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

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Who will rule Westeros?

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Really enjoyed it but as some have said above the death of the NK seems just a bit sudden. I can't help but think that unless they go into further exposition in the last 3 that they are saving the backstory of the NK for the prequel series and have to use an overclocking term 'bottleknecked' the main series for the prequel to be more interesting. I mean the very first ep of GoT unveils this big mystery and for the NK to be killed without any explanation or backstory unless it comes later just seems to me to be them holding it for the prequel series, otherwise they wouldn't have shown the random bits in earlier seasons of him converting babies etc

Whilst the actual 'game of thrones' was great for the first few seasons, once you see how much of a threat the NK and the army of the dead were the GoT just pales in comparison.

I think i'm really trying to justify 'that can't be it with the white walkers, surely?!'.

And as someone pointed out above, I thought the NK was a Targaryen when he survived the dragon fire.

We will see.
 
Him being a targ would imply a lot of ********, I guess a prequel set 10k years ago that’s more high magic is on the cards...

It also sets up a sequel if they feel like it, with the fire people.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Was incredible up until the NK part at the end. 9 years of build up for a character that dies in a dumb way like that. Terrible writing there.
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They kinda put them selves into a corner as soon as it became obvious just how outnumbered the living were. The only way any but perhaps two (escaping on the dragon) could survive was if the night king was killed.

Great episode, especially the last 15-20 minutes, which had basically no talking at all. I guess we’ll have to wait until next week to see how many main characters have actually died though, because it’s only really a couple that seem to at the moment.

I feel like they went a bit extreme on the darkness though, but a dark room and those scenes really made the OLED shine.
 
Hmmm, I have mixed views. First, I could barely see anything in the first 30 mins due to the darkness - darn streaming :p

The episode was actually really quite slow in parts. Lots of watching and waiting which IMO could have been cut down on.

Fighting a bunch of zombies is never going to be exciting as humans is it. It’s Goldeneye vs. Perfect Dark (aliens) all over again (if you get what I mean....).

Overall... wooo Arya!

Bran, useless / what’s the point of his character, why did the night king need him...?!

White walkers.... toast! :eek:
 
StriderX said:
Him being a targ would imply a lot of ********, I guess a prequel set 10k years ago that’s more high magic is on the cards...

It also sets up a sequel if they feel like it, with the fire people.
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Targ's aren't fireproof. John and Dany's brother both got burnt. Dany surviving the fire way back was Blood magic mumbo jumbo when she burns the witch and the dragons are born.

They just wanted an o **** moment with the nights king. apparantly a big fall of a dragon and fire doesn't stratch him but a jab from val steel is instant night night.

Just a bit disapointed that it has the typical cliche hollywood ending. It's like all those alien movies, kill the mothership and you win. argggggg.

I imagine the book ending is very different.
 
Wow...just wow, the music, the scene with the flames going out, Arya biggest bad ass on the show, gripping, epic TV

That was gripping and I am glad the story arc is done, approx 4 hours to wrap up the human v human side
 
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They just wanted an o **** moment with the nights king. apparantly a big fall of a dragon and fire doesn't stratch him but a jab from val steel is instant night night.
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the blow was to his heart tho, given he was made by the stone place in his heart it is his most vulnerable part
 
Amp34 said:
They kinda put them selves into a corner as soon as it became obvious just how outnumbered the living were.
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Exactly this. It meant you kind of saw it coming, although I liked the catch, drop, stab move... was quite fun.

I think I'm a little disappointed as with most of last season, it's become like most other TV shows. e.g. Jon Snow stood, literally surrounded, but he starts swinging and survives. The amount of times people were surrounded, but survived. How many actually died? Two? Really?

Maybe it was the start that put me off to begin with, when the Dothraki went all Leeroy Jenkins. How was that a good idea? Yes, I guess just for the visual effect of all the lights going out, but really.
 
Btone said:
the blow was to his heart tho, given he was made by the stone place in his heart it is his most vulnerable part
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I thought it was a bit lower than that but you might be right. Wish there was some more explanation around it all. like why val steel kills them? whats needed for a killing blow etc.

Like the big zombie giant dying from dragon glass to the eye. If he stubbed his big toe on some random dragon glass that was dropped on the ground would he drop dead? Should they have used thousands of dragon glass lego bricks as mines?

I know "Magic" so dumb to question it but thats why i enjoy the magical elements of the show a lot less than the early season political backstabbing and mysterys.
 
I thought it was a great episode, I actually cheered when Arya killed the Night King, but it wasn't a surprise in all honesty. As much as they've been building the Night King and his army up they really haven't been in it much from the start. I'm actually glad the real battle for the Iron Throne is between the characters who've been in it from day one.

One thing it did show to me is Sky's encoding/bitrate is a bit ****.
 
Well they better make it anticlimactic... just let Cersei win, anything else will be ****.

Like seriously this whole series seems to be about how useful they’ve been and then killing them off, Arya is now useless clearly?

Episode 6 better end with their heads on likes and Cersei grinning. The advent of democracy, is not how this is supposed to end, will be real mad if it is.
 
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Was watching it on SkyGo on my iPad before work, needed the brightness at max in a dark room.

The music was amazing, the ending felt a bit rushed but overall I enjoyed it. Bit miffed that all Melisandre did was set fire to some swords and tell Arya "What do we say to the God of Death?", thought she'd have done something a bit more badass as a last hurrah :D
 
Introduce WW within first few minutes of S1 E1? Check
Continue to slowly build up and hype NK and WW for 7 seasons? Check
Culminate into the WW attacking the living and marching south? Check
End it in a single episode. Check

We didn't get any explanation to their motives, we didn't get anything as to why they make these swirlygigs everywhere. Just all quickly swept under the rug. "The real enemy" dispatched by a girl with an anime style teleport jump, out of nowhere. They even made a ponint to show the NK being immune to dragonfire, as if to say 'he's not gonna go down that easy', only to kill him real easily barely a minute later?

Whole episode just felt rushed. Now we have boring Cersei stuff for the remaining three episodes. Nice.
 
That beginning scene with the lights slowly going out in the distance was awesome. After that it was just constant sword swinging in near darkness.
 
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