This wouldn't have happened with a Steely Pate helmet - editionprevious >>218009980
....semoc eH
We’re gonna have to wait until next season for the Ferret and Pudding backstories aren’t we bros?
>you're here to the trial? here's 20 minutes of Rafe
This was the kino flashback they took from us, bros....We could have a comfy sequence featuring a couple of lads up to mischief in the slums of Kings Landing......instead we got a brown irrelevant girlfriend that served zero purpose other than to drum up faux sympathy from all the goycattles in the audience
>What if we would show a meaningless 15-minute flashback sequence instead of more trial with applebowl kino, lyonel kino, humfreyx2 kino, kingsguard kino?That would be quite ___
My LiegeMy Prince
Reminder that HotD S3 will suck
>Green Apple Bro Fossoway drive-by-clubs Aerion off of DunkHow can one man be so based?
>>218011752yeah apparently Dunc's skull is also as thick as a castle wall, either that or Baelor's is made of polystyrene.
>>218011752I just realized something.when he says “my hands feel like wood”was that a reference to daeron’s dream where he sees dunk rise from a dead dragon?(dunk’s heraldry is of a tree — wood)
who knew the targaryen weakness was blunt weapons
>>218011768>implying anyone who isn't shilling the series remembers what the fuck that is
>>218011794Cant wait for Season 4 and this scene >>218000104
Now that the dust is starting to settle it's time to admit that this really wasn't a very good season and it's only going to get worse from here with more OC and more niggers.
>>218011809no
>>218011784i hate how they made arlan an old drunken fool, book arlan was always implied to be much more dignified than that.>>218011787applebowl was ruined one of the few things i looked forward to the most this episode, i mean, its literally the origin point of why the fossoway house was split into 2 branches going forward. extremely disappointed that it barely had any screentime.
>>218011794Wasn't it confirmed that they did a heelturn on casting the tranny kid as Daeron? They "leaked" that the tranny kid is actually playing a fake Daeron(???) and the real Daeron is some newcomer.
>>218011809I guess it depends if the dead dragon was supposed to be Baelor or if its Egg at Summerhall
>>218011806Baelor should have had a helmet made by steely pate, it can clearly stand up to abuse, his was some fancy noble nonsense made to look like a dragons ballsack or some other nonsense.FUCK Targs
>>218011790He should have kicked Aerion out of Ashford for the horse incident.He's hand of the king. He has a duty to protect his subjects and he continuously failed in that task up to his death.If he was too cowardly to wield power he should have renounced his claims and voluntarily disinherited himself.
>>218011784there is barely any content in that paragraph anon, not that what was in the show was worthwhile either. GRRM is getting a lot of undeserved help from reader's determination to do his work for him by projecting good writing and worldbuilding onto the scantest crumbs.
>>218011806An ill-fitting helmet can cause issues
>>218011809If you want to understand he actual 4D chess mythic symbolism George is referring to directly with that strange line you have to watch a david lightbringer video on these books
Quite disappointed theres no brain matter falling out for the shock value. Instead they gave "shocking" scene of Rafe getting her throat slit.
>>218011871GRRM did write the whole thing where they snatch a head off a spike and chase girls with it and stuff about selling things to the bowl of brown people and hearing rumors about his parents
>>218011853Honestly as Hand of the King he could have made the whole affair with Duncan go away, and give some shit to Aerion (behind closed doors). What made it more complicated was he would have to go against Maekar and then Daeron with his stupid lie made everything worse.
>>218011891its the opposite for me i like how the show did it more. pete and raymund reactions are really well done.absolutely hate the Rafe shit hogging up the runtime dear gods
>>218011891To be fair the brain matter falling out sounds like it would easily become goofy looking on screen. Maybe they settled on the hole in the head.
>>218011896Sounds a lot worse than Dunk being an utter bitch simping for some mystery meat girlboss.
>>218011852Dunc surviving 3 similar hits when Baelor was going to die to one is just bad writing. so was spending the entire fight stuck in Dunc's POV and reducing the rest of the battle to an environmental hazard. I've stopped watching like 4 times to shitpost here and I skipped the flashback.
>>218011928Couldn't Dunk tell she wasn't of 100% pure aryan descent?Is he stupid?
>>218011752I guess Dunk learned how to dig shallow Graves from Arlan because his nephew/squire appears to be buried above the ground and easily unearthed by a wild animal or a moderate rainstorm
>>218011896>head off a spike>selling things to the bowl of brown peopleyummy.
>>218011910>Egg is telling a completely different story than Daeron.>Daeron's story doesn't make any sense.>Duncan only intervened to help Tanselle on Egg's orders.This is literally all just a closed family matter. It's literally three princes telling different stories of what happened and only one of them has proof.Letting this escalate to a trail of fucking seven is the greatest failure of any lord in the history of Westeros.
>They didn't make young Dunk a child prostitute like in the booksLiterally unwatchable
>put in 20 minutes of literally who cares because it’s the only way they can have a whole episode to set up Baels surprise deathKinda cringe not gonna lie
>>218011896it's nice detail for a montage but there's no conflict. it's like reading Arya's Braavos chapters and thinking we needed 20 minutes of her selling cockles. even D&D realized that wouldn't be cinematic. >>218011876why the FUCK would Baelor not have a perfectly fit helmet?
>>218011956You just made that up because you're a degenerate faggot freak.
>>218011956He was a what
>>218011966Because its not his helm its his son's helm. He didnt bring armor and is wearing his sons
>They didn't have a 10 minute scene of the guard raping Rafe like in the booksLiterally unwatchable
>>218011983Which episode was this explained in again?
>we interrupt this cozy turn your brain off sidequest show for 20 minutes of boring backstory with another stronk brown girl that no one wants or asks for and 15 minutes of goreporn
>>218011950The problem is the at the older two princes are accusing a knight (and everyone saw him punching Aerion ) and only the youngest who is a child is telling something different.Baylor should have put his foot down more firmly but I kind of get why it went that way. It kind of snowballed into a mess that no one could have predicted.
>>218011960they could've added some more scenes of all the cool characters they set up in the previous episodes fighting and actually show the two humfreys dying
>>218011992I interpreted Hamster (thats the name of the one handed gold cloak right?) playing her hair as him mulling over asking her to be his whore to earn her silver back, but she isn't pretty enough for him
>>218011836>i hate how they made arlan an old drunken fool, book arlan was always implied to be much more dignified than that.He was clearly on a bender because he'd just gotten his nephew killed and had to bury him. Not really the same thing.
>>218011752I'm glad they left out Baelor's idea to use tourney lances for the added reach, Fossoway's green shield, the first charge, all to waste 15 minutes showing us an idiot friend of dunk who stole from the goldcloaks, twice, then died for it. Really demonstrated you know how to use the time to it's fullest on that one you fucking hacks. All that waiting and that was it, that was the trial of seven. Fucking disappointment, we get a throwaway line about beesbury and hardyng dying but we barely even knew them because hbo wasted more time on fucking RAFE.
That faggot Maekor not only raising his son to be a truly evil and shitty Knight, then killing his own brother, really pissed me off because I know he faces no consequences for it at all and gets to be King.
