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  1. fantastic_four
    Sophie is always vaping. Check any picture of her and she's got that Juul close by. Every pre-Millennial vapes like crazy.
  2. fantastic_four
    He's got two partners, his two co-authors on the book intended to be an encyclopedia of Westeros. Either or both could probably finish a version of the last book in the event of his death.
  3. fantastic_four
    But decidedly Medieval. Injecting the reality of Medieval barbarism into the idealistic world Tolkien showed us is one of Martin's main innovations to medieval fantasy. Heroic examples like Aragorn from Tolkien or Jon Snow here seem more a credulity stretch than what Daenerys became.
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    She's only "mad" by modern standards. By Medieval standards I'm not sure she makes the top 50 list of rulers doing awful sheet.
  5. fantastic_four
    Seemed consistent with many of the deeds of kings and military commanders from the medieval period in Western civilization, or even the Renaissance or post-Renaissance periods. Who was the worst from this list--Henry VIII, Napoleon, or Daenerys? She thought she needed the people of Westeros to fear her. Peacefully taking the throne wasn't going to achieve any measure of fear, but Drogon burning down King's Landing sure did.
  6. fantastic_four
    Dragons are supposed to be highly intelligent (even somewhat telepathic). He knew what and why Jon did what he did. Drogon mourned the loss of his mother, knew it was all because of that fing Iron Throne, and knew Jon had no choice. Drogon spared Jon because he knew. He knew then, but not the day before when he's the one who roasted thousands of people alive?
  7. fantastic_four
    Also once the Unsullied released Jon what reason did he have to go to the Night's Watch anyway? If he had just done whatever after that what could they do? Bran or Sansa could just pardon him and that's that. Which they vividly illustrated at the end anyway. He didn't stick with the Night's Watch, he just wandered off from Castle Black I assume to be King of the Wildlings.
  8. fantastic_four
    The market for GoT toys is definitely a fraction of the market for Star Wars or Marvel though. It's an adult show, and the action figures that are made from it are geared towards adults, too, in terms of detail and price point. Action figures for kids usually cost $5 to $10, but the GoT toys I've seen all cost $20 and up.
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    Best Buy currently stocks the McFarlane Viserion action figure along with a few others like Jon and Dany. Viserion is pretty sweet looking.
  10. fantastic_four
    Yea that does sound better.
  11. fantastic_four
    I still don't get how they'd know all about human society or what the iron throne represents. Dogs and cats are fairly intelligent compared to most species, but they have no prayer of understanding society. Kids are intelligent, but they can't understand symbolism or society until they learn language first, and even then it doesn't make much sense until they're 7 or 8 or so. Unless dragons can comprehend human language I don't know why they'd know anything about what Dany's goal was, what a king or a queen is, or what the iron throne represented. Dany only knew what it was because of her background; otherwise an empty throne would have meant nothing to her.
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    I have no idea what's going on their minds, I'm mostly asking to see if someone who has read the books has seen Martin describe their intelligence. That dragon could be judging Jon, or he could just be thinking "do I need to eat this guy? Looks like he's chewing on her face."
  13. fantastic_four
    What's his story? Was he there, and if so, why's he selling all at once? I assume he's dead if it's ALL for sale.
  14. fantastic_four
    Are GoT dragons supposed to be smart enough to understand human society or symbolism? I didn't see them demonstrated as being significantly smarter than horses.
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    Why exactly did Drogon burn the throne? I get that he was upset about Dany's death, but I didn't get why he focused his fire right on the throne and as soon as it melted he stopped. Was it incidental and he didn't realize what was in front of him, or was it intentional? And why the heck didn't he gobble Jon up in one bite? Are we to assume it's just because he's Targaryen? Targaryen or not, he just killed his "mom." I had no idea why he didn't focus his rage on Jon but instead pointed away from him and at the throne.
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    Yea, just like the solid decade of beeching about Star Wars Episodes 1 through 3 waved Disney off of Star Wars. Just as was the case with those films they will look at the revenue records that got set and gauge viewer demand from that.
  17. fantastic_four
    Did you actually read the thread? Steve Borock has a post in it explicitly saying the label was an error and that he'd appreciate it if the current owner would send it back in for re-grading.
  18. fantastic_four
    Picked up all seven figures from last year's Marvel Legends Lizard run for super-cheap on eBay. Just the Lizard and Mysterio from it usually go for $70 and $35, but I got all of it for $80. I was half-expecting to get scammed somehow due to the price being half what it normally is, but it shipped quickly and appears legit. Not sure I'll keep any aside from those two, but either way it's all good. Mysterio is very nice, but WOW, as both a Spidey and a dinosaur fan, the Lizard freaking rocks. I had read multiple negative reviews about the leg articulation, but I mostly don't mind it. Several of the reviewers particularly didn't like that the legs don't completely straighten--you can see in the third pic below where he's holding Black Cat that they don't straighten any more than you see there--but I'm fine with a hunched-over Lizard, it's a stylistic choice, not a functional one, and lots of species of reptiles and dinosaurs have legs like that. You can tell from the head and shoulder posture that the sculptor just had a hunched-over appearance in mind, and he is fully poseable in a ground-running stance as well as shown in the second pic. I liked how McFarlane's depiction of Lizard made him far more lizard and dinosaur-like, and this one goes even further in a way I really, REALLY love. I also just appreciate the huge innovation in the sculpt...there's no other figure that's this dramatically different from all the others and that has ENTIRELY new posing options like this one does. SUPER-fun figure! Plus he's got nice weight and huge hands, so it's easy to pose him with a standard-sized figure suspended in the air in a large variety of ways.
  19. fantastic_four
    You could be right. Avatar opening weekend (Domestic): 12/18/09 Crossed $2B worldwide: 9/8/10 (Week 38) Titanic was the same, its pace was FAR slower than Endgame but steady, it was out at LEAST 9 months, maybe more.
  20. fantastic_four
    Yes, in the exact same way any mistress cares that her soon-to-be husband is divorcing his current wife too fast.
  21. fantastic_four
    This made me think...isn't Jon actually a cousin to Arya? (And Sansa and Bran for that matter).
  22. fantastic_four
    Suggested text for Sunday: "OMG Jon just ordered Drogon to eat Daenerys, and he did it!!! Then he rode him to Arya and proposed to her."
  23. fantastic_four
    Substitute the Mountain for Juggernaut and Cersei for Deadpool and THIS would have been the perfect death.
  24. fantastic_four
    The latter, or ideally both as options. If I could transplant the Revoltech Wolverine claws onto the Hasbro tiger stripe Wolverine from the Apocalypse wave, I'd have the best Wolverine ever. Ideally I'd also shorten them slightly since those claws on Revoltech Wolvie would never actually retract into his arms, they're actually longer than his forearms, but other than that they're freaking perfect claws.
  25. fantastic_four
    I'm looking forward to that Wolverine/Hulk set. Just wish Hasbro would do some claws for Wolverine that didn't constantly get crooked.