No I mean there’s a red woman out there who’s def anti-night king and has to return at some point.
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 03:55 (five years ago) link
ha, duh that makes sense
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 05:27 (five years ago) link
OK that then goes along with the "that little girl with the burnt face is Melisandre" theory.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 06:35 (five years ago) link
(which Mandee posted upthread)
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 06:36 (five years ago) link
How are people seeing romance between Sansa and Theon!? Their looks/reunion is one of two people who went through hell at the hands of the same man (Ramsay) and surviving it.
Because their bonding over those traumas was already addressed in the previous couple of seasons, so giving them two emotionally loaded scenes seem to be hinting at something else rather than just replaying those same sentiments. Though of course it's quite ambiguous, and there might be no romance at all. And since Theon is probably the most likely main character to die in the battle for Winterfell, so he can redeem himself of past sins against the Starks, we'll probably never find out.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 07:12 (five years ago) link
I quite enjoyed the sense of freezing dread about the whole episode, it's probably the last chance we'll get to spend time with a lot of these characters so give them all their moment I guess.
Still, no way have they kept Gendry around all this time and re-emphasised the Baratheon bastard thing just to kill him off now, although you never know.
We probably need a Game of Thrones Death Pool thread by now right?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 07:29 (five years ago) link
Gendry and Arya for King and Queen?I’ve given up trying to make predictions - I’ll just sit back and enjoy the ride/make petty criticisms like wtf was Davos doing serving up soup in a castle full of servants?
― Madchen, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 08:16 (five years ago) link
My guesses for the deaths by the end of this season:
ALMOST CERTAINNight KingCerseiEuronTheonJorahJaimeMountainGrey Worm or MissandeiMelisandre
LIKELY, BUT NOT CERTAINVarysBrienneTyrionBranBronnPodrickEddDavosTormundHoundBericYaraOne of the two surviving dragons
UNLIKELY, BUT COULD DIE FOR SHOCK VALUEJonDaenerysSansaGillyBaby SamLyanna MormontBoth of the surviving dragons
ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT DIEAryaSam
WILD CARDGendry
As for the reasoning behind the certain deaths and certain survivals:
- Night King, Cersei, and Euron will die for being the main villainous characters still left.- The Mountain will die because the writers will give the fans the Hound/Mountain duel they've been waiting for (foreshadowed in the season 7 finale), which will lead to either the Mountain or both of them dying.- Jorah is the perfect character to pull a heroic sacrifice, most likely for Dany.- Jaime and Theon will die to atone for their numerous sins.- Melisandre will die because of the prophecy that she's bound to die on Westeros. And she's yet another character who could pull off a heroic sacrifice to pay for her sins.- Either Grey Worm or Missandei will die of dramatic irony, because of the plans they made in this episode to grow old together. One of them will be left alive to mourn for the other.
- IMO Arya and Sam are the only ones who are certain to survive, because they're the sort of underdogs people root for, and they've been both been given deep character arcs where they rise beyond anything anyone exptected of them, so to kill them off would anticlimactic, which is not something the show has done since the first three seasons.
- Gendry is a wild card because we don't really know whether him being Robert Baratheon's bastard was always just a red herring; if it was, he'll probably die in the next episode for similar dramatic irony as with Grey Worm/Missandei. If, like Matt pointed out, the bastard aspect was emphasised again for a reason, it could be that the show ends with him (or his and Arya's kid) sitting on the Iron Throne, after all the other candidates have died or refused the throne.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 08:16 (five years ago) link
I'd put Bran in the Certain group. I think a huge part of the ending is the old magic being taken out, and that means Bran is a goner. And I suspect he knows.
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 08:28 (five years ago) link
Yeah that list makes sense. I'd bump Dany up a category though since she's already displaying Mad King tendencies. I can easily see Varys surviving as well.
I know everyone in this is an idiot but has it occurred to even a single character that when you're fighting an army of the dead, perhaps putting all your most vulnerable citizens in a crypt is not a great idea?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 08:47 (five years ago) link
varys & tyrion having a chat on a balcony seems like a decent bet for the final scene
― ogmor, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 08:54 (five years ago) link
Even though they're obviously supernatural, the wights seem to require to have at least some meat around their bones to be able to move, as we haven't see any skeleton wights. And the crypt seems to be reserved only to the deceased members of the Stark family, most of whom have been dead for decades or centuries, so they wouldn't be in a state where they could be risen. The only one's who could are Catelyn and the headless body of Ned, I think? Was Robb's body ever brought to Winterfell?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 09:14 (five years ago) link
I suspect there will be a moment when Dany can save John, and she demurs or ignores his peril. He won't die then, though.
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 09:58 (five years ago) link
oh shit Zombie littlefinger
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 10:15 (five years ago) link
xps the Gendry and Aria ending is foreshadowed back in the very first episode so definitely possible. Wouldn't it be great and brutal if they did just eventually kill everyone though?
