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It does exactly what it says on the tin. Keep the spoilers in here please.

I wasn't surprised that *it* happened, I was surprised that it happened in episode 2 though.

I think there'd been so many rumours on the whole thing that that there wasn't really a way of doing it that was going to be surprising and shocking.

I am very much looking forwards to ReJon, Davos, Brienne, Sansa, Melisandre and Tormund all teaming up to kick seven shades out of Ramsay though.

I was surprised to see Roose poisoned by his enemies though.


Also, the Tyrion with the Dragons scene was set up to troll book readers something chronic - a non-show character has a very similar scene to that, albeit with a slightly toastier ending, and that's the first time I've genuinely thought they might off Tyrion. The plot armour is strong, however.

so, will Jon Snow be back to normal... or just back. That is the question.

"Don't eat the help" - they can't off Tyrion..

the whole point of a spolilers page is that you can actually what *it* is.

The oath the men of the Nights Watch say when joining include 'Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death.' so not sure where that leaves Jon... some folk think he might be reborn as Azor Ahai, the chap that Melisandre thought Stannis was...

Did you know, Tyrion is the only character that has been in every single episode of the show?

I did not. You can't get too much of a good thing though. With the possible exception of cheesecake.

Has anyone else heard this theory that Tyrion is actually a Tygarian and that's why the dragons like him?!

*watched the episode now*

Tyrion's my favourite character. He's the smartest of all and perhaps the kindest of all those in power. He deserves his own dragon, or two.

Oh, and boobs, we got boobs. And arse. (Before she turned into an old witch)

Oh, and I think John Snow will come back to be one of those zombie things.

All I care is that his luscious beauty of a face is back on my screen.
He's my favourite and my best  :girlgiggle:

Which episode did you watch?! The T&A was last week, ep 2 was Monday (UK). Assume you are up to dateif you are in thread.

Ramsay Bolton, they couldn't make him any more dislikeable if he bit the heads of children. Which I suppose he virtually did..

Don't mean to be crude, but any knobs yet?

Yes. As is John Snow, who will come back as the reincarnation of Azor Ahai (The Prince That Was Promised) who originally defeated the White Walkers. John Snow is a Targaryen too - His mother was Ned Stark's older sister, Lyanna, and father is Prince Rhaegar Targaryen.

How do you know all this?!' I kind of wish I could unknow it now!!!

Sorry! :-( Well, the thread did say *SPOILERS*

Anyway, I am only guessing from clues that have been placed in the episodes thus far.

Might have been cooler if I'd said 'I drink and I know things. That's what I do!'

... you think.


The Jon Snow part-Targaryen story makes more sense, not sure how Tyrion would be though.

A man doesn't want to watch the new episode immediately. A man has no choice. For the internet is dark and full of spoilers.

Don't be daft, half the guys in it are eunuchs

Oh, didn't realise there's another. I'll try to get that watched tonight.

I was kinda hoping the Snow being the lovechild of Lyanna Stark and the Targaryen dude would come to fruition after they tried to burn him and he wouldn't.

Too much is going right at the moment though. Roose dying, Sansa with Brienne, Jonny back... Something horrendous is about to happen.

Roose dying would only have been a good thing if it didn't involve Ramsey assending to the head of the Bolton clan... but I agree, someone that is liked will meet a sticky end before too long. I really hope it isn't Tyrion, but George is a prick.

Also wondering how faithfully the Kingsmoot story will play to the books.

I wouldn't bother, there are a few minor plot developments but shockingly no boobage at all!

Yeah Roose is the lesser of two evils but it was still fairly satisfying watching the evil he nurtured take him out!

Cunt

Just finished watching this week's episode. One of the hardest endings so far. Christ  :no:

hold door, now it all makes sense..

Lots of scene setters and explanation in this series ready for the final battle in the next one.

yes, and a couple of potential new players with greyjoys internal spat and Jon/Sansa (OK not new, but a plan is afoot)

Oh god, are there lots of flashbacks and things, I will have to warn the wife to concentrate so she can explain it all to me.

Hodor..... Nooooooooooooooo

That was totes emosh

Is that where Thomas the tank engine lives?


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Corrr that was a bit rough. Best episode in ages

Nooooooooooo 😪😪😪😪

Right I'm starting to loose a few plots here?! I've got no idea what was going on in the flipping tree and was that red witch women talking to Tyrion and Varys a different one to the one that brought Jon Snow back??!

