Rivendell editionPrev:>>218014215
Arlan flashbacks were kino and I wont hear otherwise.
That was some good looking leather. Get some red dye and no one would be the wiser.
>>218015801
was race+gender swapping rafe into dunk's brown childhood girlfriend REALLY necessary
They killed another Stannis...
>half the season is about a tourney>nothing about the tourney is ever explained and the presentation is utterly nonsensical>a big trial is introduced and a nobody has to find six guys to fight with him>some nameless guys show up in the next scene without reason>big fight with 14 guys>actually it's just 1 guy getting mutilated for half an hour before a magical comeback while the nameless guys are killed offscreen>meanwhile lots of dicks, shit and niggers10/10 you did it again nepojews
>>218015767
You can pinpoint the exact moment that things got worse for Westeros.
JUST SMASH MY HEAD UP
>>218015826Without it Tanselle lusting looks absurd
>>218015826NoAnd I'm tired of shills ITT telling me that it is
>>218015826We don't want him to appear gay
>>218015840kek
>>218015827BAELOR LIVES
>>218015835game of thrones season 4, episode 10?
>>218015840>>218015835Would a caved in helmet really apply that much pressure to keep a man alive with that kind of trauma?
>>218015835Westeros could have been a utopia, if the nobles had just opted for slightly less drip.
>>218015829get a load of this retard, he needs exposition dumps to understand and enjoy somethingback to anime, lad
>>218015550I was rooting for him to reach Dunk in that moment. I thought Maekar didn't like Aerion from previous scenes but he clearly loves his wayward son with that rage and superhuman effort.
I did not expect that Raymun Fossoway and Maekar would be the respective MVPs for their teams.
>>218015826I'm pleased because this means that Rafe Fiennes is also a cute brown girl.
>>218015835Looks like he hits him more in the side of the head
I'm so confusedWHAT happened to the three kingsguard? Did they just.. disappear? Did Rhysling solo all 3 or something?
>>218015846dunk was always meant to be a horny awkward virgin tallcel, he lusts after every young girl that looks at him a certain way
>>218015905they yielded
She's so cute I want to hug her
COME ON!why were they looking at her funny?she was in the way end
>>218015896yeah and you didn't get that either because the fight is almost mono-focussed on Dunc and Aerion.
>>218015905In the book Baelor keeps them busy and incapacitates them, because they're not allowed to hurt him. Not sure what happens to them in the show though.
>Ser Duncan...>...I don't feel so good.
>>218015923
Why does Viserys age so rapidly compared to Daemon? Get that he's a bit older and they establish that Viserys has health issues, but Matt Smith looks nearly the same this entire show (minus hair) while the other guy gets thrown in age makeup each time skip
>>218015826Was rafe even described in the novel?
>>218015918I want to finger her while she sits there and hopes nobody will notice
>>218015918She unironically looks like my brother with long hair wearing a dress kek
>>218015905Lyonel made them yield before helping Baelor with Maekar
>>218015918>Lady Has A Speaking Part For No Reason
>>218015937better diet and lifestyle, lucky genes
>>218015937hightowers poisoned him, many such cases
>>218015890>story no matter, me just want flashing lightsYeah I bet you'd know all about what anime is like.
>>218015905
>Highest rated episode of every series >Ultimately that just means more quality shitposts
>>218015874Baelor was hopped up on adrenaline and the blood of the dragon. He was a dead man walking just didn't realize it yet.
>>218015945kek you should buy him a dress and see what happens
>>218015937not suited for the iron throne
>>218015905Lyonel beats one off screen, Rhysling is fighting another the entire time and the 3rd is either fighting Rhysling as well, gets off screened in the first charge or helping injured Daeron or the KG Lyonel beats.
>>218015905Baelor used a warcry which taunts all Kingsguard in 40' to attack him with +200% duration.
>>218015937Matt Smith has looked like that for the past 20 years. Ugly men last longer.
>>218015937(((Maesters)))Daemon even alluded to it
>>218015926>>218015917>>218015947I see... Do they actually like injure them? Does Lyonel and Baelor politely ask them to yield or are they like, slashing and paralyzing these guys behind the knee or somethingI find it weird that both Baelor and Maekar are still fighting potentially to the death, with wild cards in Dunk and Lyonel and they don't intervene..
>>218015971/dunk/ won.
>>218015942you're big and stupid
>>218015942Sounds like something you have tried before
>>218015826>needlessly antagonize the law enforcement>diesHow did this dumb bitch live for as long as she did? And she's the one to call dunc dumb lol
>>218015971imdb and other metrics sites are just paid advertizing services now.
>>218015984>Lyonel beats one offstopped reading right there
>>218015990kek
If only Dunc killed Aerion, Baelor would have survived since theyd call the fight earlier
>No footage whatsoever of him in the first pass, taking the fall, and pretending to be injuredJust as he intended.
>>218015971Its not gotslop its DUNKAKINO!
OH N-
Need an edit of arland saying GET UP but handing dunk a white monster
>>218015937That wasnt him aging, that was him rotting.
>>218015997
I'm so fucking tired of brown sassy girlbosses
>>218015818The flashback was kino for this alone. Say what you will about the girl and interrupting the tourney fight, Ser Arlan slapped his massive cock all over this episode
>>218016016If dunk kills Aerion everyone in that trial dies. Maekar would absolutely not yield if his son got killed. He would kill Baelor and Lyonel or die trying
>>218016015makes more sense than the explanations the shills are attempting
>>218015933>Goes against his own kin for some dishonest lowborn>Immediately killed by the gods The Seven saw Maekars more honourable love for his son and decided the Dornishman had to go lmao.
>>218016027Absolute kek
>>218015937the (((maesters))) anon, always the (((maesters)))
the number of injuries duncan got was pretty excessive for what was a really grounded show so far
>>218016023the king who dared to be stupid
how would he fare in the trial of the seven?
>>218016023I thought he was in the crowd
>>218015918She cute
What if he killed Prince Chud?
Egg is a great squire, Dunk clearly had an advantage over the other knights.
>>218015997lmao
>>218016038can you at least try to behave like a real 4chan user.
