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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 1:57:33 GMT
Just had the realisation that show Edd must be a fucking phenomenal ranger, and specifically a brilliant fighter. He survived the Fist of the First Men, the mutiny at Craster's, went back and took part in the fight at Craster's, commanded the Wall in the Battle at Castle Black and he's now survived another battle (slaughter, really) with the White Walkers at Hardhome, with the Night's King present. He also shovels shit with the best of em. What a goddamn hero. Right on! I never stopped to put all that together. Plus, he's just so funny (in the books, at least - tv doesn't seem to be letting his sardonic humor shine through). He has his moments
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Post by janicia on Jun 3, 2015 2:47:11 GMT
I wish Jon had of brought Olly along , would have straighten his thinking. (If he wasn't just straightened.) It really does seem like part of Jon's problem in the show is that so few men of the Night's Watch that witnessed the Fist of the First Men made it back to the Wall - too few really understand the magnitude of the White Walker problem. Thorne, in particular, could benefit from that perspective. Presumably the Watch will understand it better going forward - another handful of Night's Watch men have seen the army of the dead, and the crews on Stannis' ships also witnessed the events of Hardhome. So maybe people at the Wall will start taking these things more seriously. But it would have been cruel to drag Olly into a massive Free Folk settlement given how traumatized Olly was. And on a sensitive diplomatic mission, you probably don't want to bring a kid that is a loose cannon. And who knows, Tormund might try to kill Olly in revenge for Ygritte.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 3:28:16 GMT
He definitely should have brought Thorne with him I think. Leaving him in charge was bound to lead to dissent.
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Post by arthucus on Jun 3, 2015 4:43:34 GMT
What endears her to you? Her purism? Her war on fan-fiction? I mean, throw in the racism and rape apologia, and it's not exactly a pretty picture I've watched every video they have, and I've never seen anything close to racism, or rape apology. She just cracks me up, what can I say. She doesn't sugarcoat things, and her facial expressions to some of the dumb shit the show does are priceless. They have an eye roll counter We also have the same favorite character, so there's that. hippoiathanatoi.tumblr.com/post/105200404401/oh-look-theres-the-black-supremacist-again-butlinda is full of surprises.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 4:49:04 GMT
I've watched every video they have, and I've never seen anything close to racism, or rape apology. She just cracks me up, what can I say. She doesn't sugarcoat things, and her facial expressions to some of the dumb shit the show does are priceless. They have an eye roll counter We also have the same favorite character, so there's that. hippoiathanatoi.tumblr.com/post/105200404401/oh-look-theres-the-black-supremacist-again-butlinda is full of surprises. That's probably the most damning thing she's said, which is really saying something. Just from doing a quick Wikipedia search this is what she means by "negerball":
"Chokladboll ("chocolate ball") is a type of fridge cake that is a popular Swedish confectionery. It was originally called negerboll ("negro ball"), but this term is today rarely used in public due to its association with racist stereotypes."
So she's essentially calling the tumblr poster she's responding to a negro. While this is in response to this tumblr poster calling her a "cracker" and she's making this connection because both are types of food with racial double-meanings to their names...it's still a pretty fucked up response to someone questioning her about her "all these characters have to be white" spiel.
Seriously. If social media activist types are going to get outraged about anything to do with GoT or ASOIAF, it's that someone like her makes money off of the show and books.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 4:58:03 GMT
I think Linda sometimes deserves the Cersei treatment. She's nuts and I couldn't even get through 5 minutes of their review for this episode. Okay they are changing the books, but this action sequence still deserves praise for the amount of work and commitment the people on the show have for creating it for us.
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Post by flintstonebearer on Jun 3, 2015 5:29:26 GMT
I think Linda sometimes deserves the Cersei treatment. She's nuts and I couldn't even get through 5 minutes of their review for this episode. Okay they are changing the books, but this action sequence still deserves praise for the amount of work and commitment the people on the show have for creating it for us. Linda is not nuts. Linda knows exactly what she is doing: She is a cheap-ass opportunist trying to milk aSoIaF for any buck she can. She hates GoT because it makes her less relevant and takes sources of revenue away from her.
