Game of Thrones Thread

[CWCissey]

Slight realisation of who "condescending smile" Dany reminds me of...

Jay Bauman (I'm a fucking spastic) and Pingu?

No wonder people find Emilia Clarke attractive!

 

[Judge Holden]

Also

Rich Evans and Pingu?

Jesus fucking christ nigga, how do you mistake Jay Bauman for Rich!?

 

[CWCissey]

Jesus fucking christ nigga, how do you mistake Jay Bauman for Rich!?

I admit I only really watch Plinkett reviews...

 

[Chester Rigby]

Maybe they could outsource those to India. Indians made some epicly bad spoofs of American movies like terminator and star wars. It would not be cool, but it would be funny as hell.

The show used a total of forty FX studios in thirteen countries, including the US, Canada, England, Northern Ireland, Spain, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, China, France, Sweden and India. 13250 takes were made for the first seven seasons, every single one of which required visual effects.

Widow's Wail, Joffrey's valerian steel sword is still held in the Red Keep.

Wasn't that sword burried with Joffrey's body in the Sept of Baelor?

 

[iRON-mAn]

Wasn't that sword burried with Joffrey in the Sept of Baelor?

I'm not actually sure what happened to it in the show, but in the books it was kept for Tommen. Who would be stupid enough to bury a Valyrian steel sword? That stuff is rare.

 

[Marco Fucko]

lmao I forgot this show existed

 

[ProgKing of the North]

The King in the North issue is stupid because Daenarys could just give them princely preference the same way her ancestors did for Dorne out of respect and the fact that they couldn't outright conquer them.

I also don't understand the insistence of this twist that the Night King is marching around Winterfell to King's Landing instead and coming back up to flank them. I know this show messes with time, but there's absolutely no way to simply march down from the North and back without the team at Winterfell getting suspicious. Like Thormund seen them marching to Winterfell. Unless, we're suggesting that wasn't the main force and NK was already on his way to KL by that point. They'd realise something was up when the army of the dead should have gotten to Winterfell days ago and didn't.

Even assuming that NK left at the wall, and went straight to KL with another force, there's no way to march an army to KL without being seen. NK on a dragon could fly straight there, fine, but you have to march an army through the neck and the riverlands, there's no other way south except by boat which the wights can't use. Cersei might be short-sighted but she's not an idiot. She knows either Daenarys or the dead are marching down from the North. Either Qyburn's informants or Cersei's scouts would tell her if an army was marching down. And if he were to march down, he'd need the white walkers on horses to get there fast, and we already seen those at Winterfell. So the only way NK is going to sneak attack KL is by going alone, by himself, to KL with his dragon...to a place where he's out numbered, and they have arrows capable of taking down dragons and a ton of wildfire. Ok, we don't know if any of that will or won't be effective, but Widow's Wail, Joffrey's valerian steel sword is still held in the Red Keep.

I can see this Winterfell battle being brutal, and maybe it lasts an episode and a half, but I'm almost certain it's going to end here.

He might not have taken the army, he could just be flying down solo on UnViserion

Also there’s no way in hell Tywin would let his family’s new Valerian steel sword be buried with Joffrey, who wasn’t even technically a Lannister. The whole point of those is that they’re passed down through generations.

 

[Tookie]

I'm not actually sure what happened to it in the show, but in the books it was kept for Tommen. Who would be stupid enough to bury a Valyrian steel sword? That stuff is rare.

Jaime has been carting around Widow's Wail since Tommen's death on the show, though they haven't really drawn attention to it via dialog.

 

[iRON-mAn]

He might not have taken the army, he could just be flying down solo on UnViserion

Which is a huge risk considering that they have arrows capable of taking down dragons. Maybe they can't kill it (though the wights can be downed with normal weapons, so why not a wight dragon), but they can ground it. It seems like a bad gambit to lose a dragon and gain more foot soldiers when you're going into battle against an enemy with two dragons.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

Which is a huge risk considering that they have arrows capable of taking down dragons. Maybe they can't kill it (though the wights can be downed with normal weapons, so why not a wight dragon), but they can ground it. It seems like a bad gambit to lose a dragon and gain more foot soldiers when you're going into battle against an enemy with two dragons.

I forget did they make more ballistas? The one Bronn used on Drogon definitely didn’t get carted back to Kings Landing

 

[Stab You in the Back]

What if the Night King attacks The Iron Islands on Dragonback?

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I can see this Winterfell battle being brutal, and maybe it lasts an episode and a half, but I'm almost certain it's going to end here.

That's what I am wondering about, too. Dealing with the Night King and then with Cersei would be a huge step down in terms of a climax. It would feel like the conflict between the Night King and the living was just a stepping stone, whereas the final conflict with Cersei would make that feel like the stakes are tremendeously lower. It would make both feel dull as fuck.

