The reason Vary's gets on the ship so fast is they have the ships of Dorn and the Tyrell's with the greyjoy ships. I didn't clue into the fact he brought another army.
GL is gonna for sure have an aneurism with all the improbable distance travelled though! Maybe there is a Harry Potter crossover going on and they are apparating, or using a port key or the floo network or something.
Arya went from Braavos to the Twins.
Jaime went from Riverrun to the Twins to King's Landing.
All of the Northern houses received ravens, got prepared and traveled to Winterfell.
Olenna received word of King's Landing, was invited to Sunspear and traveled there.
The Dornish and Tyrell ships at the very least rendezvoused with Daenerys forces.
Bran made it back to the Wall, remember it took an entire season for them to go from north of the Wall to the Children's and Three Eyed Crow's cave.
Even Sam made it to Oldtown travelling with a baby and not being the fittest person.
All of those would have taken considerable amount of time. I've been a pretty big critic of particularly Baelish's teleporting but it's quite apparent that it's been months since the start of Episode 9 and end of Episode 10.
I was on the "Sansa is pregnant" boat, but there's no way now. She would be full blown preggors at this point at least.
Season six was basically season six and seven combined where they cut out all the bs travel shots. They could have included it, but it would have made it slow and boring.
Hence things like Varys travelling to Dorne and back in one episode.
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I think this episode was maybe even better than the previous one.
Arya slicing open the pig Walder made me absolutely giddy.
More badass Lady Mormont.
Dany finally sails for Westeros.
Jon gets legit.
Holding on the shot of the window I knew Tommen was going to take a nosedive. I don't blame him. RIP Margaery.
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But outside of that and Arya killing Frey the episode seemed predictable. We knew who Jon was by now, we knew Littlefinger wanted Sansa, we knew the sept was blowing up, we knew that Dorne was going to ally with Dany, and we knew Cersai was going to be in power at the end.
Cool episode and amazing music but I don't quite understand the best ever talk. My take on Bergen's magic in the wall is that the white walkers can get through but the zombie hoard can't.
Did Arya take a face from the House of Black and White or with her training does she have the power now to create new faces. Or was it the first face she stole. And if she has the power to do it did she kill a random servant to get that face?
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a lot of the predictability comes from us being on here and on the internet in general talking so much about it. if we were just watching this in isolation like the old days, restricted to talking with our co-workers by the water cooler, I doubt we would have so much of it figured out. but being connected to the world hive mind (that also includes paparazzi snapping pics of dead Jon filming new scenes and similar stuff) that element of surprise is just not going to happen much.
and that makes me sad a bit, cause even though this season was awesome and clearly best of the 6, I would have loved to be a dumb viewer all on my own and be shocked by things like Jon's true parents or Cersei's nuclear takeover.
then again, maybe shock and unpredictability are overrated, because those elements are only in play the very first time you watch. after that, they're gone and it's all the other components of good TV that have to be there to enjoy it the next viewing.
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I think I might avoid this thread next season. You're right that the hive mind has brought things to my attention that I wouldn't have figured out on my own. I'm a pretty simple television viewer. I don't enjoy picking apart each episode for clues. I did enjoy hearing the theories from people on here and laughed when some were true on the show (and others were so far off).
The only way for the producers to avoid this type of predictability would be to have extremely leaps of logic / red herrings. That would be worse.
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Jon's parents are both highborn so I think he's not baztardy.
disappointed that Margy didn't really have a plan to get her family out and/or topple the Sparrow, other than have Loras confess and hope that he didn't get a head carving. but huge props to Olenna for putting those stupid snakes in their place. she might as well have just looked at the camera and said "you're welcome".
Jon's parents are both highborn so I think he's not baztardy.
He's still a baztard until we know Lyanna and Rhaegar got married or he gets legitimized by the King I thought. Which I guess he could legitimize himself now since he's DAKINGINDANORF once he has proof of his parentage...
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Jon's parents are both highborn so I think he's not baztardy.
His parents weren't married and his father was married to someone else. So yeah, he's still a B. However, now that he's a King I guess he can legitimize himself.
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But outside of that and Arya killing Frey the episode seemed predictable. We knew who Jon was by now, we knew Littlefinger wanted Sansa, we knew the sept was blowing up, we knew that Dorne was going to ally with Dany, and we knew Cersai was going to be in power at the end.
Cool episode and amazing music but I don't quite understand the best ever talk. My take on Bergen's magic in the wall is that the white walkers can get through but the zombie hoard can't.
Did Arya take a face from the House of Black and White or with her training does she have the power now to create new faces. Or was it the first face she stole. And if she has the power to do it did she kill a random servant to get that face?
Yes, shows are only good when we are surprised. You are mistaking "Predictable" with executing upon the premise that the show is based.
Everything happened because it was laid out over the last season (and in some cases, before that). That's called good story telling.
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