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

mcjihge2 wrote:Just seen this on reddit.

Great episode.

It's good to see Sansa ready to kick arse, mind. Basically telling Jon to stop being such a strawberry floating pussy and take back Winterfell.

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10 mins into Castle Black and Chill and he gives you this look

The look on Brianne's face makes it.

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Good to see things slotting in to place and it does feel like the end is coming into sight a bit.

I don't know, we've got another 7 years until the slaves are free.

It was a good episode but I'm getting frustrated now, I just really want to see the Faith of the Seven completely destroyed in a bloody massacre by The Mountain.

Hyperion wrote:

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Good to see things slotting in to place and it does feel like the end is coming into sight a bit.

I don't know, we've got another 7 years until the slaves are free.

I thought this too.

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Hyperion wrote:

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Good to see things slotting in to place and it does feel like the end is coming into sight a bit.

I don't know, we've got another 7 years until the slaves are free.

I thought this too.

I think the entire Dothraki army and 3 dragons might speed that up a bit.

Great episode, Osha went out a little weakly though.

I too am waiting for the religious guys to get it. However I have a feeling they will all just betray each other before they can do it, I also get the feeling the Tyrell's will soon be wiped out.

Long term I reckon Cersei will be queen, after Tommen is killed.

1cmanny1 wrote:Long term I reckon Cersei will be queen, after Tommen is killed.

That simply isn't possible.

Here's how I assume we all expect everything to go down from here on out:



However, this being Game of Thrones, here's an alternative fuck-you timeline of what could happen:

Permanently IP Banned wrote:

1cmanny1 wrote:Long term I reckon Cersei will be queen, after Tommen is killed.

That simply isn't possible.

Here's how I assume we all expect everything to go down from here on out:

Jon Snow's Avengers head south for Winterfell, gathering the support of the northern houses on the way. They unexpectedly meet with Baelish's Vale Soldiers and take back the North, killing Ramsey. The prominent members of the houses Bolton, Karstark and Umber are sent to Edd's Night's Watch to strengthen and replenish their depleted numbers.

The Lannisters and Tyrells, suddenly fighting for the same thing, wage war against the faith militant and civil war comes to King's Landing.

Bran learns 'everything' - that Jon is actually his cousin - Lyanna's son. He, Hodor and Meera head south to meet up with his brother, sister and cousin at Winterfell and helps Jon plan for the upcoming war with the White Walkers (who might take the wall? The North versus the White Wall?)

Daenerys, now having all the Dothraki by her side, takes Slavers Bay with ease, becoming their forever queen. Then they bugger off on dragons to conquer Westeros.

Personal hunch: the Hound is alive, resurrected by the Brotherhood without Banners and now fighting for them. An epic battle between Undead Hound and Zombie Mountain ensues.

However, this being Game of Thrones, here's an alternative fuck-you timeline of what could happen:

On their way south to recapture Winterfell, White Walkers overwhelm Edd's Night's Watch. Jon is forced into a sad alliance with the Boltons to fight the hordes of White Walkers. Sansa is returned to Ramsey. Rickon becomes the new Theon. Jon is killed at the wall by Wight Olly. The North falls. Baelish leads the Vale soldiers to the civil-war-rapt King's Landing and pronounces himself first President of Westeros.

Bran, cut off from the world south of the wall, heads into the relative safety of the children of the forest and considers becoming a tree. Max von Sydow is set on fire by Drogon. An entire episode is a montage of Sam's hilarious adventures at becoming a Maester. Oh Sam!

Daenerys returns to Slavers Bay with the Dothraki to find the Unsullied butchered. Varys has fled. Tyrion is killed by Arya, who is then killed by Grey Worm, who is killed by Awesome Faceless Assassin, who is killed by Daario, who is killed by Lord Friendzone, who infects Daenerys with greyscale. They depart for Valantis to live out their stony lives together, in a boat that the Iron Islanders sink.

