Television Game of Thrones (TV) • The watch has ended

Let's be honest, this show's become utter shite. I know fantasy as a genre is a lot about people travelling from point A to point B but that's usually against the backdrop of some sort of good vs evil narrative. Does anyone even know who's fighting who anymore? It's just a clusterfeck of half-baked storylines - most of which are playing out in slow motion.
 
Ivor Ballokov said:
Enjoyable episode, we're moving at a pretty nifty pace now.


Khaleesi has lost her fleet, two of her cities and is prisoner of the Dothraki, I wouldn't be at all surprised if she never gets off Essos and maybe just settles for that as her kingdom. Her absence and the lack of Dorne really benefitted the episode.
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Was thinking the same.
 
Ivor Ballokov said:
Khaleesi has lost her fleet, two of her cities and is prisoner of the Dothraki, I wouldn't be at all surprised if she never gets off Essos and maybe just settles for that as her kingdom.
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I think somehow someone (Sam tarly??) will find a cure for Greyscale and she will end up setting her Queendom in valeria (perhaps she probably via tyrion will trade John snow a dragon for the cure otherwise I don't see ice zombies vs dragons happening)
 
Great ending, glad they've not let it go on for too long.

Was a little silly how easy the wildings just waltzed into castle Black though, but I suppose it has to happen quickly for the scene to work.

Can't wait for next week now! I've got a feeling this season is going to be 1 of the best.
 
Adam-Utd said:
Great ending, glad they've not let it go on for too long.

Was a little silly how easy the wildings just waltzed into castle Black though, but I suppose it has to happen quickly for the scene to work.

Can't wait for next week now! I've got a feeling this season is going to be 1 of the best.
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Not sure how waltzing in and having a giant bust the door down is the same thing...don't really class that as easy. Unless the fact that they have a giant is an unfair advantage lol
 
Who was the bloke who threw the old boy off the bridge? Have we met him before? (I'm shit with names)
 
Adam-Utd said:
Great ending, glad they've not let it go on for too long.

Was a little silly how easy the wildings just waltzed into castle Black though, but I suppose it has to happen quickly for the scene to work.

Can't wait for next week now! I've got a feeling this season is going to be 1 of the best.
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They don't defend the south side
 
Sied said:
Who was the bloke who threw the old boy off the bridge? Have we met him before? (I'm shit with names)
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Don't think so. He did call him brother, right? So he's an Iron Islander who's been away for a while who is angling for the Greyjoy throne.

And maybe leaving Yara out in the cold in the process, based on what that old guy told her.
 
VP said:
Let's be honest, this show's become utter shite. I know fantasy as a genre is a lot about people travelling from point A to point B but that's usually against the backdrop of some sort of good vs evil narrative. Does anyone even know who's fighting who anymore? It's just a clusterfeck of half-baked storylines - most of which are playing out in slow motion.
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Your criticism is its too complex for you?

Game of Thrones has always been about morally grey characters with unclear motives doing things for not immediately clear reasons. The precise attraction of it is that its not some cliched good vs evil nonsense.
 
DomesticTadpole said:
Not sure how waltzing in and having a giant bust the door down is the same thing...don't really class that as easy. Unless the fact that they have a giant is an unfair advantage lol
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I meant like no guards, nobody warning them a big army is coming etc..
Big-Red said:
They don't defend the south side
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Ok makes sense then cheers.
 
Sied said:
Who was the bloke who threw the old boy off the bridge? Have we met him before? (I'm shit with names)
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Euron Greyjoy. We haven't met him before. He threw his older brother Balon off the bridge.
 
bucky said:
Euron Greyjoy. We haven't met him before. He threw his older brother Balon off the bridge.
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Was his name said in the episode? I must have missed it...

ha_rooney said:
I expect Jon to kill all the traitors. I reckon he will have less morals this time round, although still be respected.
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Didnt he behead Janos for basically not obeying orders? That might be simplistic, but surely he has to behead the traitors. Would be glorious tbh seeing Olly beheaded (especially as he was the turd that killed Ygritte)
 
Can someone remind me how the mountain recovered from that fight with Oberyn? I know we've just seen a man get brought back from the dead on this show, but was the fact he got stabbed numerous times just ignored? Also, where did he come from to rescue Cersei? Who called for him?
 
