[Spoilers] Rant and Rave Without Reprecussions - Season 6, Tally-Ho

[kissdbyfire]

14 minutes ago, Tijgy said:

Yes, they are 

I know!

And yet, after a whole year's absence, Summer was nowhere to be seen.

I guess all the direwolf CGI budget went into Ghost. And btw, I don't really like what they did there but I suppose I must be grateful he was at least there.

[Tijgy]

2 minutes ago, kissdbyfire said:

I know!

And yet, after a whole year's absence, Summer was nowhere to be seen.

I guess all the direwolf CGI budget went into Ghost. And btw, I don't really like what they did there but I suppose I must be grateful he was at least there.

After the whole excitement I had a direwolf again, I was also not completely happy with what they did. Should he not be more active during the resurrection? Should he not have killed someone during the fight? 

Lazy beast

 

[LadySoftheart]

1 hour ago, Le Cygne said:

A maybe encouraging bit with NCW (near the beginning), he's maybe going to decide he doesn't want to fill daddy's shoes:

And Roose actor, "people coming back from the past" other than Jon, and revenge. I guess Sandor will jump aboard the revenge train. If only he could chop LF in half.

I just love Michael McElhatton and he was a great Roose. I think he's implying that Ramsay "took Revenge" for the Red Wedding  But I don't really blame the actors that much because as we know, the showrunners tell them diddly-squat about their motivations or backstory and they just have to make it up for themselves.

With NCW, I know he has read at least the first two books (he also said he read the books after he got the scripts - must have been depressing as hell to read Jaime's Feast arc after reading the scripts for the bro!trip to Porne!!) So when he seems to be giving hints about book stuff, I never know if he's hinting at something that will happen on the show or just what he wants to have happen based on the awesome story Jaime has in the books.

[Le Cygne]

I think Roose actor is also talking about characters returning. "People coming back from the past. I'm not saying the obvious one."

So is Ian McShane:

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The character is like a former warrior who has renounced violence, and now leads this peace cult around, wherever they are, around, but also, I have nursed a much loved character back to life, and it reintroduces... a character that's much loved who everybody thinks has died, and he's not dead. Me and my band of peace loving brothers and sisters have nursed him back to life, so he introduces him again. Who do you think it is?

It can only be the Hound or Jon Snow.

Hmmmm, I'll leave you with that one. I think you can guess which one it is. It is not the latter, it might be the former.

I think NCW is talking about the show specifically. I think he got the message about the books pretty early.

[Melisandre's White Pubes]

A friend of mine who has a relative working on the series has confirmed that Rickon takes an arrow to the back (but is not pincushioned) in the Battle of the Bastards, but he survives.  I'm wondering if the show is going to do some "you have to be paralyzed to become a warg" thing.

[HairGrowsBack]

28 minutes ago, LadySoftheart said:

I just love Michael McElhatton and he was a great Roose. I think he's implying that Ramsay "took Revenge" for the Red Wedding  But I don't really blame the actors that much because as we know, the showrunners tell them diddly-squat about their motivations or backstory and they just have to make it up for themselves.

With NCW, I know he has read at least the first two books (he also said he read the books after he got the scripts - must have been depressing as hell to read Jaime's Feast arc after reading the scripts for the bro!trip to Porne!!) So when he seems to be giving hints about book stuff, I never know if he's hinting at something that will happen on the show or just what he wants to have happen based on the awesome story Jaime has in the books.

Yeah, it's hard to tell. GC has read the books as well, and a few months ago she liked a few J/B friendly posts on tweeter, and some fans took it to heart ; but knowing the actors are completely left in the dark, it doesn't mean much.

[kissdbyfire]

8 minutes ago, HairGrowsBack said:

Yeah, it's hard to tell. GC has read the books as well, and a few months ago she liked a few J/B friendly posts on tweeter, and some fans took it to heart ; but knowing the actors are completely left in the dark, it doesn't mean much.

There's also a panel from ComicCon 2014 where she talks about knowing what happens in the books and the showrunners telling her that she shouldn't trust her book knowledge. 

Doesnt mean anything related to J/B, just the fact that they don't want the actors to rely on whatever they've learned from the books.

[Le Cygne]

The pincushion thing was people mocking the show. What people have been saying is Ramsay shoots Rickon with an arrow as he's walking toward Jon. And one source says he dies. Another says it's not clear. My guess is he dies, but I sure hope not.

[alienarea]

9 minutes ago, Le Cygne said:

The pincushion thing was people mocking the show. What people have been saying is Ramsay shoots Rickon with an arrow as he's walking toward Jon. And one source says he dies. Another says it's not clear. My guess is he dies, but I sure hope not.

Maybe Jon gives him a kiss

[The Wull]

1 hour ago, Ser Quork said:

Have to agree.  Whilst their styles do differ (and I was taken aback by the geographical split and new PoVs at first), there is just so much to unpack and it pays re-read after re-read.

