HBO's Game of Thrones season 6 discussion thread- airing 4/24/16 (No book spoilers)

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Eug

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doesn't matter. any agent worth his salt will negotiate based on current ratings.

ie:
big bang theory
the cast was paid peanuts.
then their 3yr contract was up.
HUGE raises in new contract.

I think the guy who plays Sheldon makes $1M per episode now in latest round of contracts
Ironically, I stopped watching around the 4th season. I guess liked Big Bang Theory much better when they were paid peanuts.
 

Ferzerp

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You people and your zig zag are just silly. Honestly, after the second shot or so he would have been so far away that the chances of hitting him were nil anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqMPkg1QXEY

He starts running at 2:13 and dies at 3:31. He has run for 78 seconds. Sure he's only 4 in the books, but in the show he's obviously older. The actor is 15, let's call the character 12.

Here is a 12 year old running 400m in 65 seconds. Let's assume Rickon is only 3/4 that speed. He's still covered over 300m before being shot dead. The farthest accurage shot ever with state of the art bow technology against a stationary target is 283.5m (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/mens-archery-farthest-accurate-distance/), and you folks are worried about zig zagging? With the depicted time and such crude equipment, Rickon would have been far beyond the effective range of any bowman.

So there
 

Childs

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You people and your zig zag are just silly. Honestly, after the second shot or so he would have been so far away that the chances of hitting him were nil anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqMPkg1QXEY

He starts running at 2:13 and dies at 3:31. He has run for 78 seconds. Sure he's only 4 in the books, but in the show he's obviously older. The actor is 15, let's call the character 12.

Here is a 12 year old running 400m in 65 seconds. Let's assume Rickon is only 3/4 that speed. He's still covered over 300m before being shot dead. The farthest accurage shot ever with state of the art bow technology against a stationary target is 283.5m (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/mens-archery-farthest-accurate-distance/), and you folks are worried about zig zagging? With the depicted time and such crude equipment, Rickon would have been far beyond the effective range of any bowman.

So there

He's probably running closer to 3-4m/s with those fur shoes and the uneven terrain, which would put him around 270m. English longbow can supposedly has a range of 370m. But still, Rickon running at a slower rate while randomly changing direction would be nearly impossible to hit! So the biggest issue is still straight line vs zig zag. :biggrin:
 
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Childs

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Max distance an arrow can be flung and max accurate distance are two very, very different things.

Sometimes guys just make bs shots, like freakin Kyrie Irving. Dont get me wrong, I thought that was a crazy shot as well even without doing the math, but the distance didnt stand out as much as the run pattern. A little serpentine makes the distance nearly irrelevant. But add the shot itself to the list of grievances in this scene.
 

GagHalfrunt

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Are any of the wolves still alive or have they all been butchered at this point?

Ghost is still alive, he was with John when he was resurrected.

Nymeria was set free by Arya and has not been seen since season 1. So given the state of the writing she's probably going to show up sometime in season 8 without explanation and save Arya from a certain death with only seconds to spare.

All the others are dead although some people refuse to believe that the wolf head brought to Ramsay was really Shaggydog and cling to the notion that Shaggy is still alive. Now that Rickon is toast that doesn't seem likely.
 

MongGrel

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Jon Snow's Ghost and Arya's Nymeria (which hasn't been seen since it was a puppy in season 1).

I'd forgotten about Nymeria myself, it was Sansas Dire Wolf that was whacked after the Joffrey incident.

The wife said she read somewhere it would have been flat out very hard to put Ghost into the battle scenes, and they spent most of the CGI budget on Wun Wun for those.

Could have done both I'd imagine, but they spent a lot on Dragons also I imagine and HBO does try to run on a budget somewhat.
 
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Squisher

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I'd forgotten about Nymeria myself, it was Sansas Dire Wolf that was whacked after the Joffrey incident.

The wife said she read somewhere it would have been flat out very hard to put Ghost into the battle scenes, and they spent most of the CGI budget on Wun Wun for those.

Could have done both I'd imagine, but they spent a lot on Dragons also I imagine and HBO does try to run on a budget somewhat.
Ghost in that battle would have seen anyone coming close to Jon as someone to attack, friend or foe. That probably would have been good for Jon, but not his army.
 

Skel

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Jon Snow's Ghost and Arya's Nymeria (which hasn't been seen since it was a puppy in season 1).

I will cry like a little girl if they kill Ghost off.

I'd forgotten about Nymeria myself, it was Sansas Dire Wolf that was whacked after the Joffrey incident.

The wife said she read somewhere it would have been flat out very hard to put Ghost into the battle scenes, and they spent most of the CGI budget on Wun Wun for those.

Could have done both I'd imagine, but they spent a lot on Dragons also I imagine and HBO does try to run on a budget somewhat.

I'm glad they didn't, I would have spent the entire battle stressing about him. It was bad enough they killed off Bran's wolf.. which was a pointless death.. not like he bought Bran time... stupid writers..
 

zinfamous

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awesome.

2 hacks talking about being hacks.

but king is right: you just work. that's it. 6 pages per day. 3 pages...whatever. If you're crap from start to finish...so what? Just end your day and get paid.

I recall that Steinbeck woke up and wrote at least 1 chapter, in block tablets, which I think is about 10 pages standard format. All hand written, wife would type that out in the evening while he took a swim in the pool.

It's just a routine, nothing more. If it sucks, just keep going. Who gives a shit? Dude like King spent his whole life writing suck and getting paid shittons of money to do it. Fat man just needs to deal with it and go.
 

thejunglegod

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I miss the good old days of Seasons 1 and 2 when the show viewership was considerably little as compared to now and every frame was not dissected by every Tom, Dick and Harry of the world.

Yeah, hipster comment. But I genuinely feel it though.
 

Newbian

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Jon Snow's Ghost and Arya's Nymeria (which hasn't been seen since it was a puppy in season 1).

I believe they have mentioned it once or twice in passing such as talking about a group of wolves being around led by a giant wolf in the early seasons.
 

JEDI

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now I wonder how arya will fit into the storyline post Faceless God arc.

also, how did arya graduate to be a faceless assassin if she never was taught how to wear faces?
heck, the waif did faces and she was still an apprentice.
 

quikah

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I believe they have mentioned it once or twice in passing such as talking about a group of wolves being around led by a giant wolf in the early seasons.

That is in the books, but I don't recall this in the show.
 
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