Game of Thrones Season 8 (NO BOOKSPOILERS) thread

[Mdhorn 5990]

2 minutes ago, deech said:

He will be when the Queen finds out Jaime was let go.

yep--has to be a major fight with the Queen who is going to want his head.

Edited May 13, 2019 by Mdhorn

[Barry_McCokiner 160]

1 minute ago, deech said:

He will be when the Queen finds out Jaime was let go.

Eh.  I think that’s immaterial.   

 

 

Northmen vs unsullied for the title

[TexasMan 10989]

 

[89Horn 1559]

32 minutes ago, McCroskey said:

What is the significance again (if any) of the white horse that Arya rode out on?  Have we seen this horse or a similarity play out before?

Have you never watched Tombstone?  She’s coming and hell is following her.

[TwiceHorn 31624]

Dumb question, I wasn't fully engaged at the beginning.  Varys was attempting to poison her?  How did he get caught?

[CooterBrown 18034]

The prophecy was in the show. 

Not the part about her death.

[Chet Steadman 940]

Derka gives this episode a 3.1.  

[GottaB 595]

Dumb question, I wasn't fully engaged at the beginning.  Varys was attempting to poison her?  How did he get caught?

Tyrion went to Dany and said she had been betrayed.

Before that, the little girl being used to do the poisoning mentioned she thought the soldiers were watching her. The soldiers probably told Tyrion.

[Hornin04 261]

I thought the dragon vs. scorpions was done right this time. Last episode was some stupid shit but this one was how it should have gone down all along. You take an angle of approach that they can't hit you with, and then hit the walls/boats from the side so they can't turn those big stupid things fast enough to take a shot.

Clearly they just needed to take out a dragon last episode, because this one would have been over in like 20 minutes if she had double burners.

Would have been cooler if Jon had his dragon and tried to turn it against Drogon once he saw how batshit crazy Dany had become.

Isn't Dany supposed to have blue or purple eyes? I kept thinking that Arya is going to realize the Red Witch prophecy was about Dany not Cersei and murder her. Would be appropriate that she takes out the 2 biggest threats to mankind.

[Johnny Sack 8397]

That was one hell of an episode.  Man.  

[KeysPhoneWallet 807]

That was awesome, so Dany v Jon for the final episode

[GottaB 595]

Still wish there was a mess of young dragons that joined the fight born when the dragons were away.

[TexasMan 10989]

 

[NeverMarryAStripper 21983]

What is the significance again (if any) of the white horse that Arya rode out on?  Have we seen this horse or a similarity play out before?

Looked like the horse belonging to the leader of the golden company to me

[Irish Wrist Watch 1398]

Bittersweet episode. Don't buy that Arya would suddenly see the light and abandon Sandor. That was a downer. Didn't like that he died, but I liked the way he died, in a blaze of glory taking out the baddest motherfucker on the planet. Nevertheless, he shoulda lived. Coulda drop kicked the Mountain thru that wall. Woulda been a lot more fucking enjoyable to see that.

 

Guess Dany is going down. Will it be Sansa or Jon? or the Imp? I think the writers got a little lazy if indeed that was the end of Jaime and Cersei. Pretty shitty ending. Thought I saw light at the top of that pile of rocks that was blocking their exit.

Edited May 13, 2019 by Irish Wrist Watch

[TwiceHorn 31624]

The best anti-Scorpion tactic was going in low, having them depress and fire in a hurry and then waste em while reloading.

[deech 2297]

[tbone_ 14202]

So the mad Kings daughter turned mad herself and fulfilled daddy’s plan of burning all the people?

[TexasMan 10989]

 

[BigOrange1 6476]

my god that was fucking terrible. 

[Guadaloopy 11027]

1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I don’t think they are.

We didn’t actually see them die.

We didn’t see Stannis die either.  They gone. 

[TexArcher 38081]

2 minutes ago, deech said:

Exactly my point earlier!

Was Dany ever really good, or did she just say all the right things?  

[6th Street 6508]

Putting all else aside, watching that dragon destroy the tower was quality television. And watching the roof cave in on Cersei was one of the more satisfying moments in TV history. 

[Mez2 4027]

I don't think we're gonna get a Dany-Cersei scissor scene before this thing wraps up

[Irish Wrist Watch 1398]

50 minutes ago, Pods said:

What episode were you watching? He destroyed the entirety of his character arc and tried like hell to save Cersei before the roof caved in around them. 

I think what Jaime did turned out to be entirely believable. That said, stupid end to the main bad guy (Cersei).

[tbone_ 14202]

I like how cersie just looked at the mountain and the hound and was like y’all have fun. I’m out.

