A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Donegeal]

Very exciting episode. Could have been MUCH better if they had dawn break sometime after the Dothraki charge. Too dark to follow half of what was going on.

Overall, I'm very disappointed and the entire series might have been ruined for me in this one episode. A battle 5,000 years in the making is now going to be a side show to petty squabling for a stupid throne. The TV show now truly is a "Game of Thrones". It is now only loosely based on the book series "A Song of Ice and Fire".

[Uncle Sparky]

Catelyn Stark might still show up... she was resurrected in the books. Who is heading up House Frey? Where did the three eyed crow (and friends) fly off to at the beginning of the siege? Finally, if the three eyed crow could use Bran as a temporal body for its ancient spirit, could the Night King just shift to someone/something else?

[Lorizael]

A battle 5,000 years in the making is now going to be a side show to petty squabling for a stupid throne.

Yep.

[Berzerker]

who is left to fight Cirsei?

and why aren't her forces in the valley just south of Winterfell waiting to pounce on the survivors?

[Dinner]

The whole let's charge our only mobile units blindly at an enemy they can't see part seemed rather stupid. Plus they should have been using the dragons more and earlier.

[Dinner]

who is left to fight Cirsei?

and why aren't her forces in the valley just south of Winterfell waiting to pounce on the survivors?

I imagine in the books Cersei will be busy fighting fake Eagon who is really a Blackfyre but who falsely claims to be the murdered baby son of Jon's dad and his first wife Elia Martel.

[BeBMan]

Performing the Arya maneuver (drop knife, use with other hand) on the NK was pretty cool. Almost as iconic now as the Picard maneuver.

I think Bran is faking his inability to walk for years to enjoy sitting around and directing others to do stuff for him. Lazy bastard. At least he had some kind words for Theon, that's much more Meera got for saving his ass in the wilderness

[BeBMan]

So anybody who felt disappointed a tad? I did...

It's not that the episode was bad - it did a lot of things well, but overall...this is (or better: was) _it_ for the WWs/NK? Hmhm....


Bibs describes it perfectly IMO here:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/201...ew-three-stars

[pchang]

The whole “cast magic dies with the caster” thing is a pretty well established fantasy trope.

[BeBMan]

It's like destroying the central computer/droid control ship/skynet which controls all the evil robots...

[pchang]

Clearly writers know nothing of distributed computing.

[Dinner]

I was hoping people would have to flee via the secret tunnels in the crypts.

[seIf biased]

I was hoping people would have to flee via the secret tunnels in the crypts.

me too

[Demonbinder]

Well, it is called Game of Thrones.

[Dinner]

The tv show is named that. The book series is named A Song of Ice and Fire which implies ice and fire being central.

[Uncle Sparky]

I said it would end with a big song and dance number.

[Donegeal]

Since this show is obviously something everybody agrees on/with, lets play a little game. What if? Take a single action or choice and change it, then tell how the story plays out noting that some events would happen regardless of the changed choice/action. I'll give a popular example: In Season 1, Episode 1, What if Ned declines the position of Hand of the King? Does he still get his head chopped off in episode 9? Surely Daenerys still gets married to Drogo and events on Essos still pretty much play out like they did until a moment such as Barristan Selmy comes into Daenerys service. So...

WHAT IF... Ned declines the position of Hand of the King? This one is fairly simple. Robert doesn't let him decline. Robert Baratheon has a pretty hot temper and a short fuse. He'd force Ned to say yes up to and including sentencing him to death for not accepting. So, Robert doesn't let Ned refuse the position and things play out exactly like they did.