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Post by crowschmo on Aug 7, 2017 17:04:39 GMT -5
Too funny. Makes it look so much more upbeat.
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Post by sol-survivor on Aug 13, 2017 18:37:20 GMT -5
So, how did Euron get all those ships so fast? Didn't Yara and Theon steal most of them? And then Euron said he was going to have his men build more? Just how much time passed, anyway? Apparently every storyline isn't happening in the same timeframe, or so I've read. We just aren't seeing all the footage of people traveling, for the most part. Jon meets Drogon up close and personal tonight, according to a little clip HBO released today:
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Post by crowschmo on Aug 15, 2017 16:24:22 GMT -5
^^^He smells Targaryen blood. 'Kayyy - So, apparently armor is useless against dragon fire, but the SHIELDS work.
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Post by crowschmo on Aug 31, 2017 10:19:06 GMT -5
Cersei is pregnant. (Or so she says). And Daenarys kept harping on the fact that her dragons were her children and she can't have any, so I'm guessing Jon just made her preggers. So the game continues in perpetuity. (If they don't all die). Does anyone (besides Bran, maybe, if he looked into that) know that Arya killed all the Freys? Bye, Littlefinger. It seems, with all this character buildup over the seasons, now that it's coming to a close, things are happening too fast. I didn't like the Waif ending, it just happens off screen, and we just assume it was an epic battle; and now Lord Baelish just, SLICE. And Jon and Danny meet, and BOOM they're together. Too slow of a buildup for everything to converge, and now, it's just - THIS happens! Then THAT happens! Also: Where the hell is GHOST?!!
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Post by crowschmo on Jan 10, 2019 20:14:19 GMT -5
I don't know how the final season is going to be for this show, but I read some excerpts from Winds of Winter that GRRM put out there, and well, if those chapters are any indication, it's going to be a tough read. Just one, slow slog of people talking and more descriptions of food and sigils and EVEN MORE CHARACTERS putting their hats into the ring of the game.
Eesh.
I want to read it, because I want to know how it turns out, of course, but... My brain is going to hurt.
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 14, 2019 17:47:45 GMT -5
So, we'll see some sh*t tonight.
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 16, 2019 15:16:50 GMT -5
Well, we didn't see TOO much sh*t. Just a setup for the rest of the season. Bran actually looked happy to see Jon. I guess he could still be human when the right person shows up. He actually looked happy to see Jaime, too. That didn't look like a smug "now I've got ya" look. Maybe he thinks, okay, that was a sh*tty thing to do to me and you'll still have to own up to and be punished for attempted murder, but, it brought me to where I am now and everything happens for a reason and you'll do something to atone for it. We didn't see Sansa's reaction to seeing The Hound. DID she see him? I wonder if Cersei is still pregnant, or ever really was - though I don't know why she would lie about it, unless it was just to try to control Jaime and then she could have actually tried for a baby later. She was drinking wine again. (Edit: when I watched it a second time, she's not really drinking the wine too much, just putting the cup to her lips. Maybe she's trying to get Euron to think the baby is his for more leverage.) That Jon and Dany riding the dragons scene was kind of hokey. I was waiting for "A Whole New World" to start playing, heh. Though, I guess we really know now that the "kids" know their daddy. Dany, I guess, just thought he was able to ride them because she was there and approving of it, or something. I wonder if she'll throw a hissy fit when Jon tells her his true lineage. "He has blue eyes!" "I've ALWAYS had blue eyes!" Will Bronn go through with it? We'll see. Edit: see above.
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 18, 2019 17:45:47 GMT -5
I saw the preview for next week. There's a fan theory that Bran is actually the cause for the Mad King going mad (like his accidental affect on Hodor). I wonder if during Jaime's trial he tries to see what happens and accidentally gets inside the King's head and he's the one who causes the King to say, "Burn them all." Like - the King is seeing White Walkers because of Bran's connection to him.
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 21, 2019 11:55:51 GMT -5
There's a video on YouTube of Cersei and Tyrion talking to Elmo from Sesame Street. Every time I try to post it here it says "error". Oh, well. Check it out on YouTube if you're interested; it's cute. Cookie Monster will win the Iron Throne.
