Game of Thrones Season 8 (NO BOOKSPOILERS) thread

[Pato del Muerto 52485]

RIP baby Ned 

[Burt Macklin 19020]

4 hours ago, Eternal Noob said:

My favorite part of every Surly thread is when Derka posts a long, somewhat unpopular opinion, then the utterly predictable full page of people telling him to shut up and predicting a Derka-ing. Then, to everyone's immense satisfaction, he does respond and they get to snarl and rage for another 2 pages about the thread getting Derka'd and making it all about himself.

 

[Drew 2402]

I just want to know why he still watches the show if he’s already writing now about how much he hates the next episode?

You can say why you didn’t like a show. But the dude has done this for every episode for 2 seasons. At what point does the show suck so much that you stop watching instead of bitching about it?

[Shinesintx 53]

9 hours ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

 

Do the folks bitching about GOT realize that the seasons they’re bitching about...there’s no books? 

[HouTex 1866]

I'm doing the reverse jinx like I do for UT football. Cersei wins the game.

[BLKNSTY 289]

On Jon yelling GOOO to Arya as he faces down the dragon, I can't confirm.

But funny enough, I was rewatching Edd's death scene (with the captions on) and right as he fell, it said - "[Woman Yelling] Eddd, Nooooo". Or something along those lines. Rewinded it and heard it too.

Thought that was funny cause Edd, like Jon and Sam, are the last identifiable Crows in Season 8. So I think it's safe to assume that all three of them fuckers broke their vows and got themselves some Wildling gash. Made me chuckle.

[Irish Wrist Watch 1359]

1 hour ago, seven said:

Uh, they have literally stabbed a pregnant woman's womb repeatedly on this show, not to mention other instances of straight up baby killing. 

Yeah, the bad guys did it. Not Jon, not Jaime. Won't happen. So the writers got to get the kid out of her first.

[Sleepygrad 1029]

On Jon yelling GOOO to Arya as he faces down the dragon, I can't confirm.
But funny enough, I was rewatching Edd's death scene (with the captions on) and right as he fell, it said - "[Woman Yelling] Eddd, Nooooo". Or something along those lines. Rewinded it and heard it too.
Thought that was funny cause Edd, like Jon and Sam, are the last identifiable Crows in Season 8. So I think it's safe to assume that all three of them fuckers broke their vows and got themselves some Wildling gash. Made me chuckle.

The whole joke between Sam and Jon was about the fact that Edd hasn’t fucked...and never will

[Planet Houston 4930]

9 minutes ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

Yeah, the bad guys did it. Not Jon, not Jaime. Won't happen. So the writers got to get the kid out of her first.

Maybe it's another smoke baby.

[Fico 1778]

Yeah, the bad guys did it. Not Jon, not Jaime. Won't happen. So the writers got to get the kid out of her first.

The kid will kill her just like Tyrion did to their mother.

[MAUFRAIS 6618]

If he yelled Goo maybe it was because he saw that Ernie had peed his pants.

[BigOrange1 6432]

7 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Breaking bad only had like 60 episodes, they knew the entire story before they started, and had commitment from the network. 

Most series don’t have an ending until they need one, and when they need it they need it immediately. 

uh, no.

 

[Jerry Callo 8698]

17 minutes ago, Planet Houston said:

Maybe it's another smoke baby.

Those have a fairly short gestation period.

[VABuckeye 2472]

20 minutes ago, Fico said:

 

The kid will kill her just like Tyrion did to their mother.

 

It’s going to be a dwarf.   

[achooloco 1067]

3 hours ago, Shinesintx said:

 

Do the folks bitching about GOT realize that the seasons they’re bitching about...there’s no books? 

Whaaaaaaa...? Now way... fucking Einstein over here... woah! Wow guey, so cool!

[Shinesintx 53]

3 hours ago, Planet Houston said:

Maybe it's another smoke baby.

 

Melisandre, the Red Witch. Why couldn’t Gendry bone her and send the smoke baby to kill the NK...or even Cersei?

[elguapo 4586]

Bronn gonna show up next episode or what

[Goo Punch 4275]

4 hours ago, Planet Houston said:

Maybe it's another smoke baby.

That's racist. 

[Chewbacca 7766]

 
Melisandre, the Red Witch. Why couldn’t Gendry bone her and send the smoke baby to kill the NK...or even Cersei?

Because she's dead?

[Chewbacca 7766]

That's racist. 

Maybe it's a goo baby.

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4975]

11 hours ago, Shinesintx said:

 

Do the folks bitching about GOT realize that the seasons they’re bitching about...there’s no books? 

I don't think many of them have watched previous season based on may of the comments in this thread (can't kill a woman with a baby in her belly! It's not GOT style to have a major battle without killing off a major character! The Dothraki should have stayed on their horses inside the castle walls where there wasn't room for them! Etc.) So yeah I would venture they likely aren't even aware that there exists a thing called books.

