About to hit the 5000 post mark on the old thread, the first season 7 trailer today seems like the right time to start the final Game of Thones thread.
I'm going back to the original rules pre-2015. I don't think we need supervision or bannings. Just don't be a dick. Post anything you find online that hasn't aired yet inside of spoiler tags. That's pretty much it. I think we can all handle that...
Originally Posted by Frazod:
Bran as king just sucks. Totally sucks. As an advisor, the master of whisperers, sure. A good ruler should inspire his people; in a medieval setting, he should be a warrior and a leader on the battlefield; he should project strength. Who's going to be inspired by a wheelchair bound weirdo with zero charisma?:
After conquest or a coup maybe, but Bran is the first democratic election so his case is different. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
After conquest or a coup maybe, but Bran is the first democratic election so his case is different.
Not really. The Holy Roman Empire elected its Emperors and the electors, the most powerful kingdoms in the political alliance, soon found it was to their advantage to elect the weakest among them as Emperor. [Reply]
Originally Posted by GloucesterChief:
Not really. The Holy Roman Empire elected its Emperors and the electors, the most powerful kingdoms in the political alliance, soon found it was to their advantage to elect the weakest among them as Emperor.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but I don't see how that contradicts what I said..
What I'm saying is that it makes sense for a king to project strength during or after conquest (like Aegon with his dragons) or a coup (like Robert Baratheon), but since Bran was democratically elected, strength is not a necessary trait.
Not to mention the fact that Bran actually might be the most powerful person in the story anyway. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but I don't see how that contradicts what I said..
What I'm saying is that it makes sense for a king to project strength during or after conquest (like Aegon with his dragons) or a coup (like Robert Baratheon), but since Bran was democratically elected, strength is not a necessary trait.
Not to mention the fact that Bran actually might be the most powerful person in the story anyway.
The Holy Roman Empire dissolved into a bunch of petty squabbling kingdoms and city states because the Emperor was not strong enough to force them to work together. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ThaVirus:
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but I don't see how that contradicts what I said..
What I'm saying is that it makes sense for a king to project strength during or after conquest (like Aegon with his dragons) or a coup (like Robert Baratheon), but since Bran was democratically elected, strength is not a necessary trait.
Not to mention the fact that Bran actually might be the most powerful person in the story anyway.
I hated Bran ending up the King but...........
It seems to me that knowing exactly what everyone has done and will do in the future would be a skill more valuable than a great battlefield leader. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
I hated Bran ending up the King but...........
It seems to me that knowing exactly what everyone has done and will do in the future would be a skill more valuable than a great battlefield leader.
The problem is that just because the big war ended there are now hundreds of smaller wars as some kingdoms of Westeros have had a power vacuum for years. You think some noble who seized power in say the Stormlands is going to give it up to someone he has never met and knows jack about the land? Doubtful unless you present a clear reason for him to, say a large unified army to enforce the will of the king. [Reply]
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
I hated Bran ending up the King but...........
It seems to me that knowing exactly what everyone has done and will do in the future would be a skill more valuable than a great battlefield leader.
If only that was articulated instead of “who has a better story than Bran?” [Reply]
I’d be interested to know how much of the ending was Martins. Obviously we all know he told them his ending, but how much did he say? Does he even know for sure and he just planned on Bran being there or?
I’d love for the last two seasons to be redone. It’ll never happen it’s just crazy the turn the greatest show of all time took after the books ended. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bowser:
Season 8 gave Kit Harrington PTSD for fuck's sake. Redo the damned thing*. Maybe even start it at Season 7 and work forward from there.
*yes, I know it won't happen
Watching the actors' faces during the table read told us everything we needed to know about what they thought of it. Conleth Hill (Varys) looked so disgusted as he read his death scene that I thought he was going to spit on his script. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
Watching the actors' faces during the table read told us everything we needed to know about what they thought of it. Conleth Hill (Varys) looked so disgusted as he read his death scene that I thought he was going to spit on his script.
Two of the most intriguing characters from the beginning, Varys and Littlefinger, both got terrible, pointless endings [Reply]
