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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 7 - Sundays on HBO
- Thread starter Cornballer
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Didn't love it, but it wasn't bad.
Any time someone kills off the entire Dornish subplot I'm good, really. Go Euron!
Red Arremer
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WrenchNinja
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Jon is so calm trying to explain to everyone that every decision he is making is to fight a bunch of zombies
It's like I'm waiting for him to lose his shit over the next time someone starts questioning why he's doing what he's doing.
It's like I'm waiting for him to lose his shit over the next time someone starts questioning why he's doing what he's doing.
LifEndz
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Lmao. I never saw tha pic. Cringe is off the charts.
If you want a good Game of Thrones recap show just watch the Real Negus and Dem Thrones. That's all you need.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt1n0mTN-bI5TPVZVmjHWuQ
(Second episode not up yet)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt1n0mTN-bI5TPVZVmjHWuQ
(Second episode not up yet)
Latvian Hitman
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Now, see- that little bit of exposition would have fit nicely into Qyburn's unveiling of the ballista last night. "Dorne never fell during Aegon's conquest. They used a device like this to kill one of Aegon's dragons, after which he called off the seige.... etc."
As it is, I just can't fathom how the rest of Westeros sat there and got shit on by dragon fire without ever attempting to, you know, fire some large, flying, pointy projectiles at them.
Cornballer
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A bunch of interviews from this morning:
- Making Game of Thrones: Alfie Allen interview
- Making Game of Thrones: Pilou Asbæk interview
- EW: Ben Hawkey (Hot Pie) interview
- EW: Nathalie Emmanuel interview
- EW: Maisie Williams interview
- EW: Jessica Henwick (Nymeria review
- Cogman noting on Twitter last night that they did shoot a Jon/Ghost scene but it was cut
Additional videos:
- Inside Game of Thrones: Cast Commentary on Daenerys' War Council
- Season 7 Episode 2 Clip: Arya and Nymeria
LifEndz
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Thanks. I'll give it a shot. I tried watching The Ringer's Talk the Thrones but the hosts constantly trying to show how in touch they are with hip hop slang is annoying.
Cpt.Underpants
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Westeros wasn't really one united kingdom at that age. Each House is on its own. Probably why Aegon picked them off quite easily. Dorne might have had the environmental advantage.
I can't blame Theon for dipping out like he did. Dude would've gotten killed on the spot if he tried to fight Euron, and Yara likely would have too. Even if he was mentally stable he wouldn't have stood a chance. At least this way there's a chance Yara lives for a while longer, and maybe Theon will find some way to redeem himself again to save her. Not getting my hopes up at all on that but I can't really see what else they'd have him do at this point.
Latvian Hitman
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Speaking of lazy: the secret, forbidden, super high-level, Citadel-only cure for advanced Greyscale is cutting it off with a scalpel and putting some ointment on it? Srsly? Nobody outside of one maester ever thought to try such a thing?
I'm shocked that humanity has survived at all on Planetos if its inhabitants are truly this stupid.
I'm shocked that humanity has survived at all on Planetos if its inhabitants are truly this stupid.
m_shortpants
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The Missandei Grey Worm scene was quite unnecessary and overly long.
It's already a silly plot thread as is.
It's already a silly plot thread as is.
Gunslinger
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So end of high garden armies next week? Then casterly rock captured by unsullied and finally battle of kingslanding for season finale?
I wonder if we'll see the Dothraki vs the High Garden armies since I figure that would be in the fields.
Veritigo_X
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The Maester talking with Sam mentions how risky it is to whoever is performing the treatment, the one guy who tried it ended up conducting greyscale himself. It's not like greyscale is a common disease anyway, better to just exile the patient instead of risk spreading it further.
Gunslinger
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I think high garden will be wiped out by Sam's father. And the dothraki with drogon will defeat them. With drogon killed. Maybe the end of Jaime Lannister too.
