Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [Uncle Arqyle] [ In reply to ]

Jul 25, 17 17:26

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Uncle Arqyle wrote:

big kahuna wrote:

Uncle Arqyle wrote:

We know how long its been because they showed Sam's girlfriends baby who looked to be between 2-3 years old, probably closer to two. He was a less than a year old last season.

It's amazing how many ships you can build when you're properly motivated. Like if you have a psychotic for a king who'll personally cleave your skull with an ax if you falter or fail. ;-)

Amazing what you can build without regulations, environmental studies and the like.

True dat. AND he was able to invent radar for his ships to track down the Greyjoy siblings!

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [Uncle Arqyle] [ In reply to ]

Jul 25, 17 17:27

Post #102 of 553 (4411 views)

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [JSA] [ In reply to ]

Jul 25, 17 18:05

Post #103 of 553 (4396 views)

How about is Yara dead ? I originally thought she was but I rewatched the naval scene again. I don't thinks that's her hung firom the front of the ship as Euron sails away. It's the two sisters who died.

Oh and they also had some kind of metal sheeting inside the new ships that were built in a day. So add blacksmithing skills to that quick turn around.

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [Leddy] [ In reply to ]

Jul 25, 17 18:09

Post #104 of 553 (4394 views)

Yara is not dead. Yet. That was 2 of the sand snakes on the boat.

Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [bluemonkeytri] [ In reply to ]

Jul 25, 17 18:16

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bluemonkeytri wrote:

Yara is not dead. Yet. That was 2 of the sand snakes on the boat.

X2. Euron took Yara, Ellaria and her daughter Tyene, the third Sand Snake, captive. I'm guessing he's going to parade them in chains when he gets back to King's Landing.

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [bluemonkeytri] [ In reply to ]

Jul 25, 17 18:17

Post #106 of 553 (4387 views)

bluemonkeytri wrote:

Yara is not dead. Yet. That was 2 of the sand snakes on the boat.

On another note: Jesus, but those three were fairly useless when it got down to the short strokes. What a waste of film on the trio.

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]

Jul 25, 17 18:27

Post #107 of 553 (4383 views)

Not all worthless. Tyene Sand gave us this scene.

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [JSA] [ In reply to ]

Jul 25, 17 18:38

Post #108 of 553 (4374 views)

That's true. We'll always have her and Bronn, right? ;-)

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]

Jul 26, 17 5:06

Post #109 of 553 (4326 views)

Speaking of Bronn, we haven't seen what he's up to this season yet.....

Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [Endo] [ In reply to ]

Jul 26, 17 5:10

Post #110 of 553 (4322 views)

Endo wrote:

Speaking of Bronn, we haven't seen what he's up to this season yet.....

Whoring and fighting his way through Westeros, no doubt. Because he's Sir Bronn of the Blackwater. ;-)

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]

Jul 26, 17 5:12

Post #111 of 553 (4320 views)

big kahuna wrote:

bluemonkeytri wrote:

Yara is not dead. Yet. That was 2 of the sand snakes on the boat.

X2. Euron took Yara, Ellaria and her daughter Tyene, the third Sand Snake, captive. I'm guessing he's going to parade them in chains when he gets back to King's Landing.

AKA the only one who's been topless...

The other two were displayed by their own weapons - older one skewered by her spear on the bow, and the girl from Iron Fist hung by her whip. One or two of them are the girt he mentioned last week - defiantly Ellaria, she killed a Lannister - Asha/Yara might be for Euron's own ends, she's the only one who has another claim to his throne.

Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [scorpio516] [ In reply to ]

Jul 26, 17 5:39

Post #112 of 553 (4311 views)

scorpio516 wrote:

big kahuna wrote:

bluemonkeytri wrote:

Yara is not dead. Yet. That was 2 of the sand snakes on the boat.

X2. Euron took Yara, Ellaria and her daughter Tyene, the third Sand Snake, captive. I'm guessing he's going to parade them in chains when he gets back to King's Landing.

AKA the only one who's been topless...

The other two were displayed by their own weapons - older one skewered by her spear on the bow, and the girl from Iron Fist hung by her whip. One or two of them are the girt he mentioned last week - defiantly Ellaria, she killed a Lannister - Asha/Yara might be for Euron's own ends, she's the only one who has another claim to his throne.

Yup. We watched that series (Iron Fist) in its entirety (so far) earlier this year, and that's how my wife identified her in GoT; as "that girl from Iron Fist." ;-)

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [scorpio516] [ In reply to ]

Jul 26, 17 6:52

Post #113 of 553 (4283 views)

I was talking with a co worker yesterday who thought it was Yara. What sealed it for me was how they were hanging. From memory yesterday I couldn't say definitively if it was her or not.

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [Leddy] [ In reply to ]

Jul 26, 17 7:12

Post #114 of 553 (4264 views)

Leddy wrote:

I was talking with a co worker yesterday who thought it was Yara. What sealed it for me was how they were hanging. From memory yesterday I couldn't say definitively if it was her or not.