>>218015938Nope, not even a gender stated. The idea that Dunk loved her and only once in passing mentions her is comical.
>>218016040nah hed respect the trial of 7
>>218015905The Kingsguard kinda forgot about the trial.
>>218015810-ACK
>>218016058yields like a bitch
>>218016028>Don't make me punch you, brother!
>>218016058pretty much unbeatable since as a prince he can just take some kingsguards as part of his seven
>>218016051The show isn't grounded, the book is.They're just setting this show up to be GoT 2, that's why they're adding random scat humor, dicks, and needless cursing, none of which is in the source material.
>>218016040if only it were possible to tell Aerion the trial is real and then just set him up to lose it without dying so that everyone could have tea. oh well I guess 3 knights including the heir to the throne have to get killed by accident.
What vidya do you play after this episode that captures the same vibes?
>>218016104SnowRunner. Mud everywhere.
>>218015136toranaga took like eight hacks to get it done, but then again he was a boy
How skilled a warrior was endgame Dunk? Seems like he only got through this trial via retard strength and sheer luck.
>>218016095the book isn't grounded either. the Trial of Seven concept is fucking retarded and Dunc just randomly makes friends with the most important people in the country. GRRM didn't know he was going to be autistically obsessed over when he wrote it and wasn't trying very hard.
>>218016104Forspoken
I ran this scenario in Baldur's Gate 3 and yeahI gotta say it didn't really make much sense how they did it in the show>kingsguard are all level 12 champions with Alert>they get initative>close in on Dunk, action surge and attack him 6 times each>trail of seven is over even before Dunk's side gets a turn
>>218015826White liberal women won’t watch a show unless the male protagonist is pining for a frumpy frizzy haired mulatta with masculine features.
Its called trialing a seven, Tone.You jack off 7 guys in sandals to get out of jail or something, I don't know it's some old roman shit
>>218016115Masterclass swordsmanStandard/Above-average horseman
>>218016104For Honor
>>218016115>retard strengthits all you need
>>218016076Rhysling isnt mentioned beyong a single line that he said a prayerBut taking some liberty making him into a kino fanatic was great
>>218015797Why are flea bottom dwellers like this
>>218016115the show makes him look much worse at fighting than he already would have been, and the flashback makes him look like the most implausible nice, sensitive street urchin ever. I didn't like it.
>>218016115I found it weird how quickly Aerion got his shit pushed inIsn't he supposed to be a better fighter than a random hedge knight?
>>218016115He has a good head for it, but not enough practical experiencehe'll get there
>>218016115Enough to get 4 pages worth of records when most people get 1 or a paragraph
Dunk showed fucking targshits who's the boss
>>218016051
post yfw >In the name of the Mother leave that boy alone!
>>218015923>why were they looking at her funny?
>>218016152I felt like it made enough sense, big mass difference and he didn't have the stamina to hold Dunk back that long
Who /beesbury/ here?
>>218016170
So we all hate the amount of screen time wasted on Rafe, amirite?
>>218016186Oh mama
>>218016152there is really no reason to suppose this at all. being in the royal family didn't make you good at fighting, just well-trained. there's nothing in the books to suggest he was even above average. all that aside, Aerion is supposed to be slim and average height while Dunc is 7' tall and built like a monolith. his behavior throughout the show imply that he wasn't confident he could win a trial by combat but the show just abandonned all that so that Dunc would have to struggle.
>>218015767How was the latest episode compared tp the other ones? Haven't had time to watch it yet.
>>218016150has he ever jousted before? You could explain Brightflame piecing him up by the fact he was completely disoriented from getting destroyed on horseback
You guys actually thought this was a good fight? This was Medieval Times tier fakeness. We barely saw any other knights fighting and people were just falling off horses
>>218016186Dunc is lucky man, shiiit
>>218016152Str + Con + Vit > Dex + Agi
>>218016028Why does HBO fantasy shows look so much better than Netflix and Amazon ones? Like the armor and outfits and all. It feels like they keep some secret room where all of that is stored, and all other studios just don't have the same shit.
Retarded fucking attention whores
>>218015984
>>218016243experience probably, its a legacy production
>>218016152Did we watch the same episode? Aerion unhorsed Dunk and was landing multiple stabs and blows on him. Dunk just kept getting up
Shhhhh Baelor is sleeping
>>218016152Dunc has like double his body mass and more experience in life or death situations
So the Goldcloak guy with the knife was the grandfather of the Fookin Legend right?
why is he so zesty?
>>218016244Eat shit and die faggot
Not a propThe actor actually bit off multiple fish to get this right
>>218016104Chivalry 2Half Sword
Was it the right choice making Ser Arlan based and honorable instead of a phony bullshitter that Dunk saw through rose tinted glasses?
>>218016280
This post >>218016288 was meant as a reply to this post >>218015767
>>218016104Mordhau
>>218016186THANK THE GODS FOR BESSIE AND HER TITS
>>218016287he's not zestyhe's a BRAT
>>218016280best frame
>>218016226the whole point is that most of the fight is dunks pov so its focused on dunk vs aerion and the periphery of that fight
>>218016244they're called shills anon
>Flea Bottom accent is just IrelandBased. Stay in your place potatofaggots
>>218015832Their goal was to make him look as much like Austin Butler in Dunc Part 2, right? He basically looked like a medieval Harkonen the entire time his mask was up.
>>218016152Maybe I can explain it in a way people like you can understandSTR > DEXDidn't matter how much that Targ shit hit Dunk, because one hit from Dunk was worth more than anything landed on him
>GET UPwhat do?
>>218016308Arlan as a based retard is great imo
>>218016225the charge ended up being meaningless anyway: Dunc quickly shows himself to be immune to damage and Aerion gets unhorsed at the same time for no reason despite being allegedly much better at jousting. bad writing and scene structure.
>>218016104mordhau
>>218016341>fookin legend>Irish
>>218016341I think they did that because of Davos. He's also from fleabottom and the actor is irish
>>218016354>not Dunkin DonutsDUNKAKINO
>>218016243in this case because they saved money by having fog everywhere. >>218016244more like group therapy
what if duncan was short but twice the mass?how would the trial go?
