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The task will be Waxing but I Believe we shall pull through my Ripe friends, we shall Swarm this dragon and plant the Seeds of victory upon his corpse, we will not suffer further Stagnation of this country, the road maybe Hard but we will face the coming Storm with smiles and Laughs, our Spears will not Break, we will Rise, stand firm and Tall
Cute and canon!
>>217930182is that idubbbz
Kinda gangsta ngl
>>217929996They moved Daemon to Tumbleton so we might see a Daemon vs Daeron duel.
LORD ASHFORD LICKS HIS WIVE'S FEET
>Baelor "Breakspear" Targaryen>Hand of the King>Heir to the Iron Throne>can't stop his retard 20th in line nephew from committing countless crimes and embarrassing the dynastyAre we EVER going to get justification for this?Aerion has no more authority than Egg. Baelor could just order Aerion to shut up and go back to King's Landing. Why is Baelor even entertaining this farce? What's wrong with him?
>>217930296damn, literally me
>>217930171Applebees promo dunkmeal?
....semoc eH
>>217930313it sends a message to other lords that crimes against the crown just sometimes goes unpunished
>>217930182damn I miss having friends sometimes
>>217930313>has to explain to Daddy the King why the heir to the Iron Throne is persecuting a Targaryen grandchild to curry favor with barbarians
>>217930210I miss dunk costumes already
>>217930313You do realize Aerion is in the right right? Dunk is no knight, he had no obligation to defend the innocent from a prince
>>217930313>Are we EVER going to get justification for this?There was a whole thing explaining it. Are you this guy? >>217927224 You sound retarded like him.
>>217930396Hilarious how AKOTSK is the lower budget show
>>217930313It's been explained to you multiple times, and yet you ask the same thing every thread, do you have dementia?
sip*>mfw I miss the Blackwood/Bracken discussion in a previous thread because work blocks posting
>>217930396Gonna miss this kingsguard armor
>>217930431Damn dunc has no plate armor. hes gonna get fukt up
>>217930490His armour is contempt
>>217930490>yfw Steely Pate gimped him for a copper
>>217930431Why does dunk look the coolest in his level 1 armor
>>217930431The armor is so kino this season
>>217930524Dunk is just that guy.Not everyone can pull off this look.
>>217930477Stop making me gay, you homo
>>217930537
>>217930537No
pyure kino
>>217930431>small cast >very few locations >no CGI dragons The armor better look good I hear S2 is struggling with the budget since HBO was a bitch and gave them the same as S2, but the story requires them to film in more locations.
>>217930687Shouldn't require as many pro jousters, though.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1QGOkJ6Le0
>>217930687Well at least they don't have to make new shiny armor except for a couple Coldmoat guards and Lucas Longinch I guess
>>217930536Beesbury bros...
>>217930524that's one of the coolest looking helmets in all of medieval fantasy, it's doing a lot of workplus the hauberk plus surcoat looks way more stylish than bulging plate without a tabard
>>217930431This looks like dark souls pvp
>without you i'm a silhouette
>>217930687>but the story requires them to film in more locations.I only remember there being two locations in the second book.
>>217931126they have to move the production somewhere dry and hot, like I think probably spain, this season was shot entirely in one location in ireland, which also gives massive tax breaks to film there, I assume they will cgi the spider fort, but they still need the chicken fort and a town, also a river and dry river bed area
>>217930182he looks like a retard with the stache.
>>217931190>they need 3 empty locations and a town setso basically the same as this seasonif they're really already talking about budget problems for season 2 its because, despite the astroturfed campaign, the painfully slow pacing actually has hurt audience retention.
>>217931214the chicken fort has to be real at least mostly maybe touched up with some cgi, for the spider fort you can get away with a cgi establishing shot and then film interiors at any old castle, but they have to have the chicken fort, I just read they are still filming in belfast so fortunately their are plenty of old castles and forts there, and the pacing was perfect wtf are you talking about?
