DeathByBacklog
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Face was superimposed onto a stunt doubles body with the full frontal shots. Shoulder up shots were her. The back shots were likely the body double also.
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Game of Thrones *NO BOOK SPOILERS* |OT| Season 5 - Sundays on HBO [Read the OP]
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Face was superimposed onto a stunt doubles body with the full frontal shots. Shoulder up shots were her. The back shots were likely the body double also.
I think there's a delicate balance to doing it "right". Game of Thrones has gone way overboard imo, and I'm all out of fucks to give about anyone dying at this point.
Gaming Truth
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I say nay to this. I think Jon's lineage is much simpler. He should truly be Ned's bastard son. With who though, that's the question. My rationale is Caitlin's near-irrational hatred on Jon. She's hated him his entire life and can't let it go, no matter how he's grown up and integrated with the rest of the family. I 100% believe he's Ned's son.
Who the mother is, I dunno. If there was a Targeryn daughter at the time, it'd line up with everyone else's theory that he's full-blooded. If he's Lyanna's, and there was a good reason (like she was ... I can't think of one), it would explain why Caitlin kept apologizing to Ned about hating Jon.
The Janitor
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You sure? Because in the first episode when she steps in to the bath the maiden says "it's too hot my lady" but she steps in anyway without caring.
TimeEffect
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Yeah I remember that
Ted Striker
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Also in episode 6 she pulls a dragon egg from embers and doesn't get burned.
As soon as Jon left without Longclaw I feared the worst. That was a very clever fake out showing Benjin Stark in the episode recap. Nicely done producers.
The fake out with Syrio was cruel. The producers were just fucking with us. I was waiting for Jaqen to be Syrio. Nothing...except a girl losing her eyesight. I wasn't able to make out some of what Jaqen told Arya during that scene.
I hope Jon gets superpowers when he rises from the ashes as the lol's new champion.
I hope there isn't a kidnapping storyline for Dany to start the new season. She's already been there and done that sort of. It would be much cooler if she rides in as the new Khaleesi for a huge Khalisar. She's not the true queen without her Dothraki.
The fake out with Syrio was cruel. The producers were just fucking with us. I was waiting for Jaqen to be Syrio. Nothing...except a girl losing her eyesight. I wasn't able to make out some of what Jaqen told Arya during that scene.
I hope Jon gets superpowers when he rises from the ashes as the lol's new champion.
He better not really be dead.
I hope there isn't a kidnapping storyline for Dany to start the new season. She's already been there and done that sort of. It would be much cooler if she rides in as the new Khaleesi for a huge Khalisar. She's not the true queen without her Dothraki.
I agree with the only when alive thing but perhaps it is only to flames? Maybe having molten gold on your head is a different kind of heat to them?
Dany getting in a hot bath =/ all Tagyreans are invulnerable to fire at all times.
My understading is that only the dragon is immune to fire (that's what Dany says when Drogo kills Viserys). There is one dragon per generation (I suppose). Dany is the new dragon, Viserys wasn't so the gold killed him.
I assume that Aemon wasn't his generation's dragon.
The Janitor
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That not what I said, I was talking only about Dany.
Spoilers GoT theory for next season:
White walkers attack Castle Black and the Night's King does the 'come at me bro thing to raise the "defeated army". One of the new undead is Jon Snow, but a flashback occurs where -before he was stabbed by Olly, he actually warged to Ghost, Jon's direwolf. Ghost/Jon sees this and wargs back to the undead corpse, thus the birth of Jon Snow the white walker aka Snow White #snowwhitetheory
White walkers attack Castle Black and the Night's King does the 'come at me bro thing to raise the "defeated army". One of the new undead is Jon Snow, but a flashback occurs where -before he was stabbed by Olly, he actually warged to Ghost, Jon's direwolf. Ghost/Jon sees this and wargs back to the undead corpse, thus the birth of Jon Snow the white walker aka Snow White #snowwhitetheory
that's horrible
Stannis was the one true king. And he dies off screen to useless Brienne? fucken writers.
A high tolerance for hot water doesn't mean fire won't kill you.
There's like 400 years of history of Targaryens and thousands of years of Valyrians in general. She is unique, but that's it. A lot of you raged about her carelessness when she watched her brother died, but i think she was truly surprised that he wasn't like her "He was no dragon".
(not spoiler, it was on S1 bonus history explanation series, but tagging it anyways as it's apperently not a common knowlage) Fire immunity is not related to it as far as we can tell.
The reason for Red Womans' lust for Targaryens/Baratheons is because they share blood, although they are really distant.
Burning hot dragons eggs also had no effect on her while it created burns on her servant.
Pretty sure Dany is immune to fire.
ComputerBlue
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Bogus. I'm fine with him being dead but what a shit way to not show it.
I have a feeling that the head of the Sparrows (or whatever that religious order is called) and that female jailer are about the experience the most painful deaths of all time.