>>218016361>the charge ended up being meaningless anywaynot really, if he didnt get his shit rocked he probably brute forces Aerion immediately on the ground instead of struggling
>>218016186I knew I wasn’t crazy for finding her insanely hot. Delectable tits.
>>218016308who would have taught dunk to be honorable then
>>218016104Full on Dunk larping in for honor
>>218016164he must have been quite a man
It was really good episode overall, can we just agree on that?
>>218016375the population of Kingslanding: 1 million the apparent population of Flea Bottom: 997,000
>>218015923>why were they looking at her funny?I'm guessing because she was seated in the noble's section (despite being a whore) and was rooting for Dunk instead of Aerion?
>>218016413the population of KL is half a million
>>218016412Rafe takes it down a couple notches
GET UP
>>218016412All episodes were.Dunk is kino af
>>218016361In the book it's made note that Dunk's squad use tournament lances as they were longer and made of wood and thus able to outrange Aerion's team's warlances which had to be shorter due to being heavier and having a metal tip. They made no mention of this in the show, and I guess they didn't do that because two of Dunk's guys got gibbed in the first charge, and Dunk himself got skewed too. But, it would have been a bit more tragic if they'd died with wooden lances.
why leave a negative comment about Rafe when you can daydream about Gwin instead?
>>218016412only if you state that hightower bitch is ugly and Rhaenyra is pretty
>>218016412shoulda been 20/10 trial/flashback but yeah it was good
>>218016152Aerion is visibly the better fighter, the show even embellished this further than expected. However being a more skilled fighter doesn't mean much when a huge tank of a man straddles you and punches you until you're seeing stars. Weight classes exist in combat sports for a reason.
Why did jousting always get major hype when two dudes just wailing at each other in a duel is arguably more entertaining?
>>218016424I want to rape Rafe
>>218016398>if he didnt get his shit rockedI get that you're a shill, but that's not what was in the scene. Dunc got injured so many times that it became meaningless. show made a mistake not having them use tourney lances and just letting Aerion stay on his horse for longer.
>>218015938>Was rafe even described in the novel?It's implied in the book that Rafe and Dunk's other buddies in Kingslanding were boys and while I'm fine with the show making him a girl, I'm not fine with casting an ugly mulatto.
>>218016369>>218016321How is Mordhau nowadays? I've been interested in it for a while and while Chiv2 is fun, its damage numbers make me pissed.Also MAEKAR SMASH BAELOR!
>>218016442I assume it's because of the clash between two guys riding towards each other at 50km/h, armed with long pointy objects is a lot more impactful, than fast blows during a melee.
>>218016412It was a 7/10 but could have been easily been a 1000/10 if they had shown more of the fight (especially Lyonnel FUCKING LAUGHING), less brown girl, and dunk not getting jobbed so hard for most of it.
>>218016412It had the potential to be a real 10/10 but was an 8.5 instead
RAPE RAFE
>>218016442Jousting is nowhere near as lethal
>>218016434>Queen of love and breeding
>>218016412no. the show is bad. there have been no really good episodes. >>218016423shut the fuck up. the point is that literally everyone is either from Flea Bottom or is a member of the nobility.
>>218016152Aerion is better jouster, but if we are talking about melee fight well…. Good luck fighting against a 195m/119kg pissed ginger.
>>218016463im playing diablo 2 barb with double maces because of this motherfucker
>>218016412Actually it was a terrible episode that soured me on the whole show.
>>218016455>that's not what was in the scene.yes it was, sorry youre blind
>>218016412The flashback ruined the momentum. It made me think they were going to pull a Tyrion in that battle.
>>218016442Jousting is kinetic, showy, and loud. Duels between armored knights often result to messy mudslinging where each of them tries to shove a dagger into the other's weakpoints, which is kinda shit to observe as a spectator.
>>218016138He was from House Strong Prince Maekar?
>>218016104Morrowind.
>>218016436Nah she annoying, inbred dyke
>>218016040>If dunk kills Aerion everyone in that trial dies.No, the fight is over at the point.
>>218016354>>218016379
>>218016438>Weight classes exist in combat sports for a reason.It's really not the reason people seem to think it is. Weight classes ultimately only start to matter when the fighters are evenly matched, you're not going to beat a competent fighter just because you're bigger than him.UFC didn't have weight classes for years because there was no need for that.
>oh hey child actors aren't bad at a-...>"WWAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIITTTTT"God I hate children's voices
>>218016429the idea of anyone except maybe Aerion using war lances when they don't want to kill each other, and are just doing the Trial because of a technicality is retarded. GRRM wanted there to be a body count. he should have just had everyone fight for show while Aerion and Dunc 1v1'd, then Baelor dies purely by accident because Maekar starts to panic that Dunc is going to kill his son towards the end.
GREEN FUCKING BOYS
>>218016535Egg’s actor is doing a great job
>>218016530>Weight classes ultimately only start to matter when the fighters are evenly matched, you're not going to beat a competent fighter just because you're bigger than him.How many fights have you been in your life? Because I've been in a few and every single time it was superior size that decided the outcome no matter the smaller guy's skill.
>>218016206Hated it at first, but it lead to Arlan's kino moment so I was ultimately fine with it.
>>218016514I don't really get the point of the trial of 7 at that point, the end goal is the same as 1v1
>I need good men, Ser Duncan. The realm n..>[staggers]
>>218016530they are all wearing full armor so skill and speed are much less relevant. plus the weight difference isn't small, Duncan is fucking huge. plus THERE IS NOTHING IN THE BOOKS ABOUT AERION BEING GOOD AT FIGHTING. IT WAS MADE UP FOR THE SHOW BECAUSE IT IS SHIT HOLLYWOOD CLICHE TRASH. what is in the show and book is that Aerion didn't even expect there to be a Trial he thought Dunc would be unable to find champions and auto-lose.
>Why did I join this fuckin trial?
