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11 hours ago, Craving Peaches said:

To be fair though at least one peasant also seems to think Aerys was a great guy because the roads were safe.

While a prisoner of Tywin.

I like how they're not revealing any of the actual plot in these trailers. It seems very refreshing for something Disney related.

That the maesters are purposely slowing down human advancement. Seems rather strange how little science has advanced in the world. The technology of Aegon’s conquest, is near identical to the technology in the present story. 
 

I mean it’s even more crazy when you see just how far we’ve advanced in the last 100 years, in the real world.

42 minutes ago, Aldarion said:

 

Stop looking at everything through lens of 21st century Western individual whose biggest problem is having your Internet connection cut off.

It's the only way I can see the world. I can't pretend I live and was raised in the middle ages, that you seem to be able to.

Simply put, the people of Dorne are more evolved, compared to the rest of Westeros, by not being bigots, to which I rather like.

Honestly the longer Benjen stays missing, the longer I wonder if George has any idea what to do with him. In fact he feels less like a character and more like a plot device. He's only appeared in the flesh in about 2 or 3 chapters at most.

Only read Fevre Dream................I wasn't a fan. I didn't hate the book, but it's no A Song of Ice and Fire and it's a book I can't ever picture myself reading again.

4 hours ago, Aldarion said:

Except for lack of slaves, everything you have listed isn't "more advanced" but merely "different".

Equal rights for both genders and no discrimination for bastards, isn’t advanced, lol

Probably a Maester. So far it's either been a character beyond The Wall or a Maester.

1 hour ago, DaveSumm said:

Eh, right now the concept of ‘this show you’re not digging but worse animation’ isn’t really doing it for me. I think in the scheme of how comic book-y stuff can be, this is just a bit too comic book-y for me. Each to their own, I just thought they might split the difference in tone to bring it more in line with the MCU. 

It's up to you. Though if I had to compare the two, the original show is much better.

So much for that 7 season plan. 

37 minutes ago, DaveSumm said:

Gotta say, as a huge MCU fan but one who never watched the X-Men cartoon, I have no fucking clue what’s going on with 97. I watched a recap of the original series, and wasn’t gonna bother with 97 but then constantly see people tripping over each other on reddit to praise it. It’s … alright? I’m sure it’d be exciting to see a sequel to something you knew and loved, but with better animation and writing. But for a new watcher, it’s just all over the place. I had to look up what this was Part II of, cos I assumed it was an old episode … but nah, it’s two episodes ago. But it’s in space now, and who the fuck are these people. 

I’ll probably stick it out seeing as I’ve made it this far, and I could see them tying this into What If? or maybe throwing some references into Deadpool and Wolverine. But this feels squarely aimed at old fans and nothing more, I’m getting very little out of it.

I mean just watch the 90's show. It's easily one of the best American animated shows ever made. It's right up there with Batman the Animated series.

Barristan defending his queen, from The Titans Bastard, using only a stick.

On the plus side, Lower Decks is an anime, so that means it could presumably return later down the line, at some point. Family guy and Futurama have both been cancelled several times and returned, so anything is possible.

2 hours ago, Zorral said:

Is there anything to wrap up, really? It just meanders around, pretty much. Ha!  Though it somehow still manages to provide a mildly dependable escapist entertainment.  Maybe that was all down to Cavill though -- I did so admire his face's ability to show the same expression almost all the time!

I mean that’s the character, he’s suppose to be like Spock and show very few emotions.

So if this is true, it's clear as day, they don't have a plan and are just making this up as they go along.

I'm not sure I like Quentyn Martell being alive either. Truth be told the series just has too many dam characters and will never end unless a few of them die and Prince Frog just doesn't seem all that important,  compared to most of the others.

To be fair, any theory that tries to make a big deal out of something minor. Summer seeing a dragon at the end of the second book being a prime example of this. It's clear as day, Summer is just seeing the smoke rise from Winterfell. The lemon tree in Bravos is another example of this.

1 hour ago, williamjm said:

Out of recent shows I think Andor definitely stands up to those three.

I like Andor a lot, but for me it suffers a little from being a prequel. I sort of have to ignore that this is the same universe that Darth Vader and Jar Jar Binks exist in and that Andor himself is going to die hours after the final episode of this show.

Simply put, part of me wishes Andor was an original show, because it's so much better than what you'd expect from Star Wars.

Most of the stuff that happened in the final 5 seasons of the show, wont happen in the books.

2 hours ago, polishgenius said:

 

 

What does Argylle have to do with Zach Snyder?