[tx 3 putt 77610]

very high quality episode 

[Burt Macklin 19053]

8 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

I don't think we're gonna get a Dany-Cersei scissor scene before this thing wraps up

Not so fast my friend. Dany’s gone mad. Scissoring a dead woman is not out of the realm of possibility for these writers.

[TwiceHorn 31624]

8 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

Putting all else aside, watching that dragon destroy the tower was quality television. And watching the roof cave in on Cersei was one of the more satisfying moments in TV history. 

Erm, no.  Cersei needed her head wrenched off in technicolor and shoved, still screaming, up her ass.

[hobbes2702 13083]

Well it wasn’t the worst episode of this season. 

[Bottlecap 1523]

On 5/8/2019 at 10:24 PM, Murfdogg21 said:

All of these sound somewhat entertaining. I wouldn’t mind some treachery as long as there is a point to it all. My expectations are zero. 

My shitshow prediction: Danny will go nuts because she is an impulsive idiot and start killing everyone including Cersei and Jaime. Probably Tyrion and Varys too for treason and she will plot to kill Jon just to tie up the loose ends. Jon or Arya kill Danny. One of the remaining Starks gets killed in a pointless “Meet Joe Black” kind of death. Hound and Mountain duel it out for a few scenes but the dragon ends up nuking the whole place and killing them both. We get zero additional insight about the NK’s backstory/plan or 3 eyed raven, and Bran does nothing else with his raven power to justify his storyline and screentime over these seasons.  Jon is so disheartened by it all he climbs on the last dragon and flies off into the sunset, a la old man Luke Skywalker. Some random ass gets the iron throne, like Theon’s dikey sister or Qyburn. Last scene is Sam writing it all on scrolls like “There and back again: A Hobbit’s Tale” by Bilbo Baggins, but puts down his quill to go have a catch with Sam Jr. Cut to black. 

omg

[Phoenix 65]

whoever said the ballista were gonna go from shooting an impossible target at an insane distance last episode, to becoming stormtroopers in this episode, nailed it. they went from extremely effective to utterly useless.

this whole last season is so surreal.

[hobbes2702 13083]

Just now, Phoenix said:

whoever said the ballista were gonna go from shooting an impossible target at an insane distance last episode, to becoming stormtroopers in this episode, nailed it. they went from extremely effective to utterly useless.

this whole last season is so surreal.

It’s a shitshow

[Eskimohorn 5644]

Putting all else aside, watching that dragon destroy the tower was quality television. And watching the roof cave in on Cersei was one of the more satisfying moments in TV history. 

You ever see The Godfather? Captain McCluskey and Sollazzo didnt die in a car wreck while being chased. They got wacked by a family member, face to face.

The remaining Starks had both their parents killed gruesomely and bitterly. It motivated their actions. Hardly a m’eh the last couple of seasons. Then Arya gets one lecture and turns tail.

The Stark-Lannister conflict seems to have whimpered out.

And Cersei going out like a punk is bullshit. In the Battle of Blackwater Bay she was about to Jim Jones the whole place. She’s a cold-hearted bitch. She’s just watching out the window the whole episode and crying. Was weak.

[maninblack 7974]

Not sure if I believe it but the actor that played Barristan Selmy says the books are done. Skip ahead to 31:40

 

[UTGrad98 2282]

I kinda feel bad for all the goth moms who named their daughters khaleesi or Daenerys  over the last 7 years . 

[TexArcher 38081]

2 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said:

I kinda feel bad for all the goth moms who named their daughters khaleesi or Daenerys  over the last 7 years . 

I don't think this episode is why those little girls will all end up on stripper poles.

[Guest Lobo]

1 minute ago, UTGrad98 said:

I kinda feel bad for all the goth moms who named their daughters khaleesi or Daenerys  over the last 7 years . 

Good point, you can add "Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons, Burner of Children, and Flamer of Quality Masonry" to her titles.  

She has 3 or 4 lines of emo-ridden cliche bullshit, then spends the rest of the 1:20 episode toasting shit in a pout session unlike the world has ever seen.  

Her character arc will be studied by showrunners for a half century and it will simply be titled "Da Fuh" method of writing down a heroine.  

[Phoenix 65]

1 minute ago, maninblack said:

Not sure if I believe it but the actor that played Barristan Selmy says the books are done. Skip ahead to 31:40

he could having been lying, but Martin said somewhat recently that he still has a ton of writing to do. I think probably the ending is already there but there are tons of details in between that need to be hashed out.

[Chico_SA 521]

23 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

So the mad Kings daughter turned mad herself and fulfilled daddy’s plan of burning all the people?

