One of the spin offs was announced as scrapped yesterday and there is only one left in production. Its based a few thousand years before current events.
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One of the spin offs was announced as scrapped yesterday and there is only one left in production. Its based a few thousand years before current events.
Yeah I just felt the whole thing seemed like it all should be connected but isn't. Why train Arya for no reason other than to extended her story, Why have this god bring back Jon for no reason whilst giving others magical abilities, unless it all becomes useful in the end. Why give Bran time travel / warg ability to just be bait etc. I hope I'm wrong and that this all gets used to some extent in the next few episode.
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I decided against it for anyone that accidentally clicks the thread. It might seem trivial but some people aren’t fully up to speed and it’s a pretty big reveal... plus it doesn’t really matter as we all know who voters meant to pick
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Went for other, don't think there will be an overall ruler
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Well, to be fair, she does come back as a pretty impressive ninja, which is handy for a bit of Starky retribution. I don't have any problem with that, story arc-wise. I think it would have been even better with less of the 'magic faces' stuff, but that's just me struggling with convenient magic; I like a bit of order to my fantasy science, and not many fantasy writers satisfy me there.
When I first started the books it took me a few attempts to get past the first chapters. I mean, zombies? Really? And even when I got a foothold, realising Martin writes absolutely superb characters, I was never convinced by his magic... it's a mess all the way through the books with no obvious consistency and a bit too much "I need a plot device to do X". But I didn't care before long, because no writer's perfect and the narrative dragged me through the rough patches.
I think the TV show writers (including music writer) and actors, on the whole, have done a good job of overcoming the raw material's limitations, and I see Martin as a 'birds of paradise' magic writer now. It's hard to see how birds of paradise evolved to be so weird and spectacular and his magic system did something similar, with pockets of limited but mind boggling capability; dragons here, flammable swords there, smoke babies as required, etc, etc... none of it fits together, it's just generic fantasy Magic, which is usually what puts folk off the genre.
But the real magic is in Martin's characters and their societies. My favourite idea in the whole series may be the whole 'iron price/gold price' thing which captures the whole of Iron Island culture in one pithy phrase. And the magic of making us feel sorry for Cersei on her walk of shame, or Jaime when he loses his hand. I could forgive Martin anything!
However the biggest limitation of all, for me, was always the zombie threat from the North. It's the least interesting and yet most important plot element, but that doesn't mean the characters I love can't still be impressive while dealing with it. Just requires a large pinch of suspension of disbelief... and a lot of CGi, which always helps.
I need to eat a few carrots before Monday morning though... I'm over 50 and my rods are shot, so all this dark stuff's a bit of a strain on my TV and eyes. Maybe someone can arrange a magical full moon for us... though come to think of it, I don't remember seeing a moon, or tides. At least there's the fire trench around Winterfell to illuminate things, and some dragon pyrotechnics.
Mmm... I may be overthinking all this. But it's one way of dealing with potential pre-disappointment nerves.
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Agree, I think it'll be seven kingdoms again.
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Yes underground, where we bury our dead warriors, best place, safest place.
After all the north remembers, but might be a bit dumb.
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Still think Arya will return to the faceless men and hang up her own face after announcing she is no one.
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I don't think NK is going to Kings Landing
In the map table room with the rest of the main characters Sam and Bran talked about what the Night King wanted, and talked about him wanting to erase the world's memory, so with that in mind I think the NK is off to old town to destroy the Citadel
In the map table room with the rest of the main characters Sam and Bran talked about what the Night King wanted, and talked about him wanting to erase the world's memory, so with that in mind I think the NK is off to old town to destroy the Citadel
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This'll never happen but I think it'd be a cool ending -
After losing to the Night King at Winterfell and taking massive loses everyone left retreats to Kings Landing where they loses again, forcing the few survivors to have a "Dunkirk" style evacuation of Westeros. As the last ships sail away with the Night King on the beach watching them sail away they talk about, as the Night Kings army can't travel across water, how much time they have to rebuild an army to take back Westeros when the Night King kneels at the shoreline, places a hand in the sea and it slowly starts freezing over and a few wightes start walking on the now freezing sea...................fade to black......................So I like that idea, where the NK wins but it'd never be done
After losing to the Night King at Winterfell and taking massive loses everyone left retreats to Kings Landing where they loses again, forcing the few survivors to have a "Dunkirk" style evacuation of Westeros. As the last ships sail away with the Night King on the beach watching them sail away they talk about, as the Night Kings army can't travel across water, how much time they have to rebuild an army to take back Westeros when the Night King kneels at the shoreline, places a hand in the sea and it slowly starts freezing over and a few wightes start walking on the now freezing sea...................fade to black......................So I like that idea, where the NK wins but it'd never be done
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I think the sea freezing will happen, but in a way that unites all sides in a last ditch battle with the NK
This'll never happen but I think it'd be a cool ending -
After losing to the Night King at Winterfell and taking massive loses everyone left retreats to Kings Landing where they loses again, forcing the few survivors to have a "Dunkirk" style evacuation of Westeros. As the last ships sail away with the Night King on the beach watching them sail away they talk about, as the Night Kings army can't travel across water, how much time they have to rebuild an army to take back Westeros when the Night King kneels at the shoreline, places a hand in the sea and it slowly starts freezing over and a few wightes start walking on the now freezing sea...................fade to black......................So I like that idea, where the NK wins but it'd never be done
Mind you, if he could freeze the sea then he wouldnt have needed a dragon to get through the wall, he could have simply frozen the sea at the end of the wall and walked around it
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He's never "needed" to freeze the sea before on his way South to the wall, and when he finally reached it he had a dragon which could destroy it anyway, saving him the bother of freezing the sea and walking around it. So potentially it could be an unused Deus Ex Machina in that final shot of my completely imaginary ending
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Yarp.
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I was thinking it might come down to Jon and Dany at the end and he would say again that the North won't be ruled and she then tells her dragons to burn him, but instead they take his side. Probably too obvious an ending though.