Gavinmad
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You can't build ships that size on the beach, you need a shipyard.
Euron says "Build me a thousand ships", that's a direct quote after Yara and Theon take off.
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You can't build ships that size on the beach, you need a shipyard.
Euron says "Build me a thousand ships", that's a direct quote after Yara and Theon take off.
pharmakos
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holy shit, thank you. i had no idea fucking Mastodon played a bunch of wildlings. so awesome.
chaos
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That and the Hound were the best parts of the episode. y u mad tho?
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BrutulTM
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I think I would have to point out that the show airs at 9 PM on Sunday and thus does not interfere with a 9-5 job in any way.
I don't know how many soldiers a medieval ship carries, but unless it's 1000 men I don't think 100 ships could transport Dany's army, especially if the Dothraki are bringing their horses.
chaos
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Yeah the only problem I had with it, not really a problem, is that I don't understand how they make her that powerful and yet we all know she's not going to kill Cersei, at least not for a while. So some dumb shit is going to have to happen to prevent that.
As far as the Freys go, a good Frey is a dead Frey. Fuckem.
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TJT
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99% certain that that part was just to accelerate the Frey's demise as they can't do the slow burn of bandits and Northern lords to get rid of them. Gotta tie up some storylines right quick.
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wtf the freys are awesome. They killed that stupid asshole robb because he thinks he's above keeping his promises.
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spronk
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what if bran worgs into arya and starts going around recording for posterity in the Westerosi cloud (trees) the vinegar strokes of all the knights of westeros
also i assumed the 1000 ships thing was sort of like the 1000 blades of the iron throne, a huge exaggeration. probably closer to 100 ships, which is still a crazy amount to build in a few weeks but the roman empire did build that many ships in a quick period during the punic wars. 1000 ships would also require 20,000 men to crew it and i just don't see how euron has that many.
also i assumed the 1000 ships thing was sort of like the 1000 blades of the iron throne, a huge exaggeration. probably closer to 100 ships, which is still a crazy amount to build in a few weeks but the roman empire did build that many ships in a quick period during the punic wars. 1000 ships would also require 20,000 men to crew it and i just don't see how euron has that many.
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Do we know the actual time skip? It seemed to me we were talking more like 4-6 months than just a few weeks.
Lambourne
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GRRM's grasp of the scale of things is generally not that great. A 700ft high wall hundreds of miles long would take milennia to build (the Great Pyramid is half as high and less than 1/8 of a mile wide and took decades to build with a workforce in the tens of thousands). A thousand ships would take tens of thousands of trees and a literal army of shipbuilders to build.
A medieval ship could easily hold a few hundred people so you don't really need that many ships anyway (especially since you can easily make more than one trip per ship when you have an empty castle to use as a beachhead, not to mention absolute air superiority)
When it comes to numbers in this series it's probably best not to think about it too much.
A medieval ship could easily hold a few hundred people so you don't really need that many ships anyway (especially since you can easily make more than one trip per ship when you have an empty castle to use as a beachhead, not to mention absolute air superiority)
When it comes to numbers in this series it's probably best not to think about it too much.
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iannis
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I remember an engineering analysis of a wall of ice that tall.
It would have to be so much wider at the base than at the top that you would need to call it a nice hill rather than an ice wall.
There is a reason why eskimoes never built two story igloos. Gravity > water
The only point being is that it must be at least partially maintained by magic. And that's fine. This is a world with dragons, decades long winters, and cooze demons.
It would have to be so much wider at the base than at the top that you would need to call it a nice hill rather than an ice wall.
There is a reason why eskimoes never built two story igloos. Gravity > water
The only point being is that it must be at least partially maintained by magic. And that's fine. This is a world with dragons, decades long winters, and cooze demons.
Loser Araysar
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Or distances. People think of Westeros as UK because it has a similar shape, culture and thus they assume, similar size - about 800 miles from north to south. In reality Westeros is 3,000 miles (the distance between LA and NY) and these characters (Arya, Hound, Brienne, Tyrion, etc.) are crisscrossing it on a weekly basis like its nothing.
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They did a good job in S1 of setting the scale since it took Robert months to get to Winterfell, stayed there a few months and then spent months getting back. Anymore its like "Hey I want to go to [insert anywhere]" and they're there the next episode with seemingly no time loss.
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Ah the classic retards don't know how time passes because shows come out weekly debate. Always a classic.
Gilly's kid went from baby to toddler. It's been 6 months minimum since Sam has joined the Maesters. That's what his "shit montage" or whatever you all call it was SUPPOSED to represent. The passage of time since joining Old Town and monotony of his scholarly journey.
Gilly's kid went from baby to toddler. It's been 6 months minimum since Sam has joined the Maesters. That's what his "shit montage" or whatever you all call it was SUPPOSED to represent. The passage of time since joining Old Town and monotony of his scholarly journey.
