Dany will build an entire army of showrunners. They will quickly overwhelm the current showrunner regime and force astoundingly unlikely plotlines to emerge. Mythical Potatoes will not only be possible, but increasingly inevitable!
Good stuff. Thanks!
I believe that you must have misunderstood my post. I haven’t read the books. I wasn’t reporting on anything that’s in the books. (I am completely unfamiliar with the contents of the books.)
If you look through this thread you’ll find (somewhere) a discussion of keeping the actors busy even though their character’s stories aren’t spooling out at the same rate. That’s the discussion to which I was referring with my remark (quoted above and in your own post) “many viewers have speculated.”
I love it! It will be the most meta thing HBO has ever done!
What?
“Because books” is revealing something about how events unfold in the books, even second-hand. The rule about these no spoiler threads is that the books don’t exist, period.
Like Westerosi potatoes, you mean?
The facebook recaps are as much a part of my enjoyment of the show as the show itself and these threads. (When we’re not talking about potatoes, anyway.)
I don’t think the slaves that follow her count for her army. Thousands of malnutritioned, untrained, unarmed people are a detriment, not a bonus for an invader. Lots of mouths to feed without sword arms attached.
“Underdick” is referring to the scene with Mereen’s champion pissing on the ground, which was shot from behind and from in between his legs.
Certainly a televised novelty for this viewer…
Not everyone in an army actually fights, you know. They need people to handle all the other day-to-day tasks, which the slaves are already used to doing. As for mouths to feed, I’m sure they plunder plenty of food, plus buy some more along the way with their more valuable plunder.
People are already bitching about Dany and her peeps prancing around, not yet playing much of a part in the Game of Thrones. I doubt detailing her army’s mundane logistics would be much of a crowd-pleaser.
I am going to let the potatoes go. I thought about it and finally I got to the point where I can forgive. A lapse is simply a lapse.
But if I see someone eating a tomato it’s over, GoT. It’s over.
Whether they are a detriment depends on how things work in this fictional universe. Just how is Danys army staying clean, fed, watered, with pristine armor and weapons? Who’s shoeing the horses, carrying all the stuff they’ve looted and all the other stuff I can’t think of right now?
But in terms of making soldiers of them, first of all I don’t think lack of weapons should be an issue. She should have sufficient gold, if not just enough weapons directly by now, to arm everyone from the cities she’s sacked.
It seems in GoT world it takes as long to become a great fighter as it does here on earth. So they are going to become “dance masters” in a few months. But relatively weak fighters can be useful in a battle too; see battle of Cannae.
What if they eat the tomato after raping somebody?
BAND NAME!
Maybe they can play at Margaery’s next wedding?
If I were Margaery, my next wedding would be a quiet affair at the justice of the peace.
Oops, I meant they are not going to become dance masters.
I don’t care if they’re saving orphans! Tomato is the line in the sand.
…why? It’s a fictional world. If they suddenly revealed the Bubble Gum Guild of Mereen it might be jarring but—meh.
No! Don’t you get it! It breaks my suspension of disbelief if they eat potatoes instead of turnips! Never mind that they have valyrian steel, 700 ft tall magic ice walls, napalm, the main characters never wear helmets in battle, the wildlings and the rest of Westeros all speak the same language, they use ravens to send messages, and there are so many light-skinned people on what is clearly supposed to be an African analog!
In fact, now that I think about it, the shape of [del]Westeros[/del] Europe is all wrong! And why are they all speaking English? There’s no pope in sight! Some guy named Aegon conquered the entire continent 300 years ago? Jesus, it’s a wonder people recognize this as historical Europe at all!