OT: All things Game of Thrones thread (SPOILERS INSIDE)

[BernieParent]

The first 20 minutes was terrible. Super close up shaky cam, spastic cut shots, filmed in the fake night, with a blizzard. It was almost impossible to see anything. It got much better once the dam was lit.
A ton of stuff didn’t make any sense. Set loose the Dothraki on their own. Real smart.
Aria ninjas it up with her cool new two piece murder-spear, loses it and my favorite scene in the series. Hide and seek with the dead in the library.
Aria sprints off after that towards who knows, for who knows what reason.
Jon’s dragon air tackles the Night Kong’s dragon rather than roasting it.
Was the knight king Valyrian?
Dany lands her ****ing dragon after saving plot armor Jon. She could have flown him to Bran.
Aria flying in from no where to kill the night king.
Bran warging into the ravens for no apparent purpose and not helping one iota.

Your last point is so spot on. Now, maybe there will be some significance next week, but Bran did nothing against the Night King. Flew right up to him and then ... just sat there. He did come back in time to thank Theon for his whole group's getting slaughtered to save him for no help at all.

That was frustrating.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

One more thing, if the god damn Night King is Supreme Leader Snoke where we just never really find out any deep information about him and boom dead, i'm out.

#TeamNightKing

 

[Fire Tortorella]

So I know you're supposed to suspend belief when watching these shows...but there were just way too many things that don't make sense/are extremely convenient.

8 seasons of TV, 10+ years of book reading...and the final answer to the Night King is that Arya jumps out of no where when surrounded, tries to stab him, gets caught, drops her knife but somehow catches it again, and then stabs him? Just ugh.

 

[DrinkFightFlyers]

Night King >>>>>>>>>>> Cersei.

Just seems so ass backwards that it's going to end that way. The threat of the Night King was, and is, far greater than Cersei.

Night King wins? Everyone dies.
Cersei wins? Cersei stays queen.

Yeah, I mean you beat the f***ing army of the dead. You can beat Cersei. One dragon can wreck the entire army she has, couples with Dorhraki, Unsullied, and whomever else is left (or joins once word spreads of the victory).

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Don't take my bitching as hating the episode. I absolutely loved it and am watching it again.

 

[BringBackHakstol]

About half that footage was almost unwatchable. Dark, shaky, overdone snow filter.

Felt like a mediocre medieval movie like eragon or some shit. They started smelling their own shit after everyone lost their minds over hard home.

 

[BigToe]

So I know you're supposed to suspend belief when watching these shows...but there were just way too many things that don't make sense/are extremely convenient.

8 seasons of TV, 10+ years of book reading...and the final answer to the Night King is that Arya jumps out of no where when surrounded, tries to stab him, gets caught, drops her knife but somehow catches it again, and then stabs him? Just ugh.

You’re turning me against this ep. stop it.

 

[Embiid]

I was entertained...all that matters despite the fact that more people lived than I thought was possible. Also, would have like the Night King to die in a cooler way....if at all. Arya's bones should be shattered btw.....Night King cracked her like a nut.

 

[BringBackHakstol]

Night King >>>>>>>>>>> Cersei.

Just seems so ass backwards that it's going to end that way. The threat of the Night King was, and is, far greater than Cersei.

Night King wins? Everyone dies.
Cersei wins? Cersei stays queen.

Disagree. Night king has no characterization. Night king is a plot device and not an antagonist. That would be an awful ending

 

[Beef Invictus]

So I know you're supposed to suspend belief when watching these shows...but there were just way too many things that don't make sense/are extremely convenient.

8 seasons of TV, 10+ years of book reading...and the final answer to the Night King is that Arya jumps out of no where when surrounded, tries to stab him, gets caught, drops her knife but somehow catches it again, and then stabs him? Just ugh.

