Game of Thrones - HBO part 2 - Part 9

[Thundercrack85]

Davos is probably on first name basis with the prison guards by now.

 

[Reek]

Yeah Stannis isn't as resolute in the show as he is in the books. In the books Davos points out to Stannis that as a King it's his duty to protect the people of his realm, and that if Stannis truly wants to be king he has to put his people first.

**** if Davos would have said that it would have really nailed his relationship with Stannis.

 

[stillanerd]

Yeah Stannis isn't as resolute in the show as he is in the books. In the books Davos points out to Stannis that as a King it's his duty to protect the people of his realm, and that if Stannis truly wants to be king he has to put his people first.

**** if Davos would have said that it would have really nailed his relationship with Stannis.

Agreed.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Can't believe (well yes I can) that people are complaining/angry about dany being raised by the slaves since she is white and they are of color. Not everything has to involve race.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Oh, you sweet Summer child...

Sorry what?

 

[craigdbfan]

Very good episode and season finale in my view. What I found fascinating about this episode is how it gave us a glimpse of humanity even in the most vile of characters from this show (for the exception of Joffrey, Ramsy, Frey, Bolton). Cersei reminiscing on the innocence of baby Joffrey and Lord Tywin telling Tyrion of how he decided to spare his life and still claim him as his son were all tender moments from characters you've learned to expect nothing but coldness from.

 

[Anubis]

Sorry what?

He's being coy cuz he's read the books and knows what all become of this situation.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

He's being coy cuz he's read the books and knows what all become of this situation.

Oh. He's that guy. Thanks for telling me. I'll ignore his posts in the future.

 

[Anubis]

Honestly though you can pretty much guess what will happen. Just like I deduced what would happen when she sold her Dragon for the unsullied. Just going by the track record of this show where anybody doing anything good gets their teeth kicked in, it's not hard to figure out that this will eventually come to bite her in that sweet, pasty white ass of hers.

 

[Sawyer]

I quite liked the finale, I was just disappointed the ending didn't quite pack the punch of the first two. It's like, yes, we get it. Dany is wonderful and beautiful and has three dragons and shoots rainbows out of her ass and is the Mother Theresa of the realm but with better breasts, but come on... give me something to get me amped up over the ****ing 9-10 month hiatus that lies ahead.

Otherwise, I ****ing loved it. I loved that the small council scene was damn near everyone ganging up on Joffrey for being a little twerp. Except Pycelle, of course. He's still got his nose firmly planted up Cersei's ass.

 

[Drz]

Yeah Stannis isn't as resolute in the show as he is in the books. In the books Davos points out to Stannis that as a King it's his duty to protect the people of his realm, and that if Stannis truly wants to be king he has to put his people first.

I assume i would have liked that more, hopefully that is shown in the next season. I'm excited for what's to come with Stannis, i also like how Rh'llor may or may not have caused Robb's death lol.

 

[Reek]

Sorry what?

He's being coy cuz he's read the books and knows what all become of this situation.

I'm that guy? No. I just don't see how it makes Dany the main threat to the Lannisters?

IMO the only Lannister threat is the Tyrells.

 

[Sawyer]

The only threat to the Lannisters is the Lannisters.

 

[Roose Bolton]

I assume i would have liked that more, hopefully that is shown in the next season. I'm excited for what's to come with Stannis, i also like how Rh'llor may or may not have caused Robb's death lol.

Heres my top 5:
1.Davos
2.Jon
3. VICTARION
4. Stannis
5. Jamie

Stannis is better in the books, at least in my opinion. I just hope next season we can see more that guy we saw in Blackwater.

 

[Sawyer]

Also, I'm gonna need somebody to make a gif of the entire small council's facial reactions to Joffrey deciding to throw **** at Tywin. Because that was just too good...

 

[craigdbfan]

I wanted Tyrion to slap him again.

 

[Sawyer]

I wanted Tyrion to slap him again.

The way things were going, Tywin was more likely to deliver a nice backhand. Probably while Cersei sat by and watched, without making a word of protest.

 

[rayc1971]

red wedding would have been the most awesome finale ever in tv history! can you imagine the effect it would have had on everyone for a whole year!i think they missed the boat on that one

 

[Sawyer]

Also loved Arya's little act before shanking that Frey ********. That girl is pure sociopath now, and I love it.

 

[Reek]

Also loved Arya's little act before shanking that Frey ********. That girl is pure sociopath now, and I love it.

Hound needs to teach her the Code.

 

[craigdbfan]

The way things were going, Tywin was more likely to deliver a nice backhand. Probably while Cersei sat by and watched, without making a word of protest.

Tywin had murder in eyes when he stared Joffrey down. You're right about the reactions being amazing.

I liked the little moment when Varys backed up in disgust when Joffrey was moving his tiny arms around in the middle of his tantrum.

 

[Drz]

Heres my top 5:
1.Davos
2.Jon
3. VICTARION
4. Stannis
5. Jamie

Stannis is better in the books, at least in my opinion. I just hope next season we can see more that guy we saw in Blackwater.

Ah there he is again!!!! Well we definitely are at least getting a tiny bit more of the Greyjoys next season.

PS. ANyone got a HD shot of "King of the North!" ? I'd love to have that as a wallpaper.

 

[Reek]

Ah there he is again!!!! Well we definitely are at least getting a tiny bit more of the Greyjoys next season.

PS. ANyone got a HD shot of "King of the North!" ? I'd love to have that as a wallpaper.

I have it, well the leaked one... its HD.. but I don't have it from the episode tonight as it was different

 

[Sawyer]

Tywin had murder in eyes when he stared Joffrey down. You're right about the reactions being amazing.

I liked the little moment when Varys backed up in disgust when Joffrey was moving his tiny arms around in the middle of his tantrum.

Well, you can only listen to so many "I'M THE KING!!!" rants before it's like, okay kid, we get it...

 

[Two-Face=Badass]

Can't believe (well yes I can) that people are complaining/angry about dany being raised by the slaves since she is white and they are of color. Not everything has to involve race.

Well, when it comes to the issue of slavery, within a medieval setting, using all the tropes of the highly problematic 'great white liberator' story that has a long and very troubling history, yes it does involve race.

I would be fine with Dany rescuing the slaves if any effort was put to show that the slaves themselves were active agents in their own liberation, helping bring down Yunkai, which would have made its liberation more believable than sneaking a gate open. It is problematic because the series goes to painstaking lengths to show that while it is a noble-centred series, the people are still influential, and moreover, have active interests. The show, I cannot speak for the books but I imagine them as well, is highly concerned with lifting as much inspiration from real medieval societies as possible in how they operated.

This makes Dany's story troubling, because she is increasingly operating in a setting that has no real-world analogue or precedent, and seems incredibly fantastic, in the worst way. A slave society that isn't highly paranoid about revolts? Slaves that are entirely passive in a city with a would-be conqueror at its gates? It not only brings in a problematic racial element whereby the only time in the show that the common folk are entirely passive is when they are brown and slaves, with a pure white person needed to rescue them, but it is also problematic because it is so at odds with the rest of the show which lifts inspiration from real world societies. The end result is that it comes across as white man's burden played out in Conan the Barbarian while the rest of the narrative is above such shenanigans. That is why people are bringing race into it: because it features a great mass of childlike brown slaves who are saved by a destiny child white woman in a series that strives for a complex display of high-born/low-born interests and interactions.

And it came just after a whole sequence of talks about such things, only to reduce the masses at the end to a blubbering group calling for their 'mother,' which also has a lot of really racialised historical implications. THAT is why people are bringing race into it.