A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Dinner]

And, naturally, a big, readily available pile of pitched torches and fire arrows?

Given how the wildlings seem to retain so much lore the southerners have forgotten, about giants, about the children of the forest, about weirwoods, about greenseers, about worgs, about white walkers and wights... Why would it be a leap that their legends also contain info on fighting them? In the books they do, that is why wildlings always burn their dead, to prevent them rising again.

The whole reason they want to flee south is the white walkers keep attacking them so it makes sense they'd have their one weapon readily at hand.

[Dinner]

Spoiler it.

I did but let's face it, Dany getting married is hardly a spoiler as they have been talking about it for three episodes. Plus the name of the episode surely implies something to do with dragons and dragons are only in one place. That really isn't much of a spoiler.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

As Rah said, they are living in the subartic so they are all going to have fires just to keep warm.

And, naturally, a big, readily available pile of pitched torches and fire arrows?

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

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

Spoiler it.

[Dinner]

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?

As Rah said, they are living in the subartic so they are all going to have fires just to keep warm. Also, as someone else said, while the zombie army jumping off the cliff made for good tv but the reality is they would have been smashed into dozens of pieces and thus would be a lot less combat effective.

Lastly, why didn't the undead horde just charge into the water (what is cold water to them?) and just attack the ships? Hell, couldn't the white walkers just freeze the water and walk out to the ships that way?

[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.

[rah]

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

[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]

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

[Ming]

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

[Dinner]

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

[pchang]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.