>>218012020The show is from Dunks perspective. He didn't witness either of those events. Are you even paying attention?
>>218011910>>218011853the plot concept of Hedge Knight never made any sense even as a novella. fundamentally it contradicts GRRM's own quote about how medieval social structures had teeth and you couldn't fuck around with them. the trial wouldn't happen because of the risk to actual important people, Aerion couldn't blatently cheat in a joust for the same reason, etc. its all just for dramatic effect.
>>218012038How did he get away with drunkenly killing 2 goldcloaks?
I wonder if Baelor thought it was weird Dunk offered himself a job in Baelor’s service
>>218012034>HamsterAleister i think?But yeah either that or he wanted to rape her
maekar vs bobby b, who was stronger then?
>>218011836>Old drunken foolI think the gravesite was meant to indicate he was just depressed. He wasn't really like that in the previous sequences.
>the dogshit flashback (up to when Dunk follows ser Arlan)it will tank the score. they shouldve show more of the fight, Humfreys dying, Raymund beating his cousin's ass, kingsguard "fighting" Baelor...>"if you dont like the flashback you dont get the point"shut the fuck up you pseudo intellectual faggots
>AIEEEEEEEEEEEEE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! BALERION SAVE MEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>218012070Bobby
lil monkey fellastole me dagger
>>218012070physically?robert wielded a giant ass warhammer so robertoverall?probably maekar
>>218011973>>218011970https://youtu.be/j36RHiV3svo?si=wj3XbtKSZqYB9T3l&t=769Proved by Preston
>>218012070Bobby it's no contest. You think two jobbers could hold back Big B like that if it was Ned or something he was rushing over to try and save!?
>>218012055By never going back to Flea Bottom I guess
>>218012073the flashback should have started like 2 minutes before Arlan barges in
>>218011809no, it was a reference to the fact that the back of his skull was caved in and a part of his brain was turned to mush, hence why his bodily sensations felt really off
>>218012060I don't know man. If I had a 7-foot gigachad offer to be my bodyguard after winning a trial of the 7, I would take that immediately. Too bad Baelor became a complete brainlet
>NOOO YOU DON'T GET IT!!!!>SPENDING HALF THE EPISODE ON DUNK'S RETARDED MYSTERY MEAT GIRLFRIEND IS INTERGRAL TO THE PLOT>THEYRE'S NO POSSIBLE WAY THEY COULD'VE SHOWN 5 MINUTES MORE OF ACTUAL FIGHTING IN AN EPISODE THAT'S FOCUSED ON A DUEL THAT WE'VE BEEN BUILDING UP TO UNTIL THE START OF THE SHOW
>>218011852>dragons ballsackSexy
>>218011809Baelor also mentioned about his visor when his helm didn't have one. Sign of brain damage.:_;
>>218012043He thinks becoming King is a curse and punishment for killing his brother, and is pretty unhappy to the end to his days.
>>218012115>>218012073truth nukes
>>218012070Bobby B. Maekar is a proper soldier and probably the most serious fighter in that melee, but Bobby B was huge and wielded a warhammer that Ned could barely hold up.
>>218012118You can see him before in the helmet with the visor on, I think. He has very very serious brain damage though.
>>218012055Pigs ate the evidence.
The retards complaining about the flashback are going to be the same retards gushing over Rohanne next season and complain everytime Dunk isn't fucking her brains out. You just hate it because it featured a brown woman.
>>218011752HBO is getting worse. Game of thrones managed several seasons before devolving entirely in retarded fan fic fuckery, HoTD made it one season, now knight of seven kingdoms can't even make it a whole season without shoving in stupid hollywood hack shit.
motherfuckers asking if the ASoIF gods are references to Great Old Ones/Outer Gods when there is literally the King in Yellow, Carcosa, Cthullhu (Drowned God with his creed) in Westeros... Martin is a big lovecraftian mythos fanboy.
>>218012043you must be the biggest retard in this threadMaekar is completely devastated with Baelor's death, they were the closest of the 4 brothers and he loved him dearly. He becomes a somber and depressed man after Ashford, living with that guilt until the day he dies.
>>218012020>>218012047the whole structure of the show was wrong. if they were going to do such a long adaptation they should have spent the time getting us invested in the multiple knights on dunc's side (like its the Dirty Dozen or Seven Samurai) and then intercut between the different fights during the battle. instead we didn't even get the Fossaways fighting, it may as well have just been Dunc v Aerion. >and then everybody clapped
>>218012084>>218012128Seeing a prime Bob in action must be terrifying. Giant ass dude splitting heads left and right.
>>218012043Maekar wasn't raising his son to be evil, he just saw Aerion as the only choice. Daeron was a cowardly drunkard because his dragon dreams were too overwhelming to cope with while sober, the king forced Aemon to become a maester against Maekar's wishes, and Egg was still a scrawny unproven kid. Aerion was realistically the only choice for a true heir, and Aerion actually did a good job of pretending to be gallant and serious whenever his father was around.>I know he faces no consequences for it at all and gets to be King.Maekar hates himself for it for the rest of his life and is said to never smile again until the day he dies.
>>218012153>several seasons Talisa was introduced in season 2
>>218012125>>218012164Becomes the most powerful man in the realm and ancestors to all the Kings succeeding him (including Robert) until Joffrey. The average smallfolk is living a much worse life and probably lost as many if not more relatives in worse ways besides. Not really a punishment. Atleast he died in an ignoble way. No-one who was truly sorry would take up his brother's crown after killing him. He wasn't sorry at all.
>>218012118he did have a visor it was broken off in the fight
>>218012073>>218012115any episode that filters "battle of bastards is peak television" thirdies is good in my book
>Baelor fought valiantly, Baelor fought nobly, Baelor fought honorably and Baelor died.
>>218012152no i hate it because instead of a 30 minute fight episode where we couldve seen:>Raymund vs his cousin>Kingsguard vs Baelor>Humfrey and Humfrey>the mad Knight>the Laughing fucking Storm>basically any fucking part of the trial of the sevenwe got:>that fucking thing
>>218012152>wanting to actually see the duel we spent all season building towards is le racist you chud
>>218012168>this mf came all the way from yi ti to watch this shitshow
>>218012180>No-one who was truly sorry would take up his brother's crown after killing himThere was nobody else. Maekar is the fourth son and never expected to take the crown, but everyone ahead of him in the line to the Throne dies when a great sickness sweeps the land.
>>218012177>TalisaSo did they make her a foreigner just because they cast Oona Chaplin?I guess she looks ethnic or whatever
>>218012180maekor isn’t that bad of a guy. he offers dunk summerhall afterall. im looking forward to dunk and maekor’s dialogue for the finale.
>>218012203>Yi TiBased. Honourary Andals.>Summer IslandersCringe.
aagghh...
>>218012173It’s pretty obvious that Aemon became a maester at castle black because of the dragon dreams
>>218012200The fight was the best thing I've ever seen in tv ever and...we got barely any of it, instead nig flashback (which wasn't so bad if the episode waas 50 min runtime like got but its 30 FUCKING MINS!!!!)
