hey_monkey
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I don't think they'll do Aegon in the show because they've laid zero groundwork. I doubt people even really think about that kid if they haven't read the books. Maybe Trystane will do something, but no Aegon.
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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 6 Offseason Thread
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Its impossible. It already felt like it was pulled out of Martins ass in the book and was slightly saved if you thought the whole Blackfyre/Golden Company connection or the Illyrio/Varys plotting was interesting. Having some background on Rhaegar was also nice I guess. The show has none of that and it would seem so random.
Besides, they are sure to turn Jon Connington into another whoremonger.
Show Connington would inevitably end up having sex with Loras at some point. All gay men fuck Loras.
I just love how hundreds of years of war, hatred and family rivalry apparently dissipate when you're gay.
Atraveller
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I'm two thirds into A Kinght of Seven Kingdoms, Ser Duncan really likes clouting.
bishopcruz
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I just love how hundreds of years of war, hatred and family rivalry apparently dissipate when you're gay.
I can't imagine anyone can possibly think that Loras was done well in this show. He should have been the fantasy version of Omar, a bad ass whose being gay was simply a part of his character. Instead he is a promiscuous gadabout who exists to be the butt of gay jokes.
hey_monkey
Banned
Show-Loras is definitely a misstep on all fronts, but book-Loras was kinda bratty, too, in that Highgarden-dude way. But that would have been much more interesting.
You Know Nothing
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Yeah, he pretty much just morphed into the Token Gay in the later seasons.
I just love how hundreds of years of war, hatred and family rivalry apparently dissipate when you're gay.
You know what would've been cool? Oberyn going up to flirt with well-known gay dude Loras Tyrell only to get shot down with the candle and the sun line. And then Oberyn's totally cool with it and shrugs it off to go hit on someone else.
I'm their defense, I'll say I don't think the Tyrell-Martell animosity exists in the show universe. The Willas story has been omitted completely and there's been no mention of the ancient border wars or whatever. And really I don't think show Mace has it in him to hold a grudge. On the off chance you ever manage to upset him, all you have to do is offer him the honor of fetching you a pen, or if you've really upset him maybe sing a duet with him to earn his forgiveness.
Could be wrong, but didn't Grrm actually write this episode? Not sure if the scene was his idea though.
And yeah, theres a Tyrell barb in the History of House Martell video by Oberyn, but the show hasnt really suggested anything else as of yet. But thats a lot to erase for an easy laugh.
Yeah, he did, but little moments like that could be inserted by the producer's or director pretty easily. I know that in GRRM's Blackwater episode the director actually added the fact that Stannis directly engaged in combat in the episode, and D&D added the little bit of animosity between Bronn and the Hound at the beginning of the episode.
Or it could just be that at that point they had already introduced the Loras/Olyvar plot, so GRRM was writing for show Loras.
WaffleTaco
Wants to outlaw technological innovation.
True. I feel like Roose does that occasionally, but not as good as Tyrion and Tywin.
Roose smacks him down, but then just sort of goes "eh, well do whatever you want" and then Ramsay runs off to enjoy wild successes. Instead of the Joffrey story about a continual disappointment, we get a story about a father who scolds his son harshly and then does his best to hide his swelling pride when the son then goes out and does something amazing to try and prove himself.
You maimed a valuable hostage ending any possibility that we could sue for peace with the Greyjoys? You're so stupid, Ramsay! Oh, what's that? You tortured him real good, you say? Well I guess go do whatever then... Oh hey, you fended off an assault on the castle and went and defeated the last Ironborn outpost in the North without losing a man. Good job I guess.
Now you're making a fool of yourself in front of the Stark girl! You're going to ruin all my plans! Well, I guess go rape her a bit while I think up a good punishment for you... Oh, what's that? You successfully sniffed out the traitors in our midst and stopped Sansa's attempt to escape? Good job, I guess.
