Game of Thrones (TV) - US Pace - NO BOOK DISCUSSION (that means NO BOOK DISCUSSION)

Yep was a very good, brutal episode.

Finally Ramsay got what was coming. Rickon deserved to die, I only hope Bran suffers the same fate soon. The giant dying was the saddest part of the episode.

That was amazing. Some of the best TV I think I have ever seen.

I'm genuinely astounded at the quality of that episode from start to finish. I've still got chills thinking about it.

Great episode. Amazing fighting scenes, especially near the start of the battle where the focus is on Jon snow, so many near misses for him where someone is about to attack him but gets taken out by a horse or someone else. Very well shot. Pretty obvious that Ramsey would get fed to his dogs when he said that they hadn't been fed for 7 days. Brutal.

Shame Wun Wun (the giant) died. Again I expected him too but didn't want him too especially after he survived the main battle.

The meereen stuff ended how I expected it to, I didn't expect a big battle there with the one at winterfell as well.

Also going on what tyrion said to dany about the mad King and wildfire

Oh and dany having a near orgasm when she found out that yara wanted to rule the iron islands.

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I thought it was boring - very well shot, well made, great production values etc etc - but boring.

Did anything happen in the episode that people didn't predict? There wasn't a single curve ball (or curved run

). There's something satisfying about seeing it play out, but at the same time felt it was missing something.

It might be the most predictable episode episode of GoT they've ever done?

It was a very good episode, but

What an epic episode!

I think I quite liked the fact that there weren't any twists in the episode. If every episode comes with an obligatory twist then you just start to expect them and they lose their impact.

I did think JS was going to die when he was being trampled, as that felt like a typical GOT thing to do, and kill off a major character in a truly non noble/epic manner, so the fact that he didn't was a nice non twist for me, and only possible as I had been conditioned to think down that route from previous episodes/twists from the series.

Can't wait to watch again on UK pace! Loved it. I liked how, whilst being awesome, John was shown to be a bit vulnerable still in battle. I do like how Ramsey was a horrible evil banana split but still very aware of himself, like when John twisted the one-on-one into Ramsay not fighting for his army, and then the realisation that strawberry float....my dogs are going to eat me

RockerShaun wrote:
but I still wouldn't trust Littlefinger - he wants to marry Sansa so that he can be Lord of Winterfell and Jon is probably a potential obstruction to that.

Thinks I don't understand about GOT is the army sizes. I watch an old episode yesterday, Renly said he had 100,000 men and he was only one of the Baratheons. Stanis had thousands of others. So why are the army sizes now so small? Where all all the soldiers who would have fought for house stark? Winterfell sits in a massive landbase I always thought the house of stark was the largest house of the north. They didn't all die in the red wedding. There's simply no way they could have all been wiped out by the Freys. Didn't robb stark have 40,000 men which still seems too low especially as he was supposed to have had most houses in the north loyal to him.

They way it has been made to look the Starks have got an abandoned castle back to rule over with no men of fighting age left in most of the north. If any of the northern armies switched to fight for Ramsey then they've just all been killed.

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:Thinks I don't understand about GOT is the army sizes. I watch an old episode yesterday, Renly said he had 100,000 men and he was only one of the Baratheons. Stanis had thousands of others. So why are the army sizes now so small? Where all all the soldiers who would have fought for house stark? Winterfell sits in a massive landbase I always thought the house of stark was the largest house of the north. They didn't all die in the red wedding. There's simply no way they could have all been wiped out by the Freys. Didn't robb stark have 40,000 men which still seems too low especially as he was supposed to have had most houses in the north loyal to him.

They way it has been made to look the Starks have got an abandoned castle back to rule over with no men of fighting age left in most of the north. If any of the northern armies switched to fight for Ramsey then they've just all been killed.

I imagine the numbers are lower now because of the number of men killed in the battles seen so far in the show, and to have the numbers inflated simply so they seem as impressive as the earlier ones would be unrealistic*. Although it does seem at odds with the passage of time in the show - just how long has been and gone since S1? It doesn't help that they have a stupid calendar where summers and winters can last years.

*Unrealistic within the constraints of the show's universe, I mean. Not unrealistic in general, we jumped that shark a while ago.

JUNCKER'S ALIVE wrote:
Return_of_the_STAR wrote:Thinks I don't understand about GOT is the army sizes. I watch an old episode yesterday, Renly said he had 100,000 men and he was only one of the Baratheons. Stanis had thousands of others. So why are the army sizes now so small? Where all all the soldiers who would have fought for house stark? Winterfell sits in a massive landbase I always thought the house of stark was the largest house of the north. They didn't all die in the red wedding. There's simply no way they could have all been wiped out by the Freys. Didn't robb stark have 40,000 men which still seems too low especially as he was supposed to have had most houses in the north loyal to him.

They way it has been made to look the Starks have got an abandoned castle back to rule over with no men of fighting age left in most of the north. If any of the northern armies switched to fight for Ramsey then they've just all been killed.

I imagine the numbers are lower now because of the number of men killed in the battles seen so far in the show, and to have the numbers inflated simply so they seem as impressive as the earlier ones would be unrealistic*. Although it does seem at odds with the passage of time in the show - just how long has been and gone since S1? It doesn't help that they have a stupid calendar where summers and winters can last years.

*Unrealistic within the constraints of the show's universe, I mean. Not unrealistic in general, we jumped that shark a while ago.

Yeah the time frames have never made sense. Well they seemed to make sense initially as people would have to travel places and it would take time but now they all seem to have dragons and you some story lines seem to be set over a couple of days whilst over seem to be over months yet they all run concurrently.

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Well that was rather good.

That was amazing. Up there with the best the show has ever done.

The Cinematography was of the highest standard, you could make posters out of most of that episode. Suitably Epic. Can't wait to watch it again later with the missus.

Holy fuckballs that was strawberry floating incredible.

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Albear wrote:That was amazing. Some of the best TV I think I have ever seen.

I got chills when John Snow Charged them all by himself and his men had to play catch-up, and then got more chills when the onion knight charged in, and then again with the Giant and the Gate.

The battle itself was movie quality, in fact the sequence in the middle where it appeared to be one long shot with JS fending off numerous Calvary and swordsmen may be the best battle scene I think I have ever seen in either movie or tv format.

I'm genuinely astounded at the quality of that episode from start to finish. I've still got chills thinking about it.

My thoughts exactly. Incredible.

I'd like to go back and watch S1, I remember at the time thinking that it looked very cheap so there must be a hell of a contract with the show as it is now.

If that episode doesn't get an award, we riot.

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