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The writers strike that started after the Origins script was already finished?

Jesus Christ, this explains so much. Maybe this was common knowledge but I only just now found this out.

Joffrey was the one who had Robert's bastards killed, not Cersei. Not that I'm saying she isn't a villain. I wonder if Cersei might kill Tommen on purpose, or callously not care that he could get caught in the crossfire, instead of just killing him by accident. I get that 'I will do anything...

Yes, she directly confronted Tyrion about it when he showed up in Meereen.

Welp, there's a new sig.

Loras was never a major character in the show. He's not even as important as Rickon.

If it wasn't shown on screen it didn't happen.

I more got the impression he was embarrassed to have her see him losing his shit like that, but I suppose he also could have backed off to let her get the xp.

The maniple was a more sophisticated formation that was still influenced by the phalanx. When the front two ranks fell back behind the vets in the third rank, it pretty much became a phalanx. And the sarissa did have significant trouble punching through steadily improving infantry armor. I...

Exactly what argument are you making here?

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That's the problem though, he's not even a speed bump to Dany anymore. Even assuming that her forces get drastically reduced in the process of getting to and conquering Westeros, he's got what, a couple hundred wildlings left? And even if people believed that he was a Targaryen, and that Lyanna...

Basically nothing, but claiming that Dany didn't know about her ships being destroyed because we didn't get a scene specifically showing her learning about her ships being destroyed is taking that a bit far.

Oh I freely admit that it was wildly exaggerated nitpicking. My jimmies are just still rustled from them completely destroying Jon as an important character.

You're right. His terribly predictable space madness was much higher quality section of the movie than a fifth dimensional bookcase at the center of a black hole.

The writers have made it very clear that if it doesn't happen on screen, it didn't happen.

I don't understand why she wouldn't have burned the Masters' ships. She wasn't around when her own ships were burned, so I guess because she didn't see them in battle with the Masters she just assumed something had happened to them? Oh wait, I do understand, shitty writing. She should have...

He's too busy playing clash of clans or some other bullshit on his tablet to actually read the thread.

This is even dumber than the Darth Sansa theories.

When you have such a dramatic advantage in both quality of troops and numbers, you don't need to wait behind your walls. I mean shit, Winter is coming, and supplies have to be scarce due to all the constant disruption of the past few years preventing stockpiling, it was absolutely in Ramsay's...

Archers on foot are a hard counter to mounted archers, Crassus lost because he attacked the Parthians with pretty much nothing but heavy infantry.

Oh, I thought you were being sarcastic. It's hard to judge exactly how military technology evolved in Westeros, but horse barding developed quite a bit slower than human armor, it wasn't until Bannockburn and Crecy that it became obvious how much of a vulnerability the relatively unarmored horse...

Cavalry and improved armor technology is why the phalanx fell out of use in the first place. And no, a phalanx wouldn't be as effective as you imagine against a heavy cavalry charge because with all the shields in the way, you aren't presenting nearly as many spears against the incoming charge.

Yeah how convenient that they had a large infantry force trained in a obsolete fighting style that would have been useless against any other armed force in Westeros. I mean seriously, you were nitpicking the wildlings being able to survive north of the wall, but you're down with a phalanx?

It would basically mean that she's been playing him from the moment they were reunited at Castle Black. Every time we've hoped for some kind of clever plot to explain something stupid this season, we've been disappointed. There's nothing clever going on this time, Sansa is still retarded and Jon...

I don't have a chip on my shoulder, I didn't even like the books that much. Or rather, 4 and 5 were so mediocre that it ruined the first three for me. The writing, quite simply, has gone to complete and total shit this season, and I doubt it's a coincidence that it also happens to be the first...

Winterfell is a complete joke. Didn't Theon sack it with like 10 guys? Which raises the question, where the fuck would all those men have been garrisoned if Jon actually did have the supplies for a siege? I think the reason Winterfell is so much less of a fortress than the other castles in...

I assumed the same, and in addition to completely ignoring travel times, the show also completely ignores the logistical issues of keeping a large force of men together for any extended period of time, to say nothing of cavalry.

Because Jon is a threat to her claim to Winterfell. I mean don't get me wrong, it would be really dumb, but would still be better than her keeping quiet about the Vale army for absolutely no reason at all. If this were her plan, she wouldn't have expected Jon to go full retard and get his army...

Yeah I really hope that she was intentionally screwing Jon over by not telling him about the army from the Vale. Would still be dumb, just less dumb.

Meh, I wasn't very happy with the episode. I mean the actual fighting was great, but was the only way to finally redeem Sansa after 5 seasons of utter stupidity was to take all of her stupidity, distill it into a concentrated form, and have Jon freebase it all in a single episode? I mean did he...

How clever, hadn't heard that joke before.

I've tried to get out of a car in neutral a couple times, and I could tell immediately even on level ground, to say nothing of a driveway on a fairly steep incline. I kinda hope he was murdered, because if it wasn't foul play he has to have been high as a kite or one of the dumbest people in the...

I can't even begin to picture how this could have happened, which I suppose is why they're called freak accidents.

Suppose I should have looked in here before I started a new thread. Oh well.

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Or you can stop asking for help and make yourself so obnoxious and repellent that people stop offering it. This has been the only thing keeping me alive for years now.