GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

This is where tv suffers from having different directors for each episode. Battle of winter fell director wanted to show just a few still alive, next episode we see “half” an army still

Koushirou said:

Dude, also had a sweet set of Valyrian steel plate.

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Old Valerya=ToV

Euron is just a foil in the show, like the Night King.

Think of that for a minute. The Night King was just badguy001 in the script, Euron is badguy002. Its a fucking shame, as like some of you guys have said given how lame Euron is in the show. This isnt about people nerd raging over the books not translating, this is just fat out poor visionary execution of a character, one who they had a healthy amount of lore/backstory on, most of which was very interesting and awesome.

I almost feel like show Euron was ruined because of them combining him with his brother. Even though Vicatarion was a strange character, them getting rid of him and just going with Euron made the Kingsmoot stupid as fuck, it eliminated the magic aspect of the character, it watered down his prestige, like cmon he has a fucking Valaryian steel plate suit and a dragon horn in the book and in the show you decide to use him as a means to an end for Cersei.......

If done correctly, Euron could have actually replaced Ramsay Bolton as the shows most hated baddie, implemented him taking control of one of Dany's dragons, introduced some sort of twisted magical battle properties he possesses....something. Instead they rendered him into a fucking patsy with teleport abilities and super ballista.

a_skeleton_02 said:

Book Euron is some dude from a raiding guild leaving ToV and crashing some RP guilds pvp event.

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Sounds like a good HBO show. I would watch.

gak said:

I also loved the barbs on the spears now facing the wrong way.
"We improved the ballista 1000%, but change the barb direction during production because we don't want the dragggooons having trouble pulling them out..."

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Shit. The barbs on all the knifes in my house are also on backward.


You guys are really reaching for shit to complain about. Those are serrated edges, not barbs

i can't WAIT for drogon to die tomorrow, then dany will lose the last of her children on mother's day.

Dom said:

Serrated edges on weapons make as much sense as hitting eachother with fucking nerf bats. The way those ballista bolts are shaped would make them have less penetration power than if they were just straight edged. The barbs that real weapons utilized were to keep them from being pulled out from the point of entry, resulting in additional damage when removed by pushing them all the way through. Those bolts from the episode would only be useful if you were trying to cut a fucking steak.

It's just another "yeah, but it looks cool!" decision that has plagued this series.

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This is not true. Serrated edges on swords, daggers, etc is fucking great. They are also just holy shit difficult to maintain. Especially in a medieval society.
if you had modern machinery, but for some reason guns stopped working. yes, you would want a serrated sword, or chainsword.

now, barbs facing a target on a projectile is a problem. yeah, stupid. barbs go in easy, come out hard.

Tridents on spears are for more surface area versus smaller animals, notably fish.. larger surface area, is useless versus larger fish... and dragons.

Don't care if repost, this is the hottest I've seen of her. Looks like she lost like a bunch of weight since filming s8:

khorum said:

Looks like she lost like a bunch of weight since filming s8

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I mean her face does sorta indicate some weight loss, but she's also not running around in 4 inches of leather and fur either.

Dom said:

What is it you think a serrated blade would be better at than a a normal blade? Serrated edges are for sawing at things, not slicing or piercing. All those serrated edges are going to do for you is diminish the force behind the cut, resulting in less lethal damage.

There's a reason these types of weapons weren't used by any group that had access to decent smithing methods and maintenance concerns and ease of manufacturing are only half the reason.

And a chain sword? Really? Might as well be using a phaser.

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weapons and armor all developed alongside each other, so a serrated edged weapon would work in a similar matter to katanas. they weren't designed to penetrate heavy armor, they were designed to cut the silk holding the armor together. maces, crowbills, rapiers were designed specifically to puncture heavy armor.

serrated edged weapons were generally used with daggers, because the point of them are to make grisly wounds; to send a message. there'd be no point in making any weapon of war serrated because you're past the point of going "oh, look at that terrible wound".

if you want to make a large scale intimidating weapon, you wouldn't make a serrated ballistae, seige weapons are intimidating already. it'd be like putting a bayonet on a shotgun. yeah, you can, yeah, you might get some use out of it, but being on the opposite side of a shotgun is intimidating enough.