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Watching Game of Thrones is so much better with a bunch of geeks, scientists, and roleplayers.
IRONIC ICON IS IRONIC.
-Last episode, with the "golden crown", there was the moment where DMark the Materials Scientist started crying. "HOW DOES THAT WORK?! THAT'S NOT GOLD! THE MELTING POINT IS TOO LOW!" Which is entirely true, and then spawned a discussion about what actually got poured on Viserys' head. (Gold, by the way, has a melting point of approximately 1000C. There is no way that cooking fire was that hot. And no way it really could have cooled that quickly without being quenched somehow. So after looking at phase diagrams, DMark figured that a mixture of tin-gold has a eutectic at 280C, so that's clearly what that jewelry was. Because pure gold is not very high on the Dothraki shopping list, we decided.)
-Watching Daddy Lannister hack up the stag in the beginning of the episode: "Wow, yeah, this is NOT SYMBOLIC AT ALL." Also, "Daddy Lannister's Bedtime Stories: Almost As Bad as Ned Stark's Bedtime Stories!"
-The random nude and sex scenes that add nothing except "What the Fuck?" looks on the audience are currently explained away by HBO needing to keep the rating. Because that's the only thing that makes ANY sense. Why YES, I am talking about the Littlefinger whorehouse scene with fake lesbians, WHY DO YOU ASK?
-Ned Stark's problem remains that he is the only character who got the "Paladin" greensheet. Also, trusting Littlefinger to do anything not in Littlefinger's best interest. WHY YOU DO THAT, NED STARK?
-Ned Stark's character alignment is clearly Lawful Screwed.
-Sam! You put all your points in INT, didn't you? You wonderful, wonderful boy. You will keep Jon alive.
-Robert, you pissed off Khal Drogo by attempting to assassinate his wife and child. How in any world is this not going to end badly?
Also, it's Amateur Hour all over the place with the assassins sent.
Dear Houses Against Targaryen:
Get better assassins.
Kthnx bye.
Love and razor blades,
-Daenerys and Drogo (and little Rhaego)
-Episode needs moar Bran and Arya. We were missing our INT and WIS powerhouses on House Stark this session.
Seriously, though, this is making me want to write Wintermarch. And teaching me how very quickly characters who are not entirely skilled in what plots they're in can get in over their head very quickly unless they can think on their feet. It's something that I'm realizing I need to seriously think about if I want my protagonists in Wintermarch and xaos to actually survive.
IRONIC ICON IS IRONIC.
-Last episode, with the "golden crown", there was the moment where DMark the Materials Scientist started crying. "HOW DOES THAT WORK?! THAT'S NOT GOLD! THE MELTING POINT IS TOO LOW!" Which is entirely true, and then spawned a discussion about what actually got poured on Viserys' head. (Gold, by the way, has a melting point of approximately 1000C. There is no way that cooking fire was that hot. And no way it really could have cooled that quickly without being quenched somehow. So after looking at phase diagrams, DMark figured that a mixture of tin-gold has a eutectic at 280C, so that's clearly what that jewelry was. Because pure gold is not very high on the Dothraki shopping list, we decided.)
-Watching Daddy Lannister hack up the stag in the beginning of the episode: "Wow, yeah, this is NOT SYMBOLIC AT ALL." Also, "Daddy Lannister's Bedtime Stories: Almost As Bad as Ned Stark's Bedtime Stories!"
-The random nude and sex scenes that add nothing except "What the Fuck?" looks on the audience are currently explained away by HBO needing to keep the rating. Because that's the only thing that makes ANY sense. Why YES, I am talking about the Littlefinger whorehouse scene with fake lesbians, WHY DO YOU ASK?
-Ned Stark's problem remains that he is the only character who got the "Paladin" greensheet. Also, trusting Littlefinger to do anything not in Littlefinger's best interest. WHY YOU DO THAT, NED STARK?
-Ned Stark's character alignment is clearly Lawful Screwed.
-Sam! You put all your points in INT, didn't you? You wonderful, wonderful boy. You will keep Jon alive.
-Robert, you pissed off Khal Drogo by attempting to assassinate his wife and child. How in any world is this not going to end badly?
Also, it's Amateur Hour all over the place with the assassins sent.
Dear Houses Against Targaryen:
Get better assassins.
Kthnx bye.
Love and razor blades,
-Daenerys and Drogo (and little Rhaego)
-Episode needs moar Bran and Arya. We were missing our INT and WIS powerhouses on House Stark this session.
Seriously, though, this is making me want to write Wintermarch. And teaching me how very quickly characters who are not entirely skilled in what plots they're in can get in over their head very quickly unless they can think on their feet. It's something that I'm realizing I need to seriously think about if I want my protagonists in Wintermarch and xaos to actually survive.
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