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I think there is a zeitgeist on this forum that overrates the Faceless Men and has come to view them as some kind of unstoppable deus ex machina plot ticket that can do anything to anyone at functionally any time. I am more sceptical, and not just because that kind of omnipotence seems out of kilter with the themes of the story and setting. In terms of ability to inflict damage, which to me is what signifies dangerousness, then we have to take Daenerys very seriously because even if she is individually vulnerable she can cause destruction on a scale unlike any other character has yet demonstrated. However, Dany also seems to be fundamentally well-intentioned*, whereas Euron has powers we haven't yet come to fully appreciate and is absolutely using them for the purposes of Evil. While in terms of personal power level Mel doesn't seem to be in the same tier, her religion and its black/white approach to things at least appears to be misguided (again, a black/white dualist approach seems at odds with the wider themes) and the actions that result - burning weirwoods, etc. may actually make her one of the more dangerous figures for those trying to sustain humanity. We'll have to see. *Course, this may just come to make her even worse: there's nobody so dangerous as one who believes they are fundamentally in the right.

They threatened to have Brett Ratner direct them if Jackson didn’t, so he accepted and had a rushed production

It is slavery. Hodor is Bran’s slave. Intruding in the mind and forcing Hodor is evil. I’m sure Bran will continue because he likes doing it.

I get what you mean but I'd disagree that Ramsay is amongst the most dangerous characters, because his ability to cause damage on a large scale is limited especially in comparison to others. While he is unpredictable and certainly threatening on an individual or smaller scale, he lacks the ability to threaten large scale damage unlike Daenerys, Euron or Bran, or Cersei with the wildfire etc.

I’d maybe have set ep 7 a thousand years in the future, with Luke as a force ghost, mentoring a descendant to bring back thr jedi. Maybe a twist at the end would be to have Han and Leia be found frozen in carbonite. That way there woukd be no need to bin thr EU or reference it. A fresh slate but with the big 3 returning

The faceless men are easy to kill. Their disguise is superficial. As far as Jaqen, well, he wasn’t that good. Remember, he got caught.

Yes, the Night’s King is the most dangerous because he controls the barrier between the Others and Westeros. The NK is Jon Snow. This traitor will open the gates for the Others. I would like to emphasize that most dangerous doesn’t equal to most powerful. The Night’s King, Jon Snow that is, is the most dangerous because of who and where he is. But Jon himself is not powerful.

Westeros has some odd population quirks to remember about it though. Long periods of huge population growth followed by mass starvation. Continent next door with huge population and large volume of trade and people passing between both. The decline of the watch has left vast volumes of useable land in the north largely unoccupied for fear of willdling raids but they are across the water from ome of planetos largest cities in bravos The iron islands population to military is probably bigger than it should be but declining due to them formerly having a larger empire but being driven back to their rocks ! Add in as well them largely going to sea for raids/trade and fishing (we dont sow is b.s) as well as thralls for grunt work. Dorne population got a huge boost from mymerias mass landing

Is it a natural phenomenon such as an ocean, or an ocean current, a tide, a river, a spring, a storm, a bolt of lightning, a mist, a snowfall,... or even a season?

I've seen this trailer in the cinema eleventy-one times because I've been to the cinema weekly since January. We have tickets booked for our very local 10 screen cinema for opening day but I'm kinda wishing that I had gone for IMAX instead now.

The Night King : he wants to destroy every life , he leads an horde of undead wildings and beasts Ramsay Snow : there is no need to explain Cersei : she started doing things with wildfire, she restored the Faith, destroyed the tower of the hand

It has more sense than Dunk and Egg, whose tales are not complete.

Seems possible. It is just that there is probably more to it IMO. If the alternating pattern holds, this is a "fire" prologue. Which means dragon discussion and/or fire magic. So my instinct is that Nymeria is not enough. She has nothing to do with fire or dragons and we also already know Nymeria's pack is dangerous and that Arya can warg her. Usually there is something mysterious and new in the prologues. I think Nymeris will be involved but so will another magical element, possibly Jeyne's maegi mom but I am open to other ideas.

One of the best YouTube theorists, In Deep Geek is going with the attack on the wagon train with the 'magical' element being Nymeria and her wolfpack rolling up. POV possibly Forley Prester who will give the order to shoot Jayne (or Edmure) and face the wrath of Nymeria. What will the Prologue to the Winds of Winter be about?

I’d put the North at 4-6 m. I’d expect it to be most sparsely populated region. The Riverlands, given their fertility, should be a bit higher, IMHO. Initially, I was attracted to using army sizes as the basis for population estimates. However, I’d discount that now, because (a) some armies are expeditionary forces, others are defending their home turf. You should be able to raise a higher proportion of the population for the latter than the former. (b) army sizes are self-limiting, for logistical reasons. Beyond a certain point, an army will simply starve. Especially as the nature of war in Westeros is one that maximises brutality and economic devastation. In fact, Renly’s army of 100,000 is unrealistic. It would have to be split into smaller units, to feed itself. (c) Martin tends to be very vague about numbers.

Good possibility mavs v okc going to game 7, celtics must be laughing their tits off at everyone else getting beat up.

Have to say I think you are right. It absolutely is the logical first step to tell a story that follows on from the OT, and tells us where our beloved characters ended up. Its just unfortunate that they screwed every single one of those characters so now we all wish they hadn’t done it.

Another example would be something like Tracy Emin’s bed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bed Now I’m sure a lot of people will say ‘ugh that’s not art’ in the same way that they will have issues with banana taped to a wall or a urinal. That is where we are going to diverge however, because I’d say those things are art. What I don’t class as art is ‘some nice looking picture on deviant art of a woman with boobs’ Take Tracey Emin’s bed. Whatever you think about it, it was made as an expression of a very dark part of her life when she was depressed and couldn’t get out of bed. An AI on it’s own might create the exact same thing but it would not be art. The reason being that the AI has never spent days in bed, doesn’t understand what depressed is, doesn’t really even understand what a bed is. Now you could say if a very specific prompt was given by a human to create the same thing then it would be art, and I can buy that argument as AI is a tool, but the separation from the artists intention can be quite far, so the lines become blurred.

Yeah, I'll give you that. In my opinion, that isn't art; it's pretentious wankery borne of a postmodern culture that was a reaction to 'proper' art long before AI reared its head. Someone said it's a 'moral' argument - I'm not sure, but it is an aesthetic argument, and aesthetics is largely subjective. I'll grant you that the best art AI can generate is 'better' than human-produced crap. Let's say there's a spectrum whereby the highest human creations far exceed the best AI can do, but there's no bottom to the pit either can manufacture.

Shut the fuck up.

This isn't true, most Russians are apathetic and not terribly invested in politics. People going on forums to argue in English are either highly invested nationalists paid propagandists or both.

We live in a world where a banana taped to a wall, and a urinal have been exhibited as art because of the meaning of a piece. So an AI prompt isn't to far off that, especially since nearly all of the good pieces of AI art involve training a LORA model to get what you want and then editing specific pieces of the picture in inpaint to remove artifacts and add what you want. The good results take a lot more than a good prompt just like photography is more than clicking a button. x

Keep in mind that money is also an issue. If they want to bring in Nettles and develop Rhaena and Baela more, then that’s three actresses they have to pay. They already had to shorten the season due to the budget.

Stannis will be the big bad in the end.