I saw Popstar tonight.
There were more wolves attacking people in one single scene of that movie than there were this entire season.
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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 6
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I saw Popstar tonight.
I like the fact Jon isn't the same after his death. Makes no sense he would be. He was honorable and brave and strong and fearless and he was murdered for it. His family was murdered for it. Everyone he knew was killed. And then he sees there is nothing. No god, no heaven, nothing. Just emptiness and he doesn't want to return.
Imagine if Ned could come back right after his beheading. Do you still think he would be the honorable Ned Stark. Or would he think these guys fucked me over for trying to be a decent man and become selfish and brutal etc.
Imagine if Ned could come back right after his beheading. Do you still think he would be the honorable Ned Stark. Or would he think these guys fucked me over for trying to be a decent man and become selfish and brutal etc.
Silly assumption given how there are no more books.
Admiral Woofington
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Ned would just carry his head around making bad jokes in Kings landing
"now now cersei, killing his followers is only going to incite animosity, don't get A-head of yourself"
Everybody would love him
"now now cersei, killing his followers is only going to incite animosity, don't get A-head of yourself"
Everybody would love him
Sounds like Ned Stark comes back to life in the future, grows old, travels back in time, and introduces himself as Pycelle.
Martin has already said that's not true. Why not just accept they're different stories?
Admiral Woofington
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You know a part of me is still hoping it was all staged and that they seriously just weren't lazy enough to kill a character off screen in the same show they have no issues showing torture scenes throughout an entire season.
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Maybe not for the average woman, but he has this weird obsession for Cat, and he sees Sansa as a substitute. It would be super awkward to be married to a man who is not only old enough to be your dad, but shouts your mom's name when he's fucking you.
Super awkward these days yeah but it was pretty normal to marry some old fucker back in those times. Sure it would be awkward for Sansa, but I would rather try get used to awkward than torture.
I still imagine Petyr to not be such a sexually active guy.
.......we probably shouldn't continue this discussion haha
The idea was that her revealing herself was supposed to be her losing all faith similar to how Thoros lost all faith before he could revive Beric.
Too bad the show only got across: GUYS LOOK SHE'S OLD
Admiral Woofington
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Martin also told me there would only be a certain amount of books. And then he changed it.
I have little trust in what he tells me now as he could get inspiration to go a different way and rewrite the whole fucking winds of winter on a whim.
This is funny because I think Kit Harington is actually the only actor on the show who's read the books.
Okay, so then why do you assume that whatever he told the showrunners has any more weight? He could very well just change his mind too. Hence the show contents mean nothing for the books.
I'm sure he can't wait to adapt the D and D genius to book.
Admiral Woofington
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Fuck me
I just played myself
Checkmate Grrm
I just played myself
Checkmate Grrm
http://www.farfarawaysite.com/section/got/gallery6/gallery9/hires/16.jpg
This picture is amazing - captures the tension and readiness of the battle.
Also, I dont want WunWun to die! #savewunwun
Want to see this..."we have a giant <Hulk>".
This picture is amazing - captures the tension and readiness of the battle.
Also, I dont want WunWun to die! #savewunwun
Want to see this..."we have a giant <Hulk>".
For sheer spectacle I don't see anything topping Blackwater until the very end. The wildfire explosion was fucking amazing and something we've never really seen before in any fantasy movie or show.
Anton Sugar
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Ramsay feeding a newborn to hounds > Blackfish
Yu Narukami
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Ok I just catched up after a 3 year break. Is
really dead? I find it weird that they didnt show how he died.
Stannis
Ya confirmed by Brienne.
No reason for her to lie. In her mind he wasn't a man of honour or courage.
The explanation to not showing how he died was "respect".
I guess there really is no point in showing Brienne beheading him but they could have done some camera techniques like showing the top half of the sword swinging towards the tree and then the blade gets splattered.
It would be too violent! BTW, some dude got decapitated by an axe this week and another had his head (with spine!) torn off. So, yeah, he's dead and the show sucks at consistency.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to do some parkour with my entrails hanging out.
"I think anything beyond that would have been somewhat gratuitous." -- Dude who directed Cercei's Walk of Fucking Shame!
