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A Game of Thrones: Season 8

Another thing that occurred to me re: Rhaegal's death. With Viserion being taken down last season by a magical ice spear.. I could believe... but Rhaegal with man made bolts? I don't buy it. Dragon scale is supposed to be impervious to man made weaponry. The only example in the books of a dragon being taken down by a bolt is one that managed to get a lucky shot in the eyeball.
 
lmao, just saw this on resetera:

Arya: We are a family !!
Arya moments later: I wont come back >=/
 
no fact said:
Another thing that occurred to me re: Rhaegal's death. With Viserion being taken down last season by a magical ice spear.. I could believe... but Rhaegal with man made bolts? I don't buy it. Dragon scale is supposed to be impervious to man made weaponry. The only example in the books of a dragon being taken down by a bolt is one that managed to get a lucky shot in the eyeball.
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I don't ever recall on the show there being a discussion about how thick a dragons skin is but you're right in the sense that they're going against book material. Not that this has ever stopped them before.
 
Lord of The Curry said:
no fact said:
Another thing that occurred to me re: Rhaegal's death. With Viserion being taken down last season by a magical ice spear.. I could believe... but Rhaegal with man made bolts? I don't buy it. Dragon scale is supposed to be impervious to man made weaponry. The only example in the books of a dragon being taken down by a bolt is one that managed to get a lucky shot in the eyeball.
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I don't ever recall on the show there being a discussion about how thick a dragons skin is but you're right in the sense that they're going against book material. Not that this has ever stopped them before.
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I don't recall it either, and it's definitely against book material - which I'm not necessarily against, as sometimes it works - it just feels kind of lame that these dragons can be brought down so easily. Bronn couldn't even hit a single giant dragon, flying straight at him, while he was in one of those scorpions on the ground, nevermind a boat from tens of miles away with dropoff over distance.
 
He should've kept Ghost if only because he only knew Ghost was around when he needed his life saved. It's probably some bullshit symbolic thing about how the Starks are gone, it's you're fucking wolf who saved your ass. At least pet the guy before you send him off with people who might actually eat him.

Kinda hated the way they handled Jamie and Brienne. They didn't need to fuck, at all; the dynamic of mutual respect with undercurrents of every emotion there is made it way more interesting. They took the easiest way out, and it feels counter-intuitive to their overall story. It can only end with her killing Jamie now and that's lame.

Arya and the Hound leaving makes sense. Cersei's the last name on her list, and we got Cleganebowl. Arya got proposed to and learned her brother's real identity less than 12 hours apart, and Arya feels like she'd rather bail than to deal with more political bullshit that killed pretty much everyone else in her life. Hound and her just have the chemistry, so I get her leaving.

Pixie-era Cersei is just a straight up crazy supervillain, but arrogant enough to "prove a point" by killing off one of the few characters I really liked instead of just wiping people out. It's like that carny bed of nails trick, where being punctured by all the nails hurts but just one nail could potentially kill you. It keeps Dany's descent into paranoid madness going (everything she built to get to King's Landing has been more or less wiped out), which means that freakout will be good.

Tyrion was on fire during this episode, I gotta say. The closer he gets to King's Landing, the smarter and sharper he gets written, for some reason.

I genuinely want Queen Sansa to be the end result.
 
The scene with Varys and Tyrion was stupid and great at the same time. Stupid, because a notoriously careful and secretive person like Varys is openly discussing treason of his queen. Great because it showed us that Tyrion's loyalty to Dany is not absolute; if it was he would have told her what Varys said and he would have been roasted alive.
 
I’m more annoyed with Ghost being abandoned than I am with another dragon dying. This show has been shit with the direwolves. Almost feels like they forgot to have Ghost in this season they scrambled to add him in post production.

And yeah, Dany could have flanked and burned the fleet from the ass end. Seems like the harpoons were centered at the front of the ship if I remember. Even if they turned 360 it wouldn’t have been a clear shot with the sails and such.

I haven’t been rooting for Daenerys at all in this series to take Westeros. Certainly nothing has changed in this last season. I’d honestly rather have Cersei on the throne.

The Jamie and Brienne stuff was just bad. I get that she loves Jamie, but seeing her cry was just out of Lace. She wasn’t a favorite character or mine at first, but grew on me and I’d be perfectly alright if she ran him through.

Most interested in Arya and The Hound at this point.
 
Sooooooooo when did I fucking lose count of the amount of Dragons in the world that speculation is one comes back to help Dany in her time of need?
 
You didn’t. Some are speculating that due to a reaction by a character in the preview for this week that a fourth dragon will come from Valeria to bail out the other dragon (and Dany/Jon). This is about as speculative as it gets and there is nothing tangible to lean on.
 
I’ll spoiler tag it just in case:

When Euron looks up toward the sky and is shielding his eyes from the sun.
 
Buzzfeed has an entire article about how when Drogon disappeared "she" had a bunch of babies. That's reaching way too hard and giving D&D way too much fucking credit IMO. They seemingly hate the fantasy aspects of the show.
 
I assumed in the spoiler tagged portion of the trailer that the character was looking at Drogon. I'd welcome more dragons. I mean this show as already jumped 150 sharks so why not.
 
I assumed the same. That his reaction was either to Drogon or someone riding Drogon that he did not expect to see.

I had forgotten the explanation of the origin of the theory being that the new intro for Season 8 shows engravings of three smaller dragons and one much larger dragon.

I am still convinced this is grasping at invisible straws.
 
That's reaching way too hard and giving D&D way too much fucking credit IMO. They seemingly hate the fantasy aspects of the show.
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Adding that would be the worst dues ex machina and would make no sense given what's been written in the books and said in the tv shows so it wouldn't be giving them too much credit at all rather the reverse. I don't think they hate the fantasy elements either. The strengh of both the show and the books has always been the politics and characters with the fantasy elements adding an extra twist. Martin getting bogged down with adding more and more things that took away from the core elements helped ruin the books and is one reason he'll never finish it. I say that as someone who loves fantasy and loved the books originally.
 
I really want someone to grab ahold of Bran this week and not let go of him until he answered questions for like 5-10 minutes
 
I thought that's what Tyrion was pretty much doing in the episode before the battle, when he asked Bran to tell him his story... but there doesn't seem to be any particular follow-up coming from that scene.

At the time, I assumed he was going to learn about Jon's parentage there, but Sansa ended up telling him in last week's episode. And it took a different conversation with Bran in the same episode for him to surmise that he doesn't want Winterfell.
 
Amazing episode as far as seeing it all burn, because tbh: fuck Kings Landing. That said, what a huge fucking cop out with Jaime and Cersei.
 
It was fitting enough. The real copout was Euron in general. What a pointless character in the grand scheme. He never got the death he had coming, more than any of them, somehow.
 
GRRM must've really fucked his ability to tell the story. The way I see it in order to get to that point in the books he has to have so much more stuff happen that I don't even want to read about. I would rather watch paint dry than read 300 more pages about Griff and Jon Connington.
 
I'm wondering if he's gonna be re writing some of these plot points after the shit reaction they're getting on tv...
 
This really did make the whole White Walker story a complete and total b-plot for 80ish hours of TV. Badass.
 
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