A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Sir Og]

Are the zombies supposed to be as fast as they were depicted in the last episode?

How was it in the books?

[I AM MOBIUS]

I don't understand why people are *****ing about Tyrion not mentioning Dorne. It could easily be (and, in fact, logically is) true that he and Dani simply assume that Dorne will support her, and so don't see any need to mention Dorne and the Martells. Tyrion is, rightly, only looking at the houses which would be in play, and if he says the House Tyrell isn't enough, he is really saying that House Tyrell, plus, of course, House Martell, aren't enough. That's true enough.

THIS!

Though I did like the hopeless back and forth between Imran's fanboy ranting and rah's meh decidedly entertaining...

[grumbler]

Merely a fanwank. No indication that they assume it at all. And there is likely a clunky reason for that (which btw has the same amount, if not more, of support of "well, they assume Dorne will support her"):

"Merely a fanwank"? Are you being obnoxious simply because you can, or because you really enjoy being obnoxious?

And there is no reason whatever to believe that there is anything to your "likely" clunky reason.

Besides, why would Dany assume it? She didn't even know her father was really crazy until Barristan told her it was true.

Why would she assume it? Because Ser Barriston would have told her. Not every word that would have passed between the two appeared on screen.

[grumbler]

I had some problems with the idea of the ice storm at the start of the attack that killed everyone outside the palisade but was somehow stopped by the logs of the wall. It made for great drama, but didn't make much sense.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It's completely a fanwank. You are inventing dialogue that never happened to advance your pet theory.

And considering the previews for next week, it seems very likely that the background for my reason is going to happen next episode, which IMO makes it more likely that was the reason Tyrion brainfarted.

[Guynemer]

I had some problems with the idea of the ice storm at the start of the attack that killed everyone outside the palisade but was somehow stopped by the logs of the wall. It made for great drama, but didn't make much sense.

It wasn't the ice storm. It was the wights.

[Dinner]

I had some problems with the idea of the ice storm at the start of the attack that killed everyone outside the palisade but was somehow stopped by the logs of the wall. It made for great drama, but didn't make much sense.

When the others come it gets extremely cold and often an icy fog forms. So it wasn't an ice storm and instead way the others attacking.

[DaShi]

Are the zombies supposed to be as fast as they were depicted in the last episode?

How was it in the books?

I believe they were established as pretty quick in the first episode.

[pchang]

They were also established as pretty flammable. Why was the Giant the only one using fire against them?

[Dinner]

Yeah, I mentioned that earlier and no one had an anwser.

[Ming]

Creative license!
Why let their own facts get in the way of a good fight scene

[rah]

Especially how high they are in using fire everywhere else in the show/book.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Because, faced by a charging horde of the living dead, would you grab a sword or suitable hitty thing, or start messing about with a tinderbox and kindling?

[rah]

"FIRE ARROWS"
You're living in the arctic. There should be a fire near by. (or you'd be dead already)

[Dinner]

The next episode is called the dance of dragons so I expect it will mostly be in Mureen and feature Dany's wedding.

Spoiler:

It will be interesting to see how they change this since they killed off Ser Baristan. I am guessing they will have Tyrion take over the role Ser Baristan had in the books.