I'm just not seeing it. It had some great scenes but it wasn't a remarkable episode.
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I'm just not seeing it. It had some great scenes but it wasn't a remarkable episode.
lastplayed
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Yep. So sad. Although her last confession was a nice little fist pump before the end.
Wafflecakes
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FinalStageBoss
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euron sucks
DangerMouse
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Outside of Euron getting another easy win so soon after his last one in multiple locations, as has been mentioned a lot, I thought it was fantastic. Especially due to how much I enjoyed almost all of the character interactions. Thought it was very memorable, even if it doesn't have that combined with the action that the truly best of the series have had when doing both at the same time, hence why I restricted it to some of the story/interaction heavy eps.
Now on the other hand, I'm not being fully literal since it's not like I recall a lot of the early stuff ep by ep anymore so it's not like I know where I'd actually physically place it. Just that it's one of the eps I'll definitely revisit.
Wafflecakes
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Yeah, the show's Euron masturbation is going to get old REALLY quick. There is no way he doesn't at least last until the final Cersei battle since they introduced him so late.
lastplayed
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They're setting Euron up to be done in by Jaime so hard.
DangerMouse
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Wafflecakes
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Maybe Euron is what Jaime needs to finally turn against his sister. Though I have to say I laughed hard at the finger bun scene.
darkwing-buck
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I wish he went north instead of deciding to go back to Daenerys
It'd been cool if the infection left behind a beneficial side effect. Like if it literally made his arm as hard as stone and he could block swords with it.
Stannis humiliated them in a naval battle
Zelenogorsk
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Why the heck was Bran like "Hey sis, remember your wedding night?" (aka the night she was raped...)
Like come on dude.
Like come on dude.
Totally, wish we had more episodes invested in the interactions between those characters, can't get enough scenes between Davos, Jon, Daenerys and Tyrion. I also love how the series did a full cycle to return where it started, Tyrion meeting Jon again. the Starks are gathering to the north, the two nobodies - Jon the bastard and Daenerys the sister that was sold for an army - are now the most important characters. I know there are weaknesses but I feel like I'm after all these years I'm enjoying GoT as much as I did the first season.
darkwing-buck
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Interesting Tyrion told Daenerys to, "give", Jon something by giving him nothing. That same Lannister mindset had her beat by giving her Casterly rock which then took out the Tyrells out of playoff contention.
He's no longer Bran. He has powers of omniscience, his humanity is gone.
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darkwing-buck
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Daenerys council ain't looking too hot. She needs a Benjemin Sisko or something to stop the bleeding.
He's losing grip on what it's like to be a simple mortal.
I'm enjoying this season so far but I think it's fair to say they are rushing the plots along now and the show is really suffering as a result, you can see it in everything from Eureons omnipresent fleet, popping up where ever there's ships need sinking, to the individual conversations (the only thing Bran wants to talk to his sister about is the night she got raped? What?).
Tyrion being outsmarted by Jaime is probably the hardest pill to swallow, but when you think of it in the context of everything they must be trying to get done by the end of the season you can see that it probably should have taken 12-13 episodes to get the point where Dani says 'fuck it, let's go burn some fuckers' and instead it needs to be episode 4.
Tyrion being outsmarted by Jaime is probably the hardest pill to swallow, but when you think of it in the context of everything they must be trying to get done by the end of the season you can see that it probably should have taken 12-13 episodes to get the point where Dani says 'fuck it, let's go burn some fuckers' and instead it needs to be episode 4.
IAmAnAgnostic
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Fantastic episode, but it is a real shame that the entire story is suddenly coming to an end and with so few episodes remaining. Upon retrospect they really should have sped up Season 5 and 6's events so that we wouldn't get every single major event done in 5 minutes or less..
Zelenogorsk
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I liked how Sansa was like "ok dude, cool, i'm gonna go over here now"
What if he wasn't talking about the past. But the future. 🤔
lastplayed
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TheLostBigBoss
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Season ends with Ash dropping in the middle of the field.
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Hated how they glossed over the Lannisters taking over High Garden.
Why are we getting less episodes if we're just gonna rush through major events like that?
And D.B.'s excuse about the Tyrell's not really being a military force is such bullshit. They're the reason why the Lannisters won the battle of the Black Water in the first place.
Why are we getting less episodes if we're just gonna rush through major events like that?
And D.B.'s excuse about the Tyrell's not really being a military force is such bullshit. They're the reason why the Lannisters won the battle of the Black Water in the first place.
wesleyshark
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Nah. He's a lot of fun.
HighResTomato
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Off all the shit characters have pulled off on this show, you think Euron is toxic?
Hoya Destroyer
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What would an undead dragon breathe? It cant be regular fire. Maybe it'd be ice shards or wild fire?
SporeCrawler
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Casterly rock is not nothing. Sure it has no more gold but its a very important fortification in the west and it has a symbolic meaning. If the lannister troops cant come back with their spoils to kings landing it will be the lannisters that won a battle but lost the war.
The lannisters won because tyrion blew up many ships before they landed and the citywatch and lannister army under tyrion managed to hold them before they sacked kingslanding.
If they had taken KL and if the battle would have been stannis in KL against Lannister and Tyrells it would have been different.
SporeCrawler
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So what if it is revealed that euron actually has magic on his side? I mean he is a zombie similar to beric dondarion, he went to essos and we know there is a lot of magic in that place.
darkwing-buck
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CecilRousso
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So, Tyrion is not so hot a strategic planner? That's two huge blows at once.
Zelenogorsk
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Three blows counting the scene between Cersei and Jaime!
SuperStiltzkin
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These reunions are kind of underwhelming. Dunno if it's the writing or pacing or both, but they're not at all what I imagined.
I can't say I'm enjoying the season at this point.
It used to be that characters decisions drove the plot. Now the plot drives characters decisions.
Tyrion was literally the Master of Coin in S2/S3. He would have been well aware of the dire straits the Lannisters were in with money. He should have known that Casterly Rock would mean very little at this stage too. He was also aware the the Greyjoys had aligned with Cersei. Pyke is almost right next to Casterly Rock. The idea of him failing to anticipate an attack from them there is mindboggling.
The show is having him make uncharacteristically stupid decisions in order to weaken Daenerys' position. What reason would Dany have to even listen to him after this? His strategic advice has wiped out all of their allies.
The show is just all setpieces now. It's a shadow of what it was in S1-4.
It used to be that characters decisions drove the plot. Now the plot drives characters decisions.
Tyrion was literally the Master of Coin in S2/S3. He would have been well aware of the dire straits the Lannisters were in with money. He should have known that Casterly Rock would mean very little at this stage too. He was also aware the the Greyjoys had aligned with Cersei. Pyke is almost right next to Casterly Rock. The idea of him failing to anticipate an attack from them there is mindboggling.
The show is having him make uncharacteristically stupid decisions in order to weaken Daenerys' position. What reason would Dany have to even listen to him after this? His strategic advice has wiped out all of their allies.
The show is just all setpieces now. It's a shadow of what it was in S1-4.
Tyrion is going to be accused of colluding or something like that. He's just throwing hard.
I'm very underwhelmed by these developments. Main point of last season was about Dany finding these new allies in Westeros, now 3 episodes in all of them are basically dead as if season 6 didn't matter.
I'm very underwhelmed by these developments. Main point of last season was about Dany finding these new allies in Westeros, now 3 episodes in all of them are basically dead as if season 6 didn't matter.
Monocle
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WTF. Stahp hating awesome characters.
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