Interesting is a stretch.In post 4117, Faraday wrote:glad arya's storyline is interesting again
Saw somebody suggest that
This is kind of my fear, as well. I don't want the zombie battle to be the "big thing" the series has been building towards. It's so predictable and boring. I was hoping zombies would invade FIRST, realm temporarily forges a truce to fight them off, then the final season would be the actual pay off to all the politicking over the past 7 seasons where the big players make their final moves on a destitute realm.In post 4127, Iecerint wrote:I remain kind of clueless on how the endgame is going to be good television.
It seems like we have 2 major conflicts remaining (Cersei + the South and Littlefinger + the North), and then a fight against the boring zombies, with side-plots for Sam and Sandor to maybe resolve. I guess Bran can learn stuff to make the zombies more interesting.
I was sorta "bleh" on Jaime/Cersei being together still until this episode. I think it makes all the sense in the world to have Jaime's love for Cersei fade when he sees her as the Mad Queen. The books had the strands of that relationship dethread slowly over time mostly via POV chapters. Since they couldn't do that in the show, I think this was an excellent move.In post 4128, ChannelDelibird wrote:Was listening to the soundtrack over and over again today. Just masterful work.
This ended up being a weird and bumpy season but this episode was definitely a real high point for the series, particularly the King's Landing stuff. I've ragged on the show's adaptation of the Jaime/Cersei relationship for a couple of years (they're probably my favourite two book characters) but there's something to be said for having the weakening point be now, when she goes full Mad Queen, than earlier, that makes me open to reconsidering it somewhat. Lena Headey and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau totally knocked all of their scenes out of the park, as well.
Saw somebody suggest thatMelisandre might find him and Victarion him up a smoking arm but that does seem like wishful thinking. I think I prefer his story as just ending ambiguously now, even though greyscale seems like it's kind of a thing in the books
Eh. I think at worst the heroes abandon Westeros to the White Walkers and flee to Essos.In post 4131, chamber wrote:I kind of want the fight against the white walkers to just be them winning at the very end because of all the in fighting that's happened.
There's this weird line where they need to make the narrative work, and I think they use the same thing GRRM uses in the beginning of AFFC. The warning page where it says "hey, the timing isn't quite perfect, go with it."In post 4126, xRECKONERx wrote:They really need to chill with the teleportation next season tho, it feels cheap
I mean it was cool as fuck and at least means her storyline could become interesting again, so not really. I also was fairly sure it'd happen but that's not a bad thing.In post 4125, Korts wrote:Great episode.
Now I can't remember why I hate Cercei so much.
I'm kind of frustrated though about Jon Snow ruining Sansa's claim. Otherwise we might have had all queens for the last season.
Interesting is a stretch.In post 4117, Faraday wrote:glad arya's storyline is interesting again
In this case I feel people would complain less about "Varys teleporting" if the show just spent a few more seconds making it clearer that Westerosi ships were in that Navy. My first reaction was also WTF the eunuch stole LF's jetpack.In post 4136, hasdgfas wrote:There's this weird line where they need to make the narrative work, and I think they use the same thing GRRM uses in the beginning of AFFC. The warning page where it says "hey, the timing isn't quite perfect, go with it."In post 4126, xRECKONERx wrote:They really need to chill with the teleportation next season tho, it feels cheap
It doesn't make sense unless some of the later scenes are earlier than earlier scenes.
yeah like if u slow it down u can clearly see other houses in the fleet and it makes perfect sense but like, putting the scenes so close together in the ep suggested ~~wow teleporting~~ which was probably a mistakeIn post 4140, Claus wrote:In this case I feel people would complain less about "Varys teleporting" if the show just spent a few more seconds making it clearer that Westerosi ships were in that Navy. My first reaction was also WTF the eunuch stole LF's jetpack.
I feel like the North is going to just get completely rolled over by the White Walkers. Most of the North's manpower died with Rob in the South. The rest has been continually depleted by the war with the Greyjoys and now the fighting between Stark and Bolton. Three of the largest houses of the North, Bolton, Karstark, and Umber (especially the first) can be considered depleted and disgraced.In post 4131, chamber wrote:I kind of want the fight against the white walkers to just be them winning at the very end because of all the in fighting that's happened.
