Kind of funny how both of the Disney Star Wars movies got so much acclaim around release and then got trashed by the fan base months afterward.

Thanks for the edit. I started getting out the razor blades when I saw "2 - trash".

No joke. They could have made 4 or 5 season just from AFFC and ADWD. By then TWoW would be out for them to make 2-3 more seasons from.

That many seasons would really be pushing it, especially considering how slow and uneventful most people consider those books, which is probably why they hardly even tried adapting them. There's not that much point stalling to wait on George. At this point, I'm starting to think we'll be lucky to get another one before the 2020s.

I think most of us are still watching because we feel obligated to. The difference between s4 and s5 was the sharpest decline in quality I've ever witnessed in television. It perplexes me that the show manages to get more emmys and more critical acclaim than the earlier seasons did.

who said you're feminine?

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What purpose does the guy have this season besides trying to turn Arya and Sansa against each other which is going to fail? Either in the next or episode 7, Arya is going to confront Sansa about the letter and she's going to tell Arya the truth about it. Once that happens Little finger is going to be executed in episode 7 so his sister against sister scheme is going to be a waste of our time. Unless the Vale abandons the Starks because of his execution, his whole character in this season was nothing more than shitty and pointless written to get rid of him.

The Hound should have been in the front.

Can they even be called people?

Did you let her know that rotten tomatoes are paid Marvel shills and all of the marvel movies should have <50%?

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Some of you guys should refer to my first post for the practical application of this. It's not like they'd be letting some random substitute walk in with a magnum and they're obviously kept locked up. If a teacher brought one out during class, they'd probably just get fired.

I don't think it was necessarily the Tyrells themselves that were a great military strength.  Mace rode the coattails of Randyll Tarly's victories, and the Tyrells pretty much just have food and gold to their name.  The real power is with Tarly (and, in the books at least, House Hightower).

Tarly is known for being a great commander, not containing an essential portion of the Tyrell army, which in the books is by far the largest army in the realm. Logically speaking the liege lord would make up the largest portion of the kingdom's army or else they probably wouldn't be the liege lord. To believe that the army is effectively useless without Randyll is a pretty big leap but I might be willing to look past it if they had bothered to give this as an explanation. As it is, this is some of the most Dabid-tier writing the show has ever done imo.

HBO got hacked earlier this week and have been holding shows for ransom. Episode 4 just got leaked today as well as some season 8 plot leaks if anyone's interested.

https://vid.me/LvFii (current working link)

Figured I'd make a new thread and share for you mummer fuckers.

The more I think about how Olenna Tyrell and her army got dealt with in such a quick and easy way, the dumber this whole show seems to me. "Fighting never was our forte". So how were they ever valued as a military ally in the previous seasons if they could just be destroyed using zero effort. Despite the fact that Jaime had to siege one of the major castles in the show, he still manages to get it done immediately and presumably without any loss to his army. It seems like the sizes of everyone's armies are being left intentionally vague and undefined so that stuff like this can keep happening regardless of logic. Cersei is just going to keep implausibly gaining the upper hand to increase the "drama", until Daenerys inevitably wins in the end despite all odds.