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 30, 2019 12:20:00 GMT -5
That CAN'T be the end of that story. There has to be something more that we're missing. This whole "Winter Is Coming" and "The Long Night" can't just end in one episode. As cool as the episode was. Sure, it was unrealistic as hell ( ). No WAY any of those people would have survived that. A bunch of dead people just coming in a crush, and living fighters have time to talk to each other and have fighting moves and all that. Nope. The dead would've just kept coming and not allowed anyone to swing a sword or jab a dagger or a spear. But, anyway... Does anyone think something passed there between Bran and The Night King? Was Bran INFORMING him of something when he warged those crows? It was right after NK saw that that he raised the dead up the first time. And by the way -- the writers of the show are going against their own "laws" of how that works. In the first season, some guy died and re-animated to attack Jon and what's-his-name (the one that Jon saved, one of the Night's Watch bigwigs, forget who it was, was it Jeor Mormont?). I don't think the Night King was anywhere around, unless we just didn't see him. But for this battle, all the dead had to wait to be "raised" by NK. Oh, well. But all that build up for Jon and Dany and --- Arya? 'Kayyyy. Maybe they'll do a switcheroo - Arya takes out NK and Jon ends Cersei somehow. He HAS to have more to do, right? RIGHT? That's why I think something is fishy with how that just "ended". So, maybe the NK warged into Bran and didn't really care if his old body got skewered. (His midriff is exposed? REALLY?) And where da fuq did Arya come from that she just sped past the White Walkers and sailed through the air? (Cool shot, though). BTW: Earlier scenes of Arya fighting, DAYUMMM - Maise's got some moves. I guess she went to the crypts to get the dagger back from Sansa when she strode off with purpose after talking to Melisandre. (Edit: Or did she just give her a regular dragon glass dagger?). If anyone watches reaction videos on YouTube: The scene with Arya is hilarious to watch: People are like: Aryaaaa!!!!! *pause* NooOOOooo! *pause* Yeeessss!!! (loud cheering). Wouldn't NK have just crushed Arya's windpipe when he caught her so she wouldn't have time to do that dope knife drop? That's why I'm thinking, either the writers really suck, or something else is happening here. I would rather Jon had taken out NK. C'mon, it's been building to that, hasn't it? It would've been good if Arya had taken out another of the WW's in that fashion so Jon could get to NK, and maybe Bran doing something else magically to distract some of the others for Jon to get there, and Sansa doing something, I don't know what 'cause she's useless in a fight, but, you know, all the Starks working as a PACK. And maybe Ghost going to get Nymeria or something so the ACTUAL pack could distract the WW's further, for Jon to get to NK and have that one on one fight. (BTW: NK is a big cheater, heh). So, I'm thinking something else MUST happen with all this. COME ON!!! I would love some of those screenshots as posters, some of those scenes were absolutely gorgeous. The dragons hovering above the clouds, Mel with firelight in her eyes, Jaime and Brienne fighting together, that orange-y firelit background with Tormund fighting on a pile of dead bodies. Anyway, on to King's Landing. Cersei can't be the big bad. Something else has to happen to freak everyone out. There can't be three movie length episodes of just "who gets the Iron Throne". There's just more, there has to be. A lot of people are complaining in forum sections about all the build up and just - blah. So, I'm thinking to myself, wait, people, just wait. There's more that we're not seeing. But, I could be wrong and we could be very disappointed in all the hype that just fizzles. What do you think? Was that it for the battle of the living and the dead? Is it just back to petty squabbling as usual? Or...
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Post by crowschmo on May 6, 2019 12:58:35 GMT -5
Hmmm. Does anyone else think that Jon is playing Dany and just saying all the right things for now, what she wants to hear, just sussing her out to test her to see if she's really the right choice? Do you think he told his sisters who he really is on purpose? Because he KNOWS the story will get out? So much is made of Jon being honest and a man of his word, that SOMETHING will probably happen where he'll have to lie for the realm's sake.
And did that bitch Dany figure there was probably some kind of defense for dragons and sacrifice Rheagal on purpose because he might be more loyal to Jon? That might not be, but she didn't look too upset about it. (Edit: Well, maybe that would be a little TOO extreme for her).
And, oops. Tyrion mentioned Cersei's baby, so now Euron knows she was pregnant before she was with him. That won't go well.
