Lactose_Intolerant
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I hope she gets the hand at least in the finale.
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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 6 Offseason Thread
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Maybe the reason Yara is suddenly into the ladies is because the writers need for the Victarion replacement to want to bone Dany.
Just imagine, Yara and Dany's wedding, while Jorah looks on, a single tear escaping his eye just before greyscale petrifies it.
This needs to happen. A whole season of Jorah stuck on a cramped boat with Yara and Dany, spending every night listening in on hot lesbian action in the next cabin over and crying himself to sleep.
Steelyuhas
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Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Titus Pullo would destroy the whole cast of Game of Thrones then eat the dragons.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
I think we all know the reason Yara is suddenly into the ladies...
biosnake20
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VenomousCoffee
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All this has me so hyped for the new season (against my better judgement, after last year) that I'm currently marathoning season 3. And now you've got me wanting to rewatch season 1 of Rome.
I see what you mean.
Both of these northern houses bought the same chandelier. Imagine the embarrassment!
is that Mormont's banner?
bengraven
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I have to admit - I've bailed out of this thread for the last year because I honestly didn't feel the amount of negativity that you all did. Yes, the Sand Snakes were lame - as lame as the "run, dogs" thing from the previous season. But I had no issue with Sansa-gate and I liked Arya's ark.
But I digress.
The reason for posting this is that the hype is starting to hit me hard for Season 6.
Pretty sure that's the two of them trying to convince the "Northern Lord" to fight against Bolton.
But I digress.
The reason for posting this is that the hype is starting to hit me hard for Season 6.
Pretty sure that's the two of them trying to convince the "Northern Lord" to fight against Bolton.
I bailed around the end of S4 because I really liked that season(sans Jaime/Cersei abomination).
Then I came back around the middle of S5(Sansa) to join you all in seething hatred.
I'm cautiously optimistic S6 will join the good pile(1 and 4).
Aw yissss.
*joins you in prayer*
Then I came back around the middle of S5(Sansa) to join you all in seething hatred.
I'm cautiously optimistic S6 will join the good pile(1 and 4).
Aw yissss.
*joins you in prayer*
I think Sand Snakes were a step below Yara and the dogs/Season 2 Jon and Dany, which were the previous low marks of the series, but anyone who had a problem with Arya's arc must have had crazy unrealistic expectations for what they could do there. Arya was probably the single character who came closest to exactly reproducing her book arc in season 5.
But yeah, season 6 hype is really rising. That trailer really hit everything it needed to.
Gen.Grievous
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I hope it will be a lot more tolerable in the season 6 thread because there is no book to compare scene for scene with this season. It was downright toxic the past two seasons.
I just want a good TV show that's internally consistent, that's all.
We don't want the exact same thing as the books, we just want a good show. Season 5 was bad by any metric. Stannis is my all time favorite book character but even looking objectively at how he was handled, it was abominable. Not to mention Sansa, Jaime, etc.
I thought it wasn't as bad here last year but that's probably because I had my own problems with S5.
Indeed.
I do think there are some purists that go in watching the show through a shit stained lens.
Oldest Snake
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Must... Resist...
The last 2 seasons have had problems bigger than simply not being like the books.
The difficulty of his situation was rushed. They wanted to close his arc last year so they had "20 good men" bring him down when in reality it would take months and months of living under those conditions to truly reach that level of desperation.
reelbigtink
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20 dudes took down the greatest tactical mind in Westeros. It was dumb.
Damerman
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Greatest tactical mind that lost left and right in prior seasons?
Stanis was a loser from the start.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
If Stannis never appeared on the show would anything be different? Feels like his whole arc was just wasted time.
He lost the Blackwater due to extraordinary circumstances, and then trounced the Wildlings. His military record before the series was exemplary, and he's repeatedly referred to by other characters as Westeros' best military commander.
Moff
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Melisandre is the real player in his arc, in both the show and the books.
She is either and endgame player or at least there to ressurrect Jon
That is exactly the problem, we are left to imagine these things, the desperation of Stannis' army is barely clear, the 20 good men aren't even shown, the Bolton army is huge out of nowhere, it felt like the story was put together in a rush, it has nothing to do with how close it is to the books. (I haven't read them actually).
I'm think that's the scene where Davos says "The dead are coming". So I don't think it's about the Boltons.
Moff
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it is, because jon and the wildlings are fighting the white walkers.
and the boltons are after jon, well in the books at least.
but MAYBE it would have made more sense to kill the white walkers first instead of killing each other.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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Most of my issues will be forgiven if the fat pink mast is mentioned. The Myrish swamp is likely out.
Yeah, somehow fighting the White Walkers is going to be made to overlap with fighting the Boltons. Maybe they'll play up Ramsay threatening (or maybe actually attacking) the Watch in his attempts to get Sansa back to play that up. Or maybe Ramsay is taking a hard line on letting the Wildlings into the North, and so taking him out is a necessary part of the alliance with them.
Reading the actor's comments on the role/show, makes me think that generally, no one on the show cared much for the Stannis storyline and found the quickest way to end it.
The 20 Good Men, oy...
The Burning should have been enough of a reason for the mass desertion. A shocking scene, that maybe makes sense with Show Stannis, not sure if Book Stannis would do it. Though, obviously at some point in the book, Stannis will lose. No way is he actually "Azor Ahai."
The 20 Good Men, oy...
The Burning should have been enough of a reason for the mass desertion. A shocking scene, that maybe makes sense with Show Stannis, not sure if Book Stannis would do it. Though, obviously at some point in the book, Stannis will lose. No way is he actually "Azor Ahai."
I think I've said this before, but I've soured a lot on Maisie over the years. I loved her performance in the first two seasons.
Now, I know the show isn't exactly as period-accurate as the books, but Maisie acts way too "modern" now. I have a similar problem with Brienne's character in the show. She's written with modern society and movements in mind.
Now, I know the show isn't exactly as period-accurate as the books, but Maisie acts way too "modern" now. I have a similar problem with Brienne's character in the show. She's written with modern society and movements in mind.
I guess the thing I most want from what is left of GoT, is for one of the "Villains" of the Thrones part, be it Cersei, The Bolton's, or whomever, have a visual realization of the White Walkers. The "oh shit, they're real and I've fucked up" moment.
Really, way too many people either don't even know of the rumors of their return, or just don't believe them. At some point, it's got to become obvious.
Really, way too many people either don't even know of the rumors of their return, or just don't believe them. At some point, it's got to become obvious.
bodyofanamerican
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Good point. While a funny moment, I feel like her hysterical laughing in the Vale with Sandor in S4 really felt like a "TV show" vs. a moment happening to the two characters.
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