A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Proteus_MST]

Well, afew survived and fled to the friendly lines.

But yes, considering that both, the Unsullied and the Dothraki suffered lots of losses in Winterfell ...
and the Unsullied suffered further severe losses near Dragonstone (when Eurons fleet ambushed them),
it makes not much sense how many of them seem to have survived
(especially if we look at the trailer for episode 6, where Daenerys enters Kings Landing surrounded by her troops and we see huge masses of Unsullied)

[Bereta_Eder]

now Jon has no choice but to slay deneris

[BeBMan]

There's alot of hate going on about this episode, but I have to disagree.

Me too.

I absolutely liked it, even if there's still legitimate reason to moan about things. Dany's one-man...err one-woman-army deciding everything. Varys being offed too quickly/obvious, maybe more.

But IMO some of the main things were truly great - hate filled Dany's orgy of destruction, the change from Cersei smiling arrogantly down her tower to being totally desparate at the end, Arya starting to care more about living ppl again, as opposed to (mainly) just wanting to kill her enemies, Jon realizing in what the "good" side was doing in the city, Clegane vs ZombieClegane etc.

What dissappointed me most about the show is actually that they built up the "year-long winter" topic over several seasons so intensely that I imagined it as some kind of apocalyptic mini ice age for all of Westeros with lots of dead being caused by winter alone, even before the WWs invaded - but instead got only a more winterish look (that and the long night being just one long night).

However, I really liked this recent ep.

[Uncle Sparky]

Didn't the white walkers wipe them out?

[Proteus_MST]

So, were the first horsemen into King's Landing dothraki? They carried the scimitar-like weapons...

They were

[Uncle Sparky]

So, were the first horsemen into King's Landing dothraki? They carried the scimitar-like weapons...

[Donegeal]

There's alot of hate going on about this episode, but I have to disagree. Not only do I disagree, but the ease with which the depleted forces took down everything Cercie had brought more meaning to the battle of Winterfell. I think the war against the WW and Army of the Dead should have taken a couple of episodes and had them making it further south (have the living lose at Winterfell and Moat Calin then making a last stand with the Dornish included at the Twins where Arya could do her thing there) then a single episode, like we got with the Bells, as the next to last episode leaving the last to finish off the Iron Throne. I am back to being happy(ish) with the series.

[pchang]

If Cersei had managed to escape, there would be no way for her to repay all those loans from the Iron Bank of Braavos. The Iron Bank would have ended up hiring the faceless men to kill her and that would have been the perfect set up for Arya to do the job.......

[Uncle Sparky]

You saw her stand in the tower and react to the bells being rung... she did not order it.

[Uncle Sparky]

#5 was right... you could almost smell the meat grilling through the TV in the last episode!

[Bereta_Eder]

However, did cercei really give the order for the bells to ring? Or did some passer by said freck her I'm gonna ring the bells?

[Bereta_Eder]

That dragon wrench did all that in order to "poison" the throne. Now Jon can't have it. She wasjealous Jon was liked and she wasn't so she burned the whole city, now she's hated all over the world and everyone who will rise to the throne will be hated. Time for democracy

[pchang]

While not at the hand of her brother, most likely holding the hand of her brother.....

[rah]

HUH. Varys coming back to Westeros to Die. Cercei only having 3 children. Another mad ruler.
And there's still an episode left.
I think it would have been easy to let Dany be merciful and end up with a happy ending but they stayed true to her descending into madness that had been foreshadowed in all the previous seasons.
Was it perfect, no, of course not, but many seem to go a tad overboard with their hate.
The hound who feared his brother and fire, dies to both.
Cercei dies being crushed by her symbol of power.
Another coin flip, comes up madness.

[Dinner]

I remember the old days when people theorized about how Cleganebowl would be incorporated into the plot.

D&D don’t seem to care much about the plot any more so much as “we have two hours left to wrap up 40 things so let’s just kill everyone off in meaningless ways without any foreshadowing”. Hell, they didn’t even fill any of the prophecies.