SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Another wildly out-of-character moment there IMO.
Game of thrones season 8 [contains spoilers]
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Another wildly out-of-character moment there IMO.
donkyboy
Crazy Cat/Fox man
I didn't like the dragon death-but guess they had to kill one off or the large arrow device would have been pointless. Also didn't like the off screen bits. I'm going to tell you I'm actually a targarean-but we will do it off screen. Tyrion, what if there was an alternative to danny-I'll tell you off screen. 
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
That would at least have been unexpected, smart, and a nice callback to when Sansa nearly took Joffrey with her when he was showing her Ned's head on the walls of the Red Keep.
Even have her lunge for Cersei and the Mountain cut her down before she reaches, add a bit of fight to her character.
So of course they didn't do it.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
The first 30 mins of the episode were pretty good, decent speeches, nice cinematography and believable character interactions (for the most part, the Tyrion drinking 'game' went in a weird direction, both joking about Tyrion's first wife, who Tywin had gang-raped in front of him, then the virginity stuff).
Everything after that was bobbins.
Everything after that was bobbins.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
I think that's what a lot of the fuss is about, to be honest. Book-folk are very fond of the direwolves and sounds like they've been sacrificed in the shows.
I honestly thought that's what she was going to do. I mean, she's right there.
Of course, as others have pointed out, so was Tyrion. Alone. Defenseless. In front of the sister who wishes him very dead.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
She was definitely in chains, but I don't know how immobile she was. Her body and head both fell off the wall, so I'm assuming she wasn't rooted to the spot.
PursuedByBears
Go stick your head in a pig
*Missandei
Virtual Blue
ready
why didn't cersei just shoot them all? very out of character...
it's so her style (she blew up half of kings landing, responsible for the red wedding etc).
it's so her style (she blew up half of kings landing, responsible for the red wedding etc).
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
I thought the establishing shot before that was to show that they weren't in Winterfell, they were in some random village pub somewhere.
magneze
🎧
That wasn't clear but doesn't really help.
Crispy
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I also seem to remember Kings Landing being surrounded by trees and things, not a desolate plain well suited to greenscreen compositing. Remember when Tyrion and Pod met Oberyn on the road outside the walls? Or when Jaimie saw off Brienne? Lush woodland, roads, etc. Where'd all that go?
Oh and ghost is a Good Boy and deserves to be told so
Oh and ghost is a Good Boy and deserves to be told so
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
This was the one time it felt like proper oldschool Game of Thrones.
It'll probably result in Varys dying horribly, but at least someone's thinking of the bigger picture.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Complaining about plot contrivances in a fantasy show is like complaining about the Last Jedi. Why are you guys complaining NOW?
donkyboy
Crazy Cat/Fox man
It's not probably. It WILL result in it. Mellis Andre told him he will die as did danny if he betrayed her again. it has all been set up to happen. Dont cry when it does.
Plumdaff
joy in people
This is my partner's POV. But the buzzkill is my buzz!I thought it was pretty entertaining. You lot are such a buzz kill
Crispy
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At the beginning, GoT was refreshing because it was a fantasy show with a story that flowed from its flawed human characters, rather than having an Epic Plot. It was very much *not* contrived. People made decisions based on their character, and the information available to them, and then the effects of their actions rippled out. It was all very organic and believable. Now they're just moving pieces around the game board to produce Shocking Events, regardless of what would be believable character choices. I realise it's hard to do (and it's why the next book is taking so long), but it's just disappointing to see something that used to have nuance and shades of grey become so dumbly melodramatic.Complaining about plot contrivances in a fantasy show is like complaining about the Last Jedi. Why are you guys complaining NOW?
EDIT: I'm basically in it for the fighting and dragons now, which remain excellent.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
It's not that - but things in even a wildly-fantastic universe have to be consistent for the universe that's been fashioned.Complaining about plot contrivances in a fantasy show is like complaining about the Last Jedi. Why are you guys complaining NOW?
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Tywin Lannister was the architect of the Red Wedding. Nothing to do with Cersei.
polly
Well-Known Member
This is my partner's POV. But the buzzkill is my buzz!
Oh OK
Moan on then - I think I'm just too basic
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I would forgive the parlay nonsense if it was well written but it wasn't. Tyrion being an utter mug yet again.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
You've got to assume that the implication was they were well outside arrow range (apart from Tyrion, obvs).
My main gripe with those kinds of scenes is the lack of reality in how well your voice carries. Tyrion would have had to be screaming at the top of his lungs to be heard by Cersei standing on top of the wall.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
Crispy
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They had anti-dragon guns on platforms all along the wall. We'd just seen them destroy entire ships at 100s of metre range and take a dragon out of the air with pinpoint accuracy.
