Does he not have Greensight I thought that had been hinted a few times.
mashr
Walker pace varies greatly depending on how they need to move the story along. See also Daenerys using fast ferries to get the army across the sea.
This. 100 x this.
Also apparent since the source material was left behind how speed of travel has accelerated as they wrap things up.
Someone has just said to me that when it panned back up from the white walkers in the final scene, they were actually outside kings landing. I don't remember thinking this, but as I'm at work until 8pm, I can't check it!
They were outside winterfell weren't they!?
The most interesting bit of ep 2 for me was the conversation that Tyrion insisted on having with Bran. The one that we only heard the start of to avoid spoilers
Up till now everyone else has just dismissed Bran as being a bit weird. “Errr...three eyed raven? I don’t know what that is?”
Tyrion is the first one to sit him down and have an actual conversation with him which, given that Bran can see everything that is or has happened, might turn out to useful.
Maybe.
"I'd knight you ten times over"
Someone has just said to me that when it panned back up from the white walkers in the final scene, they were actually outside kings landing. I don’t remember thinking this, but as I’m at work until 8pm, I can’t check it!
They were outside winterfell weren’t they!?
Unless there's a bunch of snow on the ground at Kings Landing, I think it's probably Winterfell. Also, Torsten etc said they had sprinted round the army to get to Winterfell from wherever they were in the first ep.
It took the fat king a month to get from Kings Landing to Winterfell in series 1. I suspect even the writers would see that teleportation being a step too far...
To get to Kings Landing they'd also have to get past the Frey bridge as well given that the wights aren't fond of a dip. So just having them turn up at the gates would be ridiculous.
To get to Kings Landing they’d also have to get past the Frey bridge as well given that the wights aren’t fond of a dip. So just having them turn up at the gates would be ridiculous.
Not according to any map I’ve ever seen.
Also it was snowing just outside Kings Landing when Jaime left.
So just having them turn up at the gates would be ridiculous.
Like Jon Snow's resurrection level of ridiculous, Arya Stark's escape from the assassin's guild level, Euron Greyjoy building a fleet of ships in two days on an island with no trees level...?
EDIT. Ignore.
Like Jon Snow’s resurrection level of ridiculous
1 resurrection? Those are rookie numbers
I reckon they lose Winterfell - the survivors then head south for a final stand at King's Landing.
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She's just got back to me and said she was taking nonsense, no doubt it's winterfell!
We doing a "death pool" at work. £5 in, predict who lives/dies at the end of the last episode, most correct points takes the pot.
richardkennerley
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She’s just got back to me and said she was taking nonsense, no doubt it’s winterfell!
Confirmed by the battle scenes in the episode 3 trailer too.
lose Winterfell – the survivors then head south for a final stand at King’s Landing.
Yup, thus lining up a three way rumble for the final round of fisticuffs (featuring Cleganebowl and Lannister vs Lannister).
To get to Kings Landing they’d also have to get past the Frey bridge as well given that the wights aren’t fond of a dip. So just having them turn up at the gates would be ridiculous.
As above, the Twins crossing was the best place to cross for Rob, not the only one.
Can people not mention things in trailers please. I'd like to read and discuss what we've seen, but not if people have more information than me.
We doing a “death pool” at work. £5 in, predict who lives/dies at the end of the last episode, most correct points takes the pot.
The smart bet would have everyone dead surely?
Drac - they're bringing 8 years of story arcs together, it takes some telling! And it's been brilliantly handled so far, particularly the coming together of former enemies.
It's Ep2, and THE battle is literally arriving now, it's intriguing to see what will unravel over the following weeks, no?
Well if anyone knows how to drag a story IT is Stephen King.
His books look positively slim compared to George's.
Surely the Red Woman still has a role to play in all this.
She mentioned to Varys before that they would die down the line
Well... watched ep2 last night and feel the pace and build up is perfect. Those of you spoiling for a fight, be careful what you wish for methinks, the battle for Winterfell could go for at least one, possibly two episodes. It’s not going to be pretty.
As with Endgame, I’m avoiding any and all references/trailers to GoT on the internet (apart from this thread and only after I’ve watched the latest episode!), the suspense and anticipation is all part of the show for me 😃
As for predictions or guessing, since binge watching all 7 series a year ago, the one thing I’ve found with GoT is not to get attached to any of the characters, ‘cos they’re likely to die!
