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[Nobuo's Organ]

17 minutes ago, abc said:

One thing about fantasy epics is that they should look cool. In your mind's eye, does that look cool?

 

A single frozen testicle turning into a bunch of giant chains? I'd buy that for a dollar.

[Anne Summers]

FFS, he's the Night King. He probably has a magic castle filled with everything he needs including giant chains and anti-dragon missiles. 

[Mr Cochese]

The real question is why the Night King went for the difficult moving target instead of the big fucking dragon that was just sat around with all the heroes climbing slowly onto its back so they could escape.

[therearerules]

2 minutes ago, Mr Cochese said:

The real question is why the Night King went for the difficult moving target instead of the big fucking dragon that was just sat around with all the heroes climbing slowly onto its back so they could escape.

Showmanship.

[MrPogo]

42 minutes ago, beenabadbunny said:

 

Their insistence on putting spoilers in the headlines is maddening as well. Doesn't matter if you put the word SPOILER at the front, it's still impossible not to see the whole sentence at once (which is literally the point of a headline).

 

It's doubly difficult to avoid if you have an app on your phone that aggregates headlines it thinks you will be interested in.

 

I've deleted half a dozen news sites from my favourites because they love putting spoiler filled headlines/pictures up. Only the BBC remains.

 

On the Rllmuk spoilers issue, I just stay out of the thread between when it airs and when I've seen it. People are good at handling leaks, but once something is officially released you'd have to be mad to come in, cos what else will everyone be talking about?

[MrPogo]

12 minutes ago, therearerules said:

Showmanship.

 

Quite. Classic super villain approach. He wanted them to know what he could do before finishing them off.

For me the big question of the episode is why weren't they all tooled up with dragon glass? Crude daggers or spears capable of one-shot kills could have been fashioned in no time.

[Wickedkitten]

I'd like to think it's because he might not have actually killed Drogon and Drogon might have turned around and blasted him with his hot arse dragon breath, but yeah. 

[Camel]

Good question about the dragonglass.  I thought Dany had given permission for them to mine for it?  Why did they have none at all?

[Wickedkitten]

They mined for it, but they didn't smith it into weapons yet. Jorah had dragonglass daggers though because he killed the wight bear with one, and Zaddy Tormund's axe is made out of dragonglass

[Delargey]

Jorah had dragonglass daggers, Tormund had an dragonglass axe thingy. Thoros and Beric had there fire swords and Jon had long claw for the WW.

 

The hound didn't have anything because he is a badass.

[Jammy]

One thing I was confused about/missed was why

The Hound knocking the dead guy's jaw off got no reaction from the horde, but the stone that didn't hit made them attack.

[Wickedkitten]

Just now, Jammy said:

One thing I was confused about/missed was why

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The Hound knocking the dead guy's jaw off got no reaction from the horde, but the stone that didn't hit made them attack.

 

 

Because it skittled across the ice and let them know it was now solid

[Camel]

It made them realise the water had frozen.  

[Jammy]

2 minutes ago, Wickedkitten said:

 

Because it skittled across the ice and let them know it was now solid

Ah ok, thanks WK and Camel. So Jon's merry band running across it to start with wasn't a giveaway ? I must admit, I was slightly distracted at that point and wasn't sure which way they were facing.

[Don Wiskerando]

Let me guess.  You watched with your eyes shut?

[Camel]

They ran across it.  Then some of it broke and the walkers had to stop.  Then some time passed, during which it froze over again.

[Talk Show Host]

31 minutes ago, Mr Cochese said:

The real question is why the Night King went for the difficult moving target instead of the big fucking dragon that was just sat around with all the heroes climbing slowly onto its back so they could escape.

 

One way I see it is that the NK is not certain that the spear will work on Drogon - he may be too powerfull. The whole sequence, if you rewatch it, it's like a small ritual, those spears are important and I bet the NK can't make or doesn't have enough yet. When he sees that the spear works on Viserion he proceeds and attacks Drogon. 

 

 

[Jammy]

4 minutes ago, Camel said:

They ran across it.  Then some of it broke and the walkers had to stop.  Then some time passed, during which it froze over again.

