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
How was Arya able to finally defeat waif if she'd been getting her arse kicked so badly by her all the other times previous?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:28 (eight years ago) link
She used a trick and her life depended on it. The stab wounds and all the falling are a different story.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 13 June 2016 23:36 (eight years ago) link
That Mountain tho. That club couldnt even deal with him right now!
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link
I cackled with glee at that Mountain bit with the faith militant, even tho I hate Cersei
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:48 (eight years ago) link
cersei is my favorite. lena headey plays her with such hammy glee it's infectious. "I choose violence" was amazing even if the previews spoiled it.
― ryan, Monday, 13 June 2016 23:50 (eight years ago) link
was hoping lancel would get it
http://static.tumblr.com/b1a4c7ab06a39c376e63dac3ec7508ee/ut1vugq/gV5mp49go/tumblr_static_lancel.gif
― nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 23:51 (eight years ago) link
― ryan, Monday, June 13, 2016 6:50 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
same
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:56 (eight years ago) link
i gotta say that as a medico i was pretty skeptical of arya's completely miraculous recovery --- as dayo said upthread, she should've died of peritonitis p quickly
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, 13 June 2016 23:58 (eight years ago) link
she actually died and was brought back
― nomar, Monday, 13 June 2016 23:59 (eight years ago) link
tempted to read the resurrections and implausible survivals as a play on "the gods have a purpose for you" (i.e., George RR Martin has plot points that involve you). you ain't done until the story is finished with you.
― ryan, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 00:01 (seven years ago) link
I'm not a medico and even I was finding Arya's sudden leap out of bed dubious. I saw that stab, right in the bowel and with a real twist!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
"in a season full of real twists the one delivered to arya's gut was the most unexpected"
― nomar, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
the truly dumb thing is they could've easily given her just one stab and it'd be dramatic enough to serve but they had to get carried away with it.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 01:09 (seven years ago) link
In this world, stab wounds are nbd. .
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
feel like their need to have every incidence of violence be over the top really messed up that whole scenario.
― ryan, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 01:18 (seven years ago) link
p sure that about hiden caches of wildfyre. presumably there is some being kept underneath the sept
― dynamicinterface, Monday, June 13, 2016 1:25 PM (7 hours ago)
we see this in the latest Bran montage, as well as the fire itself.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 04:23 (seven years ago) link
Is this the same stash of wildfire that was used during Blackwater?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 04:27 (seven years ago) link
yes.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 05:04 (seven years ago) link
speaking of which, if there's a fire at king's landing, and Tommen dies, who would be next in line?
― sarahell, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 05:20 (seven years ago) link
Technically speaking wouldnt it be either John or Gendry?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 05:27 (seven years ago) link
gendry was never legitimized so he can't inherit, and john isn't in the baratheon line of succession.
the line of succession at the start of the show was like Robert → Joffrey → Tommen → Myrcella → Stannis → Shireen → Renly, but if Tommen dies then there isn't an heir to the throne. So it would turn into a huge dragout fight between the Tyrells (through Margaery as queen) vs Lannister (Cersei as Regent, though regent over what who really cares, she'd do it anyway)
― Clay, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 05:55 (seven years ago) link
Fwiwhttps://twitter.com/leyawn/status/742355010026151937
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 06:00 (seven years ago) link
Women aren't in the line of succession. In Dorne they are, which is probably where Varys is going.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 06:06 (seven years ago) link
they just fall to the end of the line i thought
― Clay, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 06:07 (seven years ago) link
the very end of the line iirc
― sarahell, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 06:08 (seven years ago) link
Interesting take on who's heir at the moment here (it's speculative but guess it's a massive fucking spoiler if it actually does come to pass):
http://mashable.com/2016/05/03/game-thrones-heir/#Ewq.KkyM3uqi
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 14 June 2016 07:12 (seven years ago) link
This is very badly plotted now. So many pointless detours. Brienne and Pod's excursion to the Riverlands achieved precisely nothing, for example. That Tyrion 'tell me a joke' scene' was excruciating.
Still enjoying it though. They still know how to ratchet up the tension when they need to.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 14 June 2016 08:45 (seven years ago) link