[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Coltaine93, on 23 May 2016 - 03:40 PM, said:

Has anyone else noticed that Leaf did a hedge? Cusser down and taking the monster(s) with you.

I thought that was a bit silly. She could have just thrown it back and kept running...

[worry]

Not when every second counts. She doesn't just toss the bomb down, she actually lets herself be torn apart while alive -- stalling the front line -- before it explodes.

[Gorefest]

Defiance, on 23 May 2016 - 04:17 PM, said:

So the Wall is definitely going to come crashing down this season, right? I imagine it'd make one hell of a season finale to have the final shot be it collapsing.

Well of course it is. Jon said to Dolorous Edd something along the lines of: "Make sure the Wall doesn't fall over while I'm away" or words to that effect.

He said that to Dolorous Edd. I mean, come on. It does not get any more blatant than that.

You can just picture Edd standing there, looking at it toppling over and sighing: "Fucking typical."

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[QuickTidal]

Rewatched the ending. Still reduces me to a sodden puddle of the floor.

[Traveller]

Those enormous horse statues that keep cropping up look so ridiculously out of place. The Dothraki clearly didn't make them and no one else would put that effort in for them.

Such a good episode; aside from the 'what is dead may never die' yawn. Euron has no charisma,and they didn't even have a scene with the horn being sounded which would have added something.

I loved Jon's looks at Sansa finally acknowledging him as a Stark in all but name- just as everyone watching is realising otherwise.

And Tormund. Fucking priceless.

Great ending, great resolution, wish I'd been able to read that before I saw it.

[Gorefest]

Made the Red Wedding feel like a walk in the park. Although of course we all knew that one was coming a mile away. Hodor really hit home. Damn. To have seen your own death like that, for all those years. Just damn.

[Traveller]

I like the theories questioning what else has Bran messed with.

The mad king pacing the halls saying 'burn them all, burn them all' before Jaime kills him. Is Bran going to be watching that while the wights are after him?

[Werthead]

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Those enormous horse statues that keep cropping up look so ridiculously out of place. The Dothraki clearly didn't make them and no one else would put that effort in for them.

Vaes Dothrak is the trading crossroads of much of the known world, I have no problem believing that the Dothraki simply traded or outright paid for master craftsmen to build the things.

[Traveller]

It's entirely possible for the Dothraki to have got them made; but the way the show portrays them, they are not the sort of culture that would go for that sort of thing in the first place. They are à nomadic, horse oriented warrior tribe - they spurn cities, permanent buildings and collect such things as trophies from towns and cities when they raid them. They can't even get together for a wedding without killing a few people; I can't see a group of them sitting round discussing a communal art commission.

Although it would be pretty funny to watch.

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[Cause]

Well vars dothrak is lined with the godawful. They steal and import statues of other cultures gods! Transporting giant statues across the grass sea on the grease of slaves blood. Just as possible these slaves were made to make the horse statues. I imagine they keep some and sell the rest to slavery Bay.

[amphibian]

The Mongols did exactly that hundreds of years ago. (Bringing in craftsmen to build kinda senselessly opulent things)

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[Khellendros]

Can't see Meera pulling along Bran by herself for much longer. What price Benjen Stark popping up, or perhaps even a man with very chilly hands (and a convenient elk)?

[Andorion]

Heartbreaking episode.

Hodor and Bran was just a gut-punch.

How the hell are they supposed to get away? Meera is not strong enough.

Why did they kill Summer?


So Sansa and Jon are going to rally the Northern houses?

Sansa should have gotten Brienne to stab Littlefinger. Big mistake there.

An awesome line from Brienne. "He is so brooding... Understandable though."

Arya's sequence - this is going to be important - I tihnk that play troupe might be Arya's vehicle back to Westeros


Dany just telling Jorah to heal himself. Ridiculous.


The Kingsmoot - just plain stupid. But then again I have felt for sometime that the Ironborn as a culture are extremely stupid.

Yara had a good claim, all Euron said was "She is a woman, I know a Dragon Queen"

Also Euron does not look intimidating at all. Kind of plump, and chubby.

