GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

spronk said:

THEY ARE BALLISTAS NOT SCORPIONS, SCORPIONS ARE LIGHTWEIGHT ARTILLERY YOU FUCKS I'M AN EXPERT IN MEDIEVAL WARFARE THANKS TO 40 YEARS OF RENAISSANCE FAIR AND YOU ARE ALL TRIGGERING Me

am i doing it right, ser Noodleface

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well, as an expert in medieval warfare, what do you think are the odds of untrained crew hitting a dragon moving at high speed and constantly changing direction with one of those things and their complete lack of aiming assists?

Ladro said:

I streamed it on a TCL Roku 4k HDR set with the native HBO Go app. I had no issues with visibility or clarity and my set is calibrated correctly at eye level.

I absolutely believe that most people watch TV on a washed out, out of the box Best Buy configured flat screen that they've mounted over their fireplace that's positioned too high. People think that watching something at a 30 degree angle in a brightly lit room is optimal, it's not. Fuck those guys.

I'll agree that it was pretty dark, but this is a completely subjective argument. If the cinematographer, color corrector, and editor say it was to their specifications, then they wanted it that way. Plain and simple. If you had issues with the viewing, it's going to come down to QAM/stream compression, lack of calibration, ambient room luminosity, and viewing angle. Or maybe you're fucking old and getting blind.

Edit: Only true test will be with BD source, but we have to wait for that.

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If anything, "Best Buy" settings would help bring out low-light detail as they are way overcooked with Contrast / Brightness cranked to stupid levels. In this case it's definitely more of a combination of shitty quality source and director intent. As you said, which is more of a factor will likely be determined once the Blu Ray is out. As I mentioned earlier, looking at season two's night time battle at The Blackwater, it's super dark as well, but on Blu-Ray it looks absolutely fantastic.

Bandwagon said:

The only part of episode 3 I really liked was the ~60 seconds of watching the Dothraki's flaming swords being extinguished. They did a good job of building dread with that portion...and I'm sure it was easy on the budget.


The night king is a complete swaggering cheese dick, though. I can't find a gif of that little nod thing he did with Bran right before he got ganked, but this was on par

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That was good but for me it was clearly when the giant swatted bear bitch like a fly. I actually laughed and I never laugh.

thoroughly debauched tormund and brienne sex scene fade to black

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Final line of the show will be "...and here I thought I would only taste giant's milk once!"

i hope we can argue about how dark the lighting was all the way til sunday. it will literally cause some of our board members to stroke out. leaving beautifully calibrated TVs in their wills.

Bandwagon said:

I laughed at that part too, but I did the biggest fucking eyeroll of my life when she screamed at him and did a dwarf-charge after. I really like that character & actress, but that was such a fucking over the top hollywood moment.

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I mean, Bella Ramsey has basically played the character as an over the top almost caricature of a northern lord this entire time, it may have been ridiculous but the entire premise of her character has been ridiculous from the very beginning and she still managed to sell it.

Gavinmad said:

I mean, Bella Ramsey has basically played the character as an over the top almost caricature of a northern lord this entire time, it may have been ridiculous but the entire premise of her character has been ridiculous from the very beginning and she still managed to sell it.

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she was sort of that obnoxious Greatjon Umber reincarnated as a little girl

Gavinmad said:

I mean, Bella Ramsey has basically played the character as an over the top almost caricature of a northern lord this entire time, it may have been ridiculous but the entire premise of her character has been ridiculous from the very beginning and she still managed to sell it.

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i liked her moxie, but i imagine she was a little snot at home demanding all kinds of dumb shit from her parents using that same tone.

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NVM am retarded

Noodleface said:

Cersei also has the giant ballista that has killed a dragon

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which dragon Was that? I recall only one dragon dying to the night king up north..

Nester said:

which dragon Was that? I recall only one dragon dying to the night king up north..

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They tested it on the dragon skull, I can't remember if they used it on actual.dragons. I forget. But I meant the old dragons

Noodleface said:

They tested it on the dragon skull, I can't remember if they used it on actual.dragons. I forget. But I meant the old dragons

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I think Bronn fired it and winged Drogon.

yes it did crush a dragon skull in the castle basement. Bronn hurt one, the NK killed one then rode it like a pony.

Yeah Bronn got Drogon in the shoulder on his second shot (third if you count the Dothraki that bites it), otherwise when Qyburn first shows it to Cersi, he fires it into Balerion's skull. If you read the Fire and Blood book GRRM released, one of Aegon the Conqueror's sisters/wives dies when her dragon is shot down by a ballista bolt when attacking a city in Dorne. I'd really recommend the book to anyone that is interested in a deeper dive on the 300 years prior to the show and the rise and fall of House Targaryen. Answers a lot of random questions I've seen throughout this thread as well, helps give some context to the Faith Militant and the bullshit with the Sparrow, and lots of little bits that give the setting deeper character. I watched an interview that GRRM did, where he basically admits that he had muddled the history up pretty bad as he was writing, and it took some of his friends/colleagues calling him on his bullshit, and telling him to solidify the history and settings for his books before we got the excellent world building. I would love to see an open world RPG set in the GoT'verse, in either some pre or post book timeline, could be an amazing MMO setting if done correctly.


Actually, I believe this is the interview with GRRM I am talking about, worth a watch if you are a lore junky and want all the tidbits you can get.