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Game of Thrones Seasons 7-8
About to hit the 5000 post mark on the old thread, the first season 7 trailer today seems like the right time to start the final Game of Thones thread.
I'm going back to the original rules pre-2015. I don't think we need supervision or bannings. Just don't be a dick. Post anything you find online that hasn't aired yet inside of spoiler tags. That's pretty much it. I think we can all handle that... For future us, 2015 thread is here: Link Last edited by keg in kc; 06-21-2017 at 10:48 AM.. |
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08-07-2017, 09:34 AM | #706 |
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I was rewatching season 1 this weekend and I've never quite understood Varys and his intentions. He claims he is on "the side of the realm" because "someone must" but that just seems like a cop-out answer to me. I think Varys looks out for Varys and aligns with whomever gives him the best chance for survival and a place at the table.
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08-07-2017, 09:37 AM | #707 | |
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I do think the writing was odd in this one. We were supposed to be unnerved by the scorpion but did anyone really think Drogon/Dany were dying in the first battle? I'm not saying it can't/won't happen, but they're not killing Drogon yet. They needed Viserys or Rhegal out there as fodder to truly give the impression that a dragon might die. Oh, and once again Dany demonstrates that she's A) and entitled shithead (seriously, isn't the kingdom worth your pride? Why does it have to be Jon's?) and B) A shit tactician. As has been noted - the day is won. In short order your Dothraki will have captured the scorpion or burned it down. Just get out of dodge. |
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08-07-2017, 09:41 AM | #708 | |
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08-07-2017, 09:45 AM | #709 |
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Pretty short sighted too. I don't understand why she burned all the food they were transporting. She has an army to feed too.
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08-07-2017, 09:48 AM | #710 |
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She may expect to re-take Highgarden. They would still have stores/crops there. Or she may make a move on Dorne. That's all far enough south to still be fertile.
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08-07-2017, 09:50 AM | #711 |
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08-07-2017, 10:10 AM | #712 | |
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It looks like they may play up dragon glass as one of those weapons. To date the dead army has been shown to be of massive scale, bigger than the hosts of Westeros combined. It will be interesting to see if they hold to that scale, which makes them almost impossible to defeat, or if they make them suddenly more sake to defeat for the sake of the story e.g. the Lanister army that stood there and shat themselves against the Dothraki. |
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08-07-2017, 10:27 AM | #713 |
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08-07-2017, 10:33 AM | #714 | |
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08-07-2017, 10:35 AM | #715 | |
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So it gets back to the argument of "a horse sized duck or 10 duck sized horses." You telling me a swarm of 10,000 scattered zombie ravens dive bombing the shit out of a dragon (with only one source of firepower) couldn't harangue the dragon into inattention or accident? The Walkers already have tools at their disposal that could wreck dragons or at least render them less effective. If the Walkers have a dragon, it's an end-game. There's just nothing else to it. Because if that dragon launches a completely Pyrrhic assault on another dragon and knocks IT out of the sky, now the Walkers have 2 dragons even if dragon one goes down because they can now just reanimate them both. That or they have to be somehow completely incinerated and that seems unlikely given what we know of wars between dragons in the past (again, book information). |
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08-07-2017, 10:42 AM | #716 | |
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08-07-2017, 11:47 AM | #717 |
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08-07-2017, 11:49 AM | #718 |
In BB I trust
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Some awesome memes out today.
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08-07-2017, 12:03 PM | #719 | |
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08-07-2017, 12:07 PM | #720 |
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This made zero ****ing sense, and the producers made a point to illustrate it to us for a reason. Im curious to know why they decided Danny should make a poor decision and burn the food.
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