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Post by Admin on Jun 3, 2015 5:54:00 GMT
Guys let's not have the same conversation over and over again. You're more than welcome to start a thread for this talk.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 6:00:40 GMT
Sorry - this time was my fault a couple pages back. I was ranting about not being able to watch their video review. I really try to appreciate their book knowledge. I won't mention them ever again! (Probably not anyways). We'll go back to gushing about how awesome Episode 8 was now!
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Post by Admin on Jun 3, 2015 6:02:18 GMT
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Post by kingeomer on Jun 3, 2015 10:55:27 GMT
dany4eva, for me, I worry about the direwolves. I would be afraid that Ghost would have died or something. Or go out fighting and be overwhelmed by the undead/white walker/whatever it's called army. And he saved Sam from getting beat to death and Gilly being raped. He was where he needed to be. janicia, about the warging. I agree that the show did leave out some of the impressive feats Greywind had done in the book. And they definitely had him being clueless prior to the RW to not tip off viewers who did not know what was coming. Perhaps I was reading too much into the scenes they did show: Greatjon's fingers, the scene with Jamie in the pen, the Lannister kids commenting to Talisa about the rumors of Robb turning into a wolf at night (which obviously was just talk..but I always wondered if people noticed something different that started the talk). I am sure my feeling is rather far fetched or a desire for the show to have hinted that all the Stark (including Jon) kids can warg, not just Bran. I have to laugh at the criticism of the wights being too fast. They are as fast as the show wants them to be. Finally back at my computer! Just don't have the wherewithal to try and post on my phone. ??? Hi, dany4eva. Like Kingeomer, I fear that Ghost might not have made it back if he'd gone. As others have said, Hardhome wasn't a battle but a massacre, and knowing how Ghost will lunge full force ahead to whatever/whoever poses a threat, I think he would have been in over his head. He can 'jump' someone and go for the throat, and he can take them down, but to have wights jumping all over him like they did Wun Wun would, I think, have been more than he could handle. I'm guessing that before it's all over, he'll be engaged in the huge battle of ice and fire, but at least for now, he's safe. Whew! [It's a shame someone can't fit him with Valyrian caps for his teeth. ] @ janicia and @ kingeomer, I have to confess I completely missed the boat on clues that Robb warged Grey Wind. I've been thinking all along that of all the Stark kids, Jon, Arya, and Bran were the only ones we knew were wargs. Very cool if Robb was, too, and if Rickon turns out to be. I do remember that Rickon sensed Ned's death before they'd gotten word of it, so he definitely has some kind of super-intuitive, if not super-natural ability. What that leads me to is wondering whether or not Ned, Benjen, Lyanna, or Brandon - or Ned's parents, for that matter - had warging abilities. We do know there's a history of 'magic' there since the Starks helped imbue the wall with magic, did they not? izzue, I've wondered the same about Ned, Benjen, Lyanna, Brandon and Ned's parents. I thought the Starks helped the Wall with magic too but I don't know for sure. GRRM did state that all the Stark kids can warg. Sansa's wolf died too early for her to develop her skills and unfortunately we did not have Robb and Rickon POV's to confirm it. Robb, in the books, kept denying that he is part wolf when Catelyn says the wolf is part of him. I always took it as that Catelyn was meaning that Grey Wind was always going to be a part of him but Catelyn was not meaning in a warg kind of way but Robb was taking it that way and thinking she knew something he was trying to hide. Rickon did sense Ned's death before they received word of it, remember when he and Shaggydog would not leave the crypt?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2015 15:02:59 GMT
