Anybody watching Game of Thones?

Recent Forum Topics › Forums › The Public House › Anybody watching Game of Thones?

Viewing 30 posts - 61 through 90 (of 142 total)
1 2 3 4 5
  • Author
    Posts
  • May 6, 2019 at 10:13 am #101019
    nittany ram
    Moderator

    Who said there were no franchise coffeehouses in Westeros?

    May 6, 2019 at 11:14 am #101022
    zn
    Moderator
    nittany ram wrote:

    Who said there were no franchise coffeehouses in Westeros?

    Yeah but it’s the north. You would expect an indy coffee shop.

    May 6, 2019 at 2:41 pm #101030
    nittany ram
    Moderator

    May 7, 2019 at 2:42 pm #101069
    zn
    Moderator

    May 8, 2019 at 7:14 am #101092
    wv
    Participant

    One man’s reaction to episode Four:

    May 8, 2019 at 7:20 am #101093
    wv
    Participant

    The internet does not like GOT anymore. I think this guy makes good points:

    May 8, 2019 at 9:02 am #101094
    zn
    Moderator

    Well WV it’s all true, those vids.

    May 8, 2019 at 12:47 pm #101113
    nittany ram
    Moderator

    May 8, 2019 at 2:36 pm #101117
    wv
    Participant

    I didnt see the last episode yet, and usually i avoid spoilers till i see the show, but I saw so MANY utube headlines about how sucky it was, that I went ahead and watched the spoiler-vids.

    I remember when i first saw they were skipping a year, and then finishing it up in SIX episodes — I knew right there and then, it was gonna suck. You simply can NOT take all those storylines and all those characters and wrap it all up in six episodes — UNLESS you cut a lot of corners and ignore character-development. I dont care how good a writer you are, it cant be done. (and these writers are not G.Martin)
    They are just ‘ok’ writers. Not terrible but not great.

    Anyway, the show jumped the shark as soon as it was reduced to six episodes. Just my o pinion.

    wv ewe is huge Game O Thrones fan. She likes this utuber :

    May 8, 2019 at 3:20 pm #101119
    joemad
    Participant

    i thought that it was a good episode last Sunday…but not so good for Missundae

    I especially liked the brothers playing the drinking game…….and Tyrion trying to share “climbing” experiences with Jamie regarding the knighted virgin…..

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by joemad.
    May 8, 2019 at 3:26 pm #101121
    zn
    Moderator
    joemad wrote:

    i thought that it was a good episode last Sundayā€¦but not so good for Missundae

    I especially liked the brothers playing the drinking gameā€¦ā€¦.and Tyrion trying to share ā€œclimbingā€ experiences with Jamie regarding the knighted virginā€¦..

    GOT still has interesting and good moments and set pieces. Or quite often does.

    It’s the fabric tying them all together that has gotten short shrift.

    May 8, 2019 at 7:03 pm #101129
    Agamemnon
    Moderator

    I want more of this.

    Agamemnon

    May 9, 2019 at 4:49 pm #101198
    nittany ram
    Moderator

    May 9, 2019 at 5:41 pm #101200
    zn
    Moderator

    May 10, 2019 at 6:46 am #101218
    nittany ram
    Moderator

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by nittany ram.
    • This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by nittany ram.
    May 10, 2019 at 7:15 am #101221
    wv
    Participant

    I liked this one. He compares the character development of Thanos to the NightKing…

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by wv.
    May 11, 2019 at 3:53 pm #101257
    zn
    Moderator

    Everyone knows, of course, that all the events of Game of Thrones happened because deep in the past, Ned Stark promised to keep secret the fact that Jon Snow is actually the legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. Robert Baratheon went to war with the Targaryens under the belief that Rhaegar had kidnapped and raped Lyanna.

    Aside from the White Walkers, all the plot events we see in the series involving civil war stem from
    everyone fighting over the throne after Baratheon’s death.

    So honoring the promise was costly.

    This is something everyone just obviously knows, right?

    May 11, 2019 at 8:09 pm #101261
    wv
    Participant
    zn wrote:

    Everyone knows, of course, that all the events of Game of Thrones happened because deep in the past, Ned Stark promised to keep secret the fact that Jon Snow is actually the legitimate son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark. Robert Baratheon went to war with the Targaryens under the belief that Rhaegar had kidnapped and raped Lyanna.

    Aside from the White Walkers, all the plot events we see in the series involving civil war stem from
    everyone fighting over the throne after Baratheonā€™s death.

    So honoring the promise was costly.

    This is something everyone just obviously knows, right?

    ================

    Yeah, but i forget WHY Ned Stark felt he had to lie about it. And i forget WHY Jon’s parents felt they had to lie about being in love and getting married.

    w
    v

    May 11, 2019 at 8:28 pm #101262
    zn
    Moderator
    wv wrote:

    Yeah, but i forget WHY Ned Stark felt he had to lie about it. And i forget WHY Jonā€™s parents felt they had to lie about being in love and getting married.

    I don’t remember why Rhaegar and Lyanna lied.

    Ned Stark lied because he promised he would keep the secret.

