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Game of Thrones S8, Apr 14-May 19 @9PM EDT |OT| Aunt-Man and the Frost
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Not that it matters, but it seemed like a body double was being used for Arya's scene, there's some pretty clear camera angle wizardry.
Wasn't she wearing a skin tight cloth wrap or something to cover her breasts? It certainly looked like that in the episode.
If Dunk was nicer, he'd be Brienne.
If Dunk was meaner, he'd be the Hound.
If Dunk was dumber, he'd be Hodor.
I know Hodor and Brienne are Dunk's descendants but I'm willing to bet that the Hound is too.
Damn, that was a good episode. I love focus on the characters.. and you really get the sense that shit is going down and we just saw a bunch of people for the last time.
So many great interactions. It takes restraint to do an entire episode like this when you've only got six to work with, but it was 100% necessary before shit starts getting crazy.
So many great interactions. It takes restraint to do an entire episode like this when you've only got six to work with, but it was 100% necessary before shit starts getting crazy.
Anyway, I really liked Episode 2. There's a lot I'm down on with Game of Thrones, many plot threads and characterisations through the seasons I haven't agreed with. But as a whole I still enjoy the show immensely, and Episode 2 was an obvious calm-before-the-storm send off that for me resonated strongly on an emotional level.
It'll make next week's bloodbath all the more satisfying. I hope it's a massacre, and I hope the Night King rolls them.
It'll make next week's bloodbath all the more satisfying. I hope it's a massacre, and I hope the Night King rolls them.
Episode 3: Arya fucks Pod.
Episode 4: Arya fucks Daenerys
Episode 5: Arya fucks Jon Snow
Episode 6: Arya fucks Bran Stark and Bran pushes Jaime Jr. out the window. It's like poetry it rhymes.
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Jaqenn: Who did you fucks?
Arya: A girl fucked Arya Stark of Winterfell and I'm going home.
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I thought of this as well since the new opening actually goes through the basement where they keep the skull.
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It's absolutely an awkward out of left field scene knowing everything we know about the character. Both the fanservice scenes in this season have felt completely out of place.
You still haven't said how you supposedly know she doesn't want to have sex.
I strongly feel that they are dialing up the "Dany wants the throne" to 11 in her scenes with Sansa and Jon this episode so they can maximize the shock for when she decides to discard it in exchange for love and the chance at a family. It just reminds me too much of the Arya/Sansa tension last season that turned out to be lot of nothing.
Getting in a sexual encounter (especially your first that could be your last) before certain death doesn't make for something out of place to me. Especially given the context of the history the characters have had to get comfortable around eachother.
A subject that the character has literally never shown interest in aside from literally a 1 second glance over the course of 8 seasons in a universe which goes out of it's way to constantly show characters wanting sex even to the point of people coining the term "sexposition." Gee I wonder why no one would think Arya of all people, who again, has spent literally eight seasons training and all of this season asking for a weapon first and foremost and talking about protecting her family second would be interested in sex. Like it would make for a good passage in that one thread we had where people wrote scenes from the tv show in book style format. It's not the most controversial scene of the episode for shits and giggles. It genuinely made a lot of the audience feel weird. Not because we think we own Maisie Williams or some shit but because of the context not having any buildup outside of two glances.
-That one scene with shirtless Gendry way back when
-The scene where he's forging weapons looking like a greek god in this episode
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Just finished a rewatch of Beyond the Wall. It's even worse than I remembered, and I hated it when it aired. It was terrible from start to finish. Easily the worst episode of the series. Every time I get optimistic about this season I think of this episode and how bad it was. Hopefully it was a fluke.
She's never said or done anything to demonstrate she isn't interested in sex, and frankly I don't understand why the show should need to spell it out for you that she's been thinking about it. It should be implied, her checking Gendry out years ago was enough. If anything this does more work to flesh her out than the last few seasons did because now we know she wasn't single mindedly just focused on killing, having this kind of a human desire makes her more relatable. Like, did you want scenes of her flirting with random guys beforehand? She was busy with shit up until now, I just don't see the complaint that it wasn't "built up" enough being valid whatsoever.
