A Game of Thrones - best show on TV

[evandatp]

You have to be careful with the diuretics.

[funk51]

great show you have to watch from beginning to fully understand it...

[Gregzs]

[El Diablo Blanco]

Now it makes sense why the season up until now has been a bore.  they saved their budget for this one fight scene.  It was pretty cool though.  The White Walkers had to attack when they realized the Wildings were trying to leave.  I loved the Giant.  Basically "Donkey Kong" stands for what the fuck are you looking at in giant talk.  It was the best episode in a couple seasons for sure.

[Tedim]

Now it makes sense why the season up until now has been a bore.  they saved their budget for this one fight scene.  It was pretty cool though.  The White Walkers had to attack when they realized the Wildings were trying to leave.  I loved the Giant.  Basically "Donkey Kong" stands for what the fuck are you looking at in giant talk.  It was the best episode in a couple seasons for sure.

IMO better scenes

Midget meltdown at court.
Midget kills dad.
Jamie hand chopped off.
Oberon duel.

just off the top of my head last season

[El Diablo Blanco]

IMO better scenes

Midget meltdown at court.
Midget kills dad.
Jamie hand chopped off.
Oberon duel.

just off the top of my head last season

Nothing beats seeing Cersie licking the water off the cell floor where's there's piss and shit stains.  That was lovely.

[Tedim]

Nothing beats seeing Cersie licking the water off the cell floor where's there's piss and shit stains.  That was lovely.

watching her sadistic bastard turn pale blue and bleed out gave me a hard on

[Gregzs]

[El Diablo Blanco]

For an older chick she has amazing tits.

[Grape Ape]

For an older chick she has amazing tits.

Lol at older.  She's 38.

[CT_Muscle]

Lol at older.  She's 38.

I do think they attempt to make her look "older" but I agree AMAZING tits

[Grape Ape]

I do think they attempt to make her look "older" but I agree AMAZING tits

Yes, there needs to be a tit battle with her and the sand snake girl in the jail from two weeks ago.

[Automation]

Lol at older.  She's 38.

Still, great tits for a 38 year old...

[Hulkotron]

Something big will happen in this episode.

[Irongrip400]

Something big will happen in this episode.

Dude. I'm hoping this was just an anomaly, and the show didn't just jump the shark, but the last few minutes were a bit hokey.

[Gregzs]

"My father would have liked you."

I think Daenerys has bad luck with husbands.

Game Of Thrones Season 5 - Dragons and Asshai Explained

[SquatsRule]

Disturbing shades of the sacrifice of Iphigenia in Aeschylus' Agamemnon.

Benioff has two young daughters; it must have been difficult to write the episode.

The scene diminishes sympathy for Stannis.

Tragic Hero, perhaps? (Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling).

Good analogy. I didn't think of Agamemnon.

[Pet shop boys]

I'm probably the only one missing all the action here ...


Is there a way to watch it without having to subscribe to HBO ? (besides buying the dvd's of course)





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[Grape Ape]

I'm probably the only one missing all the action here ...


Is there a way to watch it without having to subscribe to HBO ? (besides buying the dvd's of course)





WoooSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Why not just subscribe?

But, you could borrow a friend's HBOGo password.

[OneMoreRep]

Disturbing shades of the sacrifice of Iphigenia in Aeschylus' Agamemnon.

Benioff has two young daughters; it must have been difficult to write the episode.

The scene diminishes sympathy for Stannis.

That's exactly the parallel I thought of when I saw that scene. Agamemnon sacrificing his daughter in order to appease Artemis for favorable winds versus Stannis' sacrifice in order to have safe voyage through the agonizing snow.

"1"

[Tedim]

hope Ramsey peels Stanis's face like a banana....most fathers would burn the world for their daughters.

[Tedim]

There is no nobility in selflessness, the good of the many is a damnable ideal. Just like future rewards, Locke, Mills, Marks, Engels all demand sacrifice from all others but themselves...Religions, social ideologies all promise rewards later, while you squalor in your filth now.   

In that episode all we see is a ambitious man sacrificing all for his super ego, nothing else.

[Tedim]

Interesting points. It seems that Stannis was, by your lights, damned if he did or if he didn't. If he sacrifices his daughter for the sake of the "cause," you say there is no nobility or justification in his "selflessness;" and if he sacrifices his daughter for his own ambitions (selfishness), he's also ignoble and unjustified. However, doesn't the same hold if he choose not to sacrifice his daughter out of his personal love, which would doom the fate of his troops (selfishness). Did Stannis have a way out?

If you believe that choices are linear....then indeed he was damned if he did or if he didn't. But they're not, he has every opportunity to avail himself of his own trap, yet he presses forward into it. Why?, his wants his needs are all that matter, he is a driverless tank grinding everything in its path, as he is hollow inside. Was there a way out?

Yes, he could have given up his "future" kingdom....

[Grape Ape]

It's a complicated issue. Stannis is a hard man, but seems to be very principled (perhaps a tragic flaw -- where his strength will be his undoing). The making of a choice, which, I should imagine, involves some measure of deliberation, is inherently teleological: i.e., it is driven by a means-ends calculus with a goal in mind. One chooses between possible options based on some sense of future expectation. So, in this sense, the choice-making apparatus seems inescapably "linear" (if this is what you mean). I agree with you that Stannis did have the option of giving up his goal of ruling the Seven Kingdoms. He could have chosen to forsake his imagined destiny, and go against those visions he has been shown (by Melisandre). But, I think you would agree, that this option would still be based on another vision of futurity (not sacrificing his daughter to see her live a little longer), which is also linear. In any case, thanks for your thoughtful comments.  

Linear, schminear.   A hot chick with nice tits told him to do something, so he did.

[Hulkotron]

Dude. I'm hoping this was just an anomaly, and the show didn't just jump the shark, but the last few minutes were a bit hokey.

Yes the "event" I thought was going to happen did not happen.  Please tune in for next week

I agree though.