    It’s another example of Ned being noble and doing the right thing, resulting in disaster for everyone.

    May 11, 2019 at 8:38 pm #101263
    zn
    Moderator
    zn wrote:
    wv wrote:

    Yeah, but i forget WHY Ned Stark felt he had to lie about it. And i forget WHY Jonā€™s parents felt they had to lie about being in love and getting married.

    I donā€™t remember why Rhaegar and Lyanna lied.

    Ned Stark lied because he promised he would keep the secret.

    Itā€™s another example of Ned being noble and doing the right thing, resulting in disaster for everyone.

    So I did what any red blooded citizen of the 21st century would do.

    I looked it up.

    After the Sack of King’s Landing by Lord Tywin Lannister, where he had Ser Gregor Clegane murder the rest of Rhaegar’s family, Ned Stark rode south with Howland Reed and a small party of Northmen to the Tower of Joy to recover his sister, who was still set to marry Robert.

    Ned found his sister inside the tower, where she was dying after giving birth to Rhaegar’s last son. Lyanna begged Ned to protect her newborn son, who Robert and Tywin likely would have killed given his Targaryen heritage. Ned promised his sister that he would protect him as she died, raising his Targaryen nephew as his own bastard son at Winterfell, Jon Snow.

    May 11, 2019 at 9:32 pm #101264
    zn
    Moderator
    zn wrote:
    zn wrote:
    wv wrote:

    Yeah, but i forget WHY Ned Stark felt he had to lie about it. And i forget WHY Jonā€™s parents felt they had to lie about being in love and getting married.

    I donā€™t remember why Rhaegar and Lyanna lied.

    Ned Stark lied because he promised he would keep the secret.

    Itā€™s another example of Ned being noble and doing the right thing, resulting in disaster for everyone.

    So I did what any red blooded citizen of the 21st century would do.

    I looked it up.

    After the Sack of Kingā€™s Landing by Lord Tywin Lannister, where he had Ser Gregor Clegane murder the rest of Rhaegarā€™s family, Ned Stark rode south with Howland Reed and a small party of Northmen to the Tower of Joy to recover his sister, who was still set to marry Robert.

    Ned found his sister inside the tower, where she was dying after giving birth to Rhaegarā€™s last son. Lyanna begged Ned to protect her newborn son, who Robert and Tywin likely would have killed given his Targaryen heritage. Ned promised his sister that he would protect him as she died, raising his Targaryen nephew as his own bastard son at Winterfell, Jon Snow.

    All of which makes what I just said about Ned wrong. Ned could not have known the wedding was legit and that his sister loved Rhaegar until after the war was over. He knew none of that when the war began, plus earlier on, Mad King Aerys II Targaryen had gruesomely killed Ned’s father and older brother. And then Lyanna dies very soon after he found her, so he is the only one with the secret, which is made for Jon’s protection.

    All that means that my little take on Ned I wrote above, is off base.

    .
    ….

    May 12, 2019 at 6:44 pm #101286
    zn
    Moderator

    Bill Barnwell@billbarnwell
    Excited for Aaron Rodgers on Game of Thrones tonight until he goes off-script and tries to make a play happen

    May 13, 2019 at 12:12 am #101290
    zn
    Moderator

    OKay. So much for King’s Landing.

    …

    May 13, 2019 at 12:37 am #101292
    Agamemnon
    Moderator

    So, what happens now? We find out that everyone is a Cylon. There are no humans left.

    Agamemnon

    May 13, 2019 at 1:49 am #101294
    zn
    Moderator

    May 13, 2019 at 1:50 am #101295
    zn
    Moderator

    May 13, 2019 at 6:51 am #101296
    nittany ram
    Moderator

    The best ending we can hope for….

    hh

    May 13, 2019 at 11:31 am #101300
    Billy_T
    Participant

    I liked the episode — from an aesthetic point of view. And, as usual, the production values were high. Though, it’s damn hard to make every shot work when buildings are collapsing. Even the best filmmakers have moments of, well, cheesiness. Big blocks falling all around without serious physics in play. But that’s minor.

    There were, however, plot holes, and some of the actions by this and that character did not seem to grow organically out of past episodes. Once folks have had a chance to see it, and we can dispense with “spoilers” etc. etc. . . . hope everyone will toss in an opinion or two.

    Have to say there was a lot of expected action. I didn’t see things playing out like this in general. That’s a good thing, mostly, but “bad” in parts as well, IMO.

    May 13, 2019 at 12:15 pm #101302
    zn
    Moderator
    Billy_T wrote:

    Have to say there was a lot of expected action.

    By any chance do you mean UNexpected there? Let me know, that’s a quick n easy edit.

    May 13, 2019 at 12:33 pm #101303
    Billy_T
    Participant
    zn wrote:
    Billy_T wrote:

    Have to say there was a lot of expected action.

    By any chance do you mean UNexpected there? Let me know, thatā€™s a quick n easy edit.

    Yes, I meant “unexpected.”

    Thanks in advance.

  • Author
    Posts
Viewing 30 posts - 61 through 90 (of 142 total)
1 2 3 4 5
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Comments are closed.