Gunslinger
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So season 8 is not coming back till 2019?
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Game of Thrones *NO BOOK DISCUSSION* |OT2| Season 7 - [Read the OP]
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SurrenderDorothy
Banned
Late 2018/Early 2019
Perhaps that's why Ned never felt compelled to comment/agree with Robert's assessment of Lyanna and his love for her because he knew the truth so he just bit his tongue and went along with it. It's why he didn't want Robert to go to the crypt immediately either.
Again I think he became this after he lost her.
I'm not saying I agree with it but it is the world that exists in GoT. Some of these marriages are just to ally houses and families. Ned and Catelyn was just for this too.
Ragger's wife loved him but he still left her. Lyanna was promised to Robert but left. Regardless of the rules or unfair marriages, as far as all we know as of now these two were major fuck ups and ruined many lives.
Maybe she could have talked to her family about it. Maybe running away in secret where it seems like she has been kidnapped would have prevented her dad and brother dying. Maybe it would have prevented a war and kept her real love alive along with herself.
Again I think all this is post losing Lyanna.
The Artisan
Member
I'll be happy with late 2018. As long as it makes it to 2018, we're good...please don't push it back to 2019.
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
This is what I'm betting on.
The Artisan
Member
If it skips past the summer, will HBO want to go up against the NFL on Sunday night's?
I think they postpone to summer 2019.
The Artisan
Member
that's going to suck
I really dont think it matters? HBO is subscription based and commercial free. People will watch it right after a game.
Don't they still measure ratings on the live airings?
Maybe, but why does it matter if people are going to be paying to watch it anyways? Subs will go up and thats all that really matters.
I wanna say that they stopped looking at that as the only number that mattered a while ago but I might be mistaken.
Greigor The Fellhand
Member
who ever made this needs to be smacked. this graph is awful.christ.
I mean it is how they still measure success and which shows to keep, cancel, or renew.
Then again as the final season for the most popular show in the history of TV, those rules might not apply but the NFL is a ratings juggernaut and they might not want to go head to head.
Seductivpancakes
Member
Man is this really that complicated that people need graphs and charts lol
Leave HBO alone, they've had a couple of bad weeks lately.
The Artisan
Member
they definitely wanted it to look more convoluted than necessary. all just to explain that Jon Snow's parents are Rhaegary & Lyanna.
for people to still have to ask and unsure of the main characters' lineages I guess that's why this is still needed
It's definitely not and hasn't been for a long time. HBO has specifically said they no longer look at ratings alone and care far more about retaining subscribers and completing long form shows if people are excited about them. They said that if Rome had been made a few years later, it would not have been cancelled.
Wasn't aware of this. So we might still get it late 2018!
I paid 30 bucks to subscribe to hbo go, just watch this season. Multiple that times millions of people who also do the same. Thats how they measure their success. There's a reason why they are working on potentially 4 different spinoffs.They are making a killing off this show. If anything, The NFL is who needs to worry about ratings.
The Artisan
Member
I'm gonna cancel my hbo subscription once the season is over. I only wanted hbo go for this show
I'm gonna cancel my hbo subscription once the season is over. I only wanted hbo go for this show
Same here lol. So thats how you know this show is a success lol.
No Robert was a womaniser before the war happened. There's is no universe in which Ned and Robert were hitting up taverns and brothels all over Westeros and banging women, after Robert had become King and Ned had become Warden of the North. Come on man, the King with his guards traveling around making the 7? Tywin Lannister would have turned on him for such a public display of mockery for his daughter. And no, making Jaime listen while he bangs women other than Cersei is not even in the same galaxy as far as comparisons go.
The Artisan
Member
yeah for sure, even haters have to admit that this show is practically a pop culture phenomenon. although it's still not the most popular tv show, it probably would be if it was on primetime cable instead of premium.
I mean good for HBO but live sports are still king and I don't the NFL has to worry.
Hopefully they deliver the best possible season 6 whenever they can.
When I was a kid and by listening my female family members I thought The Dynasty was a relation clusterfuck.
