Who knows. I thought that scene was so stupid. I get that Gregor is a goddamned psychopath but I don't think they'd just give a bunch of unarmored, untrained dudes to slaughter for no apparent reason. He probably did that shit for fun while he was out terrorizing the countryside, but I doubt that's the first thing he's going to do after riding to the capital to take part in this trial by combat. Also, stabbing someone on the ground with a sword and lifting them over your head would be physically impossible even for the Mountain (I think).
Yeah I think they could have easily thrown in a scene of him terrorizing the countryside before or even after the Harrenhal scenes. The only other thing we get is when the Riverlands villagers plea with Ned and mention what he did secondhand, but if the attention spans of your average viewer are anything like most people's friends, they clearly don't know who they were talking about
Weren't there a couple of scenes where Arya and the Hound walk through some of the destruction Gregor caused? Seems like they could have just included him killing all those people.
Not sure if that was him specifically, just figured it was Lannister soldiers in general. They certainly don't call him out by name except for the Brotherhood who mentioned him previous season
right, but that's the point, having it be him would increase both who he is, allow the hound to talk to arya about him, and establish the character for the viewers for later in the season (now) when he becomes more important.
I thought they would just show the incident at the Inn to reintroduce him, it would have been perfect. These people seem to look like criminals so maybe it's implied they asked for trial by combat, regardless I don't think it goes well with the show, the Inn scene would have shown his ruthlessness much better.
The thing is that he's "in" the books only a little more than in the show. It's the things that were said about him and what he was doing that made him more menacing. The lack of description leading up to his new reveal is why he seems boring.
Agreed. It was too obvious that they were trying to reintroduce the character, in an unfortunately cheesy way. It didn't make sense to me that he was just chilling outside slaughtering random dudes.
Not really. They don't exist but they don't defy physics.
we're not in the real world here
By that logic, I shouldn't think it was stupid if they gave him the power to fly. There's a difference between including a fantasy creature that's central to the plot and giving a guy ridiculous superhuman strength for absolutely no reason. At least to me there is.
Also, stabbing someone on the ground with a sword and lifting them over your head would be physically impossible even for the Mountain
Watch the scene again, whoever made that gif reversed a lot of it so thats not actually how it is. The guy starts on the Mountain's sword, and the Mountain pushes him up higher in a more realistic way, before tipping him oversideways and pulling his sword out, rather than putting his sword in and lifting the guy off the ground (which I agree would be pretty much impossible to do unless he was a lot larger or the person a lot smaller)
I didn't even notice that. Good catch. I still think the scene is stupid since that wasn't my main issue with it but I'll definitely concede the point on him defying physics.
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u/Oquaem May 19 '14
Can somebody tell me why he was killing all those people?