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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
jayrebb
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Y'all going to hate me for this but I had no idea who Matt Smith was.
I do like him though, he is doing a bang up job and the only time I find anyone else tolerable is when Allthecock is on screen with him.
They got some killer chemistry.
Never saw Dr Who, but funny few pages back people saying no one would have know who Jason Momoa was till GoT if it wasn't for Sci Fi and that is true.
I knew him well from Atlantis, just assumed when I watched it he had been in many other things I hadn't seen.
I do like him though, he is doing a bang up job and the only time I find anyone else tolerable is when Allthecock is on screen with him.
They got some killer chemistry.
Never saw Dr Who, but funny few pages back people saying no one would have know who Jason Momoa was till GoT if it wasn't for Sci Fi and that is true.
I knew him well from Atlantis, just assumed when I watched it he had been in many other things I hadn't seen.
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Gravel
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Seems like his complaint was the actors weren't good enough, and your reply is to just say "you should recognize them." That doesn't address his complaint that they're not good enough actors.
Chris
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One of them is Xenophillius Lovegood from Harry Potter 8 and The Lizard from Spider-Man 1 reboot 1!
I don't give a shit, I'm judging by what I see on TV and in episode 1 it wasn't good.
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jayrebb
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The point was you could have Mark Addy trying to tie his shoes in Episode 1, and people would be frothing for more Episode 2 about what he's going to say while tying them next week.
The charisma of the original GoT cast comparatively thus far is without equal-- I don't care how good Matt Smith is.
The charisma of the original GoT cast comparatively thus far is without equal-- I don't care how good Matt Smith is.
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It's funny to me that Addy seems to be more famous in USA. Or rather, pre thrones I associated him only with the fat bloke in male strip tease movie The Full Monty, a cult classic with boomers when I was at school
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spronk
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4chan ... thats just mean
i still don't really get the cognative dissonance in the writers room of basing your entire TV show on a family that is obsessed with genetic purity and carefully tracing your lineage, for good reasons because only valyrians can control/ride dragons, but then just being cool marrying randos left and right. Not just the King either, Daemon marries some whore with an indecipherable accent.
Does no one want to point out to the King that marrying a Hightower may mean his children could get eaten by dragons instead of riding them? You know... dragons... the only reason your family has all the power?
that would be a fucking awesome scene though, a royal procession to present the latest mulatto baby to the dragons and they just devour it.
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Yes, Lyanna Stark was a Targ which is why Jon could ride a dragon. You ding dong doofus
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"Writer's room"...you mean George?
The Targs are incestuous but not at all exclusively so. FFS one of the first scenes of GoT is Danny being married off to a barbarian.
The Targs are incestuous but not at all exclusively so. FFS one of the first scenes of GoT is Danny being married off to a barbarian.
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Chukzombi
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i dunno what show you were watching, but nobody watched Daenerys for her acting chops. we watched it to see her lovely boobies.
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jayrebb
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By her powerless, sociopathic brother desperate to rebuild the shattered Targaryen dynasty who would have kept her for himself if he had any other option. Hardly a representative sample.
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I think the greater point of that post was all these couplings/marriages were in the Fire and Blood history book. It wasn't a writers room, it was The Writer.
And? There are many examples as you move up the line. Someone else already mentioned Rhaegar and Leanna, too.
I just keep seeing random dipshits going ape over the writers fucking up this evidently core tenant of the lore, when very nearly the first thing we see in GoT is an exception to it.
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Chris
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The Targaryens mainly married:
1) Their own cousins or siblings.
2) Velaryons because Valyria.
3) Dornish because that's the only way they were able to "conqueror" them.
Given that the Dornish Southern European complexion was never passed down, and there's a whole plotline about dominant Baratheon genes turning every child's hair black... I think that it's totally fine to say that Targaryens have some strong melanin whitening powers.
Also Targaryen blood running thin can be a plot point about how they got de-dragoned and dethroned. I don't know why they need to be successful in their breeding in an age before modern genentics.
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