HBO's adaptation of Game of Thrones - Thread 2. There are a lot of nerds.

For what it's worth I always assumed The Mountain wasn't ever necessarily dead, just as close as possible before being engineered into Frankenstein's monster.

ned stark

Benjen was missing since the very beginning and only had a few brief cameos in flashbacks so it's not really comparable with Jon et al

they also pulled edmure out of a dungeon where he's apparently been kept since the red wedding

Arya's almost dying but then somehow killing the Waifinator bothered me way more than the Hound or Jon coming back

― silverfish, Monday, June 13, 2016 4:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Arya was pretty fucked up but probably executed a sick riposte to the waif's knife lunge in the dark Zatoichi style, given she was blind for a bit.

Mountain was returning all of last season, not this one

did like the move with slicing the candle off and then the cut away. thought that was pretty deft as this stuff goes.

Yeah, no Bronn doesn't count, any more than the return of Gendry would be a surprise. But Beric, as I noted, is also back from the dead. Resurrected by Thoros of Myr (thanks internet!). In fact, I think he's been killed twice, by the Mountain and by Arya. Blackfish offscreen death dubious, but then, Stannis didn't get the honor of getting killed onscreen either.

??? The Hound kills Beric on screen, the other time(s) he died were merely explained to the audience as having happened prior to the introduction to the Brotherhood

Mountain returned definitively in episode ten of season 5. Hound returned in episode 7 of season six. That's eight episodes.

Sorry, I think I misread him as one of Arya's prior victims (there have been a lot of people killed on this show). Anyway, he's been killed 6 times or something.

Yeah but that's just his thing

I think this season is the show spending the capital it earned by killing off a ton of characters in the few several seasons

Do you think the waif underwent the blindness lesson? I expect Arya could put out the candle and zatoichi her. does the waif know of arya's sword training in winterfell?

― remove butt (abanana), Tuesday, May 31, 2016 6:20 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I called that one.

I don't know why Thoros and Beric are still around. And the show mentioned Cat in two different scenes this episode. I don't see LSH happening this late in the game.

Steadicam shot of the actress walking backstage was pretty cool i thought

How was Arya able to finally defeat waif if she'd been getting her arse kicked so badly by her all the other times previous?

She used a trick and her life depended on it. The stab wounds and all the falling are a different story.

That Mountain tho. That club couldnt even deal with him right now!

I cackled with glee at that Mountain bit with the faith militant, even tho I hate Cersei

cersei is my favorite. lena headey plays her with such hammy glee it's infectious. "I choose violence" was amazing even if the previews spoiled it.

was hoping lancel would get it

http://static.tumblr.com/b1a4c7ab06a39c376e63dac3ec7508ee/ut1vugq/gV5mp49go/tumblr_static_lancel.gif

cersei is my favorite. lena headey plays her with such hammy glee it's infectious. "I choose violence" was amazing even if the previews spoiled it.

― ryan, Monday, June 13, 2016 6:50 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same

i gotta say that as a medico i was pretty skeptical of arya's completely miraculous recovery --- as dayo said upthread, she should've died of peritonitis p quickly

she actually died and was brought back

tempted to read the resurrections and implausible survivals as a play on "the gods have a purpose for you" (i.e., George RR Martin has plot points that involve you). you ain't done until the story is finished with you.

I'm not a medico and even I was finding Arya's sudden leap out of bed dubious. I saw that stab, right in the bowel and with a real twist!

"in a season full of real twists the one delivered to arya's gut was the most unexpected"

the truly dumb thing is they could've easily given her just one stab and it'd be dramatic enough to serve but they had to get carried away with it.

In this world, stab wounds are nbd. .

feel like their need to have every incidence of violence be over the top really messed up that whole scenario.

p sure that about hiden caches of wildfyre. presumably there is some being kept underneath the sept

― dynamicinterface, Monday, June 13, 2016 1:25 PM (7 hours ago)

we see this in the latest Bran montage, as well as the fire itself.

Is this the same stash of wildfire that was used during Blackwater?

yes.

speaking of which, if there's a fire at king's landing, and Tommen dies, who would be next in line?

Technically speaking wouldnt it be either John or Gendry?

gendry was never legitimized so he can't inherit, and john isn't in the baratheon line of succession.

the line of succession at the start of the show was like Robert → Joffrey → Tommen → Myrcella → Stannis → Shireen → Renly, but if Tommen dies then there isn't an heir to the throne. So it would turn into a huge dragout fight between the Tyrells (through Margaery as queen) vs Lannister (Cersei as Regent, though regent over what who really cares, she'd do it anyway)

Fwiw
https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/742355010026151937

Women aren't in the line of succession. In Dorne they are, which is probably where Varys is going.

they just fall to the end of the line i thought

the very end of the line iirc

Interesting take on who's heir at the moment here (it's speculative but guess it's a massive fucking spoiler if it actually does come to pass):

http://mashable.com/2016/05/03/game-thrones-heir/#Ewq.KkyM3uqi

This is very badly plotted now. So many pointless detours. Brienne and Pod's excursion to the Riverlands achieved precisely nothing, for example. That Tyrion 'tell me a joke' scene' was excruciating.

Still enjoying it though. They still know how to ratchet up the tension when they need to.

kinda crazy how much a difference one good brotherhood of banners type scene has in making the rest of an episode tolerable, or just about

i never liked paul kaye much at all but he's so excellent in this

qyburn guy is rly enjoying himself too

xxxpost That line of succession stuff is interesting but the show hasn't done any work setting up that scenario. I think its far more likely, if Tommen does die, that we'll find out that Margery is pregnant. We did recently see her talk with the High Sparrow about an heir.

Maybe the High Sparrow knocked her up?

I'll be very surprised if Margery doesn't come out on top of all this somehow.

She's the best gameplayer in the series, way better than Littlefinger (although probably co-dependent in some way).

For the top-billing cast member Peter Dinklage is getting a really terrible run of episodes right now.

Arya's story arc has been far from pointless in the grand scene of things - she was a kid now she's a trained killing machine - but there are way less boring ways to have gone about that transition.

Bravos, Mereen and Dorne have all been drop-the-ball locations, sadly.

The turn from the end-of-episode "Forsooth, I am murder'd!" to "We'll just bandage that right up and sleep it off" was kinda bullshit tbrr, but it's a small crime in the scheme of things. I guess maybe the waif's knife was emphasized as being a short little dagger? But being gut-stabbed 4-5 times including a twist shot to the liver, idk.