A GAME OF THRONES - Discussion Thread

pjsteelerfan

Merkin Baller said:

Vitalogensia said:

I thought the episode was pretty badass.  Of course there were parts where it was difficult to suspend my disbelief, but in the end the only thing that bothered me was that apparently the people in the crypt weren't armed.  Maybe they didn't have enough dragon glass to go around? 

The suspension of disbelief that’s hardest for me is for the survival of Khaleesi, Jon Snow or anyone else in the courtyard when the Night King raised the dead again. The sheer number of wights should have swarmed them within seconds. 

the plot armor is probably the only thing that really disappointed me. 

Merkin Baller

pjsteelerfan said:

Merkin Baller said:

Vitalogensia said:

I thought the episode was pretty badass.  Of course there were parts where it was difficult to suspend my disbelief, but in the end the only thing that bothered me was that apparently the people in the crypt weren't armed.  Maybe they didn't have enough dragon glass to go around? 

The suspension of disbelief that’s hardest for me is for the survival of Khaleesi, Jon Snow or anyone else in the courtyard when the Night King raised the dead again. The sheer number of wights should have swarmed them within seconds. 

the plot armor is probably the only thing that really disappointed me. 

Not unlike when the dream team went north of the wall last season & only Thoros croaked.

Gern Blansten

Dr. Delight said:

I also liked the prophetic quote from Melisandre that Arya would kill some with brown, green and blue eyes.

What's really crazy is that Melisandre said that same thing to Arya in season 3.  I love that shit. 

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/29/18522003/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-3-melisandre-arya-night-king-azor-ahai

F Me In The Brain

pjsteelerfan said:

Merkin Baller said:

Vitalogensia said:

I thought the episode was pretty badass.  Of course there were parts where it was difficult to suspend my disbelief, but in the end the only thing that bothered me was that apparently the people in the crypt weren't armed.  Maybe they didn't have enough dragon glass to go around? 

The suspension of disbelief that’s hardest for me is for the survival of Khaleesi, Jon Snow or anyone else in the courtyard when the Night King raised the dead again. The sheer number of wights should have swarmed them within seconds. 

the plot armor is probably the only thing that really disappointed me. 

My wife, re:Jorah, after he was stabbed 17 times.

"Maybe he will live....?'

DewieCox

Kinda messed up but my only disappointment came from lack of major character deaths.

tempo_n_groove

DewieCox said:

Kinda messed up but my only disappointment came from lack of major character deaths.

There is another war coming, have faith.

So the dead did rise in the crypt!  Who was lost there?

Indifference71

Didn't hate it, but didn't love it.  I thought there was something wrong with my TV at first....way too dark.  Not that you need main characters to constantly be killed off for the show to be good, but the fact that so many main characters survived the battle is juuuuust a bit of a stretch.  Lyanna Marmont going out like a badass!  

F Me In The Brain

tempo_n_groove said:

DewieCox said:

Kinda messed up but my only disappointment came from lack of major character deaths.

There is another war coming, have faith.

So the dead did rise in the crypt!  Who was lost there?

I thought that was just the dead tunneling into the crypt, I did not think that was Ned-with-no-head and Lyanna....

Merkin Baller

F Me In The Brain said:

tempo_n_groove said:

DewieCox said:

Kinda messed up but my only disappointment came from lack of major character deaths.

There is another war coming, have faith.

So the dead did rise in the crypt!  Who was lost there?

I thought that was just the dead tunneling into the crypt, I did not think that was Ned-with-no-head and Lyanna....

That was definitely the dead Starks being raised.

I thought I saw Maester Leuwin (sp?) come out of a grave, but that wouldn't make sense either, his body should have been long gone before the Starks could have buried him.... I'm hard pressed to see the Boltons giving his remains a proper burial in the crypts.

Gern Blansten

F Me In The Brain said:

tempo_n_groove said:

DewieCox said:

Kinda messed up but my only disappointment came from lack of major character deaths.

There is another war coming, have faith.

So the dead did rise in the crypt!  Who was lost there?

I thought that was just the dead tunneling into the crypt, I did not think that was Ned-with-no-head and Lyanna....

That's what I thought...we needed a character to exclaim "holy shit the dead are rising from the crypts!" so that we all understood.

F Me In The Brain

Gern Blansten said:

F Me In The Brain said:

tempo_n_groove said:

DewieCox said:

Kinda messed up but my only disappointment came from lack of major character deaths.

There is another war coming, have faith.

So the dead did rise in the crypt!  Who was lost there?

I thought that was just the dead tunneling into the crypt, I did not think that was Ned-with-no-head and Lyanna....

That's what I thought...we needed a character to exclaim "holy shit the dead are rising from the crypts!" so that we all understood.

But that character should have been standing in the dark so we really could not tell, for sure, what the heck was going on...

tempo_n_groove

F Me In The Brain said:

Gern Blansten said:

F Me In The Brain said:

tempo_n_groove said:

DewieCox said:

Kinda messed up but my only disappointment came from lack of major character deaths.

