Originally Posted by Hammock Parties (Post 14242155)

Originally Posted by keg in kc (Post 14246188)

I'm not sure why folks are getting so worked up. I liked the episode. I don't feel like I need to write a thousand words defending it. I didn't write it or act in it or shoot it or edit it, so there's no personal stake. It's not 'mine' and if you didn't like it, that's totally fine. I'm still gonna have enjoyed it both times I watched it, and no amount of explanation of why someone else didn't is gonna change that fact. And calling me stupid for liking something you didn't isn't going to get a response. Beyond maybe a '**** off' and a trip to the ignore list.

Originally Posted by arrowheadnation (Post 14245909)

Some of you just need to step back and relish in happiness of the fact that you were lucky enough to be alive during the time that the greatest television show in the history of mankind was on the air.

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut (Post 14245831)

Dany also seemed, if not surprised, at least unnerved by it.

I don't think the Dragons were supposed to be in play that early (Jon suggested as much as she took off) but when the Dothraki were being wiped out, she seemed compelled to try to salvage some of the mess that had been made.

Seemed like an 'everyone has a plan until they get hit' sort of moment. Dany was calm and collected on top of that hill and when her blood riders got massacred (perhaps recklessly and perhaps as a direct result of her absence), she made a rash decision.

I wouldn't say they're just savages though - they'll follow their leader. It's fair to ask if Dany leaving the field and putting them under Jorah was what set the whole snowball rolling...

Originally Posted by Buehler445 (Post 14246223)

I was going to make a post about the symmetry between Jon and Danys **** it moments when they’re people were eating it. It was really powerful, at least in my mind that Jon tried to not get her to go. Really showed a lot of growth IMO. Throwaway line in a throwaway scene but it’s pretty powerful IMO.

Originally Posted by The Franchise (Post 14246200)

I can say that, so far, it's the only episode that I've watched in my life that had me on the edge of my seat for the entire ****ing episode. I had to take a minute after the episode just to ****ing wind down.

Originally Posted by BlackOp (Post 14242544)

Unfortunately, I have the same bad feeling. They have to wrap up the story in 3 episodes...one of which will obviously be a battle for the Throne.

Too many developed characters to properly give them enough screen time to resolve each scenario in a natural way. Not having any major characters die yet...has me worried it'll be all Disney and roses.

They need a full 10 episode season to conclude this properly...

It's also a bit anti-climactic, after just having this epic battle with a super-natural villain that can control the dead...to have another war episode with Cerise Lanister. I mean she's a wicked woman and all...but she's no Knight King.

I think they screwed up by not having them take the capital first, paint a picture of potential peace for the 7 kingdoms...then having an epic good vs. evil ending against the dead...who threaten to take it all away and have a dragon.

The major threat is already dead....

Originally Posted by Iconic (Post 14242591)

Maisie Williams on finding out she kills the Night King (as reported by Entertainment Weekly):

"I immediately thought that everybody would hate it; that Arya doesn't deserve it. The hardest thing is in any series is when you build up a villain that's so impossible to defeat and then you defeat them...it had to be intelligently done because otherwise people are like, "well, [the villain] couldn't have been that bad when some 100-pound girl comes in and stabs him.'"

:hmmm:

Originally Posted by temper11 (Post 14246426)

Was totally fine with it. Just wish we'd seen how she slipped past the other wites. But if we had seen that, then the kill shot wouldn't have been a surprise. So again, I just remember it's a tv show and move on.

Originally Posted by Chiefspants (Post 14246295)

Also leaving Sam to die. Brutal moment - but it shows how much Jon has grown.

Saying Jon and Dany were worthless in this battle is the critique I have the most trouble with - they worked their asses off and their plan to isolate the Night King went perfectly. They weren't able to deliver the final blow, but it doesn't mean they were worthless.

Originally Posted by TambaBerry (Post 14242866)

somebody already stated this in the thread but i didnt see the knights of the vale at all in that episode. I could have easily missed them but yeah to my knowledge they weren't there

Originally Posted by The Franchise (Post 14243191)

My guess?

Episode 4 - Dealing with the aftermath of the Great War and planning the move/attack on Kings Landing.

Episode 5 - Attack on Kings Landing.

Episode 6 - Aftermath of Attack on Kings Landing. Who sits on the Iron Throne and then a brief look into the near future.