is described 
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In season 1 they clearly had a casting call for everyone with Marfan Syndrome but that is a very specific body type to look for...they'd have to go with an animated medium if they really wanted the visual differences to be distinct.
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There were a couple actors in the first season that seemed to be picked for the Belter look -- the prostitute that Miller's partner visits, for instance, and some of the extras they put in the bar scenes -- but it's gotta be basically impossible to do casting while limiting yourself to people over 6 feet tall and incredibly skinny. There was one scene that I straight-up did not understand when I watched the show -- (tiny spoiler)When Prax is a refugee from Ganymede on one of the rescue ships, he's hanging out with another refugee, a friend of his, and then the Belter in charge splits them up, dragging her away saying something like "Earthers don't belong on this ship" even though she and Prax looked like literally any couple. It didn't make sense until I read the books and figured out that, in "reality", Prax should have been like 7 feet tall and skinny, and the physical differences between Belters and Earthers would be obvious to anyone.
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Jul 31, 2022 15:45
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I never the read the Expanse books. Are Belters depicted as being weak-as-poo poo compared to Earthers then? Was Amos owning the poo poo out of Miller way more brutal in the book if he was basically just beating on a fleshy twig?
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Bobbie is also described as like 6'6" and built like a brick shithouse, so they got close on the second count with Frankie Adams
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someone reminded me yesterday that in the last episode they had this exchange: sam: maester aemon said love is the death of duty jon: yes but sometimes, duty is the death of love i forgot about this and thought they were joking
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Aug 15, 2022 17:06
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L-O-L that the $30,000,000 an episode sequel to Game of Thrones comes out this very week and nobody gives a flying gently caress.
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Unkempt posted:L-O-L that the $30,000,000 an episode sequel to Game of Thrones comes out this very week and nobody gives a flying gently caress. It's going to be dogshit and I am going to savor every putrid bite
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Aug 16, 2022 02:38
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More Dragons, More Better
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Aug 16, 2022 15:02
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i hope it's bad enough that we can have fun making GBS threads on it. what if it is only boring.
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Aug 16, 2022 15:12
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what if it's good
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Aug 16, 2022 15:30
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I just want to go back to the detailed OPs of game of thrones' past. 
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Also the canon of the show is that Boomer’s kid is mitochondrial Eve. Boomer's kid also dies as a child based on the newspaper talking about the discovery.
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Aug 16, 2022 15:44
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Spacebump posted:Boomer's kid also dies as a child based on the newspaper talking about the discovery. Some dangerous implications there... 
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Aug 16, 2022 16:04
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I remembered the latter half of BSG sucking too, but when I rewatched it a few months ago I thought it was exceptionally good all the way through. Maybe because I binged it.
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Unkempt posted:L-O-L that the $30,000,000 an episode sequel to Game of Thrones comes out this very week and nobody gives a flying gently caress. I was just scanning an airport magazine rack out of boredom and saw one cover featuring the GoT prequel and another featuring the LOTR prequel. They looked almost indistinguishable, each featuring three actors in bad long-haired wigs and mediocre flowy costumes standing in front of a generic CGI background. That’s what 2/3 of a billion dollars buys you apparently.
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I just read the part of the story where King’s Landing is abandoned and gets 3 rulers, the squire of a hedge knight, the baby of a prostitute and a mad priest. Now I’m genuinely excited to see HotD and inmediately set myself to dissapointment when the show decides to ignore this plot or gets cancelled before reaching it.
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I looked up Rings of Power on Youtube for the first time and Jesus Christ do some loving people need to go outside.
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could you imagine making a series so popular that its a worldwide phenomenon and you basically want to hurry up and end it so you can go do something else instead and the execs all agreed and phoned it all in thinking it was a great idea now all they're known for is loving everything up it'll probably even be on their gravestones
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Honestly, if it didn't mean the ruination of something we all quite liked, it'd be a marvelous tale of comeuppance.
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Aug 17, 2022 22:48
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to my knowledge the last thing they had their hands on that actually came out was a stand up special. lmao
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Philthy posted:could you imagine making a series so popular that its a worldwide phenomenon and you basically want to hurry up and end it so you can go do something else instead and the execs all agreed and phoned it all in thinking it was a great idea
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They're both working on a Three Body Problem adaptation and Dan made a pretty good movie called Metal Lords. But yeah, they could have been running showbiz if they'd even made a passable ending for GoT.
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Aug 18, 2022 00:36
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someone should probably make a HotD thread before Sunday. I can do it if nobody else wants to
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Aug 18, 2022 00:47
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Just change the thread title to season 9 until it earns its own thread. 
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hahah. I dunno if people have any kind of attachment to this thread because I pretty much just made it and then ran away
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how appropriate for a game of thrones thread
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Pennsylvanian posted:They're both working on a Three Body Problem adaptation and Dan made a pretty good movie called Metal Lords. But yeah, they could have been running showbiz if they'd even made a passable ending for GoT. Three Body Problem deserves so much better.
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Escobarbarian posted:hahah. I dunno if people have any kind of attachment to this thread because I pretty much just made it and then ran away D&D account spotted
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merry christmas I think https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4010245
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Thank you! I’ll keep this thread open for general GoT discussion/D+D mockery/whatever
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MrMojok posted:MORE DRAGONS, MORE BETTER I think you might be on to something. GoT got worse anytime a dragon died.
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An insane mind posted:I think you might be on to something. GoT got worse anytime a dragon died. God, that is a good point. Those were two of the worst episodes.
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the lesson hopefully learned is that if you're going to kill off a magnificent awe inspiring creature like a dragon you should do it in a way that isn't fuckin stupid.
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An insane mind posted:I think you might be on to something. GoT got worse anytime a dragon died. It also got worse as the dragons started playing a larger role.
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Yeah I think the first dead dragon should've been by getting swarmed by zombies in their first encounter. The second one should have been something more strategic like Cersei sending spies to poison their food or something, pissing off Danerys and causing a whole lot of distrust and paranoia in her camp, especially towards say Jaime and any other former Lannister associates. Would have made his departure back to his sister a little more understandable and tragic. And it would have given Dany much stronger build up for going crazy and vengeful.
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uber_stoat posted:the lesson hopefully learned is that if you're going to kill off a magnificent awe inspiring creature like a dragon you should do it in a way that isn't fuckin stupid. Kinda forgot about the enemy's giant navy, which happens to be equipped with radar guided anti-dragon arrows
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I wrote up an effort post for House of the Dragon but I’ll post it when the new book comes out.
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Oh man just   at the last 5 minutes of the new episode. Absolutely hilarious and fourth wall breaking monologue.
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