Rhaegar, despite wounding Robert, was struck down with a massive blow from Robert's warhammer, which scattered the rubies encrusted in Rhaegar's armor under the water. Rhaegar died with Lyanna Stark's name on his lips.
Stuff I loved: Gendry, Gendry, Gendry, put the hamma down, woo hoo!
Gilly reading the scrolls about R+L annulment, yes indeedie
Tyrion and Jaime reunion
Bronn saving Jaime's booty
Jon & Jorah having some exchange of looks :jealous:
Jon and Drogon "Daddy!!"
All the reunions, love it!
Didn't like: Cersei with a bun in the oven? Won't last, she'll drink the poor thing to death, just calling it
So, so sick of the Littlefinger angle
Stupid Northmen bitching about every little thing
Want more Nymeria/Ghost
9/10
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Rhaegar, despite wounding Robert, was struck down with a massive blow from Robert's warhammer, which scattered the rubies encrusted in Rhaegar's armor under the water. Rhaegar died with Lyanna Stark's name on his lips.
Holy reunions, All the feels! Gendry was a total surprise. He shouldn't have been, but I guess we've joked about it so much that I really did think he was still rowing. Lots of fun scenes for a setup episode. Not nearly as boring as they have been in the past.
So Rhaegar annulled his marriage and married Lyanna? That's interesting... And I guess Sam's going to remember that at the most amazingly perfect moment, even though he wasn't listening. It reminds me of the Space Balls fortune cookie. I'm a prince! And the dragons know it!
Winterfell really bugged me this ep. I'm not sure why. The LF/Arya game of cat and mouse isn't really doing it for me. And I didn't much care for the Sansa/Arya interaction either. They both know better. Is Arya really still that naive?
Jon and the dragon was a great scene. HBO spent a small fortune on that, but totally worth it. Drogon knows what neither of the humans do. I'm just not sure WTF Dany was doing letting her dragon come up on Jon (or anyone) like that. Really reckless with people's lives this ep. And the burning scene... Using the dragons to terrify people into submission and burning people is an unfortunate choice. I actually like that the show has her making mistakes and not always knowing the right thing to do. There is no easy answer to most things.
My question is where is the dragon glass? I hope they sent some to Castle Black and Winterfell. Seems like they headed straight north. And why the hell is Tormund going with them? Is he leaving Davos in charge while they go off on their errand? Seems like a questionable choice.
I'm not even going to comment on Jaime and Bronn's miraculously getting sucked into a wormhole that opens on the other side of the lake. Oh wait, I just did. Worst plot twist ever.
Tormund wouldnt sit around, not when a potential suicide mission is underway.
I like Sansa and Arya, however LF just needs to go. I couldnt read the scroll, anyone else able to see what it said? Ill have to pause it on rewatch tonight. In any case, LF clearly wanted Arya to find it. His meddling in the Stark girls affairs and Jon vs Sansa is wearisome.
-- Edited by Rygar on Monday 14th of August 2017 08:23:18 AM
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I'm with Cary. Completely stupid and pointless plan. Cersei isn't going to care. Cersei would be willing to do a temporary truce without proof of anything except that she might lose.
I'm trying to understand the point of LF letting Arya see that scroll. If it's that incriminating, he should've destroyed it. Maybe it's a red herring to set Arya up, and he already got the scrolls he was worried about.
Because he wants Sansa to rule, not Jon. LF is getting all the Northern Lords to get behind Sansa (Ramsay joke in there somewhere....) ;) . Arya sees thru him and has loyalty to Jon, not Sansa. However, does LF know that Arya knows, and intend for her to find the scroll? Guess it depends on what the scroll says. If it puts Sansa in a better position w the Northern Lords, then I would say he did it on purpose.
Ok edit, saw the scroll online, its the letter Cersei had Sansa write to Robb. This certianly would make Sansa look bad to the Northern Lords. So wtf? Why would LF want Arya to find that? Make the sisters grow further apart?
