Ingeniero
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Oh there was my man, there was.
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Game of Thrones *NO BOOK DISCUSSION* |OT| Season 7 - [Read the OP]
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I don't think enough information has been given for us to know this or not.
Bits N Pieces
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I've just realised that Bran knows everything, EVERYTHING!
Fuck, how is he going to play this out?
Fuck, how is he going to play this out?
Atomic Odin
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Nobody has seen the dragons for years. How would anyone (even Qyburn) take a decent enough guess that a Dragon can be poisoned. Does anyone even knows or studied dragon biology in the show? I can't seem to remember.
Pankratous
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The cool thing about Bran now is that every conversation he's involved in is gonna be tense with him potentially busting out obscure references or dropping knowledge bombs.
It could be quite funny if they don't do it right... Bran just bursting out with random facts about people. I feel that Bran's knowledge is still partial though, he didn't complete the training and is still learning.
About the dragon being poisoned, I think that's complete conjecture at this point.
Dubbedinenglish
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Didn't Drogo die of a simple infection, not poison?
I feel like each time he's done that so far was for the explicit purpose of getting someone close to him (Arya, Sansa) to believe that he's not bullshitting about being able to see everything, so I'm expecting (hoping) that they tone that down a bit here after this episode. Hopefully he'll just move on to having actual conversations about these things instead lol.
Sleeping Lesson
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Read OP
DarkJediKnight
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This.
DarkJediKnight
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I think whatever the witch did accelerated the infection, to the point it was gangrene and high fever. I remember Jorah lifting up the bandages and he was revolted by the smell of rotting flesh.
Kenzodielocke
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What? I took the quote about their phone numbers being taken, what's the issue with that?
Which makes it all the more hilarious when Tyrion tells her to commit to the blockade of KL. How Tyrion? With what army and what navy?
Pankratous
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Didn't someone in that episode just now say that she still has the largest army?
Pretty screwed up. HBO will not pay one cent though. To the hackers anyway. He might pay their talent for the inconvenience.
Tyrion is referring to the Dothraki. They're not an army you can use to siege cities with lol.
Vyse The Legend
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Dany still has the largest army, which is why Cersei mentioning The Golden Company is significant in this episode as that would even the scales.
The interesting thing is that if he isn't Bran anymore, he won't be vengeful. He won't share every piece of information to his sisters if it's not anything that would help his purpose. For example, he could very well need Littlefinger to do something later on and therefore not tell that he betrayed Ned.
Regarding poisoning, I though the name Scorpion could hint to that, but I didn't know that Scorpion was the actual name of that type of weapon
Yes, but you just witnessed what the Dothraki are all about. Do they look like they're in any way capable of sieging walled cities?
Vyse The Legend
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No one said anything about sieging. They want to blockade the city, preventing supplies from going in and out, and for that, they simply need a large enough army (and a dragon to compensate for their navy).
Yes?
How do you do that with horsemen who don't even seem to have a general (besides Dany)? You need a trained standing army. Hence the armies of Dorne and the Reach.
You give them lands and make some of them lords. Our own history is full of examples of similar things happening.
I would like to see historical examples of cities sieged entirely by not only cavalry, but by nomadic horsemen. No foot soldiers, no artillery, no siege equipment. Just horses.
Nah. They excel in open fields with horses. They can fight well, but seige fighting is much different.
Does he know he's in a TV show?
DarkJediKnight
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Possibly. You just let them loose. If you have dragons burning the city entrance, it leaves it undefended. The Dothraki have now seen first hand what dragons can do, and their Khaleesi leading them to victory. They are all about strength. They will do anything she says - even carrying boats to shore (which I found hillarious)
Spooky Scary Skeleton
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And our own history is full of more conflicts and wars because of that very reason. So what you are saying is that war and conflict is inevitable in future between two clashing cultures.
But aren't they nomadic people? They would probably want to roam most of Westeros. They don't want the same things as Bronn.
But does that make sense for the Dothraki? Their entire way of life revolves around warring, raiding and raping. Not sitting on some chair in some castle. They're nomadic.
Vyse The Legend
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Dany is the general, and they would do w/e the hell she wants them to do. Holding a line and preventing units from going in and out isn't exactly a difficult maneuver.
And, they did not need Dorne and the Tyrells for this purpose. They wanted them simply to avoid the bad optics of having foreign invaders, the Dothraki, being the ones to take the city.
Qyburn, the deux ex machina for Lannisters.
Bran going to go all meta soon. "We're just part of a story based on a book that never got resolved."
Vincent Alexander
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Tywin thought little of him, so no surprise he wouldn't share.
ComputerBlue
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I don't think it was so much about the gold mines, if at all, as it was thinning out a large number of the Lannister army which should have been stationed there had they not gone out to take Highgarden.
Yet Dorne stands as an example in the show's world where east and west combined.
These guys crossed the oceans for the first time in their history for Dany. They'll settle down and become less nomadic if she tells them to. When I brought up that the Dothraki might not want to fight for whatever cause Jon is trying to convince Dany to send her armies up north for, I was told that the Dothraki would do whatever Dany tells them to do (because they see her as some sort of goddess). Well she'll tell them to settle down.
The Mongols were nomadic as well, and then they started ruling and living in cities.
Tyrion called it "the source of the Lannister's power", which I assumed to mean the gold. But maybe he was never told, I haven't rewatched the earlier seasons.
Patrick Bateman
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Woops, misremembered. I read it on the GoT-wiki:
http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/House_Tyrell#Military
"I can show you the wall
Shining, shimmering splendid
Tell me, princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide!
I can open your eyes
Take you to see the White Walkers
Over sideways and under
On a magic dragon ride"
Shining, shimmering splendid
Tell me, princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide!
I can open your eyes
Take you to see the White Walkers
Over sideways and under
On a magic dragon ride"
What if he goes full Deadpool?
"I can see the future... everything.. well, I guess not that far into the future since George can't be bothered to write it."
He didn't even know Arya was coming.
Was that ever said?
Vyse The Legend
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Yes, he expresses surprise that she came to Winterfell cause he thought she might go to King's Landing.
That seemed like he was just referring to the specific moment where she changed her mind, not that he didn't know she was coming. Like he was surprised when he saw her change course at the crossroads.
soundscream
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