Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon!

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

I did last time. Penny Dreadful distracted me this time.

A worthy distraction. All you poor souls who haven't gotten on the PD train need to make haste before the season finale.

I kept my sig the ENTIRE season, unlike SOME people around here *stares intently*.

Whaddup.

[Ayen]

Man that was a great episode.

The saddest part was the dragons in chains

I beg to differ, the saddest part was I have to wait another year for the next episode

I agree with Carl the Hound Llama.

I fixed this for you lol

I am disappoint, son.

EDIT: Joffrey didn't die in the first episode. It was the third episode this season, I believe.

Second.

I kept my sig the ENTIRE season, unlike SOME people around here *stares intently*.

The stare would be more intimidating if you still had your Hound set.

[Freya]

The part everyone is mad about not being included. After I have thought about, I don't think it would have fit. It would have been cool but show viewers would have been confused and it also has hardly any set up. Apparently they were debating even putting it in at all. Like at all. But with no build up people will be confused about it all.


Also I am still excited about stannis the mannis.

[Madame Adequate]

I hate to say it, and I'm probably going to get blasted for it, but I'm beginning to get bored with this show now. It's all becoming really predictable.

I don't know, this season felt like a whole lot of nothing. I mean a lot actually happened, but none of it really felt truly impacting to me - this season really hasn't had the "omg I can't wait to go home to watch it tonight" vibe that the previous seasons did.

Obviously your taste is your taste, but I have a hard time understanding how people think it wasn't a hugely impactful and crazy season. Dany's story (much as I love her) was fairly slow this season, and we didn't see much of Varys, but aside from that trout has gone completely berserk. The wildling armies attacked The Wall, were repulsed, and have been crushed by Stannis. Stannis got a new army and took it north to defeat Mance Rayder, which he did with very few casualties. Joffrey died, Tommen took the throne, and now Tywin is dead, which makes Cersei the power behind the throne. Sansa escaped from King's Landing and has gone pro. Littlefinger is now basically in charge of the Vale. Roose has largely secured the North. Bran's reached some crazy-ass place with full on skellies and fireball magic. Tyrion's trial, both in court and by combat, was absolutely amazing television. Qyburn's up to something seriously messed up with The Mountain (Pycelle isn't one to go against Cersei without good reason).

Like I say I'm obviously not trying to argue that your feelings on the show are wrong I'm just not sure I really see where they come from.

Also, the re-characterization of Shae made her murder really, really dark. In the books she was just some stupid whore who deserved to be choked to death.

I'm curious about how the book goes about that in that case, because Pike and I both entirely felt she was just a stupid backstabbing whore who deserved to be choked to death.

e; for my part I'm not upset about the obvious omission, I was just surprised by it because it seemed - before we saw the episode - such an obvious stinger in the last ten seconds that would have show-only people go completely berserk, probably second only to the Red Wedding. Now that we have actually seen the episode I don't think it would have been as good an inclusion as previous assumed, because the tone of this was clearly one of settling a lot of plotlines and setting up their successors, but many of these were concrete enough settlements with obvious causes and guessable consequences. e.g. Tywin is dead, Tyrion is fleeing, Bran has reached the three-eyed raven, the wildlings are decapitated, etc.. and some even halfway satisfying situations, like Arya going to Braavos. Throwing in the big reveal would have been against the tone of the episode, I think, so despite my admitted surprise I reckon they made the right choice.

[Del Murder]

Best finale so far, and maybe the best episode. It brought a satisfying conclusion to every storyline and opened the door to new adventures. Can't wait for the TyrionxVarys adventures!

[Rantz]

Re: the "missing" scene: I count two people complaining about it being missing (and one expressing mild disappointment), and at least four people yelling at "everyone", or "you lot", to stop complaining about it. xD

[Shorty]

Don't include me in the yelling, I wasn't yelling

[Ayen]

Moar Night's King, white walkers, and wights, please.

[Del Murder]

Hey Del? Remember you called me as Tyrion and I immediately called you as Tywin? Been waiting all this time for this moment. That's why I said you were Tywin. Suck it.

Good for you. Enjoy your crate.

[Psychotic]

The crate is actually built like a TARDIS so I will be chilling in the pool all the way across The Narrow Sea

I'm curious about how the book goes about that in that case, because Pike and I both entirely felt she was just a stupid backstabbing whore who deserved to be choked to death.

Yep, nobody else in my office has read the books and they were all absolutely furious about Shae - even before you see the final and worst betrayal of her smurfing the father Tyrion hates. They normally don't want spoilers but such was the hatred, they wanted to know whether or not she would get what she has coming to her.

[Ayen]

The crate is actually built like a TARDIS so I will be chilling in the pool all the way across The Narrow Sea

I'm curious about how the book goes about that in that case, because Pike and I both entirely felt she was just a stupid backstabbing whore who deserved to be choked to death.