>>217931242its a 2 hour story taking more than 3 hours. it's everything wrong with HotD season 2 but worse. I get that streaming services are now paid for ad revenue by the minute and that therefore everything is longer, but you can't tell me more cinematic pacing wouldn't have been better. this episode and the ending of the last compressed 2/3rds of the actual events in the story into just over half an hour.
>>217931332oh you're retarded nvm I didn't realise
>>217931332hbo doesn't have ads you moron
>>217931428NTA
>>217931409anon if you're going to shill for a company at least google some basic things about it.
>30 min episodesis nothing safe from shrinkflation?
>>217931462HBO's profit margins
>>217931452>4 minutes of ads per hourkek there's no way it'll stay that low for long
>>217931452>>217931459lmao who the fuck signs up for basic?
A lot of people unfortunately, that's why streaming services keep doing it
>squabbling over HBO shit instead of sailing the high seas
*stands up and farts*
kept seeing this random guy in all the akotsk interview clips and didn’t question it, whole time it maekar’s actor
>>217931523I know, right? Crazy transformation.
>>217931520
What does being an 'egg' mean? I read in Worlds or somewhere that when they tried to choose the next king they're hesistant to name him king because he's a squire to a hedge knight and was an egg or something like that?
>>217931523really nigga
>>217930687>I hear S2 is struggling with the budget since HBO was a bitch and gave them the sameGood, having limitations expands creativity. It's why season 1 of GoT is the best, they couldn't afford to do shit.
>>217930150The pacing is just insufferable. They could have easily compressed those 4 episodes into like 2
>>217931570>4chan posts twitter screenshots >twitter posts 4chan screenshots >4chan posts reddit screenshots >reddit posts 4chan screenshots >twitter posts reddit screenshots>reddit posts twitter screenshots
>>217931605you must realize nobody agrees with you right?
>>217931462https://x.com/peterrhague/status/2021848907123191939Just embrace the collapse bro
Is the guy in the sticky the bee knight?
TAOOBA!
>>217931548>brackens are the cowards>all of blackwood achievements contain backhanded tactics and never facing you headon
>>217931768Intelligence is not cowardice
>>217931755Thank you for picking up the mantle anon, I just don’t have it in me no more.
>>217931812I got you homeslice
>in addition to Baelor, two other side characters on Duncan's team die as a result of the Trial>neither have had any character development at all >show is still 3h20m longthis is so fucking frustrating lmaohow did they make something so unfocussed.
>>217931847not going into detail about redshirts is the opposite of unfocused
>>217931803dont act like you're hot shit if you cant win without underhanded means
>>217931865yeah the show needed to make time for Lady Gwynn of Ashford, Dunc walking around the tourney set every episode etc.
>>217931847What, you don't think that all the peepeepoopoo scenes and meaningless flashbacks deserve showtime over fleshing out Dunk party members or having the "Knight who remembered his vows" scene? I guess those just "fell out"
>>217931865they've had less attention than redshirts.
>>217931847lol don't care its been great, I could do with another 6 episodes of dunk and egg just kicking around doing practically nothing
>>217931872The point of a battle is to win. If you don't win you're not hot shit.
>>217931907you're going to get them lol
>>217931907>I could do with another 6 episodes of dunk and egg just kicking around doing practically nothingin the good ol days of 22 ep seasons we would've gotten thisI just wanna see them be big bro little bro
>>217930182its so weird seeing an actor play a complete psychopath but off camera he's a kind goof
>>217931936actually, in the network TV era shows were forced to have some kind of suspenseful cliffhanger every 10 minutes (four acts). they were the exact opposite of just watching characters hanging out.
>>217931959>seeing an actor play a complete psychopathyou're being way too generous to the writers. Aerion is practically a cardboard-cutout compared to Joffrey Baratheon.
