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Game of Thrones *NO BOOK DISCUSSION* |OT| Season 7 - [Read the OP]
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Good shout. Completely forgot about that.
So, Dr Feelgood, Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Sigur Ros and Sheeran. That's a concert I'd attend.
I'm almost positive that's the point.
Solid season opener, sounds like pins are really gonna start falling down soon. They setup several good plot threads, can't wait to see lots of these characters start crossing over into each other's storylines. I'm really interested in what they do with Arya this season, I don't see this current "Go to King's Landing & kill Cersei" plan working out for her AT ALL.
Yeah, that was the point.
Haha, I think that was the point. The food there is so shit that it might as well be shit.
We're totally going to reach a point where Little Finger tries to get Sansa to directly betray John, but it'll blow up in his face.
I'm assuming this was a "get the pieces of the chess board in their places" episode. The first episode of a new season almost always involves tying up the finals events of the previous season with the bow before moving on. Now that they've gotten all of that out of the way, they can now make progress.
I'm assuming this was a "get the pieces of the chess board in their places" episode. The first episode of a new season almost always involves tying up the finals events of the previous season with the bow before moving on. Now that they've gotten all of that out of the way, they can now make progress.
RustyNails
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Hook up with the peeps in Winterfell would be my guess. Finally a Stark Reunion we've all been waiting for since Season 1 ;_;
Oh and is Bran's direwolf still alive?
The more they meet privately, the more they look like Lannister incest couple of the North.
Netherscourge
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Stannis was pretty fucked up by the end there.
For all we know, Melissandre had him put all of the people there to a stake to burn for "good luck" before they left for the wall.
Got to keep the Lord of Light happy, after all...
There's so much going on right now and they waste precious seconds on doodoo. It was jarring and out of place.
Yeah I figured it was. But I got the point and then it went on for like an additional 10-15 seconds. Overdoing it imo.
the_firewithin
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I think it was foul mood
Unfortunately, he died with Hodor
VaultBoy101
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No problem with Ed Sheeran or his acting ability, but was there any actual point to that scene? The only useful bit of information provided was Arya's direction of travel, which could have been communicated in other ways much more quickly. I kept waiting for the twist and for Arya to have to fight for her life to escape, but turns out it was just a gratuitous celebrity cameo.
MugiwaraCole
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Remains to be seen.
Albino_Yeti
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I agree, hopefully she snaps out of it and turns on Littlefinger.
We're too late in the game for more family drama.
Jerm411
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Sansa's totally gonna betray Jon isn't she...
Really curious to see how far Arya's face magic gets her.
I got a sick feeling that's happening and she's gonna end up helping Cersei....
ComputerBlue
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Nope, died the same ep Hodor did.
Regardless of the positions, the main issue here is how Jon makes decisions.
That should not have been the first time his close advisors heard of his plans. If he is going to keep Sansa around and in his confidence, he needs to do a much better job handling her.
Netherscourge
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Pretty sure he was in the "Tully Cake" Arya made for Walder at the end of last season.
Premiers of GOT always are, they feel the need to remind the audience what happened constantly.
Only Arya's and ghost are.
I thought it was funny that she murders all the Freys without blinking an eye but gets soft at Lannister soldiers because of a song and a baby.
Coldplay, sigur ros, Mastodon, some other band last season.
peteykirch
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It's still nowhere as bad as Jaime/Tyrion having the talk in the black cells about crushing beetles.
I can't imagine a scenario where she would ever side with Cersei, but she's clearly not content with letting Jon take the lead.
Edit: Oh you probably mean indirectly help her I gotcha lol
BluePigGanon
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Humanize her enemies.
He (and the sequence dedicated to poop) was the worst part of an otherwise very solid opening episode.
thoseAREmySHOES
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Pure speculation, but the way the guy who made the blackberry wine kept looking at Arya made me think of the beginning of some forced weird romance angle.
She was there to murder them, but as soon as she started talking to them, she realized that they might be Lannister's but they weren't bad guys. They were there because they had to be, not because they wanted, and they didn't even give a shit for the faction they were fighting for.
I think the scene helped us see that Arya isn't completely gone, that she can still have empathy, even when it's for her "enemies".
She still gon' kill them.
That was a Frey cake. Edmure was his prisoner and Arya has no reason to kill him since he's family.
Show Arya, and the audience, that not all Lannister foot soldiers are inhumane stormtroopers they have often been made out to be.
RustyNails
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Sansa's totally gonna betray Jon isn't she...
Really curious to see how far Arya's face magic gets her.
She's not going to betray Jon Snow holy shit, calm down guys. Sansa was raped daily in and out by a sadistic piece of vile shitlord, so her perspective on the people who served on that shitlord's army might be different. I certainly wont expect her to be all rational and science about the numbers when she is presented with the option of letting the Houses who helped torment on her (and her family) go unpunished and...team up with them again.
Krombopulos_Michael
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I wonder what arya is going to do next. It seems like the ed sheeran scene served to humanize the enemy and soften arya against her desire for revenge. Will she abandon her quest for revenge and do...something? Or will she continue her cold blooded revenge tour against everyone who has wronged her?
grandjedi6
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I would've also accepted her going after Frey last season instead of... Whatever she did the last two seasons
strongest season opener in quite some time. Methodical and has some density to the dialogue that keeps threads moving with multiple characters. The previous seasons first two episodes in contrast were just dull buildup for an end goal we all knew was coming.
Opening scene was kind of a groan fest because of how obvious and predictable it was. The scenes with Jaime and Cersei were similarly on the nose I thought. Everything outside of that was solid though.
Opening scene was kind of a groan fest because of how obvious and predictable it was. The scenes with Jaime and Cersei were similarly on the nose I thought. Everything outside of that was solid though.
She'll have to be pretty quick to do that, they're in completely opposite directions.
Albino_Yeti
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That would be sooo out of character.
Cersei made her life a living hell, why would she join up with her?
At worst, she is going to accidentally undermine Jon's authority by doing something contrary to his plans.
Ziltoidia 9
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https://quartermaester.info/
Its basically a few hundred miles east of Kingslanding.
Maybe he already knows about Danny's fleet and is going to sell up the channel and fight her.
RustyNails
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This is the best post in this thread. Walder Frey eating Tully Cake
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