>>218012173>Maekar hates himself for it for the rest of his life and is said to never smile again until the day he dies.He's that kind of guy, personality wise. You've fallen for the propaganda.
>>218012196>bro kingsguard cant harm me lol lemme cheese that shitdumb ass meme bro dont post again
>>218012180>No-one who was truly sorry would take up his brother's crown after killing him.He was the only real option at that point. He never wanted it and hated it. There were many small folk in his time being much happier.
>>218011752Did Dunk get stabbed like 500 times in the book as well? It was a while since I read it
This episode could've been much better. It's not bad or anything but the flashback stuff drags it down heavily, and surely the showrunners could've shown at least a few seconds of the other duels. In the novella strictly from Dunk's POV you kinda get why we don't see the others, but in a television format we should've at least seen how the Kingsguard fare, and the Laughing Storm, and how the Fossowaybowl is turning out.
>>218012073>kingsguard "fighting" Baelor...its not really clear why anyone even takes the fight seriously and tries to kill each other to the point that there are 3 fatalities. no one has any incentive to take risks and no one intervenes to stop Duncan from kickin Aerion's ass, the whole trial is only happening because of him trying to get out of a 1v1 and everyone would know that going in. in the novella I didn't even get the impression Maekar cared about his son.
>>218012200no budget pls understand
>>218012237It's a fucking prince tech you wouldn't GET IT
>>218012256lol
>smasbes his brother in the back of the head with a mace>nooo i didn’t mean to cave his skull in I’m so depressed now
>>218011942>SimilarThose hits were made by a little wimp who surrendered after getting cut once not by a farking war heroPlus he had helmet made by a dwarf
>>218012200>>218012202You can blame that on HOTD for flopping. They said they didn't have the budget to film a 40-minute fight scene. They had to use extensive fog to cover their budget. HBO didn't give this show any money because they thought HOTD season 3 would be better.
Needs more beautiful mixed girlbosses to show whitebois how is it done
>>218012237The gods deemed it just, it's all in the game
>>218012239His wounds are gnarly in the book, him getting knocked off his horse by a lance is book accurate. Him taking a lot of hits to the helm is book accurate. But all the other injuries in the show just feel way too over the top, maybe he could survive it with modern medicine but with Maester medicine that should be a dead man or at least crippled for life.
>>218005857water is wet and sara hess is retarded
>>218012180>>218012211 >>218012217 >>218012238Maekar is barely a character, stop pretending to analyze GRRM's slop you shill cunts.
>>218012267He was aiming for Lyonel. Maekar was the only one who understood the need to genocide all Baratheons.
>>218011752Impressive how the second they deviate from the source material even a little the quality instantly drops to like 5/10. Why the fuck would would you waste that much time on la creatura in a 30 minute episode??? Instead of the trial that's like the climax of the whole story
rip zaddy baelor
>>218012183he DID at the beginning. he doesnt have one at the END. he still thinks he has a cracked one but he has none = confusion = brain dmg
>>218012282What am I pretending to analyze? Maekar is indeed the fourth son and a great sickness does indeed sweep the land. Why are you so butthurt?
>>218012251>why anyone even takes the fight seriouslyAnon its a highly archaic but religious duel, its a fight to the death or till you yeild with the gods favouring the victors.Beesbury died in the charge meaning he got fucked up by the kingsguard like Dunk but didnt have plot armour so he died. The other Humpfrey we see another kingsguard hacking at his neck as he falls off his horse. Then Baelor dies by accident
>>218012271>they thought HOTD season 3 would be better.HBO is full of retards
>>218012249we needed to see rayray and lyo getting some licks in after making them such fun likeable characters all season
>>218012115obviously they used it to show why he bothered going so far for that other mulattobut viewers could assume he just had a crush on her and wasnt thinking straight as usual... didnt need to have some backstory to it...
>>218012267in the books he doesn’t die im,ediately after the fight. besides baelor somewhat implicitly insinuates that maekar doesn’t know his own strength.>>218012282yeah well he should be. jaime was a character after being a kingslayer, so a kinslayer whomaccidentally kills his brother who had peak chivalry is a perfect occasion for an arc.
>>218012286I guess he had a dream of a stag standing over a dragon
Bee free my friend
>he's very strong you know
>>218012268>he had a +3 mithril helmet of protection from criticals sorry I didn't look at the tooltip
>>218012218andals are black in the show canon
>>218012177I completely forgot about that dumb bitch, well remembered. I guess hbo just stopped waiting for the second season to raceswap with their dumb fanfics
>>218012278Yeah I was fine with the initial beatings but it just went on to a point where I felt they kinda overdid did it by giving Dunk the full London treatment.
>>218010763DUNK HAS ARYAN BABIES WITH THAT?!?!??!
>>218012290>Instead of the trial that's like the climax of the whole storybut the trial happened just like in the books, and it was the climax of the episode?
>Bloodraven kills who is ultimately an enemy in a battle>Exiled to the Wall for Kinslaying (deserved, to be fair)>Maekar Kinslayer murders his own brother because he was standing by his son, who he knows is an evil cunt, by smashing him in the back of the head with a mace (not even a flail that could wrap around, but a mace meaning he struck him in the back of the head on purpose) >Zero punishmentShould have been sent to the Night's Watch, at least. Peasants and Lords should absolutely hate him as well. His nickname in history isn't even "the Kinslayer" or anything like that. Even Theon who is alleged to have killed his FOSTER brothers is called Theon Kinslayer in the main books.
>>218012203That's a LOT of white faces, thank goodness they put the only mutts and a chink near the middle of the frame.
Anyone saved that Targ kings/queen wojak image like from 3 weeks ago? Whoever made it got Baelor right.:_:
>>218011950Dunk was required to go to trial, he had a right to a trial by combat, and Aerion had a right to a trial of the Seven. You're using 20th century post-dueling-ban logic.
>>218012305Hollywood is literally more is better, bigger is better. We don't need good writing we need MORE DRAGONS! MORE CGI FIGHTS! MORE DIVERSITY TO GET THE BLACKS AND THE HISPANICS
>>218012271HOTD season 3 isn't out yet bro
>mhhmmm today ill go battle to the death a swordgive em a fucking warhammer god damnithe's a fucking huge ladi hate fantasy-middle-ages so much
>>218012271i fucking hate HotDlike Baelorthe good ones always get fucked
>>218012330Not joking, Tywin Lannister's grandfather I believe
Would it have hurt to show Daeron charging and then yielding like they fucking built it up? What's the point of explaining all that to us if they're not gonna fucking show it? And don't even get me started on any of the offscreen deaths or the utter lack of Lyonel and Raymond or Baelor dealing with the Kingsguards. Instead we just see the one kingsguard spinning around on his horse while Aerion is getting mushed by Dunk 3 feet away. God, the dogshit decisions the writers make sometimes...
>>218012297I like how he can't see its baelor attacking him from behind and he ist just defending himself and one shots him
>>218012321>there's an actual house named strong>theres an actual house named ball with balls on their heraldrySometimes George's naming decisions remind me of when I'm running tabletop and a player asks me about something and I have to make up a name on the spot.
