At least i'll be allowed home again, now that i'm the lord.
EW released some E2 stills, nothing really spoilery, but it looks like Sam will be a big part of the next episode.
Game of Thrones releases photos from episode 2 of season 8 | EW...
Of all those shots, the one that makes me the most excited is Lyanna Mormont decked out in armor. She's fixin' to kick some Wight ass.
Spoilers she dies 5 seconds into the fight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZAQvorzdsQ
Don't you put that evil on me. Lyanna & Davos will survive the whole damn series. THEY MUST.
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Lyanna will sit on the Iron Throne before it's over and be a just and strong leader
I didn't watch season 7 as I found that the writing towards the end of season 6 took an obvious shift as the TV series surpassed the books.
Is the writing as good as before? I found the later Arya parts to be really, really lacking and it just began to feel like DBZ tier filler
Theirs a low quality leak going around fyi, just a heads up that theirs spoilers flooding the internet.
Aside from the arc pertaining to Aria and Sansa and the episode Saxon touched on the rest of the season is really good.
Arya character arc has been criticized by many since her trip to Bravos because, while admittedly with a cool premise (the character being trained as a magical assassin by a secret sect and then travelling back to Westeros to be relevant again and not just a fugitive at the mercy of anyone), was excruciatingly long and repetitive without much happening at all before Arya deciding to go full fuck-all on the Faceless Men. I mean, the whole "Oysters, clams and cockles!" thing has become a meme in its own right. Arya's arc was far better recived when it swifted to Westeros once again, but let's just say the whole Sansa, Arya and Littlefinger arc left a bad taste on some peoples' mouths due to how hastly it was handled and how several elements of didn't make much sense.
If, since when and how exactly Game of Thrones' writing started to deteriorate after the showrunners didn't have direct access to Martin's books to write the series' plot is a heated debate up to this very day.
General consensus seems to be that nowadays the show's writers, after being given the final books rough story lines by Martin himself, seem to care only about hitting the relevant plot points and pretty much nothing else. This of course is a huge nest of several narrative issues, like characters and whole arcs being abandoned and retrived at the drop of a act, the infamous "teleporting" phenomenon (where events unfold and characters move about at an unbeliveable speed, both in and out of universe), certain revelations and events taking place without much sense and/or enough retrospective, characters suffering suddendly of motivation and/or personality shifts, among other examples.
Personally, I'm more upset, as I noted above, about the show (and, by extension, the whole setting) basically shifting from an interesting and engaging low fantasy to a rather predictable high fantasy with drama. I can go into detail, if anyone wants, althought I really can't say if I should blame Martin himself ('cause, you know, the whole setting is still his, and the showrunners are just executing his directives) or the show's writers (who may or may have not fucked up Martin's instructions)
I just remembered today that WesterosCraft was a thing.
WesterosCraft
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Episode 2 is online now, is it normal for it to come out at this time?
You know who should show up during the battle of winterfell like a bat out of hell...
This jackass
https://youtu.be/Rf9V-yzCzR4?t=119
Sorry couldn't resist ,
honestly i don't mind the shift towards higher fantasy that much, since the white walkers are still capable of being really dark and disturbing enemies like in Hardhome. it's in the episodes where it turns into straight zombie schlock instead of dark fantasy/horror that i completely lose interest
That might have been the best post-book episode so far
I fucking loved that episode. So many character arcs coming to (near) conclusion, Arya and Gendry, Jamie and Brienne, Theon and Sansa, Dany and Jon approaching the end now that they both know his identity. All the banter and just amazing character interaction between everyone as they prepare for the end, made me think of the leadup to the ending of Mass Effect 3 and all the characters just having final interactions before the story ends. I was thinking that pod's song was going to montage into characters having their final peaceful moments and then go to the dead arriving, I was kind of sad that they didn't use that as the ending. That whole montage just gave me huge goosebumps. Loved it.
So that's what Podrick did for the prostitutes at King's Landing
Tormund is on a fucking role. That Giant's Bane story.
the scenes around the fire have to be my favorite of the whole series. They're incredible
Arya getting naked just weirded me the fuck out
Predictions for whose gonna go down?
Jorah telling Dany to be merciful and kind seems like an ominous last piece of advice
There were some major death flags for Grey Worm this episode.
I actually think its going to be Missandei who dies, Grey Worm will take the unsullied back back to her home so that no else has to suffer the same fate she did.
That girl that looked like Shireen just screamed tragedy, I think the crypts are gonna turn into a slaughterhouse
kill em all 1989
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what is there even to discuss, this is clearly the actual bittersweet ending. i mean look how happy they all are.
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