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

RedSky At Night said:
Bit underwhelmed if i'm honest. Was a good episode in its own right, but a pretty meh episode 10.
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That's often the case (and has certainly been the case with GOT): the penultimate episode is where shit gets real, and the final episode involves a fair amount of thematic house-keeping. Think of Baelor in Season 1 with Ned Stark; Blackwater in Season 2, and The Red Wedding (The Rains of Castamere) in this season.

The Sopranos did this a number of times (Seasons 2, 3, 5 and the last season spring to mind.) The Wire also did it in several seasons (the first 3 I believe.)
 
What's more depressing, the Red Wedding or no Game of Thrones for 10 months? :(
 
Definitely the latter. The wait is ridiculous and quite frankly they'll need to replace half the child actors won't they if they start splitting up the books into 2 seasons?

AFAIK he hasn't even finished writing them yet. How old will the actress who plays Arya be by then?
 
CassiusClaymore said:
Definitely the latter. The wait is ridiculous and quite frankly they'll need to replace half the child actors won't they if they start splitting up the books into 2 seasons?

AFAIK he hasn't even finished writing them yet. How old will the actress who plays Arya be by then?
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Cina said:
At this rate there will be three more seasons before it catches up to the latest book, I'd guess.
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Ban them!
 
Shame about the ending. You're riding the slave wave, well done Daenerys.
 
What was the point in the Dire Wolves? Why were they ever written into the story? They all get killed and it actually makes me really angry when they kill them, especially when they killed Robb's Dire Wolf.
 
Arya's Dire Wolf was forced to run away and Sansa's Dire Wolf was executed. What's the point in them? They only seem to have done anything twice and both times it involved Brann.
 
Drainy said:
Any scene with Tywin and Tyrion you just know is going to be quality, but the way Joffrey was put in his place was just class.
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Yeah, you have to give Joffrey's actor props for being able to come across as such a despiseable little cnut. There is a great satisfaction watching his father or his brother put him in his place.
 
walsh said:
Yeah, you have to give Joffrey's actor props for being able to come across as such a despiseable little cnut. There is a great satisfaction watching his father or his brother put him in his place.
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True, I reckon the actor gets terrible abuse in real life because he does such a great job playing the dick. :lol:
 
Last weeks episode aside I though that season was disappointing.

Still, I love the show and can't wait for next year.
 
That'sHernandez said:
What was the point in the Dire Wolves? Why were they ever written into the story? They all get killed and it actually makes me really angry when they kill them, especially when they killed Robb's Dire Wolf.
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TBF there was the one that saved Bran and his mum in the first season. That was important.

Which ones are left? Jons, Brans and Rickons? Who the feck is Rickon anyway? I mean I know who he is but who is he?
 
He's basically a toddler when Catelyn leaves for King's Landing so he's too young to have plot relevance at the moment really.

Who knows, he might never be relevant but it's fine to have minor characters
 
CassiusClaymore said:
TBF there was the one that saved Bran and his mum in the first season. That was important.

Which ones are left? Jons, Brans and Rickons? Who the feck is Rickon anyway? I mean I know who he is but who is he?
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Rickon's, Jon's, Bran's and Arya's. That was the wolf I was referring to in my second post, Bran also controlled them to save Jon from the Wildlings too. That said, could it be that now we know of Bran's power, it was him controlling the wolf in the first season to save him and his mum to begin with?

I have a feeling Arya's wolf will find its way back at some point, given they all seem to have some sort of psychic connection to the wolves.
 
Drainy said:
He's basically a toddler when Catelyn leaves for King's Landing so he's too young to have plot relevance at the moment really.

Who knows, he might never be relevant but it's fine to have minor characters
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I saw you posting in the book thread. GTFO.
 
That'sHernandez said:
I saw you posting in the book thread. GTFO.
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Alright, Mr Jim Crow.. :lol:

I have no idea what happens to Rickon or many of the minor characters, to be honest. The TV show is far further on than I am in the b**ks.

If you read my post in the b**k thread you know I'm being extra careful not to say anything that could even be seen as a potential spoiler when I know a plot point.
 
I haven't read your post, I just saw you as the last person to post. Why even take the risk after you read the previous few pages?
 
Fair enough. I've never said anything in this thread that I knew would be giving away something that happens in the books. I posted something I wanted to say about last night's episode in the b**k thread because I know a major plot point and it could have been seen as me being a book spoiling twat because even though my point was about something that happened way back in season one, one interpretation could be that it was also foreshadowing. I was being extra careful. Anyways...
 
Stop bringing up the books. Get the feck out. The whole reason we have this rule is because of how easy it is to drop something accidentally, so it doesn't matter how careful you think you are.
 
I already noticed a spoiler I read in this thread in the finale, where it turned out that Theon was being held captive by Bolton so people definitely do slip up. I found that quite annoying so who knows what that shitehawk Revan has spoiled with his know-it-all posts further down the line.
 
