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The Official Game of Thrones [A Song of Ice and Fire] Thread (includes spoilers)

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Olenna Tyrell is one of my favorite characters in television history. She has stolen literally every scene she has been in the entire show.

I mean come on. She chugs poison and uses her last words to gloat to Jaime about killing Joffrey. The legit last thing she says is make sure that she tells Cercei, because she wants her to know. Fucking legendary.
 
Olenna was an old cunt. Glad she's dead.

Felt zero sympathy at all for Ellaria and her daughter, either. Although they do get off kind of easy, I was prepared for Cersei to have them both flayed or something.

The Lannisters are just punking Dany right now. I thought for sure Tyrion having the Unsullied take Casterly Rock was going to be some stroke of genius, but it ended up as a red herring of sorts. Jaimne outmaneuvered him, and now the Unsullied are in a really tough situation with Euron destroying their ships and Casterly Rock really having little strategic significance.
 
Hurl Bruce said:
The 3-Eyed Pervert?
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He literally could've told Sansa anything.

"Hey, John Snow is really our half Targaryen cousin"

"Hey, I know where the white walkers came from"

"Hey, I know what Hodor means"

But what did he go with?

"Hey, remember that time you got raped by your husband on your wedding night?"
 
One thing I hate about tv and movies is that they tie a piece of fabric over a person's mouth and it somehow mutes them. It's really not that difficult to have a semblance of speaking when that happens. I mean, you can's use your tongue, but you can still approximate some of the sounds.
 
And I think that there is an important question that needs to be answered before this war for the iron throne is complete...

Does Cersei like a finger in the bum?
 
None of the military stuff makes any sense. How did the Unsullied get to Casterly Rock? How did Euron manage to sink one fleet, but not get the other until they reached Casterly Rock?

And how many freaking Lannister troops are there exactly? Who was defending Kings Landing when the entire Lannister army was fighting the Tyrells? Where the hell are 50,000 horsed Dothraki on Dragonstone? Where the hell are all the Vale knights?

I guess it's all for the sake of drama, but the strategy and troop stuff is pretty cartoony at this point.
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
None of the military stuff makes any sense. How did the Unsullied get to Casterly Rock? How did Euron manage to sink one fleet, but not get the other until they reached Casterly Rock?

And how many freaking Lannister troops are there exactly? Who was defending Kings Landing when the entire Lannister army was fighting the Tyrells? Where the hell are 50,000 horsed Dothraki on Dragonstone? Where the hell are all the Vale knights?

I guess it's all for the sake of drama, but the strategy and troop stuff is pretty cartoony at this point.
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The Unsullied clearly sailed. If you listen to Jaime's explanation, it was clearly a ruse to get the Unsullied in a useless castle, destroy their ships, and now they have to march across the entire continent to get back to Daenerys. Because they can't hold Casterly Rock.

It's not a military documentary. All of this can be explained away, but if the show went into it all it'd be 3 hour long episodes to cover one aspect of the show just to appease military junkies. I mean, the Vale troops were mostly in the north last we saw (and their commander was in Winterfell this episode). The Lannisters have a massive army, as far as any of us know.

Now, the Dothraki on Dragonstone I wondered about.
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
None of the military stuff makes any sense. How did the Unsullied get to Casterly Rock? How did Euron manage to sink one fleet, but not get the other until they reached Casterly Rock?

And how many freaking Lannister troops are there exactly? Who was defending Kings Landing when the entire Lannister army was fighting the Tyrells? Where the hell are 50,000 horsed Dothraki on Dragonstone? Where the hell are all the Vale knights?

I guess it's all for the sake of drama, but the strategy and troop stuff is pretty cartoony at this point.
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I think the timeline is out of order. The battle with Euron and the fleet was probably after the unsullied had taken Casterly Rock. That would mean that Tyrion was telling of a battle that would happen not what did happen.

I think they split the 2 battles from 1 episode to 2 because it made more sense. That is why the unsullied battle was in this one and not in last episode. I think they left a garrison of a few thousand (if that) to protect the rock.

Keep in mind it is the same tactic Dorne used during the wars of conquest. When Visnya flew Meraxis into Dorne all she found was empty castles and then when she met the Dornish queen the Queen told her it would be her death if she returned (which the scorpion bolt killed Meraxis at that time).

I think Cersei and Jamie are doing the same thing.

March the Lannister army to Highgarden then leave the Rock mostly unattended. It is on the opposite side of Westeros and, strategically, has no major significance with the current wars going on. The power is elsewhere.
 
Chris said:
The Unsullied clearly sailed. If you listen to Jaime's explanation, it was clearly a ruse to get the Unsullied in a useless castle, destroy their ships, and now they have to march across the entire continent to get back to Daenerys. Because they can't hold Casterly Rock.

It's not a military documentary. All of this can be explained away, but if the show went into it all it'd be 3 hour long episodes to cover one aspect of the show just to appease military junkies. I mean, the Vale troops were mostly in the north last we saw (and their commander was in Winterfell this episode). The Lannisters have a massive army, as far as any of us know.

Now, the Dothraki on Dragonstone I wondered about.
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1) How did the Unsullied manage to make it all the way to Casterly Rock -and in what ships - without being sunk by Euron?

2). How did Olenna make it to Highgarden?

3) How is Euron preening in King's Landing while his ships use warp drive to get to Casterly Rock?

4). Who was defending King's Landing?

The Lannisters have lost a shit load of troops during this war, yet both they and Euron seem to have infinite men/ships.

Dunno. Just feels like the showrunners have tossed any semblance of time/distance/military continuity out the window for plot convenience, which is something GRRM really didn't do, and the show didn't do either until recently.
 
The Human Q-Tip said:
1) How did the Unsullied manage to make it all the way to Casterly Rock -and in what ships - without being sunk by Euron?

2). How did Olenna make it to Highgarden?

3) How is Euron preening in King's Landing while his ships use warp drive to get to Casterly Rock?

4). Who was defending King's Landing?

The Lannisters have lost a shit load of troops during this war, yet both they and Euron seem to have infinite men/ships.

Dunno. Just feels like the showrunners have tossed any semblance of time/distance/military continuity out the window for plot convenience, which is something GRRM really didn't do, and the show didn't do either until recently.
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They only have a limited number of resources... Otherwise we would have 3 hour episodes (Please why didn't they make 3 hour episodes...)
 
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