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

Nothing more chaotic than a ladder. (I'm terrified of heights, so I probably do agree, actually)

It's like in Hamilton: You’re an orphan. Of course! I’m an orphan! God, I wish there was a war! Then we could prove that we’re worth more than anyone bargained for…

Ep6 leaked. Tempted.

There's been a fairly detailed Ep6 summary on Wikipedia for a few hours, so stay away from that if you're concerned about spoilers.

ignore that, I just looked and it's gone now

I'd be happy to wait but we're away next week so decided to watch it. It's much better quality than the one that leaked a couple of weeks ago.

i cracked and watched it.

ditto - til Monday then...

indeed, as you were.

Careful with leaks - I have heard tell HBO leak files with inbuilt trojan type stuff that shows them who is downloading their stuff.

i think this one should be okay - one of HBO's european arms accidentally leaked the stream and people ripped the stream

This was someone ripping the stream after HBO Norway and Spain accidentally​ put the episode up on thier platform.

Well dude next to me on train is watching it right now so I have to turn my head.

Citizen's arrest imo

the honorable thing to do here would be for HBO to release it ASAP

"Prepare to die!"

xp

Yell BEND THE KNEE and then smash his laptop shut onto his knees.

hey, at least offer him a choice.

BEND THE KNEE OR DIE

Say you've seen it already and drop fake spoilers until he swears fealty.

Confirmed. Jon Snow's real father is Donkey from Shrek. #GameOfThrones pic.twitter.com/m33f7ruKoL

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hate to break it to you, but Lady Stoneheart will never live like common people

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lmao

so we all pumped for westerosi suicide squad or wut?

i'm kinda on the "wut" side of that coin but whatever gets us closer to a conclusion is fine by me at this point

wb sloth!

They're probably forcing a major death with this whole scheme but it should be fun to watch.

its an absolutely absurd plotline, the whole steal a white walker's corpse thing, but the performances thus far have sold it for me. we'll see how the actual mission plays out

what if... the white walker was with them ALL ALONG
*hound's eyes turn blue and skin turns white*
*so does everybody else's*
"wait, are we ALL zombies?"

lol

stupidity of the plotline aside...the leaked ep is SOME INSANE SHIT

otm

Grumble deus ex machinas grumble.

Hope that's not a big spoiler

yeah it's a very dumb episode

I thought it was good, but I have... things I want to say, which I will hold off til it airs tonight.

Dumb stuff happening is a got tradition

I can't believe nobody posted this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMi2C4vdmEs

wish Kit Harrington was more like George Peppard tbh

I still this one is the best of its type:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVfIFrpslI

+ 8350 XP
+ 1500 GP
Quest completed: complete the alliance between Jon Snow and Daenerys
New Rival Unlocked: Ice Dragon

Rune unlocked: Beric's Sword of Fire Fire (legendary item)

felt like they kept missing the perfect climactic point at which to end the episode and then i saw the zombies pulling something out of the water and was like "oh damn they did it."

OK now I can air my nitpick I guess? JON WOULD NOT HAVE SURVIVED THAT DUNK.

Also dragon ex machina.

Otherwise, loads of action. It seemed like the bears/wights took out quite a few guys, but were they just randos, did other men come along with the (heh) A-Team?

was half expecting a "jon cannot be turned because he's already dead" resolution but maybe that's still down the road.

Is that why he survived the water? Cos hes not technically alive? because cmon, man. They were peeling frozen clothing off him what was presumably hours later. No one survives that shit.

I counted seven heading north of the wall (last episode), then there's an overhead shot early this episode (finale), it looked like the group numbered eight. Through all of the chaos, it appeared that they lost two? three? (+ Thoros = 3), + Gendry = 4 (+ Jon = 5) - who all was on the dragon's back (besides Dany and the hostage) ? Hound, Jorah, Tormund, and Beric? it doesn't make sense.

As soon as the wight bear showed up, the fate of one of the dragons was sealed. We hadn't seen an animal wight prior to then, right?

Fun episode. I'm sure some folks'll tear it apart, but I enjoyed it.

All the dead horses for starters.

But yeah I could swear there were at least 2 shots of someone going into the water/being savaged (not counting thoros and tormond), that scene was really confusing!

it was a great episode on the one hand

on the other hand...

killing the dragon & making it into ice zombie dragon for me was like that scene when Homer's science teacher burns the donut NOOOOOO THIS IS NOT HAPPENING THIS IS NOT HAPPENING ;_;

also...i had this (stupid, naive) hope that Arya wasnt just a sociopathic revengebot 5000 now and it's bumming me out that that's how she's shaking out. Please dont destroy my favorite character pleeeeeease let her be playing some kind of long game or something

keep hoping she suddenly takes off HER face and it would be Jaqen and that MY Arya will still show up

No doubt there were like a dozen unnamed humans conveniently getting killed so our heroes didn't have to. Could've used some scenes of them sitting around the fire talking about how they were gonna spend their retirement soon as they finished this one last case so we could feel for them.

All the dead horses for starters.

True. Good point.

It was nearly impossible to tell what was going on in some of these action scenes--and to me the real deus ex was Benjen riding in out of nowhere.

But despite all that, I liked the episode. GOT can still induce that frisson that few shows can (and Benjen riding in was a cool moment despite its machina-ness)