Dany was upset about Missandei, but now that's her excuse to go ahead and burn King's Landing.
So "Mhyssa", or however you spell it, "mother" to all and "mother of dragons" is really the enemy here, I guess.
How the hell long is it going to take for the rest of the army to get to King's Landing? And how long after the Winterfell battle did the first ships get there? I guess they're going to leave out that part as it'll just weigh the story down.
Edit: Or...do you think they are setting up Dany to LOOK like she's going to go all Mad Queen and then fake us all out?
Or is she going to go ballistic?
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Post by crowschmo on May 13, 2019 20:04:34 GMT -5
So, all the warnings and hype and character arcs of 8 seasons, and then just...
Varys went out like Littlefinger: Big player in the game and then just...
The whole thing of who's going to take out Cersei and will it be Jaime and will he redeem himself and then just...
Cleganebowl!! And then just...
And, well, Dany went ballistic all right. Will there be another "subverting" of "expectations" and have it be, like, Sansa taking out Dany instead of Tyrion, Arya or Jon?
Does anyone think GreyWorm will go after Jon and Jon will have to kill him? GreyWorm looked pissed that Jon was trying to prevent the soldiers from going all pillage-y and murder-y.
Maybe Ghost will come back with Nymeria and her pack and kill Drogon. (Not that it was Drogon's fault or anything).
Am I just having too much hope for something actually interesting to happen here or is anyone holding out any hope for it to all end on a SOMEWHAT good note? These last episodes are just rushed and sh*tty.
Martin better damn well finish those last two books.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on May 15, 2019 2:47:36 GMT -5
So, uh... I'm not reading here because I'm still entertaining dreams of someday watching this series, but based on the snippets I'm seeing literally everywhere on the Internet I wanna say...
We're here for you, Game of Thrones fans. I don't know the precise nature of the writers just kinda... being bad, I guess... but after getting so many good years of quality writing, having what sounds like a few genuinely mediocre to bad episodes must be rough.
Take care!
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Post by Mod City on May 15, 2019 10:05:54 GMT -5
I've pretty much given up on watching Game of Thrones. It's been over 20 years since I had HBO and I'm not interested in adding to my monthly cable bill. And with every single freaking website in existence giving up spoilers left and right I'm saying screw it, it's one I'm never going to watch. I don't have to watch every beloved show. But seriously, does anyone ever watch a television show anymore with intentions other than shredding it to pieces? Reading stuff online I can't believe anyone still watches Game of Thrones. Seriously, everybody hates it so f*cking much now! Then WHY WATCH? I dealt with this crap when Battlestar Galactica ended. I'm tired of the masses and their television opinions. It's godawful in the movie world, too. Maybe it's time to take up gardening. And I hate gardening. Just a note - I'm not harping on your posts, crowschmo. I enjoy thoughtful criticism. But the ocean of smart ass opinions out there on anything and everything on television is just too much sometimes. Nine times out of ten it seems the critics are trying their damnedest to tear down what they've dedicated a good portion of their lives to. Ugh, just remember, it's a f*cking dragon show, people! Lack of character development and motivation should not get people this worked up over such things. Ian McShane said it best: ew.com/tv/2017/02/24/game-of-thrones-ian-mcshane-get-a-life/
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Post by Torgo on May 15, 2019 13:32:38 GMT -5
It's been funny to watch Lindsay Ellis on Twitter the last few weeks. Before the season started she was passive aggressive toward people who have been posting on Twitter about how they never hopped on board the Game of Thrones bandwagon, because I guess she found it annoying. Then when the season started she became more and more irritated at the show itself, to the point where her tweets read like this...
And now she's gone from being passive aggressive against the people who don't watch Game of Thrones to being passive aggressive to the people who defend Game of Thrones.
She pretty much confirmed she's going to do a video on it. If it's as good as her Hobbit videos, I'm all in.
I personally have only watched the first season. The show is full of unlikeable characters doing appalling things, and I just didn't care. I might finish it one day, just to say "Yeah I watched that," but whether I can do it in a binge is up in the air.
I am going to add the Game of Thrones Rifftrax episodes to my blog this weekend. I've already watched the first one, and it's hilarious.
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