I missed the actual breakage I think. I saw the ice start to crack and Jon's lot stop, and then decide to leg it anyway. Then my wife (who hasn't watched since S2 but insists on watching the odd episode and asking questions pertaining to the last four series) asked me something.

[Wickedkitten]

8 minutes ago, Talk Show Host said:

 

One way I see it is that the NK is not certain that the spear will work on Drogon - he may be too powerfull. The whole sequence, if you rewatch it, it's like a small ritual, those spears are important and I bet the NK can't make or doesn't have enough yet. When he sees that the spear works on Viserion he proceeds and attacks Drogon. 

 

 

 

Joke was on him though because Drogon learned how to serpentine after the last time he got hit by a damned projectile

[MrPogo]

29 minutes ago, Jammy said:

I missed the actual breakage I think. I saw the ice start to crack and Jon's lot stop, and then decide to leg it anyway. Then my wife (who hasn't watched since S2 but insists on watching the odd episode and asking questions pertaining to the last four series) asked me something.

 

I had similar an episode or two back, except from someone who watches every episode, and so missed the reveal of Cersei's pregnancy. I knew nothing about it until people referenced it in here, then rewatched the scene!

[Kzo]

Re NK target priority: if I was in his position, I'd be thinking the following:

 

OK got an easy shot on that big lad but the smaller one is airborne and fucking up my dudes. If I nail him first I'll still have time for the other one before he picks up Jon and takes off. If I take out the big one first the other dragon will get away before beardy here slowly hands me another spear.

[Mentazm]

On 8/21/2017 at 18:27, mdn2 said:

There's no way Arya is going to survive at the end of the show, is there? She's too mentally unbalanced now to have a happy ending. 

 

The NK peels back his face after all humans are destroyed, only to reveal it was Ayra all along.

[SpagMasterSwift]

It's like when you choose a puppy, you want the feisty one, not the fatty sat at the back. 

[Jammy]

1 hour ago, MrPogo said:

 

I had similar an episode or two back, except from someone who watches every episode, and so missed the reveal of Cersei's pregnancy. I knew nothing about it until people referenced it in here, then rewatched the scene!

 

I just rewatched. I know what confused me now - I did vaguely see the ice break, but missed how small the lake actually is, so the bit that breaks, although not far from the island, isn't as far from the shore as I thought.

[Headache]

I've been reading page after page of chaingate with growing amazement. Sure, I also wondered where it appeared from, but that didn't bother me anywhere near as much as (most of) our merry band of bastards walking around the frozen north without wearing any bloody hats. Why isn't everyone up in arms about that? Dragons I can believe in, but going out for an extended trek in below freezing temperatures without appropriately warm headgear? Fack off! 

[scottcr]

I think we can agree that episode 6 is simultaneously one of the best and worst episodes of the entire run so far 

[scottcr]

On the chain and stuff.... the NK has attacked the wall *loads* of times. This time he's worked out how to get past it... he's prepared AS FUCK

[Pug]

Nah, he kept the chains in his Omni-Sack he borrowed from Sport Billy.

 

 

 

 

Apologies to the younger folk of the forum.

[Azrael]

Major talking point of the series so far: 

 

- Ed Sheeran 

- Ravens

- Fast Travel

- Easily locating naval fleets

- Not noticing large armies moving across the country 

- Instant messaging between locations

- Arya's poor sneaking skills

- Red shirts 

- Chains

- Benjen and his horse 

 

[NexivRed]

36 minutes ago, Headache said:

I've been reading page after page of chaingate with growing amazement. Sure, I also wondered where it appeared from, but that didn't bother me anywhere near as much as (most of) our merry band of bastards walking around the frozen north without wearing any bloody hats. Why isn't everyone up in arms about that? Dragons I can believe in, but going out for an extended trek in below freezing temperatures without appropriately warm headgear? Fack off! 

 

Actually, the first thing I said out loud when Daenerys showed up beyond the wall was, "She doesn't even have a bloody hat on!!?!"