I honestly dont understand why the people who read the books post in here. Cant you just talk about that stuff in the book thread? Why dont you just compare what happens in the book with the stuff happening in the episodes? Everytime we, the ones who dont read the book, come in here we have to be worried about reading something the book readers write. The whole point of this thread is for us to not be scared.
 
Made me sick to watch them parade around a headless Robb with the wolf head attached to him in the castle courtyard. Can we have some fecking payback soon, George R. R. Martin? Taking a dudes hand off just isn't enough, even if he's Tywin Lannister's son.
 
RDCR07 said:
I honestly dont understand why the people who read the books post in here. Cant you just talk about that stuff in the book thread? Why dont you just compare what happens in the book with the stuff happening in the episodes? Everytime we, the ones who dont read the book, come in here we have to be worried about reading something the book readers write. The whole point of this thread is for us to not be scared.
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And people like me are scared to make predictions because if I'm correct I'll be hounded out as a 'book reader.'
 
Well making predictions is fine by me since everyone would like to predict what happens. As long as you are not a book reader. Just use a spoiler saying Predictions.
 
If you thought that was a spoiler, you haven't been paying attention
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anyway, I haven't spoiled anything, in fact I didn't even bring up the books but if reading the first book and knowing some of the major plot points from the later books means I can't post in this thread without getting 'harassed' every time and having to explain where in the tv show something happened because people don't remember, then fair enough I'll GTFO
 
rio's upper lip said:
Made me sick to watch them parade around a headless Robb with the wolf head attached to him in the castle courtyard. Can we have some fecking payback soon, George R. R. Martin? Taking a dudes hand off just isn't enough, even if he's Tywin Lannister's son.
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Yeah, I hated that and Arya saw it too. So she's seen her Dad beheaded (well, she looked away) and saw a wolfs head attached to her decapitated brother's body and she's around 10 or 11.

That's gonna leave some lasting mental damage.
 
Shane88 said:
Yeah, I hated that and Arya saw it too. So she's seen her Dad beheaded (well, she looked away) and saw a wolfs head attached to her decapitated brother's body and she's around 10 or 11.

That's gonna leave some lasting mental damage.
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At least she stabbed the feck out of that guy who was mocking her family.
 
RDCR07 said:
And that wont cause mental damage? But I am excited to see if she sort of becomes an assassin now.
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I dunno, she's always seemed far older than she is. That's just the world they live in, especially during a war. I foresee her baying for some serious vengeance assisted by the Hound.
 
I loved the scene where Stannis is deliberating whether to kill Gendry and takes a little random walk into centre stage just so they could get a shot of Melisandre and Davos, each over his shoulder like the proverbial devil and angel.
 
A bit underwhelming compared to last week.
 
That'sHernandez said:
I already noticed a spoiler I read in this thread in the finale, where it turned out that Theon was being held captive by Bolton so people definitely do slip up. I found that quite annoying so who knows what that shitehawk Revan has spoiled with his know-it-all posts further down the line.
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I'd hardly say that was a spoiler.

That's been heavily enough hinted at (and kind of obvious when you think about the chronology of events) that those of us that worked it out managed to do so by just applying some lateral thinking.

I mean, we know that Bolton is a bastard (and have for weeks and weeks) and that the last thing we saw was that the Ironborn (is that what they're called?) knocked Theon out to give him to Bolton's bastard (who we knew was the one sent to relieve Winterfell). It never made sense that they burnt down Winterfell, because they were surrendering to Bolton's bastards men believing them to be the Starks banner men (I don't think thats explicitly laid out but thats the logical conclusion of those events). Who else was gonna have Theon?
 
That'sHernandez said:
I already noticed a spoiler I read in this thread in the finale, where it turned out that Theon was being held captive by Bolton so people definitely do slip up. I found that quite annoying so who knows what that shitehawk Revan has spoiled with his know-it-all posts further down the line.
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feck off! I haven't commented here and haven't watched the episode yet.
 
NinjaFletch said:
I'd hardly say that was a spoiler.

That's been heavily enough hinted at (and kind of obvious when you think about the chronology of events) that those of us that worked it out managed to do so by just applying some lateral thinking.

I mean, we know that Bolton is a bastard (and have for weeks and weeks) and that the last thing we saw was that the Ironborn (is that what they're called?) knocked Theon out to give him to Bolton's bastard (who we knew was the one sent to relieve Winterfell). It never made sense that they burnt down Winterfell, because they were surrendering to Bolton's bastards men believing them to be the Starks banner men (I don't think thats explicitly laid out but thats the logical conclusion of those events). Who else was gonna have Theon?
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The X shaped thing Theon was on was also very similar to the X shaped symbol on Bolton's flag, some of the TV critics were pointing that out about four or five episodes in.

Saw this episode earlier, pretty good I thought. The final episodes of the season is never quite as good as the one before. The final scene was a bit weak compared to the final scenes of the last two seasons but maybe they wanted to end on a sort of happy note? We don't see a lot of happy times on this show so it was kind of a nice change, I thought.

Also, Davos is a bro. One of my favourite characters on the show atm.
 
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