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

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

My fault. I never read the books and got that confused. Regardless she’s the foreign nurse that really ramped up why Red Wedding happened because the rest of the North saw an opening to overthrow the Starks. Robb betrayed Frey’s trust when he didn’t wed his daughter and her being foreign made it an easy sell to the rest. You could tell in the show people in Robb’s camp were getting fed up with her being by his side and advising him.

They have a point. She should have just been preggers and not tried to advise a man

 

[bronconick]

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

The change from Jeyne to Talisa was a dumb decision when adapting the script from the source material. Talisa, as a character was weaker and added nothing. Jeyne was much better, due to the Westerling connections to the Lannisters.

Only if you intended on having Jaime and/or Tywin having dealings with Jeyne's family in seasons 4 or 5. Otherwise killing Talisa is a convenient dead end on a show that was probably dealing with character size bloat in season 3. Makes perfect sense in a book series that could be as long as it wanted (only to have the writer take the whole bloat thing to extremes while running a little theatre instead)

 

[bigblue_dl]

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

Only if you intended on having Jaime and/or Tywin having dealings with Jeyne's family in seasons 4 or 5. Otherwise killing Talisa is a convenient dead end on a show that was probably dealing with character size bloat in season 3. Makes perfect sense in a book series that could be as long as it wanted (only to have the writer take the whole bloat thing to extremes while running a little theatre instead)

They could have still killed off Jeyne, as they did Talisa. It just was better storytelling to have Jeyne being killed, in a plot by the Lannisters, to the song Rains of Castermere, than Talisa, given the Westerlings previous involvement in the Reyne/Tarbeck incident that inspired Rains of Castermere.

 

[rufus]

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I thought the dragon riding was pretty cheesy, but I think it did have a purpose. Tyrion studied dragons and presumably knows that only Targaryens can ride them. He saw Jon riding Rhaegal.

Jaime's face when seeing Bran was the best part. Good job leaving that for the end.

As was Bran's looking back at Jaime.

Sorry, I just binge-watched the season 6 finale and then these three new ones.

Didn't care for the How To Train Your Dragon sequence, but other than that, it's been pretty amazing. Tormund has been the scene stealer of the season so far.

 

[rufus]

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Too short

Taller than Arya.

 

[rufus]

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

I don't think it was even Maisie Williams' body. To me it looked digitally worked in that scene, where they put Maisie's head on another actress's body, like they did with Lena Headey during Cersei's walk of shame.

No, she was just wearing a body stocking on the top half.

 

[rufus]

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Rewatching last week's episode it occurs to me that in her quest to lose her virginity, Arya went to the Hound first.

You're welcome for that mental image.

And got caulk blocked by Beric.

 

[Kepler]

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As was Bran's looking back at Jaime.

"Awkward."

Bran let him off too easy. I understand the whole "every butterfly leads to this moment" shtick, but he could have ended with, "Oh, I do miss walking, though."

Jaime's legs are fine. He should carry him the rest of the show: MasterBlaster.

 

[rufus]

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One other thing. Why does stealthy death dealer Arya, when attacking the Night King from behind, let out a scream as she lunges at him, basically giving away her presence? Not that the Night King probably didn't sense here there anyway.

But that would have made the scene that much more effective. Death dealer Arya appears behind the NK in utter silence, her attack undetectable, and yet the Night King turns and parries her anyway.

 

[Shirtless Guy]

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

One other thing. Why does stealthy death dealer Arya, when attacking the Night King from behind, let out a scream as she lunges at him, basically giving away her presence? Not that the Night King probably didn't sense here there anyway.

But that would have made the scene that much more effective. Death dealer Arya appears behind the NK in utter silence, her attack undetectable, and yet the Night King turns and parries her anyway.

probably because she was overcome by emotion for once...I mean she is human after all

 

[St. Clown]

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

One other thing. Why does stealthy death dealer Arya, when attacking the Night King from behind, let out a scream as she lunges at him, basically giving away her presence? Not that the Night King probably didn't sense here there anyway.

But that would have made the scene that much more effective. Death dealer Arya appears behind the NK in utter silence, her attack undetectable, and yet the Night King turns and parries her anyway.

They had to make the Night King turn around to be face-to-face with Arya. She plunged the Valyrian steel dagger into his heart, right where the dragon glass dagger was plunged into the man to create him.

 

[rufus]

They had to make the Night King turn around to be face-to-face with Arya. She plunged the Valyrian steel dagger into his heart, right where the dragon glass dagger was plunged into the man to create him.

But as I said, the scene would have been even better had she been trained assassin silent, and the Night King still turned around to thwart her attack.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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This was literally the dumbest argument I have heard about why this episode was supposedly bad. Nothing against you personally rufus.

 

[rufus]

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

Did I say the episode was bad? Is your ability to comprehend simple subjects somewhere around Drew's level?

I'll be here waiting.

 

[trixR4kids]

One other thing. Why does stealthy death dealer Arya, when attacking the Night King from behind, let out a scream as she lunges at him, basically giving away her presence? Not that the Night King probably didn't sense here there anyway.

But that would have made the scene that much more effective. Death dealer Arya appears behind the NK in utter silence, her attack undetectable, and yet the Night King turns and parries her anyway.

Theres a lot of holes in that scene, maybe the books will explain it better someday but it was pretty poor honestly.

 

[dxmnkd316]

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Did I say the episode was bad? Is your ability to comprehend simple subjects somewhere around Drew's level?

I'll be here waiting.

Sorry. I wasn’t clear. I meant the interwebs hating it. Tried unsuccessfully to make it clear I was referring to the masses.

 

[Kepler]

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But as I said, the scene would have been even better had she been trained assassin silent, and the Night King still turned around to thwart her attack.

I actually somehow missed that she was yelling and thought was exactly how the scene played out, and liked it.

Thanks for ruining my memories!!!

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Theres a lot of holes in that scene, maybe the books will explain it better someday but it was pretty poor honestly.

I watched it again. Bran shifts his gaze to behind the night king, nk noticed and cocked his head. Then you see a white Walkers hair blow, which I guess was arya blowing by. Anyway, I think the NK knew something was back there even if she didn’t scream

 

[Kepler]

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I watched it again. Bran shifts his gaze to behind the night king, nk noticed and cocked his head. Then you see a white Walkers hair blow, which I guess was arya blowing by. Anyway, I think the NK knew something was back there even if she didn’t scream

In other words Bran either f-cked it up or knowingly engineered it so the Night King would turn and expose himself, which is just Dr. Strange and the 1 way in 14 million.

 

[cF[Authentic]]

In other words Bran either f-cked it up or knowingly engineered it so the Night King would turn and expose himself, which is just Dr. Strange and the 1 way in 14 million.

Allegedly, he knew how it would go down and such so he probably just did what he knew would work. Not really sure how much he can control the future, other than by changing the past (Hodor) but maybe he can process all of the future scenarios to figure out the best one.

If I were him, I'd have had a big *** smirk as I turned to look at the Night King, knowing he was effed in a few seconds.