Yeah, she was a different red woman.

I hope she gets her boobs out as well.

Can't watch thronecast at the mo either cause my husband is away but appears to be taping a million things.  >:(

I could no way read the books! Watching the TV series leaves me baffled at times

Oh and did anyone find it super quiet tonight? Had to turn the TV right up to hear any conversations then the adverts would come on at about a million decibels!

I have the subtitles on, like a little old man.

You knew something bad had to happen to someone, there's been too much happiness over the last few episodes... but yea, that properly upset me.

The Tormund/Brienne moments are brilliant though, but can't help but feel that's gonna end horribly.

Thought it was disgusting showing that warty knob.

More tits, please.

Right, here goes....

- The children of the forest created the White Walkers to kill humans who were killing them
- Looks like the White Walkers are trying to get revenge on the Children of the forest and the Three Eyed Raven (The bloke in the tree) as they initially turned them from humans into White Walkers
- I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the Wall was built by the children of the forest and the one eyed raven to keep the humans out
- The Three Eyed Raven said he had been waiting at the tree for Bran. So, much like the Hodor thing (Bran Warging into Wylis in the past) I also wouldn't be surprised if the One Eyed Raven, Bran and the builder of the wall (allegedly Bran The Builder) were all one and the same person
- The High Priestess is higher up the pecking order with the Lord of Light than Melisandra the Red Witch
- The High Priestess has set everything up now for the next series (I think) by saying the dragons will torch thousands of non-believers.
- Have to remember that the original name for GoT (in the book) is 'A song of Ice & Fire'

Interesting you say that as I must admit I am getting a little bit bored of the whole thing at the moment. I know it will be setting things up for an almighty dust up at the end of the series (I assume the Stark versus Bolton battle), but the whole Bran wandering about thing which seems to have gone on for about 2 series now is just beginning to remind me of the Harry Potter film where they just wandered around in a wood for an entire film as they didn't have enough material to fill a film.

Sure it will get there but all a little meh at the moment sadly.

he didn't feature at all last season :P

He'll be a key player in what's to come, there's too much been invested in him and his story for him not to be.

Are we watching the same show?

The Bran storyline was dull as fuck in season 4 but this year (he wasn't in season 5), him showing the flashbacks has been pretty interesting and is obviously done to give us more hints about the Stark lineage. The first 5 episodes have definitely been "shifting" things around but I've enjoyed them.

They are hinting at a massive Stark 'comeback' of sorts. History teaches us that it will end horribly for them.

I didn't state which two series  :girlgiggle:

I am sure it will grab me at some stage, the lack of boobage isn't helping.

Have I imagined it or has it been hinted that Jon Snow may not be Sean Beans bastard but instead his sisters kid?

They definitely hinted that, but nothing confirmed. If he is Lyanna's son, then he's most likely a Targaryen, which makes things very interesting indeed.

Talking of unconfirmed hints, that touch that Bran got which allowed the walkers into his little Tubby Hill place - he's going to cross the wall and let them into the north, isn't he?

Also...


Proper Genie "be careful what you wish for" there...

I thought so, I have an idea then that he and Sansa may get it on (he has history with gingers) and unite the Stark house?

The Ned Stark - the Early Years flashbacks have certainly set that up. Lyanna was abducted by Rhaegar Targaryen and she was in the tower the two Kingsguard were defending, so stands to reason that Jon is Lyanna and Rhaegar's sprog. That'd help with Danaerys' plans for Westeros, should his origin be known!

Oh God, no no, he's her older brother. Well, her cousin, either way it's incest.

The R+L=J theory has been around for years. That's Rhaegar Targaryen (dany's older brother) + Lyanna Stark = Jon for those who aren't as obsessed with this show as my other half & I are!

Is it, I thought cousins was OK - you better have a word with the Royal Family pronto.

You don't watch this show do you?

 ;)

Cheers! But is it me or did those weird children of the forest people just rock up in this episode?!  Are they assuming we have all read the book?

I have to have little nicknames for characters so I remember who's who

One of them has been around for a few episodes now.

And they did the fireball throwing trick when Bran arrived at that cave a season and a half ago

Oh yeah, I forgot about that.

To be fair I was finding that storyline a tad boring so maybe I wasn't concentrating enough?

Have just caught up with this weeks episode. He ain't dead yet (though the form of the series suggests he probably will be) unless there is a cunning plan for him.

