Game of Thrones Thread

[friedshrimp]

I know a few bookspergs / book cows on Tumblr who generally rant and bitch and moan about the show and when it changes from the book, going on rants like "WHATEVER IF IT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN THE BOOKS IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S REAL!!!!"

Yet for this nonsense, which basically spits in everything the whole lore had built up...They seem surprisingly okay with it. They comment this made sense since in ASOIAF/GOT the important thing was the politics, not the White Walkers, and that it's more important than some "random Chosen One prophecy". And that the importance of the story is on Sansa being queen or something.

I wonder what will they say the moment GRRM releases the book and increases the role of the Others. Will they have an aneurysm at that or not?

 

[Jub-Jub]

Frankly I would have prefered it if Jon and the other important characters had rushed into the godswood and started to fight the White Walkers, while Jon engages the Night King, to eventually pin him to the tree by stabbing him with his sword, grabbing him, so he can't run away and essentially sacrifice himself in this way so Dany gets a clear shot to use dragonfire to burn the Night King. (This, of course, would make it necessary to ditch the Bugs-Bunny like scene, where NK shrugs off Dragonfire before.)
Imagine Jon strolling out of the fire, just like Dany did 2 times by now, thus solidifying that he is indeed Rhaegar's son. I feel that would have been a neat payoff both to the NK storyline as well as establishing for anyone that's not Bran, that Jon is indeed undeniably a Targaryen.
Would also sort of tie in with Azor Ahai sacrificing Nissa Nissa.

It would also tie in with how the NK was made, bound to a weirwood tree and stabbed in the heart with an obsidian dagger (it's like poetry, it rhymes).

I was thinking the other day about Bran's arc and show presence after becoming the 3 eyed raven. I wonder if they didn't do anything with him because it'd be too similar to Matt Cauthon from the WoT series. The episode could have had Bran making smart battle descisions due to his historic knowledge of those events and using his warging ability to see the battlefield unfolding and change events. That would also give a good framing device for viewers to 'see' and move throughthe battle with changes in location coming from Bran's perspective. Instead of the jumping all over the place and constant closeup cluster-fuck shots we got.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

Personally I would have liked to have seen The White Walkers make it to King's Landing.

Would have been fun to see how Cersei would deal with that.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

So I watched S8E3 last night, and I was left wondering......where the hell did Bran go when he warged?

 

[Kyria the Great]

So I guess in the end that show is now about who sits on the throne and the game is important and not a trivial pursuit in the end compared to the mass hordes of the dead? This also means that no matter who wins, history is going to likely repeat itself and Westeros will wash itself in the blood of petty feudal conflict again and not learn a lesson from having to band together and no fight the hordes in a last stand.

 

[MemeGray]

So I watched S8E3 last night, and I was left wondering......where the hell did Bran go when he warged?

I've been thinking about this since I saw it and can only assume he was showing Dany/Jon where the NK and his dragon were

 

[verissimus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI7zy1PTMp0

Sums up most of the problems I had with the episode although after watching it the first time around I didn't think it was as bad as people were saying it was besides of course Arya killing the Night King and how the battle overall was stupid just because it was going to devolve down to killing the big bad anyway (also Melissandre conveniently showing up and conveniently pissing off). The only thing he missed, which for whatever reason I had a big problem with, mainly because I found it so noticeable, was the aforementioned Melissandre.

Like, it's as if her presence in the whole episode was symbolic of it. She shows up conveniently at the last moment to help fight when she could have shown up earlier (never mind there was no reason for her to have even left in the first place), what efforts she does provide which, was at first useful, turn out to be meaningless, and in the end she pretty much kills herself even though the show tried baiting us into believing Arya would do kill her (which even that attempt was absolutely silly since she hardly had any reason to want to kill her especially when we know she didn't kill Gendry). So yeah, this episode was really something else. I didn't think it was as bad (and to some extent still don't) only just because I already knew the writers were going to screw things up (HBO has a habit of screwing up). They already were for 3 seasons, but this was definitely the final nail.

