GOT - there will be spoilers
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@JC said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
@Machpants What is Bran’s claim to the throne? Have Stark’s got some birthright I don’t know about?
Nothing, but the last few seasons have had very little sense. But it is the sort of thing that would tie up lose ends nicely, not make sense
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And so it ends tomorrow. As someone who only watched the TV series (I tried the first book but only got halfway before giving it away to a workmate) here's my terrible predictions:
And the Iron throne goes to....
Gendry (House of Baratheon)LIVES:
Gendry (King)
Sansa (Queen of the North)
Tyrion (Hand of the King)
Jon Snow (Returns beyond the wall)
Samwell (writes a Song of Fire & Ice)
Gilly (with Sam)DIES:
Daenerys (killed by someone - either Ayra, Jon or Bran)
Bran (does some magical shit and saves everyone by dying)
Ayra (perceived she dies....)
Brienne (dies protecting Sansa)
Davos (because he had a good run)
Bronn (dies protecting Tyrion)FINAL SCENE:
King Gendry is overlooking the rebuilding of King's Landing solemnly, missing Ayra who died heroically (although we don't see it) in some scene killing the Mad Queen or that Dragon that only turned up in the second half after arsing about all game.
He walks into the Iron throne room where he stops.....and notices Needle on the seat. He looks around and sees a shadow of a woman disappearing down the corridor. He lets a wry smile, knowing who that lady was and that he will be safe in King's Landing during his reign.FINAL FINAL SCENE:
Samwell sits down and opens a blank book. He begins to write the title: A Song of Fire & Ice. Star fade to black. Cue GoT theme music. -
@Sneakdefreak said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
DIES:
Bran (does some magical shit and saves everyone by dying)
You might be onto something there. I have been wondering how they get rid of Drogon. Maybe Bran wargs into him and flies into self destruction or captivity?
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@Sneakdefreak said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
FINAL FINAL SCENE:
Samwell sits down and opens a blank book. He begins to write the title: A Song of Fire & Ice. Star fade to black. Cue GoT theme music.But gets writers block, gets up, goes to fridge and gets a beer.
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@Crucial, dude! that is an interesting idea!
Thinking a (one of many) triggers will be Gilly or someone fessing up that Jon is actually legit due to his folks marrying. Pretty sure that tidbit hasn't come out since Gilly read that out when Sam nipples were getting hard about finding the stash of dragonglass.
Tyrion and Ayra are at the top of my 'I hope they survive' list. Would be surprised if Sansa gets offed... and the more I think about it now that Dany has gone loopy her next biggest nemesis is Sansa imo, even though Jon is technically the biggest threat.
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@taniwharugby said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
@Sneakdefreak said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
FINAL FINAL SCENE:
Samwell sits down and opens a blank book. He begins to write the title: A Song of Fire & Ice. Star fade to black. Cue GoT theme music.But gets writers block, gets up, goes to fridge and gets a beer.
8 years later and it's still not finished, however he has worked on other projects.
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@Paekakboyz said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
@Crucial, dude! that is an interesting idea!
Thinking a (one of many) triggers will be Gilly or someone fessing up that Jon is actually legit due to his folks marrying. Pretty sure that tidbit hasn't come out since Gilly read that out when Sam nipples were getting hard about finding the stash of dragonglass.
Tyrion and Ayra are at the top of my 'I hope they survive' list. Would be surprised if Sansa gets offed... and the more I think about it now that Dany has gone loopy her next biggest nemesis is Sansa imo, even though Jon is technically the biggest threat.
Yeah, I think this episode goes down in Winterfell instead of King's Landing.
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Like to be confident the end will be deserving of 8 amazing years but if leaked reports are to be believed..
Not really sure how it can be wrapped up inside 80 minutes, would have made sense for the finale to be a full double episode or 2 parter.
So many arcs and loose ends to get through.
The whole season just feels rushed. -
@Virgil reckon it'll end with a cut to George R.R. Martin on the toilet taking a massive dump.
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@Sneakdefreak makes sense, cos there is f-all of KL left!
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@Sneakdefreak I think the vast majority of fans would have been happy for you to have written the last 2 seasons.
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@Paekakboyz close but not quote. It's the new writers that have taken a massive dump on George R.R. Martin
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I'd been holding off on ep 5 as I was catching the Mrs up. We got through all of season 8 this weekend and have to say even on the re-watch its been good to excellent.
Episode 3 definitely stands out as particularly awesome, I even got over the seemingly dubious military tactics. Previously I had been looking at it through the lens of 'If we use the right tactics we could defeat the army of the dead' rather than the more accurate and foreshadowed lens of 'We are hopelessly outnumbered, there is simply no way we can win this except for the 'kill the Night king card'. Placement of artillery is irrelevant except maybe as a physical barrier from the inevitable charge. Dothraki charge was more an attempt to try and slow the advance before returning and reforming (..in kings landing by the looks..)
