My pleasure but credit all goes to my wife.

Yup. Essosi sellswords and that Golden Company could make things a bit sticky for Dany and her Unsullied and Dothraki forces. If there were no money to hire them they wouldn't be a complicating factor.

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"Politics is just show business for ugly people."

I thought she destroyed a lot of the gold with all the dragon fire burny ashes.

Nope. The gold wagons made it through to King's Landing all in one piece. That battle scene opens with Randyll Tarly telling that to Jaime and Bronn.

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"Politics is just show business for ugly people."

I've heard lots of people complaining about how "fast" the traveling is done. It's not that they are traveling fast, the show is skipping long periods of time between the scenes and episodes. Time does indeed go by at it's normal pace, we just don't see it. It's an important difference.

But the accelerated pace is distracting and abrupt.

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I assume they are setting Dickon up to have some sort of notable role or impact in the story. He's too striking of an actor to just be there as a redshirt. And considering how limited their time is to get the story finished, they spent a lot of valuable screen time with Dickon.

Isn't that the group that the one leader killed the other two leaders then became Dani's boy toy for a couple seasons? Maybe he goes back to them and he'll emerge and help Dani??

I'm guessing that Sam will pack his bags and leave the Citadel soon for some urgent mission or effort needed for the big whitewalker battle or something. He'll bring his family sword with him, which is Vallerian steel and it will come in handy in the battle.

Maybe he joins up with Dickon and gives the sword to him and Dickon is a major force in the whitwalker battle coming up. Maybe that's why we are being introduced to Dickon now.

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She sounds hot

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"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

I saw a close up of the hand and it's wearing Bron's fingerless glove.

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I was excited about the battle scene...and then I facepalmed ...

On top of everything else, he threw Aunt Lyssa out the moon door in front of Sansa. She could have his head for this alone.

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Littlefinger is not doing anything this season and just stands around moping and looking like he's scheming. I have to feel the only reason they're keeping on the screen is so we don't forget who he is when they decide to kill him.

No, he was with the Second Sons, who are currently looking after the Mereen etc for Daenrys.

Daario, leader of Second Sons (status): friendzoned

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Swim. Overbike. Walk.

There are 7 episodes this season, 8 next. Some will be almost 120 mins though.

I think to,do the Night King justice, they really need to finish the war,for the iron throne this season and spend all of next on the Night King and White Walkers.

Next week, there is a scene in the preview where Drogon is roaring at Jon. Wonder if his lineage will be revealed.

And we are long past a time for a major death.

http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/Season_8

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Whoops. That's right, 7 and then 6.

I think it was Bron. The glove, hair and clothing looks like him. I just watched that part again. Can't get the screen shot to load

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"I think I've cracked the code. double letters are cheaters except for perfect squares (a, d, i, p and y). So Leddy isn't a cheater... "

Can't do that. You need to have the threat that plotting and scheming over the Iron Throne will get in the way of beating the army of the dead. Maybe Dany and/or Jon win the Iron Throne, but Cersei slips away, then spends next season plotting her revenge, which she tries to take just at the moment when Dany/Jon are totally focused on the fight against the Night King. She seems like the type to burn the whole thing down if she can't have it to herself.

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I think it's more that different parts seem to be moving at different paces so it feels a bit disjointed. E.g. I'm fine with the idea that we've skipped a few weeks while the fleet made it's way round from Dragonstone to Casterly Rock, but other storylines don't seem to have moved on at all in those weeks. And given that the Night King was hot on Bran's heels last series and was seen marching south with an army of wights and a couple of wight-giants at the start of this series, he should have got to the Wall by now.

Guess this was always somewhat inevitable, so many plot lines to pull together that nearly every scene from now on has to move the plot along somehow. Saw a similar thing in the last book or 2 of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Be interesting to see how GRRM handles it in the books (assuming he ever actually finishes them).

My question is...will Arya kill the mountain? He's on her list. She's become a kickass fighter.
And that scene fighting Brienne of Tarth was pretty awesome.

Devastating losses from the war leaving few left to fight the WWs would,give that suspense too. And Cersei is smarter than that. She will do what she can,to,survive and wait,to,plot another day. Remember what Balon Greyjoy said. No man has ever died from bending the knee and he may rise again w blade in hand. She could cut a,deal,to,stay alive and devote,her forces to,the fight against the WWs. Why anyone would allow her to live tho is another question.

Yeah, I just don't see a series that is entirely based on scheming and plotting to get the throne, taking that off the table for the final season. The series is called "Game of Thrones" not "Can we beat the Zombies." Let's face it, the white walkers are cool and all, but having the throne resolved this season would make the final season anti-climactic. At no time in the series has there been just a single major plot line. It would make no sense to have a final season where the entire plot was just about beating the walkers.

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One thing I don't remember what happened when Sam went home. Was Dickon a dick like his dad then too?
Then did their dad survive ep 4? If Dickon isn't a dick, is he the Warden of the South now and sympathetic to his brother and thus the North

The dad was mainly a dick to Sam, I think Dickon was a bit more sympathetic during that dinner scene where Sam in trying to make conversation had asked if the meat was from that day's hunt and Dickon politely reminded him that it needed to cure.

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