Game of Thrones Season 7 - Monday Morning Torrenters Thread

[mojo pixy]

Urbanites do love to mass debate

 

[SpookyFrank]

And female gaze.
When I was young I went to nightclubs that once in a while would have wet t-shirt contests. Guess what the front row would be primarily comprised of.
If you think men you'd be wrong. Men didn't get a look in when it came to the front row. It would be all straight women.

A phenomena I saw repeated at the Coccoon club Frankfurt. Not wet t-shirt this time. Just podium dancers. Largely ignored by the men. Surrounded by women watchers.

Don't ask me to explain this phenomena but it's real. Women are somehow as interested (if not more so) in the female form as men it seems to me.

Hi, I'm Gomit McClure, you may remember me from my books What I Learned About Feminism at a Wet T-Shirt Competition and Immigration: The Facts According to Old White Men at Wetherspoons.

 

[rekil]

Should've had a dragon for air cover. Varys out.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Don't ask me to explain this phenomena but it's real. Women are somehow as interested (if not more so) in the female form as men it seems to me.

I don't think anyone wants you to "explain" anything to do with sex and gender.

What a shame that a couple of comments about how refreshing it was to have an almost all female war council have now turned into yet another gromit mind vomit. I may ignore any further posts he makes to try and stop this. It won't be suggestive of him having "won" any argument.

 

[bimble]

So which giant magical wolf was it then?

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Nymeria.

 

[bimble]

oh! you're right. I took Arya's "Its not you" literally, thought maybe it was John's wolf. But no, it meant something else completely
Game of Thrones: The Heartbreaking Meaning Behind Arya's "That's Not You" Line

 

[DotCommunist]

partnered with UK-based food delivery app Deliveroo to open You Know Nothing Jon Dough, a pop-up bakery that sells direwolf-shaped loaves of bread that really only exists because of the pun

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-actor-who-plays-game-of-thrones-hot-pie-has-a-real-1797296570

 

[donkyboy]

good luck to the fella. Make money while he can

 

[Stig]

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-actor-who-plays-game-of-thrones-hot-pie-has-a-real-1797296570

I'm not happy about this at all. It says loaves of bread, it they're clearly biscuits.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm not happy about this at all. It says loaves of bread, it they're clearly biscuits.

gingerbreads at best. Cakey buscuits. Not what a loaf really is

 

[Libertad]

Thronecast with Sue Perkins is consistently shit innit?

 

[Corax]

I may or may not trawl through the previous posts on this thread.

But as well as watching the current episodes, I've also just started rewatching from S01E01. My posts therefore may at times be... incongruent.

I've watched S07E01&02, but I'm considering delaying satisfaction on the rest and then binge watching E03-07. One episode at a time just ain't enough. Anyone else thinking the same?

 

[belboid]

Solid points about the daftness of the last episode

This Is What Worries Me About 'Game Of Thrones' After Last Night's Episode

 

[Me76]

I may or may not trawl through the previous posts on this thread.

But as well as watching the current episodes, I've also just started rewatching from S01E01. My posts therefore may at times be... incongruent.

I've watched S07E01&02, but I'm considering delaying satisfaction on the rest and then binge watching E03-07. One episode at a time just ain't enough. Anyone else thinking the same?

Last season was the first season I watched live, all the others I had binged as I was late to the party. I think I left it a month before I watched it all together. It is much better that way.

 

[Idaho]

Solid points about the daftness of the last episode

This Is What Worries Me About 'Game Of Thrones' After Last Night's Episode

I not going to read something that makes me realise that it's all nonsense. What's the point of that?

 

[Orang Utan]

Solid points about the daftness of the last episode

This Is What Worries Me About 'Game Of Thrones' After Last Night's Episode

i hadn't considered any of this before and was just enjoying the spectacle. now you've ruined it

 

[donkyboy]

Solid points about the daftness of the last episode

This Is What Worries Me About 'Game Of Thrones' After Last Night's Episode

great article.

 

[Corax]

i hadn't considered any of this before and was just enjoying the spectacle. now you've ruined it

Yay AdBlock

 

[Orang Utan]

Yay AdBlock

Pardon?

 

[Me76]

I had completely thought all of those points already.

Edit, except for the sailing out of the way thing cos I haven't really got the map in my head properly.

 

[maomao]

Pardon?

That site won't let you read it unless you disable adblock.

 

[DexterTCN]

I not going to read something that makes me realise that it's all nonsense. What's the point of that?

Belboid's still pissed off about the rape stuff.

Although it happens every season. And he watches it every season. And complains every season.

Nerdwriter did a great thing about dragons.

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I think it's totally consistent that Sansa is opposing John. She's been in positions robbed of all agency for ages and now she not only has freedom but is in a position of power, with the only more powerful family member being one who she a) feels completely safe with (and therefore safe to challenge), b) is genuinely worried that he's making the same mistakes as her father and brother, and c) subconsciously may well actually see herself as higher up the pecking order given the family composition of how they grew up. In fact I think her agreeing with him would be more unbelievable.

 

[Gromit]

That site won't let you read it unless you disable adblock.

Summary.
The writing is not as good as Martin's.

 

[DotCommunist]

I think it's totally consistent that Sansa is opposing John. She's been in positions robbed of all agency for ages and now she not only has freedom but is in a position of power, with the only more powerful family member being one who she a) feels completely safe with (and therefore safe to challenge), b) is genuinely worried that he's making the same mistakes as her father and brother, and c) subconsciously may well actually see herself as higher up the pecking order given the family composition of how they grew up. In fact I think her agreeing with him would be more unbelievable.

look at littlefingers gloaty face as she gainsays JS in public. 'My little tool, I've made you strong.' which is why it was satisfying to see her cut him dead in convo later.

 

[mojo pixy]

... daftness ...

This Is What Worries Me About 'Game Of Thrones' After Last Night's Episode

I have to agree about the stopping in Dorne point. Sunspear is literally on the way from Mereen to Dragonstone by sea, why did they not do the chatty-planning in Dorne, then sail to Dragonstone? I really expected Dany to begin s.7 in Dorne. They clearly stopped there on the way anyway .. and didn't pick up the troops when they picked up the great-and-goods? Nah, makes no sense.

The having-to-sail-back-past-Kings-Landing bit is pretty contrived. There are other odd contrivances as outlined in the article, but this was one I noticed myself while watching ep.2

 

[DexterTCN]

The sand snake that used the spear was the girl from Whale Rider.

 

[belboid]

Belboid's still pissed off about the rape stuff.

Although it happens every season. And he watches it every season. And complains every season.

Nerdwriter did a great thing about dragons.

Oh yes, you're another one who jerks of over the rape scenes aren't you?

I haven't complained of the poor since writing in the later series before, for the obvious reason. You don't care about writing or character development tho, as long as there are tits.

 

[Me76]

I think it's totally consistent that Sansa is opposing John. She's been in positions robbed of all agency for ages and now she not only has freedom but is in a position of power, with the only more powerful family member being one who she a) feels completely safe with (and therefore safe to challenge), b) is genuinely worried that he's making the same mistakes as her father and brother, and c) subconsciously may well actually see herself as higher up the pecking order given the family composition of how they grew up. In fact I think her agreeing with him would be more unbelievable.

Good points. I still feel there should be some convos in private. But then that comes back to the patriarchal society and also that Jon doesn't know what's she's been through.