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Post by Coffeecakes on Jun 1, 2015 0:29:15 GMT -4
I am currently watching the ep, and holy shit miss das sound machine herself is a wildling!.
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Post by zivvie on Jun 1, 2015 9:06:37 GMT -4
Zivvie- and it totally reminded me of Lord of the Rings:Return of the King. Yes! I don't know if that's a traditional horror/sci-fi writers' trope, but it certainly is effective, and scary.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2015 10:28:50 GMT -4
I think I preferred this battle to others the show has done in the past because shit got real for once and it was so intense. Poor Jon. How on earth are his brothers not going to banish him for this? Can you even be banished from the Wall? As the Lord Commander?
The scene between Tyrion and Dany wasn't as awesome as the writers clearly thought it was. First of all, Tyrion is a pretty smart man with more common sense than anyone on the show. He makes a lot of people look like fools when they try to compete with his logic. This was not a conversation between two equals because Dany came across as childish. The second thing is, once again, Emilia Clarke's acting. I think she was going for poker face (which would make sense) but settled for her usual dead eyes acting which strangely a lot of people seem to mistake for bad-assery. Kit Harington gets so much shit for his acting, but Emilia has trumped him many times in the past when it comes to bad acting. And now she seems just bored and over it.
Oh, and poor, poor Jorah. No good things for the most emotional man on the show. Love never leads to anything positive here, Jorah :-(.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2015 10:29:39 GMT -4
So, I'm one of the ones who has called this season boring, so I'll speak up.
GoT definitely follows a pattern of spending their entire CGI budget in one episode. It always seems like there's one action packed episode, and nine episodes of talking/intrigue. And I love the show, don't get me wrong, but this season almost seems like a set-up season. They're setting up for all hell to break loose all over the place, from a war at Winterfell to Dany planning her invasion to the White Walkers to Dorne. The chess pieces are in motion. It's not so interesting sometimes to watch the set-up, but I get why it's so important. Winter is coming.
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Post by prisma on Jun 1, 2015 13:45:46 GMT -4
I have not read the books, but I still enjoyed this piece on inside jokes in the latest episode. Also, having read around a little bit it seems like Jon Snow will get stabbed in the finale. Anyone know how he'll be brought back without being a zombie? Kit Harrington has signed on for two more seasons.
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Post by Baby Fish Mouth on Jun 1, 2015 14:42:02 GMT -4
I haven't read the books either but from what I've heard, Jon Snow is stabbed at the end of the last book, and his fate is currently unknown. I don't know what Martin plans on doing with Snow, but I suspect the showrunners aren't done with him yet. Loved everything about this episode, especially the battle and the Dany/Tyrion scenes.
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Post by Freelance Exorcist on Jun 1, 2015 18:34:58 GMT -4
Also, having read around a little bit it seems like Jon Snow will get stabbed in the finale. Anyone know how he'll be brought back without being a zombie? Kit Harrington has signed on for two more seasons.
BOOK SPOILER!!! My guess is that it will be different from what happened in the books. In the books he had planned to go to Hardhome but cancelled in order to ride South to fight the Boltons. The wildlings, IIRC, were already at The Wall, which already soured the Night's Watch on Jon, but his decision to ride South pushed them over the edge because they saw it as him abandoning his vows. With him going to Hardhome and getting caught in the massacre, he now has proof that he was right about the White Walker threat and the other surviving brothers can back him up. I would hope that any mutiny would be scuppered when the brothers realize the scope of the threat heading their way. That is unless Olly goes rogue and gets trigger happy.
Speaking of that, there's the matter of that scene with Olly and Sam being heavy foreshadowing, but I'm hoping that is the writers trolling the book readers a little. Otherwise that along with Olly constantly reminding everyone that wildlings killed his family is some seriously sloppy writing that might as well have had a crawl going across the bottom of the screen saying "hey you guys, Olly's gonna kill Jon and Sam's 'he always comes back' line TOTALLY means he's not gonna stay dead!"
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Post by Atreides on Jun 1, 2015 19:16:32 GMT -4
Loved the ep. I'm still processing it. Those White Walkers are fuckin' terrifying! That shot of the four of them on horseback high on the hill chilled me to the core with its Four Horseman of the Apocalypse imagery.
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Post by BoroKat on Jun 1, 2015 22:43:15 GMT -4
WHOOOAAAAAAAAAA.
I was even spoiled and that episode still blew my wig off. Wow. Zombie kids. That was some crazy shit.
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Post by prisma on Jun 1, 2015 23:33:13 GMT -4
I just finished rewatching the episode and I'm exhausted. I wanted to see if I could find set photos and couldn't, but found this EW article with a little bit about how it was filmed.
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