If he was going to kill her right away he'd have gutted her in front of Theon/Reek. He has something else planned for her, something that he thinks will remove Tyrion/Dany from the equation. They're still sitting on the other half of the fleet, the one that's taking the Unsullied and the Dothraki to Casterly Rock. He may or may not know about that. From the previews, which show the Unsullied in combat with some other force, a force that looks like the Lannister army, he may not be expecting that bold of a move. It's kind of like MacArthur at Inchon. It caught the North Koreans with their pants down.

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [Leddy] [ In reply to ]

Jul 26, 17 7:12

Post #115 of 553 (4264 views)

Leddy wrote:

I was talking with a co worker yesterday who thought it was Yara. What sealed it for me was how they were hanging. From memory yesterday I couldn't say definitively if it was her or not.

If it was Yara, it would have been made really clear. And they would have shown her death. She's a major character.

I think the whole ship to ship battle scene's sole purpose was to contrive a way to give the fans what they wanted and mark a definitive end to what is the worst debacle in the show, which is the sand snakes and their mother, and well, really all of Dorne as a plot line.

I guess they'll string it out for another episode and we can watch Cercei torture and kill momma dorne and the remaining stupid sand snake.

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [Endo] [ In reply to ]

Jul 27, 17 1:04

Post #116 of 553 (4187 views)

Endo wrote:

j p o wrote:

Brian in MA wrote:

Very intense episode last night. You knew that Euron and Yara would cross paths at some point, but even still that was a pretty wild battle scene; Theon morphed back into Reek but I can't imagine that's the last we'll see of him treading water among the wreckage (maybe Gendry rows by and picks him up?). I have to think that Varys tipped them off after the opening confrontation with Dany - Euron could very well have been heading towards Dragonstone anyway but it seemed too coincidental to just have them show up and attack, and also take Ellaria as "the gift".

I thought Arya was going to encounter White Walkers when her horse was spooked and you could suddenly see her breath. She had the best line in the episode when she was at the inn talking to Hot Pie: "You've been baking pies?" "One or two".

It was a little strange at first to see many of the characters from the different storylines throughout the series finally come together. I joked to my wife during Dany's strategy meeting that is like a meeting of the Justice League.

I hope that is true. Otherwise we are left with one side having perfect scouting and the other side being fuckall stupid.

Yeah, this was the one plot point last night that was just waaay to convenient, to have the two armadas meet up. I hope Varys or the old Tyrell woman had a hand in it.

The storyline is moving so fast in these episodes, I can tell it is losing story quality.

As each season goes on, the more and more I dislike Dany. At the core she is an entitled, megalomaniac, petulant tyrant and conquer. I think she's a bit of a sociopath also. My guess is that at the end of this series, Dany is dead. I don't think we'll see the story end with Jon and Dany living happily ever after, either together or separate.

I also think the White Walkers may not end up being all bad. There is more to their background and motivations. As we've seen time and time again, there are no true bad or good people in GoT. There always seems to be two sides of the coin and I don't think we've seen the other side of the Night King's coin.

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Only up to this part of the thread, but yes, am pretty sure Dany will end up dead. I think it would be good to see Jorah do it, given their complicated relationship and that he is a true man of honour who will do what he thinks is best. I think we will see a bit of a descent into darkness for Dany. She has the trappings of a tyrant in the making.

What some mistake for leadership is really just demagogy. Which is usually not a good mode of leadership given what it led us to in the 20th century (and hopefully doesn't lead us anywhere in the 21st century).

Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [fulla] [ In reply to ]

Jul 27, 17 6:23

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fulla wrote:

Endo wrote:

j p o wrote:

Brian in MA wrote:

Very intense episode last night. You knew that Euron and Yara would cross paths at some point, but even still that was a pretty wild battle scene; Theon morphed back into Reek but I can't imagine that's the last we'll see of him treading water among the wreckage (maybe Gendry rows by and picks him up?). I have to think that Varys tipped them off after the opening confrontation with Dany - Euron could very well have been heading towards Dragonstone anyway but it seemed too coincidental to just have them show up and attack, and also take Ellaria as "the gift".

I thought Arya was going to encounter White Walkers when her horse was spooked and you could suddenly see her breath. She had the best line in the episode when she was at the inn talking to Hot Pie: "You've been baking pies?" "One or two".

It was a little strange at first to see many of the characters from the different storylines throughout the series finally come together. I joked to my wife during Dany's strategy meeting that is like a meeting of the Justice League.

I hope that is true. Otherwise we are left with one side having perfect scouting and the other side being fuckall stupid.

Yeah, this was the one plot point last night that was just waaay to convenient, to have the two armadas meet up. I hope Varys or the old Tyrell woman had a hand in it.

The storyline is moving so fast in these episodes, I can tell it is losing story quality.