A Hodor White Walker would be pretty much unstoppable....

We're all pretty hyped for The Hound going postal with that chopping axe right?

Always liked the hound, so yes.

Found the episode a little bit dull last night. Still feels like they are shifting towards a dramatic end.

Yarrrp.

I thought it was a good episode, but like you say, clearly one of those mid season ones that's building up to the big events coming in the next few episodes (Ramsay v Jon Snowdown, Cersei's probable trial by combat, whatever goes down with Marg/Tommen/Pope Rasputin).

Ian McShane's scenes in last night's episode reminded me of LOST.

*shudder*

Feels like much of this series has been a big game of chess, putting the players into place for the big fight - whether or not that's this series or next I don't know..
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Bronn and the hound in one episode, good stuff. Oh and Lord Percy Percy Heir to the Duchy of Northumberland...

The Arya storyline was odd. All that "a girl has no name tedium", finally runs away and looks ready for a fight if needed only to get stabbed. Guess she'll be OK and eventually kill the waif.

I am now 99% sure we'll see Lady Stoneheart this season, with the return of the Brothers without Banners lot now... that'll be quite the reveal!

It'll kick off in the next episode or two, leave it on a nice big cliffhanger for good measure...

I heard somewhere that Arya is not actually Arya, but has a 'face' and she will leave a trail of blood to the actual (alive and well) Arya that will kill the waif with her sword 'needle'.

Could be a load of bollocks, mind!

Yeah there's a few theories.. 1) That the Jacqen dude was Arya and 2) Arya IS the Waif.

Either way I hope both are wrong!

It would explain why she was basically skipping through the city, rather than hiding and watching her arse before she left... she would've known the Faceless Men would be less than impressed...

The Hound to become the Faith Militant's champion to fight the Mountain as Cercei's champion.

Strange STFC/Game of Thrones crossover - Adver Sport headline today is "Power working hard on new faces"

"A man does not know. A questioner must ask Steve Anderson"

A player has no name.

Well it worked OK for Lenny Henry?

Nice to see the Cleganes on top form this week!

Given all the theories the Arya / Waif 'ending' was pretty dull.

The whole episode was pretty dull though

I think it has been since the whole hold the door.. It's interesting, but not much really going on. I'm expecting the last few to make up for it.

The last 2 episodes are longer too

hold on, Danaerys arrives back at Mereen by Dragon to set up a face off with the rest of the slavers, Hound kills a bunch of dudes, injured Arya fights in the dark to even the score with the Waif, then announces she's back off home? It's no 'hold the door' but that was a pretty packed episode...

...but the encounter with the Black Fish ended boringly.

The Arya vs the Waif was a little bit rubbish.

The Hound was a bit good!

Danaerys has taken a couple of weeks to get back!

Dany getting dropped off like a mum dropping their kid off at school felt a bit shit to me. Her city is under attack and her dragon just casually flies in and drops her off. I thought the whole point of drogon or whatever he's called was that he's completely unstable and does what he wants. Does Dany have a dragon sat nav or something?

I think about these things too much  :D

Also, where are the two little dragons? Why haven't they come to Tyrrion's aid?

Still in their cave, just unchained, no?

But yeah, Cleganes great, everything else treading water a bit

So good to have the hound back!
The C comb was getting dropped a lot tonight
Lightening blew up our router and home phone over the weekend so having to watch in real time with adverts was annoying
First world problems

Tyrion let them lose, in a scene that had the book readers shitting themselves, as the dragons ate someone who did that previously...

How does Reek take a piss with no knob?

Very uncomfortably.

Oh yeah one thing I forgot, yesterdays episode pretty much killed off any chance of lady stoneheart

She could turn up at Winterfell yet. Give that Bolton lad a taste of his own medicine as payback for how he dissed her daughter.

He unchained them certainly, but they're still in the underground cavern, no? I imagine they're a bit big for leaving via the front door...

Have we seen them actually in the air?

“A girl is Arya Stark of Winterfell. And I’m going home"

Well, that took long enough. There must be a point to the mostly tedium of her storyline though. Presumably, that she is refined in the art of disappearing. And staggering medical recoveries.

not read anything but,:

one assumes this is headed for a Bolton v Stark showdown, a cercie v grand sparrow showdown, a mother of dragons v whatsit  showdown. surely all too much to fit in before the end of the finale.

