Game of Thrones Thread

[CWCissey]

OK NIGGAS GET IT WHILE ITS TEPID AND MEDIOCRE
https://ok.ru/video/1361647110869

EDIT: Ok....so that just happened....

Spoiler: nsfw slightly

The terrible resolution and my shitty eyes made me think that was Ser Jorah at first and I was like 'Why?'

Also, I expect that scene on Pornhub at least 5 times by the morning if it's graphic.

Although if it is just a quick arse flash, it will just be the top result for Google searching Maisie Williams tomorrow.

 

[friedshrimp]

If they're gonna have so many fanservicey moments in this episode why didn't they give us Sansa and the Hound's reunion? They have an important relationship in the books so I don't get why in the show they go out of their way to omit it, and it's not like some "well it's creepy" reasoning if they're ready to later rape Sansa and have 14 year old Arya go nude...

 

[CWCissey]

If they're gonna have so many fanservicey moments in this episode why didn't they give us Sansa and the Hound's reunion? They have an important relationship in the books so I don't get why in the show they go out of their way to omit it, and it's not like some "well it's creepy" reasoning if they're ready to later rape Sansa and have 14 year old Arya go nude...

Because important and compelling character stories is for Line Of Duty Twitter and won't get the Twitter's firing like nudey young women and fucked up deaths will.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

So...how long till we see Theon's stink-ditch?

Also I love this new revelation about the white walkers' true motives. It turns out the reason they want to exterminate all life and turn the world into an eternal winter is.....they want to exterminate all life and turn the world into an eternal winter.

Such deep and complex and nuanced writing almost reaches the lofty heights of a Channel Awesome crossover movie in its sublimity.

Wait, is this the NIght King's actual motivation? Because I assumed he, at least, would have some character and backstory.

 

[AnAspieWithAVengeance]

He wants to put a prince in Cersei's belly.

 

[OttoWest]

Alright, one final thought before tonight's episode.

I don't think Cersei ordered Qyburn to hire Bronn to kill Jaime and Tyrion. I'm still trying to piece together the why of it, but my feeling is that its either:

1) A power play to alienate Cersei from her support system and become her only advisor. If it succeeds, the brothers are dead. If it fails, the brothers will think that Cersei tried to have them killed. In either case, they will no longer be amenable to establishing peace with Cersei.

2) I've seen speculation that Qyburn is loyal to the Starks because they saved him at Harrenhall. I've seen other people suggest that he's a Dornish spy. I'm going to go full on conspiratard and say he's loyal to the Night King. I think the assassination attempt was meant to sew discord between Cersei and her brothers so that the army doesn't consolidate in King's Landing after Winterfall falls. When the white walkers finally arrive at King's Landing, Qyburn will open the gates and welcome them with open arms.

It’s much simpler. The Cersei and Bronn actors dated in real life, it ended badly, and Lena Headey has it in her contract not to have to work with Jerome Flynn. So you get this extra awkward work around from the two of them ever sharing a scene.

Also ep 2 is great, much better than the premiere.

 

[CWCissey]

The Cersei and Bronn actors dated in real life, it ended badly, and Lena Headey has it in her contract not to have to work with Jerome Flynn.

They were married actually. And both actors have it in their contracts that they can't share scenes.

 

[Muttnik]

Spoiler: E2 Spoilers

Brienne getting knighted by Jaime was a great moment and one with lots of emotional payoff. No matter how south the writing goes, those two have consistently had some of the best and most powerful character interactions together in my opinion.

 

[OttoWest]

They were married actually. And both actors have it in their contracts that they can't share scenes.

She was married to a musician named Peter Loughran, but dated Flynn when her marriage was breaking up.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

It’s much simpler. The Cersei and Bronn actors dated in real life, it ended badly, and Lena Headey has it in her contract not to have to work with Jerome Flynn. So you get this extra awkward work around from the two of them ever sharing a scene.

Now that's an interesting piece of trivia, I have to say.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Spoiler: E2 Spoilers

Brienne getting knighted by Jaime was a great moment and one with lots of emotional payoff. No matter how south the writing goes, those two have consistently had some of the best and most powerful character interactions together in my opinion.

You know, the first two episodes in the season really sucked in my opinion. I understand what they were going for, but it was just so damn boring and tedious. I really hope episode 3 doesn't disappoint, and I really want to see Melissandre. I can't believe they wasted 8 million on just the first two episodes, it makes no sense to me.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Pocahontas wrote a review of Game of Thrones. Its the most airheaded vanilla take you could imagine.

The World Needs Fewer Cersei Lannisters

Elizabeth Warren on why she loves Game of Thrones.

www.thecut.com

The World Needs Fewer Cersei Lannisters

By Elizabeth Warren


I watch Game of Thrones because, just like everyone else, I want to find out who lives, who dies, and who ends up on the spiky iron chair in King’s Landing. But for me, the hit HBO show is about more than a death count (I’ll leave that to Arya). It’s about the women.


