Poll: Winter Is Coming - HBO's A Game of Thrones [READ WARNING]
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Soldato
Seems like par for the course! Who hasn't lost a relative in got
Caporegime
Yeah, but your father, brother and wife is taking the biscuit!
I thought this episode was Sophie Turner’s best acting performance by a mile.
Caporegime
I wonder where the Dothraki were hiding in this episode.
Soldato
I think we're missing something big here. One of the shows writers is right here!!!
uh huh? so would that not smack of a legitimate gripe that the writers don't have a clue how to properly pace things?
Don
I think you've missed the point - it feels odd given that we've "known" her since she was a girl. No-one is arguing about her being of age now, just if feels a bit uncomfortable watching.
probably be too busy fighting
so how old is she in the show? w/ the timeline silliness I've no idea how many years are supposed to have passed since episode 1:1
Don
1 year per season, so 18 now
Unfortunately some people don't think about or analyze things enough to form a critical opinion, so end up just seeing such criticism from others as an attack on their favourite shows and end up responding as such. I do envy them in some ways as life must be easier when you just accept everything.
Of course I understand that perspective, but I am also a mature adult and can deal with it without feeling like a paedo.
Soldato
Yeah that Arya scene, I genuinely thought "Really..............................did we actually need to see that vs just a passionate kiss and cut away" as, having seen her "grow up" on screen it felt weird, maybe like a dad seeing his now grown up daughter bring boys back or something 
There was a single Dothraki behind Jorah when Sam gave him his sword but you're right, I wonder where the rest of the "cavalry" is as they're a good force against foot troops like the walkers.
There was a single Dothraki behind Jorah when Sam gave him his sword but you're right, I wonder where the rest of the "cavalry" is as they're a good force against foot troops like the walkers.
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We haven't seen Melisandre yet, but they made a point of mentioning her in Gendrys little re-cap about leeches.
She's a sorceress, i'm sure she will come in to play somehow.
She's a sorceress, i'm sure she will come in to play somehow.
Soldato
It's a bit like rocking up at a strip joint and finding your neighbours 18 year daughter, whom you have known all her life, is working there. It's not illegal, but it feels very wrong.
I've got to say I enjoyed this episode as much as any other I've seen. I don't understand the complaints about a lack progression, it felt like the calm before the storm, old adversaries and friends preparing in the lull before an epic battle. Just because the main plot didn't take a step forward doesn't mean that the story didn't progress, there were a shed load of side plots that were partially wrapped up in that episode, we got to see what had become of a number of secondary characters who aren't important to the plot but are important to the experience (Pod, Gilly, Mini-Mormont to name a few). On top of that there was unfinished business between characters that we needed closure on, Arya and the Hound, Sansa and Theon, Jaime and pretty much everyone. One of the most difficult parts of writing a saga like this is apparently how you get everyone to where they need to be by the end of the story, I feel like GoT handled it pretty well in this episode and at the same time offered some nice closure and throwbacks for fans.
In terms of major character deaths it'll be interesting to see what happens, my thoughts below:
Dany - I would have said safe during the battle of Winterfell but the Jon reveal means she's potentially superfluous. Would be a ballsy move to kill her before episode 6.
Theon - Dead, so dead, very very dead. His arc surely can't be anything other than redemption through heroic sacrifice? Though I would be amused to see him scarper once more never to be heard from again.
The Brotherhood - Dondarrion can't keep it up for ever, could go down protecting the hound.
The Hound - This is an interesting one, book fans would be ****** if he didn't get to face down his brother, but the show didn't push his backstory as much as the books did.
Jaime - Symmetry insists he lives to kill Cersie shirley?
Brienne - Loads of people predicting her death, I would like to see her survive, she was handed the mantle of Knighthood by Jaime, he represents everything she's ever wanted to be, but she represents everything he could have been. Could go either way.
I reckon Sansa or Dany will go, clears up that nasty civil war situation that's brewing too.
Caporegime
She’s going to sacrifice herself to resurrect someone. Imo, either Dany, Jon and Dany’s possible baby or Viserion so the dragons are a trio again
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Agreed (on both counts)
It also gave me my biggest laugh of the entire series, with Tormund Giantsbane's story about sucking on the giants teet for 3 months and then drinking the milk
Soldato
I genuinely laughed out loud on the train at both the "is the big woman still here?" line and the milk drinking scene.
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I think they build it u sufficiently when he travelled to king's landing walked up to his brother and told him, that he'd be the one to put him down.