Game of Thrones Thread

[Commander X]

Um hello, isn't this problematic? That's a yikes and an oof from me, fam.

UPDATE: Proof GoT is a bastion of white cismale privilege, blatant display of a known white nationalist hand signal. Put the word out: GoT is CANCELLED...wait...oh. Well it should still be "CANCELLED" cancelled, not just regular cancelled.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Nazi Khaleesi is Best Khaleesi

 

[Vorhtbame]

An entire show about how there are no heroes and everyone you start to think is a decent person is either useless or actually a complete and utter bastard...

...and the final plot twist was that the writers were not decent but actually complete and utter bastards. How meta, how ironic, how daring!

Seriously, don't you people remember that the first rule of writing is "write what you know"?

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Melisandre is my favorite character. I'd love to learn more about her and Asshai's past in a prequel or something.

I'm curious about this upcoming prequel . Wasn't planning on watching but Naomi Watts and Miranda Richardson are in it so now I have to.....

 

[Spatula]

Are they still ruling out of King's "Ground Zero" Landing?

The whole place seemed pretty intact in the last scene. Looks like they rebuilt the ports and I assume most of the neighborhoods in months, maybe even weeks. Even the Red Keep looked usable, and that's where our new King Bran and his council lives.
So much for the story of Harrenhall and the damage of Dragon Fire.

 

[The Estatist]

>Dany is dead and her multicultural minions exiled to Death Island
>Democracy laughed at
>New king has superpowers from his bloodline (in the books anyway) which makes him the only acceptable option for a non-hereditary ruler.

Not a bad ending I'm being serious.

 

[Lemmingwise]

goddamn fuckers blew their load and expect us to thank them for the facial.

They're sons of bankers, aren't they? It's in their dna. Can't you taste it?

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

...how does that even work? Are years just really really long there and they divide them up oddly?

The implication in the books is that seasons used to be regular and of the length we're used to. The counting of years predates the fucked up seasons.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

North Seceeding. What about Dorne, Highgarden, Crownlands?

To be fair, staying in the six kingdoms is a smart play.

A lot of the current ruling lords are young and newly appointed. Staying with the crown means your rule is recognized by the crown and lessens the chance that some other claimant will start a civil war to usurp you.

Being able to vote on the king is also a strong incentive because you will always try to vote in a king favorable to you or, at the very least, a weak king who will stay out of your business.

It gives you better access to the crown's resources in the event of an invasion, famine, etc.

 

[The Estatist]

It's established that those with Bran's gift can live for centuries. Nothing says that electing a new king will become annual. Nothing rules out cultivating more greenseers/wargs/magic men from Sansa's descendants.

Stop looking at Bran as just some Amerifat president. He is a god-king. Welcome to Fantasy Land where yes there are those who are born way better than others thanks to their bloodline/race/whatever.

 

[Spatula]

Welcome to Elective Monarchy where a war will happen as soon as Bran dies.
It is Fantasy Land, not Imaginary Land.
No one from the 6 kingdoms will agree to a ruler from the outside of the realm. Realistically, not from D&D's ass.

 

[Lemmingwise]

Welcome to Fantasy Land where yes there are those who are born way better than others thanks to their bloodline/race/whatever.

Imagine living in the Fantasy Land where everybody is born with exactly the same abilities and aptitudes.

 

[The Estatist]

as soon as Bran dies.

Lucky for the 7 that Three Eye Crows live for a really long time. I'm talking at least a couple centuries. Especially if warg with dragon.

No one from the 6 kingdoms will agree to a ruler from the outside of the realm. Realistically, not from D&D's ass.

He's the son of a legendary lord and of a great bloodline with strong ties to the First Men themselves. Also has magic powers. He's hardly an "outsider".

 

[Lemmingwise]

Women. Destroy and burn everything around you until the building you're in doesn't even have a roof, but still they haven't done anything wrong.

I like her alternatives though.

Jon: "Hey Dany, what is your opinion on me betraying you right now and shoving my sword into your lungs?"

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There is another place the writing could have been improved. Dany burnt Varys for trying to poison her. Sure. What if she had less just cause for doing so? What if there was only a rumor that Varys was trying to poison her, but no proof? Things like this could have laid the ground better. Or she had seen him trying to poison her, but nobody else had and they doubt her, which could fuel her indignation?

 

[The Estatist]

Seriously though, Bran is just a Medieval Leto Atreides (mortal noble goes on a dangerous journey, returns to rule, needs to go beyond his humanity to be the ruler who deserves to rule, lives for a really long time).

 

[дядя Боря]

Seriously though, Bran is just a Medieval Leto Atreides (mortal noble goes on a dangerous journey, returns to rule, needs to go beyond his humanity to be the ruler who deserves to rule, lives for a really long time).

That's what I was saying .... but but but, remember the jihad wars that followed Leto's accension? Yeah, lots of unavoidable civil war.

Being able to vote on the king is also a strong incentive because you will always try to vote in a king favorable to you or, at the very least, a weak king who will stay out of your business.

It gives you better access to the crown's resources in the event of an invasion, famine, etc.

It doesn't, it makes it worse now, because weak king can't force anyone give up shit or move resources around. Everyone will be sitting on their pile of food/gold/shit and care nothing WTF is happening north of the wall or whatever other threat it. If people thought that Cersei didn't help shit, you just wait.

Bran will warg into a raven and go spying into highgarden and he will see this

... and he won't be able to do shit about it. Because power lies in connection, support and ties to the houses, something that he has none of.

 

[Spatula]

He's the son of a legendary lord and of a great bloodline with strong ties to the First Men themselves. Also has magic powers. He's hardly an "outsider".

Ned isn't really Legendary. And everyone south is a mutt, so they don't care about the First Men. They aren't even the same religion.

 

[CWCissey]

Because power lies in connection, support and ties to the houses, something that he has none of.

Unless he wargs into the animals and ZOOs everyone who dissents so he can finally have his chosen title of Bran the Beastmaster.

I'd watch it...

 

[дядя Боря]

Unless he wargs into the animals and ZOOs everyone who dissents so he can finally have his chosen title of Bran the Beastmaster.

I'd watch it...

I wander when he wargs into a hamster and bangs other hamsters, he feels the joy. He has that always satisfied look on his face. Had sex.

 

[CWCissey]

I wander when he wargs into a hamster and bangs other hamsters, he feels the joy. He has that always satisfied look on his face. Had sex.

That explains why he didn't bang Meera despite her clearly wanting to take a ride on his sled...