Baelish marries Cersei, who eats him, murders Jaime, forces Thoros of Myr to resurrect Joffrey, whom she then marries. The two of them reign over a pure evil Westeros forever. Wight Ramsey is the Warden of the White Walker North. Nothing happens in Dorne. Slaver's Bay expands its influence to become Slaver's Essos. The last scene is a dying Sansa's closing eye. The producers claim this is always how they intended it to end. GRRM never finishes any of the remaining books.

The alternative timeline sounds spot on. especially the last sentence.

For me game of thrones always felt like the end game was supposed to be someone eventually taking kings landing from the Lannisters and that you were always supposed to want the Lannisters except Tyrion to die but I'm starting to not want Cersei to die now. I assume she will go all evil again at some point and make me want her dead. Maybe Killing off tywin was a mistake as you hate the Lannisters less.

The more it goes on the more I realise that the ending to this is almost certainly going to be either a massive fuck-you or a huge let down. Probably both.

Everyone teams up to battle Whitewalkers, whitewalkers win, the end.

Game of Thrones meets Star Wars.

Spoiler: Don't watch unless you've seen last weeks episode.

The disparity in quality between yesterday's episode and the first three (notably the first two) was silly - yesterday was back to series 1-4 quality Game of Thrones.

It wasn't just the writing and delivery, but the direction too. It's a Night and Day difference and you could tell the reigns were in safe hands again from the first few scenes.

For example the first episode treated us to random shots of Tyrion/Varis being watched like some ITV Sunday night drama before Varis said his rather deflatingly boring line of his birdies coming back singing songs of golden masks. It also gave us the terribly escapades cheesy Sand Snakes (which cable TV show have the walked in off exactly?), Jorrah peeling back his sleeve to see his arm in pantomime fashion, Sansa and Theon in the worst-framed hide-and-seek scene ever (with the least scary 'scary' dogs in it to boot) and so on and so on. I don't know how the biggest show on earth could fail to hit even basic levels of competency (see also: Jaime/Bron's Series 5 Dorn+Sand-Snakes fight, or Ser Barristan's terrible death scene etc. etc.)

But yesterday was great! Bar Ramsey's rather pointless but perfunctory scene (OMG Ramsey is cray cray etc.) each segment was interesting, and engaging, propelling the narrative and made me 1) keep hoping the episode wouldn't end and 2) excited for what's to come.

That Vale kid's ignorant disregard (and Baelish relationship) is scarier than Ramsey. Sparrow's speech was engaging, and Marjorie's hidden resolve even more so. Hardened Sansa was great and her Jon scenes were touching. Iron Islands stuff I'm excited to see how it goes. Cersei/Kings Landing stuff is kicking off and Cersei is still pure TV gold every second she's on-screen. And though Daenerys did her typical (and almost self-parodying now) prophet routine of miracle/fire/people worship it was still effective.

This is the most I've cared about future GoT unfolding since series 4 - can't wait!

On reflection Im trying to work out what I like about the last episode. My conclusion is that the only reason I liked it so much was because we saw dragon princess' tits. Other than that, it was pretty much the same fair as the last three episodes.

Bollocks. It was a great episode.

I confess I had a tear in my eye when Sansa and Jon embraced. Loved their scenes and Tormund eyeing up Brienne was amazing.
Tyrion obviously is cooking something up and while I hate Cersei - I've enjoyed her planning her vengeance and want her to wreak it (the show does really well at making you dislike characters at one turn then end up wanting them to succeed or subverting your impressions of them).

As for the Dany scenes - thought she was brilliant. Great confidence and guts (and lovely perky waps) to turn the whole situation on its head. I think this season will end with her striking out for Westeros. About time, too.

Easily the best episode so far, and probably the most excited about the show I've been in a while. The characters you like are actually being proactive and getting their gooseberry fool together rather than just having horrible things happen to them and/or their loved ones. I'm now interested to see what happens rather than waiting for more calamity to befall everyone.

I don't think Cersei has any plans for working alongside the Tyrells. It sounds to me like she is setting them up to fight the religious cult and they'll thin each other out.

It's going to be a bloodbath either way though probably this seasons big battle.

Which means we probably have to wait until next season for Jon to reach Winterfell