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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 6
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Purple Cheeto
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The big picture is that GURM should've stuck with the 5 year gap.
fallengorn
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They giveth Benjen, they taketh Blackfish.
Episode was straight up garbage from a book reader's perspective.
Also, someone needs to redo that Sean Astin headshake gif so Tommen is shaking his head for Cleganebowl.
Episode was straight up garbage from a book reader's perspective.
Also, someone needs to redo that Sean Astin headshake gif so Tommen is shaking his head for Cleganebowl.
Dash_Riprock
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Mediocre, just mediocre.
A Human Becoming
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With Beric still being alive all hope is loss.
DrForester
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Sandor and Arya stuff were good.
Everything else was bad. Can't believe Riverrun was just filler.
Everything else was bad. Can't believe Riverrun was just filler.
Hasphat'sAnts
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The preview looked pretty dope
Like most others I presume, disappointed in Arya's plot this week.
So she did in fact act like a complete idiot wandering around the city last time, does in fact do parkour presumably within a few days of being stabbed multiple times in the gut. I kind of liked the cutting of the candle into darkness, but the Waif should have had the same blind training as she did and still be both better and not bleeding out. Doesn't actually answer how Arya won. Plus the Waif remains a terrible assassin, pausing to mug for the camera multiple times and failing to kill an injured crawling Arya. And why would Jaqen say she is finally nobody as she is literally holding the sword from her true identity that she was ordered to discard. Just killing the Waif is an auto-entrance?
Just.. blah. That said, heading back to Westeros finally so hurrah for that. Rest of the episode... solid, but not what I was anticipating going in.
However.... still believing 9/10 are going to deliver big time.
So she did in fact act like a complete idiot wandering around the city last time, does in fact do parkour presumably within a few days of being stabbed multiple times in the gut. I kind of liked the cutting of the candle into darkness, but the Waif should have had the same blind training as she did and still be both better and not bleeding out. Doesn't actually answer how Arya won. Plus the Waif remains a terrible assassin, pausing to mug for the camera multiple times and failing to kill an injured crawling Arya. And why would Jaqen say she is finally nobody as she is literally holding the sword from her true identity that she was ordered to discard. Just killing the Waif is an auto-entrance?
Just.. blah. That said, heading back to Westeros finally so hurrah for that. Rest of the episode... solid, but not what I was anticipating going in.
However.... still believing 9/10 are going to deliver big time.
peteykirch
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I was hoping that;
Cat's corpse was going to be floating down the river and then they bring her back
Never mind why drag it out, why go to Bravos in the first place?
It's all been a big nothing.
SargerusBR
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Dat preview tho
Davos KNOWS
NobleGreenBeast
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Weakest episode of the season by far. The ending to arya arc was horrible.
Thats a question for GRRM tbh
Ganzlinger
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Jaime is still obsessed with Cersei. Fuck that.
DrForester
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Other than the off-screeen fight, I thought it was fine. It was exactly what just about everyone thought it would be.
Did you seriously think that after all this time? :lol
fallengorn
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Hahaha... when The Hound was whipping it out, I was like, "It'd be pretty funny if her body just floats into his stream."
A Human Becoming
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What was the point of the failed truce with the Masters? To show Tyrion knows less than he thinks?
Spirit of Jazz
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2 seasons of filler garbage? That's pretty much what most people expected her arc to be. Actually, I didn't expect her to look less competent than she was with the Sandor.
So the Arya stuff.... did not pan out well. That was a weeeeird story for this season.
The Riverrun stuff was good until we got to the bizarre offscreen death. It was so out of nowhere that I thought it must be a fake out, but I can't think of any logical way that was a fake out. Also the adaptation has turned Edmure into kind of a monster?
Dany's arrival was pretty silly. I'm not sure how I feel about this season's Tyrion story. They clearly had way too little of it, so they created these awkward Grey Worm/Missandei scenes. This storyline definitely isn't the Shavepate and Yunkai siege stuff from the books, but at least it's hitting the general theme of Westerosi failing to understand Meereenese politics, even if they kind of inverted it. In the book they underestimate the masters self interest and see them just as amoral monsters. In the show they underestimate the degree to which the masters are amoral monsters, and try to appeal to their self interest.
Also, Varys is clearly going to Dorne, right?
And Cersei is 100% blowing up the Sept with wildfire.
Sandor and the Brotherhood was good though! And pretty definitely kills any Stoneheart speculation forever.
The Riverrun stuff was good until we got to the bizarre offscreen death. It was so out of nowhere that I thought it must be a fake out, but I can't think of any logical way that was a fake out. Also the adaptation has turned Edmure into kind of a monster?
Dany's arrival was pretty silly. I'm not sure how I feel about this season's Tyrion story. They clearly had way too little of it, so they created these awkward Grey Worm/Missandei scenes. This storyline definitely isn't the Shavepate and Yunkai siege stuff from the books, but at least it's hitting the general theme of Westerosi failing to understand Meereenese politics, even if they kind of inverted it. In the book they underestimate the masters self interest and see them just as amoral monsters. In the show they underestimate the degree to which the masters are amoral monsters, and try to appeal to their self interest.
Also, Varys is clearly going to Dorne, right?
And Cersei is 100% blowing up the Sept with wildfire.
Sandor and the Brotherhood was good though! And pretty definitely kills any Stoneheart speculation forever.
wesleyshark
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Goddamn I wasn't expecting to see Berric again. I'm hyped.
Good episode all in all, and next week looks insaaaaane.
Good episode all in all, and next week looks insaaaaane.
NobleGreenBeast
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I guess I am disappointed with the arya arc. I don't see the point of it. The off screen stuff soured the episode for me, unfortunately.
As a Canadian, I did see the preview. What HBO were you watching lol
Yeah, that's my thought as well.
Jesus, that was fucking weak all around. It's even more weak when you consider 2 seasons have been building up to this shit. 2 years of Arya fighting the Waif just for her to be stupid and then not show the final confrontation. 2 seasons of boring in King's Landing for nothing with no trial. Riverrun was pointless because Jaime has not developed as a character. He's doing everything for Cersei.
Are they now going to act like Davos cares about Shireen? If he did, he would have asked about her before now? I don't think Melasandre would have lied.
Good actors and good production wasted on abysmal writing.
Are they now going to act like Davos cares about Shireen? If he did, he would have asked about her before now? I don't think Melasandre would have lied.
Good actors and good production wasted on abysmal writing.
Probably. Season 2 Ep 9 was all King's Landing and Season 4 Ep 9 was all the Wall, so it wouldn't be crazy.
fallengorn
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By this point, people are going to mistaken her for a white walker she's so decomposed.
Nazgul_Hunter
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Cellbomber
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Jamie's going north!
wesleyshark
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It sure seems like they may to build to that and end this season on that cliffhanger.
That was fake.
Maybe blowing up the sept will finally be what makes Jaime realize Cersei is bad.
Jamie maybe, but I do agree LSH is happening.
EDIT: Ah it was fake? NVM.
Preview is all sorts of excite.
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