>>217931959Hey, don't call my boy Raymun a psychopath
>>217931912honorless barbarians
>>217931927I hope so, one day
>>217931570maybe anon really is just a black girl
>>217931803>Running away, stabbing people in the back or poisoning them is not cowardiceThey are effective tactics but still cowardly acts
>>217931812Is that some kind Halloween decoration?
>>217932096Don't talk about my PRINCE Craghas Drahar like that.
Kill riverniggers. Behead riverniggers. Roundhouse kick a rivernigger into the concrete. Slam dunk a rivernigger baby into the trashcan. Crucify filthy troutfaggots. Defecate in a riverniggers food. Launch riverniggers into the sun. Stir fry riverniggers in a wok. Toss riverniggers into active volcanoes. Urinate into a riverniggers gas tank. Judo throw riverniggers into a wood chipper. Twist riverniggers heads off. Report riverniggers to the IRS. Karate chop riverniggers in half. Curb stomp pregnant riverniggers. Trap riverniggers in quicksand. Crush riverniggers in the trash compactor. Liquefy riverniggers in a vat of acid. Eat riverniggers. Dissect riverniggers. Exterminate riverniggers in the gas chamber. Stomp rivernigger skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate riverniggers in the oven. Lobotomize riverniggers. Mandatory abortions for riverniggers. Grind rivernigger fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown riverniggers in fried chicken grease. Vaporize riverniggers with a ray gun. Kick old riverniggers down the stairs. Feed riverniggers to alligators. Slice riverniggers with a valyrian steel sword
it's uphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZNuq5wVRsg
why do people live in the riverlands
>>217930150I've only seen the trailer and it was almost unwatchable so i'm asking those who have actually watched at least the first episode, is it as bad as the trailer? When i say "bad" i'm talking about the overall tone, writing, dialogue, characters being very quippy and much more light hearted than Game of Thrones.
>>217932194don't care where's preston?
>>217932205i havent seen the trailer, but i do like like the show although its fairly slow, especially since its only half episodesas far as quips go, i havent noticed anything like that aside from when theyre at the party
>>217932203Mass migration wasn't really a thing in the middle ages, and the few times it was it completely destroyed the powers that be on the continent.see: Goths and Huns
>>217932203It’s very easy to grow crops because of all the rivers. It’s just also very easy for iron born to sail up the river and cave your head in.
I wish you hotd faggotposters would stop shitting up our dunk generals with your shipslop
>>217930431I feel like kino is coming. one man falls. but the others grow
>>217932203Why do people live in PolandThe place isn't that bad, it's just in the way and after centuries of being walked on by every army in Seven Kingdoms the locals are raging faggots
>>217932221wherever prestons go
>>217932277>Why do people live in PolandThey only speak Polish
>>217932223Have you seen all 4 episodes so far? On a 10 scale where 1 is scenes with sam and gilly(or the wildling ginger talking about brienne) and 10 is arya and the hound(or blackwater bay), where would you rank it?
why the fuck did it take me 4 episodes to find out that the dialogue Raymond and Stephen had in their intro scene in episode 1 was actually apple-based wordplay?
If you leave the Riverlands the Blackwoods win
>>217932295maybe a 7, feels like a nice side adventure, but i havent read the books and dont know anything about the characters, plot or its significance
>>217932289They can go speak Polish elsewhere. In fact, they often do.
>>217932287where do prestons go?
>>217932221preston's a horse, last time I checked
Blackwoods ruleBrackens drool
>"Prince Baelor Targaryen, first born son of King Daeron the good, heir to the Iron Throne">...>...>...>"...a-and his brother">"meercar"lol
>>217930150
>>217932420https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33ozHrZRySw
>>217932420Meerkat Targaryen
I wish Renly beat Stannis. He would’ve brung peace to Westeros.
>>217932433>Throws sword>Removes helmetWhy?
>>217932433Who gets sticked with the thrown sword?
