A Game of Thrones **BOOKS OFF LIMITS** v2

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by zamler

I would love to see an Arya Stark spin off.

Arya in the old west.


A mysterious stranger and master of disguise, moving from town to town righting wrongs, adding names to her list and taking faces. With her mysterious companion Kato, she hates guns preferring swords but that doesn't mean that she's not a crack shot.

[SuperMatt18]

I liked it. Fitting end and easily the best episode from this season. Feel like getting partially spoiled that Bran May end up King by the betting sites made it better. Less of a shock when it happened and the way tyrion explained it made sense.

So the question now...was Bran playing puppet master the whole time to make the whole thing end with him as king?

I feel like if anything gets fleshed out more in the books it may be that angle, and personally I kind of feel like he was.

Revealing Jon’s true parentage to him was the biggest power play made in the end

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Lol

Spoiler!

[Winsor_Pilates]

Hated it.
Was enjoying it until Jon killed Danny; everything after that was complete crap.
So disappointed right now.

[CaptainCrunch]

Honestly I want a series around the mad king's rise to power and Robert's rebellion.


But I expect that they'll go even further backwards to Aegon the Conquorer and the founding of the 7 kingdoms under his rules.

[sa226]

You can't really tell someone that they should like something or not. So the outrage either way seems misplaced.

I just wasn't in to this season. It never really pulled me in like seasons 1-7 did. I wish it weren't that way but it is.

To me, the most Game of Thronesey thing was Jon's ending. He was built up as this guy who always did the right thing, honor above all. But he painted himself into a corner with honor and love by following and falling in love with Dany, until he ultimately did the"right" thing one last time.

But his reward for doing the right thing wasn't the Iron Throne, it was banishment to the North.

Quite fitting actually.

[Rando]

Utterly brilliant ending, made me want to watch a show about Westeros rebuilding. But I've always been a fan of the aftermaths. The last bit was much more entertaining than the "outcome". Episode two and six of this season are two of my series favorites.

Also... lol@Edmure

[AC]

Best throwaway was the partial joke by Tyrion with a honeycomb and donkey in a brothel.

"It basically amounts to three wishes granted by a malicious spirit:

1. A house fit for a queen (a honeycomb)
2. The finest ass in the land (a donkey)
3. His dick to reach his knees (he used to be 6 foot 3)"

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Arya in the old west.


A mysterious stranger and master of disguise, moving from town to town righting wrongs, adding names to her list and taking faces. With her mysterious companion Kato, she hates guns preferring swords but that doesn't mean that she's not a crack shot.

And... oh, there is a Deadwood movie in 2 weeks.

Look out, Hearst

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by zamler

I would love to see an Arya Stark spin off.

No thanks. She would just be an unstoppable killing machine like James Bond or Ethan Hunt who can never die. (well unless somehow she gets a concussion and starts hiding in kitchens from raptors again)

Thrones was great while it lasted. Not really looking forward to any of it's prequels or spinoffs though.
Now who isn't going to watch the Watchmen??!~! can't wait!

[Ashasx]

I felt like this episode was kind of patting the series in the back. Lots of characters together, lots of good screen cap moments.

It is interesting though that I no longer have any interest in this universe following this season. I was looking forward to the spinoffs prior, but I just can't commit myself anymore.

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

This is exactly what I feared, HBO would put pressure on Martin to make an ending that would normally take him years to figure out and write about.

And yet, they didn't, as Martin has nothing to do with this ending. Given his writing speed and style, we may never know 'his' ending, honestly.

[direwolf]

I enjoyed that ending quite a bit. Really, the only episode I didn't like this season was #4. The rest of them were pretty damn solid IMO, especially considering the time constraints of only having 6 episodes.

I love the idea of Arya roaming the countryside Mad Max style, getting herself into badass adventures and helping people out who desperately need it.

[Rando]

Originally Posted by direwolf

I love the idea of Arya roaming the countryside Mad Max style, getting herself into badass adventures and helping people out who desperately need it.

Loved seeing Arya with the Stark pommel on needle and banners on her ship.

[#-3]

I thought this season was a pile of hot garbage, but this episode was really good. It got what the story was about.

None of them started all of this conflict, none of them asked to be there, but here they are living up to challenges that are bigger then them.

[Boblobla]

Best thing I have seen on Reddit:

So Game of Thrones is musical chairs and the guy who wins is the one who was sitting the whole time

[Jbo]

Just re-watched it. At one point, Sansa talks about thousands of Northern men surrounding King's landing. Also, Jon killed a queen that the north never really recognized. Yet, somehow, everyone agrees he should go to wall (Despite being King of the North and also a newly free liberated Northern Kingdom) Two seconds later, the unsullied leave the city for...reasons?

This is the kind of stuff that drives me nuts. The show was very careful to show actions and consequence and yet in the end was thrown out the window.

Other thoughts:
On Jamie and Cercei:

Spoiler!

I know book talk is banned, but one point left off the show is that Cercei was to have the life choked out of her by the younger brother. Thought when Tyrion found them in the basement, that Cercei would still be alive, but mortally wounded. To end her suffering he could have suffocated her. Now what was supposed to be a prophecy of him betraying her, he actually did it for Mercy. Great twist and would have been amazing to see

On Arya:
-The Faceless men just let you leave the Assassin order, never to be heard of again? Always thought her taking the knowledge and leaving set her up to have the god of death take her life.

On Dany/Jon:
-You know how you fix the problems with Jon? Make it so that Jon tries to reason with Dany, but in the end she recognizes he is a threat and stabs him. With his last bit of life, he kills the mad queen. Targs line comes to an end, in a tragic fashion, right in front of the throne. One wanted it, and one never did. Throne melting scene plays out the same way, and the dragon flies off.

Perfect send off and now the ENTIRE Aegon thing has meaning.

Dothraki:
Just going to find work on the docks or something? Not going to pillage and purge Westeros with no leader to keep you in check?

White Walkers:
- Was hoping when the Freefolk went North, we got a final scene where they come across a symbol like the first scene from the show. The threat is not gone, it repeats...is that not the whole point?

Night King was a great bad guy, totally ruined. Very Darth Maul ending.

Otherwise, There was lots to like, endings for Pod, Jamie (through Brienne of Tarth), the small council, Tyrion, Sansa were fitting and well done.

Great show, just wanted more payoff after the tightly crafted storytelling the series showed us in earlier seasons

[Snuffleupagus]

Nobody ever likes a series ending, it's not winnable.

If I was the producer after last weeks story leak I would have had an ending with a scroll "to be continued". It would be like the sign over the bar... "free beer tomorrow"

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by Jbo

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Great show, just wanted more payoff after the tightly crafted storytelling the series showed us in earlier seasons

Pretty much how I feel, as I've said before. What they've done is fine, but the quality of writing and development has gone to complete #### since they've rushed to finish up the show. And that's what made the show so great in the first place. Just because things are starting to amount to conclusions doesn't mean that the great dialog and set ups aren't still possible. But time was more important than quality.

Such a damn shame. The show truly could've had its final seasons be within the same amount of high quality as the initial seasons. But I guess since they couldn't copy from the book anymore and hard to figure stuff out on their own, they didn't want to take up the challenge of trying to maintain the quality, and instead finish as soon as possible to get it done with.

Oh well. Good series overall. But I feel the rewatchability isn't going to be that high; at least once you get to the latter seasons.

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

Nobody ever likes a series ending, it's not winnable.

That's just not true. Veep just finished for HBO last week, and is a testament of a show that's excellent from start to the the very finish.

It's possible.