>>218012351Which House would Asa Mitaka rep?
>>218012073>up to when Dunk follows ser ArlanNo, that was also retarded.
>>218012359>>218012351fuck part 2
>>218012271>HBO didn't give this show any money because they thought HOTD season 3 would be better.how do these executives consistently make terrible decisions that cost their companies millions of dollars of possible earnings, but somehow are able to keep their jobs and continue making terrible decisions?
>>218012345no one cares
did the murderhobo ser Dothraki of Pennytree really just waltz out drunkenly and start murdering the nearest two guards he saw
The injuries to Duncan just seems a bit over the top and gory, i didn’t even blink when mutt got her throat slashed it was shit acting on her part + from the second she appeared on screen i was tired of seeing her, by the time she died i and any other viewer could naturally only thing “finally that must mean were back to the duel soonBy the way, it’s called a flash back, not long drawn out back
>>218012330>DUNK HAS ARYAN BABIES WITH THAT?!?!??!You got a midget and brother/sister fuckers off that.and with GRRM teasing that Dunk's descendants have already interacted in Game of Thrones. Jaimie and Brienne fucking too. Remember, in the books, Jaimie is also a pretty tall guy.
>>218012358I think that, if England wasn't conquered by the Normans in 1066 and the English language somehow developed anyway, this is how English aristocrats would be named to be fair.
>>218012351It's almost like they intended to show the chaos of battle through the main character's view, same as the books. But I'm talking to an autistic retard who anime posts so why should I even bother explaining it, maybe go jack off to little anime girls or something.
>>218012338Are you ok bro?
>>218012219Stannis vs Dunk battle IQ?
Why does The Mother favor Dunk?
>>218012377>mhmmm today ill stab his leg through chainmail and gambeson with a measly dagger
>>218012345He uses the sword because that's the only weapon he had you tardHe had to sell his horse to get armour
>>218012330>>218012380Na, there's a buffer period where she is married to Osgrey. If she had immediately married the Lannister, then I could see it. I'm pretty sure George did that specifically to prevent people thinking this.
>>218011942>Dunc surviving 3 similar hits when Baelor was going to die to one is just bad writing.Because Dunc's helmet actually fit him & Baelor was wearing his son's helmet making it smaller than it should've been, retard
Why didn't Duncan just rip that phaggot's helmet off and dagger him in the throatAlso for book bros what is S2 going to be like?
>>218012358>Grover, Kermit, Elmo and Oscar Tully>Dickon Manwoody >Utter Shett
>>218012239No, they overplayed their hand with his injuries.
>>218012345Ar-long only thought him swords and lances I believe. He needs a trainer and gold to learn warhammer proficiency.
>>218012393>Why do the seven gods of the Andals prefer the Heroic Andal Knight over smelly Alien invaders who besmirch Knighthood constantlyIt's a mystery.
>>218011942Dunk wore a proper greathelm, probably with padding on the inside. Baelor wore a ceremonial helm that looks like it cares more about frills and dragonshit than actual protection, plus it was an ill-fitting helm too small for his head because it's his son's helm.
>>218012404Not honorable plus he would’ve ruined any chances of working for royalty or nobility
>>218012375>make terrible decisionsThey throw shit at the wall and then milk the shit that sticks.That's not terrible. The problem is that they milk it faster than GRRM writes source material.
>>218012378Arlan saw his nephew get his head smashed in at the battle of redgrass field. Maybe the same one Dunk is looting at the start of the flashback. I think that was a small nameless battle that happended a day before the battle of redgrass.Anyway he sees a boy the same age as his nephew about to be killed by an older bigger and better armed man and has a crazy PTSD drunk fueled attack and goes to save the boy like he couldnt save his family. We need this edit but for Arlan mid puke
>>218012404In the book, he thinks about gouging AIDSreon's eye out but decides not to. To me, this is the peak of Dunk and Egg and it gets worse (but is still good) but a lot of people consider the second novella better.
>>218012390>It's almost like they intended to show the chaos of battle through the main character's view, same as the books.Oh, so they can add a bunch of stuff that aren't in the books to pad out the time, but only for this scene they HAVE to follow the books? Seems like if you're gonna make an extended adaptation of the book, you should expand on all of the combatants in the trial, but noooo we gotta focus on the sob story flashback that takes up half the episode. Fuck off HBO shill.
>>218012271>they thought HOTD season 3 would be better.Dont worry guys its gonna be amazing
Should've cut down the flashback by 10 minutes so we could've seen a Targaryen bankai which we sadly missed out on in the original series.
Honestly, I imagined him as more of a Stannis type, with a terrifying presence, and not someone constantly swearing. Was he like this in short story? I only read the lorebook
>>218012398>implying only dunc wielded a sword>implying by the time of the duel he didnt have the connections to get a shitty warhammer to up their chances
>>218012404It's gonna be grrreeeeat. Provided they don't include any fanfiction like the fucking flashback and also manage to contain their brown people fetish to an appropriate minimum
>>218012393The old gods are just Bran warging from the future. Also Old Nan mentioned in GoT season 1 that Bran's favorites are the stories of Ser Duncan the Tall.
>>218012271>218012271Maybe don't waste time and money making a super expensive dragon puppet prop and a 15 minute flashback in flea bottom then you twats. How expensive could it be to film some guys hitting each other?
>>218012297yeah that doesnt look intentional
>>218012299ok fair enough
>>218012393>In the name of the mother, I charge you to protect the innocentGEE I fucking wonder
>>218012348It's Tywin's wife's father who is the bastard with Dunk. She "disappeared" after having him and abandoning the family. I think it's likely to happen after that "richer than a lannister" line
>>218012427>but only for this scene they HAVE to follow the books?every scene from the beginning is from Dunk's POV
>Raymun remains on horse until the end and saves Dunk at least twiceclearly MVPironically in a 1v1 it seems like Aerion probably would have won, his cowardice lost him the trial and also got his uncle killed
>>218012404Killing a future prince in front of everybody may fuck up his chances at becoming a Kingsguard anon
>>218012432He’s literally me.
>>218012433thats exactly what hes implying and hes right, retard-kun
>>218012432>Was he like this in short story?No. He's sullen and severe but cares for his family more then Stannis does, and doesn't act like a snippy diva.
hoping hotd shits the bed even further so they can funnel the money back to dunk
>>218012441I don't get it either. You go the actors, you got the props. Just film them beating each other up. They seriously couldn't afford like 5 more minutes of fighting?
I unironically thought HOTD season 2 was significantly better than this. even if half the episodes were dull and bad and HBO cut off the ending, the other half worked really well. plus the boring episodes at least set up the good ones. this was just an overly extended snoozefest that wasted its great casting.
Arlan would solo Aerion
how do westerosi have a concept of a "year" if their seasons are indeterminate and last for several "years"
Cute and canon!
>>218012438>The old gods are just Bran warging from the future.The "Bran/Bloodraven do everything ever in Westeros History" are the most retarded dickslurpers I have the displeasure to meet.