To be fair, I think Feast is seen in a much more positive light since Dance came out.  It was absolutely maddening my first time through, after waiting for years, to keep getting Brienne chapters when I was hoping to find out what was happening on the Wall.  Now that we know both sides of the story, we can see how great both books are.  

[Darkstream]

1 hour ago, The Ned's Little Girl said:

Have to give props to ranters here. This is such a wonderful topic! The analyses are top-notch, the rants are humorous, great fun to read and most importantly TRUE.

@Morna The Maid High-quality rants.  And because it was a series here's two more:  

@Sir Loin Steak I enjoy your posts so much!  

@Ser Quork Also one of the best avatars ever. 

@ Everybody: Thank you so much for your efforts! These rant threads are like a tonic for the brain.

 

I would like to second this post, great stuff guys.

[sweetsunray]

When it comes to criticism and in how much we have a right to criticise. Well, I'm a consumer. I bought four set of DVD boxes and I pay for what's on my digital TV. Just from a commerce point of view, consumers can and have the right to criticise, to give bad reviews on a product they pay for.  It's like having been invited to a certain hotel chain and it having been ok to great for 3 years, and then the hotel managers let it slide, shrug their shoulders and give you the finger when you have a complaint about the state of affairs.

[SerMixalot]

6 hours ago, David Selig said:

There is so many dumb articles in the media about this season that it's getting ridiculous. Like this one - The Sand Snakes From Game of Thrones Deserve Their Own Spinoff Show .

 

There are no words...

That article has GOT to be farce.

[SerMixalot]

5 hours ago, sweetsunray said:

I'm pretty sure that D&D's eyes glaze over with any in depth analysis done by many of the essays done by the multiple superb book analysts. The books are so rich of themes and parallelism that's it's quite impossible for one person to uncover it all. It would require a large team of show-runners imo I wrote the original bear essays over a timespan between a month and two months. But I have been updating them, extended them and I still should do one for Jon als Silverlocks and the 3 bachelor bears, and at least one extra regarding Sansa. On my blog is an updated extensive essay regarding Sansa's sexual maturation that takes a deeper look into it than what it currently is in the forum thread version and takes into consideration how Sandor is the beast-bear. And I have an unpublished half 1st draft version regarding the knight-bear theme in Sansa's arc (Hound). And only this week I came to realize (close to a year later after first pondering the bear theme in the books) that Arya's shaved head and cut hair and Dany's scorched hair can be tied to the bear-song (no hair -> no licking honey from the hair) and how the sword's double entendre does not only apply to Sandor, but also Gendry who is making his own sword, but has not yet finished it (aka not a man grown yet).  

ETA: glad you liked that series. It's a very long read on a theme that readers previously only related most to Brienne-Jaime and by extension Sansa-Sandor in relation to an alternative version of Beauty-Beast, while I tie it to Dany-Jorah, Arya-Gendry, Harrenhal's curse, Craster's, Thormund, stealing a woman, and Mormont ancestry.

Don't forget Cersei got her hair cut for the walk of shame, all of it and as of last sighting she is quite unsexualized

[sweetsunray]

Just now, SerMixalot said:

Don't forget Cersei got her hair cut for the walk of shame, all of it and as of last sighting she is quite unsexualized

Yes. I forgot to mention it, but when I had the thought it flashed through my mind as well.

[SerMixalot]

not to derail the thread (if it were possible) but there is something I don't understand about the SanSan shipping. I get the BatB theme.  I get the seeing the inner beauty of someone.  I get that Sansa is able to use her innate "feminine" skills to reach and heal the Hound.  I get the attraction of the Hound to Sansa-the  yearning for the innocence lost.  I get that he benefits from the relationship by healing and that empowers HIM.   I get the Hound uses his strength to protect Sansa, but isn't that taking Sansa's power from her, that she needs a strong male to protect her?  isn't that defeating the notion of her empowerment? that she is too weak to defend herself and needs the big bad Hound? 

[Crixus]

Guys. I've had a bottle of wine and consequently summoned up the balls to watch s5 again for the first time since it aired. I'm on episode 1, so wish me luck enough that I do not hurl, and manage to report back. 

Salut! 

[Darkstream]

3 minutes ago, Crixus said:

Guys. I've had a bottle of wine and consequently summoned up the balls to watch s5 again for the first time since it aired. I'm on episode 1, so wish me luck enough that I do not hurl, and manage to report back. 

Salut! 

You are very brave, good luck in not smashing your television. 

[Stannis is the man....nis]

5 minutes ago, Crixus said:

Guys. I've had a bottle of wine and consequently summoned up the balls to watch s5 again for the first time since it aired. I'm on episode 1, so wish me luck enough that I do not hurl, and manage to report back. 

Salut! 

You're going to need more then one bottle

[Mister Stoneheart]

After you drink the bottle you can then hurl it into the television screen.