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[Admiral Woofington]

Tyrion was out having adventures with the Bear and the other dwarf lady. I think he's done with most of his witty banter.

 

[Gigglepoo]

Tyrion was out having adventures with the Bear and the other dwarf lady. I think he's done with most of his witty banter.

Well, he's been super depressed since he murdered his father and found out his true love wasn't a whore. Understandably so.

 

[il Diavolo]

bad pussy lives

 

[Ravelle]

Have you seen the Hobbit movies? 1 man and 1 child can do it

They managed in Dragonheart as well

 

[Admiral Woofington]

bad pussy lives

My biggest regret is that I didn't get to see awkward whip fights one more time.

 

[PshycoNinja]

Will Davos understand that Tyrion's Wildfire plan is the reason his son is dead.

Spoiler

Maybe he'll remember that he actually had a wife and kids, though I'm not sure they got into them on the show beyond the 1 grown son

I am more interested in the inevitable

Spoiler

Davos and Melisandre seeing each other when Jon and Daeny meet

...

 

[Cirekiller]

My theory is that Arya is going to kill Little Finger, take his face and pledge all his forces to Jon.

 

[Gigglepoo]

My theory is that Arya is going to kill Little Finger, take his face and pledge all his forces to Jon.

But Jon already has the Vale knights. Even though the Starks treat Littlefinger like shit and the Vale houses weren't rewarded for winning the battle.

 

[fallengorn]

I am more interested in the inevitable

Spoiler

Davos and Melisandre seeing each other when Jon and Daeny meet

...

And then the next episode of GoT:

Spoiler

Melisandre: Only someone who loves to use wildfire as you do, Cersei, is the true prince(ss) who was promised!

 

[Brakke]

My theory is that Arya is going to kill Little Finger, take his face and pledge all his forces to Jon.

Fits right in. She'll have to play act skeeving all over Sansa or the ruse won't hold. ~More incest!!~

 

[Iksenpets]

I'm impressed the showrunners recognized that Varys tried to kill Dany and then Littlefinger and Jon have never spoken. I totally expected them to ignore the histories.

This episode seemed like it was a lot of quickly cleaning up the weird alliances their plot has forced them into. Addressed Jon/Littlefinger (with a nice visual callback to Ned/Littlefinger), addressed tension between Tyrion and Ellaria, between Varys and Dany. And then it dealt with some of the obvious fallout from Dany's foreign invasion with Cersei addressing the Reacher lords to convince them to defect. Definite props for giving all of those things at least a couple of lines of recognition, when they definitely could have just tried to gloss it all over, even if it is them just managing the fires they created with some of their decisions.

 

[Gigglepoo]

This episode seemed like it was a lot of quickly cleaning up the weird alliances their plot has forced them into. Addressed Jon/Littlefinger (with a nice visual callback to Ned/Littlefinger), addressed tension between Tyrion and Ellaria, between Varys and Dany. And then it dealt with some of the obvious fallout from Dany's foreign invasion with Cersei addressing the Reacher lords to convince them to defect. Definite props for giving all of those things at least a couple of lines of recognition, when they definitely could have just tried to gloss it all over, even if it is them just managing the fires they created with some of their decisions.

Have you ever seen Thank You For Smoking? There's a scene where Aaron Eckhart's character is trying to convince some movie executives to have characters smoking in an upcoming movie. The executives say it wouldn't make sense because the movie takes place on a space station. Eckhart counters with "Just have them say 'Good thing we invented the whatever machine so we can smoke.'"

I think about that line a lot. Yeah, it's funny, but it shows how easy it is to explain away illogical story beats. A lot of the baffling decisions on Game of Thrones could be cleared up if the writers threw in more lines like they did in this episode that make it seem like there's an underlying logic to what's going on. It's those little details that make a story feel like a fleshed out world and D&D often ignore them.

So, yeah, there were a lot of those little moments this episode but I'm glad someone finally recognized the elelphants in the rooms.

 

[The Artisan]

But Jon already has the Vale knights. Even though the Starks treat Littlefinger like shit and the Vale houses weren't rewarded for winning the battle.

Royce is not exactly fond of Carcetti either though and I think he's the one who's actually commanding the knights

 

[Admiral Woofington]

we can see why littlefinger never spoke with Jon if the first thing out of his mouth is "little finger this, littlefinger that, I wanna stick my littlefinger in Sansa and Cat"

 

[Brakke]

So *does* Littlefinger know that R+L=J? We've had several portentous scenes of him in the crypts now. I sort of always took that as foreshadowing but maybe they just like lighting him in drab cryptlight?

