Game of Thrones Thread

Your Weird Fetish said:
In the books the people of the Free Cities and the parts of Essos closest to Westeros are all described as white. Once you get to the Rhoynar they get more olive tinged or brown. And then there's place like Valyria and Ghis that have phenotypes you don't really see in the real world these days like purple eyes or red hair + brown skin.
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Please don't describe Mediterraneans as "brown." I'd rather not be lumped in with Indians and Persians, thank you very much.
 
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Lioness said:
Combat whips can break bone, ruin hands and split open throats when used correctly, which they weren't in the show. I was SO hyped to see a fellow female whip combatant in GoT and they fucked up so bad. She should have made use of a karambit or some other small, exotic knife or dagger to finish armored dudes off after pulling them in. It's not ideal against armor and swords, but it can do more damage than one might realize. The show made it look stupid and useless.
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I'm sure someone talented with a whip could win a fight, just as someone talented with a Bo staff could win against a gun, given the right circumstances. I'm just saying it's a very impractical choice. Once they are near you your whip is useless. Even on the show she had to break out a dagger to be able to kill anyone.
 
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Spatula said:
Clearly, it's Bronn.
He definitely overstayed his welcome in the show.
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...a lot of characters in this show overstayed their welcome. Just in this season alone we have : Sansa, Arya, Tyrion (no that is not a joke the character has been pointless since season 5), Bran, as far as I'm concerned, Yara, the Hound, Davos who seems to only be around just to throw in some snide remark here and there, and probably a handful of others.

Edit : Also btw, not that I care, but what happened to Robin Arryn? We just forgot he exists? Granted that might as well should be the case, but it's like, why didn't the writers do that for so many other characters?
 
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Edit : Also btw, not that I care, but what happened to Robin Arryn? We just forgot he exists? Granted that might as well should be the case, but it's like, why didn't the writers do that for so many other characters?
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Orphan, heir to the Vale, completely unfit to rule, in a time of political instability. I would imagine he's very dead.
Having each team try to get someone loyal to them as the new lord of the vale would have made for an interesting subplot but you know, politics are booooring, fighting against skeleton is much cooler.
 
Jaime's and Cersei's arcs might not be so utterly fucked:

So another take on their last scene together is Jaime arriving at a high tower (Tower of the Hand, maybe? It's at least been mentioned on the show) after killing Euron. Tells Cersei he didn't come for her; he came to save their last child. Cersei breaks down and admits she was never pregnant. Jaime finally has enough, starts calling her a hateful woman, goes to strangle her, the two of them tumble out a window and plunge to their deaths, reflecting how Jaime pushed Bran out a window back in the premiere.

It ain't good, but it could work out better than other leaks we've heard.
 
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OttoWest said:
Apparently Nikolaj and Lena haaaaate the twincest storyline and asked D&D to end it years ago, as it is over in the books, but no bueno. They seem to love fucking with actors if you’ve heard about any of the petty shit they’ve pulled over the years.
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They definitely hate this show and had no problem absolutely ruining it. They don't care because they're 'big shots' now. But I don't know. Having the reputation of fucking up one of the best shows in the history of television to the point where everyone on the internet will unit in collective hatred of them doesn't seem like a pertinent career move. Like, why would I ever watch anything these two faggots are involved in?

SJW Twitter is going to hate them for making their white savior go crazy and have her brown army rape and kill white women, book readers are going to hate seeing the annihilation of every plot, show watchers are going to hate seeing the annihilation of all character development. I mean, the only people who are going to like this are people with: shit taste and no understanding of narrative story-telly and shills who are paid.
 
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Secret Asshole said:
They definitely hate this show and had no problem absolutely ruining it. They don't care because they're 'big shots' now. But I don't know. Having the reputation of fucking up one of the best shows in the history of television to the point where everyone on the internet will unit in collective hatred of them doesn't seem like a pertinent career move. Like, why would I ever watch anything these two faggots are involved in?
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Well they were able to finagle their way into a Star Wars trilogy, which is supposedly the reason they wanted to get Thrones over with. But maybe the joke’s on them seeing what a shit show Kennedy has made of that property and the number of creators who’ve seen their asses kicked to the curb for fucking up.
 
