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  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,658
    I know some people were worried about spoilers but I would have been gutted if I'd first watched that episode in anything less than perfect HD. Well worth the wait and series heating up nicely.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,199
    Dazzler21 said:

    That close to the shore? Within 3-5 meters?

    In the previous shot he was about to get toasted by a fantastial creature that is so big that gravity would almost certainly cause it's bones to collapse on themselves. Think I can live with a lake being deeper than expected.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,073
    JiMMy 85 said:

    Dazzler21 said:

    That close to the shore? Within 3-5 meters?

    In the previous shot he was about to get toasted by a fantastial creature that is so big that gravity would almost certainly cause it's bones to collapse on themselves. Think I can live with a lake being deeper than expected.
    Is that what happened with the dinosaurs?
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,199
    edited August 2017
    WSS said:

    JiMMy 85 said:

    Dazzler21 said:

    That close to the shore? Within 3-5 meters?

    In the previous shot he was about to get toasted by a fantastial creature that is so big that gravity would almost certainly cause it's bones to collapse on themselves. Think I can live with a lake being deeper than expected.
    Is that what happened with the dinosaurs?
    No, why?
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,420
    JiMMy 85 said:

    Dazzler21 said:

    That close to the shore? Within 3-5 meters?

    In the previous shot he was about to get toasted by a fantastial creature that is so big that gravity would almost certainly cause it's bones to collapse on themselves. Think I can live with a lake being deeper than expected.
    Nah it still annoyed me as his horse was galloping right there 2 seconds earlier and then suddenly it's 15-20ft deeper!

    That sir was an editing mistake.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,199
    edited August 2017
    Yeah they perhaps should've at least made sure nobody was seen galloping there at least! Then it becomes an internal logic issue rather than a suspension of disbelief one!
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,970
    mart77 said:

    I know some people were worried about spoilers but I would have been gutted if I'd first watched that episode in anything less than perfect HD. Well worth the wait and series heating up nicely.

    Yeah but we can watch it again!!
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,073
    JiMMy 85 said:

    WSS said:

    JiMMy 85 said:

    Dazzler21 said:

    That close to the shore? Within 3-5 meters?

    In the previous shot he was about to get toasted by a fantastial creature that is so big that gravity would almost certainly cause it's bones to collapse on themselves. Think I can live with a lake being deeper than expected.
    Is that what happened with the dinosaurs?
    No, why?
    Well I just think a T-Rex or a Diplodocus was just as big as a Dany Dragon and their bones didn't collapse due to gravity. Or did they? #tangent
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,199
    edited August 2017
    I
    WSS said:

    JiMMy 85 said:

    WSS said:

    JiMMy 85 said:

    Dazzler21 said:

    That close to the shore? Within 3-5 meters?

    In the previous shot he was about to get toasted by a fantastial creature that is so big that gravity would almost certainly cause it's bones to collapse on themselves. Think I can live with a lake being deeper than expected.
    Is that what happened with the dinosaurs?
    No, why?
    Well I just think a T-Rex or a Diplodocus was just as big as a Dany Dragon and their bones didn't collapse due to gravity. Or did they? #tangent
    Drogon is now big enough for a human to stand upright in his open mouth, and he's still only a quarter of the size Balerion the Dread reached, and two centuries younger (these dragons don't stop growing). So Drogon is more massive than either of those dinos, who are dwarfed by Balerion.

    Meanwhile, back in reality, dinosaurs developed pneumatised (partially hollow) bones, which allowed them to grow to large sizes, in spite of the problem that bones don't scale up in terms of durability as they do weight. To put it another way, big bones means heavy bones, but the weight they can support is related to pressure (interestingly, it was this light-weight bone structure that, eventually, led to birds and flight).

    There are a few other reasons relating to why there's an upper limit on how large an animal can grow to be too, such as how far oxygen has to travel through cells, and the connecting tissue between muscle and bone.

    TL:DR - dinosaurs weren't as big as this dragon is depicted, found a way to grow as big as they did, turned into birds.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,970
    Not sure why Danaerys burnt all the supplies though - win the battle, keep the supplies.

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  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,195
    JiMMy 85 said:

    I

    WSS said:

    JiMMy 85 said:

    WSS said:

    JiMMy 85 said:

    Dazzler21 said:

    That close to the shore? Within 3-5 meters?

    In the previous shot he was about to get toasted by a fantastial creature that is so big that gravity would almost certainly cause it's bones to collapse on themselves. Think I can live with a lake being deeper than expected.
    Is that what happened with the dinosaurs?
    No, why?
    Well I just think a T-Rex or a Diplodocus was just as big as a Dany Dragon and their bones didn't collapse due to gravity. Or did they? #tangent
    Drogon is now big enough for a human to stand upright in his open mouth, and he's still only a quarter of the size Balerion the Dread reached, and two centuries younger (these dragons don't stop growing). So Drogon is more massive than either of those dinos, who are dwarfed by Balerion.

