TV Game of Thrones Season VII

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So the past few nights I've started off again from season 1 episode 1. So far I've managed to fit in 2 eps each night after the wife goes to bed. Nearly went for a 3rd episode last night but had an early start this morning.

I can't believe on how much that I missed out on or glossed over back then. Granted, I did tend to play on the phone a bit during episodes back then. This time I've been using headphones so I don't miss out on any conversations.

Been so good to pick up on stuff that had been relevant even in the last episode, such as Rob Baratheon talking about his first kill which is just like how Jaime tried to kill Dany. Also how Rob says they never tell you they shit themselves, which is what I think Bronn said to Dickon. Then Rob also saying not to face the Dothraki in an open field.

As much as I love this show, going to love it even more now that I'm taking notice of the characters and their stories in detail. Back then was so hard to keep track of all the characters, specially when some of them had nicknames such as Littlefinger. Only thing I'm not looking forward to is all of the High Sparrow crap, specially knowing that none of it is really relevant to the end game (that I'm aware of).

Also, I'd forgotten how much of a campaigner Jaime was back then. Love him now, though.

Here is the clip talking about the first kills.
The High Sparrow was pretty relevant, put Cersei well and truly on the back foot, destroyed House Tyrell, and was the end of Tommen which meant Cersei ended up on the throne.

That said, aside from Hardhome, season 5 is comfortably the worst of the series. Very few truly memorable moments.
 

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So the past few nights I've started off again from season 1 episode 1. So far I've managed to fit in 2 eps each night after the wife goes to bed. Nearly went for a 3rd episode last night but had an early start this morning.

I can't believe on how much that I missed out on or glossed over back then. Granted, I did tend to play on the phone a bit during episodes back then. This time I've been using headphones so I don't miss out on any conversations.

Been so good to pick up on stuff that had been relevant even in the last episode, such as Rob Baratheon talking about his first kill which is just like how Jaime tried to kill Dany. Also how Rob says they never tell you they shit themselves, which is what I think Bronn said to Dickon. Then Rob also saying not to face the Dothraki in an open field.

As much as I love this show, going to love it even more now that I'm taking notice of the characters and their stories in detail. Back then was so hard to keep track of all the characters, specially when some of them had nicknames such as Littlefinger. Only thing I'm not looking forward to is all of the High Sparrow crap, specially knowing that none of it is really relevant to the end game (that I'm aware of).

Also, I'd forgotten how much of a campaigner Jaime was back then. Love him now, though.

Here is the clip talking about the first kills.
Gotta get the Mrs into it too mate.

My wife is as hooked as I am. We have watched it all through 3 times. Honestly never gets old, and you never stop picking up little connections and relationships that you may have missed in the past.
 

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Would hate to watch this with Vader - should change his name to Sir Buzz Killington

Wonder if he went on about how unrealistic it was that Bran can see everything, Jon came back to life etc. etc. etc.
 
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Gotta get the Mrs into it too mate.

My wife is as hooked as I am. We have watched it all through 3 times. Honestly never gets old, and you never stop picking up little connections and relationships that you may have missed in the past.
Yeah, I think that I'll watch it again all by myself first. She usually goes to bed early so I don't think I can handle just one episode a night. This is the type of show where you need to do 2 or 3 in a row. Then in the lead up to next season I will get her watching it so we can watch the last season as it comes out.
 

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Yeah, I think that I'll watch it again all by myself first. She usually goes to bed early so I don't think I can handle just one episode a night. This is the type of show where you need to do 2 or 3 in a row. Then in the lead up to next season I will get her watching it so we can watch the last season as it comes out.
The darl and I watch it like this... two episodes at a time

Stumped up on the couch together

With a snack at "intermission"
 
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On an unrelated note, ive been looking up the meaning of "keelhauling" because i get interested in stuff like that out of morbid curiosity. Its a particularly nasty and severe form of punishment/torture given to sailors and pirates to cite thewayofthepirates.com:


The process of Keelhauling involves sailor who is stripped and tied so that he cannot swim, with chains or cannonball being tied to his body (usually legs). He was then fastened with two ropes. One from his back to the yard-arm (the widest point of the horizontal structure of the main mast), and other that went from sailor all the way under the ship to the other side of yard-arm. When sailor was dropped in the water the weight will pull him under the waves, but to prevent him going too much under the crew (sometimes entire crew of the ship) will pull on the second rope, forcing the sailors to to move under the ship and touching the hull, eventually raising him up on the other side of the ship.

