I’m aware of that, the point is that if male adult dwarves are automatically under suspicion then a beard is not a good choice of disguise.
Tyrion has been gone a long time (years?). And as I say, of course there are still plenty of people of Tyrion’s height in king’s landing.
If he wears humble clothes maybe no-one bothers to take a close look at him as he sneaks in and out.
Meanwhile, what is the point of wearing fancy, Tyrion-esque clothes?
Tropes have been dismantled, but that’s not the point. I doubt GRRM and maybe D&D are that gimmicky, because then it becomes expected, sort of like the niche people put M. Night Shymalan in.
They already tried to bring a wight hand to KL via Thorne but it decayed due to delays because Thorne was a dick. Presumably the wights can cross the wall (as they did thousands of years ago), just they don’t do well in summer or fall heat.
Do we ever see bare skeleton wights? Maybe once all the meat rots off, they stop working? That’s why it has to be cold, the White Walkers are walking refrigerators.
The closest are probably the ones that killed Jojen. Some meat IIRC but not much.
Right. The wights that attacked when Jojen was killed were pretty much bare skeletons, with no muscle tissue remaining. They presumably had to have some tendons holding the bones together. But they were animated by magic, not by muscles, even rotted ones.
I don’t consider it the point or a gimmick. I consider it part of the premise—that an age where men ruled through use of force was shitty for everyone else and there are no fairy tale endings. That leaves plenty of room for many different ways to end the story without betraying the premise.
In fact, one of the big problems with the stereotypical fantasy story is that it serves up the same boring Ending, in an unimaginative way, just to satisfy audience expectations. It’s like ending every thriller with a car chase and a shoot out. Crossing those off the list of possibilities actually frees you instead of restricting you.
Right. People have been calling Jaime stupid for his charge, but he was taking a long shot chance on ending the war. Dany gave him the long shot chance by her stupidity. All she had to do was wheel around just out of range and the Dothraki would have chopped Bronn into kibble in five minutes.
The only excuse for that might have been if the remaining Lannisters had made a last stand with a shield wall with Bronn and the scorpion in the center. But even then, it would have been better just to keep them surrounded and wait them out (although the Dothraki would have been too impatient to do that.
If Jon and Danaerys are both alive at the end, I will be astonished.
Which is also dumb writing. He had been a member of the royal family, they would have known they weren’t just looking for a dwarf with a scar, but the queen’s brother who thousands of people had seen at ceremonies over the years.
Maybe I misunderstood your first post. Daenerys could absolutely “win,” and that would be standard. But the bittersweet part would be a hollow “Queen of the Ashes” ending where not much is won, and her rapist army is still a problem.
I guess I’m reacting to past posts on this series who hope she declares democracy and apple pie for everyone, which would be a stupid, typical ending.
The guards were going to pop out their I-phones and compare the dwarf in front of them with the pictures they had? Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable, and there is no reason to think those two particular guards had ever seen Tyrion at all. Thousands of people may have seen him (years ago), but at a distance and even common folk/soldiers who got closer would mostly remember seeing a dwarf.
Before modern media technology, identifying even famous people in person was tricky.
WARNING:
Some random jerk posted the final scene of this coming Sunday’s episode on Facebook and it is getting a bunch of attention. It is one of those “autoplay” videos and should NOT be seen by anyone who does not want to ruin the entire experience.
The account was called “Cercei Lannister” and I reported it to Facebook.
It leaked if you did not hear. The vid. is legit.
I have a GOT fan friend who’s suggested just that. Reminds me of Hitchcock’s remark: “The characters in my movies do not simply call the police because that would be no fun.”
Yes, I wondered why no one remarked on that.
I loves me some Tormund! So of course he’s gonna die…
:: golf clap ::
Fermented crab, anyone…?
Reminds me of the Simpsons:
I think Arya knows Littlefinger is setting her up. I think she wanted him to know she was watching him to see what he would do. The way she was watching him was crude and not even close to stealthy. She was practically in the open staring at him. And they made of point of showing that he was aware of her. I think she knows the scroll was a plant, and while he thinks he’s a step ahead, it’s actually her that is ahead in this game.
I dunno, last season she was sauntering around Braavos like a tourist knowing the T-Waif000 was after her, which would have gotten her killed if she weren’t a main character.
I hope you’re right. It would be absurd with all her assassin training that she is so easily detected and shadowed by Littlefinger to see what she is up to.
I really am hoping the big resolution with Littlefinger and the Starks is that he will spring a trap to sow confusion and distrust, but Sansa will not only recognize it but have been maneuvering him into it and show that she has been way ahead of him for quite a while now – the student will surpass the teacher.
I’m out of town and couldn’t watch the episode until last night and didn’t get through this thread until just now. Something I wondered about; in the scene of the maesters at the conference table, did they focus on a note (or RavenGram) one of them was holding? Any significance to that?
And Dany claims to be all about letting people choose to follow her, but when Randyll Tarly, Dickon Tarly and their soldiers were in front of her, the choice seemed to be, “Bend the knee and swear allegiance to me or die horribly.” In short, no choice at all. And I was sorry to see Tom Hopper (Dickon) end his time on the show. I liked his character on Black Sails. He could plausibly have played a larger role on the show.
(BTW, the cable company has really cool technology that lets me download shows from my DVR to my smartphone or tablet when I’m out of town and watch them offline.)
They are open enemies unlike say Jon Snow.
Yes, it was the note from Jon Snow warning of the coming of the White Walkers and seeking to rally the Seven Kingdoms to unite and fight them.