bUm posted:Also, the wights have some memory and capability for thought because they tried to kill Lord Commander Mormont (a natural target for a legion of coldmen wanting to invade the realms of man). There must be some sentience or that's an impressive coincidence It was one of two dead rangers that were brought back within the Keeps walls. I thought he ended up in Mormonts chambers because it was late at night and that seemed to be the only bright and lit up room.
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Seeing the Mountain engage in some brutality to peasants while commanding in the area that Arya and the Hound are in would've been better than last episode's scene, but alas.
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# ? May 22, 2014 07:02 |
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Umbra Dubium posted:There you go, there's some impenetrable prose for you. Give me ten good men and some climbing spikes.
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# ? May 22, 2014 07:17 |
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Anarkii posted:The show has massively underplayed the Mountain, and you don't know him at all. He conveniently reappears for the duel after having a combined screentime of less than 5 minutes across 4 seasons and 3 actors playing him. Most of him in the books is: "oh the Mountain is still raping/pillaging the Riverlands" (probably stated like a dozen times over books two and three) and the stories of his history (burning the Hounds face, raping/murdering Elia and children, generally being Tywin's go-to man for anything heinous/inhuman that most people would cringe doing). That is, you don't see him, but you know he's a really poo poo person. Most of this is known in the show also so if that doesn't make you not like him just because he doesn't have screen time. Learn to hate raping and murdering/maiming innocents more? No More Heroes posted:It was one of two dead rangers that were brought back within the Keeps walls. I thought he ended up in Mormonts chambers because it was late at night and that seemed to be the only bright and lit up room.
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# ? May 22, 2014 07:31 |
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Yeah, the Mountain looms large in the show. He's been "there" consistently, clearly a character more significant than some with plenty more screentime.
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# ? May 22, 2014 08:13 |
It's definitely significant, the Lannisters controlling the only fighter on the continent who approximates invulnerability. Between Jaime and the Mountain, they have probably come out well ahead on the whole trial by combat concept.
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# ? May 22, 2014 08:24 |
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precision posted:I have seriously never had a problem with Littlefinger's accent, by which I mean, yes he sounds like someone with an accent, but I've never sat here thinking "God, what a terrible actor/accent". Series 1 Littlefinger is English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV6ecIfYBg4 Series 4 Littlefinger is Welsh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgBgC0By9Pw
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# ? May 22, 2014 08:55 |
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Anarkii posted:
An anonymous overgrown goon who happens to have raped and murdered Oberyn's sister.
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# ? May 22, 2014 11:14 |
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bob holness paradox posted:Series 1 Littlefinger is English. Are people irritated it's a bad welsh accent? Or just that it's a welsh accent? TITY BOI posted:An anonymous overgrown goon who happens to have raped and murdered Oberyn's sister. At least he didn't insult his favourite writer's prose style.
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# ? May 22, 2014 11:20 |
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Given Littlefinger's sigil is a mockingbird, I'd be very surprised if the wandering accent wasn't intentional.
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# ? May 22, 2014 11:36 |
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Great Enoch posted:Are people irritated it's a bad welsh accent? Or just that it's a welsh accent? That it's changing. People are assuming that it's because the actor is lazy and can't keep the accent consistent between series.
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# ? May 22, 2014 11:47 |
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It's just weird at this stage, intentional or not. And it's become somewhat of a running joke by now. Honestly his native Irish accent would have worked fine for the role.
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# ? May 22, 2014 13:56 |
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Tenebrais posted:Given Littlefinger's sigil is a mockingbird, I'd be very surprised if the wandering accent wasn't intentional. I said the same several pages back. It seems consistent with the duplicitous nature of the character.
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# ? May 22, 2014 15:03 |
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I think that he probably has a wandering accent, but it does post hoc fit in with the character's rapid changes in location, station, and conceit. Given all that, it seems an awful petty thing to harp on about as much as gets done, though I'm sure I'd care much more if any of his accents were 'local'. It's a bit like GW Bush going from upperclassy-erudite Texan to slow drawl Alabaman between Texas governorship and a presidential election. Yet, even that comparison fits somehow?
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Great Enoch posted:Are people irritated it's a bad welsh accent? Or just that it's a welsh accent? LF is a pommie oval office.
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# ? May 22, 2014 16:32 |
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No More Heroes posted:LF is a pommie oval office. What the gently caress is a pommie?
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# ? May 22, 2014 16:57 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:What the gently caress is a pommie? Australian slang for "English"
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# ? May 22, 2014 17:00 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:What the gently caress is a pommie?
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# ? May 22, 2014 17:01 |
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Woden posted:Slur against Brits. Off topic, but is "limey" considered offensive? How about "Redcoats"
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TheWordOfTheDayIs posted:Off topic, but is "limey" considered offensive? How about "Redcoats" Most brits are so smug in their sense of superiority they can't really conceive of other white people calling them racial slurs even when it happens to their face. Mainwaring posted:It's just weird at this stage, intentional or not. And it's become somewhat of a running joke by now. Honestly his native Irish accent would have worked fine for the role. Having a dude revert to an Irish accent after assassinating the king of not-England would be a little much even for this show. Great Enoch fucked around with this message at 17:27 on May 22, 2014 |
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Blazing Ownager posted:You know, I could be totally off base, but I was thinking something when someone mentioned Drogo the other day. And the conversation that he had with Tywin after Joffrey's death, where he mentioned that he'd studied poisons at the Citadel or whatever.