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 10:19 (five years ago) link
Wow, why is GOT denying me the Yara / Gilly meeting I've been clamoring for all these years? I love those two characters soooooo much I've always wondered what they would say if they finally met.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 10:23 (five years ago) link
Even though they're obviously supernatural, the wights seem to require to have at least some meat around their bones to be able to move, as we haven't see any skeleton wights.
Gotta admit, it would be awesome if the finale were state of the art CGI dragons and zombies vs. Harryhausen stop animation skeletons. And that goes for pretty much every show, not just this one.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 11:39 (five years ago) link
Was 2014 that long ago?
― Vernon Locke, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:12 (five years ago) link
There were some Harryhausen skeletons that came to life back in the S4 finale—they killed Jojen
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:14 (five years ago) link
Jinx
I mean, if you have a scale with state-of-the-art at one end and 'Harryhausen' at the other, those are wayyy down the first end of the scale.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 12:34 (five years ago) link
they were animated skeletons fighting with swords and shields, doesn't matter how realistically rendered they are, they owe everything to Harryhausen
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
― Tuomas, Tuesday, April 23, 2019 5:14 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes we have:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHzQ44f4hz4
― Evan, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
I'm in a GoT death sweepstake - the aim is for your randomly selected characters to survive, and you get an extra £10 if one of them has the Throne at the end of the series.
I have Cersei, Sansa and, um, Edd.
― chap, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
the real deaths were the friends we made along the way
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 14:10 (five years ago) link
How did I not realize before that this season is just a remake of Army of Darkness?
― Dan I., Tuesday, 23 April 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
checks out
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:05 (five years ago) link
I'm really glad Edd has survived this long, and they've kept him around -- he was one of my fave characters from the books
― sarahell, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
It also continues to be absolutely amazing to watch Sean Bean perform all roles simultaneously using hand puppets, mannequins rigged into an intricate system of pulleys and levers, etc. A true tour de force
― Dan I., Tuesday, 23 April 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
waiting for lots of Sean Beans to get killed next week
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
i think Ned has just "bean" waiting for the right moment to return
― omar little, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
He was incredibly good as the beans being eaten in the last ep, although it was a little too on-the-nose, casting wise.
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
hope he brings some glue to keep his head on
― mh, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
why is no one on my tl talking about miss sophie referring to gendry as an easter bunny hop hop hopping into that PUSSAY? pic.twitter.com/aA9budFhwz— maia (@maia419) April 22, 2019
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 17:14 (five years ago) link
I hate to say I'd already seen that and seriously wish I hadn't
― Simon H., Tuesday, 23 April 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
well you were duly warned
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
sunday. bran is in the godswood. white walkers breach the walls, begin full scale assault towards bran. theon throws himself in front of white's spear, is impaled--bran goes catatonic. time slows to a freeze. smash cut--it's george rr martin at his apple 2e. his eyes go white, and he begins to type furiously. bran has warged into george, and finishes the remaining books. the picture dissolves into a release date. 4/29/2019.
balance is restored to the world.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
what i wouldn't give for a total wholesale massacre of literally every character in the first fifteen minutes of the next episode, to be followed by 45 minutes and the next four episodes just showing zombies walking around aimlessly
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
OK this last episode was wall-to-wall fanservice and I LOVED it. (The only thing missing would've been the notable omission from ASOS, but that shipped sailed ages ago.)
― Perfect Leee Cromulent (Leee), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
I want the Night King to marry Cersei
― mh, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
Distinct lack of zombie dragon in the massed ranks outside Winterfell, I think that post might be onto something.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 April 2019 18:19 (five years ago) link
was there a zombie giant outside winterfell? if so, how's its milk supply?
― Fictitious Business Name: (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 18:35 (five years ago) link
Whoa, we did NOT see this coming. pic.twitter.com/qMw4cU1suw— ClickHole (@ClickHole) April 22, 2019
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
that instagram story from sophie turner is haunting me. kind of in awe of her ability to create such cursed content
― mh, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 03:54 (five years ago) link
Night King coming after Bran next week seems a lock now which is a shame because seeing him fly south, lay waste to KL and the Golden Company before reanimating their armoured corpses would be fun. Or maybe that's for episode 4 but not including Cersei two weeks in a row seems wrong too.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 08:38 (five years ago) link
https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/58461356_10157355716046738_826687020142166016_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_oc=AQnR36TFhZS1Zt0r-NsTzp2Bym8x8P3VJP965PRfTEePsm5F8oFFv2KH_mrc_yuAK0k&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-1.xx&oh=10ab1153743b916496f20b7840b46780&oe=5D74F867
― nickn, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
that made me lol
― kinder, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
That's hideous, I love it.
― Perfect Leee Cromulent (Leee), Wednesday, 24 April 2019 20:43 (five years ago) link
yeah that is amazing
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 24 April 2019 21:38 (five years ago) link
It just struck me that NK would know that King's Landing existed because they brought a living fucking white walker there.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Thursday, 25 April 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link