Everything in that scene was set up in the past. She did that move before. Her sneakiness and ability to evade the dead was also established.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Disagree. Night king has no characterization. Night king is a plot device and not an antagonist. That would be an awful ending

The Night King is Winter. Winter is Coming.

All life ceasing to exist (Night King) or a bitch (Cersei)? Which one is more of a threat?

 

[Beef Invictus]

I really need to know what Bran was doing the whole time he was playing bird. Was there a point? If there isn't a point to all that it'll be disappointing.

 

[Phillyfan28]

The weapon Arya used to kill Night king; was that not the special weapon that she asked Gentry to make and showed the schematic for it?

 

[pit]

Everything in that scene was set up in the past. She did that move before. Her sneakiness and ability to evade the dead was also established.

Sneakiness and evasion? Sure, but in the scene before Theon's charge at the Night King, you can see a ring of wraiths multiple levels deep with White Walkers standing at the only access point, yet Arya somehow "death from above" attacks him? What did she do, sneak past the entire group, climb the God's Wood and then leap from a branch? Use them as a trampoline to bounce up at him?

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

I really need to know what Bran was doing the whole time he was playing bird. Was there a point? If there isn't a point to all that it'll be disappointing.

I expect a lore dump next week.

But like you said, if not, WTF.

 

[pit]

The weapon Arya used to kill Night king; was that not the special weapon that she asked Gentry to make and showed the schematic for it?

No, it was her Valyrian dagger.

 

[Fire Tortorella]

Everything in that scene was set up in the past. She did that move before. Her sneakiness and ability to evade the dead was also established.

It's one thing to evade the dead when you're sneaking around some wights in the library - it's another when you're sneaking around a whole bunch of wights, multiple white walkers, and the knight king.

I'm hoping we get more explanation next episode, but if it just ends that she jumps out of no where...that's disappointing.

 

[Lord Defect]

Longstanding theory is the Night King is a Stark. Fire alone doesn't do **** to the walkers, I think in the book they even freeze it. Arya sprinting off was pretty obvious, wife and I immediately called her sneaking off to kill the NK. A major thing established by the library hunt is just how sneaky she is after all. Pretty sure dragons can't roast dragons.

Calling him "Plot Armor Jon" is goofy. He's the Frodo here. The whole story is about him.

I called him Plot armor Jon due to the way they put him in the middle of the undead army 2.0, where all they had to do was tackle him en masse, but they cut away and then back and he cleared nearly 10 yards around him and they were basically taking turns rushing him.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

The weapon Arya used to kill Night king; was that not the special weapon that she asked Gentry to make and showed the schematic for it?

I don't think it was. She used that for a while but then lost it.

I thought it was Littlefinger's knife, but that might be wrong.

 

[Beef Invictus]

The weapon Arya used to kill Night king; was that not the special weapon that she asked Gentry to make and showed the schematic for it?

Nope, it was the Valyrian steel dagger used in the attempt to kill Bran. It made it's way to her.

 

[HammerTime44]

Ghost and Rhaegal are both in the preview for next week.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I called him Plot armor Jon due to the way they put him in the middle of the undead army 2.0, where all they had to do was tackle him en masse, but they cut away and then back and he cleared nearly 10 yards around him and they were basically taking turns rushing him.

It's an absurdity to think the person who this is all about is ever at actual risk. It's to the point where I never thought he was dead when he was stabbed.

 

[Embiid]

I really need to know what Bran was doing the whole time he was playing bird. Was there a point? If there isn't a point to all that it'll be disappointing.

Seriously...what was he doing?

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Where was Skeleton Ned?

 

[Beef Invictus]

It's one thing to evade the dead when you're sneaking around some wights in the library - it's another when you're sneaking around a whole bunch of wights, multiple white walkers, and the knight king.

I'm hoping we get more explanation next episode, but if it just ends that she jumps out of no where...that's disappointing.

It's gonna be easier to sneak around in a forest in the dark than in an enclosed, lit room. It's not like there was a thick ring of the dead either.