Game of Thrones - Book Readers' Thread - - - - - - Part 23

[Victarion]

Mother****ing Aberforth

 

[trd84]

So... instead of going back to the Tower of Joy... we're getting another winterfell flashback ... then another with The Night's King? come onnnn

Is that one of the crypt statues behind the hay cart?

 

[Reek]

Yes and it has Venom in it's eye.



No.

 

[Roose Bolton]

Well, Kingsmoot was a swing and miss. They've Dorne'd the Greyjoys it seems.

 

[Reek]

ah yess...

I'm watching now too... the NK has a bad ass sword /scythe?

HODOR

 

[Reek]

Holy ****... what they just did to

MASSIVE SPOILER

Spoiler

Summer and Hodor and 3ER

WTF

 

[Marvolo]

How are y'all watching this already?

 

[Reek]

it was streaming on some site.

i only saw about 30-40 minutes.

 

[TheFuture]

Son of a *****.

 

[Reek]

well i just saw the parts I missed.

 

[TheFuture]

Going to try and conjure up a bit of, ahem, "magic" here.

BRB

 

[Marvolo]

A lot to process in this episode.

Spoiler

So the Night's King was made by the Children and he went rogue and froze the North and created an army. How much you want to bet the key to defeating him is pulling that thing out of his chest? Honestly, I hope it's not that simple. Frankly this whole revelation about their origins was anticlimactic as **** for me. Way too simplistic for my tastes but I guess the show can't get too complicated with this stuff. I was just hoping for a bit more. Legend says the Night's King fell in love with a strange blue eyed white woman and then started sacrificing people and doing other horrible ****. I really wanted that to be a part of his origins. Not just some random guy having a knife or stone shoved in his chest by the Children.

Did y'all notice that the stone henge symbol around the tree is the same symbol that the White Walkers made with body parts and blood on the Fist of the First Men? Pretty neat.


Hodor...Hodor...Holdor...holddoor...hold the door! Did not see that coming! So Bran is the reason Willis became Hodor. That's some crazy timey-whimey **** right there.

Bran bears the Night's King's Mark now. Wonder what it will do to him down the road?

Summer dies protecting his master so that's good, but it sucks that he died.

I wasn't exactly attached to Bloodraven so his death didn't exactly bring tears.

Hodor's death on the other hand . And the fact Bran was making him hold the door is just a teensy bit ****ed up. I mean the greater good and Bran's survival being of utmost importance makes what he did understandable, but morally it's grey as **** in typical GOT fashion.

This season's kill count is through the ****ing roof.

Yara and Theon Grand Theft Fleet

Euron's a dick and I hope Dany roasts him.

Vary's put in his place by the High Priestess.

Tyrion is walking some thin ice. He's pretty much doing what his sister did with the High Sparrow. He's giving a powerful religious fanatic free reign. This is not going to end well.

Sansa, Jon, Davos war council was fun.

 

[Reek]

The Queen must not know

 

[TheFuture]

A lot to process in this episode.

Spoiler

So the Night's King was made by the Children and he went rogue and froze the North and created an army. How much you want to bet the key to defeating him is pulling that thing out of his chest? Honestly, I hope it's not that simple. Frankly this whole revelation about their origins was anticlimactic as **** for me. Way too simplistic for my tastes but I guess the show can't get too complicated with this stuff. I was just hoping for a bit more. Legend says the Night's King fell in love with a strange blue eyed white woman and then started sacrificing people and doing other horrible ****. I really wanted that to be a part of his origins. Not just some random guy having a knife or stone shoved in his chest by the Children.

Did y'all notice that the stone henge symbol around the tree is the same symbol that the White Walkers made with body parts and blood on the Fist of the First Men? Pretty neat.


Hodor...Hodor...Holdor...holddoor...hold the door! Did not see that coming! So Bran is the reason Willis became Hodor. That's some crazy timey-whimey **** right there.

Bran bears the Night's King's Mark now. Wonder what it will do to him down the road?

Summer dies protecting his master so that's good, but it sucks that he died.

I wasn't exactly attached to Bloodraven so his death didn't exactly bring tears.

Hodor's death on the other hand . And the fact Bran was making him hold the door is just a teensy bit ****ed up. I mean the greater good and Bran's survival being of utmost importance makes what he did understandable, but morally it's grey as **** in typical GOT fashion.

This season's kill count is through the ****ing roof.

Yara and Theon Grand Theft Fleet

Euron's a dick and I hope Dany roasts him.

Vary's put in his place by the High Priestess.

Tyrion is walking some thin ice. He's pretty much doing what his sister did with the High Sparrow. He's giving a powerful religious fanatic free reign. This is not going to end well.

Sansa, Jon, Davos war council was fun.

Spoiler

You could see Bran was horrified in the vision. He didn't realise warging Hodor through time would have the effect that it would. By the time he did there was no going back really. It's messed up and Bran will feel guilt, but I don't think it's anywherw near some of the other grey moments that we've witnessed.

Poor Summer, yet another direwolf gone. Nymeria and her pack has never been more needed.

Just on Bran, I'm curious to know what happens when he stops warging Hodor. He's still in the vision like, so when when he stops the warg will he return to his body or is he stuck there? Once Meera disconnected him from the tree I would have thought he'd wake up instantly.

 

[Roose Bolton]

A lot to process in this episode.

