Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

[rufus]

Allegedly, he knew how it would go down and such so he probably just did what he knew would work. Not really sure how much he can control the future, other than by changing the past (Hodor) but maybe he can process all of the future scenarios to figure out the best one.

If I were him, I'd have had a big *** smirk as I turned to look at the Night King, knowing he was effed in a few seconds.

Yes, but presumably, all the other 3-eyed Ravens that the Night King had killed, had seen how it happened and took steps to prevent it. The one Bran met being the one we saw.

Still didn't work out so well for them.

Unless, as Bran told Theon, everything he had done to this point had brought him to this place and time. So, maybe the other 3-eyed Ravens were just playing the long game until Bran came along.

[rufus]

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So, my wild-azz guesses as to what happens.

Cersei does finally kill Jaime. He dies in Brienne's arms. Freeing her up for Tormund's love.

Bron kills Cersei with the crossbow meant for Tyrion and Jaime.

The Hound vs The Mountain in an epic death match.

Jon and Dany are both killed, leaving Gendry, the surviving heir to Robert Baratheon, to take the throne. With his queen Arya by his side. Fulfilling both Ned and Robert's dream from season 1 of uniting their houses in marriage. Tyrion is hand of the King.


Sansa stays Queen of the north, where Podrick introduces her to his Magic Caulk.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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For the second time in four weeks, Amazon Germany released the new episode 12 hours early.

Once was dumb, twice seems really dumb. I accidentally saw a post with a spoiler and I’m not happy.

[ScoobyDoo]

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I am devastated.

[SJHovey]

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So it seems to be setting up for Arya to take out Cersei using the Mountain’s face?

[bronconick]

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How can you never scout ahead when you're the only air power on the planet? Cersei deserves it because everyone else is stupid.

[ScoobyDoo]

How can you never scout ahead when you're the only air power on the planet? Cersei deserves it because everyone else is stupid.

This.

[PrezdeJohnson09]

How can you never scout ahead when you're the only air power on the planet? Cersei deserves it because everyone else is stupid.

Yeah I’ve seen the outsmarted by Cersei and Euron move enough now. It’s been a trick played out so many freaking times it’s become maddening how bad Jon and Dany are at carrying out war and battle tactics.

[state of hockey]

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So with where the scorpions are mounted, they can't shoot toward the stern. Just, like, fly around and come up behind them.

[Shirtless Guy]

Re: Game of Thrones Season 6: Lions and Wolves and Sand Snakes, oh my!

For the second time in four weeks, Amazon Germany released the new episode 12 hours early.

Once was dumb, twice seems really dumb. I accidentally saw a post with a spoiler and I’m not happy.

What was spoiled?

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

What was spoiled?

I saw the Rhaegal and Missandrei spoilers via an idiot German friend

[Kepler]

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So with where the scorpions are mounted, they can't shoot toward the stern. Just, like, fly around and come up behind them.

This was an actual problem with the Fortress of Louisbourg.

[St. Clown]

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Speaking of Hodor, he was likely at Winterfell last week. He’s returned home!

[SJHovey]

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In general I thought that episode was a mess. It was pretty clear that it was going to be a "breather" episode between the two big battle episodes of last week and next week (same director for both those episodes and some prior battles). But still.

Bronn just randomly shows up at Winterfell? It takes everyone else weeks to get from Kings Landing to Winterfell, yet he shows up drunk, spends two minutes threatening Tyrion and Jaime, then heads back? W T F?

Then, as others have alluded to, the confrontation at the end was stupid. How do you get ambushed with dragons? So if you show up with only one dragon still alive and maybe 500 unsullied, Cersei is just going to fold up her tent and go home? Plus, the whole Tyrion thing of trusting that Cersei won't kill him so he just walks up to talk to her is getting old. Didn't he just learn that Bronn has been sent to kill him and that he avoided that fate only due to Bronn's greed?

I honestly sat there last night hoping they'd stick a thousand arrows in Tyrion, even though he is one of my favorite characters, just because of the stupidity of that whole scene.

It was like the writers and directors sat around and decided that they had to do the funeral, they had to bring a completion to the two new love stories (Gendry/Arya and Jaime/Brienne) to get those wrapped up before the end, but then ran out of ideas before the next big battle.

They'd better do something in the last two episodes to bring some context and meaning to last night's mess or it was a waste of an hour and a half.

[ScoobyDoo]

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In general I thought that episode was a mess. It was pretty clear that it was going to be a "breather" episode between the two big battle episodes of last week and next week (same director for both those episodes and some prior battles). But still.

Bronn just randomly shows up at Winterfell? It takes everyone else weeks to get from Kings Landing to Winterfell, yet he shows up drunk, spends two minutes threatening Tyrion and Jaime, then heads back? W T F?

Then, as others have alluded to, the confrontation at the end was stupid. How do you get ambushed with dragons? So if you show up with only one dragon still alive and maybe 500 unsullied, Cersei is just going to fold up her tent and go home? Plus, the whole Tyrion thing of trusting that Cersei won't kill him so he just walks up to talk to her is getting old. Didn't he just learn that Bronn has been sent to kill him and that he avoided that fate only due to Bronn's greed?

I honestly sat there last night hoping they'd stick a thousand arrows in Tyrion, even though he is one of my favorite characters, just because of the stupidity of that whole scene.

It was like the writers and directors sat around and decided that they had to do the funeral, they had to bring a completion to the two new love stories (Gendry/Arya and Jaime/Brienne) to get those wrapped up before the end, but then ran out of ideas before the next big battle.

They'd better do something in the last two episodes to bring some context and meaning to last night's mess or it was a waste of an hour and a half.

Ran out of ideas? Hardly. The core storyline was Snow/Dany and Sansa going full Little Finger. Which IMO was worse case scenario. I don't like where any of it is going.

As for the stupidity of the naval battle. The only thing that explains it is the cockiness of Tyrion and Dany with the dragons. Last time the dragons weren't there. They probably didn't know they had found a way to mass produce the scorpions and mount them on ships.

I don't think there were a lack of ideas. I think there were too many bad ones. Here's hoping Arya saves the day again cause her and Bran are all that's left that has any integrity. Hell, they even sent Ghost packing.

Tyrion dying at the end for his military stupidity would have been fitting. He's not clever. He stopped being clever the minute he put an arrow through daddy.