Because wasn't there pre-existing conspiracy/communication between Sansan and Littlefinger?
xpost I dunno, when I read things from people who know the books well, like Ask the Maester, they do seem to comment a lot about how fast the show moved through the stuff in the books. Or I guess to put it another way, they probably could have taken their time more with the show and gotten another couple of seasons out of it.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
it doesn't. also yes, lf wants to marry sansa not kill her on cersei's orders. he doesn't give af about the queen and tommen is gonna be dead next week anyway so it's not like cersei has any weight to throw around.
― dynamicinterface, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Qiob3lP.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
What's that from?
― Evan, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
It's George Clinton - time to paint the house of black and white black.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:27 (seven years ago) link
Not only that, but the Stark’s trump card, Wun Wun the giant, is dead.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
will lol if Sam shows up at Winterfell with a diploma next week
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
my only GoT disappointment so far is zeppelin isn't still around to record a song about it. don't get all the hate. it's like people complaining the NBA playoffs are rigged. no one's holding a gun to your head saying 'watch or else!'
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
I love how people seem to relish in their self-appointed role as explainers
http://static03.mediaite.com/rr/up/2015/12/Funny-Rihanna-GIFs.gif
― nomar, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link
if we're following the trend of the season so far (ladies pulling the rug out on pompous dudes), Littlefinger will try to pull some shit, thinking the little Arryn kid and the Vale army are his protection, and Sansa will just have him shanked right there because 1. Arryn boy likes pretty lady better than uncle baelish 2. Vale army works for Arryn, not Baelish 3. there's a whole bunch of stabby people who work for her brother who owe *her* a favor; not Baelish, which is another reason to have kept that under her sleeve AND to have shown up just when all was lost.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
yeah but what about http://i.imgur.com/yOyxz0G.gif
― Dan I., Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
and then the other half of the ep is Cersei blowing up King's Landing because of all the firebombs hidden in the metro tunnels that nobody noticed for 20+ years... OH MY GOD THIS SHOW IS DUMB YOU GUYS
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:24 (seven years ago) link
lyanna mormont will take care of littlefinger
― conrad, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
oh good one. I hope your streak stays hot
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
:P
― conrad, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
my predictions for the finale:
Arya, in disguise, kills somebody (Frey?)Tommen dies because of CerseiSansa agrees to marry LFDany betrays Theon and sis and allies with EuronVarys shows up in DorneJon says dumb stuff, is declared king Bran adds L to SWalkers arrive at wall, blow horn, wall falls downSam looks at book, gapes in horror/awe
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:50 (seven years ago) link
Wonder if anything will come of Arya wondering about what's west of Westeros. Doesn't seem like there's time for her to travel that far.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:57 (seven years ago) link
Bran adds L to S
lol new math
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
what does this mean?
― ryan, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
Arya is going to Oldtown next, I bet.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 19:09 (seven years ago) link
No no Arya shows up in Dorne & party wipes the Sand Snakes
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
Arya is looking for a boat back to Westeros, and guess who rows up to give her a ride, but her old pal Gendry!
― sarahell, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
Going to Oldtown is like a euphemism to explain dead pets to kids.
"What happened to Snickers?""Oh, he went to Old Town.""Will he be back with a diploma?""Oh, I don't know. Maybe one day ... "
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Sansa didn't tell Jon Snow about Littlefingers army because if he'd known about it, he'd prepared for it, and then the climactic rescue wouldn't have been so dramatic.
Ramsay shot Wun Wun instead of Jon Snow because Jon Snow won't die again until the endgame, and the showrunners still wanted him to shoot something.
Rickon ran in a straight line because otherwise he wouldn't have been hit by the arrow, and what were they going to do, write more scenes for him?
Daenerys waited until morning to save Mereen because it would look more filmic in daylight.
Etc.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, June 22, 2016 4:14 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this post is so infuriatingly dumb!!
