Naughty_Doge
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I admit I don't want Walder Frey to die. He's a prick who deserves the worst death ever but he's so much fun to watch.
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Game of Thrones *NO BOOK SPOILERS* |OT PART 2| Season 6 - [Read the OP]
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JadedWriter
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But the same can be said about every mean old geezer that's currently dead. I miss Tywin and Roose....not enough Roose scenes.
RobotVM
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I agree with that. He is one of my favorite part of The Stain. That actor is excellent.
Astral Dog
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And now only for the High Sparrow to die, or to conquer kings landing.
Well he didn't once his hound bit his face off.
The rumor is 13 but nothing has been set in stone just yet.
He seemed more than a little perturbed when his dogs started circling.
Nameless
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Looking back on past finales, particularly 2,3, and 4, which followed insane ep9s, there's always some disappointment in the sort or epilogue format, but I think there's at least one more big shoe to drop this year.
I predicted before the season that Winter would hit and/or Dany would finally prepare to sail West in this last episode and it feels think we're set up for one or both to happen. Plus of course Cersei nuking a chunk of King's Landing which would sustain me all off season.
Pankratous
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Anyone else wish it showed you a tiny bit more of Ramsay getting ripped apart? Could have been as gory as the dornish guys death against mountain.
DukeLongfellow
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I'm expecting huge things in the next episode. At least half of these, if not all.
1. Danny begins the second Targaryen invasion of Westeros. (set sail, not actually arrive yet)
2. Jaime leaves for (and maybe arrives at) Winterfell with his fully stocked and unbloodied army to retake it.
3. As this is happening, The Wall suddenly falls to the White Walkers prompting a makeshift alliance between the Jon-Jaime parties.
4. King's Landing gets set ablaze by wildfire (or at least the Red Keep)
1. Danny begins the second Targaryen invasion of Westeros. (set sail, not actually arrive yet)
2. Jaime leaves for (and maybe arrives at) Winterfell with his fully stocked and unbloodied army to retake it.
3. As this is happening, The Wall suddenly falls to the White Walkers prompting a makeshift alliance between the Jon-Jaime parties.
4. King's Landing gets set ablaze by wildfire (or at least the Red Keep)
It's at the whim of the victors. They could be executed, imprisoned, or disarmed and sent home. I doubt they'd be trusted to join Jon's army. Especially the Bolton forces.
The other day I said that I also believed Dany would finally set sail this season and this week's episode made it seem like it's gonna happen. She now has the Iron Fleet and The Master's armada and she even asks Tyrion if it was "enough" and I said something like "it should be".
>No more Masters
>Enough ships
>3 armies
>3 fully controllable dragons
IT'S TIME BABYYYY
>No more Masters
>Enough ships
>3 armies
>3 fully controllable dragons
IT'S TIME BABYYYY
Lumpy Onion
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Watched it yesterday and was blown away by that massive battle. I couldn't help but think back to listening to Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" podcasts talk about ancient warfare like the Battle of Cannae. That scene with John Snow almost getting suffocated and trampled to death in that mass of bodies was harrowing as fuck. I am amazed at how far TV has come with shows doing epic battles like this.
LOL at Dorne plot just kinda disappearing. I can't say I mind.
LOL at Dorne plot just kinda disappearing. I can't say I mind.
DukeLongfellow
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Oh, it will return. Maybe not this season but I think it's very obvious where Varys went on his "secret recruiting mission"
Feels like the writers took a year off Dorne to figure out how to fix it since people were so down on it in season 5.
Bits N Pieces
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This series GoT has got it's groove back and Sunday's episode was one of the best hours of television I've ever seen.
No idea what happens next but going by the hypothesizing in my office if Kings Landing isn't a burning pile of rubble, if Dany isn't on a boat heading to Westeros and if the White Walkers aren't at the Wall - then we'll all be pretty disappointed.
I wonder if we get a big death in the last episode? Cersei, Jamie, Sansa etc. Who would have the biggest impact if they copped it?
No idea what happens next but going by the hypothesizing in my office if Kings Landing isn't a burning pile of rubble, if Dany isn't on a boat heading to Westeros and if the White Walkers aren't at the Wall - then we'll all be pretty disappointed.
I wonder if we get a big death in the last episode? Cersei, Jamie, Sansa etc. Who would have the biggest impact if they copped it?
