mwbmis

A few possible reasons...Lena Headey was pregnant. Lena Headey has A LOT of tattoos that they would have to CGI out anyway. Or maybe she just didn't want to do it. That would be a difficult scene to shoot.

Melisandre is not infallible. She does have sight, but unfortunately for Shireen, she doesn't always correctly interpret what she has seen.

B.A.

They could have cut away for a minute to touch base w/ Margaery...

musick

eagerly awaiting her long walk of shame

CRM114

As for Lena Headey "not wanting to do it", what is CGI really hiding? Made her breasts better? Made her skinnier? Like I said, I'm pretty sure her body is similar to what was seen.

As for Melisandre, she was pretty convinced for a few seasons, well before the Shireen incident, that Stannis was going to be the victor in a bloody battle in the snow.

DthRdrX

That's not even close to being her for most of it. The body double did the majority of the scene.

Draven

Yep, any wide shot where you could see the goods didn't appear to be her.

musick

as if you've all seen Lena Headey's vag

Aphex Twin

Is this the first time that "“brother fucker” has been yelled in a TV show?

Draven

That "swordsman guy" was one of Arya's favorite people in the world.

He's been in Qyburn's lab since then. They had a few shots of him like under a tarp or something and Qyburn makes some cryptic remark that hints he's working on The Mountain.

Here's a Russian jumping into snow from a 5 story building:

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I remember tons of people were doing it in Boston too this last winter.

Cellar Door

I just rewatched the episode. I was surprised to realize how much of that scene shows Cersei only from the shoulders up. There are many wider shots interspersed throughout--in which you can definitely tell they CGI'd her face onto another's body, or the shot is from behind--but a large part of the walk of shame is relatively close-up on Cersei's head and bare shoulders.

mwbmis

Her not wanting to do it was my speculation. Her being pregnant and having a shit ton of tattoos is not speculation.

I don't really remember how specifically Melisandre has talked about her actual visions on the show, but it's obvious at this point she was misinterpreting what she saw. In her point of view chapter in the fifth book, she was struggling to figure out what she was seeing. Her outward confidence is at least partially an act. I think Thoros of Mir as much as said in season 3 that he thought she misinterpreting what she was seeing.

superdeluxe

There have been stories of people falling from thousands of feet in the sky, and surviving by falling through branches/snow etc.

CPA-ESQ.

Nahh he is doing an ad campaign

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j...34484987619021

Why So Blu?

She was foolin' ya'll!

Shazam

If you watched carefully Olaf the snowman jumped off before them.

Shazam

Oh, she's seeing correctly - Bolton banners being lowered.

It just wasn't Stannis doing it

fujishig

Wasn't the news report during filming that they Croatian church they were filming at wouldn't let them film the scene with a nude woman walking through the streets? I wonder if that's why we get more shoulders and up scenes (besides allowing for more emotion). Or did they eventually work that out?

arminius

Especially after Jon made him first ranger instead of fucking him over. I really thought at that point that Thorne realized Jon was an asset to the watch.

Having said that I think GRRM is degenerating into an asshole and I bet the show ends up being better than the books. Unless you like the cooking channel.

chowderhead

It is very possible that Meryn killed Syrio. I will grant that. If Meryn did kill Syrio, Arya should have been justified in avenging his death. But Jaqen H'ghar said that Arya had taken the wrong life and only death can pay for life. It could be that Jaqen meant Arya isn't Arya anymore and shouldn't seek out old grievances or that she was to kill the gambler guy but it could also mean Meryn didn't kill Syrio so she shouldn't have killed him. I interpret it one way, you can interpret it another. If I don't see the body or head on a spike, I will not assume the person is dead and even then we have FrankenMountain and Beric Dondarrion coming back.
We don't know how or why Jaqen ended up in the cells. It could have all been a plan to recruit Arya.

arminius

"Literature discussing the use of parachute troops is published. The concept is considered amusing in most countries but is taken seriously in Germany and in Russia. The Russians practice dropping troops from airplanes in deep snow without parachutes. There are few injuries from shock, but too many fatalities from suffocation. The concept is abandoned"

Shazam

Arya's task was to kill the thin man (the guy at the desk). She instead spent her time killing Meryn. That's what she got in trouble for.

andicus

So, who actually drank the poison and died, since it wasn't Jaqen?

Seems like it would be tough to get somebody to volunteer to do that.

Decker

It was No One. But I think it was the No One who we've come to know a Jaqen... if that makes sense.

chowderhead

Jaqen told her to go to the docks and see what she finds. She found the gambling man and told him about the man. But Arya also found Meryn a few days later. Seems strange the Many-Faced God doesn't allow them to multi-task.

fumanstan

This is all I recall her saying; that she saw visions of the Bolton's losing and just presumed Stannis was the one that does it. I don't think there's any reason to think she was deliberately tricking Stannis, that seems silly to me.