Game of Thrones

Laddick01 said:

ForeverAddickted said:

Dazzler21 said:

A bit annoyed I watched it early tbh. Now it's a week and a day until the next one.

Hoping that @Laddick01 is able to find it early again though

Think there’s every chance it gets leaked. HBO struggle to keep it private until it airs for some reason.

As for last nights episode it seemed to get a lot of negative comments on twitter etc, yet I’d probably put it somewhere in my top 5, just felt like a massive step up in the quality of writing.

Have avoided spoilers so far, but if I had to guess I’d say Theon, Brienne, Beric, The Hound, Grey Worm are all gone next episode. Podrick, Tormund and Jaime all probably go too, but I’m in denial about that so I’ll pretend they live.

Probably all the above but not Jaime. His story is not done yet. I'd also add Samwell and Gilly to not make it out of winter fell alive (that's despite the theory of Samwell being the narrator).

Laddick01 said:

ForeverAddickted said:

Dazzler21 said:

A bit annoyed I watched it early tbh. Now it's a week and a day until the next one.

Hoping that @Laddick01 is able to find it early again though

Think there’s every chance it gets leaked. HBO struggle to keep it private until it airs for some reason.

As for last nights episode it seemed to get a lot of negative comments on twitter etc, yet I’d probably put it somewhere in my top 5, just felt like a massive step up in the quality of writing.

Have avoided spoilers so far, but if I had to guess I’d say Theon, Brienne, Beric, The Hound, Grey Worm are all gone next episode. Podrick, Tormund and Jaime all probably go too, but I’m in denial about that so I’ll pretend they live.

You really made me week with that! Although next week I think I'll wait for HD, if only because it'll be quite dark and hard to see. 

I wouldn't say the quality of writing has improved - it's just a different part of the story that had a different opportunity to do something. The opening episode of any series/ season has the challenge of setting up the story arc or dealing with exposition (24 was hilariously bad at this every year). This episode allowed for more of what we want to see, but that doesn't mean the first episode was bad in any way! 

North Lower Neil said:

They made such a big thing about the crypts being safe I do wonder whether the bodies there will become wights.

I wouldn't worry too much about a few Starks coming back if this is true..

Dizzle said:

I think The Night King has taken a separate lot of army and is headed to Kings Landing. Note you didn’t see him at the end. Would be so much more of a statement to have him roll up rather than the other white walkers. 

..seeing as the crypts in Kings Landing are full of dragons

Just seen the trailer for next week.

"The Dead are Already Here" as the title and also a line from Dany - definitely reckon the Starks in the crypt will be reanimated.

cafcpolo said:

rina said:

North Lower Neil said:

They made such a big thing about the crypts being safe I do wonder whether the bodies there will become wights.

I wouldn't worry too much about a few Starks coming back if this is true..

Dizzle said:

I think The Night King has taken a separate lot of army and is headed to Kings Landing. Note you didn’t see him at the end. Would be so much more of a statement to have him roll up rather than the other white walkers. 

..seeing as the crypts in Kings Landing are full of dragons

There are also supposed to be dragon eggs buried under winterfell near the hot springs. Could be the 4th dragon!

Given how many wights it took to pull the dragon out of the lake, I can’t see them having the strength to open their tombs within the crypts. Therefore shouldn’t be a problem. If they do then it's an absolute piss take given one couldn't get out of a wooden box in King's Landing. 

I tend to agree.  And yet I think it'll happen.

North Lower Neil said:

We should create a game.  Choose 5 characters you think will die next week or something.

Theon
Brienne
Mormont
Tormund Giantsbane
Gendry

All I hope is that they do t ruin the final series by filling it with horse shit love story lines like a two bob soap opera 

I found last nights brilliant entertainment on the laughter scale but come on ffs start killing people 

smudge7946 said:

The last episode was an outrage and betrayed everything that game of thrones stood for. HBO should be ashamed. 

No one died, no dragons and they deliberately covered up Ayras boobies. That episode was a 0/10.

Think we may have limited booby action in this season due to everyone under threat of death. Come on Dany,you know it makes sense,just once more

nth london addick said:

All I hope is that they do t ruin the final series by filling it with horse shit love story lines like a two bob soap opera 

I found last nights brilliant entertainment on the laughter scale but come on ffs start killing people 

we've only seen 1 death in the first 2 episodes haven't we? (I know a whole house was wiped out but we didn't see it) they owe us a lot of bodies

Grey Worm will 100% be killed next week. The whole scene with him wanting to take Missandei away set that up

Had a premonition that the ending will be Sam reading from a book - The Game of Thrones 

NapaAddick said:

North Lower Neil said:

They made such a big thing about the crypts being safe I do wonder whether the bodies there will become wights.

The first teaser trailer for S8 released 3 months ago has Jon, Arya and Sansa in the crypts with the air turning cold and foggy as the WW arrive. Which seems to indicate the WW make it down to the crypts or the crypt’s buried bodies become WW. Would be something to have a headless Ned Stark, Robb Stark and other killed off Stark characters wake up from the dead on the side of the Walkers in the next episode. All dead Starks are buried in that crypt. 

I am sure that the bones are all that is returned to the crypt, the books talk about the treatment of the dead and how only bones are interred.

Yeah they’d have to write a convincing way of the bodies getting out of the tombs they’re sealed in. Might just be creepy enough to have them scratching the doors or something. 

The promo was stylised, not necessarily representative of what’s going to happen. Still, Arya was seen running scared through a crypt so that might mean something next week. 

NapaAddick said:

Hard to believe that over the last 3-4 years I’ve come to like Jamie Lannister’s character more than Dany’s. And frankly, trust him more.

That's the good writing.

Think it says a lot that Dany is becoming ruthless and cold while Jamie is becoming considerate and kind.