Socially awkward cripple warging was just to encourage Night King to his position. Even the lack of main character deaths was actually subtlety brilliant. Going into GOT we assume main characters won't die but will always be miraculously saved ala disney. Well a few seasons in and we see that definitely isn't the case. So now we go into the biggest battle in s8e03 fully prepared for mass favourite character slayings, especially after the heartfelt episode 2 (another great episode). So throughout the episode we are always on the edge of our seats expecting to lose a favourite at any point, and in typical GRR Martin fashion we were mostly wrong and most survived. Now the audience is bitching about it being too disney again putting the audience potentially in the position where the believe main characters might now be safe.
Episode 4 was a little flat but necessary to nudge Dany into her madness. Yeah sure the scorpions looked like the greatest weapon on earth but the scenes were dramatised to illustrate how a new weapon can be extremely effective in a surprise attack when the opposition hasn't had time to work out how to counter it. (Think Rokocoko circa 2003).
I got two small spoilers before episode 5. I clicked in to this thread by accident to see Baron's post that he thought he'd be in the minority but he liked it and later that week I accidentally went into stuff.co.nz where there was a couple headlines about 'GOT has just given up' and 'Mass petition to re-write season 8'.
. Hmmm Stuff doesn't like something...that's a damn good sign!
Thoroughly enjoyed the episode, only issue was maybe the Jamie/Euron meeting seemed a little contrived but I guess it was necessary. Can totally see why Stuff would hate it, Ms social-justice Virtue has turned into an irredeemable evil tyrant. The long scene with Arya was brilliant just to get a scope of just how brutal things were on the ground, the writers talked about the reason for that was that the audience are effected more emotionally to that sort of carnage when a character they love is involved and could potentially fall.Anyway super pumped for todays finale.
Prediction they will realise that the union of kingdoms is folly and only results in tyranny so the kingdoms will be split with Sansa, Yara, Gendry all getting a slice. Dany to die, John to probably kill her and then say 'folau this! I'm moving north to find another hot redhead'
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@Machpants said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
Nah, can't see him being alive. Mad Queen will promise to free everyone like she made the people of king's landing free. She'll imprison or fry Tyrion, he'll confront her. Jon will finally do something useful and stab her whilst kissing her. He then head to the north in shame, but at least ghost gets a pat fan service. So that leaves just bran for the throne, Sansa will stay north. Dragon will fly off with Danny dead, Arya will go off too. Horse lords and unsullied will return to the east, they've an empire there. Most of that doesn't make much sense but it ties everything off, DND style
Just putting my genius (or at least ability to correctly guess bad writing) here....
I put Bran on the throne as a joke! How did Tyrion the prisoner get the rights to take over Kingmaking proceedings? But I did think Jon would go North, to join the Wildlings. But to go to the Night's Watch, who are guarding against what? NK dead, Wildings granted the North of the North, WTF?
It's so Hollywood, everyone gets a role, Brienne is KG (what about Queen Sansa?), Bronn Master of Coin? Argh it's so stupid!
Oh well, sorry for my Nerd Rage, it was what I expected by the end. But man really?
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GReat ending, loved it.
I think the series really redeemed itself in the last few episodes.
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@Machpants said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
@Machpants said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
Nah, can't see him being alive. Mad Queen will promise to free everyone like she made the people of king's landing free. She'll imprison or fry Tyrion, he'll confront her. Jon will finally do something useful and stab her whilst kissing her. He then head to the north in shame, but at least ghost gets a pat fan service. So that leaves just bran for the throne, Sansa will stay north. Dragon will fly off with Danny dead, Arya will go off too. Horse lords and unsullied will return to the east, they've an empire there. Most of that doesn't make much sense but it ties everything off, DND style
Just putting my genius (or at least ability to correctly guess bad writing) here....
I put Bran on the throne as a joke! How did Tyrion the prisoner get the rights to take over Kingmaking proceedings? But I did think Jon would go North, to join the Wildlings. But to go to the Night's Watch, who are guarding against what? NK dead, Wildings granted the North of the North, WTF?
It's so Hollywood, everyone gets a role, Brienne is KG (what about Queen Sansa?), Bronn Master of Coin? Argh it's so stupid!
Oh well, sorry for my Nerd Rage, it was what I expected by the end. But man really?
You just mostly copied the widely known leaks.
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@Machpants said in GOT - there will be spoilers:
I don't do leaks, so no. It was mostly obvious mixed with a joke that came true. Pretty much like the last few seasons, a joke that came to screen
Yeah right..... we can agree to disagree on that one.. until you say you are genius for just stating what was leaked.. then you are gonna get called on it.
