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Game of Thrones *NO BOOK SPOILERS* |OT| Season 5 - Sundays on HBO [Read the OP]
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They are definitely in dire need of a friend or two.
I had no idea it was CG either. Calm down.
Pagusas
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One thing I noticed was they didn't show Stannis die. There is no speculation here that he might have been shown mercy, but I'm guessing people know more than the TV showed.. which is sadHopefully I'm wrong.
What? Read the thread, its a key point everyone is talking about with lots of speculation, and no one knows anything more than what we saw, the show is completely caught up to the books.
One thing I noticed was they didn't show Stannis die. There is no speculation here that he might have been shown mercy, but I'm guessing people know more than the TV showed.. which is sad
HBO viewer's guide says that Brienne killed him.
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So we're reek and Sansa jumping to their deaths or relying on the snow powder to cushion their fall or what? Both are fine with me.
They decided jumping was better than sticking around... Any more info is so far unknown.
ComputerBlue
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Yeah the second season was like 3 seasons piled into one, suddenly Octavian was a full grown adult, everything just moved forward at a really fast pace. But at least they finished it, they could have filmed the second season as planned and not completed the story.
It's what I think about when people complain about season 5, it's source material and if they hadn't used it then we would have suddenly jumped forward too far, too fast. We've already got questions about so many characters from the past that haven't been around for so long, it could have been worse.
Dragon1893
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I just assumed it was her because there was a lot of talk about how Lena asked to never be shown naked to increase the impact of this particular scene, so I wasn't really looking for it.
If I had known she was unable to do the scene because she's pregnant I would've gone into it with the mindset of trying to figure out how they were doing it and probably would've spotted it right away. I was just focusing on other things.
One thing I noticed was they didn't show Stannis die. There is no speculation here that he might have been shown mercy, but I'm guessing people know more than the TV showed.. which is sad
They did the same with Ned, not showing the actual execution, though you do see Sansa faint which made it obvious he was dead.
Still, I doubt it means anything, he's done.
DeathByBacklog
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One thing I noticed was they didn't show Stannis die. There is no speculation here that he might have been shown mercy, but I'm guessing people know more than the TV showed.. which is sad
You haven't read the thread since the season ended have you?
ComputerBlue
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Do we have any info on Valyrian Stone? I did a google search (can finally do that now without fear of massive spoilers) and it just leads to stone men since they ship them off to Valyria.
Anyway, that massive vault from Qarth is made of Valyrian stone. Looks like steel to me though, not sure if it was meant to be steel and they messed it up and called it stone, but you could make a lot of swords with it.
Anyway, that massive vault from Qarth is made of Valyrian stone. Looks like steel to me though, not sure if it was meant to be steel and they messed it up and called it stone, but you could make a lot of swords with it.
Dragon1893
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Lol, the magic of editing.
I've been told that there are six feet of pillows under that snow and Sansa will fall with a grace that would make Mary Poppins blush.
Hah woah, so I guess next season Tommen gets killed, Gendry stops rowing and comes back to claim his rightful throne??
Or Gendry just gets it anyway since Tommen isn't Robert's anyway??
What you were actually told is that people have survived falls much higher than that in real life.
http://listverse.com/2013/09/23/10-people-who-survived-falling-from-extreme-heights/
Don't you mean Valyrian steel? I don't think "Valyrian stone" is a thing. At least, I've never heard the term used in the show or the books.
Charlie0108
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Ser Ilyn Payne is the one who starts it off as well.
Did it occur to you that those are fascinating stories precisely because the results aren't typical? Sure, Sansa can jump feet first off a castle wall to escape Ramsay and come away unscathed. The showrunners said she will live so that's all I need to know, but that's not going to stop me from poking fun at it.
ComputerBlue
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Read it again my friend.
It's honestly bizarre to get so hung up on characters surviving a ~50 foot fall into snow when the entire show is based around another character surviving an even longer fall directly on to the ground.
A giant snowbank is a giant crash pad. It's fine.
robotzombie
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the Mountain. Cersei is going to let him off the leash to get vengence and the kid is totally going to get caught in his wake
DeathByBacklog
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Been saying this over and over again. Nobody's listening. It seems a gif is in order.
Done!
LegendofDragoonLives
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There's no way they would kill him off screen since there is 0 purpose to it. If they did, that would be the worst piece of writing since that shitty excuse of the Red John reveal in the Mentalist a few years back. The double Ds should be replaced afterwards. I'm 99% certain Stannis is alive.
