Poll: Winter Is Coming - HBO's A Game of Thrones [READ WARNING]

[Rybo89]

Im clearly missing something. I thought the story was making them out to be brother and sister.

How is dragon queen lady his aunty? Please explain.

 

[v0n]

I'm perfectly aware of how to use quotes, but I guess my method has spared me from another one of your snide essays.

So, if you were perfectly aware that by creating unquotable text (again, software will not quote it, not me), were you just trying to create some sort of "last word" or something and then it backfired or....?

"spared me", "snide esseys" - why do you guys get so... edgy and aggressive... it's just a TV show, it's just an internet forum in the evening, why can't you read posts as funny. I've never had so many people trying to convince me to get over incest sex on TV and enjoy it, and I find it funny, you don't see me getting upset.

 

[HungryHippos]

It's highlighted more in the books than the show, but the books definitely made it clear that the Targaryens were very much about marrying other Targaryens, which is why it wouldn't surprise me if they did wing up getting hitched anyway even when they find out.

Also neatly solves the whole both of them are in line for the throne thing if they can share it by being king and queen.

 

[XeNoN89]

Im clearly missing something. I thought the story was making them out to be brother and sister.

How is dragon queen lady his aunty? Please explain.

we found out in the last season who he really is.

His real parents are Danaerys' older brother and Ned Stark's sister.

 

[Somnambulist]

Im clearly missing something. I thought the story was making them out to be brother and sister.

How is dragon queen lady his aunty? Please explain.

Rhaeger was obviously a fair bit older than Daenerys (see birth/death years), hence why she and Jon are only a year apart in age.

 

[Destination]

what did the hound mean by what he said to the mountain when he saw him?

He meant he is going to ******* do him.
He always was, he always will, and he wants hismhalf undead bro to know it.

Good hound, kill kill.


As for all the moaning regarding incest in the dragon household, it was stated on a great many occasions that targareans frequently wed within their own blood. Kept the line 'pure' and what not, so it won't be seen as overly strange.
What will be interesting is how dany will take the news, finding out Jon has a higher claim than her own, even given him bending his knee.

 

[Somnambulist]

Yeah Dany's parents were brother and sister. She thought she was going to marry her brother too till he pimped her off to Drogo.

 

[Uncle Petey]

So, if you were perfectly aware that by creating unquotable text (again, software will not quote it, not me), were you just trying to create some sort of "last word" or something and then it backfired or....?

"spared me", "snide esseys" - why do you guys get so... edgy and aggressive... it's just a TV show, it's just an internet forum in the evening, why can't you read posts as funny. I've never had so many people trying to convince me to get over incest sex on TV and enjoy it, and I find it funny, you don't see me getting upset.

No, I wasn't trying to make it unquotable or get the last word. I simply couldn't be bothered to go through the multiquote process and used alternative means.
If you really care, you can simply copy/paste and respond to your heart's content. Stop putting a convenient spin on everything.

Yeah, it's just a TV show, so why are you putting so much effort into this?
Don't play the "who, me? I'm innocent. It's just a bit of fun and you guys are super aggressive" card, it doesn't wash.
If you weren't upset, you wouldn't be going to all this continued effort.
You can't have it both ways.

Anyway, go ahead, quote my post and shoot me down. This is beyond tedious. It's like dealing with drunkenmaster possessed by easyrider.

As for the incest thing (which neither character is aware of), deal with it. It's just a TV show like you say. Nobody is trying to convince you to 'enjoy the scene' as you put it.
It is what it is and there are much more distasteful things in this show.

 

[stewski]

Losing littlefinger (actor was similarly ace in the wire) was the only possible way out for that storyline as it was becoming silly between sansa and arya!

Overall another season that didn't disappoint,I'm looking at you, the walking dead!

 

[Vonhelmet]

what did the hound mean by what he said to the mountain when he saw him?

It meant that the two of them are going to get a piece of the incest action. You heard it here first.

 

[Deleted member 651465]

You realise that you can select text with your mouse and add it to the quote box. Ffs this arguing is stupid and annoying.

 

[Defiant306]

This episode was just so amazing, I thought it might peak at Episode 6 but this was just a stonkin episode. Its in my top 3 episodes in this show, if feels like we are finally getting the pay off for the length of the show so far!!!

 

[Surfer]

omg phew!!!!

i srsly thought Jaime was going to get a sword through his back (same way he killed the mad king ie symbolism irony) from the Mountain when Cersei gave the nod for M to kill J!!!!

Glad hes alright for now....

Decent enough episode though bit predictable...was hoping for a twist or cliffhanger.

