Game of Thrones

Superbelt said:

HBO was throwing money at them to get more seasons. They would have paid the actors to keep this going.

D&D forced the shortened seasons to end it quicker. They get to move on to Star Wars and their CSA show now.

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NCChiFan said:

My guess. Because both Dorne or the Iron Islands had acquiesced to the Dragon Queens kingdom in advance. Harder to back out now? Also, neither saved the 6 other kingdoms against the white's, aside from those Iron Island guys with Bran at the tree, least that I'm aware of. Seemed like the other 6 kingdoms owed the North something. It was confusing to me Bran on the throne being from the North and yet not allowed to be their king? That's was a weird dynamic, especially since he was the last living male heir. Also, somehow got the feeling, Jon wasn't coming back to the wall, but who knows.

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Godstree said:

Not at all. Show doesn't need to show 3 day of digging to have the same conclusion.

The show doesn't have a problem with gory shit portrayed as gory shit. Red Wedding en such.

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Money said:

I was joking...obviously they wouldn't show a dwarf digging for 3 episodes. I'm pretty sure they wanted to show their faces though (instead of two piles of goo).

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PnkPanther said:

I thought the episode was ok. Didn't hate it, didn't love it, but the expectation has been set low

I figured Jon would kill Dany and not end up on throne, him going to with free folk isn't a surprise, but I didn't know how they'd handle it

@Jiddy must have loved Tyrion realizing he was a doofus, but saddened he still gets to be hand

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Edonidd said:

The more I think about the episode the madder I get.

The three eyed raven had an actual purpose, but it was established that none of the children of the Forest had any power down south because they had cut down all the weir wood trees. Bran was especially connected to those trees.

Bran was also crippled and could not have kids. Meaning they're already looking at a contested succession in the future, which often in those times meant war. The #1 priority in electing a king there would have been stability, not already looking at another war.

There was literally more unsullied and Dothraki watching Dany's speech at the red keep than there was BEFORE the battle for Winterfell. I think there might have been more Unsullied and Dothraki at that speech than there was at the speech when they boarded the boats to even come to Weteros. I guess the best way to beat teleporting armies, stealth fighter sailboats, and laser-guided rocket-propelled balista is to have clone army technology.

The whole arresting Jon thing, and then just letting him go free seemed dumb. If greyworm honestly didn't care what happened, they should have just elected him king as punishment.

Weird that last week the whole tunnels and everything under the red keep was collapsing, but this week it looks like only 17 bricks fell down. Unfortunately all 17 bricks fell on Jaime and Cersei. Well on everything but his gold hand, conveniently. Still mad that they set up her prophecy for 8 seasons, and then decided to throw it away and she would due from bricks not the Velonquar or w/e.

Everything else was just kind of meh. None of it seemed fitting, but at least most of it wasnt screamingly blatantly stupid.

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Robotech said:

Yeah, probably, but Jon was sneaky and deceptive in how he killed Dany. However, I'm thinking that he felt it was his duty to kill Dany and that he wanted people to know he did it. But even if he didn't, it wouldn't take a master detective to piece together what happened.

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Jiddy said:

This all can be saved if the prequel they're supposedly coming out with reveals that the three-eyed raven is actually the bad guy and the Night King was after him to save the world from destruction. And now we can sit back and realize that Bran is going to destroy everyf*ckingbody.

*crosses fingers*

Sansa: "The North will not join." Every other kingdom: "We're not going to do that too because....Just because."

Bran picks Bronn as master of coin. WAT.

Nice to see Dany and Co. officially were turned into Nazis in 2 episodes.

Either way, it was meh...but whatever...it was the compelling TV for 9 years so I'll get over it. Thanks for the ride GoT.

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flyerhawk said:

I thought the ending was perfectly good. A fair amount of fan service. Jon killing Dany was nicely surprising in execution. Jon going off with the wildlings is far better than Jon being stuck on a wall by himself.

Of course the show could have spent more time building the story. But ultimately I think lots of fans would be angry no matter what. But the amount of nit picking about a show that has dragons, zombies, and shadow demons seems more than a little silly.

IMO, every story arc makes sense, even if it wasn't the arc I personally wanted to see. That there were details that were incongruous at times really doesn't matter anymore than the way the show treated travel times. Either you accept the literary license or you don't.

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Superbelt said:

They missed TWO water bottles in that scene.

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ill said:

I just said that, dipshit

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