hammertomb
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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 6 Offseason Thread
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It was also the best in the series.
Hardhome was impressively choreographed, I could tell what was happening, who was where, there were tons of cool manoeuvres and they delivered important information just through action.
No. Next time listen to the rest of us.
Orbis Tabula
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I doubt a pyre will bother Jon Targaryen all that much. Dany seemed cool with it.
Admiral Woofington
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Seriously people wanted to make the argument that when something is too obvious it won't happen.
These guys aren't M Night Shyamalan. If something is too obvious it quacks like a motherfucking duck as well. Then it gets roasted.
Shame!
Admiral Woofington
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I just realized
During the Cersei scene they kept saying Shame
Shame stems from the Old English scamu. Scamu sounds like how an anime character would say scam.
Scam is what Jon is doing by pretending to be dead.
#JONLIVES
During the Cersei scene they kept saying Shame
Shame stems from the Old English scamu. Scamu sounds like how an anime character would say scam.
Scam is what Jon is doing by pretending to be dead.
#JONLIVES
I want a scene in which CG terminator Cersei walks to the red keep while Arya shouts "Oysters, clams, and cockles."
You look into the crowd but everyone is Olly.
She arrives and is greeted by Ramsay's 20 good men, and of course Robert Strong, who is also Ramsay.
Cersei looks at her son and doesn't know what to say to him. She sobs uncontrollably and finally musters the strength to rise from her knees.
"You want a good girl, but you need a bad pussy," she says.
Face Tyrell, having voluntarily completed the entire penance walk while singing in blissful ignorance of what has just transpired, nods to Cersei.
Brienne looks at the castle from a distance.
*credits*
You look into the crowd but everyone is Olly.
She arrives and is greeted by Ramsay's 20 good men, and of course Robert Strong, who is also Ramsay.
Cersei looks at her son and doesn't know what to say to him. She sobs uncontrollably and finally musters the strength to rise from her knees.
"You want a good girl, but you need a bad pussy," she says.
Face Tyrell, having voluntarily completed the entire penance walk while singing in blissful ignorance of what has just transpired, nods to Cersei.
Brienne looks at the castle from a distance.
*credits*
Atraveller
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Seriously
hydrophilic attack
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So, is Stannis dead?
Is Myrcella dead?
I don't know how I feel about those things
Is Myrcella dead?
I don't know how I feel about those things
Red Arremer
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Stannis is confirmed dead in various interviews.
Myrcella is probably dead too.
Remember that Myrcella has to die anyway. Maggy the Frog's prophecy said that Cersei will outlive all 3 of her children.
Anything GRRM does small, D&D do big. Anything GRRM does big, D&D do small.
Easy to sound all righteous and brave about it *atter* the fact, with nothing on the line. #teamyoulooklikeadogbutyouareascardeycat
Red Arremer
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Come on, never heard of Chekhov's Gun?
It was so obvious Olly was gonna go stabby. Same with Brienne getting to kill Stannis.
Links?
Prophecy doesn't always come true. Dany's baby was supposed to be the stallion that mounts the world.
I hate prophecies so I hope they never come true. Cersei dooming herself because of a bullshit prophecy would be less lame than her being predestined to fail.
Well that's pretty much exactly what happened. The sand snakes would have failed to capture Myrcella in the water gardens without Jaime or Bronn, and probably would have demanded the same loyalty.
Myrcella would have stayed in Dorne under heavy guard, never to come into contact with them again.
Jaime's presence made the whole thing a diplomatic affair instead of a case of criminals trying to commit a criminal act.
Admiral Woofington
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I made it clear that I was team olly kills plenty of times I just wasn't going to bet an avatar on it, that's just silly.
Folks saying "leave him alone he just misses his ma and da" don't realize that prior to the wildlings coming, Olly was gonna stab them
I hope not. Rory Mccann was amazing.
Now he's a character they could have just thrown into Winterfell for no reason. Cut Ramsay's head off for some chicken.
Admiral Woofington
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No. In the novels he's likely the gravesdigger that Brienne notices during her adventures.
In the show though at this rate, he'll be alive and a werewolf.
Wargs into OIly. Not knowing what to do with the overwhelming urge to stab himself, Olly then runs to Melissandre who burns them for the red god, ending the war.
biosnake20
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Hehehe. Alls I'm saying is no guts no glory.
Well, that was a pretty mixed episode. They nailed Cersei's walk, I liked Stannis already being defeated before he got to winterfell and 'for the watch', but pretty much everything else was terrible.
-Did the Bolton army leave Stannis alive after the battle? I mean, sure, there were two people who tried to kill him (and somehow a hurt Stannis won the battle from them...) but where did all the other soldiers go? And cutting away just when Brienne is about to hit Stannis is pretty lame. Plus the fact that the show just had to make it so that Brienne could get her revenge. Just too much coincidence.
