New HBO Series: Game of Thrones

[Numero Veinticinco]

Hurry up internet terrorists! Release the finale! There's a good bunch of lads.

Yeah, that's what I've been thinking. We need HBO Spain to accidentally leak it. Again.

[aws]

There's a plot summary on YouTube if you can't wait.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

There's a plot summary on YouTube if you can't wait.

That would spoil the episode for me. I rarely even watch the teasers.

[Baltar]

***SPOILER FOR RECENT EPISODE***

 

 

Tyrion is the stupidest character on the show. How has he become a moron? Fuck me. His list of failures is shocking. Due to his strategies, Dany has lost Dorne, lost High Garden, lost the Greyjoy rebels and their fleet, has the Unsullied stranded in the Westerlands, and lost a whole fucking dragon due to his hairbrained idea of kidnapping a wight! He didn't cover himself in glory in Essos either. And now for the finale, his crazy decision to meet Cersei. Yes, let's gather all of Cersei's enemies in the same place at the same time (as the episode 7 preview indicates). How did that work out for her enemies in King's Landing? They all got blown to bits. Obviously the "good guys" are going to get double-crossed and there will be losses. But let's go see Cersei and show her a walking corpse, that will make her an ally, oh yes....

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Dany's inability to have children has been mentioned many, many times.

 

Aye, but John Snow will have the power of super sperm being as he was brought back to life, or summit like that.

 

Anyway. 

 

What a cracking fucking episode. OK, the chain thing was a bit random, but loads of things are, in a fantasy you can basically make anything up. I was basically getting the plot for this right when telling the missus what i thought was going to happen. Next week is going to be epic, although I get the feeling we'll be left on a cliffhanger and then have to wait over a fucking year to watch the conclusion. I also have a feeling it will involve that slippery bitch Cersei, her cunt Qyburn, a dungeon and some royal prisoners. I also wonder if all three dragons will be taken out of the equation as they take on the Whitewalkers and wipe them out. 

 

I better not die before this whole thing is wrapped up early 2019. 

[General Dryness]

Do John and the king of the ice army have some connection or is it just that they are both the respected leaders which is why they keep eyeing each other up?

 

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The Night King is future/past Bran

 

Its one of the million theories floating around. Not totally on board with it myself, but its as good as any.

[Spy Bee]

When John laid some blade on that whitewalker and they all exploded, why did one remain?

 

 

The dragon on chains thing still does my head in. Did they have dead little scuba divers connecting the chains to the dragon?

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

When John laid some blade on that whitewalker and they all exploded, why did one remain?

 

 

The dragon on chains thing still does my head in. Did they have dead little scuba divers connecting the chains to the dragon?

 

 

They actually talked about that, they reckoned because they killed the one whitewalker responsible for turning them the rest exploded. The one that remained was probably not one that was changed by the whitewalker they killed. 

[Hand Shandy]

They don't breathe. They're dead.

[Gooch]

They actually talked about that, they reckoned because they killed the one whitewalker responsible for turning them the rest exploded. The one that remained was probably not one that was changed by the whitewalker they killed. 

 

To be honest, the more I think about the it, the worse the episode seems. Too much convenient shite like this.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Danaerys is always immaculately turned out. She must have dress makers, hairstylist and manicurist working round the clock .

[M_B]

Great TV aside - There has been a massive lack of tits the last two episodes. What's going on?

[Tyler Durden]

When John laid some blade on that whitewalker and they all exploded, why did one remain?

 

 

The dragon on chains thing still does my head in. Did they have dead little scuba divers connecting the chains to the dragon?

 

Maybe they knew they'd need the chains...

[Curly]

I'm enjoying this series, but it does all seem too fast, compared to the pace previously set. The last 2 series were ridiculously slow and now this. The turning up places in the blink of an eye is crazy.

 

That said, still buzz off it.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I mean, how in the fucking fuck are people griping about this, it's history making television.

[cuppatea]

There's been a trade off since they overtook the source material of the quality of writing having massively declined but the excitement and pace (which at times was slow, bordering on tedious) having ramped up. This last episode went too far in that direction for me. Watching 5 people with plot armour hold off an army of 5000, when their reason for being there in the first place makes no sense whatsoever was fucking boring. More and more it feels like a show in which it's better to just disengage your brain and enjoy the cool, nonsensical shit happening on screen for what it is.

[Gooch]

There's been a trade off since they overtook the source material of the quality of writing having massively declined but the excitement and pace (which at times was slow, bordering on tedious) having ramped up. This last episode went too far in that direction for me. Watching 5 people with plot armour hold off an army of 5000, when their reason for being there in the first place makes no sense whatsoever was fucking boring. More and more it feels like a show in which it's better to just disengage your brain and enjoy the cool, nonsensical shit happening on screen for what it is.

 

Agree with this, the quality has varied wildly since its overtaken the books. The showrunners are in a difficult spot though. Martin seems intent on putting it off as long as possible. I'm not sure the cunt will ever finish the books off in time given the state of him.

[Elite]

Someone on Reddit named Gendry, Gendry Maratheon due to his cardio exploits (Rowing and Running).

 

Also they should do a Tormund and the Hound spin off, it'd be hilariously brilliant.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Just watched it again with my mates who hadn't seen it. It was as good the second time.

 

Hurry up nerds.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

It's not a complaint but it seems strange he didnt lob the spear at the dragon sitting right next to him with the queen and all the crew sitting on it.

[cloggypop]

It's not a complaint but it seems strange he didnt lob the spear at the dragon sitting right next to him with the queen and all the crew sitting on it.

Especially after one shotting the previous one with his ice javelin at distance.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

Yea he's pretty fucking chilled. Never broke a walking pace. Guess that's white they're called white walkers and not white runners, eh? Amirite?

 

I'll get my coat.

[Corfitzen]

When John laid some blade on that whitewalker and they all exploded, why did one remain?

 

 

The dragon on chains thing still does my head in. Did they have dead little scuba divers connecting the chains to the dragon?

 

 

 

 

In a show with multiple dragons, a priestess giving birth to a shadow demon, and white walkers with a zombie army. Raising a dragon with four metal chains are doing your head in? Tough crowd

 

[Remmie]

The timescales are pretty mental now, it took the king a month to ride to Winterfell from Kings Landing in the first episode, now, Dragonstone to North of the wall seems to happen instantaneously. All the while weeks/months pass in Winterfell with Bran knowing everything and doing fuck all. Has no one noticed the Freys have all been slaughtered yet? Why did Gendry and all the others split off in different directions? Why not all fuck off back to the Wall?

 

As said above, best not to pick holes, it's still very enjoyable but a bit frustrating at the same time. Also norrarsed about the whitewalkers, would like them to be killed off in the next episode but almost no chance of that happening. Have any important characters been killed off this whole season? I'm not talking about that wanky Dennis Pennis priest, I mean important ones?  Who do you reckon it will be as surely someone will fall in the final episode? Brienne perhaps? Maybe even Tyrion? He is such a secondary character now, after being the star early doors he's almost an irrelevance. What price a double-cross from Varys?

[Remmie]

Also, absolutely fuming about the spoiler for the episode coming from the comments section of the Madrid Barca match on youtube. People who post spoilers need to be strung up by the nads.