True. We got at least a bit of male fanservice with the camera showing us Gendry's abs. :P
There was nothing particularly male gazey about that scene. If anything the camera focused as much on Gendry as on her. And it's not like male gazey sex scenes are rare in this show, LOL. If anything it's almost shocking in how tasteful and neutral it was, unlike the juvenile trash we've repeatedly seen so far.
This is not an honest take. The "they've grown up" part is a rebuttal to this "but we've seen her as a child!" rhetoric, not as an argument that "having sex is the only way to grow up". Come on.
Good post.
It's just that it was ambiguous that she even crushed on him to begin with and then they went 0-60 in the space of an episode.
I'm more concerned that it was rushed.
Plot-wise, I'm wondering if Gendry is leaving a bun in the oven so he can die now and we have a new Stark heir.
In the books he's an miserable, almost insufferable drunkard, who hangs around with Penny. Remember her?
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Considering everything Arya's been through and let's be honest, how fucked she likely is when it comes to her mental state due to being forced to survive and kill as a child for many many years and eventually taking comfort in that one goal as a coping mechanism to the point that it became the crux of her entire identity? Yea.
This too. Like there wasn't even a tinge of romance in the first episode. So they decided to put in a shot of Gendry looking hot AF in this one.
As someone else said Maisie had a lot of control over the scene so yea it wasn't as bad as say, that really cringy Bron scene in episode 1. And we did get some fanservice in the form of Gendry's sweaty greek statue bod when Arya was looking at him forge things.
They aren't married, so it would be a Snow/Waters and not a Stark.
Some of the hot takes in this thread have me wondering why I even visit this forum.
We've got prudes upset about Arya's scene, people who clearly pay no attention to the show whatsoever and then to top it all off are the idiots calling this "the worst show on tv". Jesus christ.
If I rolled my eyes any harder they'd be stuck in the back of my skull.
We've got prudes upset about Arya's scene, people who clearly pay no attention to the show whatsoever and then to top it all off are the idiots calling this "the worst show on tv". Jesus christ.
If I rolled my eyes any harder they'd be stuck in the back of my skull.
You have to wonder if people are even watching the same show as you sometimes. If you can't understand why Arya does what she does in this episode, I don't know what to tell you.
It didn't even feel like horniness as much as it felt like "listen, I've done a lot of crazy shit (like murdering literally dozens of people), but I've never had sex, and I don't want to die without figuring out why everyone is so crazy about it." Which is a perfectly reasonable thing for anyone to think. And I'm completely on board with you about the infantilization of both the character and the actress; all of this "I saw her as a kid so I'm uncomfortable with her becoming a woman" completely robs her of her agency, and honestly fuck anyone who thinks that way. That scene doesn't exist to serve your erection you selfish assholes. And incidentally, that is just about the least male-gazey Game of Thrones has ever been with a sex scene, so I don't buy that argument in the slightest.
People with trauma have sex too. Also, she already had a bond with Gendry, I think it makes sense for her to open up to him in particular
Yeah, I have to check out of this thread till next week. This stuff is baffling.
Legitimization just like with Bael the Bard's bastard son which is what continued the House Stark line in the past.
House Stark continues through Arya and Gendry's bastard son.
It's also notable that the founder of House Baratheon took the sigil, motto, castle and house words of his wife, Argella Durrandon.
Join houses and become one house.
Compared to her family? She barely knew Gendry for a few days before he was kidnapped.
GRRM isn't running a TV show.
They execute produce, produce, write and showrun. Each is a very difficult task. To do them all at that frequency and scale... it's a massive contribution.
George provided a great starting point,but he isn't the reason this is the biggest show on television
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