Game of Thrones Thread

Recon said:
I'm binge watching this series ATM. Does anyone else absolutely love the spaces in this show? Some of it's comfy as hell. I wouldn't want to live in that world, God no, but the sets are <french chef kissing fingertips>.
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They never did Highgarden any justice. A castle with natural defences such as mazes and thorns was just a regular caste, taken with 0 casualties on the Lannisters.
 
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Mola Ram said:
if you look close at the smoke trails you can clearly see spits of green fire BEFORE the sept collapsed. cersei missed her trial, so did tommen (rest in the gods embrace), and if you talk to the right people in flea bottom you'll hear about a lot of worshippers of the lord of light who CONVENIENTLY stayed home that day
#insidejob
#loosestags
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Tommen knew and he wanted to expose it all. That's why they had to throw him out of that tower.

You know, if you look at cersei there is a trail of death that keeps following her. And whenever good honest people come near, whether Eddard Stark or Jon Arryn or even the high sparrow, they always end up dying. Really eeches my breeches.
 
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Cricket said:
Danerys has been the asshole the whole time really
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Instead of taking people prisoner or hostage, she burned them alive with her Dragon. If anything, anyone in the 7 Kingdoms that lived under the mad king is going to nope out of supporting her.
Killing off the Tyrels might not be as devastating for Cersei either, if she gave over the lands to another aspiring house (sort of like Walder Frey took over Riverrun), but blowing up the High Sparrow, as well as Margery and a shitton of other nobles and part of the city would erode her support from the people, making her even more hated than Joffrey.

So all in all, the people of Westeros have a choice between Cersei, who's an asshole and Dany, who's an asshole.
Only Dany might make strong claims about defeating an army of Undead, that noone south of Winterfell has ever seen, so essentially, even just in the vincinity of Moat Cailin, people might not buy that whole Night King business.

Lemmingwise said:
You know, if you look at cersei there is a trail of death that keeps following her. And whenever good honest people come near, whether Eddard Stark or Jon Arryn or even the high sparrow, they always end up dying. Really eeches my breeches.
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Keep your filthy Alt-King rhetoric to yourself, Beric-Bro! The Cersei Foundation has never been linked to any illegal stuff and it's not her fault someone snuck into her chambers and stole her letters.
I'm with her!
 
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SkeletonBias420 said:
An even more fundamental problem with this direction has occurred to me which I'm assuming will be completely glossed over: Cersei isn't really a villain to anyone except the show characters at this point. No one outside the North knows or is going to believe what happened with the Night King and they were already a tiny fraction of Westeros' population to begin with. The Lannisters don't exactly seem to be terrorizing the general populace any more than other factions. They don't keep slaves so there isn't any appetite for an uprising like there was when Danerys came to Meereen. Aren't Jon and Danerys just a couple of assholes with a horde of migrants dragging out an endless war to the rest of Westeros now?
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They kinda tried to touch on this last season as the reason that Tarly defected to Cersei, so I dunno if they’ll try to go to that well again
 
Honestly, I started tuning out of GoT by the end of season 4, then 5 and 6 happened, and it became clear D&D couldn't write their way out of a wet paper bag without George R R Martin's source material to go off of. Not that Song of Ice and Fire is particularly profound or anything, but Jesus did the show fall off by comparison.

I think it was the Dorne and Winterfell arcs that were the last straws for me, though up to that point, the way they were handling almost every character was atrocious and should have been warning sign enough, not to mention all the fast travel, awful battle scenes, and flagrant inconsistencies in the political realm. At this point, the show is glorified fanfiction, complete with Mary Sues, lemons, and adolescent writing.
 
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TheWatcherofWatchers said:
Survived a battle against a thousand year old necromancer, his undead brother, and millions of wights in the coldest night, only to get boromired by a horny European rockstar about a day later. I wonder what's next.
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The decision to depict Euron Greyjoy as a meathead with a permanent hard-on just gets better and better!

EDIT: Ok, regarding that second clip ... what monstrous stupidity allowed that situation to happen in the first place? I still have that burning curiosity to see what happens next, but now it's like watching a slow motion trainwreck.
 
