Game of Thrones [SPOILERS]

[Xuri]

*still waiting for Gendry to row ashore... somewhere*

[IainC]

*still waiting for Gendry to row ashore... somewhere*

I don't see where that plot could go to be honest. Unless one of the big players picks him up and puts him forwards, he's just a kid with curly hair. Even he doesn't really know who he is and most of the people who do are dead or have a vested interest in him disappearing permanently. House Baratheon doesn't exist any more in any meaningful sense and none of the other houses are likely to want to take up his claim.

[Rendakor]

I thought he was going to be a blood sacrifice to rez Jon but then I remembered he's been missing since Season 3 so who knows.

[MahrinSkel]

*still waiting for Gendry to row ashore... somewhere*

I don't see where that plot could go to be honest. Unless one of the big players picks him up and puts him forwards, he's just a kid with curly hair. Even he doesn't really know who he is and most of the people who do are dead or have a vested interest in him disappearing permanently. House Baratheon doesn't exist any more in any meaningful sense and none of the other houses are likely to want to take up his claim.

Yeah, Gendry disappeared even sooner in the books and was just used in the 'king's blood' plot point as a convenience by the TV writers. The only scenario where he could have become significant would be if Renly had won the War of Five Kings and been unable to produce an heir. With literally everyone else in House Baratheon dead, nobody is going to be interested in any surviving bastards of Robert's.

They need to quit screwing around and resolve Jon Schroedinger Snow. If he's still mostly dead at the end of the second episode, it's going to be annoying as fuck. Bring him back, or burn the body.

--Dave

[Chimpy]

If he does come back to life, someone needs to splice Miracle Max into clips of the room with Jon Snow on the table. 

[Khaldun]

Well,


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One thing that is not working for me so far is Davos. I get that he's a nice guy and a pragmatist and not at all into swearing vengeance this and kill them that but his sudden transition into being a huge Jon Snow fanboy and begging Melisandre for help seems a bit off. Like, he isn't at all resentful still about Shireen? And are the showrunners thinking we forgot it all already?

[Chimpy]

All I know is that  

(spoilered for fantasy league hintage)

[Mithas]

Hooray for team Stark's Sixth Sense!

[Abagadro]

I am so fucked.

Can you drop people and pick up free agents like in normal Fantasy leagues?

[Chimpy]

I don't think so. The only thing you can do is edit the team name that I have found.

[Merusk]

Yep that's it. We really had too many teams to make a competitive league, though. Public leagues were limited to 8 and that seems to be working better. My other private only has 4 teams and it is also a runaway, but that's mainly because two of the people let it autodraft from the predefined list.

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One thing that is not working for me so far is Davos. I get that he's a nice guy and a pragmatist and not at all into swearing vengeance this and kill them that but his sudden transition into being a huge Jon Snow fanboy and begging Melisandre for help seems a bit off. Like, he isn't at all resentful still about Shireen? And are the showrunners thinking we forgot it all already?

[MrHat]

[Khaldun]

[Speedy Cerviche]

[Merusk]

ed : Spoiler/ quote.. whatever, right!?? 

Anyway, stats just updated. Scores are slowly populating to the various games. Give it 30-45 mins and everything should be out there.

[Teleku]

[Chimpy]

How the fuck did Ab get out of negative territory?

Was there some kind of "died memorably" bonus or something?

[Teleku]

Yes.

Edit:  Also, boo.  They didn't count it for the big payoff.  :(

[Merusk]

Oh hey, you CAN trade for free agents. It's under Settings now. Trades takes you to a select team page and there it lists any Free Agents.

[Teleku]

I'll be fair and ignore the waiver wire since I'm doing better than a number of other teams.

But for those of you with bleak prospects, "The Sons of the Harpy" is available, and you know they are going to get some kills in here before the season is done, heh.

[MrHat]

[MediumHigh]

[Viin]

4 characters per team is actually pretty good, but yes some of us got stuck with shit. Maybe Baelish will come back and kill everyone, and I'll win!

[Viin]

Blog of the scoring:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/2/11566674/game-of-thrones-recap-season-6-episode-2-home

[Khaldun]

I had a sudden realization about Varys that makes me think the long plotter thing is still alive.

[Teleku]

Considering how close the Harpys have come to killing her, several times, that would be pretty damn counter productive (also just bad writing).  Granted, the way he spoke could have been foreshadowing that he is working with them behind the scenes.  But if that's so, it's not to 'test' her, its to kill her (unless it is just the aforementioned bad writing).

[Chimpy]

Blog of the scoring:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/2/11566674/game-of-thrones-recap-season-6-episode-2-home

Ok I got totally screwed by the "split" of the surprise magic points. 

[Rendakor]

Go Ramsey as my only scoring member two weeks running! From 9th to 2nd, woo!

[Merusk]

I saw his point totals coming and was VERY upset I didn't get Ramsay in the draft. You picked him right before I did. Good eye.

[Rendakor]

The non-burning was a one-time event and never will be repeated. Martin has explicitly said this a few times and IIRC the show writers have done so as well, citing him. The sole reason Dany didn't burn was something about the birthing of the dragons and the magic surrounding Dany at that time. She can still burn as can any other Targaryen.

Like, she lost her fire immunity when she rezzed the dragons? Because that at least sort of makes sense; that wasn't the only instance of her resisting heat/fire in season 1. Her bath was hotter than McDonald's coffee in the pilot, and she makes a snarky comment when Viserys gets his golden crown; something like "Fire cannot kill a real dragon."

[Merusk]

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/9356/is-daenerys-targaryen-immune-to-fire

Chalk part of it up to Martin's quixotic approach to worldbuilding. "Probably not" isn't a definitive but also gives him a way out when getting into super-nerd discussions where they trap him in a plot hole of his own making.

[Threash]

She was also on fire when she flew off on Drogon, so if it's not a permanent thing it comes and goes.

[Tale]

In this Song of Ice and Fire, ice is not just frozen stuff and fire is not just burning stuff. They both have magical/supernatural properties, or versions, while R'hllor is the heat god and the Other is the cold god. Perhaps the birth of dragons and the breath of dragons are that supernatural kind of fire. The type true Targaryens can survive.

[Morat20]

In this Song of Ice and Fire, ice is not just frozen stuff and fire is not just burning stuff. They both have magical/supernatural properties, or versions, while R'hllor is the heat god and the Other is the cold god. Perhaps the birth of dragons and the breath of dragons are that supernatural kind of fire. The type true Targaryens can survive.

I got the impression that they were children of Fire, so to speak. It's not that they won't burn -- they've just got a fairly high tolerance and magics involving fire work better with them. Like DR 5 to fire and fire spells act like you're 2 levels higher when you cast them sort of thing.

So hot water, even the occasional brushing of a stove or brief exposure to fire, sure. Standing in a bonfire? No.

As for Davos...

[MahrinSkel]

Yeah, Davos pretty much had nothing left but to 'take the Black', anyway. He can't go home, he's been the Hand for a pretender that failed. And then, while he's still trying to digest that, there's a coup in the Night's Watch and a bunch of traitorous bastards are suddenly in charge.

Getting the Red Woman to pull some hocus-pocus was his only chance.

--Dave