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

I guess next episode will probably just cut to them holding their lead but still.

Nah. Next episode Coldhands / Friendly Zombie Benjen is going to have to show up and save them from certain death AGAIN. you watch.

Summer dying was such a drag :(

good ol uncle benjen is gonna rescue bran.

calling it now: arya runs off with the mummers

Otm re coldhands, this is exactly the time for him to butt in

so he held the door long enough for bran to get dragged what 30, 40 feet into the snow? they'll never get him now

― am0n, Monday, May 23, 2016 10:13 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

otm

final children of the forest death scene was so cliched

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha4Nvw4YFls

exactly what I thought of

I'm guessing this part of Arya's story will conclude soon. It's not always the most exciting plot thread but right now it's the one I'm most interested in seeing where it goes. There's pretty much no way she'll become a faceless person.

They've got to get on with it though! When she got her eyes back I was convinced that was that, but nope- more scenes of her getting whacked with a stick.

calling it now: arya runs off with the mummers

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Monday, May 23, 2016 1:16 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like it

the setup for arya's impending departure from the house of black and white would've made more sense if she had kicked that girl's ass in their fight this episode. arya is established as a bad ass and it's time to move on. maybe that is too pat and obvious but the alternative - that she leaves and the whole drawn out experience hasn't really resulted in anything at all - is surely worse. it wasn't even close either, that girl fucked her up. the story should be about her instead.

the whole thing is shes not really cut out for this religious assassin life

I feel like they're driving towards her ultimately leaving without converting fully while still being able to abuse the face-swapping/fighting skillz she picked up during her training.

also like how far will she go against her presumed innate starkian qualities before turning back xp

What's a Stark quality? Dying?

She's gonna pull a Luke Skywalker.

I think a lot of that audience hates that girl and wants Arya to beat her up. I think the girl also has a bit of an ego for a supposedly faceless person and she might suffer for it.

I really don't think Arya will be able to complete the training because Jaqen will probably know if she still wants to be a Stark. And I don't think all this training will yield nothing.

where did bran get the clothes he's wearing? didn't know there was a balmain x rick owens outlet in the big tree.

Did Littlefinger really expect Sansa to accept his claims of ignorance and his apology?

final children of the forest death scene was so cliched
― 龜, Monday, May 23, 2016 1:33 PM

haha i could throw this grenade which is what you tend to do with them but nah i'll stand and hold it

tree also gives out cool bowl cuts to all students

Did Littlefinger really expect Sansa to accept his claims of ignorance and his apology?

― sarahell, Monday, May 23, 2016 2:48 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

prob not

just wondering what his game is, outside of inciting a war between North ppl that will ideally kill a lot of them off

seems like hes just trying to get her to attack winterfell and the point of that meeting was to tell her that her uncle has an army that can help, once the boltons are gone he becomes the warden of the north

unless the other Northern houses are stoked on House Stark and then he has competition? Like wouldn't he want the Boltons and the Starks to die?

cersei did promise it to him but ya obvs in reality it cld get messy, maybe hes planning on swooping in and defeating sansa after shes weakened from fighting the boltons, his whole scheme seems kinda weird and bad like what was the point of giving sansa to the boltons in the first place if he wants to replace them it just alienated her

all the gripes ITT are either nonsense or nbd, this was good. there's still scope for at least one more big face-swapping betrayal ala mission impossible 2, could make for a stylish exit for arya

it's kinda his Gulf of Tonkin though

whatever happened to Sansa, he would still conceivably win -- if she stayed with the Boltons and was mistreated, it would be a pretext for war, if she escaped the Boltons, it would still be a pretext for war.

plants vs. zombies was fun

i like the arya joins the mummers concept. hope that happens

yes, more rhyming

was wondering why the children didn't have dragonglass weapons other than the one spear they threw

they did when the first girl tried to hit him it just hit his armor

lol @ the actor kevin eldon
yay @ zombie fight

final children of the forest death scene was so cliched
― 龜, Monday, May 23, 2016 1:33 PM

haha i could throw this grenade which is what you tend to do with them but nah i'll stand and hold it

― am0n, Monday, May 23, 2016 2:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah but they swarm her if she holds it so better kill count. If she threw it they wouldn't have any reason to stop and accumulate so it'd be less effective DUUUUHHHH

Why did the children of the forest want to sacrifice themselves for Bran? I wasn't sure on that point, seemed overly altruistic

I think old tree dude is actually bran. That would explain it, I guess.

he's not bran in the books

he's still just bran from the block

Who is he in the books?

There's a theory that 3 eyed sparrow or Bran was behind the whispers that drove the Mad King mad

in the books he's brynden rivers, bastard of the mad king. also known as lord bloodraven

only to close friends

Well the "now you become me" comment combined with the time warp suggests that this show wants him to be bran but what do i know?

well they omit all the bloodraven stuff in the show so you could be right. but i thought he just meant that he's old and his replacement is ready.

Can you or can't you envision Max von Sydow as a young, legless britpoper is what it all boils down to, I guess.

lost really did stuff to people's ability to watch televison huh

def

Wonder who's idea it was to give Jon a man-bun?

Next episode preview shows the Lannisters gearing up to stop Margaery's walk of shame.