Sied said:
Can someone remind me how the mountain recovered from that fight with Oberyn? I know we've just seen a man get brought back from the dead on this show, but was the fact he got stabbed numerous times just ignored? Also, where did he come from to rescue Cersei? Who called for him?
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One of the Maisters turned him into Frankenstein's monster.
 
Sied said:
Can someone remind me how the mountain recovered from that fight with Oberyn? I know we've just seen a man get brought back from the dead on this show, but was the fact he got stabbed numerous times just ignored? Also, where did he come from to rescue Cersei? Who called for him?
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Qyburn, Cersei's Maester, brought him back using some dubious medical experiments.
 
Cheers fellas. So was he still getting experimented on when Cersei was imprisoned and getting paraded around in the nude?
 
How did the wild longs and their giant manage to sneak in without anyone spotting them?

We're all the guards asleep even though they can see for miles from the top?
 
Sied said:
Cheers fellas. So was he still getting experimented on when Cersei was imprisoned and getting paraded around in the nude?
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Yes. Cersei and the Maister are best buds, so she gives him The Mountain's body for his experiments and then he returns him to her, to be her personal bodygard. He doesn't seem to have a personality anymore and is programmed to obey her. And yes, while she's imprisoned Qyburn comes to visit and says that "the work continues". When she gets back, after her walk, he's up and running.
 
Jon Snow is alive and leicester win the league. Most epic bank holiday doing feck all ever.
 
Nice developments in this episode 2. I see Sansa and Arya continuing slowly their journey to finally be useful in season 7 (about time).
Tyrion+dragons=very cool. Jon snow is back as expected, what will he do now, he is supposed to fight in Winterfell but why? Ramsay is a great villain. Tension is building up in King's Landing. Looks like interesting stuff is about to happen all over the place.

The most intriguing is the Bran arc. I expect his visions to reveal a lot about the lore of Westeros, especially about young Ned and Lyanna.
 
Really glad he's back but it was a bit of a lame resurrection. Red woman should have been like "I've got this shit!" *hocus pocus* and he's back to life, pretty much as soon as she found out. Rather than some awkward school ground "excuse me miss, so erm, I was wondering, could you magic him back alive please?"
 
Great episode, shame to see Roose Bolton and his magnificent voice go but feck that man deserved such a killing. Some nice developments with Tyrion and the dragons too seeing they didn't just roast his little peck ass on sight.
 
ArmandTamzarian said:
Great episode, shame to see Roose Bolton and his magnificent voice go but feck that man deserved such a killing. Some nice developments with Tyrion and the dragons too seeing they didn't just roast his little peck ass on sight.
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It would've been incredibly funny if they did. 5 seasons of him being basically the main character and then the stupid and unexpected death, very realistic (apart from the dragons part), I would say.

I would've missed him though
 
Carl said:
Really glad he's back but it was a bit of a lame resurrection. Red woman should have been like "I've got this shit!" *hocus pocus* and he's back to life, pretty much as soon as she found out. Rather than some awkward school ground "excuse me miss, so erm, I was wondering, could you magic him back alive please?"
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It seems one has to have near lost all faith in the Lord of the light before being able to resurrect the dead, as established with Thoros and his group of merry men
 
harms said:
It would've been incredibly funny if they did. 5 seasons of him being basically the main character and then the stupid and unexpected death, very realistic (apart from the dragons part), I would say.

I would've missed him though
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:lol: that would have been 100 times more unexpected than all the deaths in this combined, I would've loved to see the reactions to that.
 
I have a shave and I get razor burn. Jon Snow gets one and he comes back to life ffs.

Good episode though, daft in places, but still very entertaining overall.
 
Dany's storyline is getting more and more boring. All they do is talk about random crap that MIGHT happen but in reality nothing is happening. She has not really progressed throughout the seasons.
 
ArmandTamzarian said:
Great episode, shame to see Roose Bolton and his magnificent voice go but feck that man deserved such a killing. Some nice developments with Tyrion and the dragons too seeing they didn't just roast his little peck ass on sight.
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Aye, he was quality. Proper bad guy's voice too.
 
Does anyone else feel that the whole Jon Snow thing with the HBO "he's dead" confirmations was a bit like when a shit magician is trying to convince the kids it's in his left hand and they're all pointing at his right hand going "No it's in there mate" before the big reveal.... "TA DA!"

Yeah, we know.
 
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