Going back to one of the first scenes, was varys trying to have Dany’s food poisoned? That little girl worked in the kitchen and she said the queen hadn’t been eating and Varys tells her we will try again later or something.
Yeah all these clips people have put the bells scene too, that one and Metallica for whom the bell tolls came to my mind but I hadn’t seen anyone put the scene to those songs yet haha
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. He also said something about taking risks so it’s not as if he was just trying to get her to eat.
lol yeah I suppose that wasn’t the most logical example of places to compare distance between. Miami to Cuba would have been a much better and well known distance comparison / mental map placement of known places to use. But like, Jesus is it close. Winterfell is like 8x the distance away from KL based on the maps. Crazy.
I’m glad someone said something because I was about to say, “one is a thirty minute flight and one is a five hour flight”
I didn’t like the way they wrote him to be nothing but one liners for a while later on, but this early one absolutely killed me. It’s just straight out of a comedy.
So the more I think about the last episode the more I love it. The past two seasons I've been complaining about "fan service" and "plot armor" and The Bells gave us so many huge deaths that didn't play out like expected at all. You can say that Jamie and Cersei's death didn't pay off their arc or add up to anything, but the same could be said about Ned, Rob, Caitlin, Stanis, Margaery..... their deaths were all sudden and happened when the characters were still trying to accomplish something. I like it gave me a taste of the earlier seasons.
I watched the half hour "behind the episode" video last night after watching the episode and damn, that set construction was awesome.
I was gonna post about this also - you can nitpick the show all you want but it is unreal what they do to film and create these episodes.
Apparently that picture of Cersei and Jaime hugging and his real hand visible instead of his gold hand is a fake in that it wasn't in the episode, just a picture from some website of them hugging on set one day.
Also yes, the level of production is astounding and pretty much as good as it gets for something like this in film and television.
In a show with magic, zombies and dragons I'm not batting an eye at someone regrowing his hand moments before death to get one last ass grab in. Seems fair to me.
Also if you want a TRUE nitpick, I can’t get over the fact that in episode one it was clearly shown that Dany uses “queen” in a romantic context in that barfy scene with Jon and it was an established part of their flirting whether I enjoyed it or not, but suddenly in this one he says she’s his queen and that has only one meaning to her! Like I know that she was right in the middle of her breakdown and it was totally in character for Jon to have no response at all to that, but I was dying for him to remind her of everything that word means to their relationship.
It has made me happy that even the most toxic parts of the fan base are going out of their way to compliment the actors for giving it their all and doing their best. People still love Varys and Conleth even if the writing for him took a nosedive.