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

And just kept going back, and back, and back, thousands of years ...

what're the odds on cersei blowing up king's landing in the final ep

The what's west of westeros line gave me hope that everyone would unite to go commit genocide on some undiscovered continent

― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Monday, June 13, 2016 2:28 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

varya and the iron born finally ascend the shores of a new continent, slow pan out to reveal buried hand of statue of liberty just a few dozen feet in

camera pulls back to reveal the night king sitting with his eyes closed on a hilltop, his teeth bared in a wide grin
cue sound: "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmonyyyyyy"

― De La Soul is no Major Lazer (ulysses), Monday, June 13, 2016 2:32 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the night king is v misunderstood he broke all his vows and scandalized his child but he's an artist at heart

i had what i thought was an original plot guess, which i found was already doing the rounds, that cersei would break and try to wildfire it all down and jamie would kill her to stop it, echoing the last time someone tried to burn them all. with the way the books have handled their relationship that seems a plausible development. however, having a scene like in this episode where jamie talks about how he would do anything for her, only for him to kill her a couple episodes later, is pretty reasonable for the show's MO. whatever his failings, grrm insists on causality in a way the show hasn't always.

i know grrm doesn't really ~do~ chekhov, but the wildfire seems like a pretty big gun sitting on the mantelpiece

I like that theory Roberto.

It may be more likely that Cersei uses the wildfire to kill the Sparrows, inadvertently kills Tommen, and then Jamie turns against her.

i can buy that if only bc i find it hard to believe that we've seen the last of jaime and brienne together and cersei would have to cersei her way out of that for them to have a path.

also if davos gets killed in the big battle next week i'll be pissed, he's a top 3 likable character for me.

That's why he'll probably die.

i'm not entirely unconvinced LSH won't make an appearance, the jaime and edmure conversation felt like some kind of setup beyond the scenes immediately following. also dang i never knew edmure had it in him, ballsy to go at the kingslayer like that.

also yeah davos is probably toast :/

If Davos dies I hope they have time for an autopsy, otherwise everyone will assume he's coming back

LSH would be a little much in a season that already has one major resurrection and another major reemergence. It would be both of those things at once and a bit excessive right now.

LSH should be abandoned entirely imo as it thus far has been

if davos dies i fuckin riot

LSH has either been hiding around quietly for a long time now or she is a pile of bones at this point.

Wouldn't be shocked if she makes an appearance in the season finale, at the very end, and then we have to wait until the next season for anything to happen. Jon Snow redux. After all, this is still television, where the easiest and most obvious thing to do is often the choice that is made.

There has been a shitload of character deaths though and only two (?) have come back from the dead. (We never knew the fate of The Hound).

What was the rumour that Cersei & Qyburn were talking about? Or do we not know yet?

p sure that about hiden caches of wildfyre. presumably there is some being kept underneath the sept

why does everyone keep saying we didn't know the fate of the hound? didn't preacher dude say pretty explicitly that he found him in really bad shape and nursed him to health? or am i making that up?

Because we only found that out a week ago?

For a season and a half whether he was deD or nt was up in the air

Didn't know Hound was alive or dead, didn't know if Benjen was alive or dead, didn't know if Bronn was ever coming back, Jon Snow back from the dead, Mountain back from the dead, Beric is back from the dead. Probably forgetting a couple.

The Hound was left for dead, and didn't appear for several seasons. I mean, no, we never saw the body, but it's not out of the ordinary to say that he's come back from the dead. Benjen returned from the dead as well, btw. That's four characters in eight episodes whos deaths were 'fakeouts'. Is that a better way of saying it? Also, I fear/hope the Blackfish might soon join them.

Benjen was never dead, was he? Pretty sure he was just missing North of the Wall.

I never thought that Benjen was dead (or rather, that his story was over). If it wasn't expected that he would come back at some point, he would have never been in the show to begin with.

Wait Hound, Snow and Benjen

Who is the 4th? Arya?

You can't be serious about Bronn

Arya's almost dying but then somehow killing the Waifinator bothered me way more than the Hound or Jon coming back

as far as implausibilities go

Mountain, Snow, Benjen, Hound.

For what it's worth I always assumed The Mountain wasn't ever necessarily dead, just as close as possible before being engineered into Frankenstein's monster.

ned stark

Benjen was missing since the very beginning and only had a few brief cameos in flashbacks so it's not really comparable with Jon et al

they also pulled edmure out of a dungeon where he's apparently been kept since the red wedding

Arya's almost dying but then somehow killing the Waifinator bothered me way more than the Hound or Jon coming back

― silverfish, Monday, June 13, 2016 4:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Arya was pretty fucked up but probably executed a sick riposte to the waif's knife lunge in the dark Zatoichi style, given she was blind for a bit.

Mountain was returning all of last season, not this one

did like the move with slicing the candle off and then the cut away. thought that was pretty deft as this stuff goes.

Yeah, no Bronn doesn't count, any more than the return of Gendry would be a surprise. But Beric, as I noted, is also back from the dead. Resurrected by Thoros of Myr (thanks internet!). In fact, I think he's been killed twice, by the Mountain and by Arya. Blackfish offscreen death dubious, but then, Stannis didn't get the honor of getting killed onscreen either.

??? The Hound kills Beric on screen, the other time(s) he died were merely explained to the audience as having happened prior to the introduction to the Brotherhood

Mountain returned definitively in episode ten of season 5. Hound returned in episode 7 of season six. That's eight episodes.

Sorry, I think I misread him as one of Arya's prior victims (there have been a lot of people killed on this show). Anyway, he's been killed 6 times or something.

Yeah but that's just his thing

I think this season is the show spending the capital it earned by killing off a ton of characters in the few several seasons

Do you think the waif underwent the blindness lesson? I expect Arya could put out the candle and zatoichi her. does the waif know of arya's sword training in winterfell?

― remove butt (abanana), Tuesday, May 31, 2016 6:20 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I called that one.

I don't know why Thoros and Beric are still around. And the show mentioned Cat in two different scenes this episode. I don't see LSH happening this late in the game.

Steadicam shot of the actress walking backstage was pretty cool i thought

How was Arya able to finally defeat waif if she'd been getting her arse kicked so badly by her all the other times previous?

She used a trick and her life depended on it. The stab wounds and all the falling are a different story.

That Mountain tho. That club couldnt even deal with him right now!