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Oh hai I has dragons
Can't use them tactically
Ser Friendzone Jorah died saving her so no one is around to explain it to her
Dragons start dying
Oh noes

I mean wtf apparently no one in make-believe land understands tactics and strategy but when you have three flying WMDs no one else has or controls that's the kind of thing you hammer into her head until its sticks because your fucking survival depends on it.

Oh well, time to read the Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn trilogy.
 
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Feline Supremacist said:
I mean wtf apparently no one in make-believe land understands tactics and strategy but when you have three flying WMDs no one else has or controls that's the kind of thing you hammer into her head until its sticks because your fucking survival depends on it.
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She's literally the scion of the family that used dragons to conquer Westeros. Her vainglorious brother shrieked about it every day he was alive. SHE'S USED THEM HERSELF TO BRING SLAVER'S BAY TO HEEL. I guess she just forgot how to use them effectively.
 
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Honestly with the Night King dead and only a horny pirate and a drunk to deal with, they might as well send Arya to kill them and end it already. I doubt Cersei is leaving the Red Keep anytime soon and not only has Arya lived there for like two months (maybe more, maybe less), she has Varys and Tyrion to give her information on some secret passages to use to sneak in (while also giving them something to do). If she's able to sneak up on someone who's surrounded by hundreds of other people, this should be a cakewalk.
 
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Mola Ram said:
She's literally the scion of the family that used dragons to conquer Westeros. Her vainglorious brother shrieked about it every day he was alive. SHE'S USED THEM HERSELF TO BRING SLAVER'S BAY TO HEEL. I guess she just forgot how to use them effectively.
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No only that, Aegon the Conqueror and his sisters used dragon armor and is a well known fact so why the hell did not a single person remind her of it?
 
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TheWatcherofWatchers said:
Honestly with the Night King dead and only a horny pirate and a drunk to deal with, they might as well send Arya to kill them and end it already. I doubt Cersei is leaving the Red Keep anytime soon and not only has Arya lived there for like two months (maybe more, maybe less), she has Varys and Tyrion to give her information on some secret passages to use to sneak in (while also giving them something to do). If she's able to sneak up on someone who's surrounded by hundreds of other people, this should be a cakewalk.
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One of the worst corners they wrote themselves into by having Arya literally save all of human existence with a YASS SLAY QUEEN moment is that any plan against Cersei that's more complicated than having their Super Ninja infiltrate the Red Keep and stab the Queen in her sleep comes across as absolutely superfluous and stupidly risky. As demonstrated in these clips.
 
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Feline Supremacist said:
No only that, Aegon the Conqueror and his sisters used dragon armor and is a well known fact so why the hell did not a single person remind her of it?
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I mean, how could she possibly predict this? It's not like Daenerys has seen one of her dragons get wounded by Quyburn's scorpion once already.

I don't even like pointing out these plot holes, especially when the series has much bigger problems, but you'd think she'd start looking up the whole dragon armor thing when she saw that some hobos can harm her dragons by chucking spears at them.
 
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No creativity said:
I mean, how could she possibly predict this? It's not like Daenerys has seen one of her dragons get wounded by Quyburn's scorpion once already.

I don't even like pointing out these plot holes, especially when the series has much bigger problems, but you'd think she'd start looking up the whole dragon armor thing when she saw that some hobos can harm her dragons by chucking spears at them.
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And don't forget landing an unarmored dragon, for no absolute reason, in the middle of a group of undead
 
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Cricket said:
And don't forget landing an unarmored dragon, for no absolute reason, in the middle of a group of undead
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These guys have clearly stopped thinking about (or never thought about) how vastly the battlefield changes when you have the equivalent of a B-29 Superfortress fighting medieval siege equipment and soldiers. These things spit fire that is hot enough to melt stone, yet all those advantages are forgotten, and -- somehow -- a creepy necromancer has developed surface-to-dragon missiles that work flawlessly. Do they just never miss anymore?

Also, again, how the hell do they get into this situation? My best guess is Cersei pretends to abdicate and they're actually stupid enough to fall for it.
 
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