Anyway MoS is way better than Rebel Moon- it's a good movie. An absolutely shit Superman story, but a good movie. 

Rebel Moon I did enjoy, and will watch the sequel, but it's pretty bad. 

I don’t know the product placement in MoS was kind of disgusting. “Let’s have Superman fight at a 7 Eleven”, “Let’s have the bad guys attack IHOP”.

2 hours ago, astarkchoice said:

Well theres the constant flaring up of the 3 cities disputed lands , norvos  apparently bloodily contests the axe region with the ibbenese , unknown length of time for massive  yi-ti civil wars and their wars with jogos nhai . 

 The free cities , quarth and slavers  may want a minimum amount of merc muscle  in/near  their cities to help supress any slave uprising (in case the slave troops in the city join in)   not to mention some cities probably get nervous and  hire some just when khalassars get close.  In  peacetime many will probably be broken up to protect merchant convoys on land and sea. A brave talented few may even get into mereens fighting pits!!!

On top.of that theres the self inicted wound of patrolling ravenous slavers (dothraki and costal pirates) picking off people so anyone wealthy will want some hired muscle with their merchant convoys  as they travel ! Not to mention agressive internal political power  fueds [like in quarth] and rival merchants as powerful as minor westerosi lords wanting to wipe each other out!

The offical wiki also says theres constant fighting in the disputed lands (we can assume these flare up from small scall skirmishing to full blown w0t5k scale wars!). It says 2 score companies are active in the region !!!!   and  worse sometimes captains can ignite  wars themselves outside of free city orders (as we see there are bitter personal rivalries between captains!) 

 

So seems theres plenty of work for tens of thousands of mercs.on top of slave troops for hire and assasins.

 

Add in various companies will have various levels of quality! We can assume the golden companys officers may pay out of their own pocket to keep the company largely together for large scale drills and  high levels of training  if theres 0 work or not enough for the whole force  whereas lesser companies will release large numbers of infantry  men in peacetime and expand again in wartime! 

Yea, but why aren’t any of these locations just creating their own armies? Trusting a sellsword company seems a lot more risky than using your own army of loyal soldiers.

Truth be told, I think Sci-Fi does better on tv. I just worry we'll never see something like DS9, Babylon 5 or Farscape ever again. Don't get me wrong, I loved The Expanse, like many others here, I just don't think it compares to the 3 shows I listed before.

I'm honestly wondering how the Sellsword companies survive in Essos. Is that area just always in war and the Free Cities would rather pay outsides of uncertain loyalty to fight for them, in place of using their own armies?

28 minutes ago, astarkchoice said:

If word spreads to essos that war is kicking off sellswords may already be heading there just as they sid throughout westeros to the riverlands/westerlands borders. Volantis to lannisport would  be a week or so at most, the build up period i always felt was a week or 2

Also the brave companions have a horrible rep so may have came to westeros seeking work (and/or possibly feasably seeking lords who havent heard of theit terrible rep)

 

We do know he had time to  employ the  hundreds of sellswords/hedgeknights and horse archers (would have to be professionals)  into his force and  mixed them inwith some concripts   that would later  be added to tyrions savages to create his fake weak flank! 

Indicating both tywin had a week or a few weeks inbetween tyrions capture and neds execution.

 

Yeah they would be the 'gold standard'  but we know theyd reject all offers at that stage anyway so be may have tried to ŕecruit them and failed!

Now that I think of it. Jamie mentions once that Tywin sent for them.

10 minutes ago, House Cambodia said:

I think Tywin's initial strategy was to basically terrorise those parts of the countryside that might turn to alternative kings. He expected the Mountain's force, supplemented by the Brave Companions would be sufficient. Nobody was anticipating Robb's rapid victories and evolution into a serious challenge. Tywin seems to have called up the BC/Bloody Mummers after Robb's surprising victory in the Battle of the Camps.

That particular company was a small one and comprised of many criminal Westerosi, so they were probably in good communication with likely hirers in Westeros. Sailing from the east coast of Westeros (Maidenpool) to Pentos would take 3 days, so the 2-way communication, assemby of a force and getting across in one ship might only take a fortnight.

I mean it takes a great deal of time for the Golden Company to get from Essos to Westeros in ADWD. There's a 600 to 700 page gap between Jon Con's first chapter, to his second one. With the Brave Companions, Tywin would have to send a representative and that person would need to find them. Phones and text messages don't exist in this universe and raven network doesn't work in Essos. So travel time for the representative, travel time for the representative finding them and the Murmers travel time going to the west. That's a whole lot of travel time.