Watch Game of Thrones? Use this space to talk about what just happened. And god(s) help those of you who click through hoping to avoid spoilers.
GoT thread
by Tim F| 30 Comments
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by Tim F| 30 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads, Popular Culture
Watch Game of Thrones? Use this space to talk about what just happened. And god(s) help those of you who click through hoping to avoid spoilers.
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PsiFighter37
You knew it was going to happen!!!
Kristine Smith
“Heeeee’s baaaa-aack.”
Tim F.
Obviously by ‘what just happened’ I mean Hodor could talk!!!
This changes everything.
Walker
Interesting that there was no Kiss of Life. That was previously required for this to work.
Tim F.
@PsiFighter37: I knew how it would happen, but that does not change the ohshitohshitohshit factor.
BTW does anyone else get the impression that the showrunners are done screwing around? The main cast is getting pruned – and un-pruned – at an awfully rapid clip.
scottinnj
i don’t think Ramsey Bolton’s tactics are going to help him with the super delegates if the nomination for the Iron Throne goes to a second ballot
Kristine Smith
@Tim F.:
Last week I read that they may try to wrap this all up with this season and a shorter S7. If true, they need to get going because there are a lot of loose ends to tie off.
mellowjohn
Jon Snow was only “mostly dead.”
that’s why the Red Woman looked so much like Miracle Max at the end of last week’s episode.
Mary G
Yes!
cleek
Sanders : entitled
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-clinton-faces-contested-convention/story?id=38803835
Mike in NC
People are definitely losing interest in the show. Needs more dragons.
max
@Mike in NC: People are definitely losing interest in the show. Needs more dragons.
Not at all. I just had to watch the last episode of Grantchester, and now I’m watching Penny Dreadful. In an hour or two I’ll watch GoT.
max
[‘Next week, GoT on time.’]
Mike in NC
@max: We don’t get Showtime but I enjoyed several episodes of Penny Dreadful on a flight to and from Germany in December.
moonbat
I also was happy to see Tyrion loose the dragons. So Jon Snow warged into his dire wolf? Did the Red Woman really bring him back or did he bring himself?
Mike J
Game of Trumps?
If you vote for a Republican, they’re going to try to screw you as much as they try to screw the country. John Lydon has a message for Republicans.
SFAW
@Mike J:
You misspelled “Chumps.”
patroclus
Ramsay killed Roose and Walda, Bran is back and all grown up, Arya lost her name, Tyrion freed the dragons, Balon Greyjoy bought the farm (all of the 5 kings now dead), Jon Snow lives, but unfortunately, Trump is still alive and threatens all of Westeros.
Genine
I’m so happy Jon is back! I hope it’s for good. I’m not going to be fully relaxed until after the next episode or so.
kevin
@moonbat: good question. either one would fit. maybe both??
Keith P.
That ending happened *exactly* as I thought it would, down to it being ep 2 instead of 1. I had this vision of a closeup on his face, he wakes up, and they cut. Just what they did, and I’m glad for it. The show doesn’t make nearly as much sense with a dead Jon Snow…he had to live (why the hell would they have bothered with Donderian anyway if there wasn’t a point?)
AkaDad
Seriously?
#GameofGroans
Kropadope
I just gained a lot of respect for Mellisandre.
eyedubya
The High Sanders may be in for a big surprise if he really thinks his People’s Revolution will overthrow Queen Hillary’s empire.
Kropadope
@cleek: @eyedubya: Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you people? There’s just no need for this. Particularly now, but really never at the level it’s been at from day one.
sherparick
@Tim F.: Definitely some major payroll reductions done in the last 3 episodes. Although for the most part I have understood the economics (G.R.R. Martin can conjour up characters and sub-plot lines by the dozens and all it costs him is perhaps losing the thread of his story, but actors expect to get paid) and the artistic (GoT is still a tighter and more focused story then the sprawl that is ASOIF) choices, but is hard to believe how badly they butchered the Dorne story from the books. I hate the what they have done to the Dorne characters (calling the Allaria and the Sand Snakes comic book villains demeans real comic book villains from Marvel and Adult DC (e.g. “The Joker”) and they have asked the audience to swallow so much shit with it. I think the whole thing could have been skipped after Oberyn’s death (say with a long note that the Sparrow receives and giving the news to Cersei that Myercella is dead while she is in prison at the Great Sept – Jonathan Price and Lena Headey could have really chewed the scenery up with that and we could have skipped the whole Dorne fiasco, which is why I found episode 2 much better than Episode 1. Apparently, feeling the same way now that I do about Dorne, all the showrunners had about Dorne last night was Jaime confirming that Trystane had been assassinated in the harbor in King’s Landing (so apparently the Sand Snakes had a very fast boat and Trystane and the Lannisters had some very bad guards on the ship – but at least precious minutes were not wasted on Sandsnake drivel passing as dialogue). Overall, liked the episode, particularly the ambiguity and tension of Tyrion and John Snow parts of the show. Also, there is an ambiguity of who brought John Snow back from the dead (not necessarily Melisandre – as Bran is now jumping around the Westeros universe in time and space).
Kropadope
@sherparick:
I’m pretty sure the murders of Myrcella, Doran, and Tystane were the show’s way of aborting the Dorne plot altogether. As soon as Myrcella was poisoned, my first impression was “how does the Dorne plot work without her?” Then they kill Doran and Trystane episode one this season.
So either the show is giving up on Dorne or the creators decided a war based on Dorne’s allowing female inheritance of land and titles would be either too confusing or not entertaining for the general public.
sherparick
@Kristine Smith: The rumor I read is that the Benioff and Weiss wanted to wrap up GoT in season 7, but that HBO really wanted an 8th season. The compromise is apparently two short 7 episodes seasons for season 7 and 8. At least that was the rumor I read on one of the blogs. One can see more and more creative slips and falls over the last two seasons (Dorne, Dorne, and please no more Dorne) and ethical blind spots – Sansa rape, which I actually think had a plot purpose, since Martin, his his books, and Benioff and Weiss in the TV show,, are about portraying the vicious misogyny that’s around today, whether in often romanticized portrayals of the Middle Ages, Western Religion, and modern F&SF or in so called liberal platforms like Salon (Wonkette went all Daenerys Dragon on Salon and its brood of Bernie Bros yesterday) that the creative juices are perhaps faltering, or suffering from fatigue (producing 10 hours of epic TV a year with production spots spread from Iceland to Croatia probably means a lot 100 hour weeks).
cleek
@Kropadope:
take it up with your delusional cult leader
kindness
I liked this weeks show better than last. It actually moved several plotlines forward instead of filling in around the edges. I’m not sure how long they can play this whole thing out thought. JRR Martin doesn’t seem to care about any next book. I guess the show writers are creating it from here on out. I’d think with cast children growing old they might need to get on that storyline and ride. Can’t really ignore aging.
mellowjohn
@sherparick:
speaking of Dornish events, where the hell is Bronn? didn’t he get on the boat with Jaime and Myrcella – right after the “bad pussy” almost bit his ear off?