Admiral Woofington
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Tyrion was out having adventures with the Bear and the other dwarf lady. I think he's done with most of his witty banter.
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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 7 - Sundays on HBO
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Well, he's been super depressed since he murdered his father and found out his true love wasn't a whore. Understandably so.
il Diavolo
Banned
bad pussy lives
They managed in Dragonheart as well
Admiral Woofington
Member
My biggest regret is that I didn't get to see awkward whip fights one more time.
PshycoNinja
Member
I am more interested in the inevitable
Davos and Melisandre seeing each other when Jon and Daeny meet
Cirekiller
Member
My theory is that Arya is going to kill Little Finger, take his face and pledge all his forces to Jon.
But Jon already has the Vale knights. Even though the Starks treat Littlefinger like shit and the Vale houses weren't rewarded for winning the battle.
fallengorn
Bitches love smiley faces
And then the next episode of GoT:
Melisandre: Only someone who loves to use wildfire as you do, Cersei, is the true prince(ss) who was promised!
Fits right in. She'll have to play act skeeving all over Sansa or the ruse won't hold. ~More incest!!~
This episode seemed like it was a lot of quickly cleaning up the weird alliances their plot has forced them into. Addressed Jon/Littlefinger (with a nice visual callback to Ned/Littlefinger), addressed tension between Tyrion and Ellaria, between Varys and Dany. And then it dealt with some of the obvious fallout from Dany's foreign invasion with Cersei addressing the Reacher lords to convince them to defect. Definite props for giving all of those things at least a couple of lines of recognition, when they definitely could have just tried to gloss it all over, even if it is them just managing the fires they created with some of their decisions.
Have you ever seen Thank You For Smoking? There's a scene where Aaron Eckhart's character is trying to convince some movie executives to have characters smoking in an upcoming movie. The executives say it wouldn't make sense because the movie takes place on a space station. Eckhart counters with "Just have them say 'Good thing we invented the whatever machine so we can smoke.'"
I think about that line a lot. Yeah, it's funny, but it shows how easy it is to explain away illogical story beats. A lot of the baffling decisions on Game of Thrones could be cleared up if the writers threw in more lines like they did in this episode that make it seem like there's an underlying logic to what's going on. It's those little details that make a story feel like a fleshed out world and D&D often ignore them.
So, yeah, there were a lot of those little moments this episode but I'm glad someone finally recognized the elelphants in the rooms.
The Artisan
Member
Royce is not exactly fond of Carcetti either though and I think he's the one who's actually commanding the knights
Admiral Woofington
Member
we can see why littlefinger never spoke with Jon if the first thing out of his mouth is "little finger this, littlefinger that, I wanna stick my littlefinger in Sansa and Cat"
John Dunbar
correct about everything
littlefinger is rhaegar so of course he knows.
Cirekiller
Member
Jon doesn't have the Vale knights because LF still controls them. LF can leave whenever he wants and take his army with him. With Arya pretending to be him they will actually be under Jon's control because Arya will never abandon or betray Jon like LF might.
And if Arya is impersonating LF it won't matter how he's been treated by the Starks. The Vale Lord's may not get rewarded in either case so that point is moot.
The Artisan
Member
She says bend the knee. But the actual text from the Raven didn't sound like bending the knee at all. That sounded more like making Jon her fighting partner against Cersei....
I believe he knows. I don't know if Stannis knew, but Stannis at least talked about how cheating wasn't Ned's way.
Then why did he follow Littlefinger north? And why is he bowing to Jon? Doesn't he know Sweet Robin is his rightful ruler?
ClosingADoor
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Arya is turning around again. "That's not you."
Latvian Hitman
Member
I think he suspects it at the very least. He certainly seems to know that Rhaegar didn't kidnap Lyanna and hold her against her will.
Well Tyrion wrote it, not Dany.
