HBO's Game of Thrones

[Surfah]

[clackamascoug]

I know what my kids are getting for Christmas!

[RC Vikings]

Also, did anyone notice whose troops were at the base of the steps before Natalie Dormer (Margaery Tyrell) is supposed to make her walk of shame? Unfortunately, I don't think we're going to get to see her make it.

That's disappointing.

[wuapinmon]

[Commando]

Sheesh- we haven't even discussed this last episode yet. Well, first off-- Hell Yes is my official position on Arya's defection from the Black and White House and her retrieval of Needle. She has been getting her ass handed to her sparring that bitch who appears to be her immediate superior, but hopefully she can just cut her with her old friend using the Element of Surprise. :rockon2: . I'm sure she doesn't just get killed and we hear the Price is Right tuba come through in the score- how anti-climactic would that be?

In other news, I'm glad Benjen Stark officially made his return from the North in the Nick of Time. The High Sparrow check mated Jaime Lannister's ass somehow getting to Hot Marge. This has to be her plan. She manipulated Dumb Tommen to avoid the Walk, but her end game has to be better than this.

I can't wait for this week. I think Small John of Umber (or whatever his name is) pulled a fast one on Ramsey. That wolf's head they brought in was tiny- I don't think that was Shaggy Dog. OR Ramsey knows what's up. Either way, Ramsey doesn't possess any inkling of conservative military strategy and is poised to leave Winterfell to meet Jon Snow in open battlefield just in time to get flanked by everybody else, like the Knights of Rivendale (or whatever they're called).

[Color Me Badd Fan]

I think someone mentioned this on here, but the sequence of Bran going back and scrambling Hodor's brain to perform a single purpose 30 years later, and then having visions of wildfyre and the Targayran King repeatedly yelling "burn them all" probably isn't an accident.

Time travel and altering outcomes can be a cheap narrative device. A character able to do that in a story gives them limitless power to change anything.

But apparently GoT puts a different spin on it. Bran does it inadvertently and the recipient of the time traveler message loses his marbles.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Sheesh- we haven't even discussed this last episode yet. Well, first off-- Hell Yes is my official position on Arya's defection from the Black and White House and her retrieval of Needle. She has been getting her ass handed to her sparring that bitch who appears to be her immediate superior, but hopefully she can just cut her with her old friend using the Element of Surprise. :rockon2: . I'm sure she doesn't just get killed and we hear the Price is Right tuba come through in the score- how anti-climactic would that be?

In other news, I'm glad Benjen Stark officially made his return from the North in the Nick of Time. The High Sparrow check mated Jaime Lannister's ass somehow getting to Hot Marge. This has to be her plan. She manipulated Dumb Tommen to avoid the Walk, but her end game has to be better than this.

I can't wait for this week. I think Small John of Umber (or whatever his name is) pulled a fast one on Ramsey. That wolf's head they brought in was tiny- I don't think that was Shaggy Dog. OR Ramsey knows what's up. Either way, Ramsey doesn't possess any inkling of conservative military strategy and is poised to leave Winterfell to meet Jon Snow in open battlefield just in time to get flanked by everybody else, like the Knights of Rivendale (or whatever they're called).

Ian McShane still has to make an appearance this season.

[Katy Lied]

If anyone is reading this far into the thread, they don't need spoiler warnings, no?

So, I rewatched S3E5 the other night, and in the scene when Melisandre comes to the Gendry from Thoros of Myr, Arya gets pissed and walks up to Melisandre and calls her a witch. She spins around, grabs Arya, looks scared and says something like, "I see green eyes and blue eyes and brown eyes staring back at me from you in the darkness. We will meet again." That's going to mean something someday. I don't know what, but I bet Arya's going to kill Melisandre or the next Stannis she's cooking up in the night full of terrors.

I just thought this means that when Arya joins the faceless fraternity, and can change her appearance, she can conjour up lots of different color eyes.

Interesting thought about what implications bran's apparent ability to change the past has on the mad king's behavior:

I thought the mad king always used fire against his enemies anyway; House Targaryan has always had the ability to withstand fire, so they use fire against their enemies. Bran's view of the mad king saying Burn Them All doesn't change eons of fire tradition.

It is starting to feel like the showrunners said "Holy crap! We have 1 season left and a lot of lose endings to tie up." People who disappeared seasons ago are now showing back up all of a sudden, or at the very least they are starting to show up in the past episodes vignette preceding each episode. More telling, the showrunners don't seem to be introducing that many new lose endings. Lets face it, in past seasons there would be a lot of lose endings by this point in the season.

I think that Bran's third eye blind trick is being used to conveniently explain plot walkabouts; nothing like knowing everything to solve sticky problems like, how is Jon Snow ever going to find out that R+L=J now that Ned Stark is dead? So let's use Bran to explain all of those unanswered questions.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

If anyone is reading this far into the thread, they don't need spoiler warnings, no?



I just thought this means that when Arya joins the faceless fraternity, and can change her appearance, she can conjour up lots of different color eyes.



I thought the mad king always used fire against his enemies anyway; House Targaryan has always had the ability to withstand fire, so they use fire against their enemies. Bran's view of the mad king saying Burn Them All doesn't change eons of fire tradition.

It is starting to feel like the showrunners said "Holy crap! We have 1 season left and a lot of lose endings to tie up." People who disappeared seasons ago are now showing back up all of a sudden, or at the very least they are starting to show up in the past episodes vignette preceding each episode. More telling, the showrunners don't seem to be introducing that many new lose endings. Lets face it, in past seasons there would be a lot of lose endings by this point in the season.

I think that Bran's third eye blind trick is being used to conveniently explain plot walkabouts; nothing like knowing everything to solve sticky problems like, how is Jon Snow ever going to find out that R+L=J now that Ned Stark is dead? So let's use Bran to explain all of those unanswered questions.

Ned Stark wasn't the only one left at the castle/ tower when they took on the Kingsguard. I think Max Von Sydow said the guy the stabbed the last Kingsguard in the back was Myra Reed's father. He might still be alive.

The sequence of flashbacks to the wildfyre, Dany's father and the White Walkers I don't think is an accident. On top of that, Benjen Stark makes his long awaited return right at that moment and what does he do? He uses a flaming morning star to kill the zombies.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

On After the Thrones, Greenwald and the other guy discuss the possibility that Daenarys may be a villain by the end of the show.

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Awesome.

[clackamascoug]

Awesome.

Hey... spoiler box!

[Commando]

Awesome.

One of the shortest episodes this season.

[old_gregg]

[Color Me Badd Fan]

Diane Rigg telling Cersei that she's the worst person she had ever met was pretty great. I wonder if that's the last time they'll ever meet.

I wonder if Cersei is experiencing a Count of Monte Cristo type takedown only without Edmond Dontes himself working things behind the scenes. Rather, her own visiousness is driving it.

I wonder how that trial by combat is going to go?