Moff
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Up until holding the door I think this season was really good, but since then it feels like season 5 dorne has spread to all the other storylines. which is the other way round of how it usually is where all the setup pays off by episode 8, but this was by far the most anticlimatic and worst episode 8 ever. and I am honestly not pumped for the battle of the bastards at all. I don't care about ramsey and it's so obvious that jon will win with littlefingers vale knights. I feel bored already. My only hope is that we get a few nice battle scenes or some interesting twists in the finale. I hope they finish the tower of joy properly.
damn I expected them to finally move forward and do something really big, like euron bringing down the wall or something. with probably only 16 episodes in the show after this season.
the worst thing is that everything still feels rushed althoug nothing happens.
damn I expected them to finally move forward and do something really big, like euron bringing down the wall or something. with probably only 16 episodes in the show after this season.
the worst thing is that everything still feels rushed althoug nothing happens.
lol They didn't even show Hodor's death.
Oldest Snake
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They wanted Davos to bro it up with Jon this season but having Mel about would force them to address the Shireen situation, thus disrupting their story. So Mel found a particularly good book at The Wall and holed up for a few days to finish it.
What death? He's still holding the door.
Moff, that's exactly how I feel. First four episodes were good, The Door was great, and now it's become incomprehensible shit. Really sad at how this season has plummeted, and though I doubt a (seemingly) predictable battle could save it, I do still have faith the finale will be great.
I'm a glutton for dick jokes.
I'm a glutton for dick jokes.
Yeah, heard Stannis was helping him.
And have him throw some trees or boulders or something. He alone can reshape the battlefield and do some heavy damage to the line.
After Summer jumped into those walkers and sang a sad sounding song it busted out and helped them bot hold that door as well. Syrio was riding on it's back back.
As the days pass I can't help but feel the Blackfish is alive and will appear to help Sansa in the finale or next season. Even D&D are not that incompetent as to kill the character offscreen in such a bullshit lame ass way. Come on, they can be bad pussy bad, or even Barristan dies stupidly bad, but they cannot be the Blackfish dies offscreen bad. I refuse to believe someone was writing the episode and the season AND the fucking endgame and thought this was a good idea. Nope. A thousand nopes.
Then again, if he is indeed alive, that was a cheap and corny way to keep the "mistery" alive to surprise us when he goes and helps Sansa.
Then again, if he is indeed alive, that was a cheap and corny way to keep the "mistery" alive to surprise us when he goes and helps Sansa.
What holding the the door? HODOR
Moff
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yeah I noticed he was left handed in his last scene when he was getting himself ready for a proper sword fight, but in season 3 he was clearly right handed.
it's clear that was not the real blackfish. the real blackfish is already with sansa and jon. absolutely. he is.
Some people are predicting that ep 9 and 10 will be the great cull to accommodate for the shorter season 7 and 8.
I'd love to see them try and pull that off haha
The Lannister soldier might be lying because the old guy escaped and was ashamed or he was payed off, for example.
SporeCrawler
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I think the borth will remember that the north knows no king then the king in the north whose name is stark
Cabaratier
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Picture speculation:
Davos is probably going to have some 'light the beacons' role to play. He'll activate the mass relay to get the Vale/Riverlands/White Harbor army + Nymeria and Ghost to the battlefield unseen.
This could be explained away very easily. Just because someone does most actions with one hand, doesn't mean they do everything with that hand. He could be cross-dominant, which means he changes his hand depending on the task (1% of the population does this). Or he could be ambidextrous.
Or they just mirrored the shot for some reason.
Pyramid head
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Just give him one of those gigantic axe chain things they swung along the wall at the wildlings. He'd take out half the Bolton army in one sweep.
In reality though, we all know that Ramsay is going to single handedly take Wun Wun down with some Legolas bullshit.
Chuckie
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Yeah could very well be. I write and draw with my right hand but bow shooting and shooting a gun I do with my left.
I am the 1%!
In the books, Hardhome happens "offscreen", with only rumours and reports coming back to the Wall of what happened there. This plays into the strengths of the written medium, and especially so since we're learning of the events from an introvert and thinker like Jon. The books have the benefit of using mounting paranoia and fear of the unknown, because we have a direct link go the character's thoughts.
In the show, we don't have that luxury. What they did was twofold. Firstly, they focussed in on some of Jon's other qualities - his desire to do the right thing, and his leadership. Secondly, they used the strengths of the visual medium to translate something which had been communicated in a very "booky" language.
In short, they translated something which had relied on the facets of the written medium into something that effectively used the facets of the visual medium. It's quite literally an adaptation.
I just want to say I miss Varys but your new avatar is magnificent.
timetokill
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The High Sparrow has pretty much saved the season at King's Landing. He's the only interesting character doing anything, doubly so now that the badass Queen of Thorns is getting gone.
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