>>218015826I am not racist and on 4chan for some reason and its a bit off putting because its like he has a "type" or something its sorta creepy. Also her death was the grossest death I have ever seen. So I didn't really like it just from that point of view. This episode was so intense I either will give up on making a family friendly edit like I had hoped or probably just delete this backstory and maybe make the fight cut short by like 60%.>>218015818I didn't believe for a minute the kid could follow a man 100 miles hike or whatever I am making it up with 0 food and no idea why he can't just say hello to the guy. Probably has to do with The Gods.
i hope they keep the kid as an actor for Egg in the 2nd season as well that lil shit is a really good actor hands down
>>218016530>you're not going to beat a competent fighter just because you're bigger than himThat's literally how 99% of fights go unless you're very skilled and in shape to face someone bigger.A really big dude can just hold a light guy down and beat him to death if he wants to.
>>218016590>Arlan's kino momentTurns out he was a pretty good knight. Hacking up two people dead drunk while defending poor children.
>soulless memes made by AIThe state of you, /got/
>>218016115Is he bad though? Seems like the conundrum is he would’ve been Aerion at full strength hence why Aerion avoided fighting him 1 on 1 in the first place.
>>218016574thats because neither guy could fight
>>218016206Yeah, I skipped through that part. Possible 8/10 reduced to 6/10 for me.
I watched the episode today.It was a complete shit and i am baffled that people actually liked it. Did they not learn anything at all?The flashback was way too long and did not include anything substantial. We already know Dunk goodhearted nature, and who cares about some random girl friend of his? Fucking nonsense. Arlan scenes are even worse, some fucking drunk just kills two gold cloaks without any consequences lol. There were even witnesses but no one cares. This is season 8 got retardation, no one cares about consequences of their actions. But people like it because "waow based funny drunk kills people!!!"? This is the same kind of people that clapped when Hound made his chicken joke in GoT. Then long ass series of scenes with Dunk traveling after horsed Arlan on foot... and somehow keeping up? FOR DAYS? While Arlan did not even notce him until he fell down? It was like some fucking cartoon. Absolutely abysmal. By the way, they also ignored tourney lances vs war lances thing from the books. What a shame, would be a great thing to underline Baelor's intelligence, and it comes back in third story anyway, where Dunk gives the same advice to Ball's bastard, allowing Glendon to beat Blackfyre pretender in first pass, showing Dunk's growth and putting him into a Baelor's shoes (the one who helps the true knights when they are abandoned by others). The only thing in episode i liked was Baelor death, it was very good, but that is not enough to save this episode.And then i just read some interview where Parker and his asslickers claim that they wanted to create ambiguity whether Maekar wanted to kill Baelor or not, lol... "BECAUSE HE IS NOW HEIR TO THE THRONE". These people do not understand source material at all, they just kind of forget about Aerys, Rhaegal, Valar etc...Fucking hollywood jews, i am such a cuck for watching this slop. I made the same mistake a third time. I am not watching the last episode, i feel just too disgusted by it all.
>>218016206anyone with a brain does
>>218016602https://youtu.be/UvzF-ItHJV8?t=129
>>218016624It's not /got/ anymoreIt's /dunk/
Why didn't they try making her likeable?
>>218016115>How skilled a warrior was endgame Dunk? Seems like he only got through this trial via retard strength and sheer luck.It was just retard strength and luck.Dunk is supposed to be 16-17 years old and his only "combat" experience is practicing with an old man and maybe the occasional squire.
The flashback scene filtered millions. I haven't seen a single criticism of it that wasn't racist.
>>218016530>evenly matchedNot really.A pretty small guy with an mma record can of course beat a loaf with no experience at all, but it starts to matter a lot earlier before they're evenly matched
>>218016592it's not logical writing. the trial being allowed to go ahead only makes sense if everyone except Aerion and Duncan knows that the risk of accidental deaths is going to be minimized. even GRRM didn't really think about this in the book, he just disregarded that mindlessly following the technicalities of Honour is stupid in the universe he wrote.
>>218016652The Irish accent is inherently unlikeable
Objectively speaking, even if the episode wasn't your cup of tea, it's still one of if not the greatest episode of television history
>>218016206it was a serious waste of an episodeI wanted to see more rolling in the mud unironically
>>218016602Why was maekar such a cunt anyway? He should have known that swing was deadly even with the armor on
>>218016638tldr
>>218016652because she wasnt supposed to be likeable
>>218016660the setup before arlan should have taken 1-2 minutesplus the ugly gollywog didn't help
>>218016660
>>218015874Actually a somewhat common death for real knights, also how king arthur dies (sometimes)
>>218016606>I didn't believe for a minute the kid could follow a man 100 miles hike or whatever I am making it up with 0 food and no idea why he can't just say hello to the guy. He is stupid
>>218016665yeah but I mean the trial as a concept in general, I know Aerion did it in an attempt to weasel his way away from Dunc and hope somebody else killed him but the rules in general doesnt make a lot of sense for two guys actually happy to fight each other
>>218016442There are levels to it. To start, actual duels vs melees (tournaments circa 12th century) were very different. In the 12th century, tournaments were still mostly being figured out. They were also banned from England for a long time, so a lot of English knights would go to Britanny and France. The melees in these times were very similar to what we saw, but decidedly less lethal since the goal wasn't kill your opponent but to take him hostage. It was also meant to be a spectacle of war on the small scale. You'd often have two groups of men facing one another (think a fifty to a hundred on each side) and charge at one another on their horses. From there you'd fight and fight until you were taken captive, or the melee was concluded. Dunk gets the whole "you lose all your shit and have to pay a ransom" thing right, albeit it was for far less money than an actual battlefield ransom and depended on how wealthy the person was. They could also buy their horses, arms, and armor back from you. These were still very dangerous, and eventually over the centuries they became sporterized into the sort of thing you and I know from movies. Buhurt is the closest you'll get to what the old-style looked like, minus the horses and edged weapons.
>>218016686Because he was seeing his son seemingly about to get killed by a random hedge knight, and his brother was preventing him from saving his son? And the swing wouldn't have been deadly if Baelor was properly armored. The blacksmith isn't worried when he sees the dented helmet because he knows usually it just absorbs the blow, but the helmet was way too small and had no coif beneath.
>>218015767Sleepy Daeron
>>218016619IRL a longsword wouldn't even go through plate armour. knights would try to grapple each other and force the end of the sword through the visor. and Dunc should have had plate gauntlets, with which he could just grab the blade of the sword. it's a bummer because they missed the opportunity for a more satisfying absurdist version of the scene where we suddenly realize Aerion is completely outmatched after Dunc has huge initial difficulty turning the fight into a wrestling match.