>>218012472Nice bait midwit take
>>218012459Get a haircut
>>218012297remind me again why everyone is sincerely trying to kill each other?
>>218012472>I unironically thought HOTD season 2 was significantly better than this.awful bait
>>218012469lol
>>218012472
>>218012424The second one is better paced and more emotional imoBut it still doesn't make sense that Maekar would let his only healthy heir adventure in Westeros disguised as a peasant squire to a hedge knight
>>218012462i dun' bae eet
>>218012404>Also for book bros what is S2 going to be like?the second book has even less plot than the firstI have no clue how they're gonna pad that shit out to fill 6 episodes
>>218012475They can still take time with candles or sunlight
>>218012469Stuntmen do most of the choreography anon.Hey at least we have:a prosthetic dickDunk's shitting CGIa smartly dressed Otho 'The Brute of Bracken' Brackennight joustingDunk's ass screentimeRafe
>>218012456>ironically in a 1v1 it seems like Aerion probably would have won,a 1v1 duel wouldnt have started on horseback, would it? Because it seemed the first charge really put Dunk on the backfoot with his wound to the guts
>>218012475Because they can still chart the stars and movement of them and the (now only) moon to see when a year has passed. We dont need seasons to tell years apart anon
>>218012486oh its both at one is it? even though those two things are mutually exclusive? cool.
>>218012404House Osgrey and probably a tower full of OC mulattoes
How is the inability to film fight scenes a 'budget problem'? I don't understand.You already got the actors there, you clearly have fight coordinators, you already have the armors and equipment. Dragon CGI is definitely expensive, but recording these guys as they whack at each other doesn't sound like it would strain the budget much.
>>218012432Everyone is constantly swearing. I think the writers think it makes them sound cool, because the cool kids from their high school days also swore a lot
>>218012484George ruined the series by introducing time travel, not the dick suckers. Blame him. There's literally a magic dagger now that Arya Stark is destined to have, and that's the sole reason the Targaryeans are even in Westeros.
>>218012490trial of seven niggathis ain't no prince for a day pussy tourney
>>218012472You just like Alicent getting her pussy eaten out.
>>218012472eww
>>218012271>They had to use extensive fog to cover their budgetbased and star trek pilled
The Warrior here. Mmmm. I pick Dunk :)
>>218012511Simultaneously ambiguous
>>218012475It takes Planetos 365 and six hours days to revolve around Solaros on its orbitos
>End of Season 2>As the camera pans away from Dunk and Egg it slowly pans onto a giant castle in a mountain>its casterly rock>a baby is screaming, right after birth>the blonde mother is cradling it in her arms as a male figure steps into the shot>''what should we name him?''>''He's destined to achieve much, he needs a strong name, Tywin....Tywin Lannister''>Baby's green eyes make eye contact with the camera>a slight smirk can be seen on its face>Thunderstruck kicks in as the screen fades to black and credits appear
>>2180124042nd and 3rd books suck. Dunk isn't the main character he just blunders into someone else's story and is present while other people decide the outcome. He's literally unconscious for the conclusion of the 2nd books conflict.
>>218012486 >>218012491 >>218012495keep it up you fucking pricks.unlike you I am a real fan of this IP and wanted all versions of it to succeed. trying to use the disappointment with HotD to sell Kot7K is fucking retarded.
>>218012455Huh? Read my post again, retard
>>218012383I've often wondered about that, are other languages with names that mean like "Strong leader" or "Right hand of God" just the literal words as names? Like you would actually say "That horse belongs to Loud Shouter." It sounds weird to me in English but maybe that's just a quirk of English cause of the Normans as you said, and also Biblical names.
So he's an asexual NEET with mild autism?
We also didnt see the other princeling taking a soft blow or whatever to just lay down for the rest of the fight right?I thought something could have happened with him
YOU WILL WATCH BROWN UGLY WOMEN IN YOUR FANTASY MEDIA!AND YOU WILL LIKE IT, CHUDS!
>i need good men, ser duncan.Was Baelor going to put him in the Kingsguard right then and there?
KKKINNNOOOOOO
>>218012515modern directors are incapable to choregraphying interesting swordfights without showing ten things happening at once, cameras panning from the sky, fisheye action everywhere... that's why they need budget. Ironically, Ridley Scott, as washed as he is, probably did the best medieval swordfight of the last 20 years in The Last Duel...
>>218012535yeah it's a really great format for tight, 90-120 minute stories like the Sharpe series, and a really terrible format for long, 6-episode prestige TV. HBO has squandered the material AGAIN.
>>218012535>oh no why is le dunk not present everywhere and wins everything and fucks every hot girl Learn to enjoy a nice story you illiterate nigger
So how realistic is Baleor living so long after that hit?Was the helmet like, glueing the back of his skull together? That actually is like possible right? Would you basically die as soon as it came off?
>>218012490It's not a tourney anymore, the trial of 7 is something between a martial court matter and a religious ritual. It's serious business.
>>218012554not on the kingsguard for sure. He wasnt good enoughbut make him a knight in his employment, sure
>>218012497The Kinslayer wasn't actually the heir, it was still Baelor's kids and then he had two other older brothers and one of those brothers had kids.
>>218012560incapable of* soz
>>218012554he's making a team
was Rafe trying to speedrun getting maimed or killed by klepto stealing everything>stole a knife immediately after getting robbed>gets instakilled despite the guy coming up from behind OBVIOUSLY after youWhat a worthless thief.
>>218011942Dunk is thick as a catlewall, newfagread the fucking books
>>218012497>But it still doesn't make sense that Maekar would let his only healthy heir adventure in Westeros disguised as a peasant squire to a hedge knightMaekar and his kids weren't that important. Maekar is the fourth son, still a long away from the throne even after Baelor's death. And Egg is his fourth son.
>>218012466That will make dunk shit too. Lower budget makes showrunners focus on writing instead of retarded action scenes.
>>218012568it might've been holding it togetherhe does say he cant feel his fingers before taking it off. taking it off probably just opened the wound
>>218012504>I have no clue how they're gonna pad that shit out to fill 6 episodesI am telling you, and fucking screencap my posts, next season is literally going to be 50% flashbacks to the Blackfyre rebellion
>>218012568>Was the helmet like, glueing the back of his skull together? That actually is like possible right?yes yes and yesin the 90s it was popular to put a sticker on your motorcycle helmet about not removing it in case of an accidentobviously EMTs would know, it was there for if some random was gonna help youi remember my brother having one with a joke on it>if i crash i rather you take my wallet than my helmet
>>218012455When Egg trains with Thunder and meets Robyn was Dunk hiding in the bushes watching?
So in a ToS what's stopping your team from shieldwalling and pike pwning the other noobs
>>218012521>ew sex is yuckynot really very familiar with GRRM's work I take it? >>218012520if everyone's taking it seriously why does everyone just ignore Dunc beating the shit out of Aerion? there's literal kingsguard present who should be defending him and if Dunc dies then the trial is over and they can all have tea. I know it doesn't make any sense, its at least partly GRRM's fault, but christ this show has been dull so fuck you too
>>218012568I think the shock of finding out that his head was caved in contributed to him collapsing.
