Television Game of Thrones - Season 8 - Starting April 14th

[Bacon]

3 minutes ago, johnny said:

Who cares it’s season 8 now. Let the past die. 

I care. And no? That doesn't even make sense. 

[Spork3245]

5 minutes ago, Bacon said:

I mean, he had his hood up and it wasn't dyed at the end of the last season. That and I can't recall anytime dye has been used in the show. And there is a large amount of grey for a dye job. If the next EP mentions it and he says he dyed then great. Just, I doubt it. 

 

Sansa.

Also, last season =/= this season. There’s a time gap.

Do you really think the show runners would have f’d up that badly on hair color?  

[Bacon]

2 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

Do you really think the show runners would have f’d up that badly on hair color?  

Yes. I mean, Dany's eyes aren't even purple. 

Spoiler

I know that was an issue with the actor

 

[Spork3245]

1 minute ago, Bacon said:

Yes. I mean, Dany's eyes aren't even purple. 

 

That’s book vs show and is obviously completely different. Tyrion also still has a nose, but, ya know, he never lost it on the show.

[CastlevaniaNut18]

What's HTTYD?

[johnny]

 

[Bacon]

 

 

 

[Guest]

I’m not sure how one tells the difference between dark brown and black hair in a scene as heavily color corrected towards a drab blue as that, but I enjoy @Spork3245‘s confidence that it is black

[TheLeon]

Half a page yelling about hair color that devolves to insults? Yep, it’s a D1P thread. 

[NeoJoe]

Only on episode 1 and page 3 of this thread already went to shit because you guys are arguing about hair color. Nice job.

[SimpleG]

8 hours ago, Bacon said:

And, uh, maybe Jamie's hair should be bit more blond. 

Remember Tyrion’s blonde hair ?

maybe it’s a metaphor for breaking away from the Lanistors. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Now that I've cleaned things up, you all can go back to actually discussing this show that I quit watching at the end of the third season.

[Mercury33]

9 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

What's HTTYD?

 

Im guessing it stands for “How To Train Your Dragon” and he didn’t enjoy Jon riding the dragon?? I dunno seemed fine to me. Showed the feelings between Dany and Jon wasn’t just a one time thing. 

 

Also someone mentioned a nod to S1E1? I didn’t rewatch so it’s been a while since I’ve seen that episode haha. What was the nod?

[TheLeon]

3 minutes ago, Mercury33 said:

Also someone mentioned a nod to S1E1? I didn’t rewatch so it’s been a while since I’ve seen that episode haha. What was the nod?

The shots of the boy running through the crowd of people and climbing a tree to get a look at the arriving army pretty closely mirrors what Arya does to get a look at King Robert's crew when they arrived at Winterfell in the first episode. Having Arya be there to step aside and let him through confirms that it's a deliberate callback. It's a small thing, but I appreciated it. 

[Mercury33]

50 minutes ago, TheLeon said:

The shots of the boy running through the crowd of people and climbing a tree to get a look at the arriving army pretty closely mirrors what Arya does to get a look at King Robert's crew when they arrived at Winterfell in the first episode. Having Arya be there to step aside and let him through confirms that it's a deliberate callback. It's a small thing, but I appreciated it. 

 

Ahh gotcha. That did stand out to me while it was happening. The boy wasn’t anyone in particular so I thought when I was watching it that the scene must have some significance. But I forgot about the whole thing by the end of the episode haha. 

[thewhyteboar]

Ending the episode with Bran and Jamie was another nod to the pilot. 

[Firewithin]

43 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

Ending the episode with Bran and Jamie was another nod to the pilot. 

Bran was like "sup homie remember me"

[thewhyteboar]

 

[johnny]

 

[thewhyteboar]

Not the first time we've seen the spiral:

 

[TwinIon]

As far as place setting episodes go, this wasn't bad.

 

 

I was listening to the 50 things that made the modern economy podcast about RADAR, and the most interesting tidbit to me was Churchill's brief role. The Brits were quite far ahead of everyone else in RADAR development, but they were having a hard time building it (being bombed and all). They were trying to be secretive and trade the tech to the Americans but weren't having much luck. Churchill took office and pretty quickly just gave it up. The Americans quickly realized how great it was, established RADLAB at MIT, and were able to improve it and build it for the Brits. It's a bit that stuck with me because it seemed like the obvious thing to do. Don't play coy with this tech you desperately need for self preservation. Screw the power dynamics, if giving it up entirely could be the difference between life and death, there's no choice to be made, but somehow that choice wasn't being made pre-Churchill.

