OFFICIAL Game of Thrones Thread

[SixOhNine]

If the intent was to mimic life, they succeeded. Life doesn't end in some epic, satisfying manner. You just ******* die, probably unhappily. There are almost no heroes, or master manipulators pulling the strings, just a bunch of mildly competent assholes making rash, sometimes **** sometimes less ****, decisions. When someone is hit with a round form MP16, AR47, an IED, bomb, etc., there is no rousing music playing while your internal organs liquify. When your dead body expels your bladder and stomach contents, it doesn't happen in slow motion while inspiring fellow humans to do better.

Making multiple personal sacrifices, like Jon did, almost never guarantees prosperity or success or praise; it doesn't make you better than anyone else, and you can still be relegated to the goddamn wall. There was never going to be a coronation for Jon. There was never going to be a prince that was promised. The half-assed "government" pulled out of thin air is fatally flawed, not because it's half-assed but because we are want to tear down our institutions. We are all white walkers.

Props for the nihilism.

 

[Texasmade]

why the **** are they even going beyond the wall, Jon gave them lands

Why the **** is there still a Night's Watch when the Wildlings are at peace with the southern folk and the Night King is defeated?

 

[Van Veen]

It's a circle (pictures pulled from here). Opening and closing shots from the series.

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The actual execution is like a film school student learning this storytelling technique and trying it out for the first time, though.

Why the **** is there still a Night's Watch when the Wildlings are at peace with the southern folk and the Night King is defeated?

I don't think there is a real Night's Watch. Jon is going off with Tormund for whatever reason. I think it's the Westerosi version of Club Fed for Jon.

You know, there are a lot of good themes in this ending that D&D glossed over or handled clumsily. Another one is that the Stark children are all going their separate ways. They're family, they've been reunited, they probably want to stick together, but they can't. (Well, Arya could. Her ending is the stupidest.)

 

[beargonefishing]

The actual execution is like a film school student learning this storytelling technique and trying it out for the first time, though.

I believe it was B&W's first attempt at directing, so this tracks.

 

[HRoi]

Btw what the **** happened to Nymeria? Another loose end that was clearly set up to get tied off at an opportune time...but went nowhere.

So the surviving Stark kids get to share a last moment before going off on fresh stupidities, but Ghost and his sister never find each other again

 

[wojt]

Stark kids family is most important

2episodes later: Also Stark kids, let’s banish this loser. Not even a rescue attempt from Arya.

 

[wojt]

some meme for you guys

 

[SixOhNine]

Why the **** is there still a Night's Watch when the Wildlings are at peace with the southern folk and the Night King is defeated?

Maybe it's a New Deal style public works project- they're going to repair that giant assed hole in the Wall. Should keep them busy for a while.

 

[noob in 89]

Uh...plebe question. I just realized I don’t have a DVD player. Is there a way to stream the show from the beginning? (I have HBO).

 

[otc]

Uh...plebe question. I just realized I don’t have a DVD player. Is there a way to stream the show from the beginning? (I have HBO).

If you have HBO, you can use your cable/satellite login to steam via HBO Go

 

[Orbis881]

The Wire
Sopranos
Mad Men
Boardwalk Empire
Rome
West World
Peaky Blinders
Oz




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These are wonderful shows and I like rewatching them from time to time, I would also like to add Carnivale and Dead Wood to that excellent list. It's a shame that HBO did not finish the last two.

My absolute favorite before GoT was Breaking Bad, The Office UK and Cheers most specially due to sentimental reasons.

Californication is entertaining, and Better Call Saul is good and may still surprise. West World season 1 was very good, but I have put off watching S2 as I've heard it may not be as nice.

I have not seen Peaky Blinders and Oz, I am actually looking for new shows to enjoy, thank you for recommending them.

 

[Mariokartfever]

You guys are really just gonna sleep on “The King of Queens” like that?

 

[HORNS]

Let’s not forget the early Law and Order.

 

[suited]

 

[wojt]

Ps. Dany arc could be what if story; what would happened if Galadriel took the ring from Frodo.

"And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!"

Which leaves me thinking isn't it what GRRM planned idd from beginning in that arc, absolute power corrupts absolutely even the best of us?

The show kind off reduced that to Westerosi eugenics. But makes me wonder if that's where we are heading with book Dany.