>>218012580yeah why didnt that retarded sheboon just sprint the fuck away instead of slow walking, smirking to Dunk? at least it got her off my fucking screen faster, small blessing
HOLY FUCKING DING DONG-DIDDLY KINO
Why didn't Baelor keep the helmet on until he headed
>>218012313>in the books he doesn’t die im,ediately after the fight. Sure he does. He dies within a few minutes. Dunk has a brief convo with Raymun, lies on the grass, Baelor shows up holding on Raymun to stay upright, and promptly keels over when Pate removes his helmet.
>>218012585>Lower budget makes showrunners focus on writing instead of retarded action scenesSo the last few seasons of GoT got ALL the budget or what?
>Aerion is a piece of shit but his father Maekar still goes beast mode to defend him simply because it's his son>meanwhile Alicent hands her son Aegon II's head on a silver platter to Rhaenyra even though she put him on the throne and started the war
>the neanderthal male has captured homo sapiens female and is taking her to his cave for breeding
>>218012605*healedfuck me
>>218012605should've just lived the rest of his life with the helmet on and he would be fine
>>218012560>>218012515the whole show has been a crime against pacing. I don't know why anyone thought the showrunner would change into Steven Speilburg/James Cameron during the climactic fight scene.
>>218012534your timeline is off by a few decades there
>>218012515Filming “guys hitting each other” isn’t cheap. You’d need to choreograph multiple separate fights, rehearse them for safety and continuity, and then spend days, sometimes weeks, filming each one from different angles with resets for lighting, camera rigs, blood effects, and stunt coordination. That means paying the cast, stunt teams, fight coordinators, camera crew, lighting department, set designers, armorers, makeup, medics, catering, and the entire production machine every single day. That alone runs into millions over a month of shooting.
>>218012613>So the last few seasons of GoT got ALL the budget or what?They unironically did. HBO was offering even more money dumb&dumber to make more seasons.
>>218012568definitely believable, when it comes to brain stuff weird shit happens all the time
>>218012596Because if you do this, other guys are allowed to bring crossbows
>>218012475seasons are the tilt of a planet on its axis whereas a year is a full rotation of the planet around the sunfor earth, one full rotation around the sun=a total axial tilt rotation, because God loves ushow the average westerosi peasant has any concept of a year is anyone's guess
>>218012613Yes. The budget supposedly went up from 6 million per episode in S1 to 15 million in S8.
>>218012332>>Bloodraven kills who is ultimately an enemy in a battle>>Exiled to the Wall for Kinslaying (deserved, to be fair)Wut, that didn't happen at all. He promised peaceful negotiations in the kings name and then immediately executed the guy and was sent to the Wall for that because it makes the kings look like untrustworthy murderous cunts.
>>218012597because aerion accused dunk you fucking moronbaelor puts himself between the kingsguard and dunk to make it closer to the 1v1 aerion dodged
>>218012643Use pavises??Also are you seriously allowed to bring a crossbow to a trial by combat
>>218012450>and for my next trick, I give you the Open Palm Armoured Bitch Slap 5000!
>>218012605If the helmet was made out of platinum or stainless steel, they could have melted the backside to his skull...
>>218012324Jej'd
>>218012568Well, it's like a brace for his skull so yeah I presum so
>>218012472What a shitty bait
How did Dunk actually survive all those woundsLike actually
>>218012649Damn, suprised they didn't go bankrupt after the ending
I need the next episode like I need a hole in the head.
>>218012560The Last Duel cost $100 million to make, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.
>>218012475better question is how does anything survive on this planet if there's periods of years where the entire planet is frozen and then other periods when the entire planet is constantly warm. plants and animals wouldn't be able to live in a place like that
>>218012534fuck off, I don't what GOT shit polluting this shownext we'll see bran timetravel warging into Ser Chudapple in order to ensure Ser Duncan can become Brienne's great grandfather and ensure the defeat of the white walkers when the time comes
>>218012690>The Last DuelI unironically said out loud 'this is better than the duel from The Last Duel'
>>218012565What story? One where the main character isn't even the protagonist and twice just witnesses events happen without him? The lord and lady decide to get married whilst he's unconscious (bonus points the lord dies like 3 years later further underlining the sheer pointlessness), 3rd book dunk gets to watch no one support a blackfyre who instantly gets arrested and killed. 1st book george understood to make the main character the protagonist and the story happens because of him not just near him. Enjoy waiting 3 years to defend the nothing of seasons 2 and 3's stories, maybe they'll have more prosthetic dick for you to slurp fag.
>>218012546Yes, you can look up some example if you search for Punning in Coat of Arms / Canting Arms. It was normal for people to have names like that (Coat of Arms that incorporate elements of the name into the visual). A lot of guys who signed the declaration of Independence have English Middle Class Surnames as well. There were a lot of given names that were like Readwulf (Red Wolf), Alfred (Elf Friend), Edmund (Treasurer), Canute (literally just a knot), the famous Hengest and Horsa (both of these are just different ways of saying Horse), but most second names were just "of this place" or a patronymic (i.e. Godwinson).
>>218012686Plot armor. Getting pierced by a lance would have been a death sentence and rolling around in the mud after that's a infection waiting to happen.
>>218012614>his father Maekar still goes beast mode to defend him simply because it's his sonno he doesn't. he was nowhere near him while Dunc was beating his ass. literally no one tries to help Aerion or seriously hurt Duncan at any point during the fight.
>>218012358That's how real names work though. Some illiterate peasant is asked to come up with a surname and he goes "uhh well I live on a hill so I guess I'll be a Hill".
>"The realm"What did he mean by this
>>218012625>You’d need to choreograph multiple separate fightsactual good directors can craft well-paced action from the pre-vis stage at the latest, and they used to have to do it from storyboards. this wasn't that.
>>218012686This is the same world where a paraplegic teen is an omniscient deityjust roll with it nigga
>>218012712Yeah Duncan would've got pwned from behind if anyone was watching>>218012686Well, the world is not one for one like ours so we can let that slide, realistically? Infected and dead.
>>218012504>>218012712>literally no one tries to help Aerion or seriously hurt Duncan at any point during the fight.Guess you missed that lance sticking him directly in the gut.
>>218012686Dunk clearly has healing factor like Wolverine. They establish that in the flashback when he gets fucking stabbed through the leg but he just gets up and walks it off.
>>218012070Between prime Bobby B, The mountain and that mutated Targ dude that could punch horses to death, who was the strongest?
>Le budget too low to make good fight sceneExecutives these days are legitimate retards who don't read the source material- had any of theme actually read this set of short stories they would've realized 'hey, instead of waiting to see how this shoe does we NEED to splurge on this big fight scene because it's the only one we're going to do for like 4 seasons.' Now they're going to try to throw a buttload of money because the show did so well and they're going to try and force in a biggerer and betterer fight scene completely absent from Sworn Sword
>>218012613>>218012687season 8 GoT was getting 44+ million viewers per episode in the US alone. it made HBO hundreds of millions per season.
