Is Doran the guy who has yet to get out of his chair
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Is Doran the guy who has yet to get out of his chair
timetokill
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He has gout, doesn't he?
Damerman
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yes... and it's very severe.
Damerman
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you know, I agree with you and disagree with him now that i think about(so i guess the post wasn't that spot on). If there is one character this show is doing justice it's Arya... From the scenes with Tywin to her submerging herself in the unknown in this season, she is still one of my favorites.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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At this point they might as well just go all in with the stupidity.
Atraveller
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badcrumble
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He doesn't really have a huge role in AFFC until he arrests the Sand Snakes anyway. He's got that and he's got his big speech toward the end, but if you cut his conversations with Arianne/(Ellaria) there's not a ton for him to do in the first half of the show, tbh.
hipsterpants
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It's why I'm going to stop talking about that scene and stay out of that thread. How can you argue that the scene is fine if you can't even understand the other side's arguments because of spoilers?
Arya is one of my favourite characters, and as much as I am intrigued by the potential of her story arch, they are spending way too much time on it, or at least parts of it. Endlessly cleaning dead bodies, continuously arguing with people about who she is or isn't, plodding around this Church or whatever it is. The amount of screen time spent on these things to me just does not warrant the reward at the end, for example the thousands of faces reveal, which I'm sure many guessed would be the case ages ago, even without ever having read the books (which I haven't by the way).
Sometimes world building goes a long way. I've never seen Braavos and I loved the House of Black and White. The whole sequence is straight class, especially compared to some other scenes in the same episode.
We could've had Victarion with his lava arm. Alas.
I guess that's why they actually cancelled Mad Men!
Dorne has more going on in the books than just reveeeeeeenge. There are like politics and actual family dynamics too. And they very quickly move on from the idea of killing Myrcella to something less murderous as their plan, because they're actual human beings who have spent time with this girl over the past however long it's been instead of blood thirsty revenge machines. A lot of people didn't like Dorne in the books either, but it's so much better than this.
It was definitely better than some of the other scenes in the episode, but I think that says more about the lack of quality of the latter. Personally my favourite two scenes in the episode were the two head to head discussions with Cersei, the one's involving Little Finger (expertly playing the game of thrones) and Lady Olenna (a miniature clash of power and wit).
StopMakingSense
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The man falling in the credits was a symbol of their plummeting ratings.
bodyofanamerican
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Is there anything that would seriously make anyone in this thread drop the show at this point? Serious question, not being snarky.
Like, if Stannis loses conclusively and/or dies this year, I think I'm kind of done. I know he's not winning in the long run but if he just gets stomped by the Boltons I think that's it for me.
Like, if Stannis loses conclusively and/or dies this year, I think I'm kind of done. I know he's not winning in the long run but if he just gets stomped by the Boltons I think that's it for me.
If Ramsay Bolton single-handedly stops Stannis and his army, I'm done.
Killing Tyrion, Arya, or Jon Snow before GRRM has the chance to.
Are you going to stop reading the books if it happens there too?
No, I think he only gets the title if he succeeds. The royal decree is to give him authority to rally the forces of the Vale to march on Winterfell. It probably says something like "to defeat the forces of the false king Stannis, and bring the traitor Sansa to justice".
Not for me. I may not like what happens with some story lines but I'm in until the end.
bodyofanamerican
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Not at all! But the books don't have Ramsay in the middle of the biggest heel push in history.
edit: lol at the below post.
I think I'm in it til the end just out of curiosity. Watching may become hate watching, but I doubt I'll leave.
Well, whatever it says, I have a feeling the Boltons get wind of it next episode.
That was noooooooooot made clear
What if he gets killed by Brienne?
I thought it was unclear if he's really dead.
bodyofanamerican
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Would be easier for me to swallow than the Boltons.
I assumed it was going to be some Melisandre magic that has to bring him back. Him being alive still would be far preferable. He is coming back either way as a character.
So Brienne is definitely taking the place of Asha right?
I'll watch and hate until the bitter end.
Steelyuhas
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Regardless of what they say, someone would have to actually remove the Boltons from power, hence Littlefinger saying he could use the Vale's troops to attack the Boltons.
Cersei isn't going to send troops to attack the Boltons, and arguably doesn't even have anyone she could command to do so anyways. Kevan is in charge of the Lannister forces and there's no way he'd have any interest in doing that and the alliance with the Tyrells is essentially dead. Those two and the Vale forces are the major forces that are "in the fold" as they say.
Byakuya769
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No Arianne is the Dorne plot and she's cool, but they forced her character onto Ellaria and fucked up her actual plot and motivation. Only noteworthy and cool sand snake is the one the show has written off.
Frozenprince
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He's "dead".
No way GRRM killed him for realsies. And I say this knowing his penchant for killin.
Ganzlinger
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Unfortunately, there is no way Jon dies.
biosnake20
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Funny thing is that the the people that I would of thought that would be really pissed about the episode(Elio and Linda) were not. Excluding the Dorne stuff they thought it was a really solid episode.
If the pace doesn't pick up next episode, I'm through. The wedding took longer than Ned's execution and the acting is approaching soap opera levels of long meaningful looks.
This might have been the shortest wedding other than Tommen's.
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