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For a second I thought you'd found out Winds of Winter has an official release date.
How silly of me. Podrick, for instance, has been at the end of a rope for 12 years now. GRRM sux.
I need to rewatch the last season. I've completely blanked on what happened. Other than the hot lady with pet dragons killing that fleet of ships I can't really remember the other highlights.
Y'all seen any clips or videos that'll give a short highlight of last season?
FYI, for those of us that don't have HBO, Xfinity is going to let us binge-watch season's 1-6 beginning Monday thru the week (7/10 - 7/16).
I had to rewatch the entire series this summer and am glad I did.
-Jon Snow just became King of the North after defeating Ramsay. Not sure what's going to happen with Littlefinger, Sansa and Snow. That Littlefinger is a slime ball, two faced scum bag. See Freeze, Hugh. Can't trust them.
-Khaleesi made a deal with the Greyjoys for ships and her Unsullied/Dothraki armies, 3 dragons (supposed to be as big as 747s this season), Tyrion, and the Greyjoys are sailing for Westeros to F shit up.
-Cersei just torched the Sept or whatever it's called and all of her opposition in KL. She was anointed Queen of the Seven. Interested to see if Jamie will slay another Mad ruler.
-Arya is on her way to completing her list. Her training with the Faceless men is over, and she's en route to killing everyone on her list. Cersei, the brain dead Mountain, and Red Woman are among those left. She slit Walder Frey's throat after feeding him his family in a pie. Wonder what 17ed up shit she will do to the rest.
-Sam Tarly and Fam just got to the Citadel where Sam is to study to become a Maestor for the Night's Watch. No women or kids allowed and Sam stole his father's Valyrian steel sword before leaving in the middle of the night. I don't see Sam Tarly surviving Winter, either from the night army or his father coming back into the picture.
- Winter is COMING and all that comes with it.
Ready for Sunday.
We're off to a SKRONG start with season 7. Arya is arguably the most dangerous person in Westeros. And The Hound is still hilarious.
Arya scene was badass.
Cerci, Jamie, and Euron was funny how he kept verbally jabbing Jamie. It has been awhile but I can't remember if Euron on the show has the horn that is supposed to control dragons. I figure he is either going to try to get Cersi a dragon or Tyrion.
Jon and Sansa scene was ok but kind of sets up Sansa & Jon butting heads. It will be interesting to see how that relationship plays out especially if Arya comes back.
Sam now is getting into the restricted books so hopefully he finds a cure for Jorah's greyscale and Jon's lineage. He already knows where to get Dragon glass.
Looks like the Brothers without Banners are going to the wall to fight the Others. The Hound is having a slight redemption arc with burying the farmer he stabbed.
It is interesting that Jamie and the Hound are seeming to become better people but Cersi and sand snake women are more evil.
There wasn't a lot of action after Arya's Frey party. I get showing set up but with only 7 episodes, it felt like we burned a lot of time doing nothing. Especially since next year is the last season and it is shortened also. After all 6 seasons of buildup, it seems like the ending is going to be rushed.
What the heck? Ed Sheeran, singing.........Arya going to needle him?
I think he's going to bring her the head of a dragon or a live dragon maybe. The "priceless gift" could also be the horn itself.
I am thinking it is the horn and she maybe goes to the Wall because Jon talks Dany into going to the wall to see the White Walkers. Cersi being the cunning yet dumb bitch that she is blows the horn and brings down the wall. People then unite to fight them because enemy of my enemy.
Completely random theory coming out of my head. I haven't seen anything that would suggest any of that is true.
So maybe she controls a dragon and burns a hole in the wall. Maybe it is one horn. That is the fun with those prophecies. GRRM likes to twist them around so they don't work like you think. Maybe the only thing that can bring down the wall is dragon fire so with the horn you can control the dragon to burn down the wall. Just throwing out theories now. I really wonder if they end this season with the Others getting around or through the wall so the final season is only a war with the Others. Everyone uniting to fight them.
I think she grew up and realized actual good people are harder to find and Jon is a good person. I think she half way cares but she does seem more interested in getting Winterfell for herself. I don't think everyone fully believes the Others are coming .
So Sansa is now in charge of Winterfell. I am guessing Arya chose to go back to Winterfell also. Other than the sea battle where Dany's navy was wiped out, not much happened. Although 2 Sand snakes were killed so it wasn't all bad. At least next week Jon finally meets Dany. It really feels like we are limping toward the finish line. Only 5 episodes left in the season and 6 more episodes in season 8. I think we will have the Others showing up at the end and next season is just battling with the Others and then an episode or 2 of deciding who sits on the Iron Throne afterwards.
Wow! Good episode
yeah, much better than last week. That was the perfect ending for the Sand Snakes.
Lannisters don't play.
Best episode of the season so far.
Great episode with a lot happening. Maybe Arya shows up right before Jon in Winterfell.
Dany getting schooled fighting an actual army instead of slave owners.
Not very often that Tyrion is a step behind. I loved it when Dany called him out on quoting what he said as being a famous quote. I think the rest of the episodes are going to be closer to that rather than slow building. Too much has to happen with not a lot of shows left.
