Official Thread Game of Thrones

yankeessuck said:
You have to wonder what is meant when its said they have his ending. Is his ending he gave them just "so and so its on the Iron Throne"? Because I would think it would more that. I never really imagined the books ending with Jon or Dany sitting the throne and this is the first time I ever thought the show might be going that way. Maybe its some unexpected twist at the end but whatever it is I'm sure what we saw last night has nothing to do with what he has in mind. Shame we will never know. Unless they really make a mess of it and he gets motivated. Comments he has made even recently lead you to believe this season should be fairly faithful so who knows.

Kind of seems like they may have completely dropped the "Prince That Was Promised". Melisandre was all about that so how are we supposed to not care while still caring that she had a prophesy about Arya killing the NK?

Anyway I'm looking forward to episode 5 where Arya kills Cersei's entire army and Thanos
Click to expand...

Yep, I doubt GRRM would have ever brought all the characters together like that, let alone had a "happy" ending which I think they are building to.

I think the "ending" he gave HBO was a mess, so they slapped together this. Just making Cersei the likely final conflict over the Night King goes against a lot of the central part of the story. My wife, who's never read the books just wants to see dragons and Cersei get hers.
 
Still 3 episodes. Lots of time to kill lots of people off. Just not this guy...





But the walkers had one main story role, unit the kingdom which they mostly did.
 
A lot of people complaining the episode was too dark to see what was going on, I could see just fine on my tv. I can’t wait to buy the 4K version and watch this again.
 
yankeessuck said:
I have to think either the NK isn't really dead or they have just gone off on their own. Can't really believe GRRM was building to that with all the prophecies and such. In fact I think there is no chance this is what he will do. So what ending are they following? Who sits the Iron Throne?

As I said before I come to the show for the spectacle at this point and on that they delivered. Really good directing.
Click to expand...

I would have preferred to have seen Bran control one of the dragons and join the fight - perhaps defeat the Night King himself somehow. And speaking of which, WTF was Bran doing all that time anyway - fly around in the ravens?
 
Plainview said:
The compression was abysmal yesterday. So much banding. I had to make the room complete dark to be able to see anything.
Click to expand...

Yeah a lot of noise and banding, it's like it wasn't made to be played on an LCD/LED, maybe people with OLED could see it better. I have no problem with it being dark as long as the picture is clean, it just wasn't for some pretty big moments.
 
Kerosene31 said:
Yep, I doubt GRRM would have ever brought all the characters together like that, let alone had a "happy" ending which I think they are building to.

I think the "ending" he gave HBO was a mess, so they slapped together this. Just making Cersei the likely final conflict over the Night King goes against a lot of the central part of the story. My wife, who's never read the books just wants to see dragons and Cersei get hers.
Click to expand...

Cersei will have more of an impact as the main villain because we know her, the Night King who was scary to look at never gave us anything to talk about other than him trying to kill everyone. The Night King didn't want the throne he just wanted to kill everyone, this bulk of this show has centered on people scheming and preparing to either defend the throne or take it, Cersei had to be the main villain IMO.
 
The Wolf King said:
Happy they didn't give more glory to Dany or Jon.
Both were pretty useless against the Night King.

Seen complaints about it being too dark but can only think of the very start, the night king creating the fog and Arya running from the walkers. Both if which were intentional.

Melisandre is in a small list of characters who didn't suffer a violent death.
Click to expand...

It was more about how dirty and blurry it looked, not the darkness it's self. I have talked to a lot of people who said they thought their broadcast was messed up and coming out at a lower res because it was so hard to make out. Darkness is fine but there was something really off about it for a lot of people. The stream is a little better (as usual) but still a lot of screen noise that I don't see in other dark movies/shows.
 
JinCA said:
Cersei will have more of an impact as the main villain because we know her, the Night King who was scary to look at never gave us anything to talk about other than him trying to kill everyone. The Night King didn't want the throne he just wanted to kill everyone, this bulk of this show has centered on people scheming and preparing to either defend the throne or take it, Cersei had to be the main villain IMO.
Click to expand...

It felt like there was going to be more as to why the Night King wanted to kill everyone.

Don't get me wrong, Cersei needs to get what's coming to her, but what about winter? The long night? Again, maybe there's more there.

Is the Song of ice and Fire just the backdrop for Cersei?
 
Not sure why I'm seeing comments online like Arya killing him was a cheap move, it's been hinted at since season 3. The dagger was given to her by Bran in S7 and she even did the hand switch last season on Brienne and stabbed him in the same place he was stabbed when turned.
The writers clearly knew she was the one to do it years ago.

Also not sure why people say the NK was undeveloped? We were shown why and how he was created, how that backfired and told what his goal was.
 
The Wolf King said:
Not sure why I'm seeing comments online like Arya killing him was a cheap move, it's been hinted at since season 3. The dagger was given to her by Bran in S7 and she even did the hand switch last season on Brienne and stabbed him in the same place he was stabbed when turned.
The writers clearly knew she was the one to do it years ago.

Also not sure why people say the NK was undeveloped? We were shown why and how he was created, how that backfired and told what his goal was.
Click to expand...

How much development can you give a character that doesn't talk? I think some people were expecting too much there.

I agree about Arya as well, this wasn't some girl power moment as they have been building to this for a long time. She was one of the characters that I was totally fine with ending the Night King, other than Jon or one of the Dragons I wanted it to be Arya so I'm fine.
 
The Wolf King said:
Not sure why I'm seeing comments online like Arya killing him was a cheap move, it's been hinted at since season 3. The dagger was given to her by Bran in S7 and she even did the hand switch last season on Brienne and stabbed him in the same place he was stabbed when turned.
The writers clearly knew she was the one to do it years ago.

Also not sure why people say the NK was undeveloped? We were shown why and how he was created, how that backfired and told what his goal was.
Click to expand...

They said it was decided it would be her 3 years ago so they retroactively made the Melisandre comment be about that
 
Gotta admit, Euron may just be a smelly crazed pirate but he stayed true to his boast about marching into Kings Lending and giving the queen his "big fat c***". LOL.
 
So Yara Greyjoy returned to the Iron Islands for the time being. But wouldn't she be killed by whoever's left there? They should be loyal to Euron.

Regardless I think it's a set up for Yara to save the day with reinforcements at the last moment.
Who the hell it'll be I have no idea.
 
Last edited:
Digital Joker said:
So Yara Greyjoy returned to the Iron Islands for the time being. But wouldn't she be killed by whoever's left there? They should be loyal to Euron.

Regardless I think it's a set up for Yara to save the day with reinforcements at the last moment.
Who the hell it'll be I have no idea.
Click to expand...

Army is st KL
 
kiLh2DT.jpg
 
Kerosene31 said:
This article explains it a lot better than I did (ignoring the obvious click bait title - no, we're not going to stop watching):

https://www.wired.com/story/stop-watching-game-of-thrones/
Click to expand...
The logic here makes sense. If you only wanted to know the answer to the long night then why even bother watching 5 pointless seasons that barely touch upon the army of dead?

Also, going by the show, the whole war between living and dead being the whole point of show makes no sense either. This reminds me alot of Lost and how many made the mistake of thinking the show was about the island, even though it was obviously about the characters.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back