[HenryJames 66037]

6 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

8 hours ago, Shinesintx said:

 
Melisandre, the Red Witch. Why couldn’t Gendry bone her and send the smoke baby to kill the NK...or even Cersei?

Because she's dead?

[52-80 19147]

6 hours ago, Chewbacca said:

9 hours ago, Shinesintx said:

 
Melisandre, the Red Witch. Why couldn’t Gendry bone her and send the smoke baby to kill the NK...or even Cersei?

Because she's dead?

What is dead may never bone.

[Barry_McCokiner 160]

Yea Jon was screaming go go at the dragon

[Llano Estacado 1257]

Bronn gonna show up next episode or what

Episode 4 & 5 will just be armies on the march. Setting camp. Chitchat on the road. Breaking camp. Cooking. Shitting in the woods on the side of the King’s Road.

Need to keep the “I want realism” fans happy. If we don’t see people traveling on screen in real time...

That’s where we’ll see Bronn next, when a scout stumbles upon Bronn shitting behind a tree.

[smuggs 9352]

1 minute ago, Llano Estacado said:

That’s where we’ll see Bronn next, when a scout stumbles upon Bronn shitting behind a tree.

 

This would actually be pretty great, because Bronn.

 

[alincoln 2371]

Bronn will be in the next episode

Edited May 3, 2019 by alincoln

[alincoln 2371]

Rest of Season Questions/Predictions

1.  Next member of main cast to die

Tyrion

2.  Character who sits on Iron Throne at end of season

Daenerys

3.  Characters you most want to die (five)

Samwell Tarly

Gilly

Euron Greyjoy

Daenerys 

Davos 

  

[Burt Macklin 19020]

44 minutes ago, Llano Estacado said:

 

Episode 4 & 5 will just be armies on the march. Setting camp. Chitchat on the road. Breaking camp. Cooking. Shitting in the woods on the side of the King’s Road.

Need to keep the “I want realism” fans happy. If we don’t see people traveling on screen in real time...

That’s where we’ll see Bronn next, when a scout stumbles upon Bronn shitting behind a tree.

 

Nah. The producer who’s done all the battle episodes, including last episode, produced episode 5, so it’s gonna be recover/regroup next episode, battle for Ling’s Landing in episode 5 and then close everything up in episode 6. 

[Eternal Noob 29]

Now that she seems utterly invincible, I fear we're being set up for a gut punch with Arya getting killed .

[Goo Punch 4275]

6 minutes ago, Eternal Noob said:

Now that she seems utterly invincible, I fear we're being set up for a gut punch with Arya getting killed .

that would make sense several seasons ago. now she and gendry will probably get married and live happily ever after. 

[seven 1367]

That's just lazy/sloppy writing

[Neonmoon 38129]

1 hour ago, alincoln said:

Rest of Season Questions/Predictions

1.  Next member of main cast to die

Jaime 

2.  Character who sits on Iron Throne at end of season

Gendry 

3.  Characters you most want to die (five)

Cersei

Tyrion

Euron Greyjoy

Daenerys 

Varys 

  

 

[kingkoopa6 8345]

1 hour ago, Burt Macklin said:

Nah. The producer who’s done all the battle episodes, including last episode, produced episode 5, so it’s gonna be recover/regroup next episode, battle for Ling’s Landing in episode 5 and then close everything up in episode 6. 

Ling's Landing?

sounds like a pron title. me likey.. cant wait!

[Burt Macklin 19020]

36 minutes ago, Eternal Noob said:

Now that she seems utterly invincible, I fear we're being set up for a gut punch with Arya getting killed .

Mountain kills Arya, Hound kills Mountain maybe?

[Gene Parmesan 4002]

I'm not feeling a Hound vs. Mountain show down.  They're brothers with history so it's obvious, but Breanne whooped Hound.  I don't want to see some montage of memories of Arya giving hound the strength to win.

[Sbbruin 21829]

25 minutes ago, kingkoopa6 said:

Ling's Landing?

sounds like a pron title. me likey.. cant wait!

Sounds like a tasty chinese seafood restaurant.  

[PilotsError 2286]

Yeah, Cleganebowl does nothing for me.  Let the dipshits in the other thread jack themselves off over it.

[Irish Wrist Watch 1359]

23 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

Mountain kills Arya, Hound kills Mountain maybe?

No fucking way. Arya survives this series and probably leads in the HBO sequel. The Hound saves Arya from the Mountain, perhaps, only to get killed by him. Stabbing TM won't kill him either. He'll have to be decapped.

[smuggs 9352]

16 minutes ago, Irish Wrist Watch said:

Stabbing TM won't kill him either. He'll have to be decapped.

They'll have to decap his lab-grown bros also.

 

 

Edited May 3, 2019 by smuggs

[lateshow 1304]

28 minutes ago, Gene Parmesan said:

I'm not feeling a Hound vs. Mountain show down.  They're brothers with history so it's obvious, but Breanne whooped Hound.  I don't want to see some montage of memories of Arya giving hound the strength to win.

She beat a starving and exhausted Hound. 

