Game of Thrones Thread

[Ginger Piglet]

You should see the graph of ratings for series 8 on Wikipedia. They are haemorrhaging viewers every week. Not even the squawk over Sansa getting raped in series 5 did as much damage to their ratings as this crap has.

 

[Truthspeaker]

Euron won't kill a dragon, he'll take one for himself. Killing it would be wasteful.

I know he'll do this in the book, because it's being written by someone called "an actual writer".

Thanks, Benioff and Weiss. I hope your wives are cucking you as we speak.

That's what gets me, they'd hardly be the first showrunners to hand the series off to someone else after getting tired of it, why they didn't just hand it to Bryan Cogman or anyone else who seriously gave a shit about the show post season 4? It's like their first attempt at writing fanfiction for GRRM's universe was received poorly and they locked into a "fuck it" mindset instead of thinking maybe someone else should take over the project.

Because they're greedy faggots who wanted to get paid and just turned the show into garbage because they didn't give a fuck?

"I hate this shit, but I still want my big paycheck. How long can we stand to do this before the money doesn't work for us anymore?" That was their entire mindset.

This has to be the only explanation. They've made more money off the post-book seasons than the pre-. Greed makes fiends out of better men than the average Hollywood writer.

You should see the graph of ratings for series 8 on Wikipedia. They are haemorrhaging viewers every week. Not even the squawk over Sansa getting raped in series 5 did as much damage to their ratings as this crap has.

That at least was true to the spirit of A Song of Ice and Fire.

The past three seasons go against that so often, it's become expected.

 

[Commander X]

Sneak peek at the GoT finale

 

[Cosmos]

(The image is a gif from Mean Girls where Regina George copies and spreads pages from the Burn Book to cause mass chaos)

 

[Marco Fucko]

Yeah I never got the whole MissandeiXGreyworm thing. The unsullied are eunuchs, how would they consummate the relationship, finger blasting?

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Yeah I never got the whole MissandeiXGreyworm thing. The unsullied are eunuchs, how would they consummate the relationship, finger blasting?

There was a discussion about it in series 5 I think, as to whether they chop off both "the pillar and the stones" or just one of them.

 

[Marco Fucko]

There was a discussion about it in series 5 I think, as to whether they chop off both "the pillar and the stones" or just one of them.

What, is Varys going to settle down and marry Tyrion? That sounds fucking asinine. No wonder I dropped during season 5.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

What, is Varys going to settle down and marry Tyrion? That sounds fucking asinine. No wonder I dropped during season 5.

No, I think it was in Meereen where Grey Worm had just spied on Missandei in the bath and Daenerys asked her afterwards whether she knew how the masters of Astapor castrated their Unsullied.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Eunichs usually just had the testicles removed because if you removed the whole thing in ancient times it would lead to infection and eventual death.

Remember they used to remove rooster testicles in those days because a rooster tasted better without them if it was raised in that way. Once farming got into better selective breeding the practice stopped and they just raised hens.

But yeah people knew how to remove testicles safely due to animal husbandry and used the same methods on eunichs.

 

[Mola Ram]

she knew how the masters of Astapor castrated their Unsullied.

"With large knife."

 

[Ginger Piglet]

"With large knife."

No, with small but very sharp knife. A large knife would not be precise enough and clean cuts mean less ragged edges, less chance of infection, and quicker healing times.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Eunichs usually just had the testicles removed because if you removed the whole thing in ancient times it would lead to infection and eventual death.

Remember they used to remove rooster testicles in those days because a rooster tasted better without them if it was raised in that way. Once farming got into better selective breeding the practice stopped and they just raised hens.

But yeah people knew how to remove testicles safely due to animal husbandry and used the same methods on eunichs.

I remember reading about the last Manchu Empress Yehenara and there was a discussion about the palace eunuchs who had their peens cut off as well and they were incontinent (and thus smelly) as a result. So I wondered too.

I guess Chinese emperors weren't taking any chances with all those concubines around.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

 

[Mola Ram]

No, with small but very sharp knife. A large knife would not be precise enough and clean cuts mean less ragged edges, less chance of infection, and quicker healing times.

"Unsullied small when Masters cut. All knives look large to small Unsullied pillar and stone."

 

[Marissa Moira]

I remember reading about the last Manchu Empress Yehenara and there was a discussion about the palace eunuchs who had their peens cut off as well and they were incontinent (and thus smelly) as a result. So I wondered too.

I guess Chinese emperors weren't taking any chances with all those concubines around.

Yeah that type of castration is one that wasn't widely practiced due to those issues. You really want slaves who make everything smell like pee all the time? That and when the regions got infected they would also leak pus and other fluids and they were often in pain or dying and thus their efficiency decreased.

 

[Mola Ram]

Yeah that type of castration is one that wasn't widely practiced due to those issues. You really want slaves who make everything smell like pee all the time? That and when the regions got infected they would also leak pus and other fluids and they were often in pain or dying and thus their efficiency decreased.

Well this is Game of Thrones, where from Varys to the Unsullied to Theon to Arya going into filthy canal water with open abdominal wounds, infection just isn't a thing.

Oh, except for the one that killed Khal Drogo. Oops.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Yeah that type of castration is one that wasn't widely practiced due to those issues. You really want slaves who make everything smell like pee all the time? That and when the regions got infected they would also leak pus and other fluids and they were often in pain or dying and thus their efficiency decreased.

That was also pointed out and given as the reason most of them were mean-tempered sonsofbitches. Not surprising.

Well this is Game of Thrones, where from Varys to the Unsullied to Theon to Arya going into filthy canal water with open abdominal wounds, infection just isn't a thing.

Oh, except for the one that killed Khal Drogo. Oops.

YOU FORGOT SERFRIENDZONE JORAH ALREADY????

 

[cecograph]

I enjoyed this episode. Over the last three episodes, I've learned how to watch the rest of this show. In episode 2, I was still paying attention, in case there was some good television coming, but I ended up resorting to fast-forward more than a few times, like when Dany and Jon went on their magic carpet ride. Episode 3, I just skipped entirely after realising it was going to be drek after ten minutes. This episode I watched like I watch most inconsequential TV, where there is no reason to pay any attention to the dialogue, and where most of the plot can be figured out based on the sounds of explosions and other special effects: I had it play in the background whilst I worked.

I am fucking loving the sweet tears of the fanbase, and all the bitching on reddit. The internet drama is way more exciting than the show, and I am looking forward to more in the coming weeks. But to a certain extent, these fans are kidding themselves that the show is RUINED. I'm pretty sure most of my family will love this season, and I lurk on another forum where the game of thrones thread is still wall-to-wall praise.

 

[Mola Ram]

YOU FORGOT SERFRIENDZONE JORAH ALREADY????

That was leprosy greyscale. Doesn't count, especially with how easily Sam cured it. (My favorite bit was the way he had old scarring the next morning.)

 

[John Titor]

Coincidentally, Breaking Bad didn't. Why? Because they knew what they wanted to accomplish and worked out how to get there in advance. They also knew to quit while they were ahead.

IMO, I felt BB almost went that direction because the antagonists kept escalating to the point it got ridiculous. Ridiculous but fun.

Yeah I never got the whole MissandeiXGreyworm thing. The unsullied are eunuchs, how would they consummate the relationship, finger blasting?

He ate her out last season.