wesleyshark
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All in all, this has been a hell of a season. Just fantastic stuff.
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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 6
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If he didn't watch the show it wouldn't be so bad, but since he does like the rest of us I can't believe seeing his major story beats play out won't bring him down and sap his passion for the remaining books.
Why didn't Benjen warn Bran NOT to pass the wall because how he'll likely cause it to not retain it's magical power anymore (because of the Night King mark)? Or should Bran already know this seeing as what happened back in the cave? Why do I get the feeling he'll just pass through willy-nilly and not even realize it ..
Also, Miguel Sapochnik needs to clone himself and just direct every episode from here on out.
Also, Miguel Sapochnik needs to clone himself and just direct every episode from here on out.
Sucks to suck.
Maybe he should have actually, you know, wrote faster.
All in all great episode.
They're still searching for trees to chop down.
wesleyshark
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That's quite true.
peteykirch
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This was one of my bigger pet peeves.
Qyburn introduces him as Ser Robert Strong, this lasts for like an episode, and now it's not even trying to pretend it's a reanimated Gregor Clegane.
Bustanen
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SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Cersei is FUBAR tho, she's going to face Jon in the North and Dany + Yara + Sand Snakes + Olenna in the south.
They need him to burn down the Citadel. Now that they introduced it that's definitely happening.
Well take into account that most of us in this thread has this story pegged before they even filmed the first season. It's really not fair to judge a show harsher when we know all of the back story and have been predicting for years how this shit would play out.
It may be predictable to you, but it's not very for people who have never read the books.
wesleyshark
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I quite enjoyed her new Mad Queen look though. She's a lunatic, but sure is fun to watch.
Dash_Riprock
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You forgot Riverlands since Arya's probably gonna murder all of House Frey and Edmure will be back in charge.
hipsterpants
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I assume that it would be his "real" name.
I think Littlefinger's whole plan was to seduce Sansa in the garden and take the north over right there. Now he's just looking at all these extra rungs he has to climb on that ladder of his like, "...shit".
I can't wait for him to get done, but I'm really anxious he's going to turn into Ramsay 2.0 and just ruin a ton of characters before he gets killed.
Also, I swear to fucking god, if this show ever kills Tormund, I'm done. I know he wasn't even really in this episode, but I didn't want to jinx it beforehand.
Napalm_Frank
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Cersei+Euron team up coming?
Also I don't think the north is fighting Cersei, only Dany.
Ah ok, I thought he left them in the middle of nowhere and I was like, "hey at least leave the horse with them!".
Really awesome finale, I'm still upset about Marg though T_T
Doc Holliday
SPOILER: Columbus finds America
Or not give the HBO the fo to make the show in the first place before finishing the series.
It really has killed the anticipation for winds of winter for me. I'm sure things will different, but still.
Admiral Woofington
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Jaime kills her just like the Mad King because she's going to kill everyone.
It's just like poetry.
It rhymes.
cj_iwakura
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I do not like this implication of Sansa working against Jon.
wesleyshark
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Now that they brought Oldtown into the show, I'm definitely thinking Euron is going to make his way there. The only missing pieces of that plot thread are the horns, or whatever they replace them with.
Purple Cheeto
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Yeah poor, rich, lazy GURM who had all his major twists figured out by fans or ruined by the TV show he greenlit because he knew he was never gonna bother finishing his books.
Bustanen
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Frey's are already done. Old geezer is dead and the sons in the pie.
Ocarina_117
Banned
Eh this season has made me a lot more excited for the next book. I can't wait to see plotlines from the last two FINALLY pay off. I was hoping we'd see it this season but the show looks to have gone in a largely route with most plot lines. Though I'm sure the ultimate ending will be the same in the show.
iRAWRasaurus
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Is it next spring yet?
I'm fairly confident the book will be out before season 7 starts, and I haven't really been one to be overly optimistic about his progress. It just feels on the horizon.
That said, beyond that I'm not confident at all that a 7th book will ever be completed lol.
edit: plenty of others have pointed it out too, but I legitimately guffawed @ Varys going from being in Dorne to being on one of Dany's ships in Meereen heading back west in like ~15 minutes of show time
He pretty much has to. Dany's not going to be cool with Theon and Yara heading home when there are more immediate battles to fight, so Euron has nothing else to do but sail south and cause trouble.
And then Sam kills Euron with Heartsbane. 
