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Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

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St. Clown said:
HBO has confirmed that episodes 9 and 10 for this season will be longer than normal. Episode 9 will be 60 minutes long and Ep 10 will be 69 minutes long. I'm not posting the link because the title of Ep 9 is something of a spoiler, though it's something that everyone is expecting to happen as it's they've been building to it all season long.
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Not gonna lie. The name of the 10th episode made me laugh.
 
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It turns out that with HBO's streaming service you can get the current day's episode prior to its broadcast time on the channel proper. So I just finished it now. That was a good chase scene, and the Hound made for good stuff, too. I like the style of his killings.
 
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Maybe Gendry will row his way to Winterfell in time for the Battle of the ********!

(really? B@$t@rds is not allowed?)
 
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Arya's trip to Braavos was basically to get some training and waste time like Bran's.

Probably a leftover from Martin's original script with the 5 year gap after the War of Five Kings.
 
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Also: interesting offscreen fights this week.

Must've saved on the fight choreography for next week.
 
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Did anyone else get the impression from Arya's last scene, and the look, and smirk, on Jaqen's face that this was his goal the whole time? What is the Faceless Men's goal here? If they were trying to train Arya and send her back to the North of Westeros, does that mean something? Do the Faceless Men know about the White Walkers, and is Arya important in some way?
 
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Did anyone else get the impression from Arya's last scene, and the look, and smirk, on Jaqen's face that this was his goal the whole time? What is the Faceless Men's goal here? If they were trying to train Arya and send her back to the North of Westeros, does that mean something? Do the Faceless Men know about the White Walkers, and is Arya important in some way?
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I definitely get the feeling that the faceless men were hoping Arya would survive the other girl's attacks. Not sure about the attitude of the rest, if the guy was just proud of her development and her choosing to be her own person?
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Did anyone else get the impression from Arya's last scene, and the look, and smirk, on Jaqen's face that this was his goal the whole time? What is the Faceless Men's goal here? If they were trying to train Arya and send her back to the North of Westeros, does that mean something? Do the Faceless Men know about the White Walkers, and is Arya important in some way?
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I got the impression it was his plan. I didn't think about the idea that it was their geopolitical goal for her to go back home and Be Part Of The Solution (although now you say it I like it as fitting into the show's political arcs overdetermining all the characters' actions). I thought of it more personally: Arya is not faceless, she is Arya, that is her correct place in the world. Whereas The Running Girl (and man that was a cool chase) is the perfect machine who simply executes code, Arya is a human being who weighs merits and deals in grey areas. The world needs both, but the latter are vanishingly rare, so we don't want to waste one.

That was a terrific episode. Just the right balance of action, ideas, and gratuitous violence. All it was missing was boobies.
 
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Calling it now: episode 10 concludes with Cersei saying "Burn them all" as Qyburn sets off the Wildfyre. Fade to black. Credits.
 
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ticapnews said:
Calling it now: episode 10 concludes with Cersei saying "Burn them all" as Qyburn sets off the Wildfyre. Fade to black. Credits.
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I think it ends with either the Nights King walking through the tunnel at Castle Black, or with the wall collapsing.
 
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I'm guessing we're going to see the Knights of the vale on Sunday. That would be bad if that battle concludes as the Night King watches only to lift his hands.
 
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Wun Wun is going to die next week and I'm going to be angry as hell.
 
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Well, Ramsay only needs 20 good men anyway. Hopefully Wun Wun concentrates on those.
 
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"You and I have that in common."

- Yara Greyjoy

Great episode.
 
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I really thought he would receive the Theon No-Joy before his final ending. I guess that just goes to show one house is nobler than the other.

Great episode.
 
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