As each season goes on, the more and more I dislike Dany. At the core she is an entitled, megalomaniac, petulant tyrant and conquer. I think she's a bit of a sociopath also. My guess is that at the end of this series, Dany is dead. I don't think we'll see the story end with Jon and Dany living happily ever after, either together or separate.

I also think the White Walkers may not end up being all bad. There is more to their background and motivations. As we've seen time and time again, there are no true bad or good people in GoT. There always seems to be two sides of the coin and I don't think we've seen the other side of the Night King's coin.

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Only up to this part of the thread, but yes, am pretty sure Dany will end up dead. I think it would be good to see Jorah do it, given their complicated relationship and that he is a true man of honour who will do what he thinks is best. I think we will see a bit of a descent into darkness for Dany. She has the trappings of a tyrant in the making.

What some mistake for leadership is really just demagogy. Which is usually not a good mode of leadership given what it led us to in the 20th century (and hopefully doesn't lead us anywhere in the 21st century).

I think we are already seeing that with her pointing out last week that Jon Snow must "bend the knee". Seems to me she hasn't been that interested up until the last few episodes in that sort of showboating. She really seems to be changing now that she is so close to the throne.

Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [M~] [ In reply to ]

Jul 27, 17 8:03

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M~ wrote:

I think we are already seeing that with her pointing out last week that Jon Snow must "bend the knee". Seems to me she hasn't been that interested up until the last few episodes in that sort of showboating. She really seems to be changing now that she is so close to the throne.

Also, Lady Olenna gave Dany some advice during that war council scene, both at the beginning of the scene and at its end. In the beginning, after Dany told them that she didn't want to be a "Queen of the ashes," Olenna observed the following:

"I can't remember a queen who was better loved than my granddaughter . . . and what is left of her now? Ashes."

Olenna closes that remark with this: "Commoners, nobles, they're all just children, really. They won't obey you unless they fear you." (By the way, Cersei said something similar way back in the day, during the Battle of the Blackwater.)

At the end of the scene, when Olenna and Dany are discussing things privately, the elder lady tells the younger lady to be what she needs to be: "Be a dragon."

That's foreshadowing all the way, folks. ;-)

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [RandMart] [ In reply to ]

Jul 27, 17 8:11

Post #119 of 553 (4105 views)

RandMart wrote:

klehner wrote:

Brian in MA wrote:

Great (and gross) transition last night from a closeup of Sam removing the greyscale with all the pus oozing out, to the juice flowing from the pie crust as Arya prepared to take a bite.

That was one of the Lannister soldiers, not Arya. But still awesome.

I like how they reconnect storylines from the past (like with the baker boy).

"The secret is browning the butter before adding it to the dough. Most people don't do that because it takes up too much time"
"Hm, I don't do that"
"You've been making pies?"
"One or two"

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [RandMart] [ In reply to ]

Jul 30, 17 19:20

Post #120 of 553 (4003 views)

Well, Cersei and the Lannisters are certainly holding the whip hand right now.

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]

Jul 31, 17 5:09

Post #121 of 553 (3953 views)

We knew she was going to torture Eliaria Sand but that is straight up Wicked.

I am looking forward to the look on Cersi's face when she finds out who really killed Joffrey.

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [Billabong] [ In reply to ]

Jul 31, 17 5:43

Post #122 of 553 (3939 views)

Billabong wrote:

We knew she was going to torture Eliaria Sand but that is straight up Wicked.

I am looking forward to the look on Cersi's face when she finds out who really killed Joffrey.

Yeah, that was a good twist, but it was right out there for everyone to see, if you look back to Season 4. And that old lady was one tough bird right to the end.

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [big kahuna] [ In reply to ]

Jul 31, 17 5:45

Post #123 of 553 (3937 views)

I was hoping she had poisoned that wine pitcher herself and then convinced Jamie to,drink,w her.

And am I the only one who felt a small bit of sympathy for Cersei last night

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Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [bluemonkeytri] [ In reply to ]

Jul 31, 17 6:01

Post #124 of 553 (3929 views)

I admire you for having sympathy for her. I find her the worst.

I have a weird question for everyone. Does anyone else have a hard time rooting for anyone because they see kings and queens as total bullshit? I love the side characters like shorty smart guy, fatty smarty awesome, little assassin bad ass, Ice king and all the like. I just can't stand nor care for the big boys and girls talking about the throne. Dragon Queeny McAnnoying is getting on my last nerve. The 12 hour bend the knee witless fest between Bleach Blonde and Personality Destroyer killed me. I just find fighting for power, in fiction or real life, pathetic and deeply sad.

Re: Game of Thrones speculation thread [bluemonkeytri] [ In reply to ]

Jul 31, 17 6:03

Post #125 of 553 (3928 views)

bluemonkeytri wrote:

And am I the only one who felt a small bit of sympathy for Cersei last night

i suspect so.

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