I guess the white walkers will make progress come the end as a hook into the next series

The last episode is extra long.

The faceless men story was probably the second most tedious after the Dorne one last season. Thankfully they seem to have forgotten about the sand snakes.

Well next week's episode is entitled 'Battle of the Bastards'

Guess what that will be about?

The EU referendum?

Gendry's back, and he's going to give the Sand Snakes a right good shoeing

Thought he was a blacksmith rather than a cobbler!

Only next week's episode left in the series already :cry:

Tonight's is a good one.

I'm waiting to see who gives Ramsey a happy send off - if he gets one!

Hoping it's Reek.

Battle of the Bastards was ruddy good. A bit Saving Private Snow in places, and I mean that as a compliment to the cinematography.

Will discuss the plot after most people are caught up tonight

How awesome was that! Watched it twice to pick up the subtleties - There were none! Just pure awesomeness!

Those watching tonight are in for a treat. Superb !

And all the rest of us have to look forward to is thinking about who is going to die in the season finale and whether it will be a let down after the magnificent 'Battle of the Bastards'

In past seasons, episode 9 has been the cracker and episode 10 has just set up a bunch of cliffhangers for the next season.

That said, Cersei is definitely setting off the wildfire under King's Landing - Tyrion even brought it up this week to make sure the slow viewers at the back understood. Roast sparrow, anyone?

Didn't Tyrion use the wildfire against Stannis's fleet?

He used some, the suggestion is this is a different, older (& less stable) stash

Excellent episode last night. Felt like it needed a 'good' character to go and Rickon has barely featured so it didn't feel that bad losing him but it was enough to provoke old Jonny Snow who seems to be almost superhuman atm.

I feel like we're due some overwhelmingly bad news. Next weeks bumper episode will be interesting, although I think it's more likely to set off some cliffhangers. I'm starting to feel like one more season would do this show fine.

I honestly believe the tv programme will be finished before the book actually appears, worst bit is there's another book to come after that, at least. George R R Martin will die before he finishes the books.

Yeah I think you're right. I can't see there being more than one.

I do think there'll be more than one more series though, it's a bloody cash cow for all involved!

A friend of mine works on the GoT set says he thinks there may be 2 more seasons and the lucky bastard has a copy of the script, but won't let any secrets out!

I only just got to watch battle of the bastards. Feel like I need a little lie down now Jeeeez

HOLY SHITBALLS!




just... wow.



Fuck that was awesome, haha!

Echo that
Gonna be a long fucking wait till April now

Cracking episode 10 that, the same director has done that, the previous ep and Hardhome. Hand the guy a blank cheque to make the rest of the series please.

He even did a good sand snakes scene - admittedly by getting Olenna to totally undermine their credibility, but every line of dialogue they've ever had has done that.

Also, the acting budget just got cut dramatically for the next season... stick it all in the CGI please

Superb. R+L does equal J after all!

Its gone very girl power as well.

That's if it was 'R' that was whispered.

Series 7:
- Jamie to kill Cersei
- Arya to become Lady Stoneheart & join Brothers without Banners
- B without B to kill Breanne (of Tarth)
- Sansa to betray JS
- Bran to break spell holding Winter King behind the Wall

stands to reason, what with the tower being guarded by members of the Kings Guard...

Since we've lost Ramsay and to some extent, Walder and Jamie is very much being portrayed as a good guy these days, I think Cersei is gonna take on the role of main antagonist (along with the Night King). I can see a massive Lannister struggle as Tyrion is heading towards Kings Landing, but I'm not sure about Jamie killing Cersei (although Monarchslayer seems like an upgrade from just a pissy Kingslayer)

It's hard to predict.

Oh my god just caught up! That was like a film with all the music and stuff? Epic
Soooooooo am I right in thinking Ned Stark was shagging his sister therefor Jon is a totes Stark?!!

That girl dying was his sister? I missed that bit.

The extent to which they shag anybody is almost biblical.

No!

Raegar Targaryan, who was the oldest son of 'The Mad King' (who Jamie Lanister killed because he was going to burn all his people with wildfire) is the father.

[The Mad King's other children were Dannerys and her brother who sold her to the Dothraki (and who was killed with the moltern gold crown)]

Leanna (Ned Stark's sister) was the mother.

