Game of Thrones

[Rhinox]

weekend is starting.

hyping intensifies.

[AniX]

How long before a dragon dies and Hand of the Queen Master of Whispers High Septon Grandmaester Qyburn revives it?

[fferyllt]

It was adequate.

[PJ.]

i had the exact opposite feeling. dance was like 'Yeahhh!! all the chars i care about' and feast was a slog full of boring characters

You shut your damn mouth. Areo Hotah was the fucking man.

[Rhinox]

It was adequate.

Apt description. I liked pretty much everything that happened, I just would have thought into the 7th season and with less screen time available there'd have been less setting of the table and more eating the meal. The appetizers were to die for, however.

[Korts]

Watching it right now.

What an amazing actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is. In the scene where Cersei is telling him that Tyrion was chosen as Dany's hand, and reminding him of all the things that Tyrion has done, the range of emotions and the process of thoughts is beautifully transparent on his face. I have rewound the scene a bunch of times - wariness, then guilt, then indignation, shock, regret, sadness, and sourness at the end, then Cersei asks him where they will land, he visibly collects himself and starts thinking ahead.

[fferyllt]

That was an excellent scene, and I agree re Coster-Waldau.

[Korts]

Sansa has the best line so far: "No need to seize the last word, Lord Baelish. I'll assume it was something clever."

[AniX]

Archmaester Qyburn was in it for literally like 2 seconds in the background with no lines. Why did I even bother watching?

[Korts]

Why was Dragonstone just completely abandoned? Has it been unclaimed since Stannis vacated it? I mean, its strategic importance cannot be understated. Have none of these armies running around all over the place considered marching in and setting up a garrison? Especially the Lannisters - Dragonstone sits on an island right at the mouth of the bay that leads to King's Landing, and much fuss has been made of Dany's fleet coming from the East to take back her birthright.

Instead, Dany can just waltz in without so much as a single soul seen running away, and puts herself in a very strong starting position without any resistance.

[AniX]

There hasn't really been anyone interested in it/time to get it. Stannis lost while Cersei was sitting in prison/Jaime was out of town and the Kingdom was de facto in the hands of the High Sparrow, who really had no aims on conquest. I don't know if he even knew of Dany coming or, if he knew, that he cared. The North/Littlefinger's Eyrie was too far away AND in the Middle of a Civil War AND preparing to fight the Night King. Dorne WANTS Dany at this point or at least doesn't mind her. The Reach was under the Sparrow's thumb until he died and, since then, basically had its entire royal family wiped out and is full isolationist.

This season opens literally the day after Cersei blew up basically everyone of consequence in King's Landing but her, Qyburn, and Ser Strong and it's clear she doesn't have a strong enough army to challenge Dany directly (hence the Iron Islands alliance).

[DeathNote]

Greyjoy could have taken it but I guess they didn't care to cause conflict yet.

[Rhinox]

There hasn't really been anyone interested in it/time to get it. Stannis lost while Cersei was sitting in prison/Jaime was out of town and the Kingdom was de facto in the hands of the High Sparrow, who really had no aims on conquest. I don't know if he even knew of Dany coming or, if he knew, that he cared. The North/Littlefinger's Eyrie was too far away AND in the Middle of a Civil War AND preparing to fight the Night King. Dorne WANTS Dany at this point or at least doesn't mind her. The Reach was under the Sparrow's thumb until he died and, since then, basically had its entire royal family wiped out and is full isolationist.

This season opens literally the day after Cersei blew up basically everyone of consequence in King's Landing but her, Qyburn, and Ser Strong and it's clear she doesn't have a strong enough army to challenge Dany directly (hence the Iron Islands alliance).

yeah I can buy everybody being too preoccupied to care about dragonstone. It's not even all that strategic without a fleet, which the lannisters don't have. Cersei was too preoccupied with dorne, the tyrells, and the sparrows to care about dragonstone, and in season 6 the lannister army had to be sent to take back riverrun. The tyrells probably had the army to go hold dragonstone at the beginning of season 5, but cersei wasn't going to let that happen. She sent Mace Tyrell over to essos to talk to the iron bank and then got the sparrows to imprison margaery and loras, so by then the tyrells weren't going anywhere. In season 6 their army was in kingslanding and sent in to stop (what they thought was going to be) margaery's walk of atonement before ultimately getting blown up. Whatever tyrell army that's left has got to be with olenna in dorne. No other army really would have had the capability or desire to go squat there.

[chamber]

This season opens literally the day after Cersei blew up basically everyone of consequence in King's Landing

I'm not sure that's entirely clear. Or if that is when it starts, the events of last seasons last episode didn't happen anywhere close to each other chronologically.

[AniX]

This season opens literally the day after Cersei blew up basically everyone of consequence in King's Landing

I'm not sure that's entirely clear. Or if that is when it starts, the events of last seasons last episode didn't happen anywhere close to each other chronologically.

I don't know how you could get the impression, unless you think Jaime waited days/weeks to finally have a conversation about their son committing suicide and them having no allies left. Those both seem like priority conversations he'd have as soon as possible after he arrived.

[chamber]

It's more that I'm not convinced everything we are seeing is all happening at the same time. I can believe that's when that scene happened.

[Rhinox]

"We never talked about Tommen..."
-Jamie to Cersei, implies at least some amount of time has passed since Cersei blew up the sept. More time than the day after imo. Could be a few days to a few weeks though, so possibly figuratively, if not literally, the "day after".

[Claus]

The Frey's kitchen must be run by house elves, and Arya gave them all their socks...
Also, NotSam meeting professor Slughorn in hogwarts was funny

[xRECKONERx]

What a premiere episode.

[Rhinox]

Spoiler:

theons arc makes no sense...

[InflatablePie]

I thought the last episode was very underwhelming. Euron doesn't look anywhere near as viscious as I thought he would and he just looks like a pudgy, out of shape asshole with a couple one-liners.

Spoiler: s07e02

[Wraith]

Things I Hate: The People Who Still Think GoT's Writing Is Good "movement"

My relationship with the show's writing at this point in a nutshell:

[Korts]

Goddammit Theon.

Can we talk about the wonderful match cut from Sam removing Jorah's greyscale to a knife plunging into a pie?

[Annadog40]

That was pretty great. Best part of episode tbh

[xRECKONERx]

Things I Hate: The People Who Still Think GoT's Writing Is Good "movement"

My relationship with the show's writing at this point in a nutshell:

eh, I really don't think the writing is that bad.

It's overwrought in some places, for sure. It's cheesy. But I think there are plenty of bright spots in the writing, too. The characterization, in particular, is fantastic and gives these actors some great shit to work with. Alfie Allen needs a fucking Emmy.