Game of Thrones
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@Pandora She's on netflix in some tv show about pre-teen witches at a school.
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@jibberthehut The Worst Witch! I watched that show when I was a little kid, did not know there was a re-make. That's amazing, thanks for the heads up.
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@Rinel said in Game of Thrones:
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@Kestrel And frankly - no need to use spoilers for this one - the show has established pretty well if not explicitly said it that Jon Snow isn't uh, a genius. He's not a military prodigy, there are probably several swordsmen I can name on the show (and at least one swordswoman) who could beat him straight up. He's at best a passable politician since he's not even trained in that - there was never a need for it, since he was supposed to have served on the Wall for the rest of his life.
In other words one of the shows (and books') most major characters has a crapload of weaknesses. Those don't make him worse as a character, they make him better because he's still vital - because he has other qualities people look up to, and he inspires loyalty in others just like his father/uncle did before him.
If anything else I'm more annoyed about Cersei sitting on the Iron Throne because they haven't shown her to possess almost any positives. Those (in the books) were her kids; she was fiercely protective of them - that's something. On the show she had a backbone, as we saw during that SHAME scene but other than that she's been a terrible leader and... well, person end to end. She barely mourned for the son she drove to suicide. And that's a bit one dimensional, there's no way to root for her.
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@Pandora And here is a sentence to fill up the new posts thingum so nothing shows under the spoiler tag, I do hope it is long enough. Where is my lorem ipsum template when I need it?
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Cersei is alive for precisely the same reason that Ned Stark isn't.
It's supposed to be unfair and frustrating. Indeed she is my least favourite character on the show (or rather, my favourite character to hate since Joffrey) but it's precisely because of how unscrupulous she is that she "deserves" the Throne, in a sense.
Obviously, I'm looking forward to seeing her die. That was like, #1 on my wishlist for this season. It has been #1 on my wishlist since she killed Sansa's doggo. I hope her comeuppance is brutal and cathartic.
But I mean ... she worked hard for that uncomfortable chair, as gross and unlikeable as that makes her. It's pretty on-brand for GoT to show us that life isn't fair, and political success doesn't necessarily come to the smartest/bravest and most deserving! I think she's a good villain.
@Seraphim73 fair points all in all. She's definitely no Princess Buttercup. (How Not to Do a Damsel.)
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Man, I am such a Lena Headey fan. She's really brought out the character and is the perfect Cersei.
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@Ghost said in Game of Thrones:
Man, I am such a Lena Headey fan. She's really brought out the character and is the perfect Cersei.
Watch Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Man, I miss that show.
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@Arkandel said in Game of Thrones:
@Ghost said in Game of Thrones:
Man, I am such a Lena Headey fan. She's really brought out the character and is the perfect Cersei.
Watch Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Man, I miss that show.
Or be the sixth person to see her knock it out of the fucking park in Dredd.
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@insomniac7809 Dredd is one of the most underrated films, I swear. Fucking crime that it didn't get the franchise treatment.
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Lena Headey is also fantastic in her (admittedly minor) role in Fighting With My Family, another criminally underrated film. Actually, it's less underrated than it is unknown. It's a biopic about WWE wrestler Paige, but it's extremely well done, funny, touching, and awesome. You don't have to like the WWE to like it.
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Just a random note, if a spoiler is the first thing in the post, you can see the like first 10 words or something (i didn't count) of a spoiler in the 'post preview' thing when browsing the forum.
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@Rinel I wonder if we actually need a spoiler for this since we're just speculating, but maybe just so anyone who hasn't watched yet doesn't have to know these things are still being speculated.
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I keep going through my head that if that last GoT episode were 20 hours of mush combat how it would have gone. My mental television is lolol.
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@Ghost Yeah but put that behind spoiler tags please.