 

[John Dunbar]

So *does* Littlefinger know that R+L=J? We've had several portentous scenes of him in the crypts now. I sort of always took that as foreshadowing but maybe they just like lighting him in drab cryptlight?

littlefinger is rhaegar so of course he knows.

 

[Cirekiller]

But Jon already has the Vale knights. Even though the Starks treat Littlefinger like shit and the Vale houses weren't rewarded for winning the battle.

Jon doesn't have the Vale knights because LF still controls them. LF can leave whenever he wants and take his army with him. With Arya pretending to be him they will actually be under Jon's control because Arya will never abandon or betray Jon like LF might.

And if Arya is impersonating LF it won't matter how he's been treated by the Starks. The Vale Lord's may not get rewarded in either case so that point is moot.

 

[The Artisan]

littlefinger is rhaegar so of course he knows.

 

[WriterGK]

Also, I would be shocked if Jon bent the knee.

She says bend the knee. But the actual text from the Raven didn't sound like bending the knee at all. That sounded more like making Jon her fighting partner against Cersei....

 

[Zolo]

So *does* Littlefinger know that R+L=J? We've had several portentous scenes of him in the crypts now. I sort of always took that as foreshadowing but maybe they just like lighting him in drab cryptlight?

I believe he knows. I don't know if Stannis knew, but Stannis at least talked about how cheating wasn't Ned's way.

 

[Gigglepoo]

Royce is not exactly fond of Carcetti either though and I think he's the one who's actually commanding the knights

Then why did he follow Littlefinger north? And why is he bowing to Jon? Doesn't he know Sweet Robin is his rightful ruler?

 

[ClosingADoor]

we haven't even talked about Arya going to Winterfell. I assume she arrives and has a tearful reunion with Sansa. But we all know the real one anybody cares about is Arya and Jon. The two outcast/weirdo Starks.

Arya is turning around again. "That's not you."

 

[Latvian Hitman]

So *does* Littlefinger know that R+L=J?

I think he suspects it at the very least. He certainly seems to know that Rhaegar didn't kidnap Lyanna and hold her against her will.

 

[jfkgoblue]

She says bend the knee. But the actual text from the Raven didn't sound like bending the knee at all. That sounded more like making Jon her fighting partner against Cersei....

Well Tyrion wrote it, not Dany.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

Well Tyrion wrote it, not Dany.

P.S. "mumble mumble bend the knee or something"

 

[Ithil]

Bail out

 

[PshycoNinja]

P.S. "mumble mumble bend the knee or something"

Lol.

 

[Robdraggoo]

Bail out

We need to do the whole thing for a new abandoned thread gif.

 

[Violet_0]

Ellaria: What's he doing here, anyway? *points at Theon*
Yara: He's my protector! (both smirk)

suddenly, a commotion breaks out above; everyone rushes on deck

Euron: Surprise, bitches!

*ZWOSH* *WHAMM* *BANG* *THUDD*

Euron, holding a blade to Yara's throat, to Theon: What now?!

Theon, his PTSD triggered by his cruel uncle the bloodshed around him, fails to protect his sister and clumsily jumps over board

Euron (laughs)

a single tear drop runs down Yara's cheek


join us again next week for another thrilling episode of Game of Thrones!

 

[bitbydeath]

we haven't even talked about Arya going to Winterfell. I assume she arrives and has a tearful reunion with Sansa. But we all know the real one anybody cares about is Arya and Jon. The two outcast/weirdo Starks.

I'm looking forward to it, Arya will turn up, not soon after Bran will be pulled in by Meera (she's going to be muscley as all fuck), Jon will turn back up as the wall falls along with Benjen riding in to warn them, then it's Cat's time to shine.

 

[The Artisan]

Then why did he follow Littlefinger north? And why is he bowing to Jon? Doesn't he know Sweet Robin is his rightful ruler?

I don't really understand it, tbh. I couldn't tell if Royce was cheering in the king in the north chant last season, even though he addresses Jon as, your grace.

Looks like Robyn didn't come along and what would his simple mind even care to think about a king in the north

 

[Speevy]

Theon was aiming for the armored machine gun kraken but it swam away before he could land in it.

 

[Speevy]

Ellaria: What's he doing here, anyway? *points at Theon*
Yara: He's my protector! (both smirk)

suddenly, a commotion breaks out above; everyone rushes on deck

Euron: Surprise, bitches!

*ZWOSH* *WHAMM* *BANG* *THUDD*

Euron, holding a blade to Yara's throat, to Theon: What now?!

