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'Game of Thrones' DeObia Oparei can't wait for an Areo Hotah fight
Ok now I'm mad
'Game of Thrones' DeObia Oparei can't wait for an Areo Hotah fight
Ok now I'm mad
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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 6
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The post I responded to made it sound like she was weakened.
Though you could argue that she wasn't glamored before considering we saw her naked without her necklace.
bodyofanamerican
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Enosh
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maybe he is still alive?
or this was one very awkward conversation after the interview...
Cornballer
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Loglines for the next two episodes via HBO:
EDIT:
- Making Game of Thrones with a look at a couple of props from last night's episode
EDIT:
- Making Game of Thrones with a look at a couple of props from last night's episode
bodyofanamerican
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I wonder if he's the actor D+D forgot to tell about their character's death.
Oh man the logline for Oathbreaker.
bishopcruz
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Or D&D can't plan for shit, as has been shown in previous seasons. BWB dropped, Gendry, dropped, Stannis mishandled, Sansa completely derailed, and then Dorne. When these guys stray from the source, they aren't very good. Things stop making sense and just happen because, reasons.
cartoon_soldier
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So "Ramsay gets a gift" = Rickon, right?
Yup
Did the gravity also add facial prosthetics?
She was made up specifically to appear much older-lived than a normal human without turning her into a ghoul. They didn't want to resort to heavy CGI for it, but the intention was pretty obvious.
Her design in general bears a strong resemblance to the hag/crone archetype found in much fantasy, who are typically characterized as very long-lived, and probably less so your average grandmother.
So "Ramsay gets a gift" = Rickon, right?
D:
Most likely.
The are totally going to ruin the Umbers, aren't they?
bodyofanamerican
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They could have Ramsay
find out somehow, and force them into giving Rickon up, instead of having them voluntarily hand him over.
Jesus Christ. Awful.
VenomousCoffee
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Hard to see Hotah as a great mind of politics and intrigue if the Sand Snakes were able to convert all of the guards under his command to their side without his finding out.
Dolorous Edd, THE KINGINDANOOOOORF
I wish I were optimistic of that, but I'm not. My guess is Smalljon shows up, says his dad died, and then reveals that his dad had been conspiring to restore the Starks, but that he always thought Boltons ruled and Starks drooled, so he's going to destroy his dad's life work by handing Rickon over.
Filming stuff and trailer conjecture:
Rickon and Osha's actors were both on set in Belfast for filming. Combined with the fact that in all the shots of the Bolton army in the trailers, there are Umber banners mixed in with the Bolton ones, things don't look good for Rickon.
Hasphat'sAnts
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Would be even funnier if they had the
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alas, these showrunners never bothered to introduce them in the first place. What a missed opportunity.
Manderlys hand over Rickon instead
alas, these showrunners never bothered to introduce them in the first place. What a missed opportunity.
Faces do change as people age. Noses and ears grow, often substantially.
Season 3.
That would be super lame. I do not want that to happen at all.
Dash_Riprock
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I think she was just surprised with the shear number of times it had worked for him.
ChaosZeroX
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So "Ramsay gets a gift" = Rickon, right?
Seems like it.
WrenchNinja
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you mean the forest that's on fire
Liquidsnake
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I second this, How much more pain do they really need to inflict on a family that really doesnt mean anything anymore. Theres no one left to mourn.
I'm really not sure what you're arguing here. That Melisandre is still recognizably human? The makeup artists went to pains to portray her as exceptionally old without overuse of CGI or making her appear monstrous.
But she is factually hundreds of years old, she was designed to look ambiguously ancient while still appearing believably human, and nobody except apparently you would flinch if you were told that this woman is hundreds of years old.
So good chat, I guess?
Oldest Snake
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Well... Not off to a strong start are we?
Praise the Seven that Brienne didn't suffer any consequences to her actions whatsoever. And Sansa should count her lucky stars that Podrick was there to talk her through that political formality. Sansa really isn't the sort of character who could know that stuff... oh.