 

[dowie]

So if the undead cannot swim, how did they get the chains on the dragon?

and bran's I see everything and I don't know was annoying lolz

they don't need to swim to get chains on the dragon, only sink

Jamie's whole character arc has been about becoming a more decent person and actively choosing to do the right thing when the option is there. He swore an oath so it's his duty to upload it, so he's not so much switching sides as just pledging himself to the cause to fight the WW with team Jonerys, then worry about what happens after when the dust has settled. I think he's fated to do something important because his half-empty page in the knight's book needs to be filled, and he can't be carrying round that Kingslayer nickname forever!

indeed, it has just carried on this season, he's started to see more and more how his sister really is, he's finally decided to do the right thing etc..

So how did he know the reiniforcements would be a dragon? Leaving them on the ice as a trap to wait for reinforcements fine, doesn't mean reinforcements would be a dragon.

So the nightkings plan from day 1 to get through the wall was:

Build an army
Somehow know that eventually some idiots will decide to try and capture a wight and take it back to the otherside.
Trap them somehow and wait for reinforcements.
Those will definitely come and will definitely include a dragon.
Burn down the wall.

he doesn't need to know the details, he seems to have some abilities like Bran and Jojen in terms of having the "greensight", so presumably he knew there was going to be a dragon arriving then

how did bran know there was some crazy old dude in a cave who he needed to seek out for example?

Anyone else a bit disappointed by the ease with which Viserion melted the ancient and apparently heavily spell-laden wall? I mean seriously, the wall is 100 metres thick and has stood for aeons and Viserion burns through it in 5 minutes flat? Seems like the producers really wanted to get that over in a hurry.

wall is supposed to be 'magic', dragons are supposed to be 'magic', seems reasonable enough in context... regular fire probs won't work but dragon fire has special qualities (just like dragon glass, Valyrian steel etc.. has special qualities)

And once again - when all the internet forums and fictional spoilers speculated that Jon Snow was a son of Stark and Robert Baratheon, it felt better to know that the best hope of Westeros isn't in narrow selection of rulers screwing their closest family members...

eh? The main, well known 'spoiler' of the whole thing has always been R + L = J. That was the question GRRM asked the two show runners when they initially pitched him with the idea of shooting a TV adaptation of his books. That other suggestion doesn't make much sense re: Jon being a secret etc.. especially given that Robert's ******** are well known.

 

[Amp34]

omg phew!!!!

i srsly thought Jaime was going to get a sword through his back (same way he killed the mad king ie symbolism irony) from the Mountain when Cersei gave the nod for M to kill J!!!!

Glad hes alright for now....

Decent enough episode though bit predictable...was hoping for a twist or cliffhanger.

In a way that bit, and Jamie subsequently leaving as it starts to snow was one of the best parts of the entire episode. Really liked that.

 

[Rroff]

Was kind of bored even though it wasn't really that boring as an episode - was only really the sheer quality of the acting that really carried it for me was just hoping for something more of a twist I guess.

Quite liked the bit with Sansa and Arya talking on the ramparts near the end almost came full circle from season 1.

 

[Malevolence]

I was seriously hoping that when Euron was told 'No' when he asked if they could swim and had done his '**** this for a game soldiers' flounce, Jon quietly muttered "but they can walk across the sea floor".

 

[Noakesy85]

Another prediction, I think at some point Jon might end up getting sent up in flames, maybe by the Wight Dragon, only to survive like Danearys because he is a Targarion.

Personally I cant see this happening, and if it does I wont be surprised as we all know how inconsistent plot lines can be...

I only say this because Jons hand was seriously burned whilst saving LC Mormont from a WW. If his hand can burn so easily, then so can the rest of him.

 

[Efour]

Pretty good to see things finally happening.

I'm not sure why they redibly accept undeath on one hand withe the mountain, lord of lights followers etc but are so freaked out by the undead army. I hope they tie up all this, at very least explain the LoL.
Cos that whole story was very interesting, the red witch being as ancient as white walkers..

 

[planty]

Some of the plots become so far fetched in execution - so - Cersei, had a plan all along, to send Euron for Essos army, refuse to help, then mercifully agree to help just to ef them up - except... if Tyrion didn't follow her, and instead they all just left, that would be it. That whole master plan is just so... unlikely to execute in its clumsiness? Right? It feels like something from Dynasty not GoT. But - it is what it is. We are stuck with it.

If tyrion didn't follow cersei then they would have been in exactly the same situation (lannisters not helping and actively taking lands back), only danaerys etc. would have known they were not helping whereas now they don't. The whole euron leaving thing was the plan all along, it just played out even better for her. It's not exactly a stretch of the imagination.