Finally back at my computer! Just don't have the wherewithal to try and post on my phone. ??? Hi, dany4eva. Like Kingeomer, I fear that Ghost might not have made it back if he'd gone. As others have said, Hardhome wasn't a battle but a massacre, and knowing how Ghost will lunge full force ahead to whatever/whoever poses a threat, I think he would have been in over his head. He can 'jump' someone and go for the throat, and he can take them down, but to have wights jumping all over him like they did Wun Wun would, I think, have been more than he could handle. I'm guessing that before it's all over, he'll be engaged in the huge battle of ice and fire, but at least for now, he's safe. Whew! [It's a shame someone can't fit him with Valyrian caps for his teeth. ] @ janicia and @ kingeomer, I have to confess I completely missed the boat on clues that Robb warged Grey Wind. I've been thinking all along that of all the Stark kids, Jon, Arya, and Bran were the only ones we knew were wargs. Very cool if Robb was, too, and if Rickon turns out to be. I do remember that Rickon sensed Ned's death before they'd gotten word of it, so he definitely has some kind of super-intuitive, if not super-natural ability. What that leads me to is wondering whether or not Ned, Benjen, Lyanna, or Brandon - or Ned's parents, for that matter - had warging abilities. We do know there's a history of 'magic' there since the Starks helped imbue the wall with magic, did they not? izzue, I've wondered the same about Ned, Benjen, Lyanna, Brandon and Ned's parents. I thought the Starks helped the Wall with magic too but I don't know for sure. GRRM did state that all the Stark kids can warg. Sansa's wolf died too early for her to develop her skills and unfortunately we did not have Robb and Rickon POV's to confirm it. Robb, in the books, kept denying that he is part wolf when Catelyn says the wolf is part of him. I always took it as that Catelyn was meaning that Grey Wind was always going to be a part of him but Catelyn was not meaning in a warg kind of way but Robb was taking it that way and thinking she knew something he was trying to hide. Rickon did sense Ned's death before they received word of it, remember when he and Shaggydog would not leave the crypt? Yes! I do remember, and also thought that was portrayed well and clearly in the tv series. So, hopefully, we'll all remember that whenever Rickon comes back into play. I had missed those conversations between Robb and Catelyn, but what you say makes perfect sense to me, especially since Robb, as the oldest, and certainly, as King of the North, wouldn't want to acknowledge anything like that. So, all the Stark kids are wargs, huh? Cool!
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Post by morgantayler on Jun 4, 2015 4:02:07 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2015 4:08:35 GMT
I love me some Qyburn.
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Post by sj4iy on Jun 4, 2015 4:08:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2015 8:37:37 GMT
BTW can someone who edits on GoT wiki here (IIRC alcasinoroyale does at least) add these two photos to their Braavos article? They've still got the photo from ep. 406 up. I'm really surprised they never even added the new Braavos images from ep. 502 to the article, let alone the more recent ones... I know the guy running the place these days, a fellow called the Dragon Demands, is an absolute idiot, but this at least really has to be fixed. (The fact that ep. 509's summary inexplicably has been replaced by ep. 410's on the wiki, is a different matter because that at least can only be blamed on the Dragon Demands himself).
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Post by Admin on Jun 4, 2015 11:52:39 GMT
This is nice: I love the promo pics of WW - it shows just how amazing make up work is - sure it's enhanced in the episode but still, they look so creepy on the actual set
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2015 13:34:09 GMT
After watching my new her the Night's King in action last week, it made me think that the Drowned God might be related to the Others. What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger That sounds a lot like what my main man the Night's King did. Don't you think?
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Post by Enid on Jun 4, 2015 16:47:32 GMT
Last night I was doing a random re-watch of GOT and I noticed that the woman that buys from Arya is one of the prostitutes that were with Salladhor Saan in Braavos while Stannis and Davos went to visit the Iron Bank. I know it's silly, but I love that they do things like this.
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Post by sj4iy on Jun 4, 2015 17:55:09 GMT
Last night I was doing a random re-watch of GOT and I noticed that the woman that buys from Arya is one of the prostitutes that were with Salladhor Saan in Braavos while Stannis and Davos went to visit the Iron Bank. I know it's silly, but I love that they do things like this. Nice catch! I also like the little easter eggs.
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