>>218016661A pretty small guy with a college wrestling record will also choke out a 50kg bigger professional boxer in a minute as regularly seen in early UFC.
>>218016686Get fucked, Maekar was defending his son while Baelor randomly jumped in for a dishonest lowborn. It's a trial by combat so blame the gods for killing your retarded prince. Maekar did nothing wrong.
>>218016668oof big yikes
>>218016713aerion chose the trial because he's vain and has a desire to be in the history booksthat's why they poisoned his wildfire as an ultimate cuck move
>>218016638it's all just shills like most of this dead shit site.
Everything with Baelor at the end was masterclass. I genuinely FELT so surreal happening. Like you know something is up and it's Baelor says an odd thing or two and then the reveal oh my godIt's really the best death and dying moments ever put to screen I think.
>>218015997You'll have to remake this, it's at 9.8 now.
Wild skull shape on this bitch.Look at that shit.
>>218016745>he was defending his son from a really long way away by struggling to 3v1 his brother while being unable to see what was happening in the Dunc v Aerion fight owing to fog and his restricted visionyeah exactly. the writing was shit.
>>218016624baby Rafe
>>218016749probably part of it yeah, I think being afraid to 1v1 Dunc is the main reason though
>>218016784someone mentioned that she looks like young ned stark...kek
>>218016652fleabottom shits aren't likeablethe only reason you like dunk is because you already know him as an adult
>>218016119>Dunc just randomly makes friends with the most important people in the country.Baelor Targaryen is a good guy who wants to teach his shitbag nephew a lesson.Lyonel Baratheon wants the glory that comes with a Trial of Seven.Raymun Fossoway hates his cousin.Robyn Rhysling is a spaz who simply likes fighting.Humfrey Hardyng wants revenge against Aerion for the cheep shot that broke his leg.Humfrey Beesbury... I dunno? He just wants in on the fight (also, Hardyng is his brother-in-law).
I like book Dunk vs Aerion better. Dunk gets his shit pushed in intially when he tries to fight like a knight, but once he just drops his sword and rushes his foe like a maniac he literally lifts him up into the air so he can tell everyone he yields. Dunk has retard strength and I think that would've been better than trying to force the underdog (who can take 10000 injuries) angle.
>>218016784dunk should be thanking this guy dunk is too nice and retarded he would've been fully pussy whipped by the first fleabottom trog that tells him what to do now he gets ti be a cool knight.
>>218016713>the rules in general doesnt make a lot of senseGRRM just made up the sitaution he wanted and sloppily tried to justify it with a story about a hedge knight and sidekick team he wanted to write an origin story for. Aegon running around by himself doesn't make any sense, neither did Arya doing it. GRRM only cares about realism when he thinks his readers will notice.
>>2180167921 vs 1 Aerion kills Dunk, he's better trained, experienced and equippedhe would make him look laughable, no honour or prestige in killing some huge peasant
The heir, Baelorwhatever happened there?
>>218016115My take is that he had a couple of unlucky blows in the beginning and was essentially fighting in a huge handicap, but even then he was able to take a huge amount of punishment and fight really well regardless.
>>218016243if i had to gander a guess its because HBO has a culture and a crew that knows how to make armor and clothes have the right look to it, and especially fit. a lot of time the armor is technically okay, like decent design and texture, but they just don't know how to have it fitted to the actor so it looks like goofy larp gear. the most prominent tell is when the armor has noticeable visual bulk to it, like it isn't properly form fitting. armor should be tailored to each actor by an autist who specializes in it but cheap/lazy productions dont give a fuck so they just throw some shit on an actor and call it a day
Reminder that Bloodraven is Mossad and he killed half of his family with black magic
>>218016741>>218016661these examples are irrelevant because there's nothing special about Aerion in-universe. they just made him skilled in the show because they thought it would make the fight more suspenseful because they are hacks.
>>218015846no it doesn't. he lusts after Tanselle because she's tall and looked at him funny.
>>218016638https://ew.com/a-knight-of-the-seven-kingdoms-breaks-down-tragic-death-trial-of-seven-11906386>"We did slightly different versions of culpability, I guess; whether it was accident or whether he meant to kill his brother," he explains. "I think that was really exciting for me to experiment with and to discuss with not only Ira, but Sarah [Adina Smith, director of episode 6]. There is that kind of deep, deep desire to be number one in Maekar that might be realized by the death of his brother. So all the guilt or all the sadness or all the grief he feels is kind of bracketed by this realization that this means he's next in line to the throne."Here it is, if someone did not saw it.
>>218016873Not even Aerion has this much confidence in himself
>>218015905There was one shot where we see a white cape riding towards Dunk and Aerion in the background, and then he kinda just turns around and meanders around. I thought it seemed a little odd that he didn't jump in and help, but then I remember those same kingsguard talking shit about the prince a few episodes before. They were probably hoping the spoiled little shit would die, so they don't have to put up with him anymore
>>218016115hes like ippo. he can tank a nuke as long as he remembers to get oxygen in his muscles, and once he gets up close he can do the dempsey roll to instawin
>>218016592There is an advantage for the accuser, if the accused is unable to get the other 6 for the trial then the accused is declared guilty by default. That is what the targ was hoping for
angry dad Maekar vs Criston Cole, who wins?
>>218016873>1 vs 1 Aerion kills Dunk, he's better trained, experienced and equipped
>>218016895The thing that is the real head scratcher is that RoPE's production is handled by WETA. And yet the armor still looks like total fucking dogshit. I have to wonder if it's simply a case where WETA literally doesn't give a fuck because they know they aren't making the new LoTR and this is just a paycheck to them while Amazon gets to bandy about that they have WETA doing this stuff for them.
>>218016873>1 vs 1 Aerion kills Dunkexcept he didnt, and thats with having a huge horsemanship advantage that he wouldnt have in a standard trial by combat
>>218016873Being big in GoT universe = giants blood magic bullshit strength. Its not simply ouskilling someone, people like Dunk are inhumanly strong and can tank blows that would easily kill a normal person.
