Jaded Sapphire
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So Arya, who crumpled faster...The Night King or Gendry?
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As was briefly mentioned earlier in this thread, not only do I think the Steve ending doesn't work but I think Tony deserved better. As much as there was talk about him not being worthy (Nick Fury in Iron Man 2) and him not being willing to sacrifice (Steve in Avengers) all of his movies include him putting himself in danger to save people and most of them include Tony specifically putting his own life on the line to save people:
Iron Man 1 - he almost died
Avengers 1 - he almost died
Avengers 2 - he volunteered to destroy the floating city (with Thor) knowing he could die "This could be a one-way trip"
Avengers Infinity War - Tells Spidey that "This is a one-way ticket" so again expecting to die and almost did against Thanos
Avengers Endgame - Actually dies to save the world
So not only is him sacrificing 'old' from a storytelling point of view, he doesn't get to live with and raise his daughter with Pepper and retire. That is something he's been hoping to do since Avengers 2 (Maybe I'll do like Clint and get a farm with Pepper). After everything he's been through he gets only 5 years of peace. 5 years! It may be an unpopular opinion but I think he was robbed.
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13 minutes ago, TobinAlbers said:
And as Bran said all Theon's actions for better or worse led to him in this moment, ultimately dying an honorable death at his home.
This line prompted a bit of a thought exercise at my place. If Theon hadn't betrayed Rob, he likely would have died at the Red Wedding but also Theon wouldn't have taken over Winterfell forcing Bran to flee north....and become the 3 Eyed Raven.
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For reasons that are already articulated better here, I'm pretty upset about Tony's death. I also didn't enjoy the 'fat Thor' thing because of how it played his genuine grief for laughs. I don't really trust them to write Thor better in future movies and never really cared for the Guardians. Since Thor and Tony were my favorite characters, I think this will be my last MCU movie.
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10 minutes ago, Drogo said:Can Arya really be so dense to not remember The Hound was protecting her last she saw him? Protecting her to his presumed death?
Seriously! I yelled at my screen when she asked that dumb question.
Speaking of, my SO and I have this habit of yelling 'Dead' at the screen whenever characters really hit us in the feels, especially on a show like this where it's possible for them to die.
For instance:
Theon hugs Sansa - "Dead"
Grey Worm kisses Missandei - "Super Dead"
Brienne gets knighted - "Sir Dead of House Deadington"
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8 minutes ago, Constantinople said:
From Season 3 Episode 2: Dark Wings, Dark Words
And as for the past, he has to actively seek it out. He didn't know about Rhaegar and Lyanna's marriage until he went looking for it even though he knew about them being Jon's parents.
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9 hours ago, MadameKillerB said:
-what did Euron mean by "mute" when describing Golden Company?
He wasn't describing the Golden Company, he was describing his own men. Sometime in either Season 6 or 7 it was mentioned that Euron cut out all of the tongues of the men on his ships. It seemed to be a myth but apparently it's true of the men on his main ship anyway (lest he was just joking).
31 hour ago, Nanrad said:I'm confused how else someone in Dany's position is supposed to act? She grew up impoverished and learned that only way to achieve power is to take and not show weakness. The first time she did someone a solid, her husband and child was killed and she was made barren. She only knows how to rule in the style that she has because that's been the only effective way throughout her journey.
Do we honestly think keeping the Tarly's alive wouldn't have bit her in the ass???
She is used to fighting for everything, including her power and respect, it's not surprising that that is how she operates even with civilizations that don't behave that way.
There is an argument that she could have simply kept them prisoner, if for no other reason then as strategic assets when two of her allies had been captured. But at the absolute minimum, she definitely should not have burned them alive with her dragon as the form of execution. As many have said here and like Jon, Tyrion, Jorah, and Barristan told Dany, the optics alone of burning non-combatants with dragons is terrible for the supposedly non-mad daughter of the Mad King.
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9 minutes ago, Drogo said:
I love Sam 'The Wizard' Tarly as much as the next person, but his father was a dick and his brother was a fool.
Daenerys considered sending Randyll to the Wall at Tyrion's suggestion when he wouldn't bend the knee, but he quickly told her she couldn't because she's Not My Queen. *You don't say that shit to a woman with dragons.* And IIRC stupid Dickon inserted himself when the death sentence had already been issued.
There's just no reason for this episode to act like Daenerys should be ashamed of her decision to roast the Tarlys.
You would support Dany and her violent executions wouldn't you Drogo.
But seriously, I'm not entirely sure she considered it at all. When Tyrion suggested something similar (putting them in prison) she immediately said that she'd already given them their options and she wasn't going back on her word about killing them. Tyrion (and ultimately Sam's) point was that it wasn't in any way necessary. Especially such a violent, prolonged, and painful death.
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112 minutes ago, ParadoxLost said:
It feels like they switched Dany's character last season when she expected Jon to bend the knee based on nothing but her lineage and Tyrion started fretting about her BBQ tendencies.
But I also wonder how true that is. Or is it just that this is the first time the people she is demanding bend to her rule are not slavers and are characters the audience is sympathetic to or outright prefer to Dany.
I think given Dany's history, the idea that there is male Targaryen with a stronger claim on the throne and was chosen to rule by the North is going to go over really badly.
This. All of this.
Lest we forget: her feeding a man to her two dragons and "They can live in my new world or die in their old one" were several seasons ago.
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10 minutes ago, hypnotoad said:
She knows better than to trust Cersei which is more than we can say for Tyrion at the moment. I mean seriously, where have all his alleged brains gone?
I really hate the way they've written Tyrion lately. I think the only thing that could save this were if Cersei isn't pregnant at all - she just used the idea of it to play Tyrion and Jaime.