 

[darkhorse816]

So I watched S8E3 last night, and I was left wondering......where the hell did Bran go when he warged?

He warged into a flock of birds and helped Arya fly into the Godswood.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

He warged into a flock of birds and helped Arya fly into the Godswood.

Does Disney own HBO? Because that sounds like something a Disney princess would do.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

There are some fans of the books who are holding out hope that George R.R. Martin is laughing his ass off and will release the rest of the book series, and that there will be a different, kickass ending.

I've read the books, and I do enjoy them ... However, I have ZERO hope with the books at this point. George ain't gonna finish them.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

There are some fans of the books who are holding out hope that George R.R. Martin is laughing his ass off and will release the rest of the book series, and that there will be a different, kickass ending.

I've read the books, and I do enjoy them ... However, I have ZERO hope with the books at this point. George ain't gonna finish them.

Unless he's already written them and he's holding off giving them to an editor. I doubt it though.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

 

[Stab You in the Back]

Fabian Wagner, who also worked on "Thrones" episodes like "Hardhome" and "Battle of the Bastards," told TMZ that "Game of Thrones" "has always been very dark and a very cinematic show" and is therefore not designed to be watched on a phone screen or in broad daylight.

He recommended watching the show at home in a dark room and adjusting the TV settings, according to TMZ.

Wagner said the lighting was not a mistake. "I know it wasn't too dark because I shot it," he said.

Wagner isn't the first "Game of Thrones" cinematographer to defend the show's lighting — or lack thereof.

Robert McLachlan, who worked on eight "Game of Thrones" episodes, told INSIDER's resident "Thrones" expert, Kim Renfro, that the show was dark because it was meant to be "as naturalistic as possible."

The idea is "to make these sets and locations feel as if they're absolutely not lit by us, but only by Mother Nature or some candles," he said, "so that it feels more naturalistic, albeit enhanced in some cases."

"as naturalistic as possible"

"not lit by us, but only by Mother Nature"

Naturalistic my ass. Snow reflects light you dumb motherfuckers.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

They released official pictures for this week’s episode that look really good.

Spoiler

there’s two pictures of them preparing to burn everyone who died during the battle of Winterfell. One side has Team Dany and the other side has team Stark. I’m picturing what’s going to happen when the bodies are set on fire. Two sides separated by a wall of fire.

They'll all just rise up as fire zombies and start attacking everyone because now that Ice is defeated Fire will reign. Truly, it was a Song of Ice and Fire.

 

[Spatula]

I know a few bookspergs / book cows on Tumblr who generally rant and bitch and moan about the show and when it changes from the book, going on rants like "WHATEVER IF IT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN THE BOOKS IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S REAL!!!!"

Yet for this nonsense, which basically spits in everything the whole lore had built up...They seem surprisingly okay with it. They comment this made sense since in ASOIAF/GOT the important thing was the politics, not the White Walkers, and that it's more important than some "random Chosen One prophecy". And that the importance of the story is on Sansa being queen or something.

I wonder what will they say the moment GRRM releases the book and increases the role of the Others. Will they have an aneurysm at that or not?

Very hard to believe.
Every book fag and non book fag despise s08e03 and have already made multiple youtube videos which basically can be summed up by this thread.

Your first mistake was going on Tumblr. The same place that made that fan fiction about Arya and Jon having a sexual relationship.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

I know a few bookspergs / book cows on Tumblr who generally rant and bitch and moan about the show and when it changes from the book, going on rants like "WHATEVER IF IT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN THE BOOKS IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S REAL!!!!"

Yet for this nonsense, which basically spits in everything the whole lore had built up...They seem surprisingly okay with it. They comment this made sense since in ASOIAF/GOT the important thing was the politics, not the White Walkers, and that it's more important than some "random Chosen One prophecy". And that the importance of the story is on Sansa being queen or something.

I wonder what will they say the moment GRRM releases the book and increases the role of the Others. Will they have an aneurysm at that or not?

