Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon!

[Psychotic]

Yeah that Jaime scene was smurfed up, didn't like it at all. Alright Dany you are sort of a badass in the show. Sort of. And Pod. What a guy. Love Pod. Pod for King. King Pod.

Also RIP the world's best potato boiler

[Shaibana]

yeah, lets just put Pod on the iron throne :3
this episode was way too short for my feeling, i was all in the scene where dany attacks the city and all the sudden... end credits

[The Man]

For what it's worth the scene was at best debatably consensual in the books too, only in the books it's more Cersei arguably forcing herself on Jaime. That doesn't make the change any more acceptable however.

[Shaibana]

random GOT picture is random

[blackmage_nuke]

I still feel like she's completely wasting her time taking over the free cities and gathering slaves. She needs warriors, not slaves and eunuchs.

I dont think she's freeing slaves just because she wants to form an army. She is freeing slaves because at her core she is against slavery.

Would you say Lincoln trying to free slaves was a waste of time?

I also dislike the church rape scene but I think they did it because books, 3rd, 4th and 5thIt gives Cersei a reason to hate Jaime besides "she's just a bitch" which makes the audience build sympathy towards her as the show seems to want to make character motives more black and white and less morally ambiguous

[Bolivar]

The episode's director is trying to explain that it really wasn't rape:

Review: Game of Thrones - Breaker of Chains: Uncle deadly?

"Well, it becomes consensual by the end, because anything for them ultimately results in a turn-on, especially a power struggle. Nobody really wanted to talk about what was going on between the two characters, so we had a rehearsal that was a blocking rehearsal. And it was very much about the earlier part with Charles (Dance) and the gentle verbal kidnapping of Cersei's last living son. Nikolaj came in and we just went through one physical progression and digression of what they went through, but also how to do it with only one hand, because it was Nikolaj. By the time you do that and you walk through it, the actors feel comfortable going home to think about it. The only other thing I did was that ordinarily, you rehearse the night before, and I wanted to rehearse that scene four days before, so that we could think about everything. And it worked out really well. That's one of my favorite scenes I've ever done."

I feel like when a director claims that what the audience saw and heard wasn't actually what happened, they've pretty much failed.

[The Man]

That explanation honestly just makes me judge them even more

edit: "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization - Television Tropes & Idioms

you expect to hear characters saying this kind of trout but hearing a director say it is particularly appalling

[Freya]

Although it was the same in the book. She said no cause "what if a sept sees" but it doesn't seem as bad as it was from James perspective.


The thing to remember about all these characters is that they may seem nice and likeable in some instances but really, they are all detestable. The hound with arya. Jaime with cersei. The wildlings.

[Psychotic]

Pod is not detestable

[Bunny]

The thing to remember about all these characters is that they may seem nice and likeable in some instances but really, they are all detestable. The hound with arya. Jaime with cersei. The wildlings.

Of course they are detestable. Most of them are Lords or Ladies who think more highly of themselves than they should, or good people who are put in horrible situations so they have no choice but to be not good anymore. For the most part, they're just people stuck in a horrible environment in a horrible world. You try being an angel in Westeros.

Even without all that though: people suck. That's the biggest takeaway from this series.

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

I think Dany will get eaten by her dragons.

Pulling a line from ToriJ*shot*

[Shaibana]

random GOT picture is random.. again
(SPOILER)

[Del Murder]

A rather tame setup episode

* Boat murder
* Brother/sister incest
* ...rape
* ...in a church
* ...next to their son's corpse
* Orgy
* Robbery-assault
* "Too many rapers around here, maybe you should go live in this brothel"
* Peasant massacre
* Cannibalism
* Horse murder
* Decapitation
* Peeing competition

This show has done a lot to redefine what we think of as tame...

I meant tame as in plot relevance. Only the boat scene and the forming of tyrion's judges really moved things forward.

[Freya]

[Bunny]

His face is so....

"oh.. oh... the moment i've been waiting f-- damn girl."