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On 7/19/2018 at 12:21 AM, kariyaki said:
Divine Move: We get our first look at the Daughters, led by Old Jennifer. She tells Ramse that he's a good friend, "Not yet, but you will be." The Messengers are first mentioned here.
I've been thinking about that line a bunch since Season 2 resets a bunch of stuff and there's a big deal about Ramse being dead originally. I think the line works on 2 levels. If Ramse had died when he was 'supposed' to, his last act would have been to help Cole save Cassie, hence being a good friend. It also works with what the timeline is changed to where his last act is to help Cole save the world by taking Titan.
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Doing my own re-watch now. I'm still curious about how the timeline changed from season 1 to season 2 and how the loop resets.
Anyway, I didn't realize that Olivia described herself as "a thing in a box" all the way back in season 1! And that Jennifer said "Climb the steps, ring the bell" too! And that Jones said she'd "take my last breath here (at the machine)."
ETA - I've been commenting as I watched, hence the disjointed additions. All this takes place in episode 11 - Shonin
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Thanks much justmehere, both articles are a great read. The ending I choose is Terry's by the way but I can see how it might not be the same for everyone else.
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On 7/5/2018 at 1:33 PM, coppersin said:
So, finally seeing Hannah as Cole's mother reminded me that last season I thought Constance may be his mother. Constance was the woman in the portrait in the 80s heist and randomly appeared at the plague ball when they were hunting Athan. Did we find out who she is and I just forgot, or is that still unresolved?
Cassie recognizing her was the resolution to that story - it's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it gag.
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10 minutes ago, Cardie said:
The complete happy ending kind of defies the show's logic but after everyone's many travails, they earned it. I'm glad Ramse came back for the finale. Jennifer's success in bioengineering her unicorn was the best.
Totally agree! My only question right now is which Deacon showed up at the end? Did Jennifer grab Deacon before he shows up to take the facility in season 1? I mean that would be one helluva an acting job if he was pretending from minute one.
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On 6/22/2018 at 3:00 PM, Ray Adverb said:
I don't really understand how Cole saved Jennifer from that train. I assume he found out she was hit by a train then splintered back to the moment she jumped to save her life. That doesn't explain how he moved so quickly. The train was mere meters away. How could his reaction time be so fast?
Future-Cole has a control unit that can set the "when and where" of splinters ahead of time for the suit. That's part of how they were able to track and catch Athan last season. Jones demonstrates it in Season 3 - Nuture, and you can see Future-Cole pull it out of the suit when he's talking to Jennifer. As far as I can tell, he only had to be fast enough to catch her and press the button (or vice versa if he times the catch well enough)
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1 hour ago, diebartdie said:
When did these things happen? I dont remember either of these things happening in the episode and I wasnt even all that stoned! I dont remember a street walking economics professor either!
It was immediately after the credits. If you turned off the show as the credits rolled then you definitely missed it.
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Totally on board with all the WTF at Dom being mad at Darlene. I also did a rewatch of the previous seasons and Vera was very much alive last we saw him.
Anybody else laugh their asses off at the axe-punctuated "Wheel! Of! Fortune!"? I mean it even sounded just like the opening to the actual show. No? Just me?
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2 minutes ago, lora said:
But Cole shot Ramse in the back and chose someone he knows only for a few years over him. I guess Ramse is not that dear to Cole after all.
Meh, I'd have more of a problem with that if Ramse weren't willing to kill the entire world (including Cole) for a kid he knew for all of 2-ish days.
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16 hours ago, Hanahope said:
Unfortunately, I have to say that when the number of people that believe something start to run into the millions, it becomes a lot less unreasonable, at least under the law.
Does it really though? Seriously asking here, no snark. I mean for every person who saw "Hilary Clinton runs pedophile ring out of pizza place Basement" and thought it was plausible, there have to be even more (like me) who simply laughed and never gave it another thought. If it isn't believed by the majority of potential readers, and the claim sounds pretty outrageous on it's face, when exactly does it become actionable under the law?
Aren't there (arguably) just as many Holocaust deniers and Flat Earthers for instance?
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Can we mine the sheer amount of cognitive dissonance these people have? It would certainly solve the energy crisis.
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Jones did describe the paradoxes as "gunshot wounds" in time two(?) episodes ago, saying that this last one will "bleed us out" so it probably is that it's the second one to have happened.
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5 hours ago, MissLucas said:
It also seems they were only looking for the primary but never for a messenger just assuming the messenger would come to the factory to kill the primary. Granted they are harder to spot though Charlie did not make much of an effort to hide his apocalyptic inclinations.
Btw it was never explained why that particular paradox is so powerful and special. Because both Cassie and Cole were present?
I figured (like Cole and Cassie) that since the messengers know who they are looking for already, they wouldn't need to show up too far in advance - So when my SO actually called Charlie as a messenger in the beginning, I shot him down :-p
Well the shockwave from the paradox ruptures a tank which is why the building explodes. As to why it's so destructive to time, maybe because it's the second paradox in less than 15 years?
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On 7/12/2016 at 3:29 AM, iRarelyWatchTV36 said:
I like the theories of Ramse still being alive/living- due to the splinter-surival injections - because as the screen went black (i.e, the ep ending), he was still breathing.
I finally got to re-watch and it sounded to me like he stopped breathing right before the screen went black. Anybody else?
S08.E04: The Last of the Starks
in Game Of Thrones
I have nothing constructive to add to this thread other than that I am the seventh person to watch (and love!) Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles. I adored it so much I made my SO watch it this year, so count him as number eight.
Speaking of, where is Lena Headey's emmy?