it isn't that hard to pull off. just have it set up prior to starting in an inconspicuous manner and cut out the dead footage after.
got this link from the show thread: https://www.yahoo.com/news/heres-game-thrones-flashback-detail-173000729.html 1. I don't see it. 2. It's much more interesting that Bloodraven has First Men and Targ blood, like Jon.
saying the tree is a dead ringer for blood raven is a huge stretch. the face on the tree is so generic you could say it looks like a million people
My gf was sobbing. She's a huge animal lover and was so upset when Summer died and she heard the yelping. Completely lost it at the final scene.
Same, I have to prescreen the episodes and she just leaves the room before the direwolves die. Otherwise she wouldn't watch the show.
Tell your girlfriends they are not real. They are just CGI. This shit astonishes me. Do you date children?
Which part is ridiculous, prescreening the episode? I usually watch each episode twice anyway in case I miss something. It's not that big of a deal, she doesn't like to watch shows/movies where pets die. Doesn't really bother me at all.
In the latest Ask the Maester column, someone asked about the CotF: https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-...-us-about-the-game-of-throne/1713746195558497 Dean asks, “Are the Children of the Forest extinct now?” Perhaps not. In the southern Riverlands, between the Trident and King’s Landing, is the God’s Eye, the largest lake in Westeros. During the war between the Children and the First Men some 12,000 years ago, on the small island in the middle of the lake, the Children cast the spell that shattered the Arm of Dorne, the land bridge linking Essos to southern Westeros. If that slowed the advance of humankind, it certainly did not stop it, and the war raged for roughly another 2,000 years. Exhausted, both sides came to an understanding, and the Pact, the peace accords between the Children and the First Men, were agreed to on that same island in the God’s Eye. Faces were carved into the island’s weirwood trees so that the Old Gods could bear witness. Ever since, the island has been known as the Isle of Faces. No one* ever visits this island. According to the folk tales, the Isle’s only inhabitants are caretakers known as the “the Green Men.” *One person that we know of (allegedly) has, but it’s not worth getting into now. Who is the person who has and what does/could that mean? I don't remember that.
yes, that you have to pre screen a show before your GF will watch to make sure a CGI wolf doesn't die is ridiculous. We all have feels when a liked character/pet dies during a TV show, but being unable to watch it makes me think she has the emotional capacity of a 4 year old. I can only imagine the other ridiculous shit she puts the people around her through. THIS
a Crannogman (Howland Reed) sought counsel with the green men on the Isle of Faces before travelling to the Tourney at Harrenhal
She didn't bat an eye at the RW (you know fake people in a fake world), just animals dying bother her. I'm amazed this is bothering some of you so much, it's amusing.
My fiancee had never seen an episode before this season but watched with me during episode 2. She decided to start a blog about watching it without knowledge so it gives her something to do on Sunday nights while I watch. She also drinks during it so that helps.
I think fake people in a fake world are slightly more relatable than a fake cgi wolf who has seen all of 5 minutes of screen time.
humans can write off people dying in a show easier because you can mentally assign them blame or responsibility where a consequence of their actions is that they deserved to die. it's a lot harder for people to do this to animals(even though direwolves can be weapons of war) so people are more disturbed when animals die because they seem more blameless and innocent. I mean it doesn't just extend to animal lovers or anything. When CoD dropped people basically forced the creators to spoil the game and guarantee the dog lived because they didn't want to play a game where their dog friend dies(even though again, the dog is clearly a weapon of war). we're a very animal friendly culture now, it's just part of what comes with it.
^Didn't you say this was the first time your girlfriend has ever seen you cry after watching the episode on Sunday? lmbo
I mean, pre-screening something for an adult is a little extreme even though Keef and I are frand; however, by that logic, none of this is real and we shouldn't care about any of it. Good music, cinema, telvision, art hits you in the feels despite the fact that it's created. How many of you gay fuckbois were ballin' over Hodor? News Flash: Hodor was a giant made up retard of a character. Does that mean you shouldn't feel emotion after you watch him savagely murdered? Just some dumb posting on this page.
A newborn baby getting torn apart and eaten by dogs is waaaaay worse than Summer going out like a boss.
I feel like some people make up these stories about their SO thinking they're fitting in and it's hilarious when the crowd turns on them.
there is a big difference between being emotional over a death of a character you like and requiring someone else to prewatch a show before you do to make sure you don't see any animals get hurt. It isn't that complicated
I dont' care when the dire wolves die. They're cool and all but not as cool as a bunch of ppl in this thread make them out to be-and I have no emotion attachment to them. Hodor was a good scene and I enjoyed the heck out of it -but I also didn't have some huge emotional attachment for him. So I enjoyed the episode but was not super emotional attached to any of it.
My gf was sobbing at Hodor dying AKA the final scene. There are literally people ITT who said they got emotional when it happened But yes, animals dying upset her as well. Even in movies/tv
my eyes welled up in the Hodor scene. i didn't outright cry but I was certainly more emotionally attached to the character than i thought also i had been drinking and there was a lot of adrenaline
On a side note, other than the Hodor scene and the RW, nothing has really saddened me. Maybe Oberyns death. Things are either shocking and exciting like Hardhome or feel cheap and unearned like Shireens burning or pretty much anything Ramsay does.
There is a lot of ground to cover in a few episodes left for the series... things are going to have to start moving really fast IMO. What is Sam's end game...there isn't time for him to become a maester so what is his purpose in old town...in the books, and the show.
The general consensus is that he's going to find something in the citadel relating to defeating the white walkers or creating valyrian steel.
I've thought that about the book too. I think he's down there as a POV for Iron Born or possibly Dany or Aegon stuff.