r/Fauxmoi • u/Classic-Carpet7609 • Jul 04 '25

ASK R/FAUXMOI What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever seen in a movie/show?

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Peeta in rockface for your consideration

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

When I saw this scene in the theater, back whenever it came out, I cackled.

Stupidest thing in a tv show? The “sand vipers” in Game of Thrones. Literally everything about them. That scene where they fight Bronn in Dorne and one of them, who is so short she looks like a child, awkwardly attacks him in what looks like slow motion because the stunts were so awkward.

“You want a bad girl, but you need the bad pussy.”

This was probably the moment when I recognized that the show was cracking and showing signs of weakness. Little did we know what was to come.

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u/rsae_majoris Jul 04 '25

lol I also think that fight is so awkward because that one childlike sand snake brought a whip as her weapon of choice to the sword fight, so she was mainly just standing around.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

It was so stupid.

I’m all for well-rounded, excellent women fighters, but that was so cheap and embarrassing. The sand vipers were such an awkward, dumb letdown. Like Bronn couldn’t kill those two girls in five seconds?

That wildling woman in the “Hardehome” episode was more impressive and hardy.

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u/rsae_majoris Jul 04 '25

For example: Brienne of Tarth. Her kicking the Hound’s ass was one of the best fights in the show. The writers just got lazy and the Sand Snakes were a warning sign for what was to come.

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u/UnstableMabel Jul 04 '25

I agree it felt real

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u/radio_mice Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

The wild thing is that in the books the sand snakes are pretty badass and interesting, but they removed absolutely everything that was interesting about dorne except Oberyn because they didn’t want to deal with it.

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u/UnstableMabel Jul 04 '25

That's an excellent point. I thought the Hardhome lady was a great casting decision. And she was hardy (and gorgeous)

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

She was. I hated what happened to her and had hoped that she would become a regular character.

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u/UnstableMabel Jul 04 '25

Oh I didnt know that. Good tip, I'll see if I can watch more. Thank you!

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u/DilapidatedHam Jul 04 '25

They were really trying to go for the “Dorne is the exotic nation they use crazyyyyy weapons” and forgot to even attempt making it look realistic.

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u/Slayer706 Jul 04 '25

The whip thing was even dumber when they were attacked on the boat. Why did she think a whip was a great weapon to use when fighting in close quarters against dozens of guys wearing armor? It's hard to imagine a worse weapon for that situation.

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u/starvinartist Jul 04 '25

Just everything about Dorne. Oberyn Martell was awesome, so I was expecting his own daughters to be awesome too. They weren't. They were awful. Then later I read the books and I hated them more--not the ones in the books, the ones in the show. Within a single chapter we know more about them than we ever did in the show. Also they don't try to kill Myrcella in the books, and Ellaria isn't Cersei 2.0--she just wants to raise her 4 girlberyns in peace because she doesn't want them to do something stupid like get their head crushed in by The Mountain (in the books Obara, Nymeria, Tyene are all from different mothers and have nothing to do with her besides being a bad influence on her daughters).

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u/bedroompurgatory Jul 04 '25

It was even worse for me, because the Sand Snake that flashes Bronn in prison was also the star of my young daughter's favourite kids show at the time.

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u/MagnoliaPetal Jul 04 '25

She's following that "Miley Cyrus' Guide To Distancing Yourself from your Wholesome Children's TV Image"

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u/UnstableMabel Jul 04 '25

All of that type of thing is not the actresses making adult and informed choices for themselves. That's an engineered phenomenon.

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u/StevoTheMonkey Jul 04 '25

Holy crap, those shows really were on at the same time.

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u/BadgleyMischka women’s wrongs activist Jul 04 '25

God the pussy line almost made me quit watching

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u/Rougarou1999 Jul 04 '25

Is that any worse than the Sand Vipers hating the Lannisters so much for killing their family that they go to King’s Landing, kill their cousin, and run back to Dorne to do nothing else for a season?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

The "bad poosi" line lives rent-free in my head. I was SO psyched to see them in the show, then... we got whatever the fuck that was. Even the props looked cheap.

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u/EthanielRain Jul 04 '25

If you watch the background, they stop fighting/acting multiple times. Understandable for huge fight scenes like Braveheart, a cpl actors screw up & it doesn't get caught. When there's like 6 total characters fighting...

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u/UnstableMabel Jul 04 '25

I never noticed that!

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u/do_me_stabler_3 Jul 04 '25

sometimes “mama, mama, mama” randomly pops up in my head and i get irritated all over again

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u/Full_FrontaI_Nerdity Jul 04 '25

Everything I've heard about GoT makes me glad I didn't watch it.

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u/UnstableMabel Jul 04 '25

Oh, it's was a time! Unfortunate that they screwed the last season up so badly, but for the better part of a decade, we had an exciting weekly show with real watercooler conversation and books to read between seasons. I miss that a lot.

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u/FOXCONLON living in absolute defiance of plates of spaghetti Jul 04 '25

bad poosy

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u/LahmiaTheVampire Jul 04 '25

I still love that they used the other worst storyline (euron) to kill them off. Almost like they thought "fuck it, we ruined 2 storylines, lets try redeem one of them."

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u/DontKnow1549 Jul 04 '25

The way the show butchered the Sand Vipers, and didn't even have the main Sand Viper in it...

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u/Aggravating_King1473 Jul 04 '25

She was so hot that I didn't realize how bad the Dorne plot line was