 

I bring it up because I feel like that's the entire story of Game of Thrones, and it really got hit on this episode. I understand that who is king or queen of whatever is literally the point of the show, but Sansa's concerns just seemed so petty when the last thing we saw was an endless army of the undead lead by an undead dragon burning through the world's only line of defense in an apparent effort to end all life.

 

If Jon tries to pull the whole birthright card on and take the throne, I'm going to be a bit annoyed. Other than the whole expedition North of the wall thing, he's been something of a voice of reason, one of the few people actually fixated on the right problem. If he tries to start playing the Game of Thrones now, he'll deserve to die again. My expectation is that he'll bring it up to Dany just because he wants to be honest with her, and she'll take it as an attack on her crown, and something bad will happen due to that tiff.

 

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

What Sansa is too blind to see is if the North loses and is all killed fighting the white walkers then the army coming for her will be made up of all those dead too. Every victory the dead has grows their army. She’s planning for a war against an army who has a finite number of soldiers. Which is the North’s and her’s. 

 

Her best hope for victory is the North beats the army of dead and then her army just marches in and finishes off the human soldiers. 

[Dawnguard2001]

I just want to know what the hell the writers have done to Tyrion.

 

This guy goes from out strategizing Stannis, who is arguably one is the best military minds in the country, to actually believing Cersi will march north because she rubs her belly. I just want them to provide a mercy killing at the Battle of Winterfell. 

[Mercury33]

1 hour ago, Dawnguard2001 said:

I just want to know what the hell the writers have done to Tyrion.

 

This guy goes from out strategizing Stannis, who is arguably one is the best military minds in the country, to actually believing Cersi will march north because she rubs her belly. I just want them to provide a mercy killing at the Battle of Winterfell. 

 

Yeah Tyrion has gone from literally the only “you better not fucking kill him” character for me to “meh, he can go I guess”. 

[Bacon]

18 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

What's HTTYD?

 

[SimpleG]

[thewhyteboar]

 

[Remarkableriots]

http://collider.com/game-of-thrones-season-8-premiere-ratings/

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Everyone knew that the Season 8 premiere of Game of Thrones would be massive. Anticipation for the final season has been off the charts, especially since the show has been gone for two years instead of just one. It’s a bona fide cultural phenomenon in a landscape where that’s increasingly rare due to audience fragmentation. And now the numbers have come in, and the HBO series set a new record for itself.

Variety reports that the Season 8 premiere, “Winterfell”, nabbed 17.4 million viewers across all platforms (linear, HBO Go, and HBO Now). To put that in perspective, the Season 7 premiere, “Dragonstone”, pulled in a massive 16.1 million viewers, which include 10.1 million from folks who had cable (aka “linear) and the remainder coming from DVR and streaming. That’s not to mention all the people who had viewing parties or watched the episode via less than legal means.

 

 

[johnny]

 

[SimpleG]

[SimpleG]

[Kal-El814]

5 hours ago, Dawnguard2001 said:

I just want to know what the hell the writers have done to Tyrion.

 

This guy goes from out strategizing Stannis, who is arguably one is the best military minds in the country, to actually believing Cersi will march north because she rubs her belly. I just want them to provide a mercy killing at the Battle of Winterfell. 

The thing to keep in mind is that Stannis was always a worthless piece of shit. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

I'm eager to see where it goes from here. What's gonna be in episode 2? Episode 3 is supposed to be the big Battle of Winterfell, so what do we get next week? Just dealing with Jaime and battle prep with the White Walkers approaching at the end? 

 

Also, I wonder how they're going to play out this battle. I don't see them winning, because then what do you do with the final 3 episodes? But if they lose and the WWs decimate the largest army ever seen at Winterfell, then how the hell do you stop the WWs after that? There's no one left to fight, except the smaller King's Landing armies and they don't even have the weapons to deal with the WWs down there.

[Bacon]

I expect the first two EPs to be mostly talking and then the rest will be battles until the latter of EP 6. Not that 3-5 is just non-stop battles but a lot of fighting overall. I hope the show doesn't end right after a battle is over. I would kinda like to see the state of the world 3 or so years later. 

[osxmatt]

A friend of mine brought this up, and I'm not sure if it's a popular fan theory, but:

 

If only Targaryen's can ride dragons, then why was the Night King able to ride one last season?