Posted on 08/28/2017 8:50:53 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Season ending episode. Didn't see a thread posted so here we go.
Ping
Little Finger. Way to go Stark sisters!
Best part of the episode..
I thought fire killed the army of the dead - is there a dispensation just for dragons?
That was the only part of the episode that surprised me. The rest was very predictable.
About time they gave that bastard an extra smile...
I was hoping that the Starks were playing Littlefinger the whole time. That was nicely done.
I wasn’t happy with the Sam/Bran scene. It just didn’t seem well written. When Sam was in Oldtown, Gilly was annoying him by intentionally reading boring stuff. She read about some Maester who annulled a marriage and then re-married the guy the same day. Sam cut her off in a testy manner before she thoroughly explained the situation (but we all knew). And then Sam decided that he couldn’t help anyone in Oldtown (he had just saved Jorah) and for no really good reason Sam leaves and heads North.
And when Sam arrives in the North he rushes to Bran and explains that Rhaegar Targaryen secretly wed Lianna Stark! Bran (who sees everything) can’t believe it and has to go check. So Bran watches the wedding. And then Bran goes back to Jon’s birth — and this time — he pays attention to what the dying Lianna whispers to Ned: “His name is Aegon Targaryeon.”
That all reeks of suspenseful script-writing rather than any sort of “history of what happened in Westeros”. It just felt forced.
The assembly of major characters, including the wight demonstration, at the beginning was very well done. Arya offing Littlefinger was a little anticlimactic, as was the Night King riding Viserion, the dragon wight. Overall, a very good season.
Littlefinger will be back? (actually Arya as Littlefinger)
What if Littlefinger and the Knights of the Vale come to King’s Landing, Littlefinger gets close to Cersei and...
Arya does her thing.
Seeing him getting his was sweet - that weasel.
Good for Jaime to get out and head north on his own...he’s on his redemption path, along with Theon Greyjoy.
Now we wait and wait and wait and wait for Season 8.
The hollywood writers that have taken over for GRRM’s story arc have thoroughly completed transforming GOT from what made it so popular (and good) - great story telling of palace intrigue in a dark ages type setting, with just the right amount of action and supernatural aspects mixed in - to your typical big budget action film.
Oh well. Still better than a lot of other stuff.
It is script writing at this point which is why these past two seasons were hurry up paced
It’s left medieval soap opera fantasy and entered action adventure
It’s still social engineering a bit
Fantastical improbable girl power
But it’s fun
Best since Sopranos and BB
Really the only notable part of the episode, that and the characters finally knowing that Snow is not a bastard, and the rightful heir... but of course have to be all game or thones about it and figure it out at the same time he’s having incest with aunt
Agreed.
My wild speculation for Season 8 (this would never work in the Book because the books are written in a way which definitely makes this impossible; but the show has demonstrated that it can so anything it wants):
Euron Grejoy has sailed off to Essos to get the Golden Company. Money from the Iron Bank will pay for these formidable fighters. Who are the Golden Company? No one in Westeros has seen them, but they are famous.
I would not be shocked to find that “The Golden Company” arrives, led by Daario Naharis. And some soldier will whisper, “But aren’t we The Second Sons?” and Daario will kick the soldier and hiss, “Right now we are The Golden Company. Khaalesi needs us. And the money is good.”
Yeah, that was lame.
I thought it was kind of funny when Theon was getting kneed repeatedly in the nads that he was smiling.
Was that fire the dragon was spewing? I was thinking it might be an arctic-type blast because it was blue. Looked more like the blast knocked the walls down rather than melting them.
Yep.
Why can’t Bran just warg a thousand crows and peck the Night King to death, or just take the dead dragon for a test drive and shred the bad guy to bits??
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