This is awesome. I wanna buy Disney, convert to Islam and force all female employees to wear a Burka. We could've prevented Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan, you know?
However, if this passes, a lot of corporations will join the Christian Scientists.

I watched it carefully. His arm moves very fast for a dying man. Keep in mind, I think they set the tone of Oberyn's amazing speed and reaction time when they first introduced him and he nailed that guard's hand to the table. So I would have liked them to persist with that (as in, fast as the Mountain was he would still be too slow)

Being run through with a huge bladed spear twice will inflict massive trauma to a very vascular region, creating immediate blood loss and very quick hypovolaemic shock. I agree that you can keep going until your blood pressure is low enough to knock you down (I was a paramedic - that's bread and butter stuff for me). But he already fell down involuntarily. If he made a massive adrenaline fueled exertion after that I expect to see rainbows of blood coming out of the Mountain (for the viewers pleasure of course) and for you to be slower (you've got blood loss! - which doesn't speed you up).

As I wrote I haven't read the books, so a lot of the nuances will be lost on me (and other unenlighted).

I would have dropped the emotion and instead pushed the cockiness of Oberyn and let that be his downfall (and you could have almost the exact same ending).

I understand in the book the Mountain is like 8 feet tall. This would have helped with the skull popping effect (which is not possible by even the strongest men in our world). And it would have made it look cool with a veritable giant next to Oberyn.

That's fair enough. I haven't read the books but the tv version butchered this scene in so many ways.

Up front note: nobody should be surprised Oberyn died - it's GOT - it's to be expected.

That said, I wish the director wouldnt have.... Oberyn (an experienced fighter) be cool as ice before the fight just to turn into a emotional wreck a few seconds into the fight.

Don't show us the Mountain as a lumbering hulk who then, after being fully run through with a spear twice and having a calf slashed, turn into a super ninja while Oberyn makes a beginners mistake and turns into a sloth.

The director going comic book bad guys on us sucked.

I agree. Normal/medium sized two handers seem to pretty much all be designed to allow you greater control rather than to add power (an axe or mace is always going to be better for that).

Wieldyness is much more important for them than power. As Lindy himself mentions in another vid swords like the Katana and longsword are backups and personal protection weapons not primary weapons of war. Convenient to carry around, and handy for parrying blows & grappling but second fiddle to almost any dedicated battlefield weapon (Spears, Naginata, maces etc.).

The most notable exception that springs to mind is the Roman Gladius, but it could be described as a glorified short spear with bonus cutting abilities rather than what most people think of as a sword. Rapiers and scimitars could also be thought of as more like spears and axes respectively in this sense.

And then there's the huge specialised warswords like claymores and Zweihanders but as lindy suggests in yet another vid they are a specialised tool for berserker charges and maybe advancing through a pikewall. Certainly not something you'd want to have a duel with or carry around at your waist.

Longswords and Katanas are like modern pistols. Good side-arms, but almost never a primary weapon of war. (Hollywood fails again)


Also.....Longsword totally > Katana. A well made longsword can hold just as sharp an edge as a Katana, has quillons to hook and lever an opponent and a straight focused point that can puncture steel plate. Katanas can maybe dismember someone easier, but that's about it.(all IMHO obviously)

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The actual problem is that we CALL this country music. This is twangy, crappy pop music. Johnny sang country, this is Brittany Spears with a steel guitar thrown in.

Next time, throw a spear from a distance.

Yes they are projectiles, so they are akin to an arrow. The big difference is that a bow has stored energy that is directed into the projectile (arrow). Spears and boomerangs do not - they are thrown.

They did have a device that gave mechanical advantage for spear throwing called a woomera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woomera_(spear-thrower)

I guess we'll never know if they would have arrived at the bow.

spears and boomerangs are also projectiles.

Just change archery to projectiles and it's 100% correct.
They just didnt have bows yet...

A complete list available if you turn on annotations:

Adele
Cher
Judy Garland
Patti Lupone
Kristin Chenoweth
Edith Piaf
Bette Midler
Julie Andrews
Liza Minelli
Bernadette Peters
Gwen Stefani
Zooey Deschanel
Britney Spears
Shakira
Alanis Morisette
Norah jones
Christina Aguilera
Celine Dion
Barbra Streisand

I'm not sure which one you refer to was winking but I think it might be Patti Lupone. My fave was Edith Piaf.

A partial list:

Adele
Cher
Edith Piaf
Bette Midler
Julie Andrews
Bernadette Peters
Gwen Stefani
Zooey Deschanel
Britney Spears
Shakira
Alanis Morisette
Joni Mitchell (?)
Christina Aguilera
Celine Dion
Selena (?)
Barbra Streisand

i thought he was gonna chuck it like a spear or something, like a last resort unexpected hand to hand combat move or something..... i am disappoint

The criteria for employment with the local constabulary in the U.S. uses at least a 90 I.Q. as a baseline....Cops don't need to be that bright. Most cops actions are dictated by the survival circuit and are motivated by their hind-brained impulses. You don't really exercise wisdom winding-up a fight-or-flight neanderthal.

gwiz665, are you that naive? If the world was all fluffy kittens and the sky were made of cotton candy then police would be helpful assistants in our societies with duties like earning, old-lady street-crossing assistance badges and traffic-directing patches. Oh, for a joyous world without firearms with puppies and kitties!!

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.-Isaiah 11:6

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.-Isaiah 2:4

@CreamK - you can't expect a non-player to be interested in darts, no matter how good. After watching this, I put up my board in my shed and bought a new set of spears. It's like a compulsion.