>>218016918>we decided to do it exactly like in the bookwow so brave
>>218016930Criston
>>218016784Pheowr. Dunk, you really know how to pick 'em.God damnnnn.
THATS HOW YOU MAKE CINEMA YOU CUNTSI FUCKING WASTED SO MUCH OF MY TIME WITH VINCE'S BULLSHIT I CURSE HIS NAME AND HIS LESBIAN DRAMA EVERYTIME I WATCH DUNK
>>218016919there's a reason why only Valarr and him showed upthey're actually good and they like it
>>218016898it gives dunk something to work towards, the book makes you wonder what good combat training even is now at the very least his relying on pure brute force gets him banged up
>>218016942they literally chose the only possible version of the fight where Dunc winning DIDN'T seem plausible. it's amazing really.
>>218016946In the book it is obviously an accident lmao, Maekar is not next in line to the throne, Valar is. And after Valar it's Aerys and Rhaegal's children.
>>218016898We know that he's had royal training and he takes part in tourneys and even wins in them which already gives us all the reason to assume that he's leagues more capable than some random squire.
>>218016942As evidenced by the incredible amount of shit he ate during the fight
>>218016968Vince?
I don't remember the trial being especially about "blood" or "death" in the book, you're supposed to make the opponent yield no? And any injury is more an unfortunate accident than clear aim of anyone...
>>218015818He literally only intervened because the commotion was disrupting his dick stroke game
The mutt flashback was dumb.
So is the tournament just over now? What happens next? The fuck does Dunc do?
>>218016896If true he killed the half that expressed filthy dornish genes and re-purified the bloodline. Kinda based if you ask me.
>>218016991a trial of 7 is to the death anonthe other big trial of 7 we know about ended with literally everyone dead, except someone used magic so one guy got back up and was declared winner
>>218016867>GRRM only cares about realism when he thinks his readers will notice.He cares about realism when it makes for good drama. That's the point of his infamous 'Aragorn's tax policy quote'. It was never about an autistic obsession with realism for its own sake, but that focusing on 'realistic' things like political scheming can make for just as good of a story as high fantasy adventures.
>>218015918I want to breed her
>>2180169401 on 1 Aerion unhorses Dunk, bonks him with a flail and ends this mummer's farce
>>218016968>>218016989>The Dunk is big.
>>218017009fills four pages of a certain book
meanwhile here's Aerion vs Dunk in the novella
>>218017009I'm pretty sure the tourney got cancelled when a prince got his ass kicked.
>>218016918>this realization that this means he's next in line to the throneOh great it's another show made by retards who didn't even bother to read the books.
>>218017009the tournament was over while dunk was in prison.
>>218016978Aerion isn't a very dangerous opponent so beating him while 7' tall and wearing full plate wouldn't take away from Dunc's future character arc. the trouble is that the showrunners went with the most cliche'd choices possible: the villain has to be better at fighting because he's the villain, you can't create problems for the main character any other way despite the fact that there are 12 other guys to get in the way,the fight has to be almost entirely 1v1 because hollywood.
>>218015818Ser Arlan had just lost his nephew and squire, that's why he was enraged to see someone attacking a boy.
>>218016064>lack of eye/eyebrow reactionhmmmmmmmm
>>218017035except he lost anon, did you watch the episode? or are you coping with the brief Fossoway assist? 1v1 no horses Dunc just rushes him and does what Gregor did to Oberyn more or less
>>218017039i think the show makes him seem more like a heroic underdog whereas the book fight sounds more like a grown man beating up a toddler
>>218015826Yes, it showed the crossroad in Dunc's life because where he happened to be born: >act like a nigger, become a nigger, get killed like a nigger in some shitty back alley>become the knight you were meant to beThey also highlight how he already knew that being a nigger and running away from your problems wouldn't fix anything, and the white man in his blood told him that it's up to him to make the world a better place for everyone.
>>218016933With how much RANGZ cost and how crap it looks the only conclusion I can come to is fraud
>>218016412>It was really good episode overall, can we just agree on that?No, it was 90% useless flash-back filler and the fight was so badly filmed I couldn't tell WTF was going on.
>>218016983>and even wins in themnot mentioned in any wikis. he's also 18 at the oldest btw, and possibly as young as 15.anyway what the show should have done is make clear that Dunc struggles initially but then wins by turning it into a streetfight. that's the thematic payoff and would have justified flashbacks. but they didn't. fuck it.
>>218017053He isn't all that better, just trained in the first five seconds dunc still overpowers the guy.I thought it actually did a great job showing how retard strength realistically comes into play, endurance is king. A guy with a sword isn't just going to let you pick him up.
>>218016948What is it with Blackwood bastards and shooting people from afar? It's twice that happened.
>>218017009HBO kind of forgot about the tournament happening.
>>218015870>gets his femoral artery cut>no bleeding>walks it off like it's no biggieis this why aerion thought he was a dragon?
>>218017122they're cowards
>>218016186AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>218016638I just mentally deleted the flashback scenes.
>I need a name for the character who suggests using tourney lances in the battle, even though they shatter easily>Aha, George you’ve done it again!
>mfw my CHUD brother is corrupting my retarded daughter
>>218017064>1v1 no items final destinationDunk loses the joust and his head within 3 minuteshe kills everyone besides mountain or belwas in a melee only
>>218015877helmets are worn over padding. some already have paddinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbxgl3ykIb0&t=829
>>218016652This is what white liberal women find likeable in a female character.
>>218017157trial by combats aren't jousts anon
>>218016152He actually does even worse in the book
>>218016287isn't zesty meant to describe gay black people (summer islanders)?
>>218016747>in UKDefinitive article you cunts!And that's clearly wrong, nobody thinks Scouse is sexy
A. She was a hooahB. She insulted the dragon first
>Sup bitch>wanna joing the kingsguardwhat do?
>>218017122Cravens
>>218017178it's like flamboyant, but black
I skipped all the scenes with the gross neanderthal actor and the episode was great. That gross subhuman added absolutely nothing, the 2 minutes of long dick johnson was all the flashback that was needed.
