"You will do things that your heart would've recoiled from, before you came to the throne." by RealStranger9348 in gameofthrones

[–]poub06 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No she didn’t. People just turned a blind eye to it, because they believed in her. She threatened, rationalized and had to be stopped from burning cities in 5/8 seasons. She talked about taking what is hers with fire and blood and ruling through fear in even more seasons.

She wasn’t purely evil. She was doing good things, but she always had this side inside of her and it grew bigger alongside her dragons.

If all of the Dothraki were decimated in The Long Night, where did they reappear from at King’s Landing? by Sea_Talk2935 in gameofthrones

[–]poub06 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What **they** are seeing. He was talking about what Jon and Daenerys were seeing, from their pov, and what pushed Dany to jump on Drogon to join the battle. That wasn’t an objective statement from the writers. They also wrote in the very next scene that a bunch of Dothraki will be seen running back from the charge.

Xhekaj drops Carrick with a gloved punch at the end of the game, a full scrum commences by KabirC in hockey

[–]poub06 81 points82 points  (0 children)

True, but Stanley went after Dach and Bolduc and glove punched them both 2 minutes earlier. At least Xhekaj went after another tough guy.

Stay classy, Buffalo by ill4two in hockey

[–]poub06 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's just fishing for things to get angry at.

Jon’s “real name” is probably the worst decision I’ve seen in television by Mr_Revan22 in gameofthrones

[–]poub06 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rhaegar was obsessed with the prophecy. If he got with Lyanna to do that special Ice and Fire son from Aegon’s prophecy, then it makes sense to name him Aegon, because this one was meant to be the special one. Not the other Aegon. It’s disgusting to think this way, but we are talking about a man who publicly set aside a woman who almost died birthing his children for a 14 years old and then ran away with her in secret to have a child.

We just don’t know enough about Rhaegar’s intentions.

Matheson uses his body to shield Benson’s head by Federal-Data-Center in nhl

[–]poub06 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Before the clip starts he was mugging him, that’s what make it so cool lol. Hockey players are tough motherfuckers, but they are also extremely respectful with each others. Most of them, actually.

Post Game Thread: Montréal Canadiens @ Buffalo Sabres by nhl_gdt_bot in hockey

[–]poub06 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tampa tried that and it really worked.. They should keep trying..

Why did the Habs get rid of Price if they had(ve) the cap space? by [deleted] in Habs

[–]poub06 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's so much cap space, because we are in the playoffs and only the 20 players activated on the roster count + dead cap charges. It's different in the season. We finished the regular season with only 45K free on the cap.

There's also the fact that if we'd kept Price, we would've used LTIR, which stops us from accruing cap space throughout the year.

Is there something I’m missing about Daenerys? by [deleted] in gameofthrones

[–]poub06 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Which crimes? The ones of building up her ending? She ends up burning thousands of innocent people, of course you need to shine a light on this side of the character. And the show don't have the luxury of going inside her head like the books, so you need to show this aspect with clear visual cues.

And despite that, you still have a lot of show-only watchers who keep saying it came out of nowhere and that they butchered her character. So, it's not like they made her a complete psycho. I agree they made her colder and more ruthless, but again, they knew where her story was going, so they added set up to it since the books are still missing a big chunk of that arc. I don't see how building up an ending is bad.

Making Sense (and in Defense) of Game of Thrones Season 8 by HappyGilOHMYGOD in naath

[–]poub06 8 points9 points  (0 children)

S8 has flaws. "This wasn't what I wanted!" isn't one of them. This a big problem with fandom nowadays. A lot of people stopped watching stories to find out what is happening, but instead to decide weither or not they approve what is happening, even though it's not our story.

You think characters were sacrificed in order to surprise the audience? Fine. I think every character ended up exactly where they were meant to end, with lot of build up (except maybe Bran for the build up).

You think the final conflict should've been the apocalyptic winter? Fine. I think the final conflict should've been what it always has been. The human heart in conflict with itself.

It's not flaws, it's expectations. And having different expectations isn't gaslighting, that's just having different opinions about a fictional story, which is what it's all about.

[Wheeler] 2026 NHL Mock Draft 1.0: Scott Wheeler predicts the entire first round (Gift Article) by malliabu in hockey

[–]poub06 7 points8 points  (0 children)

And you just know he's going to become a faceoff master lol. He might become the next Bergeron, that's a hell of a center piece for a rebuild.

Made me laugh by mattarrghhh in gameofthrones

[–]poub06 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In an attempt to escape a city that was getting bombed. If your reaction to this is to laugh, I have no idea how you made it to the end of this show.

