Game of thrones season 8 [contains spoilers]
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emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
So who would people like to see end up on the throne?
I'd like it to be Davos, no way ot could be him but he would be my choice.
I have this sneaking suspicion it might end up being Gendry (with a Stark as his hand) and he's not a bad choice either.
I'd like it to be Davos, no way ot could be him but he would be my choice.
I have this sneaking suspicion it might end up being Gendry (with a Stark as his hand) and he's not a bad choice either.
InfoBurner
Deep fried chip butty.
It'll be Jon. Since GRM's material ran out, they've resorted to every fantasy trope in't book. Keep the base happy. Jon for the throne. Yawn
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Probably. But who would you like it to be?
InfoBurner
Deep fried chip butty.
Podrick
Except the books and the tv show will have the exact same core ending. So yawn for both or neither?
Nine Bob Note
Self-Isolating before it was fashionable
I think I just read the big spoiler on a comments page. Not too fussed if true 
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Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
They killed the night king but they can never kill Podricks magic cock
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Love Island: Westeros
joustmaster
offcumdun
Just as a note to people, now that spoilers are available. This comment here is actually a bit spoilery.
It implies a fair bit about what the ending isn't. It's a bit like in the first few series when the book wankers thought they weren't spoiling stuff, but were.
Please be thoughtful about your posts if you have read the leaked spoiler.
I think I just read the big spoiler on a comments page. Not too fussed if true
It implies a fair bit about what the ending isn't. It's a bit like in the first few series when the book wankers thought they weren't spoiling stuff, but were.
Please be thoughtful about your posts if you have read the leaked spoiler.
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Martin told them his planned end. If everyone goes 'oh that was shit' do you think he'll do the exact core ending.
Or will he phone the publishers and say erm I may need another year. They be like ah fuck here we go again
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
The one he's working on isn't even the last one.
Treacle Toes
Time
maomao
普費斯
He's 71 and spent eight years on book 6 of 7 which doesn't have a set publication date yet. He will need to be productive into his eighties to get book 7 out at a similar speed.
ferrelhadley
There is no love between us anymore.
Some people who do not pay much attention to the early series are now spreading a ludicrous "spoiler" based on this seasons opening credits.
It shows a dragon with 3 small dragons under a comet, so not that Daenarys hatched 3 dragons in the year of the comet, season 1 but that Drogon has had 3 child dragons that are coming to help.
On the other hand it's not the early series anymore so could be that awful. Just rewatched sone of the first season. As much as I don't want to be that guy the writing is so much better. The teleporter criticisms don't really hold up though.
ferrelhadley
There is no love between us anymore.
For me the early series were much better. But they had ratings of 2 million and the books they were based on were in the expansion phase of world building. Everything could be character driven because your characters could do random things that sent the plot off into different directions. Now even in a era where streaming is so popular the new shows get ratings of 11 million, its not the Breaking Bad, Deadwood, The Wire crowd that are watching them, its the Avengers, DCU and Disney Wars crowd that are their fan base.
The hard part of world building is closure, you no longer have the leisure to have characters drive in new directions "organically" they have to get somewhere so the plot ties up. Its now plot driven rather than character driven. The show runners do not have GRRMs work to base it on because he has run into a brick wall on that as well, its taken about 8 years to get up to the end of season 6. The show is going for spectacle over dialogue so the long discussions between characters to explain where their irrational decisions came from are absent instead you get sudden things happening without a lot of clever word jousts over 4 episodes to build to it. Most book wankers and early fans are grumpy about it but the ratings are holding up so far.
It is what it is.
Though if I want to watch leaders make ludicrous decisions for the most superficial of reasons driving a country to wrack and ruin I could turn on the news. I expect more rationality from my fantasy worlds.
ruffneck23
front left
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
What bugs me about all this is that if that’s what they’ve done, then the wood’s not had time to dry and cure. You can’t make high tension devices like those massive ballistas with fresh, wet wood.
Similarly the huge funeral pyres at winterfell at the start of the episode. Were they made from tree trunks just cut down after the battle? Good luck getting that to burn toastily in a cold, wet environment. If it wasn’t wood just cut down and had had time to dry, why on earth were they keeping that much dry wood? Will its loss now not cause problems elsewhere?
Gromit
International Man of Misery
Westeros has magic wood and dragons.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Pod
ferrelhadley
There is no love between us anymore.
So on the basis of a single scene in season 3 being on a road, near a town with a few trees for shade, you have managed to convince yourself that they absolutely cut down a forest (that was not in any actual scene i.e. Battle of Blackwater) and used damp wood for ballistas rather than using the huge pile of gold, repeatedly referenced to bring in a relatively modest amount of the correct wood.
Euron Grayjoy whipping up 1000 ships on short order a couple of season ago, hey yes. Nonsense plot and lazy writing. A queen who just sacked High Garden, payed of the whole debt to the Iron Bank and then hired the Golden Company with the change could not afford to buy in a ton or two of cured wood thus long winded where did it come from "plot hole"?
Its getting down to the level of "the eagles could have flown them to Mordor".
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I was mostly thinking that at the start of a ten year winter it might make more sense to keep the firewood for the living and just dig a few holes. Especially now the dead are likely to stay dead for the forseeable, burned or no.