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Corbin Dallas Multipass said:
I'm sure someone talented with a whip could win a fight, just as someone talented with a Bo staff could win against a gun, given the right circumstances. I'm just saying it's a very impractical choice. Once they are near you your whip is useless. Even on the show she had to break out a dagger to be able to kill anyone.
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Not with a combat whip - the bottom of the handle is heavily weighted for bludgeoning as a club or flail. Most people don't know this, so it gives you the opportunity to bash their head in and start strangling when they think they've got you. I do agree it's not the most practical thing against a swordsman - but just as a talented Bo staff user could beat a gun, that Sand Snake was supposed to be prodigious with a whip.
 
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Stab You in the Back said:
Please don't describe Mediterraneans as "brown." I'd rather not be lumped in with Indians and Persians, thank you very much.
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If we're being casually racist I have a lot more respect for Persians than Italians to be honest. But anyway it's not a 1:1 analogy. The Ghiscari are more like ancient Egyptians in looks than anyone that's around today. And the Valyrians aren't really like anyone.
 
Lioness said:
..... a combat whip - the bottom of the handle is heavily weighted for bludgeoning as a club or flail. Most people don't know this, so it gives you the opportunity to bash their head in and start strangling when they think they've got you.
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I've seen one historical "war whip" in a small German museum; it was similar to what you describe, in that it had fairly heavy looking pommel and a curved bastard-length hilt.
The thing was listed as being Polish or Hungarian, 13-14th century iirc.

Except it wasn't meant for bashing & entangling; it was designed for use on horseback, with the express purpose of exploding unprotected heads, joints, groins, etc.... or by ripping them off, if the whip made a turn around the target, being that the wielder was ideally on horseback.

What struck me was it's length, and that it had the Inquisition's version of childrens jacks braided into the whip, along with looked like handmade thin flat wires at the tip. I can't remember if they were also weighted.

In any case, being popped upside the dome or knee with a war whip like that, even while wearing the best armor available, would like taking a shotgun slug to a kevlar vest.
It won't penetrate, but the sheer velocity & impact of that tip is going to scramble and/or break things on the other side.
 
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OttoWest said:
Well they were able to finagle their way into a Star Wars trilogy, which is supposedly the reason they wanted to get Thrones over with. But maybe the joke’s on them seeing what a shit show Kennedy has made of that property and the number of creators who’ve seen their asses kicked to the curb for fucking up.
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"Brought to you by D&D, the guys everyone loathes for fucking up Game of Thrones"

I mean, Star Wars audiences will eat any shit put in front of them, so I don't have much faith on that front.

Also, apparently two endings were shot.

Ending 1 was the one where Bran gets elected king and Jon fucks off to the wall.

Ending 2 is Tyrion being on Trial for ruining King's Landing even though he betrayed Dany, the people blame him for it since Dany's dead, killed by Jon. Apparently nobody vouches for him since Tyrion is executed.

Which is where we have the split in spoiler sources. We won't really know how things are going to go until tomorrow night.
 
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Pocket Dragoon said:
I've seen one historical "war whip" in a small German museum; it was similar to what you describe, in that it had fairly heavy looking pommel and a curved bastard-length hilt.
The thing was listed as being Polish or Hungarian, 13-14th century iirc.

Except it wasn't meant for bashing & entangling; it was designed for use on horseback, with the express purpose of exploding unprotected heads, joints, groins, etc.... or by ripping them off, if the whip made a turn around the target, being that the wielder was ideally on horseback.

What struck me was it's length, and that it had the Inquisition's version of childrens jacks braided into the whip, along with looked like handmade thin flat wires at the tip. I can't remember if they were also weighted.

In any case, being popped upside the dome or knee with a war whip like that, even while wearing the best armor available, would like taking a shotgun slug to a kevlar vest.
It won't penetrate, but the sheer velocity & impact of that tip is going to scramble and/or break things on the other side.
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Something like that does sound devastating from horseback, sort of a flail/whip hybrid? And sounds relatively cheap to make.

I think whip girl shouldn't have been cocky and played on hard mode. Sure you get more style points but not if you lose...
 
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Ending 2 is Tyrion being on Trial for ruining King's Landing even though he betrayed Dany, the people blame him for it since Dany's dead, killed by Jon. Apparently nobody vouches for him since Tyrion is executed.
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Dafuq does Tyrion have anymore to do with the main plot of this crapfest? Then again, I should be cheering for this outcome since I've longed hated this character. Doesn't help that he killed off the best character in the show either.
 
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