So. Game of thrones.
 

boom. spoilers obviously

while it would be easy to pick apart nonsense like how fast characters get to places. i'm just happy to see the story i've been reading/following/watching for a decade actually making the progress i've wanted to see.

i bought hbonow because i didnt want to wait to download it. well worth the 15 bucks. i don't know if its because i'm wearing these insane headphones listening through all my production shit, but man was that as dope as it gets?

the scoring of it and the tone and shit. ENRAPTURED

and i'm happy they wrapped everyone up nicely. winter is here. gonna be FUCKING CRAZY.

but yea if game of thrones isn't your #1 show of all time you are a fucking fool.

Agreed

Tommen jumping out of the window legitimately shocked me at the time, although it's pretty telegraphed in hindsight. I WAS JUST FULL WTF SO I COULDN'T SEE IT COMING.

There was definitely a lot you could nit pick. Arya's travel time and lack of recuperation. Also, how did she get a face? I thought she told the Faceless Men to GTFO, maybe I misread the scene and she's just a freelancer? Perchance she just stashed mad faces when Jhaqen wasn't looking? Whatever. Also, Varys is clones now. What happened with Euron? I know his story line will feature next season but I thought it'd be a bit more prominent. The Hand of the King, and Tyrion shoehorning 'game', felt so fan-servicey that I cringed. NOT A HUGE CRINGE. 20% CRINGE. Might be one or two things I've forgot. They jammed so much in that it couldn't breathe.

BUT










BUT

Shit was dope, bruh. Seeing the ships finally (finally) sailing for Westeros, and Drogon sweeping in. Just: fuck bruh. Cersei going full God Mode. R+L+J. Jaime and Walder's exchange. That piano score bleeding in and out during the entire 30 minute King's Landing scene. The shit-version Sand Snakes getting BTFO by Olenna. So many damn payoffs.

On balance I still think this has been the weakest season of the show, but it had, arguably, the best ending. Last two episodes contend with any two episode stretch of the series. Nailed the fucking ending.

It's not the GOAT show but it'll go down as a classic and as the best genre show ever made.

The director of the last two episodes won't be around the final 2 seasons since he'll be busy being the new Guillermo del toro

Also I am glad they are saving Euron's plot for next season since it's all about the Night King on one side and Dany on the other. Having the wall come down this ep would have just been too much plot.

Word im still thinking this next season will be all consolidating the realm and finishing the human quarrels and the final season will be the battle with the dead

Hopefully. Either way im all in.

i dont even watch GoT tbh (it seems my thing, i just havent got round to it)

but theres way worse directors to wanna be than del Toro

i fuck with his shit heavy

I think we all pretty much knew 2 things for sure...

#1- We knew there was Wildfire on deck and shit was going down

#2- They would elaborate on Jon Snow's birth

^so yeah, those things were predictable, but still nicely done.


I really wasn't expecting them to even have Jon or Sansa in this episode at all after Battle of the Bastards (I figured they'd wait until next season tbh) so the whole King of The North scene with Littlefinger looking like a total hater was very nicely done to me.

Cersei went in on this episode though, that bitch is still raw.

cersei's wardrobe tho good lawd

also jaime is definitely gonna be the little brother than kills her

PROPHECY FULFILLED

Valonquars on deck tbh

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media...dsueorkpne.jpg

*** I WANT TO BELIEVE ***

Also, we see why it's called KING'S LANDING now.

Dude... That whole episode was top notch. But as mentioned earlier, SCORE=A++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Yo, actuallu something has been bugging me since like season 1 or 2. Did we ever find out who the real grand maester was? I remember a very short scene where dude appeared to be younger in actuality and was just dressing like the old guy. But when dude got stabbed to death i was hoping they'd tell us who he was. I think the dark wizard or whatever his name is that brought back the mountain even paused for a second after dude died like i was waiting for him to be like "oh shit, he's really THIS DUDE".

I dunno, think I'm gonna rewatch the whole series soon.

Pycelle's just Pycelle, bruh. He's the Maester. That scene you're referring to is just to show that his character's fragility is a ruse.

i'm not sure what you're referring to. that was grand maester pycelle though. he was the maester in kings landing the entire time the series has been going. i dont remember any younger ones? unless they were in another city.

have we figured out what happened to the horn of winter though? i think thats what it was called. i'm pretty sure in the books mance rayder had it in his tent when stannis showed up and smashed them. i don't remember if it was in the show though, and if it was, where is it now?

doesn't it wash the magic from the wall basically, and allow the white walkers to pass through?

So all that was for was to make you believe he was older than he really was?

But to what end, tho?

You're referring to the scene where we see him in his bedroom ostensibly right after fucking a whore, where he does some mini-calisthenics and is generally much more limber than he puts on, right? The point of that scene was to show that his 'fragile, decrepit old man' persona is ruse. The point of that ruse is for people to underestimate him, basically. Also to show the viewer that he's a player within the machinations of the show, due to his ability to connive.

