Cersei (sp?) and Jamie
Hmmm. Pretty sure they're goners. Lena Headley gave an interview saying she was a bit disappointed about the method of her death.
Enjoyed that! While rushed, Danys descent into madness ties into a lot of the foreshadowing throughout the show and helps to justify the rushed plot points last episode (varys having second thoughts and the dragon death).
I'm saying Arya kills her next episode and Jon chooses not to take the throne and introduce some form of democracy, given his background in the nights watch where their leaders are elected.
and introduce some form of democracy
I'm sure all the Lords and Barons with their castles, standing armies and surfs and claims to the throne will just nod and agree. That or fitting civil wars and 300 years of revolution into the last episode.
They will probably just jump straight to a union between Westeros, Essos, and Sothoryos. Until Westros gets fed up with Dorne economic refugees and votes for Wexit.
Someones closing someones green eyes
Someone from Up Norf is going to end up the big cheese, (lass mode)
Someone else will retire up in the far Norf as thats where he laid his hat
And after next Monday evening I get my Mondays back to seek the outside world in these sunny weeks ahead
Yep, Arya to top her next week and Jon to take care of the dragon.
That’s definitely thinned out the other candidates a bit.
I’m saying Arya kills her next episode and Jon chooses not to take the throne and introduce some form of democracy, given his background in the nights watch where their leaders are elected.
For sure.
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on it was Death." - Revelations
I had hoped the hound was going to kill her though whilst delivering a witty nihikisyic joke - for burning innocent people.
I found that episode really frustrating
Aryia to kill Danny.
John to return to the north with a new pet dragon to ward of any new pretenders.
Sansa to sit on the throne with the dwarf by her side.
Loved the whole white horse bit.
The little girl was clutching a white horse the whole way through, like Shireen Baratheon with her stag.
That’s a lot to take in.
Glad I got some of my predictions right. Cracking episode.
I don’t think they’re dead.
EVERY ****er who looked like they died in that, died.
Someone is gonna have to kill Danny, badly.
Death rides a white horse...
Someone on twitter made a good point, suggesting that when you write backwards from a broad plot overview (as provided by GRRM in this instance), there's a risk of jarring leaps in character development, like some people feel happened with Daenerys.
I quite enjoyed being slightly wrong-footed by the suddenly adept dragon-warfare and the slow dawning realisation that Cersei didn't have an ace up her sleeve; just a whole lot of hubris.
When they said "fire and blood", they weren't kidding.
hmmm... feeling this is all a bit rushed and the story arcs aren’t really coming to a satisfactory conclusion... I mean Jamie running back to Cerci and then getting killed in a building collapse is not what I have waited 8 seasons for. Cleganebowl was ok.
Have to say i’m kind of not bothered who gets the damn throne now as i’m loosing interest in the characters in this season.
I’m saying Arya kills her next episode and Jon chooses not to take the throne and introduce some form of democracy,
The kind where people with swords vote by stabbing each other until they agree on a leader?
She's gone full Targaeryn.
Never go full Targaeryn.
Have to say i’m kind of not bothered who gets the damn throne now as i’m loosing interest in the characters in this season
I'm beginning to feel like this! And I sooo wanted Cersei to meet a fitting end, being buried was just a bit meh.
Is Arya topping Dany just a bit too obvious? I can't quite see where Sansa ends up in all this either. Oh well, just one to go....
Arya tries to kill Dany, fails, is killed.
John kills Dany, Sansa becomes Queen of the North.
Some good bits in the episode but I totally disagree with how the writers have taken Danys character, the whole following in her father's footsteps think is way too cliched (although that said I wouldn't want her to be queen living happily ever after with Jon either). I just don't believe she was angry/mad enough to have gone out of her way to burn all the peasants when she could have just gone directly to the red keep to where her real enemy was. Sure it sets it up for the obvious she has to die now in the final episode but meh.
