Game of Thrones Thread

[Spatula]

Do you guys remember the city of Dorne?

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Sunspear is no more, I bet the Faith Militant did it.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Do you guys remember the city of Dorne?
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Nice try with the photoshop, there's no such place as Dorne.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Try Enderal, it's a total conversion of Skyrim and actually has some decent writing if you can ignore a little bit of fedora tipping from the authors.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/933480/Enderal_Forgotten_Stories/

I might play this again as I recall there were a lot of GOT mods, including the mod that modified the opening. Has anyone made a modpack that includes them all?

 

[Mola Ram]

Nice try with the photoshop, there's no such place as Dorne.

Sad thing is Sunspear was explicitly mentioned in the S4 premiere, with the sigil and everything.

 

[OttoWest]

I mean got Maisie Williams throwing shade about her killing NK and this from Emilia Clarke back in September 2018. Normally actors don't talk shit about a production they recently finished, its usually years later at most. That's how ridiculous they thought the writing had become that it seems they just don't care.

I don’t think any of the cast have been happy about this final season if you watch the interviews. Most of them just give a generic “oh yeah, it’s uh... gonna be big!” or whatever.

I’m looking forward to the inevitable tell-all oral history of the show in five, ten years time.

 

[John Titor]

Edit: So apparently the "I'm moving on to do something else" statement at the time Skrein made was PR and he was actually replaced/let go. I wonder why. Doesn't make a difference now but I'm curious.

They killed off Barristan despite the actor being really into his role, the very few people who bothered to read the books.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

They killed off Barristan despite the actor being really into his role, the very few people who bothered to read the books.

One of those people is actually Emilia Clarke which might explain the dislike for this season.

 

[Spatula]

Her facial expressions say 'it's bad'

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

Her facial expressions say 'it's bad'

She looks like she's about to cry for a minute there.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Nice try with the photoshop, there's no such place as Dorne.

Never forget

"Greatest show ever," they said. "The writing is brilliant," they said.

 

[Starscreams Cape]

As good as Bronn was early in the show, the writing has just made him terrible now. I'm surprised they didn't make him grow a mustache to somehow twirl during that crossbow scene.

I guess it follows, though. He's essentially a more fleshed out Boba Fett. That scene in the last episode was him having his rocket pack ignominiously slapsticked right into the fucking saarlac pit.

As George might say, it rhymes.

 

[Mola Ram]

As good as Bronn was early in the show, the writing has just made him terrible now. I'm surprised they didn't make him grow a mustache to somehow twirl during that crossbow scene.

I guess it follows, though. He's essentially a more fleshed out Boba Fett. That scene in the last episode was him having his rocket pack ignominiously slapsticked right into the fucking saarlac pit.

As George might say, it rhymes.

There was sooooo much wrong with that scene. On top of everything else, did anyone else feel like it was tacked on at the last minute? As if the writers realized after everything was finished, "Oh, shit, we forgot to do anything with Bronn!"

 

[Absolutego]

There was sooooo much wrong with that scene. On top of everything else, did anyone else feel like it was tacked on at the last minute? As if the writers realized after everything was finished, "Oh, shit, we forgot to do anything with Bronn!"

Bronn's entire presence in this show post season 4 is a bad case of HBO executives walking into the writing room and saying "hey you guys don't have anything about the sarcastic mercenary dude in your outlines for the next season. He's got a great Q rating, can we work him in please?".

She looks like she's about to cry for a minute there.

There's an interview with her where she says she more-or-less spent an afternoon walking around London in a daze after reading the season 8 scripts. Some choice quotes:

"It might as well have been raining and I would’ve just walked in it not knowing what to do," Clarke said, adding that there were "loads of tears" while she filmed her final scenes as Daenerys.

"That was the moment I realised that alcohol can also be a depressant," Clarke said. "I was kind of nursing a glass of wine going, 'I don’t know why I’m not getting any happier from this.'"

 

[Marco Fucko]

There was sooooo much wrong with that scene. On top of everything else, did anyone else feel like it was tacked on at the last minute? As if the writers realized after everything was finished, "Oh, shit, we forgot to do anything with Bronn!"

IIRC Bronn leaves after his scene telling Tyrion they were never more than associates right? The show kept him around for le witty quips, I guess.

Edit: I got fucking ninja'd.

 

[Sable]

The show really fucked up Stannis. I believe he was one of George's favorite characters, too.

Actually as far as I can remember Gurm isn't a fan of Stannis, but Stannis himself has become fairly popular in book circles.

It helps he's on an increasingly smaller list of competent people left alive.

Speaking of competency (in the Books at least), with Kevan (who Tyrion and unfortunately Varys recognise as an effective regent) and Tywin dead, the Lannisters...aren't actually in as bad a position as you'd think. Genna knows what she's doing (but isn't in charge) Jaime's trying to learn to think for himself and distance himself from Cersei (hence the letter burning), and Tyrion despite being a drunkard and one of the worst hands imaginable isn't completely retarded.

If you want competency though, the Tyrell's are your best choice for a family. Even Mace has got everyone convinced he's a bumbler.

 

[Starscreams Cape]

There was sooooo much wrong with that scene. On top of everything else, did anyone else feel like it was tacked on at the last minute? As if the writers realized after everything was finished, "Oh, shit, we forgot to do anything with Bronn!"

Everything was wrong with that scene as you say. Up to and including Tyrion and Jaime not just calmly walking to the captain of the guard one minute later and saying "there's a lone dude with a crossbow around, he might be here and he might be on the road south. Either way just kill him at your convenience, please".

 

[дядя Боря]

anyone else noticed how semiautomatic crossbow just needed another bolt loaded, no need to pull the string back with a winch ... magic

So any guesses if the Golden company switches sides and goes to serve Jon as it did once another Targaryan?

 

[Sable]

So any guesses if the Golden company switches sides and goes to serve Jon as it did once another Targaryan?

But the Golden Company serves the Blackfyres.