>>218012661>baelor puts himself between the kingsguard and dunkDoes he actually do that though? Maybe it was just the stupid and confusing way they shot it, but it seems like the Kingsguard drop Harding and Beesbury while he and Lyonel are fucking about with Maekar.Assuming the apples are 1v1ing, the fact that the Kingsguard don't waltz over to Dunk to protect Aerion after the two redshirts die with only Robyn to hold them off is a plot hole. Did Rhysling singlehandedly hold off two Kingsguard for 5 minutes?
>>218012712>no he doesn't. he was nowhere near him while Dunc was beating his ass.Because he was kept busy by the others, did you not watch the episode?
>>218012358>Strong Balls
>>218012686hes a 7ft tall freak of nature like they Clegane brothers, people like this are tanks with higher pain thresholdimo
Why was Baelors armor and helmet being small so importantI guess smaller armor is tougher to move in, but none of this contributes to how he dies right?
>>218012358>theres an actual house named ball with balls on their heraldryDon't underestimate GRRM as a history buff
The bee might have fallen but he fell in honor and the hive remembers
Surely the budget of Flea Bottom + casting and filming some mutt love interest for young Dunk + Arlan fight scene could've been better spent on the actual Trial?
>>218012690retard.. do you think the duel part of the last duel was what cost most of those 100 millions? get the fuck outta here brainlet
>>218012686what's even more frustrating is the fact that in the asoiaf books there's multiple examples of people dying of infection and seemingly "small" injuries, but all the asoiaf shows keep having the characters get mangled to the point where its questionable if they'd survive with modern medicine and just walking it off in the next episode
>>218012661yeah and everyone else just disappears or gets distracted, got it. only Baelor, Maekar and two kingsguard actually exist or care about how the fight ends.
>>218012783the armor had nothing to do with him dying
Why wasn't Dunk's love interest an Aryan girl and she wasn't a thief but a virgin maiden who refused to steal ffssss
a show being massively constrained by its budget is a good thing, the best TV shows of all time were on a shoestring budget with paper mache sets- it forces creativitywhen shows get infinite money they spend it on sloppa visual effects which look showy but are in no way impressive and actively detract from the storySeason 2 should be given even less money
>>218012783“None of that fancy stuff”Turns out it doesn’t protect well
>>218012783It absolutely does contribute. If you're waring a padded coif and a helmet with some extra space above the coif, you can absorb blows fairly well. And even if a blow dents the helmet, there's still the extra space and the coif so it won't cave your skull in.Baelor had no padding or coif, and his son's helmet was way too small so there was no space between the armor and the skull. So when he got hit by a mace there was nowhere for the armor to go but into his skull.
>>218012686Homer Simpson syndrome
>>218012686the same way Arya survived being repeatedly stabbed in the chest, falling into a sewer, swimming then running 200 meters and subsequently winning a knife fight in the dark.
>>218012798CEO of HBO...
>>218012701it wasn't though. the half-helmets from Last Duel were retarded but Ridley Scott knows how to not ruin the pacing of an action scene.
>>218012580girlboss gonna girlboss (sadly the city watch has not read the script)
>>218012686he was favored by the gods- weren't you paying attention?
>>218012783Big helmet with padding absorbs the impact. Baelor borrowed his son's jousting helmet. Those are probably not enough to protect you from a fucking mace or flail. Dunk's helm was a proper warhelm and you can see him taking 2+ maces to the head.Also Dunk's brain is very small compared to Baelor. RIP.
>>218012406Okay, I knew about the muppets bullshit, but you have to be fucking me with "Utter Shett" there's no fucking way.
>>218012625you are a dumbfucking idiot who has never approached a set. stop larping as if you know anything about directing or prod bugdets kek
>>218012792Arlan dies of a minor wound in this show too
>>218012712maekar gets held back twice>first by LS and maekar has to unhorse him>second by baelor & LS>>218012771everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouthhell, dunk and aerion were fighting while kingsguard was still mounted and the kg didn't intervene
Here's a fight recap:1st pass>Beesbury vs Kingsguard: indecisive>Hardyng vs Kingsguard: Hardyng killed>Duncan vs Aerion: Duncan injured and unhorsed>Baelor vs Maekar: indecisive>Lyonel vs Kingsguard: Kingsguard incapacitated>Raymun vs Steffon: indecisive>Robyn vs Daeron: Daeron takes a dive2nd pass>Beesbury vs Kingsguard: Beesbury killed>Baelor vs Maekar: Baelor unhorsed>Aerion dismounts to flail Duncan3rd pass>Duncan and Aerion begin fighting>Maekar maces Duncan>Baelor unhorses Maekar>Raymun delivers a charging sword blow to Aerion>Steffon lances Raymun>Robyn vs Kingsguard: indecisive4th pass>Duncan and Aerion continue fighting>Steffon delivers a charging sword blow to Duncan>Lyonel vs Kingsguard: indecisive5th pass>Duncan and Aerion continue fighting>Raymun delivers another charging sword blow to Aerion6th pass (the last time we see anyone still mounted)>Duncan and Aerion continue fighting>Maekar knocks Baelor down>Maekar unhorses LyonelThe Brawl>Duncan and Aerion continue fighting>Baelor and Lyonel start fighting Maekar>Raymun and Steffon are fighting on foot>Maekar hits Baelor in he head>Aerion yieldsA lot seems to happen offscreen.It's implied that Lyonel and Robyn took out all 3 kingsguard, but Robyn fell as well.Also Raymun saves Duncan's life twice while dealing some pretty heavy damage to Aerion.
>>218012358for me, it's when Arya is watching Tywin's bannermen leave Harrenhal and he caps off the list with a bunch of superheroes>Pale light filled the yard when Lord Tywin Lannister took his leave of Harrenhal. Arya watched from an arched window halfway up the Wailing Tower. His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak. His brother Ser Kevan looked near as splendid. No less than four standard-bearers went before them, carrying huge crimson banners emblazoned with the golden lion. Behind the Lannisters came their great lords and captains. Their banners flared and flapped, a pageant of color: red ox and golden mountain, purple unicorn and bantam rooster, brindled boar and badger, a silver ferret and a juggler in motley, stars and sunbursts, peacock and panther, chevron and dagger, black hood and blue beetle and green arrow.
>>218012625So we’ll build 4 new sets, hire a bunch of background characters and four new speaking roles?
why is everyone unimpressed with the fight scene? them rolling around in the mud was great and closer to what you'd expect would actually happen instead of ninja arya stark teleporting behind people or having protracted perfectly choreographed sequence that look like star wars prequel lightsaber duelsit was le 'gritty' but in a good way
>>218012701>I unironically said out loud 'this is better than the duel from The Last Duel'that's because you are unironically a tastelet retard
>>218011752is there like niggers reacting to this? I mean niggers going 'SHIIIIIIIE', not redditors
Imagine Dunk surviving the trial only for those retards to kill him with boiling oil. Baelor coming in clutch once again.