Cpt.Underpants
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Latvian Hitman
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Dorne definitely had an environmental advantage- it was full of more open spaces and long sightlines. They knew when attacks were coming and from what direction.
None of this does anything to explain why, if dragons can simply be taken down by ballistas, dragons ever played a pivotal role in conquering the seven kingdoms. It's either feasible to shoot them down or it isn't. If it is, then we're basically being told (in the show world) that nobody's ever thought to try until now, which seems ludicrous to me.
Look dude, it's too dangerous okay?
D&D say
Yeah. I'm pretty sure Doran was signed up for 4 episodes in season 6, but they clearly just wanted to get their plot line over with. We're also just supposed to believe everyone's cool with them killing off Doran and Trystane.
Maybe it depends on what the ointment is made of?
WEAK MEN WILL NEVER RULE DORNE AGAIN!
Gunslinger
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I don't even think we will ever hear of Dorne again. The two remaining characters will get Cersei treatment next episode. And that will be the end of that.
Latvian Hitman
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I get all that, but my point is: "cut it off and put some ointment on it" doesn't seem like a radical idea that would require finding the right secret book in the bowels of world's temple of hidden knowledge in order to discover it. That approach would be the first thing to occur to anyone who can count to potato.
Understood.
It's so obvious they haven't thought it through nor do they care.
Ah yes, finally realized the point of the montage in the first episode.
Do we know that it has even worked though? I think you also need to remember the enhanced magic now vs. other times.
Latvian Hitman
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Do you honestly think they would have had Jorah show up at the Citadel and that they would have staged last night's scene if it wasn't going to work? It's 100% going to work. If the show runners wanted rid of Jorah, they would have written him out by now.
The Artisan
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if i start reading the first book now or after season 7, will i be able to finish the series before season 8?
Latvian Hitman
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Depends on how fast/often you read. If you can get through a ~1,000 page book every month-and-a-half or so, then yes. If you're like me, you'll tear through the first three books pretty fast, but the next couple will be more of a chore.
The Artisan
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i'm a lot older now but when i was a kid, i finished some of the harry potter books in like 3 days.
harry potter, for lack of a better term, "literally" is easier to read than asoiaf, also. just the way it's written, but i can't think of the right word for it.
Why would High Garden (or anyone) fight the Dothraki in the field?
No because the series doesn't end.
Traveling to King's Landing?
Why would they be fighting? They're on the same side..
The Artisan
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my bad, i meant the series originally up until now
Not necessarily, they implied that House Tarly was going to try and usurp the Tyrells.
Then that would be Horn Hill vs the Dothraki. The Tyrell army is the Tyrell army. Tarly doesn't get Highgarden/wardenship until after the war.
It's so dangerous it killed the archmaester who invented it, but Sam nailed it even though it's his first time performing surgery ever, on an unrestrained, unanaesthetized patient. (Again, I'm totally willing to forgive this if Sam saves Jorah but kills everyone else because of his poor handling of live greyscale cultures)
Latvian Hitman
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Well, since Qyburn evidently just invented the concept of the ballista, maybe Randyll Tarly will "invent" the concepts of the trench and the lance.
Operations
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Agreed. What was the purpose of the scene again? That the Unsullied can pleasure a woman despite having no balls?
If they usurp them before the war, why wouldn't they?
ResidentWeevil13
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I doubt it. Jon Con is probably gonna die
I'm just having a hard time believing the Tyrell army would suddenly follow Randal Tarly simply because he kills Olenna and "usurps" High Garden.
The Artisan
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Planetos is officially the world? It's not just another Earth somewhere?
And what are these human "emotions" this show keeps portraying? What is the purpose of love?
CitizenVectron
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What was the point of even given Jorah Grayscale if they are just going to cure it? Presumably in the books Connington is going to spread it to the population of Westeros in some way (maybe King's Landing?) making his love of Aegon the undoing of Aegon's short rule (assuming he gets that far). In the show...they just give it to him and cure it?