By Random Ass Username Go To PostWoo this comment on the thread I linked. Whoa
lol....I can't imagine loving/hating a TV show that much to put together some shit like that.
By You got 14 bricks right there? Go To Postlol….I can't imagine loving/hating a TV show that much to put together some shit like that.ahaha this is just sad now
really hated the last four seasons but meh it is what it is
I found it pretty informative some of the shit near the bottom side eyes.
Anyways can't wait for the drama to unfold with Star Wars. All of this is way more interesting than the last season.
Anyways can't wait for the drama to unfold with Star Wars. All of this is way more interesting than the last season.
By reilo Go To PostThey marketed the entire show around that happening 😂
By reilo Go To PostSeason 1: Winter Is ComingI can't even make sense of Sam slapping down that A Song of Ice and Fire tome in the final episode. Why the fuck would Archmaester Ebrose include a word like "ice" in the title when it barely factored into the overall war of succession? Winter never came, no one cares about the Night's Watch, and the Night King was approximately as consequential as Renly.
Season 2: Winter Is Coming
Season 3: Winter Is Coming
Season 4: Winter Is Coming
Season 5: Winter Is Coming
Season 6: Winter Is Coming
Season 7: Winter Is Coming
Season 8: Spring Is Here
D&D: "Mother nature kinda forgot about Winter being a season"
By HasphatsAnts Go To Postactually that comment came off as unhinged. sorryYeah. 😬
Of course it's over the top. In light of some of that shit, which I didn't know, expectations for these two frat boys was far too high to start with.
By FligureSkatingFan Go To PostI can't even make sense of Sam slapping down that A Song of Ice and Fire tome in the final episode. Why the fuck would Archmaester Ebrose include a word like "ice" in the title when it barely factored into the overall war of succession? Winter never came, no one cares about the Night's Watch, and the Night King was approximately as consequential as Renly.Ice and Fire is Jon and Dany. And it is Jon himself (R+L).
also Flabber you were asking what was the purpose of resurrecting Jon a couple of pages back. To kill Saddam
By Gaby Go To PostIce and Fire is Jon and Dany. And it is Jon himself (R+L).I'm not talking about from George's perspective; I'm talking about from (the fictional author) Ebrose's perspective. Who the hell is Jon Snow to Archmaester Ebrose? Daenerys, sure, but Jon was little more than a deserter and a regicide in the grand scheme of things.
By Ciaran Ashina Go To Postalso Flabber you were asking what was the purpose of resurrecting Jon a couple of pages back. To kill SaddamYes, I'm sure the fire god resurrected him to kill the woman who'd set fire to a city. Must be why Melisandre was karmically assassinated after all those purifications. Makes sense.
is it fire or more like light though? That special feature narrated by Thoros made it seem like he was the good deity in all of this. The prophecy was technically fulfilled too, Azor-blah stabbing his lover in the heart.
not defending any of this nonsense but just saying
not defending any of this nonsense but just saying
Tyrion bring skipped over in the book is one of the dumbest things that happened in an episode full of shit, lad was the key player in everything King's Landing for years
The last book is titled 'Dream of Spring' correct?
It could show that however they managed to stop NK, and resolve the Cersei issue, the whole Westeros population is now at risk of dying out from winter due to over-exertion of every resources from dealing with the wars.
So they hope for spring to come, with nothing they can do against the force of nature. A bittersweet ending.
It could show that however they managed to stop NK, and resolve the Cersei issue, the whole Westeros population is now at risk of dying out from winter due to over-exertion of every resources from dealing with the wars.
So they hope for spring to come, with nothing they can do against the force of nature. A bittersweet ending.
By Ciaran Ashina Go To Postis it fire or more like light though? That special feature narrated by Thoros made it seem like he was the good deity in all of this. The prophecy was technically fulfilled too, Azor-blah stabbing his lover in the heart.I'm being a bit waggish, I know, but light and fire are practically used interchangeably in the religion of R'hllor, and burnt innocents are considered to be the most cherished sacrifices to him.
not defending any of this nonsense but just saying
Unless you're suggesting that the dragon queen, who brought fire with her for years, is somehow the pawn of the Great Other, a god of darkness and cold, then Jon murdering her doesn't seem to fit any of the Lord of Light's motives that have been expressed in the books or the show.
(Also, admittedly, I have no idea about the special feature with Thoros you mentioned, but if they didn't make it clear in the show itself, that's just another failure.)
By DY_nasty Go To PostLord of light was making it up as he wentHe kinda forgot about the etc etc.
I straight up forgot that Ned Stark wanted Jorah's head for selling people into slavery. The most honorable man in the show must have been suffering from Targaryen madness. It makes that condescending ass convo between Tyrion and Jon, even more offensive. The fact that I've had to explain, IRL, about why I give no fucks about Dany rending slavers and former slavers to ash, is wild. Ya boy Stark started off the series wanting to murder people for similar shit.
to be fair i get why people would get mad about dany killing the white people holding the black men down
By Random Ass Username Go To PostOr its shit writing that doesn't even follow anything consistently.Books or the show, shit writing or decent, the idea still remains the same.
but by all means
There was this book I read about research on Malayan heroes a few years back.
The authors had concluded that how they wrote heroes in the past compared to modern times are much different. Heroes more or less while considered gallant cared more about the royalty and even viewed commoners as more like cattles than anything else. When commoners like farmers or blacksmiths dies it's more like an inconvenience or collateral than anything.
