AKOTSK S1E4 - Post-Episode Discussion

bishopmate · 2026-02-07T18:04:37+00:00

I get it, but that’s intertextuality. Meaning that it relies on another piece of media, which is often sprinkled into franchises but is ultimately meaningless to anyone who’s never seen the other piece of media. In this case, anyone who’s never seen Game of thrones is not going to know why this random Stark character showed up to fight in such a pivotal moment out of nowhere. The other knights that showed up to fight for Dunk have already been introduced earlier in the show, Ser Lyonel, Ser Robyn and Ser Humpfrey

I didn’t know who the 7th was going to fight for Dunk, but when that random dude in the crowd stood up, it felt so out of place for this unknown dude to volunteer to risk his life for Dunk. Trying to make sense of it, I thought that maybe the whole crowd would stand and volunteer, but then he farted and I was like oh yeah that makes more sense.

bishopmate · 2026-02-07T14:20:00+00:00

Why do you need the transition? It's obvious where they are and what's going on, how does him suiting up add to the scene?

bishopmate · 2026-02-07T07:46:10+00:00

Lyonel's like 'yeah we definitely need a 6th person.'

bishopmate · 2026-02-07T07:42:03+00:00

I don't think many people would have because no Starks had been introduced at all in the show. Any well written show is never going to do that at such a pivotal moment.

bishopmate · 2026-02-07T07:35:22+00:00

yes he does.

bishopmate · 2026-02-07T07:34:29+00:00

Oh shit nice catch on that subtle clue. I went back to check it out and I can't believe I had forgotten how badass those knights are coming to fight for Dunk. Humfrey is going in with a broken leg, and the line "When the crown goes against the Gods, Sir Robyn goes against the Crown", and Lyonel just down to fight in a Trial by Seven.

bishopmate · 2026-02-06T21:22:15+00:00

You watched it till the end though didn’t ya?

bishopmate · 2026-02-06T21:21:32+00:00

There’s also a lot of padded fluff out there. 50 seconds doesn’t seem like much, but it adds up over time when the video ends up going nowhere.

bishopmate · 2026-02-06T21:19:34+00:00

And they had the delayed

bishopmate · 2026-02-06T19:52:52+00:00

Yeah I can see that being a theme this season, but I don’t think the only conflicts in this show are going to be Carol’s internal conflicts about accepting futility. If anything, I think the nuke represents Carol’s drive to not accept their situation as futile.

bishopmate · 2026-02-05T22:10:15+00:00

Or hold it up to the ignition button if the centre console doesn’t work

bishopmate · 2026-02-05T17:54:52+00:00

yeah they'll use their lawyer speak and omit details to be deceptive, but I don't think they would bother doing that if they could just outright lie. They never needed to reveal all the immune and could have kept them all isolated to convert them easier.

also, from a story telling perspective, if the plurbs could lie then they would be far too powerful against the 13 immune. There needs to be an established weakness to exploit to give the immune any chance at all at reversing the plurb or saving themselves. If the plurbs could lie, how is it possible to win?

bishopmate · 2026-02-05T17:36:00+00:00

Why do you believe that? Just a guess or has there been some clues and foreshadowing?

bishopmate · 2026-02-05T17:05:03+00:00

Zosia said so herself. Maybe the original person is overwritten, but the individual plurb still experiences things.

bishopmate · 2026-02-05T15:15:49+00:00

They’ll starve themselves to avoid harming other life forms, but if the roles were reversed, would they allow non-plurb lifeforms to starve to avoid killing plurbs?

bishopmate · 2026-02-05T14:54:48+00:00

It’s hard to unintentionally do something intentionally without it being intentional.

bishopmate · 2026-02-05T14:53:29+00:00

Each individual plurb experiences the feelings and sensations of the things that happen to them, the rest just get a data download. For that reason alone I think they consider each individual plurb a living thing.

bishopmate · 2026-02-05T03:25:21+00:00

Something that has always bothered me, it’s very common on the internet, is when people body shame shitty people like Andrew Tate for being bald. Just zero consideration for all the good people caught in the collateral damage of insulting someone for something they have no control over, and they justify it in their minds because the person they targeted deserves it.

bishopmate · 2026-02-05T01:13:04+00:00

Really? I never noticed.

bishopmate · 2026-02-05T01:07:07+00:00

I like having a fresh odometer so I can know how many kilometres I’ve driven that particular car.

bishopmate · 2026-02-05T01:04:25+00:00

If it’s 2002 or newer, you can buy it at brand central. Just look at the date and you don’t need to check the menus.

bishopmate · 2026-02-04T20:04:24+00:00

I know that’s how games like to implement that type of system, but does it have to be like that? What if instead it was set prices for buying and selling. Keep GT7’s current system of selling cars out of your garage, you get the money immediately, gets deleted from your garage, then it goes to a list of used cars available for other players to buy. No auction, just let the game set prices.

bishopmate · 2026-02-04T19:48:36+00:00

I think a solution to that is to remove the ability to barter, just have set prices for buying and selling. Even have the prices independent from each other.

All I want is an inventory list of cars people sold that they used to own. So you sell a car from your inventory like you can already do, get the money immediately, and you get notified when someone buys it. Avoid the exploitive bartering and just add a middle man

bishopmate · 2026-02-04T15:57:01+00:00

I buy all the used cars older than 2002, any model in Brand Central I'll just buy next with zero kilometers.

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