There is another war coming, have faith.

So the dead did rise in the crypt!  Who was lost there?

I thought that was just the dead tunneling into the crypt, I did not think that was Ned-with-no-head and Lyanna....

That's what I thought...we needed a character to exclaim "holy shit the dead are rising from the crypts!" so that we all understood.

But that character should have been standing in the dark so we really could not tell, for sure, what the heck was going on...

lol, well played.

dankind

I switched TVs in the middle of the episode, actually from a larger screen to a smaller screen, and it helped a bit.

This episode really looked like shit, though.

Peter Jackson shot the Helm’s Deep battle for The Two Towers nearly two decades ago now, and that looked perfect.

No excuse for an episode of this magnitude to look like it was shot on an iPhone by a toddler. 

F Me In The Brain

dankind said:

I switched TVs in the middle of the episode, actually from a larger screen to a smaller screen, and it helped a bit.

This episode really looked like shit, though.

Peter Jackson shot the Helm’s Deep battle for The Two Towers nearly two decades ago now, and that looked perfect.

No excuse for an episode of this magnitude to look like it was shot on an iPhone by a toddler. 

Yeah, my wife read me something someone posted about LOTR and I told her the same thing -- there is a way to shoot a nighttime battle where it doesn't give you a headache. 

Vitalogensia

This article is pretty funny: https://www.barstoolsports.com/philadelphia/so-did-the-night-king-simply-get-out-coached-by-bran-stark-im-starting-to-think-so

darwinstheory

If they wanted to really give Theon a great send of, and give us a big character death, they could have had the Night King off Arya when he caught her and simultaneously had Theon get the Night King as his final act. 

Not that I'm disappointed with Arya getting the kill or anything. I just feel like the episode didn't really do anything other than kill off the WW which we all knew would happen anyhow.

Now off to Kings Landing with their spear shooter with the remaining 1 (or 2) dragons. Who gets Cersei? Daenerys? Jamie? Tyrion? A dragon? Sansa? Arya? Someone else?

Does the Hound get the Mountain? Or does Arya bail his ass out?

F Me In The Brain

Vitalogensia said:

This article is pretty funny: https://www.barstoolsports.com/philadelphia/so-did-the-night-king-simply-get-out-coached-by-bran-stark-im-starting-to-think-so

"Arya pretty much flooded her pants when she got that dragonglass spear made by Gendry."

That bar video clip is pretty funny, as well.

PJPOWER

I thought it was a pretty good episode minus the horrible darkness effects like everyone else mentioned.  Didn’t buy a 4K tv with “true black” to see annoyingly pixelated dark scenes...Arya being the hero was great and I totally overlooked the “blue eyes” foreshadowing.  Thanks to whoever mentioned that above!

MayDay10

darwinstheory said:

If they wanted to really give Theon a great send of, and give us a big character death, they could have had the Night King off Arya when he caught her and simultaneously had Theon get the Night King as his final act. 

Not that I'm disappointed with Arya getting the kill or anything. I just feel like the episode didn't really do anything other than kill off the WW which we all knew would happen anyhow.

Now off to Kings Landing with their spear shooter with the remaining 1 (or 2) dragons. Who gets Cersei? Daenerys? Jamie? Tyrion? A dragon? Sansa? Arya? Someone else?

Does the Hound get the Mountain? Or does Arya bail his ass out?

Im thinking she is going to ninja-creep Cersei, and get caught by The Mountain who will crush her.  The Hound will get mad and we will see them fight which will end with both their deaths.  Sansa will get the pleasure of killing Cersei.  

tempo_n_groove

darwinstheory said:

If they wanted to really give Theon a great send of, and give us a big character death, they could have had the Night King off Arya when he caught her and simultaneously had Theon get the Night King as his final act. 

Not that I'm disappointed with Arya getting the kill or anything. I just feel like the episode didn't really do anything other than kill off the WW which we all knew would happen anyhow.

Now off to Kings Landing with their spear shooter with the remaining 1 (or 2) dragons. Who gets Cersei? Daenerys? Jamie? Tyrion? A dragon? Sansa? Arya? Someone else?

Does the Hound get the Mountain? Or does Arya bail his ass out?

Sonsa ain't killin nuthin.  She proved that this episode.

As for killing Cersei?

I thought that it would be Arya but she got her big moment with the Knight King.

Cersei  in exile for the remainder of her days.

Everyone redeemed themselves this episode, if you could actually see it.

Does anyone else need redeeming or are we done?  If someone is left to do some redeeming then that is the character that will off Cersei but I don't think she dies from anyone. 

My future predictions.

Also I would think that Daenary's has a baby from John to continue the line since incest is the theme on this show.

The dragons both die in battle so it is Human rule again.

John Snow dies, again.

The Iron Bank collects it's tab on Cersei.  Put her in exile.