A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Nikolai]

I could have sworn Jon called the guy next to him on the wall Donal, maybe not. Either way they killed Pip and Gren and that has consequences.

I'm sure they can accomplish you-know-what even without them.

[pchang]

While the scythe was cool to watch, if you have a hundred odd people capable of scaling the wall that fast why the **** did you decide to do it right above the only place in a few hundred miles that is defended? Go a few miles over, scale it there, then attack the defenders at the top while striking on the ground at each side. Especially since it seems every wildling with lines seems to have been up and over the wall trivially throughout their lives, this should not have been hard.

The group that snuck in and attacked from South of the wall was pretty big. Why couldn't you send an entire army the way they came?

[Guynemer]

I could have sworn Jon called the guy next to him on the wall Donal, maybe not. Either way they killed Pip and Gren and that has consequences.

1. That was Edd.
2. It really kinda doesn't have consequences; Pyp and Grenn really don't do anything of particular importance, other than be Jon's friends.

[Hauldren Collider]

Edd's the coolest of them anyway. Still, RIP. They made the Night's Watch fun. They have to add some more sympathetic characters now.

[regexcellent]

Pyp and Grenn have no story significance; the first thing that happens to them after the battle is

Spoiler:

they get sent elsewhere.

[Patroklos]

You are forgetting about a certain power struggle.

[Guynemer]

In which they are utterly irrelevant.

[Dr Strangelove]

As new Commander Jon is so beyond them anyway. He needs a new posse. He'll probably have to send the fat boy to guard the south wall to avoid the embarrassment of having the Commander being seen with such a loser.

[Felch]

You are forgetting about a certain power struggle.

You are forgetting that the show is deviating quite freely from the books.

[Patroklos]

Trust me, nobody has failed to notice this. **** it, it appears they are just going to have Jon get it by fiat anyway. I wonder if the script is written in crayon.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

The script's working fine for people who haven't read the books.

[regexcellent]

I like some of the changes like totally short-circuiting Brienne's plot. That's fantastic because her chapters were awful and there were like, 15 of them in Feast.

As for Jon,

Spoiler:

Maester Aemon is already planning an election. There will be one. It might be next season so they can cast Ser Denys Mallister and Cotter Pyke.

[Imran Siddiqui]

She had 8... and they are still better than Jon's chapters until..

Spoiler:

STANNIS!!

[rah]

The script's working fine for people who haven't read the books.

It's a lot like the LOTR movies. I laughed at all the perfectionists that wrung their hands and felt personally insulted when the Movies didn't match the books exactly.
Get over it. They were good movies that told the same basic story. I think of some of the previous attempts that weren't anywhere near as good.

[regexcellent]

Brienne's chapters don't have Tormund.