A Game of Thrones - TV Show Discussion Thread

[Dinner]

They already said the iron born have lost everything they captured in the north so there is no point in going there. If I were them I would go south to set up shop in the stepstones and try to become the new pirate king.

[Proteus_MST]

In case anyone missed it, I was just ranting about the implausibility of Yara and Theon managing to sneak off, summon up hundreds of loyal crew, mobilise a fleet, catch a tide and sail out to sea before anyone noticed or thought about trying to stop them.

Seems like the rest of the men was too busy with drowning their new leader

The interesting question is, where Reek und Yara will go now ... doesn*t seem to be a safe haven for them anywhere ... especially not in the north, of course, after Reeks betrayal.

[Lorizael]

"Blood of My Blood"

I saw this name on IMDB awhile back and couldn't believe we'd gotten to season 6 without that being an episode title.

[Dinner]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jzj1Q18q0zU

The episode preview.

[Dinner]

The new episode summary.

"Blood of My Blood" May 29, 2016
An old foe comes back into the picture. Gilly meets Sam’s family. Arya faces a difficult choice. Jaime faces off against the High Sparrow.

[pchang]

Yes. You 2 are right. I had forgotten.

[Dinner]

Same here.

[Elok]

I thought dragon glass was just obsidian? But it's been a while since I read the books.

[pchang]

Presumably Dragon Glass comes from sand that is smelted by dragon fire? I think the chemical used to burn all those ships in the harbor would be pretty useful too. Too bad the Children of the Forest didn't mass produce their incendiary grenades. They really need to invent the flamethrower.

[Dauphin]

Princess Perkytits has an even bigger army now than before. Will both sets of Greyjoys be competing to bring them over to Westeros? I can see the dragons as the only hope to stopping the white walkers.

The dragons won't stop the walkers directly. It would be too easy. It'll be the dragons are needed to forge the swords to fight them, Sam Tarly will uncover how to forge them.

[Dinner]

The story of black raven, the three eyed raven, still has my attention. He was a Targarian bastard, Hand of the King, he fought in the Dance of Dragons where the Targarians had a civil war which killed most of their dragons. He went north to join the Night's Watch but eventually became a greenseer for the CotF. He knew he was old, far beyond normal human years, and he was wedded to the tree with tree roots growing through his body (including his head with a root coming out of his lost eye) so he used his powers to find another greenseer to replace him and that was to be Bran Stark.

I noticed black raven did not want Bran to try to onfluence the past, maybe because Black Raven had once tried tp do so and ot had turne out bad. Black raven was the uncle to the Mad King who was said to hear voices when no one was there. Could it be Black Raven tried to talk to the mad king? To tell hom about the whote walkers and the need to burn the dead? That would explain the maf king's obsession with fire and "burning them all". So maybe Black Raven caused the mad king to burn Ned's father and brother thus starting off Robert's rebellion.

[Dinner]

No, just uncle not very nice guy.

[pchang]

Princess Perkytits has an even bigger army now than before. Will both sets of Greyjoys be competing to bring them over to Westeros? I can see the dragons as the only hope to stopping the white walkers.

[Lorizael]

I didn't like how they just digged out a new guy never heard before to avoid Theon or Asha getting to rule the Iron Islands.

I mean -- it's season 5 now. Maybe they introduce a new character who finally gets to rule Westeros in the very last episode ...

Be honest, you didn't care about the Iron Islands anyway. Also, since you know Asha's real name, you know Balon has brothers.

[Dinner]

In the books he was mentioned in passing as well as that he was exiled by his brother for basically being a backstabber.