And then her hand kills her and becomes king(queen) slayer?

[Hornin04 261]

Now that I've had a few minutes to process this, Dany basically went nuts on the city and killed thousands of innocents because her loyal hairdresser got beheaded by a queen that didn't even care about the thousands that Dany torched. And this from the breaker of chains who is so compassionate...

[Guadaloopy 11027]

2 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Her character arc will be studied by showrunners for a half century and it will simply be titled "Da Fuh" method of writing down a heroine.  

She was never the heroine of the story.  She’s always been a wild card.  She has been pretty brutal many times throughout the series.  The signs have always been there.  There has been one hero through whole thing, Jon Snow.  

[tx 3 putt 77610]

9 minutes ago, Phoenix said:

whoever said the ballista were gonna go from shooting an impossible target at an insane distance last episode, to becoming stormtroopers in this episode, nailed it. they went from extremely effective to utterly useless.

this whole last season is so surreal.

 

the first time around -  they had the element of surprise and she took off running. in shock of losing the second dragon 

second time around - everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. when she started taking out ships, prepping / loading / positioning / aiming that weapon (and ship) becomes very difficult 

[BigOrange1 6476]

1 minute ago, Horny04 said:

Now that I've had a few minutes to process this, Dany basically went nuts on the city and killed thousands of innocents because her loyal hairdresser got beheaded by a queen that didn't even care about the thousands that Dany torched. And this from the breaker of chains who is so compassionate...

it was absolutely fucking horrible writing.  as has been the case pretty much all of the final 2 seasons.  was season 6 the end of the books?  because it's been dog shit since cersei blew up the sept.

[SuingToGetAMessageBoard? 3861]

Enjoyed it.  Goods: the whole battle, the heel turn, starks’ reaction to heel turn, making unsullied part of the heel turn, CleganeBowl, view of the battle from the red keep, Jaime Cersei deaths   

 

Bad: confidence in victory by northerners when it just came down to no lucky shots against Drogon, scorpions ineffectiveness, nothing clever to beat them, are you sure we positioned every scorpion exposed out in the open? Not one hiding under a tarp somewhere? Enron Jaime fight, Jaime surviving to hike the width of the capital with giant wounds, scorpions taken out in the first five seconds on solo run, making one side invincible.  

[Guadaloopy 11027]

2 minutes ago, Horny04 said:

Now that I've had a few minutes to process this, Dany basically went nuts on the city and killed thousands of innocents because her loyal hairdresser got beheaded by a queen that didn't even care about the thousands that Dany torched. And this from the breaker of chains who is so compassionate...

Her closest advisors turned on her.  The only person she loves is no longer returning that love.   She had a lot on her plate and it finally tipped.  And she is a famously unstable Targaryen.  

[ajax 2626]

cringed so hard at the last second turn around "thank you" between Arya and the Hound.

[LonghornSean 4025]

Entertaining to watch, but for Dany to do that in such violent fashion really has little to no justification based on what we've seen in the show from her character and from recent events.

She burns people who betray her. Fine. She burns people in the way of her getting the Iron Throne. Sure. But indiscriminately burning the city and murdering its people?  All because she was betrayed by Varys (and by proxy Sansa, Tyrion and Jon), and Missandei died?

Next week she better not be displaying any kind of sanity or sense, because that switch got flipped pretty easily. I mean she had the battle won and a chance to take the Throne with as few casualties as were probably possible and she just decided "fuck it, I am a crazy Targaryen. burn them all."

[achooloco 1086]

To be fair to dany killing for missandei, all the wild fire burning will play a role in the last episode. Or at least it should. Might be a small role but I think they’ll try to use it as an excuse that Cersei was gonna burn the city anyway, so maybe dany going mad wasn’t all that bad cause everyone was dead anyway.  It might not mean anything after they discuss it but there has to be a reason (I hope) they showed it blowing up all over the city.

Good episode overall, but didn’t believe Arya not going through with the hound to try to kill Cersei. Faceless Arya was all about the death, bad writing there. 

Heard a rumor there is an epilogue episode? Googled it and all I saw were April fools jokes. Anyone have an idea?

 

edit: also shitty death for Cersei. She needed a knife through the twat or someone holding up her severed head before it gets skull fucked. Lame to have her crushed

Edited May 13, 2019 by achooloco

[Guadaloopy 11027]

3 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

it was absolutely fucking horrible writing.  as has been the case pretty much all of the final 2 seasons.  was season 6 the end of the books?  because it's been dog shit since cersei blew up the sept.

Season 5 is the end of the books.