[Pato del Muerto 52485]

Hound didn’t teally want to fight a woman, either. 

At least one stark will die, and a stark will sit on the iron throne. At least one Lannister will die, but I’m thinking all 3. 

[Daichee Bell 2925]

Breaking bad is really overrated, but it did know when to wrap it up.
Lost is actually a pretty good analogy to got. They always knew the ending, but not how to get there and the last 2 seasons were 2 longer than the writers wanted so they had this predicament where they knew where they were going to end up but had to write two seasons of filler that they didn't really want. The network wanted 10 seasons because they don't care about the story. Got has had a similar problem for 6 and 7(and probably 8), where they just can't figure out how to get to where they want. This produces some headscratching in the middle, but they've executed the endings very well and the season looks better after you get all the story. Jmho. 
In general, 3-4 seasons seems to be the sweet spot. 

So, the writers of Lost did the Leftovers for hbo. They were intending lost to be shorter but the ratings were so good they had to keep doing it. They negotiated that the leftovers was only three seasons. It’s one of my all-time favorite series. Every episode meant something.

[seven 1367]

Just now, Daichee Bell said:

So, the writers of Lost did the Leftovers for hbo. They were intending lost to be shorter but the ratings were so good they had to keep doing it. They negotiated that the leftovers was only three seasons. It’s one of my all-time favorite series. Every episode meant something.

Yeah, for sure, the leftovers rivals Deadwood for best series imo. 

[PilotsError 2286]

The leftovers is indeed on the same tier as Deadwood, which is a tier below Breaking Bad, Sopranos, Wire, etc.

[Eskimohorn 5630]

Episode 4 & 5 will just be armies on the march. Setting camp. Chitchat on the road. Breaking camp. Cooking. Shitting in the woods on the side of the King’s Road.

Need to keep the “I want realism” fans happy. If we don’t see people traveling on screen in real time...

That’s where we’ll see Bronn next, when a scout stumbles upon Bronn shitting behind a tree.

I’ll take “Realism” fans over “Fast & Furious” frontrunners who gush over mindless action and story development. Great characters and dialogue distinguished this series in the beginning.

HBO’s business decisions to widen the audience were necessary evils to expand production value, properly depict scale, manage schedules and talent contracts. Doesn’t mean “Realism” fans have to like the aspects of the show that dumb it down.

Stick to “Ooh, my balls!” - a reference to the movie Idiocracy which did not depict the dildo monster truck scene as a cool action sequence.

[idigTexas 2284]

11 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

I’ll take “Realism” fans over “Fast & Furious” frontrunners who gush over mindless action and story development. Great characters and dialogue distinguished this series in the beginning.

HBO’s business decisions to widen the audience were necessary evils to expand production value, properly depict scale, manage schedules and talent contracts. Doesn’t mean “Realism” fans have to like the aspects of the show that dumb it down.

Stick to “Ooh, my balls!” - a reference to the movie Idiocracy which did not depict the dildo monster truck scene as a cool action sequence.

I'm assuming you meant "I’ll take 'Realism' and story development fans over 'Fast & Furious' frontrunners who gush over mindless action."  If not, then I'm not sure what you are trying to say because it reads as though you are contradicting yourself.  Going back to 'batin now.

[Llano Estacado 1257]

That realism post should have been in Hank Scorpio font. Tongue was firmly in check.

It’s an epic TV drama set in a fantasy world. A wide audience tunes in. Some for dragons and magic. Some for character development and drama. Some for flaming swords and head crushing. But at the end it’s all a story we’re watching for entertainment. I like some of all of it.

I fully expect some angry tweets and posts after these last episodes about main characters “teleporting” across Westeros. There’s not enough time left to have more character development dialogue on boats and marches. Hence, Theon saying “alright you’re free now sister and a supporting character needs a redemption arc in winterfell.” Wormhole opens. Theons in the North some unknown days later “Okay I’m ready to die for the Starks and mankind now at the same location I was a turncoat”.

D&D lose 2 minutes of run time, but they gave the audience closer.

[Pato del Muerto 52485]

They don’t give us a timeline. It could jump ahead a month for all we know. 

[idigTexas 2284]

14 minutes ago, Llano Estacado said:

That realism post should have been in Hank Scorpio font. Tongue was firmly in check.

It’s an epic TV drama set in a fantasy world. A wide audience tunes in. Some for dragons and magic. Some for character development and drama. Some for flaming swords and head crushing. But at the end it’s all a story we’re watching for entertainment. I like some of all of it.

I fully expect some angry tweets and posts after these last episodes about main characters “teleporting” across Westeros. There’s not enough time left to have more character development dialogue on boats and marches. Hence, Theon saying “alright you’re free now sister and a supporting character needs a redemption arc in winterfell.” Wormhole opens. Theons in the North some unknown days later “Okay I’m ready to die for the Starks and mankind now at the same location I was a turncoat”.

D&D lose 2 minutes of run time, but they gave the audience closer.

You forgot naked wimmens, but they don't show those so often anymore.