Flix 5,116 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Dang I never commented about the final episodes did I? Well my feeling is this: they saved up all the awesomeness and unleashed it all in the last episode. As I've been saying, this season so far may not have had the most twisty-turning-shocking reveals, but it was doing work. Work moving the plot along towards a conclusion, which is a first for the show. Well, this final episode combined both elements. It managed to move the plot along with great big long strides, AND shocked and amazed the hell out of me with all kinds of twists and turns and big green BOOMS. Like a season finale should, has me rarin' to go with the next installment. ....And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you Valonqar is Valyrian for 'little brother' which most assume to mean Tyrion. But it could also mean Jamie as he was born second. Don't forget the prophecy about Cersei's killer being her "little brother" is omitted from the show. I have a feeling they might try to avoid that altogether. In the books, Tyrion tells Jaime that Cersei has been sleeping around way back when Jaime busts him out of jail. This widens the divide between the two. Jaime had a pretty impressive redemption arc in the books, but in the show he keeps backsliding because there's been nothing to divide him from Cersei. Maybe that will change now. Link to comment
Veracious 267 Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Dang I never commented about the final episodes did I? Well my feeling is this: they saved up all the awesomeness and unleashed it all in the last episode. As I've been saying, this season so far may not have had the most twisty-turning-shocking reveals, but it was doing work. Work moving the plot along towards a conclusion, which is a first for the show. Well, this final episode combined both elements. It managed to move the plot along with great big long strides, AND shocked and amazed the hell out of me with all kinds of twists and turns and big green BOOMS. Like a season finale should, has me rarin' to go with the next installment. ....And when your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you Valonqar is Valyrian for 'little brother' which most assume to mean Tyrion. But it could also mean Jamie as he was born second. Don't forget the prophecy about Cersei's killer being her "little brother" is omitted from the show. I have a feeling they might try to avoid that altogether. In the books, Tyrion tells Jaime that Cersei has been sleeping around way back when Jaime busts him out of jail. This widens the divide between the two. Jaime had a pretty impressive redemption arc in the books, but in the show he keeps backsliding because there's been nothing to divide him from Cersei. Maybe that will change now. It's funny. My gf and I were saying that jaimes expression at her taking the throne seemed like he lost some love for her there. Whatever it is he thinks she did to get the crown is going to tear them apart. Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 It's that time of year again. This extra 3 month delay has been killing me. Been poring over these trailers trying to glean information about the upcoming season. Lots to look forward to! Link to comment
gogoblender 3,069 Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 I've been waiting for this Flix and...I am determined to not see a single trailer till it comes out... must... be... strong... GOT is probably one of the few shows out there I still really am ennamored of, and I'm just thrilled its almost time! gogo Link to comment
Knuckles 904 Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Only 12 more hours to go I wonder who will join the 'Dead Kings Club" this year...every season at least one king (either official or self-proclaimed) has met his demise. Season 1 : Robert Baratheon Season 2: Renly Baratheon Season 3: Robb Stark Season 4 : Joffrey Baratheon Season 5: Mance Rayder & Stannis Baratheon Season 6: Balon Greyjoy & Tommen Baratheon Season 7: Always thought th Starks were the most snake-bitten, worst luck, house out there...but the Baratheons aren't doing great either 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,069 Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Only 12 more hours to go I wonder who will join the 'Dead Kings Club" this year...every season at least one king (either official or self-proclaimed) has met his demise. Season 1 : Robert Baratheon Season 2: Renly Baratheon Season 3: Robb Stark Season 4 : Joffrey Baratheon Season 5: Mance Rayder & Stannis Baratheon Season 6: Balon Greyjoy & Tommen Baratheon Season 7: Always thought th Starks were the most snake-bitten, worst luck, house out there...but the Baratheons aren't doing great either Hola Knuckles! We do be indeed stoked for Game of Thrones... I havent seen a single trailer yet ... can hardly wait... the dragons must be HUGE gogo p.s. re poor Starks.. .yer right...I dont think I've ever seen a hero class such as the Starks suffer such losses and still retain our faith in them as heroes that pull through and still find interest in them. It's a great dynamic that the author pulled off with this. Who can forget that moment that the axe actually did fall through Ned's neck... no deux ex machina for this guy.. .and surely he was the one who deserved a god's grace most Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted July 16, 2017 Share Posted July 16, 2017 Just gonna leave this here. This is my theme song this week. Explicit language and all that. 1 Link to comment
Knuckles 904 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Wow What a way to open Season 7 and only 3 minutes in lol....didn't even get to opening credits yet 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,069 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 We don't get it here in Canada... gotta wait till all of it's *cough* somewhere before we can watch it, probably can see it in a bit more than an hour... but Knuckles, stoked you're lovin it!! wooooooooooo hooooooooooooo gogo Link to comment
