HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

Is that the internet?

Dumont Network iirc

I'm guessing that Jaqen is testing or playing a trick on the Waif because she's too smug, aggressive and hateful.

^ thought crossed my mind as well

yeah, personal revenge seems totally contrary to the Faceless Men's whole deal. She fucked up

I can see why someone might see most of this show as part 2 of a trilogy. After the first season it's been a scramble of characters and locations, with a slow, slow, slow shift toward getting them back together for a common goal.

read book 1, didn't see any episodes until s6 - but seemed p easy to catch up w the story since everything relates directly to what happened in first book/season

Certainly that's what set events in motion. But I'm not convinced it's really gone anywhere since then, just a lot of circles.

everything after season 1 has felt like the second part in a trilogy -- still reacting to the events of season 1, with no resolution in sight.

This is a good point and pretty defensible I think. Ned's execution is the end of Act One. I think Jon's assassination was the end of Act Two, though.

not enough has been revealed about the endgame to say we're in the third act yet -- until cards are on the table, we're still in the baggy middle

So a bunch of season details got leaked by a user named "truede" and were proven right in the last 3 episodes. I won't comment on them except to say that I regret reading them.

a user, you say

a reddit user, even

Is that reveal the first pre-credit sequence scene they've done?

They've done it about two or three other times I think

hey hound

poor swearengen :(

Sansa's eyes were v pretty this episode.

"62" is a terrific punchline.

A girl will die of peritonitis

Diana rigg please dont die

nice episode.

break out the canned peaches! first ep of the season that felt legit. screen perks up every time rory mccann's on it. didn't know how much I missed him til he showed back up.

Arya walking around bleeding from guts and just getting odd looks kind of supports the Waif/Tyler Durden theory

Was wondering how she managed to survive something like that in a period before modern medicine. Thought that final twist was normal done to ensure fatality. & that whatever river that was probably wouldn't be the cleanest if it ran through a major city for the time like that seems to be.

wait there's a waif/tyler durden theory?

I can't help but notice that Arya and Theon are racing to get to Mereen and try to ally with Dany ahead of Euron, having stolen the entire Iron Islands fleet just at the time that Dany, the Unsullied and the Dothraki need ships. I really hope the plotting hasn't become THAT transparent.

I predict it will soon be revealed that Lysa Arryn was caught by Lady Stoneheart after she fell through the moon door, then rowed to safety by Gendry.

but dany has needed ships this whole time and arya is not trying to get to mereen as far as i can tell

i was trying to figure out who killed the people the hound was with but then i realized i didn't even know where he was

xpost Not Arya, he meant Enya or whatever the name of Theon's sister is, right?

Er, yeah, whatever the hell her name is. Yara. (In the books it's Asha. WTG HBO.)

Dana had at least some ships a couple of weeks ago until somebody burned them in the harbor.

Thought it was odd that they felt the need to make her gay/bi, just because she happened to be a strong woman taking on a male role? Maybe being overly critical.

the implication was that the dudes from the Brotherhood Without Banners killed McShane and co.

which would indicate a bit of a policy change since we last saw them

Yeah, the Hound even said "They're from the Brotherhood." (Assuming the same guys came back, since it happened off-screen.)

Would news of the whole Tommen/Margaery alliance with the faith have spread already? If so, maybe given their belief in the Lord of Light, the BWB would consider it their duty to wipe out anything having to do with the Seven.

The plotting has been that transparent this entire season!

the boggledness on this thread is frequently boggling to me. Disappointed we got no Sean Bean in this ep though

BTW assuming the BwoB are competent raiders and paid their first visit to recon the congregation, you'd think they'd have wondered "wait where's the big one" after slaughtering everybody else.

i like how the hound was conveniently chopping trees Very Far Away when the attack happened

Not a good episode overall but so so happy to see The Hound again, Diana Rigg's scenes were good and I'm really interested in whatever is happening to Arya.

Considering there's only three episodes of the season left, it does seem like it's been treading water so far.

If Arya just bleeds out in the streets of Braavos and we never hear of the Faceless Men again it'll be a shaggy dog story for all time

literally the only person in braavos that arya has a sympathetic connection with right now is actress lady so i am assuming she will take her in, but not sure how arya recovers enough to be doing the extreme parkour teased (again) by the preview

Magic!

for some reason I was waiting for the dream sequence reveal re: Arya

anyone else disappointed that Arya Stark didn't die?

Someone at io9 posted a long and somewhat ludicrous comment to the effect that that wasn't Arya at all, but Jaqar, based mostly on the fact that she tossed the money right-handed rather than left-handed and seemed overly nostalgic about leaving Braavos. I'm sure the waif wouldn't have noticed the 2-foot height difference, so seems legit.

Something is definitely weird with the Arya thing -- why would she just be hanging out on that bridge after the end of last episode?

Even though I like the character, I was a bit disappointed by the Hound appearing. Way too many people coming back from the dead (I know that technically he didn't die, but this is basically the same thing).

Now it looks like Arya is going to have an almost dead moment. Was wondering if this was going to set up Arya joining the Lord of Light religion, since maybe they would be able to cure her? I could basically see all of the main characters independently converting to this religion. That would be a bit of a weird turn, but might work. Lord of Light worship would be this world's Christianity.

I was against johns return for the same reason - you ruin tension if a death is not a death. Of course there is lots of that in the books.

If Arya died right now it would have no effect on the larger narrative so she's definitely not going to die.

If you want to show the strangeness and brutality of power and monarchy etc, why not highlight the fact that an entire people's hope and fate can be tied up in one person who then just happens to die from food poisoning, or gets stabbed by his guards, and so on. That's not something to shy away from.