I groaned at this one, too. Its an attempt at cleverness that fails because its nonsensical. Shouldn't Dany be surprised that somebody besides her can ride a dragon, and wonder why, given how finicky dragons are in general? To my knowledge, no one without some targ blood has ridden a dragon in the lore.
The show is only good for tits and violence so Arianne and Victarion would be nice. Though honestly from a writing perspective there's no point to having Euron without Victarion. Not that the show version is remotely the same character.
She just hasn’t gotten to know Tyrion yet. Or had the luxury of meeting Olenna Tyrell. Speaking of Tyrion, do you think he knows Cersei is bluffing and he’s bluffing himself? Maybe he has a Bronn up his sleeve.
It was a decent start and got enough of the ball rolling for the season that there's a lot to look forward to, but...the dialogue. Oh, my God. The dialogue.
Jon: “It’s cold up here for southern girl”
Dany: “So keep your Queen warm”
Now see, I'm deep in the Midwest so I'm exposed to a seriously unhealthy amount of country music and therefore have been privy to some of the most cheeseball lyrics ever to grace this planet. That dialogue... that was not Westeros dialogue, friends.
That was redneck dialogue.
That was chugging beers down in the holler redneck dialogue.
That was gonna go mudding with mah woman and drink some whiskey with the good ol' boys dialogue.
If Sam Tarly and Bran popped out of a snowbank playing a banjo and a mandolin, it would have only completed the moment since we already got fullbown incest and voyeur lizards going on already.
Jon: “It’s cold up here for southern girl”
Dany: “So keep your Queen warm”
Now see, I'm deep in the Midwest so I'm exposed to a seriously unhealthy amount of country music and therefore have been privy to some of the most cheeseball lyrics ever to grace this planet. That dialogue... that was not Westeros dialogue, friends.
That was redneck dialogue.
That was chugging beers down in the holler redneck dialogue.
That was gonna go mudding with mah woman and drink some whiskey with the good ol' boys dialogue.
If Sam Tarly and Bran popped out of a snowbank playing a banjo and a mandolin, it would have only completed the moment since we already got fullbown incest and voyeur lizards going on already.
I didn’t mind the cheesy quote. I kind of eat that stuff up. If there’s any character who needs to pop up playing the banjo, it’s the reanimated corpses of Cersei and Jaime’s incest spawn.
Bronn's a fucking idiot; why on Earth would you take that deal from Cersei? You have enough money to get your dick sucked by three women at the same time. He even comments about how Cersei screwed him out of his castle and wife the last time he took a job from her. Bronn should know that trying to kill Jamie and Tyrion won't end well for him because he's worked for both of them. God damn, this is such a lame-ass way to build up tension for finale. Also Bronn's a thousand miles from Winterfell; it'll take him all season to get up there on horseback.
Targ aryans are from Valeria while it seems like the Night King was a First Man that those elf dicks weaponised, so probably not, but you're right that there was a strong resemblance. Perhaps the Targ crest references an older symbol?
The Battle for the Dawn predates the Targaryens by a fair bit, unless there's a suggestion that the Last Hero was the progenitor of the Targaryen line, though this seems unlikely, given how the Targaryens were said to be of little regard in Valeria.
So instead of trying to sort out some food for them, they take them on a bad throwback to "A whole new world" from fucking Disney's Aladdin? Not gonna lie, this was the first thing I thought of when the scene was happening.
I groaned at this one, too. Its an attempt at cleverness that fails because its nonsensical. Shouldn't Dany be surprised that somebody besides her can ride a dragon, and wonder why, given how finicky dragons are in general? To my knowledge, no one without some targ blood has ridden a dragon in the lore.
At this point, I'd actually give the show some credit if Jon reveals that he's a Targaryen and Dany is like 'of course you are, how else could you do all this obvious Targaryen stuff'. At this point the only obviously Targaryen thing he hasn't done is survive fire.