Maybe when Jaime gets back to King's Landing he too will be put under trial by the faith and unlike Cersei he admits that the children are from incest and the penalty for that will be death for Tommen.
darkazcura
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I know this sounds crazy because it's Game of Thrones, and they have no issues showing everything else, but apparently someone close to the show (forget the name) said showing his death would have been too gratuitous (spelling?). Likewise I have no reason to believe he should be alive. What else does he even have to offer to the story at this point? I think it'd be a bit cheap to see him alive next season..wasted effort on Brienne's part, imo.
Sword Familiar
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Been saying this over and over again. Nobody's listening. It seems a gif is in order.
Done!
I see no piles of snow down there though. Sure the other side of the wall doesn't connect to a cliff?
LegendofDragoonLives
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Well for one, it would have made the everything but 1 thing prediction of his red lady at season 2 episode 10 completely pointless. Not showing it because it's gratuitous sounds like the biggest pile of shit that any horse at King's Landing has produced. They don't mind show titts and rape and dicks being cut off, but apparently cutting Stannis is too much.
I can't believe the writers would write such a horrible scene.
Bran basically should have been dead, though. He barely survived and was crippled as hell after spending weeks nearly dead.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say they won't be doing the same thing with Sansa and Theon.
Yes there was snow, but you also have to realize this same episode made it a point to show that the snow was melting enough for Stannis to get through and attack. Plus, at least on my television, you can't really tell that there's some big pile of snow there for them to land on. Plus just seconds before someone died horribly an instantly from a shorter distance.
Yes, I realize there's no chance at all that Sansa and Theon are dead, but I think everyone here should acknowledge that the directors purposefully did this in a more ambiguous way in order to have a bigger cliffhanger moment.
That picture posted up there doesn't really help either. That tower Bran fell down from wasn't really that terribly much higher and as I said he was lucky as all hell to have survived and only been crippled. That picture doesn't actually show some big miraculous pile of snow to land on, either.
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maybe they wanted to wait and see what GRRM does with Winds of Winter before they fuck up real hard and kill off any possible story angles involving Stannis? Leaving his death as ambiguous buys them that space.
doesn't mean he won't be back for season 7. We just had a bran-less season so there's a precedent for having a character not show up for a season.
Ziltoidia 9
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I'm pretty sure the show runners already know how it all ends and if Stannis is apart of it.
They're not waiting on the books, they already know what happens.
Before Season 4 they sat down with George for a few days and got a complete outline of where every character is going. They know what the exact ending will be.
I still say he's dead.
DeathByBacklog
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Honestly, the whole scene was poorly shot. The wall looked much higher. And as you pointed out, there's no huge snow banks like Sansa and Theon p.o.v. suggested. Let's just pretend that that side of the castle is where they clear out the snow and that the side that Theon and Sansa are at is where they clear it out to.
And no...no cliff.
I'm more confused than before after reading those 2 articles.
DeathByBacklog
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jimmythepage
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Oh wow never realized the similiarty to Jesus... also looks like the guy.
I did not know this. Holy shit!
UnObtainium17
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I like this.. On the third day he rose.. he will come again to judge the living and the dead.. damn imagine our boy Jon Targaryen doing that to the sorry asses who betrayed him. I dont think he will get ressurected but if he will i hope allister, bitch ass olly and company will still be alive to see that moment and i want to see the look on their faces as i savor their defeat. That moment is worth the wait.
PhoenixDark
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Only one thing has been spoiled thus far.
S6 will be adapting parts of the fourth and fifth books that were not included this year, also. So you're not out of the woods yet lol, watch out for spoilers.
poppabk
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I like this theory. Tommen may go against his mother to try and get his wife back, the Mountain, devoid of any true intellect kills him. Would be in keeping with cersei's inability to think ahead and also her ability to make the prophecy self fulfilling.
OpinionatedCyborg
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"Winterfell is a large stronghold extending across many acres of territory, defended by two layers of strong stone granite walls. The outer walls are 80 feet tall and the inner are 100 feet tall, with a wide moat located between them."
Unless there was a mound of powerdery snow to stop their fall (and there wasn't because winterfell isn't atop an unspoiled mountain and the images show there was barely any snow on the ground), they're going to be a bit sore after they land.
Unless there was a mound of powerdery snow to stop their fall (and there wasn't because winterfell isn't atop an unspoiled mountain and the images show there was barely any snow on the ground), they're going to be a bit sore after they land.
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