She was betrothed to Robert Baratheon (Cersei's husband) but was whisked away by Raegar. This made Robert rise up against the Targaryans and he killed Raegar. At the same time he sent Ned to find his sister - The visions that Bran saw this series, where Ned killed those guarding her and took John Snow from her.

Leanna told Ned to promise to look after John as Robert B would kill him if he knew who his true mother and father were.

Keep up at the back!! :-)

She was Ned Stark's sister.

Hahaha I get stuff so wrong

So, if John is a Targaryan, what's the betting he sticks true to family form and gets it on with Sansa?

I think he'll get it on with Daenerys as they are both Targaryens. Although you might be right as he had a thing with a ginger before!

Or both? His aunt and his cousin. Swindon style!

Confirmed that only 2 shorter seasons left.  Only 13 episodes to go... :(

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/game-of-thrones-season-6-7-8-how-many-episodes-left-david-benioff-db-weiss-george-rr-martin-jon-snow-a7107461.html

No problem for me.. Generally I find most shows start to go stale at around 7/8 seasons.

There is always the possibility to do spin offs e.g Showing the Targaryen dynasty and how Robert took the throne.

Can this thread be for TV spoilers in general? I daren't post anything TWD related in the Telly programs thread

NO

Fine!

Cheers Leggett for reminding me this existed!

I've just been looking for it as well :D

Nobody watching this any more? :P

Oh yes! Series 7 episode 2 was drifting along then sprung into total awesomeness!

The best laid plans....

Thought the 2nd was a lot better than the first. Have a feeling there's a mole in "Team Dragon" and I suspect it might even be Yara herself.

Quite possibly. Its a bit odd how he just showed up out the blue...

I'm hoping its Tyrion secretly working for Cercei/Jamie, he's a brilliant character but it would be a great change in direction - and it would P off loads of people too.

Sam getting a bit medical on Jorrah Mormont? Fuck but that has gotta hurt!

In the books it is apparently Tyrion and not Jorah that has greyscale!

https://vid.me/LvFii

Good episode. Great battle at the end

nah, in the books it's a character that doesn't appear in the tv series who is travelling with Tyrion. If you want the full nerd it's Jon Connington.

 Cracking episode that
 :horse: :horse: :horse: :blowup:

Needs a dragon smiley

Best one of the series so far but AGAIN - how the fuck is everyone getting everywhere so bloody fast?!

Cracking battle though. Wasn't sure who I was rooting for. Dragons are badass

I managed to watch the leaked version middle of last week... the quality wasn't great!

I'm looking forward to watching it again tonight in HD!

That dragon scene was fucking awesome! I wonder if Jaime has managed to escape?!

A slow burner, that exploded into action. Great stuff.

Course he'll escape. They've made it out that he might not but you know he will!

FUCK YEAH!

Just watched it again in HD - the dragon scene at the end is amazing!

Be amazed if he can get off that armour, under water, with one arm. Not even Houdini could escape that, could he?

Every episode is like an epic feature film, fucking great TV.

I'm glad it isn't just me that thinks like this.  :D

how the fuck are they going to wrap this up in the remaining 9/10 episodes. we must surely be in the end game of the domestic battles but that will leave not long for the Night King main event.

Good episode though, spunked the budget on the last bit but worth it. Can't see Jamie offed mind. Assume Bron saved him but it would be cool if it turned out to be Tyrion (he was too far away though)

Was half expecting Jon Snow to walk away from the caves with a packet of chalks in his back pockets :)

Oh, and will somebody stick three fingers in Bran's eyes, annoying git.

Bran out-creeped Littlefinger using Littlefingers own line. That made me like him again.

They are moving it a long quite quickly now. I thought we'd see more of the white walkers this season, they've been on their way for fucking ages now.

Yeah. They must be dead on their feet by now.  :)

Dull fucker, ain't he? Somebody needs to take the lad out for a few ales.

They must be trapped in Gendry time..How long has he been rowing the boat now?

About 4 seasons

The next episode is called Eastwatch, which is the name of one of the Night's Watch castles, so suspect we might be about to see rather a lot of them...

Did you notice the way he was falling through the water? It was shown in exactly the same way as when Bran was pushed off the tower in S1E1.

I didn't pay attention to that! S1E1 was a long time ago now..

There's been a LOT of throwbacks to season 1 this season

Apparently HBO have cocked up and released episode 6 early.

I'm just a sad, massive bellend.

Well, shit.
Guess I better try and find it to watch tonight now.

Where?

