GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

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When you read the backstory, really the Lannisters committed the atrocities of the Rebellion - would Robert have killed the family the way the Mountain did? Given his later bloodthirst for killing Dany and Viserys, probably. But Had the Lannisters not killed the family the way they did at KL, perhaps the ToJ doesn't go down the way it did either.

Why didn't the KG take Lyanna to Dragonstone with Dany and Viserys? I know, they don't flee, etc... but they can't fulfill their orders to protect her at the ToJ either.
 
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Because she was pregnant and they were probably waiting for her to give birth before they went anywhere.
 
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I was bored so I watched the first 3 episodes of season 1 again. I forgot how much better the sets and wardrobe were in the early seasons. Not to mention the effects. Which only highlights the hilarity of saying they didn't want to show Stannis getting beheaded as "gratuitous violence" when fools were getting their heads lopped off left and right in the first few episodes.
 
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I was bored so I watched the first 3 episodes of season 1 again. I forgot how much better the sets and wardrobe were in the early seasons. Not to mention the effects. Which only highlights the hilarity of saying they didn't want to show Stannis getting beheaded as "gratuitous violence" when fools were getting their heads lopped off left and right in the first few episodes.
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Sean Bean and the guy who plays Robert were frickin awesome too.
 
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Yep I made a comment to my wife how much better the casting was in the early seasons as well.

Can anyone ELI5 why once a show becomes a mega success it's budget gets cut to levels pre-success? It happened with TWD as well. Do the studios try to just put their best foot forward and once you're hooked just try and rake in as much as possible?
 
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I'm not sure the budget has been cut. There are more actors and sets now, so maybe the budget is simply more stretched out? I feel like the Hardhome scene had a bigger budget and better effects than anything in earlier seasons. That episode was awesome.
 
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You may be right. I can't find hard numbers but it looks like earlier seasons was ~6m per episode and now it is "at least" 8m per episode. I thought I read somewhere their budget got cut.

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Looks like earlier seasons were ~60m per seasons and s6 was 100m. So I guess it isn't a money thing they're just not doing as well.
 
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In hindsight this also probably explains why Ned returned to Winterfell after the war instead of helping Robert rule the kingdom. From Lyanna he probably knew the truth about Rhaegar and her which Robert would never accept nor would he accept a living Targ. Since he's a terrible liar best to just remove yourself from anybody asking.
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However, he was asked directly about "Wylla" by Robert.
 
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Right, he was asked about a rumor he didn't create and basically said nothing. Easy to do as a one off, the other Northmen would probably never confront or even whisper this around Ned. All he would even confirm to Cat was that Jon was of his blood which could mean a lot of things.
 
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However, he was asked directly about "Wylla" by Robert.
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The actors are great together, you can tell they did some shit together. Robert is what he is and trusts Ned beyond anything. He was asking because they where reminiscing and he just sent Jon to the wall... Ned and Robert know the wall is not fun and exciting... Robert still accepts "lulz some whore!" - if he didn't or Ned wanted to finally tell him the truth after visiting the tomb and sending Jon to the wall he could be like "He is going to take the black if he hasn't already, he cant claim the crown - like Maester Aemon etc. don't get all pissy and go kill him." But Robert accepts Ned's obvious lie (to us) , cheers a drink and carries on.
 
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Tenks_sl said:
Yep I made a comment to my wife how much better the casting was in the early seasons as well.

Can anyone ELI5 why once a show becomes a mega success it's budget gets cut to levels pre-success? It happened with TWD as well. Do the studios try to just put their best foot forward and once you're hooked just try and rake in as much as possible?
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thats easy, the actors become big stars too and their salaries skyrocket which they should. its also why the stars get more screentime for stupid shit like drinking games and
mother jokes. consequently the rest of the show suffers even though fans of the actors are getting what they want
 
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Pretty much chaos. It was calculated, since he was able to pin the blame on the lannisters and have access to Lysa to marry into the Vale. Not fully confirmed in the books. I think someone said that the other part of it was that Cersei would be easier to manipulate than Robert, and if Jon had lived he would have told robert about his illegitimate children.



Balerion and the two dragons that he is often mentioned with were gigantic. I think one of the quotes from the books says that when Balerion flew his shadow covered entire towns.

The more recent ones were very small. (I think Dany's dragons are already bigger than those ones; Drogon will probably get as big as Balerion.)
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How can the 3 dragons in our story be listed as 61 meters?

The are are juvenile in books and show, maybe at the end they will be that big but not now.
 
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They measure from the balls up, guys. Don't you know anything?
 
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a 60m dragon would be like 2x as big as a blue whale, wtf.
 
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We need to get a phd in Dragonology in here to confirm these charts.
 
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I just remember saying that Balerion was big enough to pick up an oxen in his mouth. That picture may actually be close to what it's supposed to be, for the GoT dragons anyways. Though Drogon was said to be bigger than the other two.
 
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At some point a dragon that big becomes impractical. Like they talked about people riding the dragon, like a mount a 1 for one type deal.

If Balerion was that big a human would be so insignificant, it would be like an ant "riding" an elephant.
 
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