>>218017122Bitch made
>>218017197job
>>218016152>Isn't he supposed to be a better fighter than a random hedge knight?He is. But Dunk is just built different.
>>218017169They can be.
>>218016727Why didn't Baelor bring his own armor with him, Maekar did
>>218017195C. The dragon ought never lose.
Blood(c)raven
>>218016713They explain it as an antiquated religious practice. They think the gods will intervene more in a 7 vs 7 vs 1-on-1 where the better fighter will usually win regardless of the truth
>>218017224Because he wasn't going to joust
>>218015801>>218015818Arlan showing up in the flashback made it absolutely worth, but taking a half hour break to introduce and resolve a flashback plot all during the climax made it a mess.They should've had the Rafe stuff as a flashback while Dunc was in the cell up to the night before they go to try and buy their ship passage, then cut back to it and the Arlan stuff in episode 5, that way the entirety of the climax feels like it's all payoffs and keeps the tension going.
>>218017169why are trials by 7 started on horse then?no evidence of this but I think if you ask for a trial by combat you can't refuse the methodonly going by history when they could pick between sabers, pistols or whatever
didn't realize maekar was the same actor as the homeless hitman guy in fargo s5.
>>218017224Baelor didn't expect to fight, it was a diplomatic mission to attain positive Targaryen PR among the people. Maekar however is a stubborn soldier and probably brings his armor with him even when going to the damn toilet.
>>218017239Was Maekar actually planning to joust?
>>218017197Fuck his sister (I'm moonboy).
>>218017245trial of 7 is different please stop being obtuse because you lost the argument
>>218017248when did you realize it
>>218017115with realistic armour, Dunc could have literally grabbed Aerion's sword by the blade, fallen on top of him and won that way. Aerion is so much smaller he's going to be weighed down more by equally thick armour. being 7' tall means Dunc's reach is also much longer. they should have made 70% of the fight about getting Aerion off his horse. but for some reason Dunc forgot to put a pair of plate gauntlets on and anyway he got stabbed a billion times and we needed to have audience participation so fuck it.
>>218017230when you think about it, its kind of true. You cant tell me Dunk tanking all of that and standing back up wasnt the mothers interventionprotecting the innocent as it were
>>218016138>>218016497geggirino
>>218017280there's only one way to settle this trial by combat, on horseback
>>218017245because GRRM wanted a big fight.
Here's how Baelor can still live.
>>218017287no lowborn would ever be able to afford full fitted plate armor, even if he did any trained fighter could easily ensure if they fall on top of you they fall on your daggerthis isn't an mma fight it is bladed combat to the death.
>>218017322If only they had kept the helm on him
>>218017287>but for some reason Dunc forgot to put a pair of plate gauntletshes fucking broke man
>>218017359Another soul lost to the tragic Hollywood obsession to remove helmets in order to show the actor's face
>>218017359>The Helmed King
>>218017380why are you remembering Dunc not having any armor 2 episodes ago instead of bitching endlessly about the show lad, where do you think you are
>>218017358I can tell you don't actually know enough about medieval armour or understand weight ratios so I'm going to GTFOI wish you well in your future battles against 7' tall men.
What is this quirky ass sigil
>>218017433I think it is supposed to be House Stokeworth's.
>>218017433House Stokeworth>A white lamb holding a golden goblet on a green field(Vert, a lamb proper holding a goblet or)
>>218017485But it's literally the opposite of that
>>218017380they didn't decide he wouldn't have plate gauntlets because they calculated his socioeconomic status lmaoit was because they wanted to do the "he grabs the blade and cuts his hands" bit because they falsely believed that the best ending for this story was the same as a generic 1v1 where the protag is outmatched by a superior opponent.
>>218017485So what drunkard house has a goblet holding a lamb?
AAAAHHHH MAILLE SLANDER YET MORE ARMOR SLANDER THAT IS NOT A PROPER RONDEL YOU'RE NOT USING YOUR WHOLE WEIGHT TO BE ABLE TO PIERCE INTERLOCKED IRON I HATE THIS
Dunk's shield didn't hold up to a single blowwhy did Steely Pate do this
For what it's worth, I'm stoked
>>218017427>btfo>buhhhh i gotta get outta here!!if you try to pick somebody up and they have a sword you are going to get stabbed a few times no matter how large you are or how small he isa bee will stab you as you crush it with your handidk what world you live in where that is so hard for you to believe
PROS:>Dunk & Egg actors are great>Lots of side character actors are great>A lot of the novella is on the screenCONS:>gross shit, piss and snot>FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCKING SWEARY MARY GOD HOW DREARY>Unnecessary changes like Dunk intentionally walking to a room with royalty instead of stumbling upon them like in the novella>tiny gay Lyonel Baratheon
>>218017521Because he's an arab
>>218017509those devious show writers doing everything in their power to make you angry anon, they even had those gauntlet props all made up be decided to rape your brain instead
>>218017426>>218017380>steely pate could provide one bit of armour but not another because shut up that's just the way we decided to write it okay
>>218017521Now you know why he only charged him a copper
>>218017521It blocked the blow that counted
>>218017547>um steely pate should have given him a set of full plate FOR FREE SHIIIEEETTTback to the summer islands
>>218017547you are actually brain dead
>>218016375Davos is a Geordie, retard
>>218017532plate armour is almost LITERALLY swordproof anonI'm not exaggerating. Aerion should have been 100% fucked. knights in plate fighting each other didn't even try to hold the sword with the hilt, they would hold the blade of their own sword (with their plate gauntlets) and try to force it through the other knight's visor. it was also all about getting them to lose their footing (which wouldn't have been a problem for Dunc because he is a megachungus and his armour would have been like 40% lighter relative to his muscle mass).
What is the argument AGAINST Pate giving him gloves?He's already there, clearly Pate is personally invested and cares towards Dunk
>>218017590Davos speaks with a Dublin accent retard, its Liams natural accent
>>218017624Pate ran out of gloves.