Yep - had two links set-up for tonight anddddddd they've both been taken off already

There's torrents available. The first one I just tried and the audio was shite so I'm trying for another.

Share the love if you get it, I am in Spain on Monday night so that would be very handy :)

Ditto

Plenty of links on www.reddit.com/r/megalinks

http://ezstreem.com/watch/game_of_thrones_s7_e6

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p.s annoyed I've gotta watch a stream of it, as you know some prick will be spoiling the shit outta this by Monday!

I've just managed to watch it myself, but not before I've already has somebody spoil some of it for me

I know this is a spoilers thread but I'll keep it to myself until it's broadcast. People come to this thread to be able to talk about it without spoiling it for others, not to have it spoiled for them.

Oh, and FUCK YEAH!

Another great episode.

I'm just a sad, massive bell-end.

can you not be a cunt, please?

I suspect it gives him some meaning in life.

What a full-blown bellend he is.

Why's he a bellend for posting spoilers in a thread marked *SPOILERS*, just so I don't do it?

Because he's posting spoilers for episodes that have not even been broadcast yet. This is for people to discuss what's been on TV without ruining it for those that can't watch it when broadcast. Not for some smart-arsed cunt to come along and think he's funny by spoiling it before anybody has had a chance to watch it.

Oh right, that's fair enough. I'm not up on this series at all so I didn't realise what had/hadn't been shown yet.

+1. I fucking read the spoiler he posted. Guessed on bit, not the other (if true).

Anyway, lets keep this a "US pace thread" - can see "spoilers" may be ambiguous .

Avoided this thread due to not seeing the early released episode.
So won't mention anything from episode 7 yet

 :eek:

Not going to get to see the season finale until Saturday. Chances of not seeing any spoilers?

There's a reason this thread has *SPOILERS* in the title  ;)

You know nothing, Aegon Targaryen

Yea, thanks for that on twitter earlier, you bumhole!

Not sure how everyone will react to *that* news, Jon and Danaerys especially...

Good episode indeed. Very good. Now, to wait for 2 years... never know, George R R Martin might actually have his next book out by then!

Apologies. In my defence, I was still very drunk from the night before.

Thought the season, overall, was actually quite poor. A lot of big moments but it was so rushed and the writing is becoming so stale it wasn't as enjoyable as the earlier seasons. Also there is nothing shocking anymore and to me, it feels like it's really becoming "good guys v bad guys" which it never was before.

Ah well, they have one more season to rectify it and at least we did have some epic moments in S7.

A whole heap of people are gonna die, woop! :P

Is this a spoiler thread or not? It's very confusing.

So having watched the last episode, one thing it did confirm..

Stefpol is confirmed to be a massive knobhead..

I like his now-editted contributions...

Yes it is. From what I can gather, some were a bit pissed when people were spoiling the un-aired episode.

Not everyone wants to watch shit quality leaks and would prefer to wait for the show to air normally.

Yeah, I get that. It just seems people are avoiding talking about the latest episode, and that's already aired hasn't it?

So does everyone now know what happened in the last episode, had to look at certain family trees to fully understand the incest implications....

I think Jon Snow is basically shagging his aunt!

Yeah, Jon Snow (Aegon Targaryen) is shagging his aunt.

To be fair, if I had an aunt that looked like that I wouldn't think twice.

In my drunken state on first watching I did think she was his sister, but now discover its has aunt...

So is the centre point of the next series a right rumble between the two queens pregnant via incest....

Incest isn't really a problem for Targaryens. Dany's parents are brother and sister.

Yea it's acceptable in the Targaryens, however it's a no-no for most others, hence Jaime and Cersei keeping it on the down-low until now.

No spoilers but strong start to the last series.......

Really? I thought there was lots of self indulgent nods to previous episodes.

They always start slowly, decent bits of humour in it here and there are.....

Yup... get the feeling from here on out it's gonna be a hundred miles an hour, there's an awful lot of ground to cover and not many episodes left!

More scene setting, but blimey the next episode should be a good one.

Theory

There seems to be a lot of attention on the crypt. What if the Night King raises all the dead ‘royalty’ interred in there.

Oh, Brienne is a gonner I reckon.

Agree with Brienne, that was her moment before a fall.

I wonder if Dany will off John Snow, or at least try to.

Brienne will make an immense white walker.

They're gonna make Tormund slay the white walker Brienne, aren't they... :(

Just watched Episode 3.  Wow!