>>217932499Renly could never beat Stannis. He treated war as a game. basically setting camp every day, having games and feaststhe reason why Robert was so effective is because he basically sprinted full march across the kingdoms. He had speed and momentum. Renly was too busy partying
Mækar Targaryen is my spirit animal.
>>217931309I’m a shit grumpy father so I relate to this man.
>>217931309
>>217932536>>217932539rule of cool. armor was literally developed to protect against bladed and pointy weapons and it's damn good at that. but to stay true to reality in that aspect all the knights would have to be using hammers, beating each other for minutes until one is exhausted and then removing the helmet of the defeated and pushing something down his throat or into the brain. that's not bombastic enough for a TV show. it would basically be the final fight from The Last Duel.
>>217932558Well yeah that’s what the Tyrells are for
>lets bring swords to a fight where everyone is armored Meerkat is the only mvp here
>>217932539Think its the one-eyed wonder. Looking at their armors he is the only one that closely looks like that.
>>217932433>Baelor unhorsing Maekar with a lance
>>217930481I like those helms
Did they really cast someone as Bloodraven for HotD? Do they plan this show to span until the Blackfyres? At this season rate it's gonna be 2040 before they reach there.
>>217932780Daemon sees Bloodraven in one of his Harrenhal trips in S2.
>>217932780remember how like 4 different guys played The Mountain in GoT?
>>217931592Considering that the scene of Tyrion taking about Tysha wouldn’t have happened if DnD had the budget for the battle they wanted, this is true.
Theon is kinda based for an ironnigger
>>217930592Are those the bracken and blackwood guys? Didn’t they only have like a single forty second scene together?
>>217930490Plate has proven to inferior to mail
The feed on FB keeps spamming GoT slop pages and it seems everyone that thinks Dunk was knighted by Arlan is a third-worlder that barely speaks English.
>>217932558and all this time I thought he was killed by Melisandre's shadow baby
>>217933411>FB
>>217931462>>30 min episodesThe book is 90 pages long, you can read it in an afternoon. You rather they extend those 30mins with even more filler of questionable quality like HOTdoodoo does?
>>217933528>extend the fucking story>add scenes with shitting, songs about fisting, tons of filler content>somehow still manage to not include the most important moment of the storyBehead all showrunners
>>217933563game of thrones was dead long before house of the sneed was released
>>217933583acktualy, house of the dragon was already being planned to start pretty much a year after got ended, of course the reception was so abysmal they delayed it, I'll give HBO exces some credit they aren't as dumb as other studios, probably comes from being king of tv for so long
>>217933612doesnt matter, got died around season 4
>>217933622it died before that but yes regardless normies were still eating that shit up as late as season 7, it was the short night (formerly long) that killed it even before the finale stomped on the corpse
>>217932558I feel like GRRM never did a good job showing whether Renly was just like that or if he only acted like that because he had such an overwhelming advantage. I think Catelyn’s POV is supposed to mean its the former but she’s also a dumb bitch
>>217932203It would be the most prosperous region of the seven kingdoms if there was peace in the world
>>217932558Renly didn't need to fight. The Lannisters were focussed on the Northern and Riverland forces and the Tyrells had cut off the food supplies to King's Landing. He could frolic all he liked while his enemies fought amongst themselves.If Stannis always planned on using magic to assassinate Renly, then it didn't really matter if he was still in the Stormlands or King's Landing when it happened.
>>217933833Stannis was there because he need to take out storms end so it wasn't at his back if he followed renly, also to test the red woman, at this point all she had done was survive poison, once she took out the castellan of storm end it proved she had power, which reminds me the scene in the show is so fucking stupid why does davros have to smuggle her into a cavern under a castle if renly is camped on an open field? fuck dabid
Could he defeat Dunk?
>>217933563>House of the Dragon an ill-madedelete this from your folder anon, this is embarassing
>>217933984He couldn't hold the door for Dunk.
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