Crazy thing, with the current state of Westeros, she could get by with half of what she has.
She could probably take on a full army with just Drogon, like the battle of the bastards, could you imagine how quickly that would've ended with Drogon?
Drogon had trouble with spear chuckers. Those archers might have done him in.
If it was on ramsey's side, He could easily just make Wildling Stew while they were in the Bolton Bowl.
He's bigger now, probably learned a lesson: Don't just stay on the ground and be surrounded. Now, he could just land on a bunch of them, and burn the rest inside 10 seconds. Anyone around would be shitting their pants and trying to run.
He was just a lil' baby back then, though. Now he could fly out of their reach and rain fire on them.
ComputerBlue
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I was thinking the same thing, a few swoops and both sides would have been obliterated.
bangbang i'm a timpani
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no way HBO just does 1 more season. that was literally the best of GOT last night, still a long way to go
Remember when Wun-Wun picked up that Bolton soldier and ripped him in half?
Kind of like that.
Yeah I don't get it. Maybe Highgarden is gorgeous. Or grab the throne and ship it back to Mereen. Living in a pyramid is kind of cool.
RedAssedApe
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don't we know that they are at least running up through season 8?
wesleyshark
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Season 7 and Season 8, but rumored to both being shorter seasons each.
It's only been officially renewed for a season 7 (cause that's just how HBO rolls), but everyone has talked about two more shortened seasons. Exact numbers aren't set in stone yet but 13 more episodes is the number being thrown around.
thelatestmodel
Junior, please.
Godly season so far
oh, something i through together yesterday
This is really nice!
higgsboson1997
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This season has been simply amazing. Watched all 5 seasons just before this released and I think this is easily up there with Season 4 as the best so far. Depending on the final episode, it could go either way.
For me it's:
1. Season 4 = Season 6
3. Season 3
4. Season 1
5. Season 5
6. Season 2
Battle of the Bastards is up there with Hardhome as the show's pinnacle.
For me it's:
1. Season 4 = Season 6
3. Season 3
4. Season 1
5. Season 5
6. Season 2
Battle of the Bastards is up there with Hardhome as the show's pinnacle.
Waylon Drums
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The Red Wedding video was linked to that one so I just watched it. Holy shit has he gotten better since then. He was barely excited!
If they only do 13 more, I feel it's because they want to have bigger budgets for each episode.
Future PhaZe
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still dont understand the advantage of two shortened season vs a blaze of glory final season with longer book ends
I don't think she did. I think she didn't receive any reply from the Vale so it was just a shot in the dark that happened to pay off.
Grinchy
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It's the same thing AMC did with Breaking Bad.
They're just extending the amount of time people watch the channel. Why keep people tuned in for one year when you can keep them for two? Especially on a subscription-based service like HBO.
Money is the only reason for this decision.
Logistically they'll need the extra time and budget to even create the shortened seasons, most probably. They simply wouldn't be able to do a single longer season in one calendar year as they are already working miracles to get the 10 episodes done now, and with the scale presumably ramping up even more in the final seasons they'll fully make use of any extra time per episode they can get. Reminder that the Battle for Winterfell took 25 days to shoot.
I think people might be reading too much into Sansa and her "motives". I assumed she hadn't actually gotten confirmation on whether or not the Knights of the Vale were coming, and telling Jon without knowing for sure if they would actually come would be a mistake. Not to mention he could be upset that she went behind his back after talking shit about Littlefinger. Even if Sansa has changed and become a true player of the game, I don't think she's crossed the point of actively wanting her siblings dead. She comes across as a survivor to me, not someone who's hungry for power.
It's hard for me to tell how powerful the dragons are. They certainly looked powerful, but it took them a fair amount of time to ruin the ship, which I'd think would be pretty easy to destroy given that it was wood and had flammable material for the catapults. My takeaway from that (which could be completely wrong) was that the dragons were not as powerful as they looked. With that said and army with dragons would, of course, have an advantage over an army without.
I get that, but it took all three and it took several bursts of fire. When I saw Drogon go after the ships I had assumed he would be able to singlehandedly destroy one quite quickly.
More_Badass
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Them taking down one ship was more of a show of force IMO. If they had spread out and spread their fire out, they could have easily wiped out the entire fleet
Doing 10 episodes in a year is very difficult. Doing two seasons of 7/8 episodes give them extra time that they need.
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