He didn’t, he just slammed bodies against the walls until it worked (which, at the end of the day, really is the central looming threat of the white walkers).
― gyac, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:01 (five years ago) link
The Lord of Light was all about Arya, wasn't he? Beric gets her out of the hallways alive, dies the true death at last, having served his holy purpose. Melisandre gives Arya a pep talk that sends her after NK, dies the true death at last, having served her holy purpose.
― gyac, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
lol
the reaction of people in a bar when Arya killed the nightking#NotToday pic.twitter.com/MoR8SqowhS— Raph (@RaphouuuL) April 29, 2019
― nashwan, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
lmao
― Simon H., Monday, 29 April 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
I will also say that I was completely seduced by the "Night King Is Not Stupid" theory, and now I have absolutely no sure idea how this will play out, at all, at all.
Intuition states that the series will end with dragons dead, Jon dead, Dany will not be queen but something else will happen (no idea if she lives or dies), Cersei dead, Jamie perhaps also dead, Brienne dead (protecting Jamie), Tyrion alive but unwilling to rule, Bran lodged in a tree somewhere, Arya and Sansa safe at Winterfell, Euron dead. Ever since I read the first book I speculated that Gendry's story was more important than the other bastards because he'd end up on the throne, and I think he's at this point my most likely bet for succession, seeing as he's contributed little more to the narrative than being a snack for leeches and young assassins. But considering the sheer amount of power-play there's been up to this point about "who will sit on the Iron Throne" I wouldn't be surprised if the show ends with the Seven Kingdoms either being split apart again, or seeing the genesis of some other form of rule (I wouldn't go so far as to say "and then Samwell invented democracy" but there might be some kind of "rule by the small council" situation).
(also wow @ that video)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
Also at some stage I thought, wow I hope the Hound is dead cos that’s a shitload of fire - cut to him panicking by a wall. Glad he didn’t die though (kill your zombie brother first!)
― gyac, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link
that video is a barstoolsports fake
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
Nice wholesome thread here:
ARYA YOU LIL PIECE OF SHIT I LOVE YOU. SOMEBODY GET THIS WOMAN SOME PREMIUM DICK ASAP!!!!!!!! @HBO @GameOfThrones #GoT #Season8 #DemThrones #Episode3 #BattleOfWinterfell— T-Pain (@TPAIN) April 29, 2019
― Perfect Leee Cromulent (Leee), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:18 (five years ago) link
damn. should have known it was fake since it was light out
― mizzell, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
They really do need to give us something more re Bran's raven sortie & what he was about there.I was unclear earlier, but I thought it was obvious Bran warged in order to signal his specific location to NK.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
Disagree with the disappointment that we are now left with three episodes of mere humanity. Think of the times this show was indisputably awesome - the first three seasons or so - there was only a garnish of the supernatural, all of the best bits were people doing things to people. Definitely support the show closing out in that mode and perhaps making it just as wrenching and awful as the wight invasion.
i would LOVE to see the show close out in that mode, but i don't have high hopes. in the beginning, when the show was amazing and everyone got hooked, the Talking was dominant and very good, the Action was rare and good. but over time, the Talking became not so good. By late S6 and S7, it became straight up bad. GoT is no longer good at Talking, at least not consistently, but i'm really hoping they capture some of that early-season Talking magic for the final few sodes
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
― Tuomas, Monday, 29 April 2019 20:44 (five years ago) link
i'm really hoping they capture some of that early-season Talking magic for the final few sodes
the talking was pretty good in episode 2! but then again, there aren't anymore cogman-penned episodes, so it may not be indicative of what's to come
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
the season 1 war of the roses late medieval europe stuff was my favorite bit, and i dreaded the wizard and dragon bullshit while it was getting going in the early seasons. but i also don't think they can just return to that now.
i liked last night's episode btw! i thought it was really exciting!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
yep! yeah, the action has remained good even as the talking has faded away (though on occasion it's still good!), so I was pretty fucking stoked about last night's episode. but yeah...this is a good action show now.