gogoblender 3,069 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Just gonna leave this here. This is my theme song this week. Explicit language and all that. This got me in the zone gogo Link to comment
gogoblender 3,069 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 knuckles we're three minutes in now... HOLEE MOLEEE.... GOGO Link to comment
gogoblender 3,069 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 And what a way to end the episode... "Shall we begin..." And a most heart breaking scene with the tattered hand shooting out of the hole for the bowl of food gogo Link to comment
Knuckles 904 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 The person I feel bad for the most is Sam No knowledge is worth what he has to do lol 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,069 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 The person I feel bad for the most is Sam No knowledge is worth what he has to do lol Poor Sam...in fact poor us... the directors did such a good job in having us empathize with his "bottomless" plight... just thinking about it is enough to bring on a mild retch and... did anyone notice the cool new edit technique they used in showing Sam's seeming endless suffering re the chamber pot churning? They kind of showed a clipped technique where they jumped ahead from moments to moments to quickly get us ahead in the Sam story arc... I've never seen them employ this cinematic device in GOT before... was a great technique and is well employed for finding humor in his drudgery gogo Link to comment
Knuckles 904 Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Oh on Sam...If you get a chance and don't mind foreshadowing or spoilers, you should look into videos showing what is written on those book pages Sam and Gilly were reading Very interesting. On a side note. Some of the text involved Valeryian steel. If the making of it is spelled out in those books at the citadel, I'll be a little upset. Everyone bemoans that fact that the secret to making it has been lost for ages. You would think anyone who wanted to make some would go to the citadel to see if they had any info on it. Pretty sure a king with an army at his back would be able to get anything he wanted from them. Masters often serve as advisors to kings or lords like Grand Maester Pycelle or Aemon and would have access to the all the books in the secure 'Maesters Only' area. To think none of the Grand Maesters wouldn't know or wouldn't reveal this info over the many years to their king/lord, but Sam can sneak in and find it right away and clearly written out seems a bit unbelieveable/ridiculous 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,069 Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 Oh on Sam...If you get a chance and don't mind foreshadowing or spoilers, you should look into videos showing what is written on those book pages Sam and Gilly were reading Very interesting. On a side note. Some of the text involved Valeryian steel. If the making of it is spelled out in those books at the citadel, I'll be a little upset. Everyone bemoans that fact that the secret to making it has been lost for ages. You would think anyone who wanted to make some would go to the citadel to see if they had any info on it. Pretty sure a king with an army at his back would be able to get anything he wanted from them. Masters often serve as advisors to kings or lords like Grand Maester Pycelle or Aemon and would have access to the all the books in the secure 'Maesters Only' area. To think none of the Grand Maesters wouldn't know or wouldn't reveal this info over the many years to their king/lord, but Sam can sneak in and find it right away and clearly written out seems a bit unbelieveable/ridiculous all this crafting... valyrian steel... makes me wonder if an arpg or mmo will come out soon for this world gogo p.s. I was gonna look...but then realized we only have a few episodes left this year... what only six being made for us...is that true:) Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 There was an Game of Thrones RPG, back before the show blew up. It was a side-story made to take place during the events of the first book/season. I never played it. http://store.steampowered.com/app/208730/Game_of_Thrones/ 1 Link to comment
Delta! 985 Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Oh on Sam...If you get a chance and don't mind foreshadowing or spoilers, you should look into videos showing what is written on those book pages Sam and Gilly were reading Very interesting. On a side note. Some of the text involved Valeryian steel. If the making of it is spelled out in those books at the citadel, I'll be a little upset. Everyone bemoans that fact that the secret to making it has been lost for ages. You would think anyone who wanted to make some would go to the citadel to see if they had any info on it. Pretty sure a king with an army at his back would be able to get anything he wanted from them. Masters often serve as advisors to kings or lords like Grand Maester Pycelle or Aemon and would have access to the all the books in the secure 'Maesters Only' area. To think none of the Grand Maesters wouldn't know or wouldn't reveal this info over the many years to their king/lord, but Sam can sneak in and find it right away and clearly written out seems a bit unbelieveable/ridiculous all this crafting... valyrian steel... makes me wonder if an arpg or mmo will come out soon for this world gogo p.s. I was gonna look...but then realized we only have a few episodes left this year... what only six being made for us...is that true:) There are already video games about GOT... 2 in fact. with a third one or an expansion coming.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_(2012_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_(2014_video_game) 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,069 Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 There was an Game of Thrones RPG, back before the show blew up. It was a side-story made to take place during the events of the first book/season. I never played it. http://store.steampowered.com/app/208730/Game_of_Thrones/ Just saw the trailer for the game...I feel like im getting extra content...thrilling gogo Link to comment