The episode went pretty much exactly as I expected, and I don't mean that as a bad thing. Lots of setup before real shit hits the fan. Very necessary. Loved how the episode ended, too.
-Dany is still the worst. I hope to god they are actually going for the "villain" angle with her, because everything she's done up to this point just screams "villain origin story." I'm just afraid they won't have the balls to do it, because normie fans will REEEEEEEEEE all over the place. This episode gave me some hope with it, though, and she 100% came across as villainous to me. For once, I agree with Sansa.
-I am believing more and more that Cersei is a daughter of The Mad King. That, or they are going for a "every king becomes mad" theme for the end?
-Is The Night King a Targaryen? Because that symbol at the end of the episode sure looks like the Targaryen crest ...
The symbol that they make around Ned Umber's corpse is a symbol the Children of the Forest use, since we know in the show the Children created the White Walkers this is likely the connection to that symbol. One theory I've seen floated around is that the Starks and White Walkers are connected, the Night's King (different from the Night King) according to one legend Old Nan tells in the books is that he was supposedly the brother of Brandon the Breaker, the King of the North at the time. He kills his brother after he marries a female White Walker and begins having kids with her and possibly sacrificing some to the White Walker's as well, the thing there is that the Stark family may share blood with the White Walker's but that's still considered legend at this point in the lore.
I don't think Cersei is a secret child of Aerys, I think she more or less has gone mad on her own and at least at one point is referred to as "Tywin with a cunt" or that's how she sees herself but she's not as clever or thoughtful as her father.
The symbol that they make around Ned Umber's corpse is a symbol the Children of the Forest use, since we know in the show the Children created the White Walkers this is likely the connection to that symbol. One theory I've seen floated around is that the Starks and White Walkers are connected, the Night's King (different from the Night King) according to one legend Old Nan tells in the books is that he was supposedly the brother of Brandon the Breaker, the King of the North at the time. He kills his brother after he marries a female White Walker and begins having kids with her and possibly sacrificing some to the White Walker's as well, the thing there is that the Stark family may share blood with the White Walker's but that's still considered legend at this point in the lore.
I don't think Cersei is a secret child of Aerys, I think she more or less has gone mad on her own and at least at one point is referred to as "Tywin with a cunt" or that's how she sees herself but she's not as clever or thoughtful as her father.
If the show goes by the books, Tywin and his wife, Joanna, are cousins. So the if madness that the Targaryens have might be less to do with magic and more with inbreeding, that might explain why Cersei is Cersei. That or the majority of Cersei's blood is wine by now.
I can't sleep. Can someone draw me a picture of how I want Game of Thrones to end:
Ghost sitting on the Iron Throne, wearing a crown, with a goofy "good boy" smile on his face. Nymeria standing guard, glaring the startled and confused crowd into submission.
Anyone else a little underwhelmed? I get that they have to get the setup and reunions out of the way but there are only 6 episodes so I'm worried about everything being rushed in the end.
The writing was terrible. I love the cast, and enjoyed it okay, but its hard to take it seriously anymore. From here on out its a checklist of plot points backed by visual effects spectacle to compensate for the lack of substance.
The Twitter hivemind will be aflutter with extra focused hatred for 'straight white males' should that happen. Will HBOs and Hollywood woke overrule the non-PC of GRRMs writing [again]? Will women and colored people prevail?
looks like he won’t be doing any ocular patdowns for a while. Martin Starr from Freaks and Geeks, Party Down, and Silicon Valley also plays one of Theon’s victims.
Yeah, especially since it makes no sense whatsoever. So, Sansa is mad that Jon bend the knee to Dany, so she'd pick up the fight against the White Walkers with her absolutely mind numbingly fuckhuge army. Why?
With the sheer survival of EVERYONE IN ALL OF WESTEROS is at stake, him losing his title is fucking ridiculous. For that matter, Dany being a bitch about that was ridiculous too. Can't remember if she insisted on that before or after she realized how big the threat of White Walkers was.