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# ? May 22, 2014 17:32 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:What the gently caress is a pommie? Want'd to let you know I got this reference.
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# ? May 22, 2014 17:35 |
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tonesville posted:I said the same several pages back. It seems consistent with the duplicitous nature of the character. Yeah I also brought it up a while back but I have no idea if it's actually a thing or if he's just not good at accents or what.
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# ? May 22, 2014 17:50 |
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the kawaiiest posted:Yeah I also brought it up a while back but I have no idea if it's actually a thing or if he's just not good at accents or what. idk I didn't mind his accent in the Wire but my roommate (who watched Game of Thrones before me) said it wasn't good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vmWkJ8hLoE (go to 1:15 for a speech; also season 3 spoilers for the Wire)
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# ? May 22, 2014 18:17 |
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bUm posted:He appears as often in the books as in the show (sans the lovely scene in last episode): Hand's Tourney, unknowingly holding Ayra captive, and for the trial by combat. I've always assumed The Mountain wasn't so important as a character, but significant as a symbol.
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# ? May 22, 2014 18:47 |
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He's been the looming "scary dude" since the middle of season 1. First he burned villages in the riverlands, and Ned Stark ordered his head brought to him. Season 2 he's torturing prisoners to death, Season 3 he's back in the Riverlands, and people (idiot groom of the Red Wedding) will do whatever it takes to drive him back/kill him. I don't think he could be any more infamous than he is right now.
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# ? May 22, 2014 18:59 |
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Pretty much the Vlad the Impaler of GoT.
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:04 |
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Red posted:I've always assumed The Mountain wasn't so important as a character, but significant as a symbol. Yeah, he's not exactly a character in the sense of most GoT characters. He's basically the dick with which Tywin fucks the entire world.
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:12 |
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The Mountain suffers the same character development problem Robb Stark did in season 2 and some of season 3. We are told how awful the Mountain is (he basically rapes and pillages his way through Westeros at Tywin's command, sometimes) but aside from a few scenes with him torturing prisoners or slicing up nobodies we never really see his awful 'crimes'. In S2 and S3 we are told how awesome Robb is at battle but we never actually see one.
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:12 |
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Is there any in-show indicator as to who stole Pycelle's conveniently easy-to-grab poisons, other than probably Baelish (who if anything was probably given the poison by Pycelle himself)?
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:14 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Is there any in-show indicator as to who stole Pycelle's conveniently easy-to-grab poisons, other than probably Baelish (who if anything was probably given the poison by Pycelle himself)? Well before Jamie sent him away with Brienne they wanted Pod to testify that Tyrion sent him to buy the poison, so I'm assuming that nobody actually stole Pycelle's poisons. I'm sure Baelish has his own poison sources.
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:19 |
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Yeah, the Mountain has suffered a bit from being off camera a lot. Probably works better in a book format to have a character just be talked about. That's certainly why they had that stupid rear end scene: to reintroduce the character (with new actor) and making him seem "scary". Except it looked loving stupid.OneThousandMonkeys posted:Is there any in-show indicator as to who stole Pycelle's conveniently easy-to-grab poisons, other than probably Baelish (who if anything was probably given the poison by Pycelle himself)? I don't think so. There's barely reason to believe it happened at all. Littlefinger would be unlikely to source his poisons that way, since it adds a layer of risk. Pycelle probably didn't help Littlefinger though. He seems to be pretty pro-Lannister (he helped keep the truth from coming out).
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:24 |
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I've had a pretty big event for the season spoiled, ands its really obvious there are a large number of posters who know and are trying to drop subtle hints that are really obvious if you know what's going to happen. gently caress all book readers, basically.
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:31 |
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:I've had a pretty big event for the season spoiled, ands its really obvious there are a large number of posters who know and are trying to drop subtle hints that are really obvious if you know what's going to happen. And now you've told all of us, too, so thanks, guy
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:34 |
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All men must be banned.
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:35 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Is there any in-show indicator as to who stole Pycelle's conveniently easy-to-grab poisons, other than probably Baelish (who if anything was probably given the poison by Pycelle himself)? I just assumed he was lying out his rear end at Cersei's request and he hadn't actually had 200 different poisons stolen because drat dude invest in some new locks or something.
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:39 |
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Neowyrm posted:And now you've told all of us, too, so thanks, guy I mean, you don't know what he's talking about, but as someone who has read up to the Red Wedding of the third book, I'm pretty sure I know what he's talking about and it is pretty eye-rolling to see some people just roll in and be like "oh hey I was just completely and totally absentmindedly thinking about this, wouldn't it be cool?" and it's a pretty clear spoiler. Not super big or anything so no worries.
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:41 |
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:All men must be banned. All Mods must serve
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:41 |
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Valar Spoileris
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# ? May 22, 2014 19:44 |
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Every time you guys do this witch hunt for bookreaders you just look silly. In 26 pages there hasn't been a single untagged spoiler posted by a bookreader unless you count that minor white walker stuff. Bookreaders are completely free to take part in speculation and answer questions, and it hasn't been abused to spoil things yet.
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