You just described most internet discussion forum members.

lol now just imagine them with a youtube channel and an audience of several hundred thousand people

I watched his ep10 vid and I thought he pointed out a lot of mistakes and plot holes. What was he wrong about?

I had no idea what he was going on about during the tower of joy scene. Talking about the Daynes and a "mysterious woman" and another baby. He sounded like a lunatic.

All,

Great, now Howard got me to watch that crap!

It did remind me of one q I had, though. Why did the sparrows prevent people from leaving?

I've re-watched most of the latest season, and remain quite confused as to how/why the white walkers were created and what their motivation / purpose is. The best I can gather is the Children created them with dragon glass to protect them from the First Men / Wildlings? Though why they've turned on mankind and are now apparently out to kill everyone is unclear. I've also absolutely no idea why Bran was allowed to get into a position whereby a WW could touch him, given how disastrous the consequences of that would be.

If anyone has any better understanding of all this, I'd appreciate hearing it! I hate not understanding stuff that seems like it's going to be integral to the story. If such an explanation might violate the no-books rule itt (is that still a thing? idk), then a PM would be great.

dont think there's much more to it yet

Jacobs is right about a lot, but also overthinks stuff. He made a big point about the tower of joy because the scene seemed to make a big point about Ned leaving Daphne's sword at the foot of the bed. Silly.

obv so everyone could get blow'd up, but i guess the showrunners would say something like if you hold a trial in absentia in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it really happen?

not that it really mattered, seemed like Marg caught on too late and everyone would have got got anyway*

I listened to the Preston Jacobs criticism of the finale on youtube for which he gave low grades. First, he seemed to think that the finale was overly violent and sadistic. In view of the violent events that have occurred over the whole series, its hard for me understand this as a reasonable criticism. He also seems overly concerned about how Cersei can now be Queen since she doesn't have a birthright to it and he thinks that the citizens would be revolting against her for destroying the temple. I don't see this as a valid criticism either since there is no obvious successor and being the King's mother and being former Queen or whatever its called must mean something. Surely most of the Faith Militant "soldiers" and leaders died in the blast. Jacobs is really expert at noticing details but he may be too deep into it. Great finale.

72,

Yeah it did seem like it was too late.

I thought there was a possibility high sparrow suspected what was coming and was martyring himself and all the people there to turn the remaining populace against the crown.

If let's say the Game of Thrones finale is released in theaters for a special 3 day event, how much do you think it'd make? 90 minute episode let's say.

I think it would easily do $100m.

I'd definitely go see it in a theater.

if they released a long ass movie with a ton of production instead of a finale episode they would probably sell like star wars or something.

not sure about a <90 minutes "episode" tho

Are you talking about domestic or worldwide domer? GoT definitely has the production value and the followers, but I don't think it makes 100M domestic for only 90 min finale and only over 3 days.

Make it like ep 9 & 10 of the last season, run it for like a week or more and market it then yea it gets there easily

My fav. top 5 alive characters:

The Hound
Cersei
Little Finger
Davos
Melissandra

My fav top 5 dead characters:

Oberyn
Margery
Ned
Robert
Joffrey

Top 5 worst characters

Shae
New Daario
Grey Worm
All 3 Sand Snake chicks
Sam

ah domer meant a 3 days special and then it's still on tv? nevermind my last post then

There was a discussion of a GOT movie right? That's a lock to be slightly less good than it should be, still be cool, and make a **** ton right?

The citizens revolting against the queen and the lannisters massive army? Never heard of him but Preston sounds like an idiot who lacks logic.

Seems legit tho lol. even the sparrows (who would be like the STRONGEST civilians) were terrified of the mountain by himself. Even cerseis regular guard unit would **** up the largest crowds of sparrows or civilians.

i dont even know what he mentionned but whast weird to me is a lot of the Tyrell army was supposed to be in King's Landing to deal with the sparrows, right?

ANd the lannister army was split up and probably not that impressive anymore.

Olenna probably wouldve just sent them to kill Cersei and her crew unless I'm missing something?

Given the success of GoT we'll probably be subjected to a bunch of horrible spinoffs, prequels, and remakes and **** like that for some time.

Nothing good can simply just run its natural course and be done, it's gotta be milked for every last dime.

well GRRM still has the last word and he said he admires how Tolkien's son never gave in to bull**** spinoffs and crap. Sounds like bad spinoffs would be a big No to him.



Also that he probably wouldnt let people complete the got books if he died. I think the show goes on though.

His Dunk and Egg stories would be perfectly suitable for a movie adaptation -- they're really novellas that quite possibly could be done in a couple of hours each. They're terrific stories, too.

I assume that the Tyrell army left KL after the confrontation with the Sparrows.

Marching back to KL might make sense, but I could see it being risky as well. It could take a lengthy siege to take KL, which could give the Lannister army enough time to march back from the Riverlands, leaving the Tyrells caught between KL and the Lannister army (which I believe is still bigger than the Tyrells - IIRC when discussing having the Tyrells march on the Sparrows, Jaime states that the Tyrells have the second largest army in Westeros).

Regarding the casting I think Cersei and Jamie are great, as was Joffrey. Ramsay Bolton was great also... he and Joffrey both had an effeminate way about them that was both creepy and entertaining. I think both actors did a great job, they hammed it up but it worked for their characters.

Not a fan of Sansa, she's not a particularly good actress imo. Arya is good. Agree with someone upthread who mentioned Theon, he's been great imo. The guy who plays the Hound is also fantastic.

Not sure why but I hate Brienne, I know physically she is right for the part but I find her acting to be pretty terrible.