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
Why would Sansa have any idea that Littlefinger was on his way? Isn't the simplest explanation just that Littlefinger and his knights showed up (unnanounced) at the Starks' base camp where Sansa was waiting (not for Littlefinger, just for the battle to be over, regardless of its outcome), whereupon she was like "The battle is going down right now, let's go!". Littlefinger, Sansa, and the knights of the Eyrie all charge to the battlefield and that's it. Why does any any pre-existing conspiracy/communication between Sansan and Littlefinger have to enter into it?
― Dan I., Wednesday, June 22, 2016 9:51 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTfuckinM
i mean i said this upthread but
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, June 22, 2016 9:53 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
we know she sent him a letter. what other 'conspiracy/communication' was there?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
Snapchat
― Rob Boss (latebloomer), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 22:54 (seven years ago) link
I really don't know why I bother pointing this out, but Jon Snow and Sansa arrived at Winterfell from the Northwest, while Littlefinger's troops arrived from the Southeast, so why would they just happen upon the base camp without knowing there was a battle going on, or why would they not have scouts out, or...
Oh, never mind. D-40, it's okay. You can think it's the most brilliantest written show on tv, you can have that opinion. I will continue to disagree.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link
How do you figure that their troops attacked from those directions? I think I need to rewatch that scene. I know Jon's troops were coming from the treeline on the north or west but that's about it.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
let's take a step back and chill guys. no need to get sassy.
― ian, Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:46 (seven years ago) link
pretty sure those troops arrived from craft service
― Salsa Golf (Argentinean Ketchup) (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:47 (seven years ago) link
I would assume that Littlefinger approached behind the treeline on the southwest to avoid his troops being seen. The south and east is pretty clear and flat. If he approached behind the treeline he would likely find the basecamp while bringing his troops around to the east flank imo
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link
Didn't they also meet in person (communication), and didn't she then lie about, or keep secret, what she learned from that meeting to Jon (conspiracy), that he had offered to send the Knights of the Vale?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 June 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
This was a few episodes ago, iirc.
yeah they met and she didn't mention stuff and brienne called her out on it
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 23 June 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
This thread is starting to make me embarrased for being into this show, you nerds.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 June 2016 00:40 (seven years ago) link
PS Sam looks at book, gapes in horror/awe
I bet dollars to donuts this happens at some point :D
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 June 2016 00:41 (seven years ago) link
last season should turn into buffy, with sam as giles
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 23 June 2016 00:49 (seven years ago) link
just watched this ep, pretty sad about the giant
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 23 June 2016 01:41 (seven years ago) link
inexcusable that wun wun was not wearing armor and was not properly armed.
― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 23 June 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link
really took me out of the action, i bet it was a budget issue
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 23 June 2016 02:06 (seven years ago) link
lol the full name is WUN WEG WUN DAR WUNyou're a wundar, wundar wun wun
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 23 June 2016 02:25 (seven years ago) link
Wait the giants name really is Wun Wun? I thought someone was making some Star Wars joke :/
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 June 2016 03:23 (seven years ago) link
BTW I just found out that theguy whose in the giant's costume is one of the actors who played the mountain lol
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 June 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Wun_Weg_Wun_Dar_Wun
― Interpretive Jigglypuffery (Leee), Thursday, 23 June 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
http://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/thumb/b/bf/Wun_Wun.jpg/411px-Wun_Wun.jpg
Wun Wun is named after Phil Simms, a quarterback for the New York Giants who wore #11.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 23 June 2016 03:30 (seven years ago) link
^^ Uncanny resemblance.
― Interpretive Jigglypuffery (Leee), Thursday, 23 June 2016 03:31 (seven years ago) link
the books are completely filled up with nfl references, it's really ridiculous
― Clay, Thursday, 23 June 2016 04:14 (seven years ago) link
why didn't the giant throw rocks or logs or something at Ramsay's dudes? I was 90% good with the battle, but they really made crappy tactical use of the giant.
― sarahell, Thursday, 23 June 2016 04:43 (seven years ago) link
Yah it seemed like he shd have been able to stomp on some heads more.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 23 June 2016 04:46 (seven years ago) link