Any bookfags still invested enough to hatewatch the show are retards. EDIT: I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they weren't bookfags but in fact the most despicable and pathetic piece of any adaptation fandom: Wikifags. People that haven't actually read the source material but read wiki articles about it so they can pretend they did to feel superior.

It would also tie in with how the NK was made, bound to a weirwood tree and stabbed in the heart with an obsidian dagger (it's like poetry, it rhymes).

I was thinking the other day about Bran's arc and show presence after becoming the 3 eyed raven. I wonder if they didn't do anything with him because it'd be too similar to Matt Cauthon from the WoT series. The episode could have had Bran making smart battle descisions due to his historic knowledge of those events and using his warging ability to see the battlefield unfolding and change events. That would also give a good framing device for viewers to 'see' and move throughthe battle with changes in location coming from Bran's perspective. Instead of the jumping all over the place and constant closeup cluster-fuck shots we got.

D&D are not well read enough to be familiar even with genre dreck like WoT. Which is ironic because stuff like WoT is exactly what GRRM's writing was a reaction to.

 

[Absolutego]

Any bookfags still invested enough to hatewatch the show are exceptional individuals. EDIT: I wouldn't be surprised to learn that they weren't bookfags but in fact the most despicable and pathetic piece of any adaptation fandom: Wikifags. People that haven't actually read the source material but read wiki articles about it so they can pretend they did to feel superior.

IDK I'm a bookfag and I'm totally enjoying this season in a "so bad it's good" sense. Pretty sure I spent most of the last episode giggling. I actually unironically enjoyed episode 2, which was a bit of a surprise.
It helps that I concluded D&D were hacks and this was going to turn into a bad anime around the beginning of season 7, so I finished all the handwringing about being disappointed two years-ish ago.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

IDK I'm a bookfag and I'm totally enjoying this season in a "so bad it's good" sense. Pretty sure I spent most of the last episode giggling. I actually unironically enjoyed episode 2, which was a bit of a surprise.
It helps that I concluded D&D were hacks and this was going to turn into a bad anime around the beginning of season 7, so I finished all the handwringing about being disappointed two years-ish ago.

"So bad it's good" is not hatewatching. Hatewatching is when you watch something you hate just because you're addicted to the sensation of being mad at it or because of sunk-cost fallacy.

 

[Zero0]

So didn't anyone here read the leeks?

Some guy on reddit "predicted" what would happen a few months ago, and he was right about everything so far so the rest is probably true aswell.

Spoiler: Fucking spoilers

Spoiler: I mean it you idiot

Jon kills dany, why? Who knows, maybe she turns agaisnt sansa/arya because she wants to rule the north, maybe she starts burning shit, no idea, I'd go with the first one though.
There was more stuff, like the mountain killing the dickless guy girlfriend (Milasandei?), but who cares really

 

[Absolutego]

So didn't anyone here read the leeks?

Some guy on reddit "predicted" what would happen a few months ago, and he was right about everything so far so the rest is probably true aswell.

Spoiler: Fucking spoilers

Spoiler: I mean it you idiot

Jon kills dany, why? Who knows, maybe she turns agaisnt sansa/arya because she wants to rule the north, maybe she starts burning shit, no idea, I'd go with the first one though.
There was more stuff, like the mountain killing the dickless guy girlfriend (Milasandei?), but who cares really

Spoiler: Preemptive spoilers for books and show because I can't be assed

Daenerys going full Mad Queen has been foreshadowed in the books and the show for a while now (her reaction to Jon saying he was a Targaryen mostly amounted to sperging about "muh rights" in the show), and the idea that someone not-fully Targaryen would have to intervene to stop her and well and truly "break the wheel" has been a popular fan theory for years now. TBH, for me her snapping and needing to be taken out is probably what will happen in the books (assuming they're ever published), though I do admit the show will probably make it feel unearned and confusing going by how much they've relied on Dany Yaas Kween Slay-ing her way through the plot for the last 4 seasons. Maybe they'll use the death of Jorah as fuel for Dany suddenly viewing Jon from an adversarial angle as opposed to the extremely forced """romance""" we've been subjected to thus far.