Anyone watching Game of Thrones? (spoilers)

[pinball1970]

I just finished season 1! I'm a huge fan now!

Everyone is going on about it at work.
Everyone said I should like it because I am a huge Lord of the Rings fan but most are not aware I really hated the films when they came out.
Sean Bean was good as Boromir but a lot of it was rubbish.
Sean Bean is in Game of Thrones yes?

 

[pinball1970]

Today I Learned:
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You are supposed to put spoilers with that Bill

 

[Borg]

Ooh, Winterfell has a Starbucks.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/ente...es-starbucks-coffee-cup-scene-trnd/index.html

 

[BWV]

Does anyone want to opine on the difficult physics involved in hitting a flying dragon with a ballista mounted on a rolling ship?

Writing is getting sloppier the further the series goes from GRRM's books

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Does anyone want to opine on the difficult physics involved in hitting a flying dragon with a ballista mounted on a rolling ship?

There were a ton of ballista's though. They were going for spread.

 

[BillTre]

Yeah, that seems difficult.

When I was in grad school, I had some friends in econometrics. As first year students they had lots of math problems to do.
One they thought was particularly difficult was to determine the statistical spread of shots from a ship that was rolling, pitching, surging, etc. while shooting at a distant target.

I thought Daenerys should have attacked the ships with dragon at night.
Ships can't aim in the dark.
Anchored ships are sitting targets.

 

[BWV]

Yes or just attacked them from above or behind.

 

[BWV]

Agree with the points here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikka...0T0U8951itgSKMw0kEN8Fg38FTLuUHVQ#349362294b42

 

[Borg]

Ooh, Winterfell has a Starbucks.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/ente...es-starbucks-coffee-cup-scene-trnd/index.html

Aw. I won't get to see it. According to the news last night, they've edited it out.

 

[essenmein]

Heh, I liked daneirous (sp? lol) getting a bit of reality. Roll up all cocky thinking you got this, then bam, AA fire. I mean did she honestly think the other guys weren't actively trying to come up with a way to defeat your super weapon?

Re accuracy, only a few arrows hit, vs the amount fired. What I found off was the impact energy of said arrows when tyrion was trying to get off the boat, some would smash nearly half the ship off, others gently embedded in wood.

The tactical/strategic stupidity is what got me though.

Why did cersei not just finish them all off when they were sitting there? At the very least get rid of the last dragon?

How is it you plan an invasion and don't send advance scouts, who might have warned of said AA installations?

Those balistas surely have a maximum engagement height? re configure your dragons to be bombers? Stay high out of range and even just drop rocks. This was an irritation from when the first dragon went down with the ice spear.

If you had scouts, that might have made you bring the siege weapons you had shown just last episode against the zombies, those catapults are indirect fire, vs the balista which is more a direct fire weapon, ie the nature of artillery means it can be behind something that would protect it from the balistas.

 

[essenmein]

Anchored ships are sitting targets.

Square rigged ships in general are basically sitting targets compared to modern naval vessels, they are basically stuck running down wind or maybe at best can get to beam reach.

 

[Borg]

Still possible so far.

Spoiler: Prediction

Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if Tyrion ends up on the throne because everyone else dies.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I added "spoilers" to the thread title so we can talk plainly. They are certainly setting up for Dany vs Jon/Arya confrontation in the end. I think if Jon does survive he's beyond accepting the throne. Some say Arya will, but she is not a ruler and more a lone wolf. It does appear more and more that Tyrion is best suited.

 

[BWV]

After he (re)marries Sansa

 

[BWV]

 

[essenmein]

That explains a lot.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

What's everyone take on the last episode and last season? I felt it was all very rushed and just about tying ends up. Very few real surprises. I thought the battle of winterfell was excellent and the rest very meh.

 

[russ_watters]

I added "spoilers" to the thread title so we can talk plainly. They are certainly setting up for Dany vs Jon/Arya confrontation in the end. I think if Jon does survive he's beyond accepting the throne. Some say Arya will, but she is not a ruler and more a lone wolf. It does appear more and more that Tyrion is best suited.

Well, I have to give you props for that prediction; it's spot on about the direction and the uncertainty it left regarding who would be on the throne. The choice...

What's everyone take on the last episode and last season? I felt it was all very rushed and just about tying ends up. Very few real surprises. I thought the battle of winterfell was excellent and the rest very meh.

IMO, the entire season was rushed due to the decision for it to be only 6 episodes. A lot of fans and reviewers gave it bad marks mostly based on that reason. Setting that aside, I liked it for the most part. Sure it went where you expected (both the season and last episode), but I'm not sure it could have gone any other way, except of course for who got the throne -- that was out of left field and makes no sense.

I read a lot of criticisms about predictability, but here's the problem I see with that: you can only kill Ned Stark once. After that, everyone knows the gloves are off and even deaths/actions that aren't predicted aren't surprising anymore.

It also doesn't mean characters don't follow their personality. With Ned Stark's death, we all knew Joffrey was a sadistic bastard, we just didn't know where the line was (nonexistent). If that scene had happened in any other season, nobody would have been the least bit surprised that Joffrey had him killed.

BTW, you didn't happen to do a Death Pool before the season, did you? I did. For the most part, I over-estimated the number of deaths, but my big misses were predicting Bran to die and Dany to live.

 

[BWV]

The ending with Danerys going full Hitler was good, but they did not build enough of an arc for the character

 

[essenmein]

As a dog owner, the thing that tugged at me was the dragon flying off with his dead owner/keeper. Poor Drogon :(