The punishment here was not focused only on the prospect of drowning (which was a real possibility) but more on the injuries the sailor received while hitting the bottom hull of the ship that was often overgrown with barnacles and other sea life. The cuts received from such close contact could not only cause severe injuries and blood loss, but also the loss of limbs and even in some cases decapitation. The speed of movement while underwater was often crucial in determining how much injuries will sailor get. If the rope was pulled more slowly, weight on the sailor would cause him to go deeper and narrowly miss the barnacles on the hull. But if he was pulled faster, the sailor would remain in contact with the hull during entire underwater travel, causing incredible injuries. During times when underwater sections of the hull were not covered with sea life (if the ship was new or recently cleaned during repairs) or of the ship was too small, keelhauling was done from front to back of the ship. This prolonged the duration the sailor was held underwater. In some cases, Dutch officers pushed an oil-soaked sponge in the victim's mouth, which gave them an opportunity to extract an additional breath of air when they were underwater. Victims of this grueling torture method were usually not brought back on the ship immediately, and instead were left hanging on the yard-arm as a warning to other sailors.


So given Euron is guilty of kinslaying, a most heinous crime in the GOT world and GRRM's love of referencing history it'd be awesome to see the show do this because they wouldnt pull their punches in its delivery.

Theres no reference to this practice in the books, but the Ironborn are pirates. Just something i thought D&D should do as they seem to love a bit of the old torture-porn.

Not even sure if Euron dies at all this season, but youd hope he dies at some point.
 

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On an unrelated note, ive been looking up the meaning of "keelhauling" because i get interested in stuff like that out of morbid curiosity. Its a particularly nasty and severe form of punishment/torture given to sailors and pirates to cite thewayofthepirates.com:


The process of Keelhauling involves sailor who is stripped and tied so that he cannot swim, with chains or cannonball being tied to his body (usually legs). He was then fastened with two ropes. One from his back to the yard-arm (the widest point of the horizontal structure of the main mast), and other that went from sailor all the way under the ship to the other side of yard-arm. When sailor was dropped in the water the weight will pull him under the waves, but to prevent him going too much under the crew (sometimes entire crew of the ship) will pull on the second rope, forcing the sailors to to move under the ship and touching the hull, eventually raising him up on the other side of the ship.

The punishment here was not focused only on the prospect of drowning (which was a real possibility) but more on the injuries the sailor received while hitting the bottom hull of the ship that was often overgrown with barnacles and other sea life. The cuts received from such close contact could not only cause severe injuries and blood loss, but also the loss of limbs and even in some cases decapitation. The speed of movement while underwater was often crucial in determining how much injuries will sailor get. If the rope was pulled more slowly, weight on the sailor would cause him to go deeper and narrowly miss the barnacles on the hull. But if he was pulled faster, the sailor would remain in contact with the hull during entire underwater travel, causing incredible injuries. During times when underwater sections of the hull were not covered with sea life (if the ship was new or recently cleaned during repairs) or of the ship was too small, keelhauling was done from front to back of the ship. This prolonged the duration the sailor was held underwater. In some cases, Dutch officers pushed an oil-soaked sponge in the victim's mouth, which gave them an opportunity to extract an additional breath of air when they were underwater. Victims of this grueling torture method were usually not brought back on the ship immediately, and instead were left hanging on the yard-arm as a warning to other sailors.


So given Euron is guilty of kinslaying, a most heinous crime in the GOT world and GRRM's love of referencing history it'd be awesome to see the show do this because they wouldnt pull their punches in its delivery.

Theres no reference to this practice in the books, but the Ironborn are pirates. Just something i thought D&D should do as they seem to love a bit of the old torture-porn.

Not even sure if Euron dies at all this season, but youd hope he dies at some point.
Egad!
 