Daenerys “Stormborn” Targaryen has been my favorite from the first moment she walked through fire. Despite being the daughter of the Mad King and the last rightful Targaryen heir to the Iron Throne (until this week), Dany didn’t grow up in the lavish palace walls of the Red Keep. She was born during the chaos of her father’s overthrow, in the last great civil war between the rich and powerful family houses. Dany grew up in exile, wandering the so-called Free Cities of the East — many of which weren’t free at all but propped up by slave markets to serve their masters. When we meet Dany in season one, she’s a teenager sold off by her abusive elder brother to beefcake warlord Khal Drogo in order to further his political ambitions. Dany might be a princess by birth, but she wasn’t dealt an easy hand.

Not only did Dany grow up under the protection of rich patrons, but she also became a Queen by marriage to Khal Drogo (arranged by those same rich patrons). It is literally the easiest hand the daughter of a deposed king could get.

Dany believes fiercely in her right to rule, but she despises what ruling means in the world she’s grown up in. She doesn’t want to be a slave owner or a dictator — and she definitely doesn’t want to become her murderous father. She tells Ser Jorah: “Slavery is real. I can end it. I will end it. And I will end those behind it.” Before sailing across the sea to Westeros, she frees the enslaved people of Meereen and creates an army that fights because they want to, not because they have to. (Also, she has dragons.)

Dany grew up in the free cities of Braavos you dumb bitch. You are right that she doesn't want to rule like them because the Braavosi elect their leaders, and Dany feels entitled to the throne because of her blood.

In the season-eight premiere, our Khaleesi finally arrives at Winterfell with Jon Snow and her army of the Unsullied to “save the North,” not conquer it. She states her mission clearly in season seven: “I’m not here to murder. All I want to destroy is the wheel that has rolled over everyone both rich and poor, to the benefit of no one but the Cersei Lannisters of the world.” And as much as Dany wants to take on her family’s enemies and take back the Iron Throne, she knows that she must first fight the army of the dead that threatens all mankind. This is a revolutionary idea, in Westeros or anywhere else. A queen who declares that she doesn’t serve the interests of the rich and powerful? A ruler who doesn’t want to control the political system but to break the system as it is known? It’s no wonder that the people she meets in Westeros are skeptical. Skeptical, because they’ve seen another kind of woman on the Iron Throne: the villain we love to hate, Queen Cersei of Casterly Rock.

Dany's promises to break the wheel are met with skepticism because she is part of the wheel and only feels entitled to rule because of who her father was. Additionally, she has ZERO plan as to succession and the power vacuun resulting from her death would almost certainly leave the smallfolk worse off than if she just left the current system in place.

The Lannisters have long been the richest family in Westeros, and they’ve paid an enormous price to become richer and more powerful. Their matriarch has lost her father and all three of her children. Her brothers have abandoned her. Cersei is a lot more honest about wielding power than most: “I don’t care about checking my worst impulses,” she tells Tyrion in the season-seven finale. “I don’t care about making the world a better place. Hang the world.” The Lannisters’ gold mines under Casterly Rock went dry a long time ago. Without pillaging the Tyrells, her regime’s coffers would have been empty.


Unlike Dany, Cersei doesn’t expect to win with the people — she expects to win in spite of them. When Cersei’s brother (and lover) Jaime begs her not to wage a war — arguing that they don’t have the warrior strength of the Dothraki or the allegiance of the other houses, she replies with all the confidence in the Seven Kingdoms: “We have something better. We have the Iron Bank.” Rather than earn her army, Cersei’s pays for it. She buys 20,000 Golden Company mercenaries — though they arrive without their legendary elephants — with funds from the Iron Bank. But Cersei has no intention of sending her private army north to help defeat the army of the dead — that’s Jon and Dany’s problem. No, Cersei’s army will sit back and wait for whatever comes their way. Cersei’s betting on the strength of the bank to get her through the biggest fight of her life. It never crosses the mind that the bank could fail, or betray her.

There are a lot of dumb takes worth unpacking, but I will say the idea of the Iron Bank betraying Cersei is laughable. Yes, there's a possibility that they might, BUT Cersei has promised to repay the bank. Dany, meanwhile, is a wild card. Would she assume the debts of a ruler who used that money to wage war against her? Additionally, Dany has a history of breaking business deals by murdering the people she made those deals with. The Iron Bank might rightfully see Dany as unstable, unreliable and dangerous. Which horse do you really think the bank is going to back if they want their debts repaid?

So this is it — season eight. Winter is here, the Wall is crushed, and only five episodes remain. With all these powerful women preparing for battle, will the mighty bank silence the army of the people? Will the army of the dead heading straight for Winterfell make all of this talk about breaking wheels irrelevant? We’ve got five episodes to find out if the people can truly break their chains, destroy the wheel, and rise up together to win.

 

[CWCissey]

Spoiler: Nothing to do with the episode itself but still may provide a hint

I've just heard that HBO put out a statement reminding viewers that Arya is 18 years old.