@uh oh I'm pretty sure the horn was shown in the show? I can't remember specifically. But yeah the horn supposedly brings down the wall but it's not confirmed.

the travailing shit really irks me because you just know next season it's going to take 9 episodes for the dothraki to get across the sea and wreck shit.

so a little googling on the horn has me HMHMHM'ing.

the horn mance had in the books was allegedly fake, and burned along with him. (by him i mean rattleshirt/lord of bones, because melisandre didnt burn mance in the books? i forget all this shit.) but anyways tormund said it was a fake, they found it in a giants grave, and since it was big and crazy or whatever just told them it was it as a tactic like yo just give up the wall or we'll blow this fucker in three days. that said, it did burn all yellow and green and weird, and had old runes carved into it, but again it could just be some old giant magic. not horn of winter magic.

then i came across this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqSdHokQZ8g

from some youtube comments i read some interesting things i can't confirm because again, i have the memory of a retarded circus seal. but allegedly sam still has that horn, and now he's in oldtown. i don't remember sam ever carrying a horn around? but anyways, it could make sense that its the horn of winter, and bran time traveled with his greenseer shit, and put it there for them to find on the fist of the firstmen. it was covered/surrounded in dragonglass which would stop the others/white walkers from using it.

assuming sam still has it, i don't know how the wall will come down. UNLESS he left it with gilly da halfwit, and gillys dumb inbred son blows it

lmao

but yea i dunno.

no way to know if thats it. no way to know if the horn they burned was it. i don't even know if they burned the horn in the show, but they definately burned mance in the show.

im a slow reader i wanted to reread them all and its been a couple weeks now and im still only halfway through the first one.

if they don't show up in episode 1 i'll be pissed lol.

Damn i gotta watch the two last episodes,wasnt able to

Euron's got Dragonbinder.

It bends dragons to the user's will.

This will be a factor.

Really think they'd have shown that at the Kingsmoot. Could be wrong but idk. Like Griff or Stoneheart it might be cut out due to ultimate irrelevance to the main plot. Although without it Euron just acts as a kamikaze in the endgame with no real, higher narrative purpose other than the motivation for Yara to get to Daenerys. Which kind of makes sense, actually. SHOULD BE AN INTERESTING WAIT AND SEE, THAT ONE.

Ok, so i def gotta rewatch this shit cuz uh oh got me hyped about this horn.

And pancake, appreciate the explanation. I always thought he was like an assassin and was waiting for him to kill someone but he never did.


Oh yeah, and just to point it out again, id splooge prefusely on all them young sand snake hos.

He's got all kinds of treasures from his travels, including a certain fireproof/death proof armor IIRC. I think he will play a key foil and side with Cersei before the Night King shows everyone what's up.

I really hope they don't do the Tyrion the Targaryean theory though

The third head of the dragon as a dwarf is just too much

yea i dunno how they will do it. im positive in the books tyrion is a targaryen. but they might leave him out of the show since he's not really needed in that role, daenerys will obviously wed jon snow and boom targaryen dynasty is back. tyrion can still be around i just don't see how outing him as targaryen in the show helps anything, since they already have done away with a targaryen with a strong claim completely in young griff

i forgot about euron and his dragon horn though. i don't remember if he had it in the show, his plan in the show if i remember right is HEY IM A G, WITH A HEAVY DICK. LETS MAKE 1000 SHIPS AND I'LL MAKE THIS DRAGON CHICK MARRY ME IM A FUCKING IRONBORN KRAKEN VIKING.

my main thing i need to see happen though. and by main thing i just mean one thing. ARYA needs to reunite with her wolf. i think tywin touched on the reports when he was at war with robb, of a giant pack of wolves fucking up the supply train. i think i remember that. but it might just be in the books too. but outside of ghost there is still nymeria. and im pretty sure nymeria is leading a super pack of wolves in the westerosi countryside.

i was hoping for no arya this past episode, and next season her making her way to winterfell and getting surrounded by these wolves, and then nymeria comes out like a fucking giant shewolf and arya now has an army of wolves. the only thing though is outside of her dreams i don't think she can warg. so maybe jon will control the army of wolves. either way there better be a god damn army of wolves.

also i hope the arya/jon love story doesn't happen. it was in the original letter to publishers from martin that arya/jon had like a love story going on, and they were too lovey dovey early on. id hate for them to reunite and bang like filthy animals. save that northern dick for the khaleesi dog

also i don't remember who's who. between victarion and euron. i remember one of them picking up a red priest out of the water and having a rotten hand or some shit?

there are too many POV's in the books and around those times i was skimming to more familiar characters lol

Dragon horn has not been on the show. I'm not sure it will be.

Victarion has the fucked hand. He's a beast in terms of physicality/strength but is pretty much a cuck. But: literally. Euron fucked his wife before Euron left for his pillaging. I forget if he's the older one or not, think he is. Wants to marry Danny in the books as well, just to get back at Euron. For the whole, you know, wife thing. The fucking.

Euron 100% badass one eyed GOD MODE sailor cutting tongues out of all his sailors then dragonbinding all day (err day). Bribing mad Iron Islanders with the shitload of loot he has. Cucks Euron then cucks Yara out of queenship. Will die, ultimately a meaningless mean dude.

AERON THE GOAT.

Yall book fucks just confuse the shit outta me.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/eye-openi...191444928.html

Sam's story bout to get interesting tho.

I'm pretty sure Euron gave dragonbinder to Victarian to take to mereen during the siege.

Sam will be King at the end of all this bro fr fr

Yo, that would be raw af

Podrick could be his Hand.

i'm convinced everyone is going to die. martin is a liberal hippy. the white walkers will come, in numbers they couldn't foresee, and they will have the ice dragons of lore, along with the spiders. while all the humans are fighting for control, the white walkers will come and kill everyone, until the entirety of westeros is a frozen tundra. in some liberal play on global warming and making it like yo they were all too concerned with nonsense to see the plight. jon snow is just a shitty al gore.

martins built up enough LORE around the other continents that if he ever wants to come back to this universe he can go full fantasy and write about the shadowlands and sothyros or whatever. or he can go back in his thousands of years of history like he did with dunk and egg

agreed but that article is stupid. those chandelier things are obviously just used to put light into various sections of the library. through mirrors and magnifying lenses to put sun beams in there so you can read and shit. there is no electricity

thats not him

https://twitter.com/GRRMspeaking

he's gone out of his way like usual to not talk about anything game of thrones related outside passing statements about working on the "son of kong". i've been checking to see if he's said anything about the show but there has been nothing. he infuriates me more than anyone.