I have high hopes for next week. Hardhome and battle for castle black might be the two best made episodes of the series tbh

Just don't kill off Davos or Thormund pls

Curtis @ 13/6/2016 11:44

I have high hopes for next week. Hardhome and battle for castle black might be the two best made episodes of the series tbh Just don't kill off Davos or Thormund pls

It will be offscreen deaths for both of them

"Davos died in battle"

"O"

That or their story arcs will go all the way back, Tormund goes back beyond the wall and Davos becomes a smuggler again.

Davos will grow his fingers back and forget how to read

Melisandre revives Shireen from her ashes.

Wow this episode ruined any chance of certain theories coming true. Despite that I still hated it, Kings Landing stuff was good for once, I didn't mind the siege story but I knew there was never going to be a fight?

Will Jaime end up helping Sansa and send the Tully army north? I highly doubt it as it wouldn't make sense for story sake.

Seeing Beric alive pretty much ruined the Brotherhood story for me for specific reasons I cannot say.

I knew Arya would end up being herself again and kill the waif, but to not see the fight was lame.

Just overall a poorly written episode

Christ...

Way to ruin the Faceless Men...A highly secretive and shadowy order of assassins - who chase their targets in broad daylight, pushing everybody out of the way and basically making a real nuisance of themselves. If I was Braavosi and this was the way my neighborhood assassin cult behaved, I'd be forming a lynch mob.

Did The Waif remind anybody else of the T-1000 from Terminator 2 when she was running?

Anyway, this episode was all kinds of bad, and pretty much summed up this season for me. D&D seem to think GoT is all about meaningless shocks and OTT violence. Don't get me wrong, this show has always been violent, but it has never really felt gratuitous to me until now. Before now, I would say most of the shows violence served a purpose.

Oberyn's death, for instance, was one of the most violent things we have seen in this show. But it served a purpose in that it drove home just how big a mistake Oberyn made by not finishing the fight when he had the chance. It was also a character that people had come to care about, so to see him die in such a gruesome manner had a real effect...

Tonight we had: The Hound cutting some guys head off, before gutting another man and spilling his innards, and then we had The Mountain rip a guys head off so forcefully that he brought the spinal cord with it.

What purpose did any of this serve other than to shock?

Also, some of the dialogue was atrocious, but the highlight for me was this zinger from Brienne to Jamie:

"I know there is honour in you"

Wtf is this, Star Wars?

Grimapple @ 13/6/2016 12:25

I'm still hoping Arya wargs Nymeria and the superpack rips Ramsay's army apart.

I'm almost positive the ending next week will be Littlefinger swooping in with the Vale's army and saving the day when all hope seems lost. I kinda hope not because it'd be pretty obvious but I can't see it not happening

Though the consequences of Sansa's "deal with the devil" that she wanted to avoid would be interesting to see. Littlefinger might just take back Winterfell for himself

Nobert @ 13/6/2016 17:23

I knew Arya would end up being herself again and kill the waif, but to not see the fight was lame

how would they show this fight Jeff

Wikey @ 13/6/2016 18:17

Anyway, this episode was all kinds of bad, and pretty much summed up this season for me. D&D seem to think GoT is all about meaningless shocks and OTT violence. Don't get me wrong, this show has always been violent, but it has never really felt gratuitous to me until now. Before now, I would say most of the shows violence served a purpose. Oberyn's death, for instance, was one of the most violent things we have seen in this show. But it served a purpose in that it drove home just how big a mistake Oberyn made by not finishing the fight when he had the chance. It was also a character that people had come to care about, so to see him die in such a gruesome manner had a real effect... Tonight we had: The Hound cutting some guys head off, before gutting another man and spilling his innards, and then we had The Mountain rip a guys head off so forcefully that he brought the spinal cord with it. What purpose did any of this serve other than to shock?

wat? I didn't like this episode either but I wouldn't put any part of this season (except for the Dorne shit, but that was like 5 minutes of screentime) on the same level as this

The purpose of The Hound's kills was he was on a slasher rampage like we all expected from last week's ending. Making a PG-13 version of it would've just been dumb imo. Would've been sort of akin to the awful decision to cut away from Stannis' death because it was "too gratuitous"

The purpose of The Mountain's kill is it pushed the High Sparrow to nix Trial by Combat

It just feels like they are resorting to cheap thrills to me.

I get that the point behind The Mountain killing that guy was to force the High Sparrow's hand, but that's not what I'm complaining about. I'm complaining specifically about the ridiculously melodramatic way it was done.

That scene would have lost nothing if The Mountain had simply choked the guy to death.

As for this season in general, I'd say it's been the worst one by far personally. I don't care about any of this anymore, the show just feels like a medieval soap opera now. There are plot holes everywhere, the characters exist purely to progress the story and don't feel real anymore. The dialogue is plain bad.

Worst season hands down imo!

Oh and I do agree with you on The Hound's rampage, but again, it's simply a matter of execution for me. Though saying that, it's hard to feel anything for this scene given that the people he was avenging appeared in one or two scenes.

Wikey @ 13/6/2016 19:54

It just feels like they are resorting to cheap thrills to me. I get that the point behind The Mountain killing that guy was to force the High Sparrow's hand, but that's not what I'm complaining about. I'm complaining specifically about the ridiculously melodramatic way it was done. That scene would have lost nothing if The Mountain had simply choked the guy to death. As for this season in general, I'd say it's been the worst one by far personally. I don't care about any of this anymore, the show just feels like a medieval soap opera now. There are plot holes everywhere, the characters exist purely to progress the story and don't feel real anymore. The dialogue is plain bad. Worst season hands down imo!

Agree to disagree then (: I think this season's been a huge step up from S5 and will probably end up around the same level as S4 for me. I acknowledge that the show's probably not gonna reach its S1-S3 heights though since everything's moving so much faster and shows no signs of slowing down