GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings

Falstaff said:

Thank God Theon rescued Yara so we don’t have to worry about that shit.

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Too bad no one from Dorne is left to care about their shit. Too bad...

Anyone else was as excited about that opening credits scene as I was? They really changed a lot, gave us a bunch of little hints/winks at things, too. Like, at one point when its zooming through King's Landing, it shows a giant crossbow that is pointing down a hallway to a Dragon head sculpture. Or, showing the path of the walkers as flat land between all the trees.
They've made small changes every episode previously, especially in terms of which cities we got shown, but this one gave us NEW sequences for existing cities. Going underground of winterfell, inside king's landing, etc..
Episode was solid overall, nothing really stood out as 'bad'. The dragon flight scene would have been fine in any other season, even good, but it feels like wasted time with so much story left to cover. I already know there's gonna be some small storylines that don't get wrapped up well by the end of this.

Also, I literally busted out laughing at the ending scene of Bran just staring down Jaime. Poor guy, rode all the way up here to help, let them know of Cersei's betrayal, then he's reminded of how shitty he really has been in the past. God I hope they don't actually put him in jail or something, the preview for next episode kinda pissed me off. Dany going off about the stories of him killing her dad, and how her and her brother used to talk about what they'd do to him.. Bitch, you've already admitted your father sucked and was crazy as fuck, don't act like you care now. I really think that part of the preview was meant as a misdirection.

Sam gets shit on again.

Very good intro episode.

The guy playing Euron still sucks colossal balls, and the dragon riding scene was pure cringe. Ok otherwise. Not like I'm not going to watch it.

Also if Jamie or Tyrion get killed by Bronn I am going to lose it.

Also, I literally busted out laughing at the ending scene of Bran just staring down Jaime. Poor guy, rode all the way up here to help, let them know of Cersei's betrayal, then he's reminded of how shitty he really has been in the past. God I hope they don't actually put him in jail or something, the preview for next episode kinda pissed me off. Dany going off about the stories of him killing her dad, and how her and her brother used to talk about what they'd do to him.. Bitch, you've already admitted your father sucked and was crazy as fuck, don't act like you care now. I really think that part of the preview was meant as a misdirection.

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It's going to be misdirection. Tyrion will vouch for him in the end and Brienne will push Sansa to forgive him too.

The one thing I think is more than meets the eye: Bronn's mission. "Here, take this crossbow and kill Tyrion". There has to be a trick or something to it. I don't believe for a second that Cersei would trust Bronn to take out Tyrion, especially after he brokered the meeting between Jamie and Tyrion last season. Qyburn probably poisoned it or hid some infectious disease in it. They just need Bronn to be the carrier and they know Tyrion would let him get close.

Is that runtime or uncut?

Last season they got pretty bad about padding the runtime. It felt like the episodes were clocking in closer to 40-45 minutes.

I do remember having this conversation before and the conclusion was the that final season is in total a significantly longer season.

Jonkimble said:

Very good intro episode.

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I feel super bad for Sam.
Arya and Gendry gonna get it on!
Definitely feel like Daenarys isn't going to take the news of Jon being the true heir very well.
Exceptionally excited for Jaime showing up to Winterfell.
Dragonriding scene felt very Disney.
Rescuing Yara felt a little too...easy?

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hmm

BoozeCube said:

Also Sansa felt a bit cold to Tyrion after he protected her dumbass time and time and time again. He didn’t even pound her virgin snatch even though Tywin was demanding it. After the shit with Ramsey and Joffrey she would come to appreciate the little guy some.

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Yea, I was really rooting for her to start to 'fall' for him now that she has some perspective on how nice he was in comparison to all the other shit heads she's been with. Still, I don't think she was all that mean to him, considering he's part of a foreign force that is effectively coming to take over her lands. Basically, there's still hope for our boy!

Yea the storytelling aspect seems to have gone by the wayside in the past couple seasons. Just end this shit then already and move on to the start of whatever will be the next GoT cash cow for HBO.

Enzee said:

hmm

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I think dany will be ok with the news about Jon, sort of.. I think Jon will break the news to her while also proposing or something. Dunno how he'll feel about being semi-related to her. If he isn't cool with that (though the targs never seemed to care about this shit much), he'll still propose they are both king and queen in some way. If he was just like 'oh, btw, I'm a targ and the heir to the throne, gimme yo dragons and army bitch' then yea, she'd be pissed, but that's not in his character to do.

The most obvious dynamic will be that Jon and Dany are king/queen, but when Jon wants them to spend time in Winterfell, Tirion will rule as the Hand. When they are both in King's Landing, Sansa is Warden of the north. However, if we had more episodes left, I'd still be waiting for the conspiracy that Tirion is also a Targaryen to come true. It would fit the whole '3 headed dragon' theories that I read about. Jon, Dany and Tirion all being targaryens, ruling the kingdom together.

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pharmakos said:

Felt this way too, but I realized tonight why I think -- Sam not backing Danny is probably going to be a major plot point

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Dany's fecklessness is going to cost her big.

Getting drunk as shit and that shit was alright. Fuck everybody, kill everything.