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 April 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link
The cheering crowd video is a fake often used for memes. In the real original they're cheering because a pirate ps1 game they've just bought has successfully booted up
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
but why was there a crowd of people in a movie theater watching a pirated ps1 game boot up?
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:04 (five years ago) link
(the question all of the game of thrones posts have been leading up to)
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:05 (five years ago) link
there are a lot of genuine reaction videos out there, the Arya moment was a ridic crowd pleaser.
i still really like the show, the scope and many of the characters overcome lots of the other bullshit. but it's such a different show that the Red Wedding is something that feels tonally out of place when thinking about it in the context of the last several seasons. The brutality was so palpable and grim and it was logical, and obviously exceptionally plotted. This is a hard-R action show now, but no matter what happens to any characters there won't be anything as direct and personal and bleak as what happened to Catelyn or Robb or Talisa.
― omar little, Monday, 29 April 2019 21:09 (five years ago) link
They immediately charged their cavalry with 99.9% of the flaming weapons they had, otherwise accompanied only by a stealthy wolf, into the front of a teeming mass of enemies
Then they got their dragon tarpitted in a unit of zombies that chipped away at its health
Top level "me playing Total War" tactics imo
― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:11 (five years ago) link
For a moment I thought too that it was strange with how much devastation occurred, the armies destroyed and so forth, that so many main characters survived, it seemed unbalanced and unfair, but then I remembered that it's.. fiction! and the POV is going to follow people-of-importance (i.e. survivors, or people who will die notably) and not trace the glorious childhood and subsequent achievements of, say, a Dothraki who got sent to the front line. Fiction is cruel to those who die meaninglessly
This would be true for most shows, but not one that billed itself as subversive fantasy that undercut genre conventions and whose calling card was killing important characters. It’s become so conventional as to be predictable in the extreme. Not for one second did I believe Arya would die or Jorah would live.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
ghost somehow found his way into the crypts too, which adds credence to the theory that the production team hastily and haphazardly added him in post to make fans happy.
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
wow this was fun. nicely done with all the suspense.although at the start of the action when the wights were just pouring in I was convinced nearly EVERYONE would be straight-up just immediately dead. Brienne, Jorah, all the fighting ones (not Jaime though). Quite enjoyed thinking that was happening.
the World War Z zombie-piling tactics (including to get over the spiky fiery trenches) was a bit obvious, no? Wouldn't the gang have considered this?
― kinder, Monday, 29 April 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
i still really like the show, the scope and many of the characters overcome lots of the other bullshit. but it's such a different show that the Red Wedding is something that feels tonally out of place when thinking about it in the context of the last several seasons. The brutality was so palpable and grim and it was logical, and obviously exceptionally plotted. This is a hard-R action show now, but no matter what happens to any characters there won't be anything as direct and personal and bleak as what happened to Catelyn or Robb or Talisa.― omar little, Monday, April 29, 2019 5:09 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― omar little, Monday, April 29, 2019 5:09 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i think this is a plausible theory for why that change has happened:
I think some of the reason the Game of Thrones writers have screwed things up in the last couple seasons is that, if you're on set with cast members for years, the "most important" characters are the people who have the most screen time and have been on the show the longest— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) April 29, 2019
You don't want to fire a beloved coworker who's invested years of their life into your project without giving them a dignified and fitting send-off. One of the reasons the earlier seasons of the show worked so well is that the showrunners, hewing to the books, had no choice.— Michael T Sweeney (@mtsw) April 29, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 29 April 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
but the thing is, in the GoT universe, killing someone off in a dramatic and unexpected way IS a dignified and fitting send-off
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 April 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
whereas letting them almost die a dozen times only to be saved at the last moment is like letting grandma win at gin rummy when she's still capable of beating you without any help, thank you very much
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 April 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link
Right, finally watched it and can go back on the internet.The only opinions I have about it: that was a really fucking stressful 82 minutes, I didn't enjoy watching it *at all*, and I have no fucking idea whether I liked it or not.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 April 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link
i have another important thought:
brienne has the best agonized scream on television
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 April 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
oh shit, and more!
