Maisie / Arya too popular to sit out a whole season.
― Interpretive Jigglypuffery (Leee), Wednesday, 8 June 2016 23:24 (eight years ago) link
Ever since Bran had that vision of the Mad King I've been wondering if they're setting up someone finishing what we he started--destroying Kings Landing with the hidden oil. Maybe the Sparrows, sensing defeat or Tommen in a religious fervor or Cersei in an act of revenge.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 June 2016 01:29 (eight years ago) link
that wildfire is totes going off sooner rather than later
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 9 June 2016 02:05 (eight years ago) link
I thought they used it up at the Blackwater
― Gukbe, Thursday, 9 June 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
GRRM has consistently subverted (or at least resisted) many fantasy/adventure tropes even as the story he has created keeps funneling him toward those same (unavoidable?) fantasy/adventure tropes. I'm curious to see how long either mediums can go while resisting fully embracing the very tropes and cliches that have driven stories for millennia.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, June 8, 2016 6:17 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wait, wait. what if he's been trying to write to those tropes all along and he's just really bad at it
― germane geir hongro (s.clover), Thursday, 9 June 2016 02:45 (eight years ago) link
oh shit i accidentally killed my protagonist fuck
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 June 2016 02:53 (eight years ago) link
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― nomar, Thursday, 9 June 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link
The faceless stuff is just really boring, they've done a really bad job of creating any sense of magic or mystery to it, mostly because it was largely just three characters standing around a dull set and talking / hitting one another with sticks. Again and again and again.
If the end point is Arya becoming some awesome masked assassin then there are so many more watchable and interesting ways they could have done it. As it stands it's a complete waste of one of the best characters in the show.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 June 2016 08:10 (eight years ago) link
Episode 9's title is a massive spoiler.
Episode 10 is going to clock in at 69 minutes. Both directed by Sapochnik who did last season's Hardhome episode.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 9 June 2016 09:44 (eight years ago) link
The problem with Arya's arc since splitting from The Hound is she gets zero 'fun' interaction with other key characters and it's not clear who she'll be running into next. They crushed the life out of the Jaqen character too - both should join the playgroup ("fuck a many faced god, a man shall tread the boards!").
― nashwan, Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:08 (eight years ago) link
"you must become no one" is p much what they tell you at acting school.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:10 (eight years ago) link
"a man must be unemployed"
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:11 (eight years ago) link
Jaqen should start a brothel instead. He's basically a pimp trying to break Arya in.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:15 (eight years ago) link
Episode 9's title is a massive spoiler
Not really given that the entire season has been building up to it. Literally everyone who's been paying attention to the show (and how previous seasons have been structured) knows what they're going to do in Episode 9.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:19 (eight years ago) link
If anyone but Brienne kills Ramsay I riot.
― nashwan, Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:24 (eight years ago) link
why? they've barely even met.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 9 June 2016 10:33 (eight years ago) link
Sansa would be better.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 June 2016 11:11 (eight years ago) link
exactly
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 9 June 2016 11:15 (eight years ago) link
i guess when i think of joffrey's death it's more that i want him to have a horrible and shocking death, perhaps interrupting hubris, rather than some solemn moral act of revenge.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 9 June 2016 11:16 (eight years ago) link
Don't really see Sansa ever killing anyone directly. I think he needs a v slow agonising bloody death and Brienne is best primed for that (he's barely met anyone and a confrontation between them is surely planned) - or I suppose he could be gangshanked like Jon was.
― nashwan, Thursday, 9 June 2016 11:17 (eight years ago) link
Don't really see Sansa ever killing anyone directly.
Oh I can definitely imagine her taking pleasure over killing Ramsay in her current state.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 9 June 2016 11:20 (eight years ago) link
Jon and Ramsay haven't met have they?
It should be whatshisname, reek, who kills Bolton. Geography might make that difficult at the moment.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Thursday, 9 June 2016 11:47 (eight years ago) link
feel like Sansa's gonna die soon
― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Thursday, 9 June 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
would be a classic got move if ramsey kills jon snow
― Mordy, Thursday, 9 June 2016 13:14 (eight years ago) link
Ramsey will be killed by a mule
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 June 2016 13:16 (eight years ago) link
killed by his dogs
― conrad, Thursday, 9 June 2016 13:22 (eight years ago) link
Ramsay will flay himself.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 June 2016 13:23 (eight years ago) link
I'm looking at that title for episode 9 and all I can think of is Daniel Day-Lewis yelling "Bastard in a basket! Bastard in a basket!" near the end of There Will Be Blood.
― a 47-year-old chainsaw artist from South Carolina (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 June 2016 13:24 (eight years ago) link
I think it might feel odd because it seems wrongly timed? Names for battles tend to come much later than the battle, so knowing the name of a battle beforehand seems odd.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Thursday, 9 June 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
Could be worse: could be called 'The First Battle of th Bastards'. But it does imply some resolution between the two.
― inside, skeletons are always inside, that's obvious. (dowd), Thursday, 9 June 2016 14:51 (eight years ago) link
Chances of Ramsay being torn to pieces by wolves are probably pretty high actually.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 June 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
I'm trying to avoid spoilers please
― kinder, Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
Well Littlefinger's a total bastard, maybe he'll show up.
― albvivertine, Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
Every time someone says "winter is coming" I'm like fuck off with your spoilers.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:36 (eight years ago) link
Episode 10 is going to clock in at 69 minutes
nice
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
I bet the producers were high fiving
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
as well they should've been
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 9 June 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
gonna be more of a struggle to make a 420 minute long series finale
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
not that there was any reason to doubt it but those dudes confirmed as being from the brotherhood, with the main dude w/ beard credited on the show as a named book character. also the actor has been fairly amusingly teasing 'spoilers'/trolling fans on twitter
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
they're doing 7 episodes in season 7, right? if they're each an hour long, that's 420 minutes
/blazin
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:23 (eight years ago) link
woaaaaaah
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link
fuck yea
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:35 (eight years ago) link
and is if i even have to point this out, but a rumored 6 episodes in the final season? 7 (rumored episodes in season 7) minus 6 is 1. #1 on the television
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:38 (eight years ago) link
My brother says Euron is the biggest scumbag in the whole story, is that true?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 9 June 2016 20:04 (eight years ago) link
unless your brother is George RR Martin, then no.
― sarahell, Thursday, 9 June 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link
Wait, you can rearrange "Robert Adam Gilmour" into "Dag, George RR Martin!"
― Interpretive Jigglypuffery (Leee), Thursday, 9 June 2016 20:26 (eight years ago) link
The leader of those horsemen was in the brotherhood w/o banners in previous seasons. Thoros of Myr.
I call Sansa ending up as the king's landing ruler at the end of the show. Baelish weds her and becomes king, then falls for LSH and dies.
― remove butt (abanana), Friday, 10 June 2016 11:24 (eight years ago) link
Leader of which horsemen?
― Evan, Friday, 10 June 2016 11:54 (eight years ago) link
The murderous ones.
― remove butt (abanana), Friday, 10 June 2016 12:03 (eight years ago) link