Game of Thrones, season 6

[Arwon]

Now there isn't a character that you absolutely must hate (like Joffrey or R. Bolton), so I'd guess the Night King will be the main antagonist of the next season. Euron isn't evil enough.

Look there's some recently revealed stuff from the next book which suggests Euron is getting a big villain upgrade.

 

[Angst]

finally an episode i throughoutly liked.

the next season is set up quite well. what have we, north+the vale, king's landing+lannisters, tyrell+dorne, and easterndaenarymix, really looking forward to how things develop.

 

[Atticus]

Look there's some recently revealed stuff from the next book which suggests Euron is getting a big villain upgrade.

Ok. I believe, don't tell me more.

I hovered over the links on previous page to see their titles, and recalled this question from the latest episode:
Is Benjen dead? He looked already before more pale than the others, and in this episode he said that the dead can't pass the wall, and he can't either.

EDIT: Apparently it had been told before and I just missed it.

 

[civvver]

I don't even remember who Dondarrion and Thoros are, nor why does she want to kill Melisandre.
As for the Hound, she already scratched the name, even if she technically didn't kill him.

I'm a little surprised by that since we just got a refresher this season.

Berric Dondarrion is the leader of the brotherhood and the guy who the hound kills but is resurrected for the Nth time. He was a loyal lord of Robert's and then when Gregor was going around the riverlands pillaging Ned tasked Berric with raising a force to go fight him. This all happened back in season 1. Then somewhere between that and I think season 3 they turn into these religious gurrila type fighters known as the brotherhood without banners and Berric is the leader. He disapeared for a while so I get how you forgot about him.

Thoros of Myr is the priest guy who resurrected Berric. He's a swordsman, not really sure how he came to fight with Berric but he's been fighting in westeros for a while, I think he was at some important battles during Robert's rebellion cus a lot of people remember his flaming sword trick (which Berric does when he duels the hound).

Arya is mad at all of them and Milesandre for what happened to Gendry's her last friend pretty much, cus the brotherhood sold him to Milesandre and she took him. Arya is also mad at them for not executing the Hound.


Regarding John and Dany, isn't John her nephew? Cus Rhagar is her older brother right? Sorry but that just seems too weird for them to hookup. Maybe they just have a happy family reunion.


I also forgot about Jorah Mormont. He's sure to make a reappearance.

 

[civvver]

Ok. I believe, don't tell me more.

I hovered over the links on previous page to see their titles, and recalled this question from the latest episode:
Is Benjen dead? He looked already before more pale than the others, and in this episode he said that the dead can't pass the wall, and he can't either.

EDIT: Apparently it had been told before and I just missed it.

He was turning into a wight or walker and the children saved him by using the same magic that created the walkers. So he is like part walker ish, which would explain why he can't pass the wall even though he's not a bad guy.

 

[Dachs]

Regarding John and Dany, isn't John her nephew? Cus Rhagar is her older brother right? Sorry but that just seems too weird for them to hookup. Maybe they just have a happy family reunion.

The Targaryens were nothing if not incestuous. The in-universe histories blame the incest for the dynasty's rulers' apparent mental instability.

 

[Gen.Mannerheim]

The Targaryens were nothing if not incestuous. The in-universe histories blame the incest for the dynasty's rulers' apparent mental instability.

True, but both the books and the show have gone out of their way to display that incest is a terrible idea (big surprise right ).

Seeing the Targaryen insanity and the destructive relationship between the Lannister twins, I find it hard that they would throw all that development away just to get two of the main characters together.

 

[Dachs]

True, but both the books and the show have gone out of their way to display that incest is a terrible idea (big surprise right ).

Seeing the Targaryen insanity and the destructive relationship between the Lannister twins, I find it hard that they would throw all that development away just to get two of the main characters together.

I kind of agree, but I'm not really in the business of making predictions. Just pointing out that it's easily justifiable in-setting if they choose to go that route.

 

[Akka]

I'm a little surprised by that since we just got a refresher this season.

Ah yeah. In my mind, it's just "priest dude" and "resurrected dude". The names went completely under my radar.
Seems surprising how they would end up on her list just because "they didn't execute the Hound", especially consdering they actually tried him by combat. I'd thought her list would be only the most hated foes.

Regarding John and Dany, isn't John her nephew? Cus Rhagar is her older brother right? Sorry but that just seems too weird for them to hookup. Maybe they just have a happy family reunion.

