OFFICIAL Game of Holmes Season 8 Thread - A Dream of Flat Tops 4/14/19

[nieman]

Watched this last night. Thought it was great.

I thought the moment Dany decided to light everything up made sense considering the development of the character. Homegirl has achieved absolutely nothing in the series via diplomacy, as she has never really bothered to truly learn it. By its very nature, you'll take a few Ls, but end up getting what you want over time. Any time she's faced any kind of pushback, she's basically just lit them up and rolled out. She's always reacted in situations that needed a lighter touch with sadistic violence.

On top of that, all of her ruling has been over subjects who were happy that she wasn't enslaving them. They were all willing to get on board because they knew it was going to be an improvement. Now, she doesn't have the crutch of offering freedom, and is shocked to see that people like other options better than her, and doesn't know how to respond, especially with the alienation she feels with all of her advisors betraying her. She accepts that respect won't be how she rules, and says that she'll need to make people fear her.

When she looks at the Red Keep and says fukk it, that's pure entitled rage. In her mind, there shouldn't even be a war, and that shyt belongs to her. So she came after it of the mind that she'll destroy her own belongings if she feels like it, and wanted to make sure she had a hand in killing Cersei. But most of all, like someone else mentioned, killing innocent people puts fear in all the common folk that she is not to be questioned.

I'm excited for next week, assuming they follow up on who, exactly Varys was sending letters to. I'm also assuming that the letters were to inform others of John's lineage, and possibly absolve him of any wrongdoing in the attack on King's Landing.

Exactly

 

[O.Red]

You say this but it's been shown that maesters "revise" history.

The reason people surrendered to aegon was because he had overwhelming power and was gentle in those that surrendered. The feared him and knew they could keep their lives if they surrendered. After he burned a army of 40,000 men alive and killed some kings was when people really sat up like "we shouldn't fight this guy." Cersie and Sansa don't have anything resembling that level of fear of Dany. They trying her at every turn. Which is the same reason maegor was so correct in his cruelty. His dad died and everybody started bucking at the targaryens. So he proceeded to send a message. Maegor and his mother burned down various castles in the reach and westerlands for ignoring royal summons.

The only difference is Dany has switched off from being accommodating and upped the scale of destruction. It's time to let folks know who has the power.

They respected aegon.
The feared maegor.
To rule Dany must establish fear because no one loves her in westeros. They don't admire or respect her. This is how you establish that fear. She can worry about the respect after she has the compliance through fear.

It was 4,000 not 40,000 for what it's worth

 

[Osmosis]

Hell, having Dany sitting the iron throne and being unable to resist her "Mad" fathers destiny and becoming the Mad Queen and comparing and contrasting that with Cersei having plotted and schemed and done barbarous atrocities to keep the iron throne as a Mad Queen in her own right sparked by her own deceased father's ruthlessness for his children to gain and keep power, would've been an interesting side by side to explore. Daughter's unable to avoid the sins of their ancestry and or the patriarchy.

Dany should have took the throne last season before a gradual descent to madness. That would have been much more bittersweet since the audience gets to see her achieve her goal before seeing her turn into the tyrant she promised she would never be.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

The Mountain woulda waxed "some soldiers" had they tried this BS.

D&D's shytty writing has subjected us to every idiot with a Twitter handle feeling emboldened to suggest something "better"

 

[Spliff]

That was the WOAT plotline device in the history of Western Civilization. I understand that they needed to lose a dragon to Night King but should've come up with something less stupid.

It also didn't help that they were pretty much teleporting back and forth

In hindsight, they could've scrapped the whole "Night King gets a dragon beyond the wall" plot point and still achieved what they wanted. Bran traveled past the wall already. It's magic was gone. Night King demonstrated ground-destroying magic in season 6. They had a lot to work with.

 

[Figaro]

Did a shyt load of character development in the last 7/8 years go straight down shyts creek in this episode or is it just me brehs

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

Have you? That bytch been off

She also walked into a fire when Drogo died having NO IDEA she was going to make it out. Who walks into a fire?

A Khaleesi

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

#StarkSet vs #TargSet next week

#LannisterSet

before this season started "jon's a targ"

seems pretty loyal to his actual family tho

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

secret targ, secret father of Hot Pie

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Have you? That bytch been off

She also walked into a fire when Drogo died having NO IDEA she was going to make it out. Who walks into a fire?

Use her eating a heart to endear her to the people whose custom is to eat hearts for good pregnancy health as evidence shes off brehs....yep, she's sooo terrible

And this is coming from a dany hater/saw the mad queen coming.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

 

[choc_cardigan]

If you would have told me bill nye cursing on John Oliver show was going to get more positive praise than the bells episode of game of thrones, I would have laughed at you

 

[Ineedmoney504]

The Mountain woulda waxed "some soldiers" had they tried this BS.

D&D's shytty writing has subjected us to every idiot with a Twitter handle feeling emboldened to suggest something "better"

Think the mountain can beat a group of unsullied and dartraki by himself brehs.

Couldn’t even fully dominate a flabby and sick hound

You think the unsullied or dartraki gonna go out like the sept fukk boys

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Just because the heel turn been expected DOESNT MEAN WE HAVE TO BE OK WITH THE WAY IT WAS DONE...

If you want to see a heel turn built up properly see Walter White and Breaking Bad...

Now imagine if Walter went from teacher to full blown homicidal Narco boss in 7 episodes...That's essentially what D&D with Dany and you have cats in here caping for that nonsense...

At least you admit they fukked it up, the stans cant even bring themselves to say it could have been done better...smh

you forreal mad, no dany

 

[Sad Bunny]

This ending is about to be

GOAT show