    Meanwhile, back in reality, dinosaurs developed pneumatised (partially hollow) bones, which allowed them to grow to large sizes, in spite of the problem that bones don't scale up in terms of durability as they do weight. To put it another way, big bones means heavy bones, but the weight they can support is related to pressure (interestingly, it was this light-weight bone structure that, eventually, led to birds and flight).

    There are a few other reasons relating to why there's an upper limit on how large an animal can grow to be too, such as how far oxygen has to travel through cells, and the connecting tissue between muscle and bone.

    TL:DR - dinosaurs weren't as big as this dragon is depicted, found a way to grow as big as they did, turned into birds.
    You must have hated it when that lady gave birth to a baby made out of smoke and it stabbed a guy to death
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Wonderful, wonderful television. That episode was easily better than most of Season 5. In fact the last 20 minutes were better than most of Season 5.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,970
    Fiiish said:

    Wonderful, wonderful television. That episode was easily better than most of Season 5. In fact the last 20 minutes were better than most of Season 5.

    Erm....

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  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    edited August 2017
    North Lower Neil said:

    Fiiish said:

    Wonderful, wonderful television. That episode was easily better than most of Season 5. In fact the last 20 minutes were better than most of Season 5.

    Erm....

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    Hence why I said most. Season 5 ended well but most of it I found lacking. Apart from Hardhome and THAT season cliffhanger, what else stood out?
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,970
    I agree really - Hardhome apart, Series 5 was iffy - the Sand Snakes, the High Sparrow stuff etc.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,970
    Hardhome ruled though.
  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    edited August 2017
    North Lower Neil said:

    Hardhome ruled though.

    Agreed. It probably still is the best action sequence they have done, although I feel this episode was simply a taster for what's in store.

    I thought they would have wanted to capture the food though? They mentioned they couldn't feed their soldiers, why burn the grain?

    And Jaime is surely a prisoner again? Perhaps finding himself on the other side for once with Tyrion visiting his cell. Dany can finally meet the so-called Kingslayer.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,109
    Great episode, what a series. Anyone watch thronecast? Before it started Sky gave out a helpline for anyone affected by tonight's episode, WTF is that about?!
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,970
    Friend Or Defoe said:

    Great episode, what a series. Anyone watch thronecast? Before it started Sky gave out a helpline for anyone affected by tonight's episode, WTF is that about?!

    The fire stuff was pretty harrowing I guess.

  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    Amazing television!

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  • Fiiish
    Fiiish Posts: 7,998
    Friend Or Defoe said:

    Great episode, what a series. Anyone watch thronecast? Before it started Sky gave out a helpline for anyone affected by tonight's episode, WTF is that about?!

    Maybe because there were people burning and there are charred corpses but who knows. Probably preemptively trying to ensure no one complains due to insensitivity to recent events. Which seems OTT but similar things happened after 9/11.
  • GreenWithEnvy
    GreenWithEnvy Posts: 1,845
    My heart is still racing
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,970
    At lot of people online seem to be rating this as the best battle sequence and even episode, but (as good as it was) it was nowhere near as good as the Battle of the Bastards for me.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,970
    edited August 2017
    Found this intriguing:

    m.zimbio.com/TV+News/articles/UX6EmqjZlCT/Will+Daenerys+Dragon+Die+Poison

    Assuming Jaime gets rescued, the Tyrion/Jaime angle could be really interesting in the next couple of episodes.
  • mcgrandall
    mcgrandall Posts: 932
    I do have a bit of an issue with Bronn just jumping out the way of Drogon immolating the scorpion, but saying that I would of probably hated it more if they killed him.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,258
    Fiiish said:

    Wonderful, wonderful television. That episode was easily better than most of Season 5. In fact the last 20 minutes were better than most of Season 5.

    that was fucking class. I was blown away by it personally. It's even the little things like the drawing of the white walkers in the caves

    I think the finale of the season will be of epic proportions based on that episode
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,808
    Loved Bran quoting Littlefinger back at Littlefinger.

    Please have Arya slit his throat with that dagger.
  • mcgrandall
    mcgrandall Posts: 932
    edited August 2017
    Callumcafc said:

    Loved Bran quoting Littlefinger back at Littlefinger.

    Please have Arya slit his throat with that dagger.

    Loved her fight sequence with Brienne, I thought she pulled off the physicality of the fight. Still don't understand what Littlefinger is doing, except that he has thrown his lot in, as all the Starks hate him.
  • Exiled_Addick
    Exiled_Addick Posts: 17,203
    It was a great episode but not in the league of 'Hardhome', imho.

    Was she burning all the supplies? Seemed to me a lot of the carts were empty. I took that to be her reducing the Lannister's capability to continue collecting supplies rather than torching all the stuff they'd already collected. This was the tail end of the convoy and more supplies were available to take further up the road.
  • rina
    rina Posts: 2,334
    cabbles said:



    that was fucking class. I was blown away by it personally. It's even the little things like the drawing of the white walkers in the caves

    I really hope it turns out that Jon spent a couple of hours with a bit of chalk drawing those pictures to trick Dany

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