>>218012866I’m really over hearing the characters concussion for myself
>>218012789you know those bits where the swords interact with the lanterns in flea bottom?that's where the budget went
>>218012858>1st pass>>Beesbury vs Kingsguard: indecisiveRaymund said he got killed in the first charge.
who's the biggest jobber in the knight of the seven kingdoms?
>>218012858lmao i'm reminded of the blacks ganging up on aemond after he claims vhagar
>>218012616>No, I won't just "do you right here", you human freak.
>>218012892Dareon
>>218012593It's to prevent unnecessary neck injuries, not to hold the brain in.
>>218012887Maybe it was Hardyng then.In any event one of the two dies in the first and the other dies in the second. We see it through Duncan's visor as he's on the ground.
i want to see Dunc plap that cute redhead who cheered for him
>>218012866I wanted to see more of the actual fights and less of Dunk taking 1000 injuries. It's a television medium and surely the camera could've panned to show the Fossoway duel or the Kingsguard fighting.
>>218012858>Aerion dismounts to flail DuncanDidnt he get unhorsed by either Robyn or Lionel?
>>218012507In the Mystery Knight trial of combat is a joust and Blackfyre shit gets wrecked by a guy they spent days torturing, earning him the name "brown dragon".
>>218012733If only saying it would make it so.
>>218012798>Season 2 should be given even less moneyIt would be more immersive if they actors can't afford dental care
>>218012858I didn't read any of this, if you can't make it clear what's going on by directing the action well don't bother.
>>218012866GOTrannies unironically prefer pic related
>>218012796It had everything to do with him dying, because it being too small made it so it didn't distribute the force.If you get hit with a stick, it will hurt.If you get hit with a stick while wearing a very padded jacket, it will hurt less.If you get hit with a stick while wearing a very padded jacket and an iron sheet over it, it will hurt even lessIf you get hit with a stick while wearing only an iron sheet, it will hurt almost as much as wearing nothing at all.
>>218012892prolly jamie desu
>>218012858>A lot seems to happen offscreen.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>218012866I think it was alright.Maybe Duncan got maimed a bit much, would've liked to see more of the others fighting with fewer camera cuts.Most of the Aerion v Duncan stuff was good.
>>218012926>dental careI didn't like when Dunk was showing off Aerions bruised and battered face but his pearly white teeth were all perfect
>>218012625>filming each one from different angles with resets for lighting, camera rigs,kek what the fuck am I reading on this retarded mongolian basket-weaving forum... As a lightning assistant on national tv shows in my european country, I would be very fucking surprised if an HBO show was going single camera on fight scenes for budget reasons...
>>218012892>>218012940Yeah Jaime. We keep hearing how unbeateable he is but he gets captured and loses his hand immediately.
>>218012686Tbf the only really bad injuries are the lance and the knife to the stomach, both of which got 'caught' by the chainmail and can be rationalized as flesh wounds. Everything else can be chalked up to a properly sized helmet doing it's job/Dunc being a big guy.>>218012710>>218012741>>218012792>Should've died of infection This might be the only time they can get a pass with that since the Targaryens brought a grade A maester in case any of them took a bad hit Egg would absolutely make sure tended to him- every other time someone dies of an infection on this show its a retard in the wilderness without a doctor looking at it going 'eh, it'll be fine.'
>>218012893>lmao i'm reminded of the blacks ganging up on aemond after he claims vhagarVelaryons*
>>218012932>me: "the flashback hurt the pacing, inventing a whole teenage love drama plot about Rafe was a mistake, and there was no real reason we couldn't see other parts of the trial other than just Dunk">you: "HURR YOU TRANNY JUST WANTED ANIME BAD PUSSY TELEPORTS BEHIND YOU SHIT WRITING YOU'RE A PLEB I AM VERY SMART"why are you like this?
>>218012965
>>218012967You didn't say any of that schizo
>WHY DID THE WASTE TIME ON CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT WHEN WE COULD HAVE GOT EPIC FIGHT SCENESHeres a show more your speed.
>>218012912After HBO shows her pissing and shitting.
>>218012967>WHERE ARE MY HECKIN DRAGONERINOS? WHERE IS MY CGI SLOP? WHY CAN'T I SPIN OUT INSANE THEORIES BASED ON HALF-FINISHED BOOKS AND WRITE ESSAYS ABOUT IT ON REDDIT?!? A NICE SIMPLE AND GROUNDED STORY?!?? AAAAAAA SAVE ME GEORGEEEEEE
>>218012987WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE ME DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>218012978but you can imagine what it'd be like if he did
The flashback was fucking terrible what are you sois on about, you know that wasn’t really Zendaya right?
>>218012963Jaime gets captured because they get ambushed by 18,000 northerners that were supposed to be fighting Tywin somewhere else. The Lannister tents and pavillions get swarmed before they can even react. Even still, Jaime manages to put half his armor on and rally a few retainers and almost cuts his way through the northern army to reach Robb. The only reason he fails is because his sword gets stuck in the chainmail of a Karstark. The northerners acknowledge Jaime was a menace and Robb even acknowledges he might've died if not for the chainmail.>"No one can fault Lannister on his courage," Glover said. "When he saw that he was lost, he rallied his retainers and fought his way up the valley, hoping to reach Lord Robb and cut him down. And almost did.">"He mislaid his sword in Eddard Karstark's neck, after he took Torrhen's hand off and split Daryn Hornwood's skull open," Robb said. "All the time he was shouting for me. If they hadn't tried to stop him—"
WHY IS EVERYBODY SCREAMING HEEEEREEEEEE
>Flashback with a mystery meat girlbossFucks sake. At least she gets shanked for running her mouth.
>>218012940>>218012963ITT: retards incapable of reading 10 words sentences to the end.
>>218012999>>218012999>>218012999>>218012999NEW
Were all dragons dead during Dunc's time??
>>218012978>You didn't say any of that schizosee: >>218011787 >>218011776 >>218012917
>>218012921>Didnt he get unhorsed by either Robyn or Lionel?You know you might be right. I thought that was Baelor getting unhorsed and falling onto one of the Humfreys but holy shit it actually looks like Raymun was the one who unhorsed Aerion.Apple lad really fucking hates Aerion.
>>218012938it's a good thing that the episode didn't also have a character survive a dozen mortal wounds while being barely impaired.
>>218013057>barely impairedYou can criticize the unrealistic way that he survives the wounds but you can't say he was barely impaired. They showed how fucked up he was, he could barely walk
all i know about house of the dragon is that the hightower lady is ugly and the daughter of the king is pretty
Has there been any tits on show since the first episode?
>>218013097he acts wounded for as long as dramatically necessary then basically returns to 90% effectiveness. didn't feel authentic.
>>218012847Utter Shett (and Ossifer Lipps) is from the preview chapters and I assume it would be changed if the book ever existed.
what's the sportsballs of westeros
>>218012610oh ok. the wiki says he dies>within the fortnightso I just imagine he’s shifting about for a few hours in agony before he ultimately perishes.
>>218013048Based Apple Lad
>>218012358Fairly sure he unrionically named a lot of the Houses this way
I'm gonna start a House and call it Buttfucker
