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*UNMARKED SPOILERS ALL BOOKS* Game of Thrones |OT| - Season 5 Offseason Thread
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toddhunter
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I'm not really on board with that. Avoiding the wolves? Yeah but I believe that is more about budget and difficulty rather than anything else. You could tell they wanted to avoid them on screen as much as possible and interacting with people just made it a lot worse.
Otherwise I feel the TV show has done more to play up the White Walkers, The Red God and even the Warlocks...for no real good reason.
I'm not sure we'll get zombie Mountain, but LSH is certain to be in, just a question of when. I'm pretty relaxed either way, as others have said it is all about the initial WTF moment. After that she doesn't actually do anything.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
Other than Jon not warging I don't see how you can possibly say this.
Exactly. She gets much more use being a year-long exciting bit of discussion instead of finding out what she really gets up to. Which is very little.
You're a funny man.
toddhunter
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She walks out and drops her hood. She then whispers "Only Cat" and the season ends.
Nah. Stoneheart isn't even introduced via Brienne in the books. It's just a epilogue scene with a Frey getting hanged. They could easily do the same thing, or something similar. I'm in the camp that this will be the last scene. Saving it for Season 5 would be anti-climactic, IMO, and lack that true shocking cliffhanger moment that will give people something to speculate over for the next year.
narcosis219
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Zombie baby Ned included?
They made it a point to fully explain and even show the power of the Red God by talking about and showing one of Beric's resurrections. It's happening.
The lack of direwolves is a CGI/budget thing.
Morrigan Stark
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LMAO
Agreed, and it seems very obvious to me.
Can you people voting tally the votes as you post please? I think so far we're at this:
IN: 11
OUT: 6
So next person to vote, say something like IN: 12, OUT: 6.
WyndhamPrice
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#teamreal
Sean Bean's head pasted on the baby via CG. That's the most expensive scene so far.
PHOENIXZERO
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I'll be kinda sorta pissed if they don't end the episode with LSH, hell make it a post-credits scene, those are popular these days.
IN: 12
OUT: 6
IN: 12
OUT: 6
Too many people would miss it. Just have it follow a somewhat long black out.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
The Only Cat joke above reminds me that we still have LSH/Littlefinger meetup and fireworks potential. That could be awesome.
"Ah, fuck it."
Fixed
woo
I dont know why these emotes are available to me
You are Azor Ahai!
peanutbutterlatte
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Really? The whole point of the series is that magic and mysticism is underplayed, that's why it's so shocking when it does happen. If they were cutting magic and mysticism, they would have had Stannis pay an assassin to kill Renly, and they probably would have killed off Bran by now, as "magic and mysticism" is basically the crux of his entire storyline.
Not to mention they took great pains to set up the BWB and Thoros of Myr.
Steelyuhas
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Beysus makes 14, I'll take 15.
IN: 15
OUT: 6
IN: 15
OUT: 6
cartoon_soldier
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In all the way
Atraveller
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I'm in.
In:17
Out:7
In:17
Out:7
RobotChant
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In for LSH.
People are going to freak out.
Someone asked me today whether Jon was going to die, due to him leaving the wall. I wasn't going to spoil ADWD but i told him Jon should be back next season. He was also interested in Tyrion, and I told him Tyrion's storyline should wrap up in the last episode. These are the things he's currently occupied with. Poor child has no idea whats coming.
Ideally, the Twyin scene should come first and while everyone thinks that is the big season ender, they get hit with the LSH bit. Maybe casually do some buildup earlier in the episode about dead bodies in the river. I think, going by how the show has been written in the past, they'll show the kiss of life being administered. Maybe some dialogue about giving the Lady Stark a proper burial.
People may even think there's a chance Rob will come back, too. That would be so evil on the show runners part. So much that I'm hoping LSH is in.
People are going to freak out.
Someone asked me today whether Jon was going to die, due to him leaving the wall. I wasn't going to spoil ADWD but i told him Jon should be back next season. He was also interested in Tyrion, and I told him Tyrion's storyline should wrap up in the last episode. These are the things he's currently occupied with. Poor child has no idea whats coming.
Ideally, the Twyin scene should come first and while everyone thinks that is the big season ender, they get hit with the LSH bit. Maybe casually do some buildup earlier in the episode about dead bodies in the river. I think, going by how the show has been written in the past, they'll show the kiss of life being administered. Maybe some dialogue about giving the Lady Stark a proper burial.
People may even think there's a chance Rob will come back, too. That would be so evil on the show runners part. So much that I'm hoping LSH is in.
I'm being optimistic.
Stannis will be awesome.
Tyrion/Tywin/Shae plays out exactly like the book.
Stoneheart is in.
England beat Italy 5-0.
Post credits scene, cut to an old portly man in a dark room. "It's... It's done". GURM holds up the finished manuscript of TWOW, lightning flashes in the background. August 2014 appears on the screen.
Also, it's crazy that not only has this thread reached two OTs, the non spoiler one is closing in on page 200 as well.
Stannis will be awesome.
Tyrion/Tywin/Shae plays out exactly like the book.
Stoneheart is in.
England beat Italy 5-0.
Post credits scene, cut to an old portly man in a dark room. "It's... It's done". GURM holds up the finished manuscript of TWOW, lightning flashes in the background. August 2014 appears on the screen.
Also, it's crazy that not only has this thread reached two OTs, the non spoiler one is closing in on page 200 as well.
You just jinxed it. 2017 confirmed.
Was with you until bold. We haven't got a prayer.
Still more likely than england beating italy
peanutbutterlatte
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Michelle Fairley delivering each copy of TWOW personally in full LSH costume is more likely.
Exterminieren
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Count me in. Brienne's going to get injured in the fight with the Hound, found by the Brotherhood and brought to LSH. It is known.
In:21
Out:7
We don't know either way.
In:21
Out:7
We don't know either way.
cartoon_soldier
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I also bet LSH was filmed last season to avoid bringing this actors in for a shoot.
people will hate it.
I was hoping they'd introduce Stoneheart with the Brienne scene, because it really makes it clear she isn't just back, she's crazy and pretty evil. Hence why people call her Stoneheart not Catelyn.
Looks like that might not be happening though. I still definitely think she'll be the final scene, it would be nuts for her to not be.
Looks like that might not be happening though. I still definitely think she'll be the final scene, it would be nuts for her to not be.
toddhunter
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To be honest, I didn't like her in the books, so I was pretty pissed she was back. Luckily it didn't amount to anything so far.
Melisandre probably just said it wouldn't work again. I think it's much more likely that she saw their deaths in the flames and took the credit.
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