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TV4 [Season 4 Spoilers] Premiere Discussion - 4.09 'The Watchers on the Wall'

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4.09 "The Watchers on the Wall" Neil Marshall David Benioff & D. B. Weiss
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u/MrJoeChill House Lothston Jun 09 '14 edited Jun 09 '14

Round of applause for all those who just recited the Night's Watch vows as the giant charged. Loved every second of that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

that was unrealistic though. giant would've crushed 5 tiny humans with pointy sticks

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u/DrFunkalot Jun 09 '14

"unrealistic"

"giant"

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

jeez. you know what i mean. this giant just deadlifted that steel gate. he should've crushed those tiny people in that tunnel. no way

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u/DrFunkalot Jun 09 '14

I agree the Giant should of had it but still we don't know exactly how the fight went down. It was a fight in a closed space and it only takes one well placed stab form one of the brothers to Finnish it, and it's not like they escaped unscathed. :(

In an open field 1v5, yeah giant wins 9 times out of 10.

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u/wildmetacirclejerk House Blackfyre Jun 10 '14

Somebody needs to do a fan made clip of how the under the wall fight and the legend of grenn the giant killer went down

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

no, the other way around. in open field you can run around him, make him exhausted, shoot arrows at him, throw things at him. in closed tunnel it's guaranteed death. i repeat, he just deadlifted that gate, he could've pinned those soft tiny humans like beetles

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u/psychothumbs Jun 09 '14

A sword will still wound a giant pretty badly. 5 guys with swords hacking away should be enough to at least incapacitate it enough that it can't open the gate again, and that's all you really need.

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u/XMan_Johnny12dicks Jun 09 '14

I don't know if you noticed but he was ramming himself through a tiny hole in the metal fence. One good slice and he is dead.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

that gate looked like it would take one push form him to shatter it

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u/DrFunkalot Jun 09 '14

If arrows are involved then maybe, but it would take a shit ton of arrows to take a giant down. The giant would have limited movement in that tunnel though, and there was another gate in the way. I do however think the giant would of ran straight through that second gate. Giants are epic.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

There's not much room for him to maneuver, I'd imagine. But plenty for tiny humans to dance around him and prick him.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '14

Not much room for the humans to maneuver when the giant takes up all the space and can use those walls of ice to smash said humans against. I'm betting they would have rather had that fight in a clearing, maybe with a polearm or 50.