Game of Thrones (HBO) - Time to jump on board

I'm not surprised by Dany's development here. But it should have taken another season to get her there mentally. She did indeed snap though. I think she was doing her best to contain her "madness" and she would have been ok had it not been Cersei in the end that finally broke the camel's back. What was going through her mind as she sat there perched on top of her unstoppable war machine looking at the Queen's tower? We may never know. Perhaps she was sick of being a step behind? Perhaps Tyrion was wrong about the bells. Perhaps Cersei was playing games with her and in the end would force her to burn KL down to the ground anyway. Who knows.

Hey, at least we finally got CLEGANEBOWL! And the Hype was real.

 

Apparently, GRRM responded to this post on twitter with "This guy gets it"

 

The only rational conclusion I can come up with, without using the "Mad Queen" term to why she went to the extent that she did, is that she decided that she was never going to get the love of the people behind her and instead went for FEAR. so..... mission accomplished?

"When my dragons are grown, we will take back what was stolen from me and destroy those who wronged me! We will lay waste to armies and burn cities to the ground!”

 

The fact that she was roasting her own armies as well, and they were too stupid to get out of the way. The Northerners after fighting the army of the dead, become bloodthirsty rapists? I can buy the blood-thirst as some of these guys remember how they got here and the Red Wedding and all, but to turn into the slaughter of women and children is a huge leap.

What the hell was Jamie's point? Why is he hiding from his own men? We're just gonna have him fight Euron and make it to Cersei so that they can run into some of the worst looking piled up bricks I've seen in a film.

As soon as I saw Euron's ship explode my wife and I said at the same time "we'll see him again". Then Blammo! He shows up exactly where Jamie is on the beach (in a smugglers cove no less) just to brag about having sex with Cersei and engage in a totally dumb fight, just to stab him a few times that you know he's not going to die from.

Arya gets the Looney Toons treatment running from exploding wall and falling rocks over and over so that we see what's going on in the city. About the second time they pulled it on her I figured she wasn't going to die because she was our eyes in the city.

Tyrion is a moron!

Clegane Bowl was ok if you get past the fact that Big brother can't be killed by a brain shot either...or the slow eye gouge that allowed it. Would have loved there to be some fire around that he could see while they were fighting and that would have made his decision at the end a little more premeditated and impactful.

As a spectacle I thought it was pretty good, but that was about it. Some of the fight choreography was just laughable. Makes sense why they had Winterfell so dark. I saw a few guys just running and swinging a sword at nothing, then falling down.

I'm pretty sure that the books might come to the same conclusion for most of these characters, just in a more nuanced way. I'm pretty sure that GRRM has said that we won't find the ending very satisfying in a traditional sense either.

 

I don't venture out of Steelers Talk much but noticed this thread. First, I'm not admitting that I watch this show. Second, I'm glad that many of you seem to have struggled with this as much as I have. Third, I have no idea what you guys are talking about here because I don't watch this stuff!

 

Once more into the breach. It's not like we don't want to like the show.

But come on with the writing. Jon's lines have essentially been "She's my Queen" or "You're my Queen" for every episode this year. I'm guessing he didn't have to work on his lines much...Can we have some realistic dialog between them? Like "Dany we can't or shouldn't because you're my aunt"?

When you have a show that you need to speed along, you're going to have to provide a little information to the viewers about what's going on in the characters heads. Dialog or internal monolog would have gone a great deal into making what they gave us better.

They didn't have the time to develop a relationship, so they needed to tell that story through the characters. Not once did Dany have that sitdown with Missande and discuss their feelings about relationships. (over the last few seasons) If they would have shown her confiding in her more, maybe we see her snapping when she was killed as an earned moment. Along with the Jon relationship. They give us a few kisses and 2 sex scenes and say "Look they're in love!"

 

so @Ray D just reading between the lines....

you would want to line up the writers and say...."Dracarys"

 

Didn't think I'd get spoiled by Cam's Twitter feed though....

Being in Japan is hard. I wait to watch it until the wife comes home and the boys are asleep. So it's already Monday night by the time I get to watch it.