Yara's rescue felt like such an "oh yeah, we should probably tie this one up real quick..." Literally 120 seconds of the episode sorted both Theon and Yara out.
Yeah, that shit was so lackluster. GoT used to be great for a few reasons, one of which was that everything had consequences. Just as suddenly as Euron popped up and fucked up Yara's fleet, as quickly was this whole thing resolved. It felt more like ticking off a checklist.
[x] Yara gets captured
[x] Euron gets some royal hanky panky as reward
[x] Yara is freed
[_] Make this subplot have a point
Bronn's a fucking idiot; why on Earth would you take that deal from Cersei? You have enough money to get your dick sucked by three women at the same time. He even comments about how Cersei screwed him out of his castle and wife the last time he took a job from her. Bronn should know that trying to kill Jamie and Tyrion won't end well for him because he's worked for both of them. God damn, this is such a lame-ass way to build up tension for finale. Also Bronn's a thousand miles from Winterfell; it'll take him all season to get up there on horseback.
There's too much to do and too little time left and the writers have painted themselves into a corner with the strength of the white walker army. I fear it's going to take a mega deus ex machina to resolve everything, and that would be a big letdown.
Wasn't it established that killing some of the more important White Walkers (a general, so to speak) will also destroy those Zombies that were turned by him and his men? If so, killing the Night King would destroy all his army in one blow.
To me, this can be seen nowhere better than with the Hound. He does get good lines here and there and his stuff is more hit than miss, when it comes to me, but overall, the writers seem to think that just making the Hound go "Cunt" is the peak of witty writing.
It's not like Dany's taking any advice or needs any guidance at this point. She's literally just playing Cersi lite and gives 0 fucks except for getting her throne.
Dany started out as naive, annoying and dumb. She proceeded to be really fucking annoying, a smart-ass that disregards the genuinely good advice of far more capable people. It got better for a bit, but last season, she was barely tolerable. Constantly doing shit that made me go "Why would she do that?" and I thought the worst thing was allowing her Dragons to kill the Tarlies. Sure, Randyll Tarly was an old bastard, but burning him for not swearing allegiance? Holy fucking shit, Dany. That's really fucked up. That's "Mad King" levels of bullshit.
And when you think it can't get any worse, she
tells Sam in the most dickish way. She literally goes "Thanks for healing my friendzoned Sidekick, btw I had your father incinerated by dragon fire... at least he didn't die alone, your brother was burned to a crisp besides him." Poor Sam.
I groaned at this one, too. Its an attempt at cleverness that fails because its nonsensical. Shouldn't Dany be surprised that somebody besides her can ride a dragon, and wonder why, given how finicky dragons are in general? To my knowledge, no one without some targ blood has ridden a dragon in the lore.
In the books, there is one guy (who sadly got cut from the TV show) that tries to approach the dragons while they are kept in the pyramid dungeons. The dragons burn him for merely being there. Missandei remarks that the poor sod later died "smiling" and the character from whose perspective we see that scene thinks to himself something along the lines of "How could she tell if he had no lips?"
So yeah, Dragons don't like strangers and they certainly don't treat them nicely.
The problem isn't that a Targaryen is doing that, the problem is that a Targaryen is doing this and it feels like the series is still trying to set up Dany as some sort of likeable, charismatic and competent leader. I fear that the writers think by making Dany a lunatic that literally burns her enemies on a whim, that we respect that character for being strong-willed, capable and independent.
The problem isn't that a Targaryen is doing that, the problem is that a Targaryen is doing this and it feels like the series is still trying to set up Dany as some sort of likeable, charismatic and competent leader. I fear that the writers think by making Dany a lunatic that literally burns her enemies on a whim, that we respect that character for being strong-willed, capable and independent.
there is a strong possibility that her character was hijacked by a woke, LGBTQ land whale who lives vicariously through Danny. Burning a bunch of white rich dudes ... yeah, fuck 'em.