Considering how the Targaryen happily practiced polygamy with their own sisters... that's pretty tame by their standards ^^

 

[civvver]

I think nephew is a stranger relationship than brother and sister. Jaimie and cersei is weird but understandable. They're twins, they must have always had a very strong connection anyway. Similarly a cousin doesn't seem that odd. But a nephew or offspring or mother/father is a different sort of weird to me like an oedepis complex.

 

[whyidie]

She was pretty nonchalant about his death though. I get that she saw it coming, due to the prophecy, so perhaps wasn't too surprised, but surely she must have felt betrayed by her son? She must have known that Tommen wouldn't forgive her in any case.

I think it's more her being broken and empty inside, and somehow expecting it due to prophecy, than her being nonchalant. Though I think the first episode(s) of the next season will cast a clearer light on it, when she explains what happened to Jaime.

Thats the scary/fun bit. It was her children that humanized her, now that those "complications" are out of the way, nothing is there to tether her. She is ready for full madness.

We can hope for Jaime to finally get out of his haze, kill again a monarch he had sworn to protect, and embracing some kind of dark redemption.

Good call on Jamie. I think that will be his story next season. Going along with her while getting glimpses of the madness leading ultimately to...

Look there's some recently revealed stuff from the next book which suggests Euron is getting a big villain upgrade.

I'm very glad that they seem to have a direction and the plot is going further. Now there isn't a character that you absolutely must hate (like Joffrey or R. Bolton), so I'd guess the Night King will be the main antagonist of the next season. Euron isn't evil enough.

Not sure if this is book only so putting it in spoiler tags.

Spoiler :

Doesn't he have the dragon horn which enables control of the dragons ? I remember it being a large part of his prominence in the books, but don't recall it being mentioned on the show

Either way, he does need some building. Not one of my favored villains, he has a lot of catching up to do.

I really do like that they brought him back before he's relevant. It would feel more like "we're writing as we go along".

Agreed.

The battle in the 9th episode and the declaration of the King in the North felt a little pompous to me, and a step away from GoT's style.

The declarations drag on a beat too long. I was good with most of it (child actress pulled off the toughest piece), Glovers bit was poorly done.

 

[onejayhawk]

Some points. I am not sure the Hound is still on Aryah's list. The Mountain definitely is. And Cersei of course.

Did you notice the confirmation that the Knights of the Vale were intended to be a trap? Sansa apologizes to Jon about not telling him of his cavalry reserve. She was ignored in the pre-battle planning, so a bit of pique was understandable. Still, that was a big one.

J

 

[Gen.Mannerheim]

Its been 3 seasons, and Gendry is still rowing!

I kinda wish they did a better job of showing that episode 10 takes place over months because it looks like Arya and Varys just teleport across the Narrow Sea like they took the Deeprun Tram or something.

 

[BvBPL]

In addition to Martin's ticking heart that his fans so love to imagine failing before the story ends, there is a new ticking time bomb in Westeros.

Game of Thrones is shot in Northern Ireland and is paid for by EU money. Brexit may well threaten that funding.

 

[Flying Pig]

It doesn't actually receive any EU funding (at least not any more), according to HBO.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Game of Thrones is shot in Northern Ireland and is paid for by EU money. Brexit may well threaten that funding.

I guess the story will have to move to Dorne and Spain then....

 

[Zack]

Lol that's stupid

well yeah, lol

 

[Dachs]

I kinda wish they did a better job of showing that episode 10 takes place over months because it looks like Arya and Varys just teleport across the Narrow Sea like they took the Deeprun Tram or something.

The appearance of actual Dornish and Reach ships in the armada (look at the emblems on the sails) wasn't enough to justify that?

 

[civvver]

HBO is plenty rich enough to foot the bill for more thrones seasons. If it gets too crazy expensive they can always up the cgi and cut back on location shots. At least I think, I think cgi is cheaper. Maybe I'm wrong.

What do you mean the kinghts of the vale were a trap? For the boltons? They wanted them to come in at the end like that?

 

[Gen.Mannerheim]

The appearance of actual Dornish and Reach ships in the armada (look at the emblems on the sails) wasn't enough to justify that?

Jaime was in the biggest damn hurry at Riverrun because he wanted to get back to Cersie, but then evidently takes about a month off to go have a few beers with Walder Frey? Because they show Arya in Braavos at the same time as the siege, and Jaime didn't go back to the capital until after The Twins, so he's still hanging out for a while in the Riverlands despite wanting to go home so bad.