The Golden Company got wasted far too easily, the scorpions were far too ineffective this episode. Euron and Jamie's fight was shite, like B movie quality. Cleganbowl was also a bit meh (although the way they killed off Qyburn was vintage GoT).
I ended up looking into the leaks as was so pissed off on how this season has gone so I won't make any predictions for the final episode - it certainly sounds crap though 🙁
Was anyone else hoping that Arya would say to the woman with the little girl....
"Now stop making a tit of yourself and piss off"
I’m liking longer episodes with more progression. The last couple of seasons have been criticised as “going nowhere” Not this one though!
GoT has always built up characters to huge importance then nobbled them.
The Impotence of the Scorpions and the Golden Company was good.
The rage of Dany folllowing the murder of Missandei, and Johns perceived betrayal works for me.
I’m glad this whole season wasn’t just a build up to a big battle, and they all lived happily ever after.
I don’t we are going to see a clean wrap next week. I predict we will see Gendry on the throne, then it will finish north of the wall.
Was anyone else hoping that Arya would say to the woman with the little girl….
“Now stop making a tit of yourself and piss off”
🙂
"Mother of Dragons, no!'
They totally missed a trick by not having Jaime smash Euron's face in Irreversible-style with his golden hand after he'd stabbed him.
i think Arya's little yarn with the pooch made her realise she'd be better off out of all this nonsense so she galloped off back to Gendry...?
loved the white horse at the end too, and the little girl carrying a toy of it...
Dont think Jon has a future, he knows his bird has to go, and he was pretty appalled at the conduct of his own men during the battle. he'll either die or piss off to live with the wildlings or something.
Sansa and Tyrion to rule 4 evs. although im not sure there is still an iron throne to sit on....
It's gone from character driven: "what would x do in this situation?" to plot driven: "we need a Dany / John showdown in 1 hours time"
Danys leap from 'breaker of chains' to 'burner of peasants' felt a bit abrupt. I feel an attack on the keep first at least would have been more plausible, ringing the bells a decoy for an attack on the dragon, then Dany goes mental.
Still got us all talking about it eh?
Also, for me, the Clegane showdown was never going to be super-impactful given Gregor's zombie-state. I know they tried to rekindle some of his "self" beforehand, but he's just been more of a special effect than a character in the show vs. the books.
Enjoyed Qyburn's death by his own monster, though.
After a little more reflection im finding it all to rushed. This season as been done with massive time lapses that have spoiled it a little for me. The first 6 seasons took an age to get the players in to position with dialogue and sub plots along the way.
Dani having a wobble and torching everything ..quite fitting
Cersei and Jamie's ending semi romantic with her wimpering .. almost a fitting end
Clegane brothers ... felt like a scene from the last run of Jedi films a bit meh
Master of whispers was always going to burn , Melaiandra told him that 4 seasons ago
After the 8 year build up this just seems to rushed ,shame really
I quite liked the low-key deaths. Giving the audience (or characters) what they want isn't the GoT way.
The fast-cut tight camera Jamie/Euron fight was poorly filmed.
I think the programme-makers have found it difficult to divide the plot up into episodes. Varys's death was one of the casualties of this. It felt like a bigger turning point.
Following that woman and child through the city was a good idea.
I think a few more glimpses of madness from Dani before torching the city would have been a good idea although I thought her expression through the kiss scene with John Snow was good.
That dragon breath lasts a long time doesn't it!
My predictions were all wrong, so there's no point in me trying for next week.
Danys leap from ‘breaker of chains’ to ‘burner of peasants’ felt a bit abrupt. I feel an attack on the keep first at least would have been more plausible, ringing the bells a decoy for an attack on the dragon, then Dany goes mental.
Not at all. The idea that Targaryens have the capacity to suddenly go batshit mental and burn stuff has been flagged up since somewhere around episode 1, series 1. Her whole character arc has been littered with events that show her darker nature and ruthlessness. She wanted Cersei to watch as she levelled her entire city. The idea that she could rule as a part of a golden couple with Jon Snow was dangled as a bit of a red herring precisely so the eventual swing into madness would be more impactful.