Spoiler

So the Night's King was made by the Children and he went rogue and froze the North and created an army. How much you want to bet the key to defeating him is pulling that thing out of his chest? Honestly, I hope it's not that simple. Frankly this whole revelation about their origins was anticlimactic as **** for me. Way too simplistic for my tastes but I guess the show can't get too complicated with this stuff. I was just hoping for a bit more. Legend says the Night's King fell in love with a strange blue eyed white woman and then started sacrificing people and doing other horrible ****. I really wanted that to be a part of his origins. Not just some random guy having a knife or stone shoved in his chest by the Children.

Did y'all notice that the stone henge symbol around the tree is the same symbol that the White Walkers made with body parts and blood on the Fist of the First Men? Pretty neat.


Hodor...Hodor...Holdor...holddoor...hold the door! Did not see that coming! So Bran is the reason Willis became Hodor. That's some crazy timey-whimey **** right there.

Bran bears the Night's King's Mark now. Wonder what it will do to him down the road?

Summer dies protecting his master so that's good, but it sucks that he died.

I wasn't exactly attached to Bloodraven so his death didn't exactly bring tears.

Hodor's death on the other hand . And the fact Bran was making him hold the door is just a teensy bit ****ed up. I mean the greater good and Bran's survival being of utmost importance makes what he did understandable, but morally it's grey as **** in typical GOT fashion.

This season's kill count is through the ****ing roof.

Yara and Theon Grand Theft Fleet

Euron's a dick and I hope Dany roasts him.

Vary's put in his place by the High Priestess.

Tyrion is walking some thin ice. He's pretty much doing what his sister did with the High Sparrow. He's giving a powerful religious fanatic free reign. This is not going to end well.

Sansa, Jon, Davos war council was fun.

They really bungled Euron here.

Spoiler

As he's presented in the show he's just another Ironborn, and most of his dialogue (cock jokes) did very little to get across the basic essence of the character as a foreign, mystical, mysterious villain that is fundamentally different from his culture and family. Cutting out his ties to the Warlocks and Others really makes him just another villain of the week, and the scene of Theon and Yara basically undermined any sort of threat he had built up in his reveal with Balon. Given that this is another Bryan Cogman plotline, it seems like it's ultimately going to be another Dorne, which is the last thing they want when it's this far into the story.

But uh, Hold the Door

 

[TheFuture]

As an aside,

Spoiler

The little of Jon that we saw in this episode was very interesting, as I'm used to Jon as the respected crow and inspirational Lord Commander. But now that he's no longer LC and is back at trying to play at being a Stark again, he feels very vulnerable, exposed and even lost.

He's literally nothing now, and now it looks like they're setting up Sansa to play him. Poor Jon.

 

[Marvolo]

Spoiler

You could see Bran was horrified in the vision. He didn't realise warging Hodor through time would have the effect that it would. By the time he did there was no going back really. It's messed up and Bran will feel guilt, but I don't think it's anywherw near some of the other grey moments that we've witnessed.

Poor Summer, yet another direwolf gone. Nymeria and her pack has never been more needed.

Just on Bran, I'm curious to know what happens when he stops warging Hodor. He's still in the vision like, so when when he stops the warg will he return to his body or is he stuck there? Once Meera disconnected him from the tree I would have thought he'd wake up instantly.

I wasnt talking about Bran

Spoiler

warging Hodor and causing Willis to become Hodor. I was talking about Bran making Hodor hold the door and be slaughtered so they could get away. Thats grey as ****.

 

[Ms. Marvel]

So....about this "telepathy", how is it related to the faceless men at all?

 

[TheFuture]

So....about this "telepathy", how is it related to the faceless men at all?

Don't do it!!

 

[Slick]

For some reason I want this season to end with a snow flake landing in king's landing. I know it's not epic or anything but it's a subtle ending that shows winter is fast approaching. that's just my thoughts.

 

[Slick]

Mild spoilers. I found this on Reddit.

Spoiler

http://i.imgur.com/4MKfdPw.jpg So Tower of Joy in episode ten

It makes sense that they would want to save it for the finale.

 

[Victarion]

I thought Cogman was considered one of the better team members?

 

[Silver Surfer]

Spoiler

So the North wasn't always covered in ice, and CoTF had to make the pact with the First Men after their creation got out of control. Oh and the Night King has to be Bran the Builder.

 

[Roose Bolton]

I thought Cogman was considered one of the better team members?

Cogman got them to include Dorne when they had no plans to do so, and was the one who mapped that storyline out in his attempt to be inclusive. It's pretty apparent from this episode he did the same with the Ironborn plotline. What we get is something very underwhelming and ultimately very pointless.

 

[BatmanBeyond]

They really bungled Euron here.

Spoiler

As he's presented in the show he's just another Ironborn, and most of his dialogue (cock jokes) did very little to get across the basic essence of the character as a foreign, mystical, mysterious villain that is fundamentally different from his culture and family. Cutting out his ties to the Warlocks and Others really makes him just another villain of the week, and the scene of Theon and Yara basically undermined any sort of threat he had built up in his reveal with Balon. Given that this is another Bryan Cogman plotline, it seems like it's ultimately going to be another Dorne, which is the last thing they want when it's this far into the story.

Spoiler

I don't understand why they didn't just go with Victarion instead of Euron, seeing as they're seemingly going for the stereotypical, dick joke-spewing pirate, with no intention of delving into the latter's mysticism.