Yep, nobody else in my office has read the books and they were all absolutely furious about Shae - even before you see the final and worst betrayal of her smurfing the father Tyrion hates. They normally don't want spoilers but such was the hatred, they wanted to know whether or not she would get what she has coming to her.

Be sure to kick Dany's plot in the rear while you're at it, will ya? I didn't find her scenes as boring as other people did, but I would love to see some Dany/Tyrion interactions in the future.

[Pike]

The only thing about GoT that I'm getting bored of is having to tiptoe around spoilers every fecking Monday

Last night I had a dream that Peter Dinklage came to my house dressed as Tyrion and I took all sorts of great photos of us posing together and then I put them on Facebook all and you guys were all impressed but then I woke up and this had not, in fact, occurred.

[Shlup]

Putting this in a spoiler because I have little faith in my memory don't click unless you clicked Shlup's spoiler alreadyDidn't Tyrion mention Cersei sleeping around when they were talking in his cell a few episodes prior?

I don't think so... I remember what scene you're thinking of, I think, but it was a huge deal when it happened in the book.

Also, the re-characterization of Shae made her murder really, really dark. In the books she was just some stupid whore who deserved to be choked to death.

I'm curious about how the book goes about that in that case, because Pike and I both entirely felt she was just a stupid backstabbing whore who deserved to be choked to death.

In the book they aren't lovers that have a falling out. She's not getting back at him for scorning her. He does fall in love with her and you might believe she's in love with him because she does all the lovery things, but they don't have lover's quarrels and stuff. She's really just a whore, so when he kills her he's killing the whore that betrayed him. When you murder someone who you were mutually in love with but had a falling out with, I think it's much darker of a murder.

Best finale so far, and maybe the best episode. It brought a satisfying conclusion to every storyline and opened the door to new adventures. Can't wait for the TyrionxVarys adventures!

Agreed. Every storyline had a nice transition to something new and exciting.

Re: the "missing" scene: I count two people complaining about it being missing (and one expressing mild disappointment), and at least four people yelling at "everyone", or "you lot", to stop complaining about it. xD

I count two people saying "everyone" and "you lot" and one person being a fat bitch, so suck it you fat bitch.

Be sure to kick Dany's plot in the rear while you're at it, will ya? I didn't find her scenes as boring as other people did, but I would love to see some Dany/Tyrion interactions in the future.

To be fair, her storyline is just as dull in the books at this point. Maybe moreso.

No, definitely moreso.

[Aulayna]

I hate to say it, and I'm probably going to get blasted for it, but I'm beginning to get bored with this show now. It's all becoming really predictable.

I don't know, this season felt like a whole lot of nothing. I mean a lot actually happened, but none of it really felt truly impacting to me - this season really hasn't had the "omg I can't wait to go home to watch it tonight" vibe that the previous seasons did.

Obviously your taste is your taste, but I have a hard time understanding how people think it wasn't a hugely impactful and crazy season. Dany's story (much as I love her) was fairly slow this season, and we didn't see much of Varys, but aside from that trout has gone completely berserk. The wildling armies attacked The Wall, were repulsed, and have been crushed by Stannis. Stannis got a new army and took it north to defeat Mance Rayder, which he did with very few casualties. Joffrey died, Tommen took the throne, and now Tywin is dead, which makes Cersei the power behind the throne. Sansa escaped from King's Landing and has gone pro. Littlefinger is now basically in charge of the Vale. Roose has largely secured the North. Bran's reached some crazy-ass place with full on skellies and fireball magic. Tyrion's trial, both in court and by combat, was absolutely amazing television. Qyburn's up to something seriously messed up with The Mountain (Pycelle isn't one to go against Cersei without good reason).

Like I say I'm obviously not trying to argue that your feelings on the show are wrong I'm just not sure I really see where they come from.

Yeah I was just tired and grouchy with it last night. My main issue with this season is that a lot of the fleeting jokes I've made to colleagues about what I think is going to happen ("Joffrey totes gonna die at his wedding" and people were like no way man. "Tyrion's totally going to get busted out and kill his father") most of these actually happened, and that broke my immersion a lot in the show - that these big pivotal moments were something I actually called weeks beforehand with flippant jokes.

But after sleeping on it and chatting over coffee at work this morning, it's grown on me again.

[Carl the Llama]

Man that was a great episode.

The saddest part was the dragons in chains

I beg to differ, the saddest part was I have to wait another year for the next episode

I agree with Carl the Hound Llama.

I fixed this for you lol

I am disappoint, son.

EDIT: Joffrey didn't die in the first episode. It was the third episode this season, I believe.

Second.

I kept my sig the ENTIRE season, unlike SOME people around here *stares intently*.

The stare would be more intimidating if you still had your Hound set.

You clearly do not know the power of a dangerous sociopath with a long history of violence aka Carl the Llama.