Originally posted by Orguss: I just finished season 6 and have two comments regarding The Battle of the Bastards:
1) Ramsay Bolton is using a special type of bow when he releases Rickon to run across the battlefield. It uses counter-balanced arms in addition to the regular arms. This is apparently a specially designed bow for Ramsay because nobody else is using one. I have never seen one outside of the show and wondered if it had a real-world application. I looked it up and found it to be called a Micmac or Penobscot bow.
2) Why didn't Wun Wun have a weapon? Give that giant a whittled down tree truck to use as a mace or something!
Clearly, you didn't read my entire post about it. I already named it.
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April 12, 2019, 11:25 PM
rusbro
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Originally posted by Orguss: 2) Why didn't Wun Wun have a weapon? Give that giant a whittled down tree truck to use as a mace or something!
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April 13, 2019, 12:41 PM
erj_pilot
31 hours and counting!!!
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April 14, 2019, 12:45 AM
rusbro
Premature nerdgasm - Engaged!
April 14, 2019, 02:57 AM
Orguss
I've been watching five or six episodes per day in the past week to catch up. I finished watching Season 7, Episode 6 on Friday but am waiting to watching Episode 7 right before the Season 8 premiere.
I saw Kit Harrington's interview on The Graham Norton Show and felt sad for him when he related that after the show had wrapped, a fan asked him if he was Jon Snow and he sadly replied, "Not anymore." https://youtu.be/oC-GdmsDvEk
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April 14, 2019, 03:50 PM
Orguss
BREAKING: Jon Snow is really Senator Palpatine! (Why is he hunched over like this?)
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April 14, 2019, 05:14 PM
Kravashera
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Originally posted by Orguss: BREAKING: Jon Snow is really Senator Palpatine! (Why is he hunched over like this?)
I would guess as an allegory on the burden of leadership. It is also a similar pose to the one Ned Stark was in for season 1.
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April 14, 2019, 05:16 PM
RogueJSK
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Originally posted by Kravashera: It is also a similar pose to the one Ned Stark was in for season 1.
This.
April 14, 2019, 06:35 PM
Orguss
I just realized something from that photo: Ned Stark didn't wield Ice as an EDC, so why would he bring it with him to King's Landing?
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
April 14, 2019, 09:00 PM
Orguss
A little disappointed it was only an hour long but glad to be back in it. It'll be a long week until the next episode.
Oh, and the opening credits are really well done. It's a nice touch that would have been cool to see in previous seasons.
"I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes"
April 14, 2019, 09:04 PM
erj_pilot
I'm glad most of the episode took place at Winterfell. It was really good to see everyone coming back together. I personally think there's gonna be a day when Cersei hands Euron's testicles to him on a silver platter...just don't think she's diggin' the scene as much as Euron is.
Hopefully there's a replay of Ep. 1 during the week...I'll need to watch it again a couple of times to digest it.
"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24
April 14, 2019, 09:28 PM
RAMIUS
I say Snow will kill Daenarys in front of her dragons in an episode 7 year jerker.
Or...here’s my theory...Tarly asked Snow if “she”(Daenarys) would give up the crown/life etc, like Snow did. This could be foreshadowing that she will give up everything to save everyone or her ice dragon...to accomplish this, she dies in dramatic fashion.
April 14, 2019, 09:53 PM
agony
That episode was too short.
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April 14, 2019, 10:51 PM
HuskySig
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Originally posted by agony: That episode was too short.
I agree wholeheartedly!
April 15, 2019, 02:26 AM
Andyb
I thought each episode was supposed to be much longer in length...
Enjoyed it nonetheless
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April 15, 2019, 04:43 AM
Gibb
It was speculation that all the episodes would be 90 minutes. HBO released the run times about a month back with the first two episodes being close to one hour, and the remaining episodes being closer to 80 minutes.
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April 15, 2019, 08:08 AM
Oat_Action_Man
I like Bran's "I'm waiting for a friend"...who happens to be Jaimie.
Or he's just always in the courtyard like a pervy Professor X because there are no wheelchair ramps....
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April 15, 2019, 08:31 AM
RogueJSK
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Originally posted by Oat_Action_Man: Or he's just always in the courtyard like a pervy Professor X because there are no wheelchair ramps....
And Hodor's not around to schlep him up and down the stairs any more.
April 15, 2019, 08:49 AM
miketx
So it's true that Daenerys is hoping for 8 inches of snow?