Where are you getting this from? From everything we know about Ned, he never was about that life pre or post war.
And regardless of what Robert was, how Rhaegar and Lyanna went about it still brought mass destruction, including their own, and a war which messed the realm up worse than ever before.
Still in the wrong
Vincent Alexander
Member
It sucks Dany called out Jon for his dad (Ned) trying to get her killed when we all know he tossed away being the Hand because he was so against it. Ned the MVP that gets hardly any of the recognition he deserves. And she will probably never find out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vEB5t1qRdmY
They are literally having a discussion of the women they used to fuck around with lol.
"Dude, 20 years ago, remember all the tail you used to get?!"
And here's Robert talking about, "back in my day, you weren't a real man till you fucked a girl in every kingdom including the Riverlands. We called it making the 8."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9j5ieR91m_Q
Yeah, marry your sister to that Starks.
All I was saying is that there's no way Robert and Ned were going around fucking side chicks left and right after the war. Robert would be King and Ned would have been Warden, far too public for them to be doing that in the open. So naturally, this must have happened before Robert's Rebellion.
I'm contesting your point that Lyanna's death is what made Robert turn to whoring and wining. He was doing this long before he ever met her.
Couldn't Varys tell her?
SurrenderDorothy
Banned
Ned's the best.
UnObtainium17
Member
HBO needs to do the right thing and air 7 right after 6. There would be no leaks if hbo airs it first.
Darn... that's a long ass wait. I hope it makes 2018.
I'm sure HBO nordic will do that. They love early releases.
SurrenderDorothy
Banned
I hope it doesn't. I avoided a lot of the internet like a plague this week, lmao.
Wouldn't want the same thing to happen again.
Wouldn't want the same thing to happen again.
That's right. He was there when Ned refused Robert.
https://youtu.be/YL9_w1yNCSc
Kinda bad that Varys didn't tell Dany that Ned quit over that. Although it sounds like Varys threw Ned under the bus because Varys still went ahead with those murder plots. It feels like it would have been a scene had this season actually been 10 episodes.
Varys told Dany that he organised the assassination attempt due to the fact that Dany wasn't important to him at the time right? So the guy who says he's all about the little people was still ok with having a girl sold to a brute to be murdered in the name of his king. That's some flexible morals bro.
SurrenderDorothy
Banned
Varys did tell Ned that Dany's assassination was already on its way by the time Robert agreed to undo it.
UnObtainium17
Member
Of course it's Baelish the first one with sexual references.
MoonsaultSlayer
Member
Haha same.Me this whole week.
I haven't seen any spoilers.
Though I had a dream where I was a scrolling through Facebook and 4 posts in a row contained GoT content and I'd catch glimpses of names and images and the context of questions asked (like "could Dany really be...." and "Did Jon Snow really...") and it pissed me off.
Later in the dream, I was dodging a GoT/HBO leak article in an Entertainment Weekly but came across an article with amazing images of a new Gareth Edwards monster movie that wasn't Godzilla/Legendary. Looked amazing with tentacled creatures. Like a big budget version of his indie film. Sorry, off topic lol.
Yeah but we're saying that Vary didn't tell Dany that Ned was opposed to it.
falconxcrunner09
Member
What time are new episodes usually uploaded to HBO now?
SurrenderDorothy
Banned
Ah, yeah. He's been keeping a lot to himself this season.
He wasn't present during Dany and Jon's first meeting too.
Usually a minute or two before air time. So if you watch along with the thread, be mindful of it and don't spoil things before most people get the chance to see it.
falconxcrunner09
Member
Sweet, that's awesome. And yeah, don't have to worry about me. I usually turn off all electronics for game of thrones and don't talk to anyone haha
I still read that first scene as Robert being a manwhore but not necessarily Ned. But ok granted Robert was a drunk whore, it still doesn't make right what Lyanna and Rhaegar did.
A. He was married
B. The way they did it, made it seem like she had been kidnapped and raped...brought upon a war