Bustanen
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She won't but Littlefinger will fuck them over. He's after the throne with or without Sansa.
Doc Holliday
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I forgot so much about euron! I need to refresh my memory.
That outfit was amazing. Loved the shoulderplates.
fallengorn
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That was a fun episode, even from someone who found the Battle of the Bastards bittersweet. It was basically the ASOS episode of the series. Just a ton of stuff happened.
Only complaint I have was teleporter abuse.
I think it's one of the best costumes they've ever made.
Only complaint I have was teleporter abuse.
I think it's one of the best costumes they've ever made.
optimus8936
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You know the thing with Arya cooking the Frey boys and feeding them to their father, it reminds of when earlier in the show Bran brought up the "Rat Cook" and that story was very similar to what Arya did with the Freys.
Brans been doing this future stuff before it was cool.
Brans been doing this future stuff before it was cool.
cj_iwakura
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Tommen's going to magically walk into the throne room in S7E1.
"You fell from the tall tower, you prat!"
"No... I was saved... at the last second."
"HOW!?"
"I'll tell you."
[cue music]
"You fell from the tall tower, you prat!"
"No... I was saved... at the last second."
"HOW!?"
"I'll tell you."
[cue music]
Admiral Woofington
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All the king's horses all the king's men put me together again
SoRuffShoNuff
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The time for being cryptic is over. This isn't a puzzle that will give people 5 years and numerous re-reads to decipher. It's a tv show meant for a mass audience everything will be spelled out and nothing is wrong with that.
optimus8936
Banned
Lol, this would be funny.
Except they showed his dead body to Cersei, who said to burn Tommens body ;________;
The writing is bad because you can see how they have to resort to compressing time between scenes to start tying disparate plot threads together. Convenient flashbacks. People arriving in the nick of time to save the day. It has very little to do with "being able to see it coming" or not.
Yeah yeah, the plotlines don't happen synchronously, but when you can no longer trust the passage of time in between cuts, the story starts to lose cohesion.
I bet next season Euron's going to come back with a fleet he conjured up out of nowhere. How much time do you think that would've taken? How much of that time overlapped the events of the finale? Etc, etc. It's clear the showrunners don't know, and they're hinging on people not paying attention.
Granted, there's no real reason to nitpick this stuff, but for a series that built its reputation on meticulous pragmatism, this is a betrayal of ASOIAF's core ethos. Exciting, sure, but good writing this ain't. Any pretense of narrative complexity is gone. It's no different from any number of medieval fantasy crowd pleasers now.
Yeah yeah, the plotlines don't happen synchronously, but when you can no longer trust the passage of time in between cuts, the story starts to lose cohesion.
I bet next season Euron's going to come back with a fleet he conjured up out of nowhere. How much time do you think that would've taken? How much of that time overlapped the events of the finale? Etc, etc. It's clear the showrunners don't know, and they're hinging on people not paying attention.
Granted, there's no real reason to nitpick this stuff, but for a series that built its reputation on meticulous pragmatism, this is a betrayal of ASOIAF's core ethos. Exciting, sure, but good writing this ain't. Any pretense of narrative complexity is gone. It's no different from any number of medieval fantasy crowd pleasers now.
wesleyshark
Banned
He pretty much has to. Dany's not going to be cool with Theon and Yara heading home when there are more immediate battles to fight, so Euron has nothing else to do but sail south and cause trouble.
.And then Sam kills Euron with Heartsbane.
Sam. Oldtown. Euron. A fleet of ships. It's going to be crazy.
There's a new Euron-focused chapter out there, from the POV of Damphair, that GRRM read, which was transcribed by fans. It's, in my opinion, one of the best chapters GRRM has ever written.
I don't think she is going to work against Jon -- you can see she was smiling during the King In The North chants -- only when she realized LF wasn't pleased did she realize she is going to have to watch him, and I'd guess protect Jon.
fallengorn
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Qybern burned a young farmboy's body. He's now playing the game.
Roland_Gunner
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Ehhh. To be in stores by the start of S7, Martin would need to be complete by early February at the latest. That's only like 6.5 months from now. Its 50/50 at best for me.
DrForester
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Yeah. I totally miss-called that one, thinking she would not step asside for Jon. She was telling him to rule right from the start of the episode.
Littlefinger is pissed though. Don't know what he's going to do. Probably try to turn the North away from Dany.
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