So is Jon really dead or is Melisandre going to bring him back? I have to think that final shot which lingered on the blood so long has to imply something about him having King's blood. I refuse to accept that he's gone. His character trajectory doesn't support death this early.
Maybe only when dragons are involved?
It cut straight to Ramsay killing somebody, we didn't need to see Brienne slashing/stabbing him.
I bet some money that the finale would cut to Jorah, Tyrion, and Daerio (or whatever) in the throne room, generally unharmed, and with no explanation of how they made it from the arena to the pyramid after Dany's escape.
Nothing about the remaining Harpies on the ground, in the stands, or in the streets.
I wish I had also bet that they wouldn't acknowledge Jorah getting sliced up in the arena.
Betting that the jump from the wall of Winterfell isn't referenced again seems safe.
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That's awesome. So we needed to see random dude get beheaded in the arena, hear Shireen's screams, see Sandsnake boobs, watch Cersei walk through the city for ages, but not confirm the death of a major character of four seasons. Okaaaaay.
Nothing about the remaining Harpies on the ground, in the stands, or in the streets.
I wish I had also bet that they wouldn't acknowledge Jorah getting sliced up in the arena.
Betting that the jump from the wall of Winterfell isn't referenced again seems safe.
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That's awesome. So we needed to see random dude get beheaded in the arena, hear Shireen's screams, see Sandsnake boobs, watch Cersei walk through the city for ages, but not confirm the death of a major character of four seasons. Okaaaaay.
We all feel you man.....But it's the reality. He's dead. He ignored the people around him and focused too much on the bigger picture.
Shao Kahn on the Lawn
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If they'd held out a couple more seasons they could have kept the running joke that Brienne was capable of upholding 0% of her vows.
Depends on what kind of trajectory you think he was supposed to go on in the first place. If you believe that Jon is Ned's son, whether bastard or not, then this is where it ends. His honor and farsightedness costed him his life, just like Ned.
Personally I think Mellisandre being there and her abandonment of Stannis means everything in this case. Jon Snow may be dead, but Jon Stark/Targaryen is going to be born.
https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Cersei+cgi+body+double
A side by side comparison...
All I could think of while watching it:
UnObtainium17
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That lady pribably has the WOAT GOT role ever... CONFESS! Then SHAME! She opened up here acting playbook real well for the role.
Most of the Harpies got killed by Drogon, and there were still some Unsullied left along with Jorah and Daario. This thread would be a lot shorter if you took out all the posts where people complain about things that were adequately explained on the show.
They showed snow on the ground, people in real life have survived longer jumps than that into snow, there doesn't need to be any further explanation.
LegendofDragoonLives
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If that is actually true, then why the fuck did they not show it? What amateur writing if true.
Shame they not only skipped his possibly awesome final battle against Bolton's people, his death scene was... Well, terrible too
So yeah, kind of a shit finale imho.
SolidusDave
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Episode was great. It really makes you want to watch the next season damn it.
Though it just cemented even more why #TeamWhiteWalker is the way to go. Humans are too cruel.
Also nice, burning a little girl alive made the temperature rise a few degrees. Go Lord of Light lol
Though it just cemented even more why #TeamWhiteWalker is the way to go. Humans are too cruel.
Also nice, burning a little girl alive made the temperature rise a few degrees. Go Lord of Light lol
So all of the Harpies were in the arena at the ground level? They were the 15-16 that he torched? The ones in the stands were killed or unable to reach the ground or fled? And there were none in the streets or the Unsullied had them controlled out there? No, not much at all.
SoulUnison
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Oh, ok, I see it now.
Her face is on...crooked.
I'm getting N64 Goldeneye vibes.
Also, it's probably safe to assume the Harpies' were steeled by Daenerys looking weak after clearing out the slavers and chaining up her dragons. Having a grown Drogon fly down, eat people and fly her away probably caused a lot of the surviving Harpies to melt their masks that night...
You mean skipped the slaughter? There was no battle there.
DeathByBacklog
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The shape of the face (CGI is round), length of the neck, collar bones, even the hair. It's all different when comparing the head to shoulder shot of Lena, vs. the CGI full body shot of the double.
RoninChaos
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I thought this was an interesting article and thought this quote really summed up what a lot of people seem to be feeling lately:
particularly for the fact that any time somebody is like "Okay, this shit is going overboard" people here always post that stupid Ramsey gif. Showing Ramsey being fucked up over and over and over really isn't story telling. That's part of the problem with this season.
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/game-of-thrones-needs-to-put-us-out-of-its-misery-1711317572
Haha
"Not only she gets to beat and humiliate Cersei, she's also fucking tall!"
Seriously though
I'd pay to get to humiliate Cersei
Or I guess I would have paid, I admit I felt kinda bad for her in the finale
Cersei + Zombie Mountain combo is going to wreck shit in season 6
Battle, slaughter, whatever. Stannis survived till the very end and I would have loved to actually see him in action.
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