Now you directly contradict me in a war council! How dare you! And with some stupid scheme with twenty good men? I think I'll let you go do it and DIE! ...Oh, what's that? You destroyed our enemies supplies without losing a man, causing his army to abandon him and leave him defenseless right outside our gates? Good job, I guess.
Oh, I thought you would've used the 0:34-0:37 part where it shows what they won for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf6WTJRszsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf6WTJRszsA
The whole Bolton thing was pretty much a disaster in my eyes. These guys were supposed to have issues holding up the north which made the marriage to fArya a necessity, in the show this is almost non existant, they are so succesful in every front that the Sansa marriage seemed simply a way to give the bad guys even more rewards. D&D must have some weird obsession about them or something.
I counted three threats to clout Egg in the span of a minute in The Mystery Knight. Clout him across the river, clout for insolence, clout for clouting's sake I think.
Atraveller
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Where do the whores get clouted in the ear.
Emerson
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http://winteriscoming.net/2015/10/13/close-ups-in-almeria-show-yet-another-dead-character-returning/
I'm not entirely convinced the photos are of who they think they are.
I'm not entirely convinced the photos are of who they think they are.
Steelyuhas
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Yeah I'm not either, glad I'm not the only one haha
Basileus777
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It obviously isn't that person.
Steelyuhas
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How dare they clone Momoa!
And they couldn't even do it well! They all look completely different now!
PhoenixDark
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WiC really went to shit. I remember when I'd go to that site on a daily basis, long before it was sold to Fan Sided or whatever they're called.
Basileus777
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It's an evil clone.
Atraveller
Banned
Meh, why bother, we are not stuck with hoping he didn't cut his hair any-more, he has been shot on set in costume filming what must be late series scenes.
in other news... Emilia Clarke is #SexiestWomanAlive by Esquire
https://twitter.com/esquire/status/653789855768571904
photoshopme if old
https://twitter.com/esquire/status/653789855768571904
TheBaldEmperor
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Time for another Olenna .gif.
hey_monkey
Banned
but all brown people look alike
also clicks
also WiC is horrendous post-switch to fansided
#SexiestWomanAlive is simply most famous current celebrity that is moderately attractive.
I actually enjoy that something like Game of Thrones is so widely popular, season 5 and all.
One of the things that really bug me about that scenario is that it's set up like Roose wants Ramsay to tone things down and make this alliance work, but upon the marriage happening Ramsay immediately starts torturing Sansa and imprisons her in her room all day, which completely throws away the alliance with the Vale Roose was angling for and more or less negates any real value from having a Stark as an apparent voluntary ally, yet Roose never even brings this up. Ramsay can just do whatever he wants.
Well, at least she's not smiling in that picture.
Yeah he was out playing pool the other night in Laverys with Liam Cunningham and a few others.
GasProblem
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Holy shit, I just noticed the "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" is out, the collection of the three Dunk & Egg stories, and it has illustrations. 24 though. And I want "World of Ice and Fire" as well, but that's 36. Damnit 
DKehoe
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Holy shit, I just noticed the "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" is out, the collection of the three Dunk & Egg stories, and it has illustrations. 24 though. And I want "World of Ice and Fire" as well, but that's 36. Damnit
I was surprised at how many illustrations there were in the book. I expected a couple here and there but they appear pretty frequently.
It all makes sense now.
more spoilers from the Daenerys's plot
http://watchersonthewall.com/staz-n...-thrones-and-new-major-spoilers-from-almeria/
http://watchersonthewall.com/staz-n...-thrones-and-new-major-spoilers-from-almeria/
biosnake20
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Can't wait to see Drogon scaring the shit out of some of the Khal's. I wonder how big he'll be this season. Dany not getting burned again is interesting. I wonder what the scene with 400 extras will be. Different Dothraki disagreeing and attacking each other maybe? I feel like she'll definitely have the Dothraki under her by the end of the season.
This stuff seems pretty significant and extensively laid out for the season so some amount of it must have source material backing that is yet to come. I guess we may see Dany have more adventures in Essos before she hits Westeros in Winds.
#nevergonnahappenisit?
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