That is some serious Sonichu bullshit.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Imagine if DJ from Full House got naked in the series finale and fucked Uncle Joey. Yeah sure its "legal," but come the fuck on. Have some common decency.

 

[GC_Positive]

Spoiler

I mean the actor is 22. I do think that there is something creepy about seeing a girl on television as a child, watching her slowly grow older until she gets fucked. I don't really feel the scene was neccesary but I'm glad they did it because it will cause an atomic spergout amongst the bookfags.

I'm a member of the tards watch and I spend time on the subreddit /r/asoiafcirclejerk where we have a few tards from the book only fandom who fucking hate the show who we make fun of. Possibly the biggest lolcow in ASOIAF/GOT to ever exist is this guy called Dragon Demands who is the admin of the Game of Thrones wiki. At this stage he has basically declared a holy war/Jihad against David Benioff (one of the showrunners) and has accused him of a litany of hilarious things that are obviously untrue.

Here are a few things that A Dragon Demands has accused Benioff of:

• Being an incel.
• Being an alcoholic.
• Being incompetent.
• Being a pathological liar.
• Constantly chasing his wealthy fathers approval.
• Being neglected as a child (because he found out he had a mild lisp when he was 35).
• Being a narcissist.
• Having a pill popping problem.
• Not having any writing ability.
• Removing all dialogue from the show to try to get the actors Emmy awards.

The best thing about A Dragon Demands is that he is a trainwreck going in slow motion.

There is a journalist for Time Magazine, Raisa Bruner. She wrote this article: http://time.com/5567981/game-of-thrones-books-show/

"Here's Why the Game of Thrones Show Is Better Than the Books"

Of course, this sent A Dragon Demands into a massive sperg rage and he sent an angry email to Time Magazine basically saying that the Game of Thrones wiki will no longer interlink or used Time Magazine as a citation for anything Game of Thrones.

He released this "documentary" that he made on why David Benioff is allegedly a bad person and it's an hour fucking long: https://youtu.be/OWEyUWZUh78

 

[Stoneheart]

Imagine if DJ from Full House got naked in the series finale and fucked Uncle Joey. Yeah sure its "legal," but come the fuck on. Have some common decency.

Ohh come on. Its fine, they have to get some noble houses formed for the end scene. but did we realy have to see bugeye naked? just cut away.

 

[darkhorse816]

Spoiler: Ours is the Spoilers

I think they used a body double for Maisie. I did like the scar reveal-the waif’s stabbing scars are still there. Also Gendry and Arya are close in age in the show so it’s not like DJ and Joey insert Full House reference sex pun. I actually liked this episode a lot.

As for the Time magazine article, the show did a lot of stuff the books don’t do that I like, like Arya and Tywin’s scenes, making the Tyrells more human, Davos and Shireen’s relationship... still they fucked up Dorne!

 

[GC_Positive]

As for the Time magazine article, the show did a lot of stuff the books don’t do that I like, like Arya and Tywin’s scenes, making the Tyrells more human, Davos and Shireen’s relationship... still they fucked up Dorne!

It's definitely not perfect, but I think that there are many critiques by autistic NEETs who don't understand many of the logistical, economic and common sense challenges for adapting these novels. It's further compounded by the source material not being complete and GRRM having to change a bunch of stuff himself as he was going to have a 5 year skip in the books but changed it to not have that skip. Pretty much all of the young main characters (all the alive stark kids, dany etc) were written so that by the end of the story they'd be adults, I think in the books Sansa is still like 14 lol.

Plus, the show has smartly done away with tertiary characters. Jeyne Poole is replaced by Sansa Stark as Ramsay Bolton’s wife, sharpening Sansa’s story.

Cracks me up every time I read it as I know people like Dragon Demands when they watched one of GRRMs main characters get raped when it doesn't happen in the story sperged out hardcore.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Spoiler: Ours is the Spoilers

I think they used a body double for Maisie. I did like the scar reveal-the waif’s stabbing scars are still there. Also Gendry and Arya are close in age in the show so it’s not like DJ and Joey insert Full House reference sex pun. I actually liked this episode a lot.

As for the Time magazine article, the show did a lot of stuff the books don’t do that I like, like Arya and Tywin’s scenes, making the Tyrells more human, Davos and Shireen’s relationship... still they fucked up Dorne!

They def used CGI. You could tell, CGI and a body double, so I don't quite know what the point was, you could just have easily faded to black.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

Five episodes from the end, it's interesting that

Spoiler: Spoiler's Bay

we finally had the closest thing to a "bottle episode" (the other two episodes to only take place in one location were bigass battles). I actually really enjoyed everything slowing down and just letting the characters interact, especially since we're probably going to lose somebody cool next week. Wonder if they're gonna wrap up the Walker stuff next week and leave the later episodes for taking down Cersei, or if there's some twist yet to be seen with the Night King