I concur
May have to watch it again
Superb

Well, that's one way to reduce casting costs.

I was slightly underwhelmed. I think I may be the only one though.

One question, where the fuck did the three eyed Bran "go"?

Still, that's that over. Not sure how a depleted North can take on King's landing.

No I am totally with you on this. I thought the battle scenes were great but didn’t really see the point of the night king or white walkers in this whole story. There were no omg moments. Think it would have been much better if a major character died.

That and the direction was piss poor with overly dark scenes adding to confusion.
Plus the main characters swamped many times by WW, yet all seemed to survive.
Plus all John Snow did was shout at the bad dragon.
Plus Bran is fucking useless.

But there were some good bits.
Arya finishing it all, Lyanna Mormont sticking the giant on her way out, the dothraki flaming sword charge being snuffed out, Cleganebowl still being on.

Guess no shocks and a rushed end to the NK story* (not the battle, wouldn't want that dragged over 2 episodes)

* presumably.

Yes and no. I still wasn’t sure who was killed. I took it for granted that as Jamie and Brienne weren’t actually shown dying heroically - like Theon - that they survived. Same goes for Samwell - is he toast or not?

I presume now that Jamie is destined to die in front of his sister back at Kings Landing.

soapy tit wank

https://www.joe.co.uk/entertainment/player-ratings-for-game-of-thrones-battle-of-winterfell-229662

you beat me to it !

A lesson there for Shaun Reynolds at the Adver.  :)

Better hope that Lyanna Mormont doesn't read this, she will cut your balls off!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:


It was way too dark, but most TV is these days I find, in parts could barely see what was going on! Likewise its become the norm in TV stuff for people to survive the un survivable, I must admit it got on my tits about half way through when it became clear that only something special would win the battle.

I find Bran unbearably smug and irritating, and once again Jon Snow fucked up and was saved by others.

Dunno about rushed end, apparently was the longest continuous battle in TV/film history?

Probably going to watch this one and last weeks again stone cold sober to see what I have missed!

I don't mean the battle itself. That was enough, though I thought we'd see some kind of duel with the NK.

Just thought that  years of "winter is coming" came to an end in one episode. Assuming it had

Still, with so few episodes  left it was either NK+WW v Kings Landing, or North v South. Think they went the right way.

Wonder if Bran will become the new NK. Probably too late in the day for that.

Stopped watching during season 2, not because i didn't enjoy it but just one of those things.

I've seen social media blow up these past few weeks so i though i'd pop in here and try and piece together whats going on.......

Yeah, i have no idea. I'll start watching again some time.

I'm with you on this.

Why does/did the NK want to kill Bran ? Don't get this.

He said something or other about being the world's memory in the last episode, and memory being the opposite of death. But yeah, Bran seemed to not really have much of a role other than sitting around and being mysterious - even the bit with the ravens didn't really achieve much?

Overall, I'm getting serious Star Wars XII vibes about this episode. I really enjoyed watching it at the time, mostly for the set pieces, and thought the number of named characters surviving implausible situations whilst nameless allies died in their droves was a bit much, but since then I've been on the internet and discovered an incredible amount of moaning about every single part of the episode from military tactics to the ending.

I do think they'd written themselves into a corner a bit where no ending to the Night King arc was going to be narratively satisfying, but think he should have taken out a few more named characters first. Think I'd have quite liked Arya doing the deed from behind whilst NK was duelling and beating Jon/Jaime/Brienne in a mirroring of the Tower of Joy flashbacks from the last season.

Because he's an irritating twat?

Cheers Nemo

Chatting this through with a chap at work who has read the books and it seems that in simple terms he is the human equivalent of the NK, so if he dies everyone dies.

Well that's the understanding I got but I am happy to be put right or elaborated on.

edit : this is possibly shit

thought it was very good. i dont think it would have come across as good being a day battle, as said the fire swords disappearing at the start was brilliant and so much of the story came together in this one episode. People being kept alive to have their part in the finale, arya having killed brown eyes, green eyes and then blue eyes- should have caught on earlier that she would have popped up at the end.

those saying it was a limp exit for the NK, well yes it was but he had to have been defeated in this episode, otherwise it would have been a two episode battle and if he had won then all of the main cast except cerci and crazy boat man would have been left.

its still going to be fascinating how they get another 3 episodes- 240 mins out of the remaining story line.