It's one of the reasons why Im kind of frustrated with the writing in the GoT tv series. They act with the ethics of someone from a more modern age, if it makes sense.
The authors had concluded that how they wrote heroes in the past compared to modern times are much different. Heroes more or less while considered gallant cared more about the royalty and even viewed commoners as more like cattles than anything else. When commoners like farmers or blacksmiths dies it's more like an inconvenience or collateral than anything.
It's one of the reasons why Im kind of frustrated with the writing in the GoT tv series. They act with the ethics of someone from a more modern age, if it makes sense.
same as Jon being weirded out with fucking Dany when in Westeros the only incest you don't do is brother-sister, hell the Starks had an incestous marriage about 2 generations ago
I could see Jon being weirded out though given most of the more recent incest is done by the Targs or the Lannisters and look how they turned out. But we don't get the reasons for it. All Jon can say up until the last episode is like 5 words a time.
Man, I just read about the butterflies of Naath and could Missandrei just, you know, mentioned that to Greyworm when they had that heart to heart talk.
Now he's going there with his men to die in less than a year.
Now he's going there with his men to die in less than a year.
https://io9.gizmodo.com/5-game-of-thrones-book-plots-were-glad-the-tv-show-is-s-1691715991
As always, fans are just as dumb as the actual writers
1) "Faegon"
A less-than-subtle portmanteau of "fake" and "Aegon", the character popular known as Faegon in A Song of Ice and Fire seems to have been omitted in season five, despite all indications he'll be a major force in the books. He is — well, he says he is — the lost son of Rhaegar Targaryen, supposedly killed when he was a baby. Spirited away in the nick of time (and traded for someone else's very unlucky baby), Varys and Illyris Mopatio have been hiding Aegon and training him to be a just and wise ruler for the good of the realm, although it's doubtful they'll mind having someone on the throne who trusts them implicitly.
In the books, it's supposed to be unclear if Aegon is legit or not, but whether he is or isn't the arrival of such a potentially major character in book five of the series has rankled many readers, not least because if it's true it seems to diminish Daenerys' importance in the narrative considerably, given that the son of the prince has a more legitimate claim to the Iron Throne than she does. Even if it's a plot development George R.R. Martin had considered from the beginning, Faegon feels like a last minute addition; and since he hasn't had time to do anything other than show up, there doesn't seem to be a reason for his existence other than to delay the real plot. Maybe that will change in future volumes of the books, but for now, it's kind of a relief that no one seems to have been cast as the character.
As always, fans are just as dumb as the actual writers
In their defense, it was written in 2015. But even so, the idea that a competing claim on the throne can be yada yada’d is absurd
By Flutter Go To PostThere was this book I read about research on Malayan heroes a few years back.We're dealing with a fantasy world here, of course, so identifying direct parallels is always difficult and a bit quixotic, but the morals expressed in the show - the opposition to annihilating, total war - wouldn't be entirely foreign to a medieval, Western European world. While we can easily cite counterexamples and contradictions, you can find that sort of concern for the weak and helpless (usually women, orphans, the ill, etc) expressed quite often in both formal and informal conceptions of chivalry. You see it in fiction and non-fiction of the time, from the Lady of the Lake to the writings of Ramon Llull. You see it in the evolving ethics after the Norman Conquest, where the older ways of complete enslavement and slaughter are seen as archaic and barbaric. You see it to an extent (though most often for the nobility) in the calls for moderation and mercy in sieges.
The authors had concluded that how they wrote heroes in the past compared to modern times are much different. Heroes more or less while considered gallant cared more about the royalty and even viewed commoners as more like cattles than anything else. When commoners like farmers or blacksmiths dies it's more like an inconvenience or collateral than anything.
It's one of the reasons why Im kind of frustrated with the writing in the GoT tv series. They act with the ethics of someone from a more modern age, if it makes sense.
Medieval war was no friend of the poor, but the idea that nobles could be appalled and sickened by ardent butchery isn't inconceivable when you consider the sources from which this fantasy world is drawing.
What a time for Bryan Cogman.
Right time, right place, give it all and more often than not you'll have people fooled.
Right time, right place, give it all and more often than not you'll have people fooled.
By Laboured Go To Post
It could be a better show but it wont be able to capture the public like GoT, just not enough female characters of importance in that series for it to be a cultural beast.
By domino Go To Postyou mean not enough tits and dragons.And ice zombies.
Or political intrigue. GoT was enough of a departure from fantasy that it attracted a wide audience. I remember people complaining about the walking dead that attacked Bran at the end of season 4 and how magic was becoming more prominent. People liked the back-stabbings, they liked rooting for morally gray people and they liked the power struggle between man the most. Plus tits.
My wife really liked GoT and it took 6 seasons of social pressure for her to jump in. She hates LoTR. lol
My wife really liked GoT and it took 6 seasons of social pressure for her to jump in. She hates LoTR. lol
By domino Go To Postyou mean not enough tits and dragons.
Nope, I mean female characters people will look at and say "yassss queen" on twitter and make GIFs of their dirty looks. A big part of why GoT was so popular is the social media aspect, hell half the people in here hated the show and kept watching after season 4 just cause of the memes & social media back & forth. A lot of women fucked with the female characters cause they were cool, plus the plotting and side eyes were heavy, there are no real cool LOTR female characters, they gonna have to make some up if they want to be on the same tier.