>>218017619There should be way more poleaxes but swords are a traditional fantasy trope
>>218017624>What is the argument AGAINST Pate giving him gloves?Dunk is poor and barely got the basics
>>218017624duncan has big fat gorilla hands and it takes time to make gauntlets
>>218017541it's the same shit D&D did. armour is completely useless except when they want it to make a character invincible. the armour on this show looked so much better that it got my hopes up that the writing would also be vaguely realistic. oh well.
>>218017624wasn't cold enough.
>>218017679reddit spacing faggot thoughts
Anyone got some good shots of Dunks huge terrified eyes through the slit
>>218017572>>218017580maybe Dunc could have asked one of the dozen hugely wealthy and powerful friends he made by walking around randomly to help him out? oh wait he couldn't becaue everything was contrived for dramatic effect, sorry.
>>218017619>you know nothing about medieval combat>plate armor is swordproofJean I d'Alençon, Duke of Alençon
>>218017645Cunningham is Irish but he was putting on a Newcastle accent.
>Baelor mentions a visor>but he doesn't have a visor on?oh..
finally a new ruleif you just fought a bloody rebellion and your asshole nephew asks you to risk you head on some stupid shityou can say nookay folks good night
>>218017727the whole trial was 'organized' in a handful of hours, dunk gets released sometime in the middle of the night and the trial happens at dawn.
>>218016326>twink bratMany such cases
>>218017727you really are just complaining about nonsense
>>218017679There was that one time with Jorah and then nothing
>>218016329dunk/baelor stocks better be up my man dunk was sobbing and clutching his beloved crown prince like he was the bro's wife
>>218017729>plate armor is swordproofwho are you quoting
>>218017819I am your man Ser. Please. Your Man.
Why is Preston so late? He hasn't even made a video about ep 4 yet.
>>218015996They probably understand they need to balance their ability to protect the royalty in the future and their current obligation. Like they get a good bonk on the head and are like “aight I could fight to the death but the princes will need bodyguards until they get back to kings landing so I’m gonna yield here”
>>218016463>How is Mordhau nowadays?It's fine. Definitely more grounded than Chiv but it's still entertaining. Also has one of the best zombie (Demon Horde) modes in any multiplayer game.
>>218017803I think the plotting is dumb on multiple levels and have said so. but you can just pretend to be winning the argument by picking and choosing what to reply to because forumfu.it doesn't matter anyway the show has been shit since episode 1. waste of the cast.
>>218017850Anal prolapse
>>218017536I justify small Lyonel because he has such a "big" personality that people remember him as being physically larger than he actually was.
>>218017843some fucking retardSir Jacques le Gris 1386
>>218017850Busy seething about politics
>>218017850Literally who?
I could tell you of Ser Raymun the green appleThose were always your favorites
>>218017847>My man.
>>218017910trial by combat was a real fucking thing?
>>218017850glowies got him working overtime, slava!
>>218017984George is a hack we know
>>218017984https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Champions
>>218017197>"Haa. A fine jest, melord."
>>218017984Monsieur Duncan Le Grand
>>218017850He made a video about Dunk surviving Summerhall and shits on it and shits on george.
>>218017197>Blow a raspberry.>"lol, oathbreaker">Leave as he seethes
>>218015767new thread: >218018061>218018061>218018061
>>218017984Legally in Britain it technically lasted up to>Proposals to abolish trial by battle were made in the 17th century, and twice in the 18th, but were unsuccessful.[23] In 1774, as part of the legislative response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament considered a bill that would have abolished appeals of murder and trials by battle in the American colonies. It was successfully opposed by Member of Parliament John Dunning, who called the appeal of murder "that great pillar of the Constitution".[24] Writer and MP Edmund Burke, on the other hand, supported the abolition, calling the appeal and wager "superstitious and barbarous to the last degree".[25]>Parliament abolished wager of battle the following year, in February 1819, in an Act (Appeal of Murder, etc. Act 1819) introduced by the Attorney General Samuel Shepherd.[29] At the same time, the writ of right and criminal appeals was also abolished.[30]
>>218018074IDIOT
>>218018056>1:31:31 live slopEvery Youtuber ends up doing this shit
>>218018074fucked up the formatting: >>218018061>>218018061>>218018061
>>218018074Send this anon to the watch
>>218018098I just play it in the background like a podcast.
>>218018074
>>218017984>Realising that his sword was inadequate, Carrouges straddled Le Gris and used the handle of his dagger to smash the lock holding Le Gris' faceplate. Even as his opponent struggled beneath him, Carrouges broke the pin holding the lock and tore his faceplate off, exposing Le Gris. Carrouges demanded that Le Gris admit his guilt. Le Gris refused and cried out "In the name of God and on the peril and damnation of my soul, I am innocent". Unable to obtain a confession (which would have condemned Le Gris anyway), Carrouges drove a dagger through Le Gris' neck, killing him nearly instantly.Damn, that's cool.
>>218018116I always find myself either not following it along because I'm doing something else or completely fazing it out because it just becomes drivel. The old 10ish minute videos were concise and much better
I have to thank someone of you for setting my expectations low for this episode but now I feel like Oberyn saying “that’s not a monster Cersei, that’s just a baby”The flashback placement was jarring it justified it’s existence well enough and the combat was everything combat in this series should’ve been, I get that I wanted to see more of the other personalities settling their beefs but I also get that this is Dunk’s struggle, his lens. And what little we do see of everyone fighting their own battles is good. I wish the budget was that of hotd. Cause then we would’ve gotten more but as is this was the best filmed fighting in the series and I’ll take AKOTSK over hotd and seasons 8,7,6,5,4,2 of got
>>218017850>PrestonDo anons read his fan fiction?
>>218016412I honestly thought it was the weakest episode so far except for the fighting
>>218016980After Valarr it's his brother Matarys, then Aerys and after that Rhaegal and his twins, he's like 6th in line.
>>218017287Realistic armor. Grabbing sword with plate gauntlets. You oaf, you really think plate gauntlets had steel on the palm side? It was basically a leather glove with the steel attached on the top of your hand, otherwise you would not be able to hold your sword. You probably think sabatons had metal soles as well.
>>218016918>directed by a womanOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
>>218017433STOKEWORTH(a variation thereof)
>>218017850>Why is Preston so late?He's a glowing faggot lmao
>>218015767I'm literally Arlan of Pennytree
