Game of Thrones [Potential Book Spoilers]

This show has gone full Walking Dead.

This episode had a really interesting Jackon Lord of the Rings style to it.

• Holy shit, Gendry didn't die.
• Farewell, Thoros O'Sevenstrings.You were one of my favorite minor characters.
• TORMUND! Oh never mind. Good job Clegane.
• I don't see why people are saying that the writers are making Sansa evil. This episode clearly shows that Arya is being paranoid. Though I still have no idea what Littlefinger is getting out of this unless he's into necrophilia, because the most likely outcome if he keeps tearing the sisters apart is a dead Sansa.
• I don't see how democracy would work in the Seven Kingdoms. Pretty much every surviving major lord is hated by all the others. I'd say dissolve the Kingdoms and let Dany rule the Reach or Dorne.
• RIP Benjen. He (probably) never scored.
• Turns out that there is one thing that can make zombies interesting: dragons.

edited 20th Aug '17 7:22:25 PM by lrrose

Seems like the finale is going to be the Siege of King's Landing.

Erm, do you remember why they went for a fucking zombie north of the fucking wall?

"Hey, look, the zombie army is real!"

"Oh for fuck's sake" - I think I uttered this sentence at least three or four times during the episode. :/

Seriously, though, not a fan of where the Arya/Sansa arc's heading.

edited 20th Aug '17 8:45:33 PM by DrunkenNordmann

Yep.

Also I was right; seems that the Ironborn were content to just destroy the Unsullied fleet and didn't bother trying to retake Casterly Rock, so the Unsullied just left and went back to Dragonstone, or at least an area where the Dothraki were.

This Sansa/Arya shit is driving me crazy. It's not even making any sense.

Arya kinda grabbed the Idiot Ball with both hands, didn't she. Also, her words kinda ring hollow after the whole Harrenhal business. :/

Not to mention that she was THERE when Ned was beheaded. She must have seen Sansa's reaction to that.

edited 20th Aug '17 9:06:21 PM by DrunkenNordmann

& Well I'm chocking it up to Arya having a changed state of mind due to her experiences both training and killing dozens of people since that day. And I personally think she still resents Sansa.

I really liked that episode aside from Jon bending the knee to Dany. I don't care for her much anymore.

In the realm of smaller critiques, Thoros really shouldn't've died of frostbite/exposure/freezing to death, when both he and Beric have flaming swords! sheesh!

And I was also a little disappointed with Jon Snow's BSOD moment, when surrounded by ice zombies: Snap out of it, man, and start hacking!

...welp, now they are all fucked.

Night King wins. Flawless victory.

We've all known this is gonna end with him kicking everyone's ass, now we just have confirmation.

He one shotted a dragon. You can't beat that. I mean, even the flames from a dragon didn't deter him (they did get him with the flames right? I saw some near his feet when he was walking forward...and those flames died out).

So yeah. Team Dany? Team Cersei? We're all fucked when the Night King arrives.

The difference is that these flames weren't a direct hit by dragonfire, but residue of a breath attack. Assumingly these flames are not nearly as hot and way easier to extinguish than actual fire breath coming right out of a dragon's maw.

Also, I can't wait to see how Cersei will fuck up next episode's armistice meeting. Maybe she'll ridicule the proof Daenerys and Jon brought by unveiling Gregor as the undead monstrosity he is, "proving" that their wight isn't something special?

edited 20th Aug '17 9:29:41 PM by DrunkenNordmann

Maybe Arya should try and verify what Sansa went through before threatening to cut her face up. You can't effectively interrogate people if you already decided they're guilty.

I mean, wow, an episode where Daenerys isn't the ass.

edited 20th Aug '17 9:29:10 PM by AngryRabbit

To be fair, Daenerys did get a generous serving of humble pie.

One of her kids was murdered in front of her.

That's much more than humble pie. Then again, like she said, now she knows the threat is for real.

I felt bad for her, but I figured it would happen when she took all three with her. But hey, now she and Jonboy can have a matching set.

This should have been a dramatic episode but the teleporting ravens/dragons are too fucking much. So these guys just huddled up, with no tent, no fire, no visible food, just full exposure to arctic conditions, for the time it took a round trip, huh?

Bullshit. Just bullshit. That's lazy ass writing.

So...those guys ate Thoros, right?

... I hear what you're saying, but at this point, I'm just here for the zombies, the dragons, and the zombie fucking dragons.

Seriously though, Night King has won. He's totally won now. Evil is totally gonna win this time.

I feel watching the show that Dany isn't her own character. I can't decide if the show making her more often than not looking to Tyrion for his nods of approval or Emilia Clarke not selling the regal but stand offish thing like Lena or Charles or Diana could/did. Her scenes post Viserion's death were the most she's emoted in a long time but she didn't really sell dismay or disbelief to me.

This Sansa versus Arya conflict makes no damn sense and is such a waste of time. Sansa said enough to her defense to show viewers that she's not catatonic but she didn't lay out the full context of her writing that letter. At that point she was... 13? maybe. She was there and heard the Lannisters purge the Starks from King's Landing. Cersei very clearly laid out the stick and carrot for Sansa and Sansa wrote the letter to try and save Ned. Which she also did again when she spoke for Ned in Joffrey's court.

Gendry's solo game of temple run was amusing to watch because there was no tension.

Littlefinger's Iron Bank account must be overflowing assuming he patented his jetpack or charges per mile fast traveled.

@Crimson - I saw Thoros burned and one of the many nameless heroic mooks get eaten.

edited 20th Aug '17 10:02:45 PM by byakugan0889

Sam will save the day. Everything will be fine.

Arya probably wouldn't have bought that excuse given what she herself went through and what she said of Lyanna Mormont. But she should have recognized that Sansa was/is a very different person than her. Kid Sansa was not a fighter, she was a delicate little princess - which is what Arya disliked about her.

edited 20th Aug '17 10:11:37 PM by AngryRabbit

They burned his corpse, so no.

Also, I watched the teaser for the final episode. Did Daenerys send Jon in her stead or did I just not see her in the video?

edited 21st Aug '17 12:52:08 AM by DrunkenNordmann

Wow that was blatant teleporting. The biggest show complaint I've never much cared about was the teleporting but that was in your face.

Gendry was able to run several miles to Eastwatch, send a raven to Daenerys, then Daenerys went with her dragons who knows however many miles north of the Wall to a place she's never been to. This all happened in an hour.

Anyone else getting annoyed by characters continuing to rewrite past events in their favor without being called out on it?