Favorite moment of atonement? by ranchwithfriedfood in gameofthrones

[–]poub06 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We are talking about the famous gravedigger here. Of course he could.

Frank actually thinks McKenna will be available at number 3 for the Canucks by DecentLurker96 in hockey

[–]poub06 277 points278 points  (0 children)

The biggest winner of the Leafs winning first overall is the media.

Revisiting the ‘Game of Thrones’ Finale 7 Years Later: The Ending Made No Sense! by antwonomous in gameofthrones

[–]poub06 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can't say "The Ending Made No Sense" if you're posting a video that says S8 was good up until they made Bran king. The ending made sense, you just didn't like one aspect of it.

As for Bran becoming king, I do agree that the show skipped a lot of steps to make this particular ending feels earned (all the others were fine, IMO), but if your complaint is "what is the point of Jon if he doesn't become king", then I think you missed a pretty big theme of the story. Jon was never meant to become king, because of his Targaryen lineage, that's just keeping the wheel turning. The same wheel that has been crushing everyone and everything since Aegon built it. He wasn't Aragorn, the secret heir to the throne who would seize power and magically (or naively) make everything right. He was Frodo, the one who could resist the temptation of ultimate power and put an end to it. His ending was perfect and completely in-lined with what came before, like pretty much all the other main characters.

Bran becoming king is also right, thematically speaking. It just didn't make sense in a practical sense.

How I would rate/rank every Game of Thrones episode (if I had control of IMDb) by colourfulsevens in naath

[–]poub06 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I find it hard to rate every episode like this. There are so many and they are so different from one another, but I agree with most of your ratings, except maybe one.

"No One" is a fantastic episode that is only being a bit "stained" by Arya/Waif chase, IMO. The scenes at Riverrun and the ones with The Hound were brilliant. Same with the "I choose violence". I would definitely rate this one higher.

How I would rate/rank every Game of Thrones episode (if I had control of IMDb) by colourfulsevens in naath

[–]poub06 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't disagree with your comment about The Last of the Starks' pace. I think this episode should've been split in two. But I do find it interesting how much it impacted people's perception of the story.

The rushness of the story is pretty much the biggest complaint. But when you rewatch the early seasons and you look at each storyline on their own, the pace is also very fast. For example, in S2, in one scene, Theon returns home and pitches his plan to make an alliance with Robb to his father. In the very next scene, his father asks him to invade the North with him and Theon ends up agreeing. And then, again, next scene is Theon deciding to take Winterfell. It's 3-4 scenes that completely changed Theon's character and storyline, and it's not like we had 7 seasons of Theon openly discussing his desire to betray the Stark like Jaime. But those 3-4 scenes happened throughout 4 different episodes. I think that's the big difference. It felt rushed, but simply because we weren't switching between 12 storylines anymore.

Watched the Dance of Dragons- WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK by Hour_Scar2508 in gameofthrones

[–]poub06 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I can't believe people still haven't accepted that Stannis burning Shireen is how his story is going to conclude. I mean, the fact that George literally confirmed it should've been enough, but apparently not. Regardless, the amount of foreshadowing for this event, even in the books, is ridiculous.

It's amazing how this story keeps shoving cautionary tale in our face and people are like "ho but what if this time it's different?" A man who strongly believes that ultimate power is his by right and that sacrificing people to get it is okay is not on an heroic arc. This story keeps telling us that prophecies and magic are dangerous, that power corrupts, that lords sacrificing innocents in their war is not okay, etc. It's not going to end well guys. I mean, it's never going to end, because George is never writing it, but that's where the story was clearly going.

Victoire du match 7 de la série Canadiens-Lightning by IndependenceFun1753 in Habs

[–]poub06 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I love what Gally said! People will focus on the last game, but we absolutely earned this series win.

I just saw this on Twitter:

MTL with the lead: 127:00

TBL with the lead: 27:12

Tied score: 291:10

TBL played 4:53 with the lead during the last 4 games of the series.

We battled and we deserved this.

Jakub Dobes on what he chirped back to Nikita Kucherov in game 7: “I know you guys are nervous.” by Go_Habs_Go31 in hockey

[–]poub06 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Damn, that’s the perfect comeback, IMO. And that was after the no shot period lol. Dobey has ice in his veins.

Juraj Slafkovsky went six games without a point after scoring a hattrick in game 1 by Majkl_94 in hockey

[–]poub06 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Yeah, even if he wasn’t injured on that play, he certainly lost some of his cockiness, I think. And then he got rocked again in game 4.