gogoblender 3,069 Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Oh on Sam...If you get a chance and don't mind foreshadowing or spoilers, you should look into videos showing what is written on those book pages Sam and Gilly were reading Very interesting. On a side note. Some of the text involved Valeryian steel. If the making of it is spelled out in those books at the citadel, I'll be a little upset. Everyone bemoans that fact that the secret to making it has been lost for ages. You would think anyone who wanted to make some would go to the citadel to see if they had any info on it. Pretty sure a king with an army at his back would be able to get anything he wanted from them. Masters often serve as advisors to kings or lords like Grand Maester Pycelle or Aemon and would have access to the all the books in the secure 'Maesters Only' area. To think none of the Grand Maesters wouldn't know or wouldn't reveal this info over the many years to their king/lord, but Sam can sneak in and find it right away and clearly written out seems a bit unbelieveable/ridiculous all this crafting... valyrian steel... makes me wonder if an arpg or mmo will come out soon for this world gogo p.s. I was gonna look...but then realized we only have a few episodes left this year... what only six being made for us...is that true:) There are already video games about GOT... 2 in fact. with a third one or an expansion coming.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_(2012_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_(2014_video_game) Have you tried any of them? gogo Link to comment
Delta! 985 Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Oh on Sam...If you get a chance and don't mind foreshadowing or spoilers, you should look into videos showing what is written on those book pages Sam and Gilly were reading Very interesting. On a side note. Some of the text involved Valeryian steel. If the making of it is spelled out in those books at the citadel, I'll be a little upset. Everyone bemoans that fact that the secret to making it has been lost for ages. You would think anyone who wanted to make some would go to the citadel to see if they had any info on it. Pretty sure a king with an army at his back would be able to get anything he wanted from them. Masters often serve as advisors to kings or lords like Grand Maester Pycelle or Aemon and would have access to the all the books in the secure 'Maesters Only' area. To think none of the Grand Maesters wouldn't know or wouldn't reveal this info over the many years to their king/lord, but Sam can sneak in and find it right away and clearly written out seems a bit unbelieveable/ridiculous all this crafting... valyrian steel... makes me wonder if an arpg or mmo will come out soon for this world gogo p.s. I was gonna look...but then realized we only have a few episodes left this year... what only six being made for us...is that true:) There are already video games about GOT... 2 in fact. with a third one or an expansion coming.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_(2012_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones_(2014_video_game) Have you tried any of them? gogo Nope. Have not tried any yet. Link to comment
Popular Post Knuckles 904 Posted July 24, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted July 24, 2017 Just wondering if anyone else caught a huge change in the opening credits at least since last episode last year. I will have to re-watch S7 E1 to see if it was in it too. Just like when the Boltons captured Winterfell and the sigil was changed from the dire wolf to the burning man (well until Jon won the Battle of the Barstewards! and the dire wolf was back where it should be), there is also a major major change at The Wall....I will try and describe it without blatantly giving it away so don't read any further if you don't want to hear about a possible spoiler hidden in the opening credits you've been warned OK I assume no responsibility if you read past this line...... When the opening credits zoom up to The Wall, watch very closely as the camera moves up and away toward the east. In particular look at the end of the wall next to Eastwatch. Something is subtly but majorly changed. If you need another clue. Remember what the Hound saw in his vision Edit: if you really really want to know what I'm talking about Click HERE 2 Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 It was so obvious I didn't spot it. I kept thinking, "I can't even spot where the wall ends, the ice just goes on forever!" Which of course is the change. The sea is frozen. On a related note, is the Sept of Balor still in King's Landing in the opening or did they demolish it? Haven't had a chance to check yet. 1 Link to comment
Knuckles 904 Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 As far as I can tell nothing has changed in the intro for King's Landing....even the sigil is still House Baratheon...would have thought they might to something similar to Winterfell when it was sacked...for awhile it had smoke emanating from it. It's kind of hard to tell which building the sept is supposed to be but looked at very first episode in season 1 and for season 7...can't see any difference. Also noticed in season one there is no ice at all in Narrow Sea...but at some point large ice/icebergs appear...no idea which season/episode it started. Also might be my mind playing tricks on me but it seems the area covered in snow has slowly migrated south 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,069 Posted July 25, 2017 Share Posted July 25, 2017 I'm going to look for those icebergs when I get hometonight. The idea of the narrow sea filled with ice and bergs... in fact the wall coming down terrifies me. Because it really means the end is near. This series has been a mainstay of my viewing for the last almost decade, to think that its all going to finish is a heart breaker. I cant imagine the wall coming down...in fact I cant imagine what can actually stop the army of the dead..anything? It looks like checks are being created and even the Dragons may be hunted gogo Link to comment
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