- have we ever seen daenerys wield a sword before last night's episode? she seemed to be really good for someone who rarely fights (physically)
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Monday, 29 April 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
^^^YESthat first one in the battle, bone chilling Xpost re brienne scream
― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Monday, 29 April 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/birtb4/everyone_saying_bran_didnt_help_smh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 29 April 2019 22:11 (five years ago) link
speaking of screams, is it just me or are they using a wilhelm scream at least once a major battle? I've been mainlining all be big battle episodes and I swear I've heard it a lot
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 29 April 2019 22:30 (five years ago) link
Most important question: So is Arya Azor Ahai? And the dagger was Lightbringer? I would like that, it really does make sense in it's own off-kilter way, in the way a lot of GRRM revelations has done. But... Does this mean the whole Targaryan bloodline was a misdirection? And if so, then who ends up on the Throne? In all honesty, I'm thinking it might be Sansa, with Tyrion as hand. The three big heroes of the story ends up being Sansa, Arya and Bran, and the Starks are the new Targaryans. Except for the incest, hopefully.
― Frederik B, Monday, 29 April 2019 22:35 (five years ago) link
the "no one gets the throne / seven kingdoms become independent" or whatever ending seeming increasingly likely to me. too many soft-hearted potential rulers kicking around.
― Simon H., Monday, 29 April 2019 22:39 (five years ago) link
are there any main characters apart from baby sam who still have at least one parent alive?
― thomasintrouble, Monday, 29 April 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
Sam's own mother is also still alive.
― nashwan, Monday, 29 April 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link
ah yes of course. I'd forgotten she wasn't killed with his father
― thomasintrouble, Monday, 29 April 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
Jon dead, Dany on the throne, pregnant with twins, this seems way too obvious and cheesy but hmmm...
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 April 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
^^ that was my original thought whenever she says something about breaking the cycle. Coupled with a family member, pregnant with the true heir, just as ruthless as the Lannisters we’d go from Cersei to Cersei II, basically
― mh, Monday, 29 April 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
idg why people keep saying "oh this sucked, they all just won easily". They didnt fucking win! Their entire armies were turned to a pulp! They probably lost the bulk of the winterfell smallfolk there! I doubt many people have come out of this alive!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 29 April 2019 23:39 (five years ago) link
I kinda want Cersei to beat everyone left now, with a smug hateful grin, just to annoy everyone lol.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 29 April 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
I hated that smug Night King face when he raised a second army from the bodies of the dead. I mean, I kind of wished I could do that too, but my version would be animating the corpses of my old and jaded coworkers to vanquish my work rivals
― mh, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
I was trying to think of which episodes featured the most deaths of named characters. I think this was probably second to S6E10 (Sept of Baelor)?
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 00:17 (five years ago) link
It was good that he got that "lol u guys r pwned" smirk and then BAM, flying ninja arya attack (ok yes where the f did she actually come from but ok)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
Was the Septsplosion worse than Red Wedding on that front? I cant even recall anymore. Who died in the sept? Margaery, Diana Rigg, her weird old husband, Tommen.. who else?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 00:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfkru6vtKsw
probably would have been fun to watch it in a bar
― omar little, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link
Diana Rigg poisoned herself elsewhere, in the same episode I believe.
the High Sparrow bought it in the Sept tho xp
― Simon H., Tuesday, 30 April 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link
(wait no dur Oleanna left and got killed later ha yes xpost)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 00:23 (five years ago) link
Sept: Margaery, her dad, Tommen (sort of), priest Jonathan Pryce, Loras, Kevan Lannister, Lancel Lannister
― omar little, Tuesday, 30 April 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link
Pycelle, not in the explosion but right before it.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 30 April 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link