Theon, his PTSD triggered by his cruel uncle the bloodshed around him, fails to protect his sister and clumsily jumps over board

Euron (laughs)

a single tear drop runs down Yara's cheek


join us again next week for another thrilling episode of Game of Thrones!

As much as I hate the writing on this show, Yara meant protector in the same sense that a mother says that about her little boy. She knows Theon can't defend so much as a wagon against his uncle.

I don't think she expected Theon to kill Euron, but she did expect him to die for her since she almost died for him.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

As much as I hate the writing on this show, Yara meant protector in the same sense that a mother says that about her little boy. She knows Theon can't defend so much as a wagon against his uncle.

I don't think she expected Theon to kill Euron, but she did expect him to die for her since she almost died for him.

so what you're telling me is that I should splice the scene of him jumping off the boat with the Curb your Enthusiasm theme, then roll credits?

 

[Gnome]

I'm not sure what Theon was even suppose to do in that situation. There's no way he could save Yara if Euron actually intended on it, his fucking axe was to her throat. All attacking would have accomplished is getting one of them killed needlessly, and now they're both alive. Sounds like Theon made the right choice to me.

 

[John Dunbar]

I'm not sure what Theon was even suppose to do in that situation. There's no way he could save Yara if Euron actually intended on it, his fucking axe was to her throat. All attacking would have accomplished is getting one of them killed needlessly, and now they're both alive. Sounds like Theon made the right choice to me.

getting your throat slit by an axe in the heat of battle would probably be a lot more pleasant than what euron and cersei will do at their leisure.

 

[Thaedolus]

I'm not sure what Theon was even suppose to do in that situation. There's no way he could save Yara if Euron actually intended on it, his fucking axe was to her throat. All attacking would have accomplished is getting one of them killed needlessly, and now they're both alive. Sounds like Theon made the right choice to me.

Did you miss her hanging off the front of the ship?

 

[The Artisan]

so what you're telling me is that I should splice the scene of him jumping off the boat with the Curb your Enthusiasm theme, then roll credits?

huh?

 

[John Dunbar]

Did you miss her hanging off the front of the ship?

thought those were the two sand snakes. i think he took yara alive.

 

[Oldest Snake]

Did you miss her hanging off the front of the ship?

That wasn't Yara. That was Sand Snake #1 and Sand Snake #2.

 

[Gnome]

getting your throat slit by an axe in the heat of battle would probably be a lot more pleasant that what euron and cersei will do at their leisure.

I'll grant you that. But we don't yet know what that is.

Did you miss her hanging off the front of the ship?

Wasn't that a sandsnake hanging by her own whip?

 

[SerAardvark]

Did you miss her hanging off the front of the ship?

That was Nymeria Sand (with Obara being the one impaled on the ship). Euron killed them with their own weapons and left them like that to mock them.

 

[Thaedolus]

:O

I thought for sure that was Yara

 

[Admiral Woofington]

huh?

Yara's look of disappointment when he chose to jump ship would fit perfectly with one of the Curb your Enthusiasm ending scene memes.

 

[Joni]

Could have lived with more dead Sand Snakes. I think I can also guess how Euron will die, killed by Theon in some glorious revenge.

Also, I would be shocked if Jon bent the knee.

Well, he needs to be on two knees.

 

[Speevy]

This scene has already won for Curbiest

Although I'm not sure why the director chose that angle to show Theon jumping. It does make the scene look silly.

Directed by Mark Mylod

Oh...

 

[Joni]

That Tommen gif looks like that IT Crowd gif.

 

[Iksenpets]

As much as I hate the writing on this show, Yara meant protector in the same sense that a mother says that about her little boy. She knows Theon can't defend so much as a wagon against his uncle.

I don't think she expected Theon to kill Euron, but she did expect him to die for her since she almost died for him.

Yeah, she knows they're all fucked. She's not expecting to be saved. She just thought that she had gotten Theon to the point where he would be willing to die with honor instead of jumping off a boat because oh well it's hopeless, and that he would have been willing to at least help her reclaim the dignity of getting to die in a fight instead of being Euron's prisoner. Yeah, Theon made the one choice that kept everyone alive, but Yara very much does not want to survive this.

 

[Gnome]

Whose the greatest show Nuncle? Is it Euron now? We still have Benjen and Kevan to consider. Also, Ned, technically.

 

[demosthenes]

But Jon already has the Vale knights. Even though the Starks treat Littlefinger like shit and the Vale houses weren't rewarded for winning the battle.

What should they be rewarded with when the apocalypse is on its way?