Otherwise known as the conclusion GRRM was inevitably heading towards
Xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 June 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
camera pulls back to reveal the night king sitting with his eyes closed on a hilltop, his teeth bared in a wide grincue sound: "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmonyyyyyy"
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Monday, 13 June 2016 18:32 (eight years ago) link
part of me suspects that GRRM had the ending first ("wouldn't it be rad if there was a big war between zombies and dragons?") and worked backwards from there.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 13 June 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
And just kept going back, and back, and back, thousands of years ...
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 June 2016 18:33 (eight years ago) link
what're the odds on cersei blowing up king's landing in the final ep
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 13 June 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
The what's west of westeros line gave me hope that everyone would unite to go commit genocide on some undiscovered continent
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, June 13, 2016 2:28 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
varya and the iron born finally ascend the shores of a new continent, slow pan out to reveal buried hand of statue of liberty just a few dozen feet in
― 龜, Monday, 13 June 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Monday, June 13, 2016 2:32 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the night king is v misunderstood he broke all his vows and scandalized his child but he's an artist at heart
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 13 June 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
i had what i thought was an original plot guess, which i found was already doing the rounds, that cersei would break and try to wildfire it all down and jamie would kill her to stop it, echoing the last time someone tried to burn them all. with the way the books have handled their relationship that seems a plausible development. however, having a scene like in this episode where jamie talks about how he would do anything for her, only for him to kill her a couple episodes later, is pretty reasonable for the show's MO. whatever his failings, grrm insists on causality in a way the show hasn't always.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 13 June 2016 18:49 (eight years ago) link
i know grrm doesn't really ~do~ chekhov, but the wildfire seems like a pretty big gun sitting on the mantelpiece
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 13 June 2016 18:59 (eight years ago) link
I like that theory Roberto.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:16 (eight years ago) link
It may be more likely that Cersei uses the wildfire to kill the Sparrows, inadvertently kills Tommen, and then Jamie turns against her.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 19:19 (eight years ago) link
i can buy that if only bc i find it hard to believe that we've seen the last of jaime and brienne together and cersei would have to cersei her way out of that for them to have a path.
― nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:20 (eight years ago) link
also if davos gets killed in the big battle next week i'll be pissed, he's a top 3 likable character for me.
― nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:21 (eight years ago) link
That's why he'll probably die.
― Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:24 (eight years ago) link
i'm not entirely unconvinced LSH won't make an appearance, the jaime and edmure conversation felt like some kind of setup beyond the scenes immediately following. also dang i never knew edmure had it in him, ballsy to go at the kingslayer like that.
― nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:29 (eight years ago) link
also yeah davos is probably toast :/
― nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
If Davos dies I hope they have time for an autopsy, otherwise everyone will assume he's coming back
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 19:33 (eight years ago) link
LSH would be a little much in a season that already has one major resurrection and another major reemergence. It would be both of those things at once and a bit excessive right now.
― Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:35 (eight years ago) link
LSH should be abandoned entirely imo as it thus far has been
if davos dies i fuckin riot
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Monday, 13 June 2016 19:39 (eight years ago) link
LSH has either been hiding around quietly for a long time now or she is a pile of bones at this point.
― Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
Wouldn't be shocked if she makes an appearance in the season finale, at the very end, and then we have to wait until the next season for anything to happen. Jon Snow redux. After all, this is still television, where the easiest and most obvious thing to do is often the choice that is made.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 June 2016 19:43 (eight years ago) link
There has been a shitload of character deaths though and only two (?) have come back from the dead. (We never knew the fate of The Hound).
What was the rumour that Cersei & Qyburn were talking about? Or do we not know yet?
― groovypanda, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link
p sure that about hiden caches of wildfyre. presumably there is some being kept underneath the sept
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
why does everyone keep saying we didn't know the fate of the hound? didn't preacher dude say pretty explicitly that he found him in really bad shape and nursed him to health? or am i making that up?
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 13 June 2016 20:28 (eight years ago) link
Because we only found that out a week ago?
