I can't believe nobody posted this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMi2C4vdmEs
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Sunday, 20 August 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link
wish Kit Harrington was more like George Peppard tbh
― sansa riff (sarahell), Sunday, 20 August 2017 02:58 (six years ago) link
I still this one is the best of its type:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVfIFrpslI
― sansa riff (sarahell), Sunday, 20 August 2017 03:02 (six years ago) link
+ 8350 XP+ 1500 GPQuest completed: complete the alliance between Jon Snow and DaenerysNew Rival Unlocked: Ice Dragon
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 August 2017 02:28 (six years ago) link
Rune unlocked: Beric's Sword of Fire Fire (legendary item)
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 August 2017 02:36 (six years ago) link
felt like they kept missing the perfect climactic point at which to end the episode and then i saw the zombies pulling something out of the water and was like "oh damn they did it."
― ryan, Monday, 21 August 2017 02:45 (six years ago) link
OK now I can air my nitpick I guess? JON WOULD NOT HAVE SURVIVED THAT DUNK.
Also dragon ex machina.
Otherwise, loads of action. It seemed like the bears/wights took out quite a few guys, but were they just randos, did other men come along with the (heh) A-Team?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 02:52 (six years ago) link
was half expecting a "jon cannot be turned because he's already dead" resolution but maybe that's still down the road.
― ryan, Monday, 21 August 2017 02:55 (six years ago) link
Is that why he survived the water? Cos hes not technically alive? because cmon, man. They were peeling frozen clothing off him what was presumably hours later. No one survives that shit.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 02:56 (six years ago) link
I counted seven heading north of the wall (last episode), then there's an overhead shot early this episode (finale), it looked like the group numbered eight. Through all of the chaos, it appeared that they lost two? three? (+ Thoros = 3), + Gendry = 4 (+ Jon = 5) - who all was on the dragon's back (besides Dany and the hostage) ? Hound, Jorah, Tormund, and Beric? it doesn't make sense.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
As soon as the wight bear showed up, the fate of one of the dragons was sealed. We hadn't seen an animal wight prior to then, right?
Fun episode. I'm sure some folks'll tear it apart, but I enjoyed it.
― TrumpPence a Bag (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:15 (six years ago) link
All the dead horses for starters.
― dan selzer, Monday, 21 August 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
But yeah I could swear there were at least 2 shots of someone going into the water/being savaged (not counting thoros and tormond), that scene was really confusing!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:23 (six years ago) link
it was a great episode on the one hand
on the other hand...
killing the dragon & making it into ice zombie dragon for me was like that scene when Homer's science teacher burns the donut NOOOOOO THIS IS NOT HAPPENING THIS IS NOT HAPPENING ;_;
also...i had this (stupid, naive) hope that Arya wasnt just a sociopathic revengebot 5000 now and it's bumming me out that that's how she's shaking out. Please dont destroy my favorite character pleeeeeease let her be playing some kind of long game or something
keep hoping she suddenly takes off HER face and it would be Jaqen and that MY Arya will still show up
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
No doubt there were like a dozen unnamed humans conveniently getting killed so our heroes didn't have to. Could've used some scenes of them sitting around the fire talking about how they were gonna spend their retirement soon as they finished this one last case so we could feel for them.
― dan selzer, Monday, 21 August 2017 03:25 (six years ago) link
True. Good point.
― TrumpPence a Bag (B.L.A.M.), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:26 (six years ago) link
It was nearly impossible to tell what was going on in some of these action scenes--and to me the real deus ex was Benjen riding in out of nowhere.
But despite all that, I liked the episode. GOT can still induce that frisson that few shows can (and Benjen riding in was a cool moment despite its machina-ness)
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:27 (six years ago) link
did other men come along with the (heh) A-Team?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, August 20, 2017 10:52 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What? Yeah. I mean it wasn't clear when the last episode ended but early on in this one they showed how the group suddenly included some obvious wildling redshirts.
― Evan, Monday, 21 August 2017 03:27 (six years ago) link
I'm ok with Arya coming across like she is. She's been exposed as a child to the worst things imaginable - witnessing her dads beheading, her dead uncle with a dogs head on him, wars and murder all around. It has damaged her irrevocably.
In all honesty Sansa's the one I feel is becoming a bit of a Cersei?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:29 (six years ago) link
I mean it wasn't clear when the last episode ended but early on in this one they showed how the group suddenly included some obvious wildling redshirts.
Huh, I must have missed that somehow, or not twigged.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, August 20, 2017 11:25 PM (two minutes ago)
I think they're showing that she is playing the long game! Testing Sansa. I'll put money on there being a future scene where Littlefinger pulls his face off and it's Arya.
― Evan, Monday, 21 August 2017 03:31 (six years ago) link
Hm that could be interesting.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:32 (six years ago) link
yeah!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:35 (six years ago) link
i hope there's more layers, whatever the case
definitely an epic/impossible stand by the dream team (of sorts) in the middle of a frozen lake - some great overhead shots. I guess southerners have no use for hats? or notions of keeping yr noggin warm, at least. Dany's jacket is tres facconable
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:35 (six years ago) link
game of thrones is bad now
― 龜, Monday, 21 August 2017 03:38 (six years ago) link
night king pets dragondragon bites his head offdragon takes head off, it's arya
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:43 (six years ago) link
I think Benjin's (sp?) appearance kinda summed it up.. There's just no time for this, everybody's tired of it.
― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:44 (six years ago) link
Dany's getup was her best so far in the entire series ... gorgeous
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:47 (six years ago) link
They were peeling frozen clothing off him what was presumably hours later. No one survives that shit.
Nah, people survive mad amounts of hypothermia and exposure to cold. How he kept all his extremities from turning black and having to be removed, who knows.
I didn't mind anything in this season really, you can all get off the ride any time.
but I am not sure what that scene between Tyrion and Dany was about where he goes off on a tangent about succession planning, but I'm sure sometime in the next season they'll be figuring out how to have elections, and you'll know it's that episode coming up when the "previously on" flashes back to that convo
also where did Jon even get the idea to call her Dany? (is Jon at any point going to send word to Sansa what he's up to and what's been going on?)
dragon wightification was called in this thread like 5 episodes ago btw
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:53 (six years ago) link
Over/under on Bran warging into a dragon?
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:13 AM (one month ago)
At least one dragon is getting warged, another wighted.
― nashwan, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:25 AM (one month ago)
The remaining one...wedgied?
― nashwan, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:26 AM (one month ago)
if the night's king can wight one of Dany's dragons I'll be surprised and disappointed and sad, but you kinda predicted jodie whittaker so I'll go ahead and mentally prepare for that now
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:28 AM (one month ago)
surely at least one dragon will die
― ogmor, Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:29 AM (one month ago)
Yeah the ice dragon/dragon wight is coming--I think it might have been foreshadowed by one of Old Nan's stories in the books? (Along with giant ice spiders)
― text text text text (voodoo chili), Tuesday, July 18, 2017 9:33 AM (one month ago)
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 August 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
re: sansa and arya, i would like to point out i have been otm in this thread
― 龜, Monday, 21 August 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
also where did Jon even get the idea to call her Dany?
YES. Forgot about that. I was all "ffs, stop fan servicing!" but maybe she'd been called that by Vis way back when or something as well?
Look dont get me wrong I'm still enjoying all this. I just also love nitpicking haha.
And yes I'd remembered someone here'd predected dragon-wighting and I'd agreed so it was little suprise to me. A neat touch perhaps that it was Viserion it happened to? Revenge of the dead brother. haha.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 04:01 (six years ago) link
I'll put money on there being a future scene where Littlefinger pulls his face off and it's Arya.
yeah def
― gbx, Monday, 21 August 2017 04:04 (six years ago) link
I suspected Phil Ken Sebben was going to die in this episode during a stand off with Night King just like Rufio in Hook but I guess all his talk about being there for a reason would have gone out the window if that's how it played out.
― Evan, Monday, 21 August 2017 04:06 (six years ago) link
a tangent about succession planning
passive-aggressive whinging about dany wanting to bone / succession-plan jon snow
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 21 August 2017 04:11 (six years ago) link
Phil Ken Sebben, lol
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 04:15 (six years ago) link
HA HA. LAST SWORD.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 04:16 (six years ago) link
I thought Sansa acting all retrograde in her scenes with Littlefinger and then snotty with Brienne was a sign that she's definitely playing along to entrap LF. At least I fucking hope so, if she learned anything from Cersei it ought to have been how to do that.
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 August 2017 04:17 (six years ago) link
The succession plan is a sore subject for Dany cause Mirri Maz Duur told her she would never bear children "until the sun rises in the west and sets in the east" etc
― rock and roll tucci coo (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 August 2017 04:19 (six years ago) link
yeah yeah yeah, I mean specifically where he just blurts out "hey the ironborn are fucked up but they have a method..." ELECTIONS U MEAN
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 August 2017 04:22 (six years ago) link
At first glance this question from vulture seems interesting:
Does a wight dragon breath fire or ice?Obviously, we don’t know the answer yet, but fire is the dragon’s most potent weapon and it’s hard to believe Undead Viserion would be left with no murder-breathing skills whatsoever. If he breathes ice instead of fire, that would set him up for an interesting duel with his brothers.
But I figure Undead Viserion's flame breath is how they're going to get through the Wall, since they didn't ever really mention that Horn thing from the books or whatever.
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 August 2017 05:00 (six years ago) link
lost in all the chaos of the battle - did they manage to get that one zombie back to the wall with them?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 August 2017 05:06 (six years ago) link
Yes. They were throwing him in a boat.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 21 August 2017 05:10 (six years ago) link
Yes. He has a tag now
http://www.vulture.com/tags/wight-in-a-bag/
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 August 2017 05:13 (six years ago) link
Still very confused how they all rode a dragon back home if dragon riding is something only targaryans can do and arrrgh must not think about it too hard.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 05:14 (six years ago) link
also why didn't they just ride the dragon all the way back to dragonstone
― gbx, Monday, 21 August 2017 05:16 (six years ago) link
Slightly disappointed Ed Sheeran wasn't one if the faces in the bag tbf
― As an ilxor, I am uncompromising (El Tomboto), Monday, 21 August 2017 05:17 (six years ago) link
Ha :)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 21 August 2017 05:23 (six years ago) link
it's a show about dragons and zombies
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 21 August 2017 05:36 (six years ago) link