- Did Arya just turn into a psychopath? I mean, I know she wants revenge, but this was just unnecessarily cruel. And when did she learn to change faces?
- I kinda liked Sansa at least trying to get some handle on her faith by telling Myranda to kill her, but the jump didn't work. In the books Jeyne survives because of piled up snow. But all the snow just melted away because of Melisandre and you didn't see any piles of snow outside of the walls when the camera panned either... Are Arya and Theon supposed to be dead? Don't really believe that.
- That Myrcella and Jamie scene was just cringeworthy. And her dying right after?
-Did the Bolton army leave Stannis alive after the battle? I mean, sure, there were two people who tried to kill him (and somehow a hurt Stannis won the battle from them...) but where did all the other soldiers go? And cutting away just when Brienne is about to hit Stannis is pretty lame. Plus the fact that the show just had to make it so that Brienne could get her revenge. Just too much coincidence.
- Did Arya just turn into a psychopath? I mean, I know she wants revenge, but this was just unnecessarily cruel. And when did she learn to change faces?
- I kinda liked Sansa at least trying to get some handle on her faith by telling Myranda to kill her, but the jump didn't work. In the books Jeyne survives because of piled up snow. But all the snow just melted away because of Melisandre and you didn't see any piles of snow outside of the walls when the camera panned either... Are Arya and Theon supposed to be dead? Don't really believe that.
- That Myrcella and Jamie scene was just cringeworthy. And her dying right after?
m_shortpants
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You must atone for your sins!
Dusk Soldier
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I think it's going to be the white walkers that get the Boltons. Just because I think the final battle with them will take place around King's Landing, and they'll have to roll over a few armies on the way to build hype.
Nah. The series is just going to end with the white walkers riding up to winterfell and then a cut to the white walker king being flayed by Ramsay.
grandjedi6
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To be fair, she did listen. This season she wasn't a bystander, she WAS the tragedy! And she didn't run, she sorta stood around enduring it before JUMPING from it.
Littlefinger should've been more specific.
Rentahamster
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How many instances have there been in the show where an off-screen death turned out to be an actual death?
toastyToast
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I found her aimlessly wandering around the castle during the battle preparations really odd. Then she heads to the ramparts for some reason where Miranda was expecting her with her bow cocked. wat?
What happened to the Winterfell tunnels?
StanleyStutters
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In terms of major characters, the first ones that come to mind are Ned and The Hound. King Robert was seen dying in bed, but the actual death was off-screen.
Grenn was killed by a giant defending the wall. We saw them charge, but not the actual death. Not a major character, though.
Those northerners know their castles better than those northerners.
Atraveller
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lol
I'm pretty sure Ned's death was shown on screen!
StanleyStutters
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Rentahamster
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Either one.
Ned didn't die offscreen though. You could clearly see the sword slice partway through his neck.
Robert - okay, but he was pretty clearly a goner.
Grenn - you see his dead body later, but yeah, I guess technically that does answer my question in the way I phrased it.
I guess the point of my question is - is this the first time they're pulling the old "ambiguous off-screen death fakeout" card? Or have they used it before?
LAUGHTREY
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There's a huge difference between Ned's and Stannis' "death" scene. there's no way Ned's is ambiguous, it's a sword coming down right above his head.
You could cut the scene in season 2 with ygritte and Jon and make it look exactly like Stannis and Brienne.
StanleyStutters
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Not that I remember. Every death has been pretty clear even when not shown. That's what bothers me about the finale. We had 3 characters appear to die, without actually seeing it.
Jon was stabbed, but they left him bleeding in the snow. Melisandre, Davos, Edd, etc. could find and help him still.
Myrcella is likely dead, but they only showed the beginning of her being poisoned. They easily could have extended to make it clear she died.
Stannis seemed to be done for, but they cut away. They've been building up Brienne's revenge since S2 and it's disappointing to just end it without showing his death or her reaction. I'm not sure what they could do with Stannis anymore since he has no Melisandre, family, or army. Why not just show her reaction to the kill?
Well, all extras who died during a battle clash slaughter, such as Stannis' army X 2 (lol), the Moat Cailin ironmen, the northmen killed at Harrenhaal, the Lannisters killed in the north/Riverlands, red wedding soldiers, the wildlings and NW men killed by wights and whitewalkers, etc.
As for named characters that actually died off screen, Stannis Baratheon, Selyse Baratheon, Khal Head in a Bag, Syrio Forell, Jon Arryn, Benjen Stark possibly, Ros although you see her body, Xaro Xhoan and the whore traitor in their vault. I'm sure there are more.
As for named characters that actually died off screen, Stannis Baratheon, Selyse Baratheon, Khal Head in a Bag, Syrio Forell, Jon Arryn, Benjen Stark possibly, Ros although you see her body, Xaro Xhoan and the whore traitor in their vault. I'm sure there are more.
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