I've read some of the spoilers, including what I would assume to be the biggest one. Wow. I wonder if Bran saw this happening? In many ways I've found this show to be the ultimate guilty pleasure, but damn if it isn't entertaining. And the slow build has made these money shot final episodes incredibly satisfying.
AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG God Damn Youtube!!!! I'm not a big hater of spoilers but I wasn't looking to see anything until Sunday.
That's why I avoid leaked and bootlegged video. I want the best experience possible for my first viewing and most of the time leaked footage isn't it. Thank you to everyone who is keeping spoilers under wraps!
This was posted in a FB discussion about how Peter Dinklage has been top billed every season after the first. It's really kinda crazy how much Ned dominated S1 screen time. Has anyone even had half of that?
Is anyone else finding the conflict between Arya and Sansa to be forced? In Season 1, Robb and Maester Luwin immediately determined that the Lannisters forced Sansa to write the letter in question, and it wasn't an issue. I'm finding it hard to believe that Arya would be so thick about it.
There is one thing I think may be a trap for Sansa and that is the letter inviting her to Kings Landing. Why her? Jon is the King of the North. If anything such a letter would be addressed to him. Yet she doesn't mention it was addressed to Jon. Just that it invited her. I think Littlefinger is pulling a stunt to Brienne out of the picture. He knows that Sansa would not go back to Kings Landing.
Hilarious the talk between Tormund and Clegane. Especially when Tormund didn't know what a dick was. And Tormund and Gendry. "We make do with what we have" In the books Uncle BenJen is dead. But here it looks as if he is alive and well. Well at least until the end. And where did the chains come from? No wonder it's taking the dead so long to get anywhere. They have to drag those big ass chains around.
Yeah he's in the books. Dead. Well it's assumed Coldhands is BenJen. There hasn't been a true confirmation yet in the books.
Boy, crows and dragons can fly at the speed of plot! What was that, a couple of thousand miles? And just in the nick of time. Aaaaaand Uncle Benjen out of nowhere.... just in the nick of time! It's exciting, but awfully lazy writing.
OK... So what the hell? On first viewing, I saw the Arya/Sansa conflict as Arya's Stark gene re-asserting itself. On subsequent viewings, I'm beginning to think that both Arya and Sansa have determined that Littlefinger is up to something and both of them are doing things to get him to reveal himself but Arya and Sansa aren't communicating. I think Arya has genuinely scared Sansa and I'm hoping that Sansa isn't planning to hurt her sister. I'm not sure what to make of Sansa sending Breienne out of town after Littlefinger points out that she'd interfere with either sister trying to harm the other... but I'm absolutely sure that what we're seeing onscreen isn't all that there is. Everything north of the wall was great excluding the plot of why they were there in the first place. Since this show started and showed fire breathing dragons, I've been waiting for a fight between them and the ice zombies. The banter between the Westerosi Magnificent 7 was great! It occurs to me how much was good about this show happened around people travelling from one place to the next and I think this expains a lot of people's frustrations with the jet-packing the last season or two. However, I understand that things need to move at the speed of plot. Considering that Dany had an all but literal fire breathing jet pack this episode, I can forgive her timely arrival north of Eastwatch. But how did Gendry's raven make it to her so fast? This did not disappoint! And is it just me or is Dany looking a little "extra hot and tasty" the last few episodes? At first I thought it was the lighting but in this episode the lighting is very dim in some scenes... They must have a new make-up artist this season or something. That white outfit she was in riding Drogon with the snowy landscapes for contrast was the stuff of legends.... and I'm not one to notice things like that. She looked like a medevil superhero! 1 more episode left this season and 7 more total for the series. I'm afraid that this show may have ruined most of TV for me. I don't really like much else these days. Any word on when we can look forward to Season 8?
Well at least now we know why the army of the dead has been creeping along so slowly. They've been lugging those ginormous chains with them...you know...just in case.
It's not just you. I don't know if they're doing something different with her makeup, her wigs, or what but she's looked extra beautiful the last 2-3 episodes. This is the first time in the series that I've thought the actress looked as hot as a blonde as she does with her natural hair color.
I blame the Lord of Light for Benjen being in the right place at the right time to fulfil his purpose on this earth. That one was easy. But probably, the same LoL is behind all that folding space & time underlying the warp-like travel as needed for fate and role-fulfilment to play out. Alternatively, they could've used black-screen notes presenting lots of [quarter-day later], [a day and a half earlier] or [2 days later] messages to better rationalize presenting just the "good parts" version, sans filler.
The 'capture a wight and bring it to Cersei's doorstep' storyline might make sense if you had chapters and chapters of a book to devote to understanding why there are no better options. But the show force fed it to us, and even the show's biggest supporters are talking about how stupid it was. Seems like there were better ways to bring us the OMG ice dragon.
My prediction is that Cersei won't even give a shit. She's so hopped up on rage and crazy, she'll think she can beat the white walkers on her own anyway.
I think she'll do the old double cross - act all concerned about the dead army, commit her forces and then last minute pull her forces away in hopes Dany's army and the dead army wipe each other out. There's no way she's going to work with them. No way in hell. As for the episode, it was epic but I really could have done without Jon going to fight the dead instead of getting on the dragon and then reemerging from the water only to be saved by Benjen. That was pointless and silly.
They start filming in October, so don't expect anything until at least July 2018. Also, don't reflect too closely upon this latest episode. Your unreserved gushing aside, it has more plot holes and Deus Ex Machina than anything Star Trek ever did. It was like a fast-food Chinese dinner. I gobbled it up at the time but ten minutes later I realized I just wasn't satiated.