I was wondering throughout the Drowning what would happen if he actually died.


Will Yara take the Iron Fleet to Dany now? Where will she go?

[JPK]

Now Brienne is headed to the Riverlands to help round up this army that Littlefinger guided Sansa towards. I just can't help but feel this is another sudden but inevitable betrayal coming along. I mean... "It's time for the Vale to join the fray Frey." How much more obvious can you get?

[Nevyn]

worry, on 23 May 2016 - 04:53 AM, said:

Yup I'm with all y'all. Brutal.

As far as the tree goes, I think the Raven had to be part of it just to stick around. I mean he's 1000 years old because of the tree, not because of the Greensight. Plus he could send projections into Bran's dreams when Bran was in bed at Winterfell. Maybe touching it was just a matter of Bran's novice level. Whisperz's idea is pretty cool though.

Anyway, there's no way Meera can drag Bran all the way south. Maybe -- finally -- the return of Benjen to help them out?

Indeed it is rather amazing that with all those wights about, there is any escape route at all.

As for Bran and Meera, they could get help, Bran could find an ability to help them, or they could be caught (bye Meera) and Bran wargs into something and escapes.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

The episode was great, what an ending.

I haven't read the books in a while so could be misremembering, but what's with killing the direwolves? My memory is you're sledge hammered with the fact the wolves are important to the Stark children, Sansa losing Lady was supposed to be a huge thing - now that's two down in as many episodes and only Nymeria (lost) and Ghost left.

I know I'm pretty harsh on Martin but this doesn't feel like misdirection - far too much build up for that. It feels like the wolves were important and then he changed his mind (unless of course the death of the wolves is show-only, but it didn't feel like there was a way for Summer to get out of there).

[Terez]

Khellendros, on 23 May 2016 - 11:49 PM, said:

Can't see Meera pulling along Bran by herself for much longer. What price Benjen Stark popping up, or perhaps even a man with very chilly hands (and a convenient elk)?

Someone saves them, judging from the previews. Probably Coldhands, and probably as a result of Bran's skinchanging.

Just Plain Kitsu, on 24 May 2016 - 03:14 AM, said:

Now Brienne is headed to the Riverlands to help round up this army that Littlefinger guided Sansa towards. I just can't help but feel this is another sudden but inevitable betrayal coming along. I mean... "It's time for the Vale to join the fray Frey." How much more obvious can you get?

Yup, agreed; this is pretty obvious. And Sansa was stupid to let him get away. I'm just not sure if this story can afford for Littlefinger to be successful one more time, though. My sincere hope is that, after Jaime and Brienne have their confrontation (according to a leak), Jaime decides to go against Cersei's orders and join Riverrun against the Freys. And maybe Sansa's connection to her cousin Robin will play some part too. I just can't remember how close they got in the show. It would be in line with Jaime's character development, especially in the books when she sends for him and he ignores her letter. Something is churning there, and I hope it's good.

[Khellendros]

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 24 May 2016 - 05:38 AM, said:

The episode was great, what an ending.

I haven't read the books in a while so could be misremembering, but what's with killing the direwolves? My memory is you're sledge hammered with the fact the wolves are important to the Stark children, Sansa losing Lady was supposed to be a huge thing - now that's two down in as many episodes and only Nymeria (lost) and Ghost left.

I know I'm pretty harsh on Martin but this doesn't feel like misdirection - far too much build up for that. It feels like the wolves were important and then he changed his mind (unless of course the death of the wolves is show-only, but it didn't feel like there was a way for Summer to get out of there).

All of the CG animal money was spent on the dragons?

[Tattersail_]

Has anyone got a link to next week's teaser?

This episode, although great, felt quite short once again.

[Maark Abbott]

Hodor had me nearly in bits. It's rare that a TV show does that but there was Hodor's knowledge of what was to come, and the fact that Bran's face clearly showed that he knew he was not only responsible for Hodor's death, but that Hodor's entire condition was his fault. Necessary, perhaps... but still his fault.