However it really depends on how they go for it. I think the best way would be to make the people currently in Winterfell fall back to more southern parts of the continent, but even that leaves too little room for the resolution of the Iron Throne fight. It's weird, it seems either way is not going to work out that well.

 

[OttoWest]

Jaime has been carting around Widow's Wail since Tommen's death on the show, though they haven't really drawn attention to it via dialog.

Tagging just in case

Spoiler

Yah he’s got it in his hand in the HBO promo photo for the next episode. He and Brienne have sister swords, both forged from Ice. They’ve never fought together with both of them wielding their respective Valyrian steel, but clearly they’ll be doing so at Winterfell.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Tagging just in case

Spoiler

Yah he’s got it in his hand in the HBO promo photo for the next episode. He and Brienne have sister swords, both forged from Ice. They’ve never fought together with both of them wielding their respective Valyrian steel, but clearly they’ll be doing so at Winterfell.

Ned Stark's family sword Ice had enhancements on it (a la the One Ring from LOTR), you can see it in the scene where the smith melts it down in the first episode of season 4.

Some British guy on YT pointed out the Starks aren't the really the good guys they seem to be as they descend from the First Men who made the pact with the Children of the Forest and the Stark who married a White Walker. Their family history is full of Starks who used magic and Brandon the Builder used enhancements on the Wall and since he also built Winterfell there's probably some magic in and around the crypts as well. This is barely touched upon in the show but it's detailed in the books.

Also the "There must always be a Stark in Winterfell" shtick is ominous in light of this if it's just a family castle. And then there's Benjen who's undead but not a walker.

I wonder if there's any significance to Jorah wielding Sam's Valyrian steel sword Heartsbane? I wouldn't put it past fat man to have him literally stick it in someone's heart.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

You're mixing book and show stuff. Benjen is not Coldhands in the books.

My problem with Arya is that she is ugly(i'm sorry) and is one of the people I never want to see naked in the first place.

The actress having the acting capabilities of a driftwood doesn't help.

Maisie Williams did a good job in early seasons before the writing tanked.

 

[дядя Боря]

with four shows to go I don't see how there could be a campaign in KL. It would be way simpler for Cersei to just accidentally choke on a fruit and die. There, frees up a whole lot of time for feels and bullshit.

I don't think that they would let Dany die. Jon needs to serve Dany like a beta, but Dany is a strong womyn (as proven by broiling those dudes) My guess is a lot of people die and when everything seems lost, unexpected help arrives, victory and world peace!

The help may come as Yara fucks up that other dude, bring ships with help, then they have hot sex and rule as two queers. What about Dorn, because brown people saving the world would also be a good ending. The unexpected help will be unexpected and Jon can't be a king, that would not be right.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

with four shows to go I don't see how there could be a campaign in KL. It would be way simpler for Cersei to just accidentally choke on a fruit and die. There, frees up a whole lot of time for feels and bullshit.

I don't think that they would let Dany die. Jon needs to serve Dany like a beta, but Dany is a strong womyn (as proven by broiling those dudes) My guess is a lot of people die and when everything seems lost, unexpected help arrives, victory and world peace!

The help may come as Yara fucks up that other dude, bring ships with help, then they have hot sex and rule as two queers. What about Dorn, because brown people saving the world would also be a good ending. The unexpected help will be unexpected and Jon can't be a king, that would not be right.

Burn them all

Spoiler

The help may come as Yara fucks up that other dude, bring ships with help, then they have hot sex and rule as two queers.

Did you mean two queens? Either one is possible and equally highly exceptional.

 

[friedshrimp]

Dorne is dead in the show, so your shitposting/muh white genocide jokes don't even work in this context.

 

[iRON-mAn]

I forget did they make more ballistas? The one Bronn used on Drogon definitely didn’t get carted back to Kings Landing

I feel like...yes? I can't remember if there's an exact scene, but I have a vague recollection of it. Though possibly I'm just being because it'd be the dumbest thing ever if they didn't.

Ned Stark's family sword Ice had enhancements on it (a la the One Ring from LOTR), you can see it in the scene where the smith melts it down in the first episode of season 4.

All Valyrian steel has those enhancements. The steel is 'spell-forged' during the making, it's just that the process of doing so was lost during the doom of Valyria. Current smiths are able to re-forge it, but they can't make new ones.

Which is pretty much true of almost all magic in ASOIAF. It's not necessarily bad, but the processes needed to use it effectively have been lost, so all you're left with are blood magic and necromancy.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Which is pretty much true of almost all magic in ASOIAF. It's not necessarily bad, but the processes needed to use it effectively have been lost, so all you're left with are blood magic and necromancy.

Truly, fat man hasn't elaborated on precisely what those enhancements are in the Valyrian steel swords. For all we know you have to be at least part Valyrian and scream FUCK YOU ASSHOLE in High Valyrian while sitting on top of a dragon wearing dragonglass or something to make it work.