-- Edited by Rygar on Monday 14th of August 2017 10:10:33 AM
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Methinks Cersei wants the walkers to come and kill them all. Less that she has to do. And I'll just sneak this in here:
Spoiler
she's going to have a horrible miscarriage and die "in child birth" like her mother did.
Just my thoughts.
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Rhaegar, despite wounding Robert, was struck down with a massive blow from Robert's warhammer, which scattered the rubies encrusted in Rhaegar's armor under the water. Rhaegar died with Lyanna Stark's name on his lips.
Rygar wrote:Ok edit, saw the scroll online, its the letter Cersei had Sansa write to Robb. This certianly would make Sansa look bad to the Northern Lords. So wtf? Why would LF want Arya to find that? Make the sisters grow further apart?
Oh yeah. He's definitely pitting Sansa and Arya against each other. He needs Arya gone, so I can see why he would be okay with Arya finding that. And he can use it to destroy Sansa's credibility if she turns on him.
Littlefinger managed to make the Tully sisters conspire against each other, but I think he is underestimating Stark loyalty. Arya and Sansa are very different people and had different journeys, but in the end family blood will prevail.
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Yeah, the Tully sisters were sheltered and naive. The Starks are not. I hope LF understands that. But it really is getting tedious. They need to end it already.
Tormund answered the call I mean, of course he couldn't let Jon by himself north of the Wall. He's pecker is too small But really, everything Kristofer Hivu said made me proud my man knows what's what: "you need to convince the one with the dragons or the one who fucks her brother?" Loved the Jorah / Tormund sweetlove dialog too...
Let's keep in mind LF has no idea Arya trained with the Faceless Men, he knows she's good with a sword but to him that's manageable, but an actual facelesswoman? I don't think he'll see it coming.
Same mistake he made with Ramsay, i believe. He knew the guy was cruel like all the other Boltons but he wasn't expecting fully unhinged psycho.
Let's go capture a wight and bring it to King's Landing to show Cersei. WORST. IDEA. EVER. Tyrion, and you've had some awful ones.
They could just grab some poor fucker, take him to the other side of the wall and kill him. No need to go traipsing through the north to capture a wight.
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As soon as those cameras are off I am going to fuck that little dog.
That's what I thought too, Atat. Take someone from the cells at East watch and kill them on the other side, and voila. Seems like that worked in season 1. But now there's all this stuff about wights having to be raised by a WW and having a connection to the WW who raised them? I'm completely confused about how this works. Inconsistent, at a minimum.
I think you raised a good point Basi. I personally was a bit shook because I just got used to the idea that "you kill the White Walker and suddenly all the wights he raised go puff" and then, when Beric suddenly points to the NK and mentions that they only have to kill THAT one because he raised them all... here's Jon Snuh who says "no, no, you don't understand". I mean I almost mouthed in continuation "because sure... it's not season 8 episode 6 yet!" I mean does it work or not like that?! And why no? He's got a Valyrian steel sword that shatters WW. He's no stranger to a one on one challenge. He did it to Ramsay! I mean really.
Lol I almost tripped myself. I imagined for a sec that NK is some relative or maybe Jon fell in love what with all the eye-sexing they did at Hardhome.
-- Edited by TormundsWoman on Wednesday 23rd of August 2017 05:46:29 PM
It's not inconsistent. I had that same idea, like Atat said, but Obie told me the dudes from S1 were already turned.
So I checked, and yeah. They weren't rotten and had those unnatural blue eyes.
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Wait what? Just kill someone North of the wall and they become a wight? Dont they need to be turned first? Thats why bodies are burned so that the WW wont convert the corpses?
Jon wont kill the NK. Magic Bran will.
And Aegon is still a creep.
-- Edited by Rygar on Wednesday 23rd of August 2017 07:21:47 PM
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All the feels! Gendry was a total surprise. He shouldn't have been, but I guess we've joked about it so much that I really did think he was still rowing. Lots of fun scenes for a setup episode. Not nearly as boring as they have been in the past.
my man knows what's what: "you need to convince the one with the dragons or the one who fucks her brother?" Loved the Jorah / Tormund sweetlove dialog too... 
