HBO adaptation of Game of Thrones - will this be just for nerds? (NO SPOILERS PLEASE)

Think it was vinegar though now that you mention it I'm curious

Probably my favorite episode of the series

vinegar would make a lot more sense, people DO put mignonette on oysters
i swear i heard vanilla though

the last half of that episode was the most metal thing we will ever see on television

Well it did feature Mastadon.

great episode - each thread was interesting, not least maisie williams' fire oyster-merchant hairdo.

so what's the deal with rob's sword? is it the fact he was wielding it or is it just that he never knew it was dragonglass?

john's sword i mean

Valyrian steel, I think

was there some thing before about his real father being a targeryen?

xpost i thought valyrian steel had stopped sponsoring this show

there's a popular theory about who his parents are

did samwell inadvertantly convince that kid to kill j.s.

Yeah, great episode, one of the most satisfying for all the stuff they managed to fit in, but it was really dumb of Jon to admit to killing Mance without laying out the circumstances first.

I thought the ice king that Jon smashed came back but it must be a similar looking ice king.

Wondering what percentage of the wildlings survived. Perhaps Jon should have been more careful because maybe without him, none of the wildlings would be allowed back, but maybe the advance of the white walkers changes what crows would allow. Doesn't look like there's a big tribe of giants. That one giant must be hardy as fuck to swim through freezing water.
In season 2 I thought white walkers would simply advance until they killed everyone but obviously they've been doing other stuff, going back and forth. Otherwise they would have killed loads in season 3.

Keeping in mind that the cast of the show have repeatedly said episode 10 is going to have a major shocker that's supposed to be bigger than anything before. I'm going to guess it's not totally due to characters dying. Perhaps something with Arya coming into totally new territory.

I was hoping Cersei will die this season but now I want her to at least get revenge on the Sparrows.

There's a lot to fit into next two episodes. They're called "The Dance of Dragons" and "Mother's Mercy". I presume the mother is either Daenerys or Cersei.

Add to missing list: Brynden Tully. Maybe he'll come in and kill someone.

Also wondering how much of the wildlings were killed behind those doors. Looked like a lot.

it was really dumb of Jon to admit to killing Mance without laying out the circumstances first.

this was really bad writing. like it's a sensitive situation and he just decides to clown them by announcing he shot an arrow "through his heart", conveniently paving the way for pirate steve to show his trust for him.

also the "he may be prettier than my daughters" thing didn't work too well with that incredibly striking scandinavian-looking female wildling standing there.

how did i miss striking scandinavians?!

so how many seasons will it take for the whitewalkers to cross the river?

Jon admitting to killing Mance w/o context was pretty consistent with how dumb Jon's always been

Xxxxxp didn't the sparrow guy say 'mother's mercy' is what the tyrells would get if they plead guilty for their sins? I'm guessing it's not actually hugely merciful

probably you get sent to a nunnery way in the south where a bunch of monsters are attacking

Guessing that Cersei thinks it sounds quite nice, confesses to having Lancelot kill Robert, shagging Lancelot etc. and them discovers that it isn't actually that great.

lol Lancelot, thanks phone

idk why ppl loved that ep quite so hard but it was cool when dany revealed herself to be a revolutionary

i didn't completely understand the interaction between cersei and the...guy who i recognize but can't remember really. seems like he was hinting at some sort of move he could pull to get her out of there?

he was being kinda coy

Is there a suggestion that Frankenmountain might be ready to go pretty soon

o right he did say something abt the maester right

i didn't completely understand the interaction between cersei and the...guy who i recognize but can't remember really. seems like he was hinting at some sort of move he could pull to get her out of there?

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qyburn, her disgraced former maester dude. him saying there's a way out is p much telling her "uhhh youre fucked you should probably confess," but saying "the work continues" is qyburn-code for "your zombie guardian is almost ready"

that said even a frankenclegane could prob be defeated somehow i highly doubt that it just singlehandedly kills all of cersei's 9 zillion enemies

Trial by combat?

Can imagine Qyburn sitting on Mountain's shoulders and throwing dangerous chemicals.

somebody's been playing bloodbourne

Trial by combat is such an unfair advantage for the people who have access to giant grunts

really enjoyed seeing cersei licking water off the floor. she is the worst, i hate her.

lol

Cersei scene made me think of KISS's "Lick It Up" so that was some kind of positive. The battle scene was a pleasant surprise, although I don't think they shot it very well - all those abrupt/jump-cut shots of people bludgeoning each other, that's not how you do a well-orchestrated battle scene imo

i think the point was that it was m/l a one-sided bloodbath rather than a battle

sure

why can't zombies go in the water?

maybe they dissolve.

they should just walk along the ocean floor underneath the boats then when the boats arrive at their destination the zombies just walk up out of the water behind them "oh hai"

it chills them to the bone ha ha

Rules

if a dude (the night's king) who only needs to go flicka the wrist to raise fresh dead from the fields solely as a parting troll gesture wanted to kill everyone then and there, he prob would have

its seems like the white walkers r gonna be hard to defeat only dragons prob cld do it

i bet dragon glass, valarian steel, and dragon fire all kill white walkers

seems like normal fire should work on the normal zombies tho

isn't there another valyrian blade out there? who has it? jamie? or bronn or brienne? i can't really remember.

Xpost #killallwhitewalkers

jamie and brienne each have ones that were melted down from the very big sword i think

brienne and jon have them, jaime took the one that was supposed to be joffrey's i think, a handful of other lords have them

tyrion had a valyrian steel dagger but its prob long gone

eddard's valyrian sword was melted down into 2 by twyin and he gave them to jamie and joffrey. jamie gave his to brienne, and i guess tommen has joffrey's now.