Haven't we gone way beyond the books now though?

I suspect that Crazy boat man (also known as finger up the bum man  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: in our household!) will have a big battle with Alfie Allens sister (in the programme not Lily!) whose name I cannot recall as she is going to be well pissed about her brother and was in the process of retaking the Iron Islands, so thats one episode.

Cersi will I assume have a big dust up although not sure how much army she has, and what will Jamie end up doing, on that basis I suspect the machinations of House Lannister will also take up much of the time, plus of course we have to see how Jon and Dani overcome their little incest problem?

Plenty to play with.

Bronn is still alive isn't he? He was sent to kill Jamie and  Tyrion. that still has to play or

Yes but he has been in them from the start  ;D

Well...

Brutal

Holy fuck.

She's mmm, she's mmmm, she's mmmmaaaad sir.

I liked this episode, but things are all so rushed at the same time. Cleganebowl and Cersie/Jamie this time.

Preferred last week's episode, which was much more GoT - Plotting and planning. The other episodes in this series are too Hollywood for me. Too many miraculous escapes for certain characters. Too rushed in parts, meaning that key moments are unexplained.

that's S7 and 8 in a nut shell, far too quick. Not sure why they've done that, surely it can't be money, the show must fucking rake it in for all involved!

Quite agree.

Here's what I wrote elsewhere:

Well that was awesome and disappointing at the same time.

You can't argue that the awesome power of Drogon wasn't shown in full! The action was so well done, and the lack of morality from Dany and a vengeful Grey Worm was sobering in its consequences..

10/10 for action.

And yet, as is this season it all seems a little rushed again to get to next weeks finale. The Cleganebowl wasn't as awesome as it could have been, but the expected payoff over Cersei's death didn't really arrive. Fitting that Jamie and Cersei died together maybe, but like that? Not good enough for me.

I have reservations about trying to resolve what's left in one episode. Presumably Tyrion and Jon Snow will be looking to dispose of Dany, and Drogon. And then there is Sansa and Winterfell to come into play. Probably. Who knows.

Hopefully Dany will head north to toast Winterfell as well.

Who was Varys writing the notes to?
Dorne?

I reckon a crossbow bolt from Bron will be heading somebody's way, and it might not be Tyrion.

Arya, still in business, might want to reopen the kill list after a nasty bout of smoke inhalation.

Go Dany go.

Yowzer!

Lots of potential for spinoffs there. Such as Arya's travels, for example.

Given the rushed nature of the season, I didn't hate the end as much as I thought I was going to.

I did. I can think of so many betters ways to have done this series and the ending.

That’s the problem when scriptwriters have to write where the author hasn’t written the books yet.

Ending was a bit too Hollywood schmaltz for me - reminded me of the ending of Lord of the Rings.

I was still half expecting Drogon to come swooping down to finish the job.

Totally! 


I must confess to was all a bit meh about the whole thing, had an air of after the Lord Mayors show about the finale after the two previous ones. On one hand I can see the writers would have got battered if they had not concluded (to a degree) everyone's story, but it was all a bit tame, Dennis's ending was incredibly rushed and emotionless when considering how much time has been spent on her 'story', much as was Cersei's the week before, Bron didn't swear enough when he finally reappeared.

At the bit at the end when they panned away, is Sansa incredibly tall or Ayra incredibly short, I still cannot get my head around there only being a years difference in age between the two actresses. 

As for Jon being banished to the Knights Watch, as the Wildlings are on side and the White Walkers gone (And the wall basically destroyed by the dead dragon) why do they actually need the Knights Watch anymore and where were they actually wandering off to at the end.

I'm impressed with how incredibly fit Sansa has become. My word!

Honestly I think they have done this just to keep it open to sequels. I don’t know how or what, but I think they are going to milk the hype and make a couple more iffy seasons. If the current writes are involved I think they may only be one season wonders.

They had to do so much in 1 series so was a bit of a shame I thought. Enjoyed it nonetheless and it wasn't as ridiculous as the 'Lost' finale which left me thinking what a waste of time watching that was.

Check out her halloween costume... She went as Morticia Addams:

(https://i.redd.it/3wkibkq76dm21.jpg)

My word!

Still doesn't offset the fact that she is from Northampton......   :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Just watched it.

Pah. Dirty Northern Bastards. Even in fiction, nothing changes.

George R R Martin can now hopefully pull his finger out and finish the books.