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 20:30 (eight years ago) link
For a season and a half whether he was deD or nt was up in the air
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
Didn't know Hound was alive or dead, didn't know if Benjen was alive or dead, didn't know if Bronn was ever coming back, Jon Snow back from the dead, Mountain back from the dead, Beric is back from the dead. Probably forgetting a couple.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:39 (eight years ago) link
The Hound was left for dead, and didn't appear for several seasons. I mean, no, we never saw the body, but it's not out of the ordinary to say that he's come back from the dead. Benjen returned from the dead as well, btw. That's four characters in eight episodes whos deaths were 'fakeouts'. Is that a better way of saying it? Also, I fear/hope the Blackfish might soon join them.
― Frederik B, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
Benjen was never dead, was he? Pretty sure he was just missing North of the Wall.
― groovypanda, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
I never thought that Benjen was dead (or rather, that his story was over). If it wasn't expected that he would come back at some point, he would have never been in the show to begin with.
― silverfish, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:55 (eight years ago) link
Wait Hound, Snow and Benjen
Who is the 4th? Arya?
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 20:57 (eight years ago) link
You can't be serious about Bronn
Arya's almost dying but then somehow killing the Waifinator bothered me way more than the Hound or Jon coming back
― silverfish, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
as far as implausibilities go
― silverfish, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
Mountain, Snow, Benjen, Hound.
― Frederik B, Monday, 13 June 2016 20:59 (eight years ago) link
For what it's worth I always assumed The Mountain wasn't ever necessarily dead, just as close as possible before being engineered into Frankenstein's monster.
― Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:00 (eight years ago) link
ned stark
― germane geir hongro (s.clover), Monday, 13 June 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
Benjen was missing since the very beginning and only had a few brief cameos in flashbacks so it's not really comparable with Jon et al
― groovypanda, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:01 (eight years ago) link
they also pulled edmure out of a dungeon where he's apparently been kept since the red wedding
― geometry-stabilized craft (art), Monday, 13 June 2016 21:02 (eight years ago) link
― silverfish, Monday, June 13, 2016 4:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Arya was pretty fucked up but probably executed a sick riposte to the waif's knife lunge in the dark Zatoichi style, given she was blind for a bit.
― Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
Mountain was returning all of last season, not this one
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
did like the move with slicing the candle off and then the cut away. thought that was pretty deft as this stuff goes.
― germane geir hongro (s.clover), Monday, 13 June 2016 21:07 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, no Bronn doesn't count, any more than the return of Gendry would be a surprise. But Beric, as I noted, is also back from the dead. Resurrected by Thoros of Myr (thanks internet!). In fact, I think he's been killed twice, by the Mountain and by Arya. Blackfish offscreen death dubious, but then, Stannis didn't get the honor of getting killed onscreen either.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:08 (eight years ago) link
??? The Hound kills Beric on screen, the other time(s) he died were merely explained to the audience as having happened prior to the introduction to the Brotherhood
― Evan, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:13 (eight years ago) link
Mountain returned definitively in episode ten of season 5. Hound returned in episode 7 of season six. That's eight episodes.
― Frederik B, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:22 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, I think I misread him as one of Arya's prior victims (there have been a lot of people killed on this show). Anyway, he's been killed 6 times or something.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
Yeah but that's just his thing
― groovypanda, Monday, 13 June 2016 21:53 (eight years ago) link
I think this season is the show spending the capital it earned by killing off a ton of characters in the few several seasons
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, 13 June 2016 22:13 (eight years ago) link
Do you think the waif underwent the blindness lesson? I expect Arya could put out the candle and zatoichi her. does the waif know of arya's sword training in winterfell?
― remove butt (abanana), Tuesday, May 31, 2016 6:20 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I called that one.
I don't know why Thoros and Beric are still around. And the show mentioned Cat in two different scenes this episode. I don't see LSH happening this late in the game.
― remove butt (abanana), Monday, 13 June 2016 22:27 (eight years ago) link
Steadicam shot of the actress walking backstage was pretty cool i thought
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Monday, 13 June 2016 22:40 (eight years ago) link