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xer0s wrote:What's with the whole story about their cousin crushing the beetles? It's a metaphor for something maybe, but I can't see the connection.

They were talking about the trial by combat and how it is judgment based on the will of the gods. The beetles are being crushed in cruel death for no reason other than for the entertainment of a moron. Hence the death of men serves no greater purpose and there is no judgment. It's just random smiting by the indifferent gods.

obsidian wrote:

xer0s wrote:What's with the whole story about their cousin crushing the beetles? It's a metaphor for something maybe, but I can't see the connection.

They were talking about the trial by combat and how it is judgment based on the will of the gods. The beetles are being crushed in cruel death for no reason other than for the entertainment of a moron. Hence the death of men serves no greater purpose and there is no judgment. It's just random smiting by the indifferent gods.

I felt it was a metaphor for the books themselves.

MKJ wrote:Fffffuuuuuuuuuu---
What happens now though.. it looked like the Mountain will die too. Then again Tywin was quick to rule when it went his way.


Fuck this show.

Was the other guys name The Viper? I seem to recall his squire rubbing some shit on his spear, probably poison....so yeah, I'm thinking The Mountain will die too.

Looked like the guy was just shining up the blade. I don't think the Mountain will die of poison, but he'll die of, ya know, the spear in his chest...

^lol

also, they had to kill some time. i think the battle at castle black will get glossed over like the battle for king's landing did. seems like there's a lot to wrap up in two remaining eps... not that anything ever really gets wrapped up in this series.
also, that duel was laughable. reminded me of Attack on Titan.

I heard they had a big budget for the upcoming battle.

Fuck that was brutal eh :/

Mat Linnett wrote:Goddamn, I knew what was coming, but that was still an awesome episode. Is it me, or has the budget noticeably increased?

I remember D.B. Weiss (or the other dude) saying in an interview that the episode with the Battle of the Blackwater in season 2 had just as much budget as all the other episodes of that season combined. This season, however, every episode had that budget.

Mat Linnett wrote:This episode was incredibly well shot and directed.

I noticed there were a lot of close ups from slightly off-beat angles, especially in the bits with Sansa and Petyr Baelish. It worked really well IMO.

menkent wrote:also, they had to kill some time. i think the battle at castle black will get glossed over like the battle for king's landing did. seems like there's a lot to wrap up in two remaining eps....

Why? Two episodes is worth nearly a 100 minutes of screen time.
Also, I wouldn't say Stannis' attack on Kings Landing (Battle of the Blackwater) was "glossed over". It was a pretty extensively shot battle IMO.

Fair play to Grey Worm for trying to get his stump wet - excellent bewbs

lol

You know, if it was any other show the imp would be okay, they'd never dare kill a character as profoundly entertaining as him - but it's GoT... pretty sure he's now completely fucked

Not sure though.

Jamie will probably sneak him out or someshit, that 'lil imp cannot die

everyone there surely already knew and don't like the Dornish (or Targaryens) anyway.

Tyrion can escape anytime he wants to. Prisons are designed for normal sized people. The Imp will have an epic escape involving squeezing underneath locked doors, between bars, hiding in a vase when the guards come patrolling, rolling into a little ball and pulling some Metroid turns down secret passages.

It's just a matter of perspective. It isn't Tyrion that's locked away in a prison cell, it's everyone else that's locked away from him.

I'll take the blue pill please.

whoa things were going well then ug

heartbreaking!

plained wrote:heartbreaking!

headshattering!

mindblowing!

lol, here's the actor playing The Mountain in Game of Thrones dressed up as The Hulk.

Go to the 2:00 mark to skip the boring stuff. Turn on closed captions to have English subtitles, which makes you understand their viking talk a bit better.

[youtube]tv4t9LhDLQ8[/youtube]

lol, awesome. He was also in a Vice documentary I watched a while ago.

[youtube]8A7woRoVwyM[/youtube]

Skip to 12:33

Yeah, that Vice piece is great. Vice in general is pretty damn awesome though.

xer0s wrote:Looked like the guy was just shining up the blade. I don't think the Mountain will die of poison, but he'll die of, ya know, the spear in his chest...

No...it was poison... The director said so already... Moron...