I also figure that from the look between Danny and Jon/Aegon on the battlements at the end of ep2, that perhaps Danny really is in love with him and let’s face it, incestual relationships between Targaryen’s is completely normal and cousins...? That makes them positively distant relations!
and cousins…?
Aunt and Nephew but yeah not such a shocking thing in the GoT world
As for the Red Woman/army I figure they'll show up near the end of ep3, not to save the day but to buy time for some of the characters to escape.
Aunt and Nephew but yeah not such a shocking thing in the GoT world
And perhaps more importantly, already the living result of the big north and south houses coming together.
Everyone all partime fans in here I take it? 😆 All-sorts of awesome!
Nope - got up at 2 ! Not the outcome I expected!! Got to love a bit of Valyrian steel! I hope you all have a decent tv with true blacks!!!
edit that out dc2.0. Leave the spoilers till tomorrow.
Although you’d need to be mad reading this thread today if you haven’t watched it!
Well, where do we go from here then? That can't be it...
jimdubleyou
Subscriber
Well, where do we go from here then? That can’t be it…
well the show is called game of thrones... 😆
4 hours left.
Cor, that was intense!
It was pretty good, the usual dubious tactical decisions notwithstanding! I'm not commenting more for now, I see someone's already driven past the cinema queue shouting "Snape kills Dumbledore".
Does anybody else think this show has jumped the shark a bit ?
There is a fine line between palace intigue and Mexican Soap Opera and I think we have found it.
Now that Jon Snow has come back from the dead and it turns out he is whatserface's nephew, it can't be long before we find out that it was all a dream Dr Drake Ramorez' evil identical twin brother Stryker had in the shower.
“Snape kills Dumbledore”.
Hey is this a crossover episode?
I've a different attitude to GoT spoilers. I don't read fantasy bollocks but after seeing an episode bought the first book and as a fast reader, easily addicted and with zero self-control, read the rest (in private, obviously). So as the series has been pretty faithful I've always had a good idea who's going to get offed, when and how. I think this has if anything made me enjoy watching along even more. But then I never did like mild peril.
(Just watched Band of Brothers - 'Bob' in our house and probably many others - for the first time, not spoiled by knowing the Americans win. Singlehandedly.)
So as the series has been pretty faithful I’ve always had a good idea who’s going to get offed, when and how.
Nah. Well, up until about Season 4 or maybe bits of 5. The TV series has long outstripped the timeline in the books so it's been spoilerable for a few years even for readers. And there are a lot of people who're watching GoT who've never opened one of the books.
Of course, anyone reading one of these threads is being a bit unwise.
hels
Member
Does anybody else think this show has jumped the shark a bit ?
Nope!
I’ve just watched it and I’m none the wiser as to what actually happened.
It was so bloody dark all the time that I couldn’t see what the hell was going on.
I’m going to have to go and get spoilers from t’internet to see what the hell it was that I just witnessed. ☹️
I’ll watch it again tonight in a darkened room with night vision goggles
Well that was an improvement at first I thought 'oh here we have go predictable dragons swoop in' but then it gets pretty ****ed up, intense in places for my night shift brain to take in. Then the good old not entirely unexpected but epicly presented end, it's more like the earlier series episode closing scene.
Yeah pity anyone with a poor TV though I ended up closing the curtains as it's blue skies today and the sun was bouncing of things onto the TV.
Does anybody else think this show has jumped the shark a bit ?
Recently, or back when they started resurrecting the dead, etc?
Recently, or back when they started resurrecting the dead, etc?
Pretty much a key tenet of the plot from the get-go, not so much a water skiing Fonzee.
There is a difference between a Zombie plot line and a major character who comes back - not as a Zombie - after being killed off at the end of a season. That smacks of contract negotiations, and is the (to labour the reference) equivalent of a fall down a lift shaft for actros who got above themselves.
I guess we will have to wait and see who killed JR until the end.
There is a difference between a Zombie plot line and a major character who comes back –
He's not the only one who's been resurrected by a red cleric and isn't a zombie. And, if I recall correctly, that all happened before Snow got got.
There is a difference between a Zombie plot line and a major character who comes back – not as a Zombie – after being killed off at the end of a season.
Except for the fact that they had been resurrecting characters in the novels more than a decade before the pilot episode of the TV show?
