Ague Proof posted:

Wildling mom is 3 days from retirement and just gives up when she sees a bunch of undead children.

Elias_Maluco posted:

Yeah, they dont. And they dont seems to be giving any fucks about what to do about the 5000 wildlings camping on their backyard either.

It just that it seems to me that they probably would care.

computer parts posted:

The single best moment of the TV show is the end of the Red Wedding when they focus on Cat for like 20 seconds and then a random guard appears from off frame, cuts her neck, and then steps back off frame.

Mike N Eich posted:

God if they end up using the Pink Letter *after* the Night's Watch mutiny that would be the dumbest goddamn thing. I mean, suck out the morally grey motivations for the mutineers (in many ways they're justified for what they do in the books, in no way are they in the show) and then wave that plot device around *later*.

It's so dumb it may actually happen.

Mike N Eich posted:

Funny how after this latest season there is almost no speculation about what Mance Rayder's role is anymore. After they killed him off did we all just assume his role is kind of fulfilled in the books as well? Will he be killed with little fanfare at the beginning of TWOW? Who knows.

Mike N Eich posted:

It makes me wonder what the endgame role for Davos is. What are they gonna do with him in the show? Is he gonna go fetch Rickon for Jon? Is he just gonna sorta stand next to Jon for the rest of the series? What was the point of bringing him and Stannis to the Wall, just to save Jon and bring Melisandre in place?

Apoplexy posted:

Now all I'm going to think of when the White Walkers are on screen is Mr. Freeze. ICE TO MEET YOOOOO, JON SNOW

Elias_Maluco posted:

Speaking about getting burned, please refresh my memory: wanst Loras burned in some battle by the end of the last book or something? I vaguely remember this but Im not sure

empty baggie posted:

It took a month for King Robert to get from Kings Landing to Winterfell, so I think Westeros would be a bit bigger than the UK.

TommyGun85 posted:

according to who? how is that even possibly determined?

TommyGun85 posted:

In a recent interview, the actress playing Melisandre confirmed that she will NOT be resurrecting Jon Snow.

Immortan posted:

romanowski posted:

let's spend the next several pages arguing whether or not jojen paste is real

personally, i think it is very badass, therefore it is real to me

Jedimastafez posted:

Jon looks at Wun Wun and smiles
Wun wun takes an arrow to the eye
Jon looks around in shock expecting to see Ramsay
Instead he sees Olly with a smug and knowing grin as he maliciously utters
You still know nothing Jon Snow

BlindSite posted:

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Most of the younger male cast are fairly small dudes, Kit Harrington, Jack Gleeson, Alfie Allen dude who played Robb are all pretty small dudes.

Frankenfinger posted:

Re: Varys. Gonna post this again since it's the spoiler thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M_hhVg9XUE

I think this best sums up what Varys's ultimate goal in the books might be. It makes a ton of sense, and it's a shame that almost all of it has been abandoned in the show. It's almost as if D&D decided somewhere in season 2 to get rid of all the Aegon stuff, and are desperately trying to cram Varys into the plot without having it be ham-fisted and odd.

it is

GaussianCopula posted:

A *man* supports your friends findings.

Mr. Nice! posted:

Well the episode title is the battle of the bastards.

Demiurge4 posted:

That reminds me how Dany's slave girl showing up in the slavers bed is just as much out of the left field as Shae turning up in Tywinn's bed. It's completely out of the blue with no lead up.

Lotka Volterra posted:

I suppose my issue with the direction Dorne is going is this: what reason would anyone have to take orders from Ellaria or the Sand Snakes?

canepazzo posted:

They show the prop for the letter to Doran (reddit has a link) where Jaime is informing him of Myrcella's death and requesting the execution of Ellaria and sand snakes to make it right. He also mentions he is sending back Trystane as a gesture of good will so that's how they got to him so fast I guess, he was already back.

Love Crime posted:

I just wrote a big thing about it you son of a bitch!

Animal cruelty in media was A Legit Thing in the past, at no point were they actually killing babies though. Well, unless you consider Italian independent movies.

Currently any movie or TV show that employs most Western actors/production studios has to abide by the rule that no animals can be cruelly handled, but it also goes a lot deeper than you'd think. They also cannot be traced to fund people who do it, such as paying slaughter houses to kill an animal in a certain way to match whatever death the movie/show needs to portray.

So that leads to two things, they either don't show the animal getting killed like when Ned cuts Lady's throat and all you hear is her yelping, or they do the same thing but you see an obvious taxidermy stand in afterwards.

Also something people might find interesting, all the horses that you see in battles falling over? They're specially trained for it because in the old days they would just have random horses do it and it would often end up with the horses breaking their backs or legs.

Also also the whole animal rights thing conveniently doesn't apply to fish. You can do whatever you want to ordinary fish (not dolphins and poo poo though).

Ague Proof posted:

"We have a new writer now."

this_is_hard posted:

It's the Bran scene in the official episode 2 teaser video. He has a vision of Winterfell. It's Benjen and Ned sparring/fighting when they were children. A girl comes into the scene. It's Lyanna Stark. She says to Benjen "Who are you going to fight with when Ned leaves?"
Bran tells BR that he sees his family. The scene continues. Benjen answers "I don't know who I'll fight with. Maybe that kid?" He points to a tall fat kid. It's Hodor, but his name is WILLAS. Yep not Walder.
Lyanna says "You can't fight with him. He's not noble." Willas sees talking about him and wants to join but he can't. Someone who looks like his mother tells him that he's not going to fight. You're not going to be a fighter. (?) Benjen says "You're huge. You should be a fighter/rider."
BR interrupts the scene and calls him back. If he stays any longer it could be dangerous. "If you stay for too long you can die/drown."
Bran comes out of the vision. Bran says "If I wasn't drowning/dying then I was... Home." The episode is called Home.
Meera is outside. Bran calls her and tells to enter. BR says that it's dangerous to stay outside too long. Meera is unconvinced.
A cotf goes to her "You need to come inside. You need to help Bran."
Meera says "Why should I come inside? To watch him dream and have visions?" She feels useless.
Back under the tree Bran sees Hodor. "I saw you talk Hodor.. What happened to you? What happened?" And to shock the world....
Hodor responds with "Hodor."
The scene goes to Castle Black. It's Thorne breaking into the room. Davos says his I've never been a fighter line from the trailer and that's it.

first scene of ep2