The end of Mad Man is torture really. I don't know what they were thinking while making this. It's like they want a big sigh of relief from all the viewers the time the titles roll for the last time.Originally Posted by littlelolligagged
Isn't Sansa Lady Lannister, wife of the very much alive Tyrion Lannister?
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That's a good point. I'm guessing she could argue that the marriage wasn't consummated, but I'm surprised no one raised that point.
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What I'm trying to figure out is what LF actually has to gain by this. He's taking a big risk but I don't quite see the payoff.
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Spoilers please, I haven't watched yet!
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Must have missed that part.
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Just pointing out some things:
1. Bolton is keeper of The North because of and nothing but his loyalty to the Lannisters; are the Lannisters going to give up their hold over him by simply letting him get away with a scheme that they can stop in its track untill Bolton has paid a handsome price for it? Not to mention that the Lannisters would have to overlook an act of high treason that lead to the death of King Joffrey?
2. Bolton is the keeper of The North because of his betrayal of the King in The North; he wouldn't gain much by replacing a notorious claim to The North with a shared claim to The North (that as we know 'remembers')
3. Bolton'a best chance to hold on to The North is by turning on King Tommen and pledge allegiance to King Stannis (if Stannis would be stupid enough to trust a man who betrayed his liege twice already rather than put his head on a stake.
4. King Stannis would see it as an affront if Bolton solidifies his hold on The North by anything other than bending the knee to Stannis first
In short; I think Littlefinger is either overplaying his hand or playing yet another long game we can't oversee.
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I'm getting annoyed with this season. Every episode feels like a series of preludes to something big happening but nothing big ever happens. Get on with the dragons already! Jeez.
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
The Agents of SHIELD season 2 finale was better than the entire first season as well as Age of Ultron combined.
Well, all but the last scene. BASTARDS.
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Mad Men's over forever. Interesting final episode. Some thoughts:
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The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
Last GoT episode:
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I think this is just a question of whiner blogs proliferating in the last 4 years, each trying to be more outraged than the rest.
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I quit watching the show, but I don't get the outrage at all - have these people not been watching for however many seasons we are up to now?
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Yes, teevee sucks!
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Anyway, I think the real question... how is Little Sam still a baby? Motherfucker should be walking by now.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Should be eating all the Night's Watch food by now.
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I meant Arya was the forth main character, the one who hasn't had her story rewritten to include a rape. Probably Catalyn qualified as a main character. So that's three out of five.
I've read A Game of Thrones. Recently. Dany explicitly says 'yes' to Drogo. The scene is still fairly minging because she's 13 or something in the books but in the novel the scene plays out quite differently. It also shines a completely different sidelight on how she later falls in love with Drogo, making it less 'awww' and more 'Really?'Spoiler:
Of course, at the time the show hadn't yet to go on and pull the exact same trick three or four times, so people were going to give it a lot more slack.
Each scene taken on it's own can probably be justified narratively and thematically, but when it's such a persistent pattern combined with how often the show has used threatened rape for no reason other than raise tension (it did it again just this episode) then I am unsurprised to see people give it the side eye.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Frankly, I thought the nudity from Sand Snakes this week was far more gratuitous and unnecessary...
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It was completely necessary.
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The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
She was trying to get his heart rate up, so the her poison would get to where it needed to go quicker. Now, the writers totally wrote it that way so they could do another nude scene, so I'm not going to disagree with Loki's assessment but she wasn't doing it for no reason in-story.
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The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Or she could have waited an extra hour and gotten the same result without the nudity.
I think they've left too much for the last 3 episodes. Just based on the casting for those episodes, it's pretty clear there will be at least another 3 really big scenes this season. They should have spread them out better.
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On the other hand, certain things were already rushed (Arya with an assignment already, things happening in King's Landing rather quickly and without much explanation/politics). I have not checked casting so not a clue what exactly they will add in this season.
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I think they're trying too hard to finish in seven seasons. But they could certainly had the latest episode be episode 5 instead.
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Well, I've only just started reading the books but based on the casting rumours for season 6, looks like seven seasons might be out the window, since they'll still be covering book material in season 6 and there's still two books left.
The light that once I thought compassion still casting shadows in your action
The words you shared were cold transactions that bring me to curse what you've done
When you're up there absorbed in greatness with such success you've grown complacent
I hope you scorch your many faces when you fly too close to the sun
Not sure about that. Everyone is gradually moving towards a showdown, more so than in the books. I know they're re-introducing certain characters in season 6, but they probably won't get all that much playing time, just like Dorne this season. I could see them finishing season 6 with everything set up for a major showdown.
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what in the world do you have against beautiful naked women???
The Rules
Copper- behave toward others to elicit treatment you would like (the manipulative rule)
Gold- treat others how you would like them to treat you (the self regard rule)
Platinum - treat others the way they would like to be treated (the PC rule)
The general trend in the show was to have secondary characters engage in gratuitous nudity, and that's fine. But there's a fine line between having your storyline characters be naked and not turning them into caricatures. It's not really a problem for characters we know a lot about (see Cersei). But it is a problem for the Sand Snakes, whom we don't know it all. In the end, they'll just be defined by their nudity, and not their actions. And that's a problem considering just how useless they've been this season, despite all the hype.
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Doesn't the use of their sexuality as 'weapons' (or distraction) fit with a number of the sand snakes? Or the Dornish in general perhaps? And playing (mind)games with victims?
I admit it's grasping at straws a bit though
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