Admiral Woofington
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P.S. "mumble mumble bend the knee or something"
PshycoNinja
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Robdraggoo
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We need to do the whole thing for a new abandoned thread gif.
Ellaria: What's he doing here, anyway? *points at Theon*
Yara: He's my protector! (both smirk)
suddenly, a commotion breaks out above; everyone rushes on deck
Euron: Surprise, bitches!
*ZWOSH* *WHAMM* *BANG* *THUDD*
Euron, holding a blade to Yara's throat, to Theon: What now?!
Theon, his PTSD triggered by his cruel uncle the bloodshed around him, fails to protect his sister and clumsily jumps over board
Euron (laughs)
a single tear drop runs down Yara's cheek
join us again next week for another thrilling episode of Game of Thrones!
Yara: He's my protector! (both smirk)
suddenly, a commotion breaks out above; everyone rushes on deck
Euron: Surprise, bitches!
*ZWOSH* *WHAMM* *BANG* *THUDD*
Euron, holding a blade to Yara's throat, to Theon: What now?!
Theon, his PTSD triggered by his cruel uncle the bloodshed around him, fails to protect his sister and clumsily jumps over board
Euron (laughs)
a single tear drop runs down Yara's cheek
join us again next week for another thrilling episode of Game of Thrones!
bitbydeath
Member
I'm looking forward to it, Arya will turn up, not soon after Bran will be pulled in by Meera (she's going to be muscley as all fuck), Jon will turn back up as the wall falls along with Benjen riding in to warn them, then it's Cat's time to shine.
The Artisan
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I don't really understand it, tbh. I couldn't tell if Royce was cheering in the king in the north chant last season, even though he addresses Jon as, your grace.
Looks like Robyn didn't come along and what would his simple mind even care to think about a king in the north
As much as I hate the writing on this show, Yara meant protector in the same sense that a mother says that about her little boy. She knows Theon can't defend so much as a wagon against his uncle.
I don't think she expected Theon to kill Euron, but she did expect him to die for her since she almost died for him.
Admiral Woofington
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so what you're telling me is that I should splice the scene of him jumping off the boat with the Curb your Enthusiasm theme, then roll credits?
I'm not sure what Theon was even suppose to do in that situation. There's no way he could save Yara if Euron actually intended on it, his fucking axe was to her throat. All attacking would have accomplished is getting one of them killed needlessly, and now they're both alive. Sounds like Theon made the right choice to me.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
getting your throat slit by an axe in the heat of battle would probably be a lot more pleasant than what euron and cersei will do at their leisure.
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Deleted member 1159
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Did you miss her hanging off the front of the ship?
The Artisan
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John Dunbar
correct about everything
thought those were the two sand snakes. i think he took yara alive.
Oldest Snake
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That wasn't Yara. That was Sand Snake #1 and Sand Snake #2.
I'll grant you that. But we don't yet know what that is.
Wasn't that a sandsnake hanging by her own whip?
SerAardvark
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That was Nymeria Sand (with Obara being the one impaled on the ship). Euron killed them with their own weapons and left them like that to mock them.
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:O
I thought for sure that was Yara
I thought for sure that was Yara
Admiral Woofington
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Yara's look of disappointment when he chose to jump ship would fit perfectly with one of the Curb your Enthusiasm ending scene memes.
Could have lived with more dead Sand Snakes. I think I can also guess how Euron will die, killed by Theon in some glorious revenge.
Well, he needs to be on two knees.
Well, he needs to be on two knees.
Yeah, she knows they're all fucked. She's not expecting to be saved. She just thought that she had gotten Theon to the point where he would be willing to die with honor instead of jumping off a boat because oh well it's hopeless, and that he would have been willing to at least help her reclaim the dignity of getting to die in a fight instead of being Euron's prisoner. Yeah, Theon made the one choice that kept everyone alive, but Yara very much does not want to survive this.
demosthenes
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What should they be rewarded with when the apocalypse is on its way?