Damn good episode. Shocked to see Jaime a step ahead of Tyrion. The Unsullied are screwed and a huge piece of Dany's war machine is now de facto incapacitated. Loved how the Queen of Thorns slid the proverbial knife into Jaime as she died. One of the best deaths on the show by far to date with that whole exchange.
Sansa knows Littlefinger is full of shit and only wants what benefits himself but still can't stop herself from listening to him. Bran's return was a bit anticlimactic, honestly. All he wound off doing was sending Sansa into meltdown and being unable to tell John what he knows. His story arc just bores me.
Sam got a big win healing Jorah. Hopefully he'll gain the Archmaester's trust soon and be able to gain more knowledge that helps against the White Walkers.
The Dany-Jon-Tyrion-Davos interaction is awesome. Really love having all of them to
I was actually wondering if maybe one of the scrolls he is supposed to be copying might have something to do with the Long Night and the Others. I was hoping that Sam would tell Jorah about the Others and how the Dragon Glass would kill them. It would be a reenforcement of what Jon is saying but from someone Dany trusts.
I wondered that as well. It would certainly fit with how the story has unfolded thus far for an important task to be disguised and dismissed as just another mundane task. Excellent idea about Sam using Jorah as a bit of a stalking horse. Unfortunately, he has no idea that Jon is with Dany. And who knows, maybe a conversation along those lines happened off screen, although I'd be more likely to say it didn't. Still, hell of an idea. Maybe you should be writing scripts!
It looked kind of final when Sam shook his hand. It also can come up when Jorah gets back and maybe Jon is in the room when he says Sam Tarley cured him. I love the show but I am kind of tired of the political moves. I am ready for some dragons and Others to fight.
Holy shit....that episode was in tents.
You will not loose a battle when you have the only "Dragon Air force" dropping Napalm. That was one bad ass episode.
Whenever Jon finds out Bran is the three eyed raven and can take over the dragons, Dany 17ed. I didn't read the books and don't know if Dany is really that hateable or if Emilia Clarke is so shitty of an actress you just want the character to die since she isn't whipping out her tits anymore. Hopefully Euron kills all of the unsullied so we don't have to hear about those cockless bastards anymore or watch grey worms awkward ass on screen.
Damn, I wanted Bran to kill that 17ing Dragon! I hate Emilia Clarke, I was hoping she was flattened when that dragon took a dive bomb.
No way they let Jaime die like that so I imagine someone rescues him off the bottom of the lake somehow. Not many episodes left and I was mad that they cut the episode 10 minutes short. I will say they made some shit happen. Not much time spent dragging on with something that didn't matter that much. It kind of pisses me off that I had to watch any of that time waste in Dorne now since it obviously doesn't matter at all. I doubt we see anything to do with Dorne unless the Dornish people come North to fight the White Walkers. Other than that the show butchered that entire story line from the book.
It will be interesting to see how Dany handles Bronn since he is the one who shot Drogon. Jaime also now knows that Tyrion didn't kill Joffrey although he still killed Tywin. I wonder if Sam will end up going to Dragonstone where the Tarly's might be prisoners. 3 episodes left this year and 6 next year with a lot left to happen.
The dragon battle was amazing. And I really dug Arya's return to Winterfell, and I'm cool with how Jon and Dany's relationship is progressing, too. Great episode.
But what the eff's the deal with Bran's recent descent into glassy-eyed crazytown? And let me preface my beef by saying that I was one of the very few uber-nerds who was really into Bran's story at the end of season 4 only to be let down in season 6. Fireball wielding androgynous pixie emerges from a cave hurling fireballs at the undead to save Bran and lead him to a mystical-looking shaman seated among the roots of an ancient tree? Kapow, Children of the Forest, bitches! Time for Bran to become an all-knowing wizard. Fast forward to season 6, and the Children of the Forest have morphed into adult, low-level Dr. Moroeau extras, the three-eyed-raven is just some dude in a black robe, and Bran's training is tagalong flashback watching (important though the details may have been). Bottom line, I thought it was a waste.
But regardless, when the hell did Bran become catatonic? Meera said "You died in that cave." Really? Because I didn't see that. During his training (when he tried to talk to his dad and raptly watched him during the Tower of Joy vision), he was the same ole Bran. When he encountered the Ice King in his vision (and became visibly frightened and screamed), he was the same ole Bran. During his escape from the cave as he was stuck in a vision (when he smiled as he watched his grandfather leave his father at Winterfell), he was the same ole Bran. And when he met up with his uncle on his trek to the wall (when he expressed adolescent frustration about how he couldn't control his visions), he was the same ole Bran.
So, again, whence Bran the Dud? (Zinger to Little Finger notwithstanding.) I get the explanation. The visions are just too much for him. But it was just dropped in our laps with zero context, explanation, or development. If you're going to go that way, why not just have it happen slowly over these first few episodes? But why even go there? We didn't get tons of screen time from Max Von Sydow as the previous Three Eyed Raven, but even he was more animated (at least in the visions) than Bran is now.
- inconsequential rant over -
So yeah, I'm stoked about how things are going. And I agree with you, Beardo, re: Bronn and Jamie's fate. Too many awesome possibilities for interactions with Tyrion not to go that route. (Plus, I'm not sure what the alternative is.)