A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[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?

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

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.

Because it's not like we're dealing with a writer who might do something unexpected like turning a previously-announced wedding into a massacre.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Basically, if you're discussing any events not yet shown in the show, spoiler it. I don't care how obvious you think it is.

[rah]

Speculating about it isn't a spoiler in my opinion. Unless you're basing it on book knowledge which it doesn't sound like he is.

[Imran Siddiqui]

To be fair, Oerdin has been known to let loose with some really big spoilers because it seems like he wasn't thinking about it. So err on the side of caution would be wise, I think.

If I don't spoiler something from the show, I tend to try my best to be as vague as I can possibly be about it.

[rah]

Rag on him for the past, this one doesn't deserve it. But, yeah, in general it's easier to err on the side of caution and abuse him for everything.

[Dinner]

Speculating about it isn't a spoiler in my opinion. Unless you're basing it on book knowledge which it doesn't sound like he is.

The tv show has gone completely different from the books so we are all speculating at this point.

[rah]

But those that have read the book have to be a bit more careful. As long as they base it on what the show is doing, I don't have a problem. Be nice to the others though.

[grumbler]

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

Fanwank: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Dialogue: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Theory: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

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.

I used my gibberish-English translator and this still came out gibberish. "The background for my reason is going to happen next episode"? Gibberish.

As I explained, there is a reasonable explanation for why Tyrion and Dani didn't mention the Martells when discussing which houses might support her. I didn't claim to know this to be true, nor propose any theory, nor any dialogue, nor even express any admiration for their choice. I just offered an explanation. Feel free to try to make this some personal thing. It won't work. I simply don't care what you think is a "fanwank" (even using the word correctly).

[grumbler]

The tv show has gone completely different from the books so we are all speculating at this point.

Agree completely. That's one of the things I am enjoying so much abut this season. Not only do I not know what is going to happen, I have strong assurance that I will know, within a reasonable amount of time.

[Dinner]

And the preview for this Sunday's episode.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gfaS_YB9eCc