The series could possibly had a couple more episodes, and I expected Varys to leg it over the narrow sea. The Jaime/Euron scrap was a bit lame, Cleganebowl was as good as it could have been, you knew that the Mountain was already dead, and that the Hound was going to die.
Well, Dany's tantrum has wiped out the economy of a large chunk of Westeros and made a lot of people homeless. And it's still only the beginning of Winter. Nice one.
Her going batshit did fit with her character's arc though. Where's a good Kingslayer when you need one?
Hound got the best lines, as ever.
Jamie should have stabbed Cersei in the crypt (note, not a euphamism).
Grey Worm is for the chop.
And how much fuel can one bloody dragon carry, eh? It's like they make this stuff up.
Reading others posts is interesting to me, I probably read too much online about TV shows I like - The Walking Dead for example everyone moans, because it's genuinely gone to shit. With GoT it's more like viewers are so invested they hate it when their favourite characters die, become baddies or act in a way that they don't like - it's like when you find out your Mate mugged an old Lady, a combination of disgust and disbelief.
I personally don't have an issue with Dany going mad "all of a sudden", it's been on the cards for years - she's been burning her enemies, people who betray her and sometimes people she just doesn't like pretty through the whole Game of Thrones, it's just been punctuated by periods of her smiling and being nice to her allies - as long as they completely and unquestionably devoted to her, she's a megalomaniac and always has been. She offers everyone she meets the same options - bend the knee, or die, usually by Dragon. Even before last nights episode he's probably had the highest body count in the series. Last episode she lost a Dragon and her favourite sycophant and probably worse was humiliated by Cersei. I'm not sure if she 'snapped' or that was just the normal response for her to that. She didn't need to kill all those Innocents, she wanted to, plus a pile of her own fighters.
It was a very GoT episode.
As for next week, I wouldn't be surprised if Dany ends up on the Throne, she'll need a new one of course. Jon back as King of the North and lots of fighting between the Kingdoms, just as it was with her Father.
My predictions were all wrong, so there’s no point in me trying for next week.
My prediction is that the closing scene of the final show will be a previously unknown person walking up the gangplank of a Bravosi ship in Kings Landing, handing the captain an iron coin and saying Valar Morghulis.
As the ship sails out of harbour she removes her face to reveal Arya who was seemingly killed earlier in the episode as she leaves Westeros forever having left her past behind and having truly become no one.
Dani didnt have a wobble, she decided earlier in the ep when snogging Jon, "okay, let it be fear"
im glad that big eared lass got fried for the way she treated DCI Hastings....
Can someone remind me what the green fireballs are? I remember it from before when Cersei blew up that building but cant remember what it is.
Can someone remind me what the green fireballs are? I remember it from before when Cersei blew up that building but cant remember what it is.
Caches of wildfire that were planted throughout the city by the Mad King...like the one that Cersei blew up beneath the Sept of Baelor
wildfire?
Magic green explosives
Dany’s tantrum has wiped out the economy of a large chunk of Westeros and made a lot of people homeless
This sounds a bit like the way Channel 4 News would cover such disturbing events.
Can someone remind me what the green fireballs are? I remember it from before when Cersei blew up that building but cant remember what it is.
It's Wildfire, the Mad King stashed loads of it around Kings Landing, it was his preferred method of killing people (he didn't have dragons). Supposedly he hid it all around the place so if they was an uprising he'd burn the city with it.
im glad that big eared lass got fried for the way she treated DCI Hastings….
bit harsh given she was only making a tit of herself
still, that's justice in GoT land
im glad that big eared lass got fried for the way she treated DCI Hastings….
DCI Hastings got off lightly compared to Janos Slynt, the last bent copper in King's Landing