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Doesn't make sense why she'd ask that when the first thing she said to them was that she was Arya Stark.
She could ask on account of the possibility that someone claiming to be her had taken charge. She's spent the last 6 seasons being someone else the majority of the time - a boy, a lowborn girl, a highborn girl but from an unknown house, no-one, a 90-year-old man. I'd say she'd be fairly receptive to the possibility that there could be someone playing silly buggers.
 
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She could ask on account of the possibility that someone claiming to be her had taken charge. She's spent the last 6 seasons being someone else the majority of the time - a boy, a lowborn girl, a highborn girl but from an unknown house, no-one, a 90-year-old man. I'd say she'd be fairly receptive to the possibility that there could be someone playing silly buggers.
It could also be a book spoiler as it wasnt even Sansa who was married to Ramsay. It was Jeyne Poole, [Sansa's BFF] who was made to assume Sansa's identity.
 

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On an unrelated note, ive been looking up the meaning of "keelhauling" because i get interested in stuff like that out of morbid curiosity. Its a particularly nasty and severe form of punishment/torture given to sailors and pirates to cite thewayofthepirates.com:


The process of Keelhauling involves sailor who is stripped and tied so that he cannot swim, with chains or cannonball being tied to his body (usually legs). He was then fastened with two ropes. One from his back to the yard-arm (the widest point of the horizontal structure of the main mast), and other that went from sailor all the way under the ship to the other side of yard-arm. When sailor was dropped in the water the weight will pull him under the waves, but to prevent him going too much under the crew (sometimes entire crew of the ship) will pull on the second rope, forcing the sailors to to move under the ship and touching the hull, eventually raising him up on the other side of the ship.

The punishment here was not focused only on the prospect of drowning (which was a real possibility) but more on the injuries the sailor received while hitting the bottom hull of the ship that was often overgrown with barnacles and other sea life. The cuts received from such close contact could not only cause severe injuries and blood loss, but also the loss of limbs and even in some cases decapitation. The speed of movement while underwater was often crucial in determining how much injuries will sailor get. If the rope was pulled more slowly, weight on the sailor would cause him to go deeper and narrowly miss the barnacles on the hull. But if he was pulled faster, the sailor would remain in contact with the hull during entire underwater travel, causing incredible injuries. During times when underwater sections of the hull were not covered with sea life (if the ship was new or recently cleaned during repairs) or of the ship was too small, keelhauling was done from front to back of the ship. This prolonged the duration the sailor was held underwater. In some cases, Dutch officers pushed an oil-soaked sponge in the victim's mouth, which gave them an opportunity to extract an additional breath of air when they were underwater. Victims of this grueling torture method were usually not brought back on the ship immediately, and instead were left hanging on the yard-arm as a warning to other sailors.


So given Euron is guilty of kinslaying, a most heinous crime in the GOT world and GRRM's love of referencing history it'd be awesome to see the show do this because they wouldnt pull their punches in its delivery.

Theres no reference to this practice in the books, but the Ironborn are pirates. Just something i thought D&D should do as they seem to love a bit of the old torture-porn.

Not even sure if Euron dies at all this season, but youd hope he dies at some point.
Watch Black Sails season 4

 

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We get it you think you are the smartest guy in every room

No one asked for them to hold hands and sing kumbaya, she spent 15 seasons in Easteros and managed to basically **** everything there (she saved one city all the rest went straight back to slaving and her's will eventually as well) until deciding to finally make some progress towards the thing she has been sooking it up over since the show started then what does she do lands on an island demands all the lords come and bend the knee and when Jon tells her rightfully to go **** herself she chucks a tantrum until Tyrion pulls her into line.

For someone who claims to know so much about tv it's actually surprising that you can't see exactly how the rest of the season is going to play out
I'm an episode behind, but...

You've got Dani, raised overseas, with the right motivations and goals - but she's behaving how she thinks and has been told that a Westori royal should behave.

All the bullshit titles, the bending of the knee, etc.

Then you've got Jon - right motivations, raised in a royal type house; but couldn't give a shit about any of it.

Interesting contrast.
 
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