To paraphrase Jim Sterling. This was a trash episode for dumpster people.
Praise the Seven that Brienne didn't suffer any consequences to her actions whatsoever. And Sansa should count her lucky stars that Podrick was there to talk her through that political formality. Sansa really isn't the sort of character who could know that stuff... oh.
To paraphrase Jim Sterling. This was a trash episode for dumpster people.
Cpt.Underpants
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She's been fighting for a very long time to know enough when you're about to lose a fight, bail the fuck out
Dash_Riprock
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Sometimes I'm surprised show Sansa knows how to breathe and talk at the same time.
Cpt.Underpants
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So I shouldn't bother?
VenomousCoffee
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I'd argue that it's actually a good thing that Sansa is still human enough to become flustered when she sees 5 or 6 (terrible) people get butchered.
They seem so lost with writing Sansa. They make her play the people at the Vale to save Little finger, then they do the awful marriage thing, and now she's back to season 1 Sansa I guess?
Why would she stumble with that oath? she is not an inexperienced girl anymore, and she was taught about all these formality things since the crib, it's just frustrating.
Why would she stumble with that oath? she is not an inexperienced girl anymore, and she was taught about all these formality things since the crib, it's just frustrating.
John Dunbar
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the big plot twist is that d&d were actually bitter fans who decided to get gurm back for making them wait so long.
Just watched this and what the bloody shit at Dorne.
I just spaced out the rest of the episode. Im not taking it seriously anymore. A book series for the ages gets watered down to hollywood level surprises for the masses. Nice one D and D.
Brienne is also the luckiest woman in Westeros. She manages to find the one person shes looking for out of the whole fucking country every time. Quality level writing.
If anything, at least it'll be a laugh.
Good to see my favourite character Jaime going down the shitter too.
I just spaced out the rest of the episode. Im not taking it seriously anymore. A book series for the ages gets watered down to hollywood level surprises for the masses. Nice one D and D.
Brienne is also the luckiest woman in Westeros. She manages to find the one person shes looking for out of the whole fucking country every time. Quality level writing.
If anything, at least it'll be a laugh.
Good to see my favourite character Jaime going down the shitter too.
Pretty sure the exchange was crafted that way to reinforce Sansa's distressed state. A way to contrast prim and proper Sansa with her present state.
Way easier to just #allgotshowcontentsucks tho.
They were all within a couple miles of Winterfell. She isn't randomly running into them on the way somewhere...this time. Now, Arya 2 seasons ago...
10 minutes ago, she crossed across an icy river, after being raped and tortured for a few weeks/months. How dare she forget 4 words of a 25+ word phrase she's never actually uttered before.
Cornballer
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A few more things that have popped up this afternoon:
- Matt Zoller Seitz's quick review for NY Mag
- NY Times interview with Sophie Turner
- Via Slate: Moleskine Re-Created Game of Thrones Opening Sequence Using 7,600 Paper Cutouts
- First episode of Watcher's weekly podcast on the show
- EW podcast for this week
My impression, though I haven't listened to much of it over the years, is that it's amusing for entertainment value if you find them funny, but if you're looking for high level analysis from a book reader's perspective, it probably isn't the show for you.
Exterminieren
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Might be something to do with the prolonged psychological and sexual torture, the fall from Winterfell's walls, the trip through the freezing river, being threatened by hounds and witnessing a brutal fight.
Whatever other problems Sansa's storyline has had, I think she may be forgiven for being a little flustered.
Guerrillas in the Mist
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I actually think this was an alright opener... but the Dorne segments were so utterly awful that they're overwhelming my opinion of the rest of it.
bodyofanamerican
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Yup, nothing about that exchange seemed off to me. She just got done being chased by hounds and men ready to drag her back to her abusive rapist husband, and had never formally accepted anyone's service before. Of all the internal consistencies that bugged me in that scene, her stumbling over some words of an oath she clearly has never returned was the least of them. Plus, this was pretty awesome:
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