mstrox 6,643 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Episode 1 had a saggy snooze in the middle. Episode 2 and to a smaller extent episode 1 did a great job of servicing all of the characters in a way that the previous season barely did. KK and Yavar Moradi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bilbo 3,709 Posted April 23, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2019 Episode 2 really felt like it got characters to where their journey was going. Certain minor plot points reached a satisfying conclusion before it all goes to hell next week. I really liked episode 2. Some great moments. A. A. Ron, Yavar Moradi and Holko 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,643 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I liked both episodes well enough. Jay was right - I was just making a joke. If this weren't the final season, I would have tuned out after last season TBH. So far, I'm glad I didn't. Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I think they probably should have filmed 7 and 8 concurrently as one long season rather than breaking it in 2. At least, all 13 episodes should have been written together Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 HBO makes more money splitting them up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Much much more money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I'd love to know how much their subscriber numbers plunge the day after the Thrones finale. I know I'm canceling mine then. Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,643 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I'm sure it'll be steep. Ideally for their sake, they'd start an all-new series (or at least a new season of something) that appeals to the same audience in the last week or two of GoT to attempt to hold on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,498 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I know I'm unsubscribing after next week - I won't have t get up at 5 to watch the new episodes after that. All the quality drops are irritating and motherfucking PAL Speedup on an online on-demand streaming platform in 2019 is horrifically unacceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 37% of Viewers Likely to Cancel Their HBO Subscription Following Game of Thrones Finale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 So few? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,643 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Some people get HBO and really like GoT but also like Westworld, Veep, Silicon Valley, Last Week Tonight, movie subscription, etc. Some people "get" HBO as part of their 2-year or 1-year contract with their service provider. Some people get HBO and don't watch GoT in the first place. 37% subscriber loss is pretty massive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 They need that prequel series to be good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 52 minutes ago, Bilbo said: They need that prequel series to be good! I'm sure that'll generate some interest at first, and then people will mostly forget about it. Sort of like what happened to the Walking Dead prequel series in the show's heyday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Yeah but the Sleepwalking Dead was never any good A. A. Ron, Arpy and KK 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 A single-season, basically miniseries that covers all of Robert's Rebellion would work. But HBO doesn't want single seasons, they want another multi-season epic, which is why they greenlit "The Long Night" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,172 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 20 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said: Perhaps he'll leave the Iron Throne to Dany in exchange for his rule over the North? He is fully entitled to that after all. 12 hours ago, Stefancos said: Wouldn't be very dramatic or realistic. I could see it suiting Jon Snow well enough. Dany would need some convincing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 2,833 Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 When she says she likes bad boys Bilbo and Yavar Moradi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 Has anyone here talked about how weird it is that there seems to be almost no Dothraki shown in the past two episodes? Dany was supposed to sail with “tens of thousands” of those horse-smelling savages, but I’ve never really gotten the feeling there are that many at Winterfell right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 Pretty sure that two of her Dothraki lieutenants were seen in Ep 1 wearing winter coat on horseback, riding up to talk to her. But no, we haven't seen the full combined armies, other than Jon's pieces on the battlefield map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 I'm sure we'll see them plenty next week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 Right. The show has a habit of hiding characters if there's nothing for them to do in that week's story to save cost. Surviving direwolves are a good example. The Dothraki host is another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 They'll probably rape some of the white walker women in the next episode or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 25 minutes ago, Quintus said: They'll probably rape some of the white walker women in the next episode or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,498 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 I think the opening did show tents outside Winterfell. So there's that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 HBO passes on Bryan Cogman's Game of Thrones Spin-off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 This wasn't the 'Long Night' one, was it? And they were really planning five spinoffs? That definitely would have been overkill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 No, the Long Night one is the only one they've greenlit so far. It hasn't been revealed what the subject of Cogman's, or any of the other ones, were. Though I think it's pretty clear what the 5 biggest stories from ASOIAF's history would be The Long Night The Dance of Dragons The Doom of Valyria Aegon's Conquest Robert's Rebellion And maybe they tried to do Tales of Dunk and Egg / The Princess and the Queen / The Rogue Prince / The Sons of the Dragon (2017) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 I’d love a Dunk and Egg series. I loved those books. Robert’s Rebellion wouldn’t work. People already know the outcome and the major parts of it have been covered in a Game of Thrones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 The outcomes of all the historical stories are already known Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 And it was based on a lie. I don't want another prequel series where the sides are actively fighting based on misinformation. Save that for Star Wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,218 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 27 minutes ago, Fargo said: And they were really planning five spinoffs? That definitely would have been overkill. They were never planning to produce five. They began development on five different projects so that they could judge which of them seemed the most promising. 10 minutes ago, xWxzek said: I don't want another prequel series where the sides are actively fighting based on misinformation... Misinformation concerning enemy activities isn't a special feature of Robert's Rebellion. It's a pretty normal state of affairs. In any case, too much attention is paid to the idea that the rebellion was "based on a lie". The civil war had been brewing for years or even decades. If Lyanna Stark's alleged abduction hadn't served as the ultimate trigger for it, somethiing else would have before long. A. A. Ron and Yavar Moradi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK 3,307 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 If only the show writers had as nuanced a view on Westerosi politics as you did Gloin...it would probably make a far more interesting show! Glóin the Dark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Okay... But all the flashbacks and discussions about what happened decades ago are snippets of history that shape the state of events in the contemporary story. They're not a major important story in and of themselves. I don't need to see young Jaime slaying his king, or young Tywin in trouble as a doomed Hand, or young Jon being neglected by his "father's" wife. What's the dramatic agenda? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fargo 297 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 I want a show set in the far east. Check this map of ASOIAF-land: https://i.redd.it/41vqfsrcdhr21.jpg (too big to post here as a pic). There's a section that has a bit of similarity with the North and the Wall: The Grey Waste = Land of Always Winter The Five Forts = Night's Watch Castles And there's just some awesome sounding places: Cannibal Sands, Cities of the Bloodless Men, Cities of the Winged Men, the Bleeding Sea. Then there's K'dath, which is a Lovecraft reference from GRRM. And of course the Shadow Lands, which we don't know much about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 The sequences set in Essos were always among the most dull in the show. With the SJW Dragon Queen out of the way, they might be more exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 2 hours ago, Jay said: The outcomes of all the historical stories are already known We know pretty much nothing about the Long Night though. Whereas we know all the details of Robert’s Rebellion just from watching Game of Thrones. We know all the main players and their fates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 True that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Saw this on Reddit and laughed I don't agree with all their choices though My picks: Not a chance in hell they'll die this week: Jon, Daenerys, Sansa, Arya, Tyrion, Jaime Extremely unlikely to die this week: Sam, Gendry, Varys Seems likely to die: Theon, Tormund, Grey Worm, Beric Dondarrion, Podrick, Edd Literally could go either way and I wouldn't be surprised: Bran, Brienne, The Hound, Jorah, Davos, Missandei, Gilly & Baby Sam, Lady Mormont Jon, Daenerys, Sansa, Arya, Tyrion, and Jaime have way too much plot armor to die before the final episode, or maybe one episode before. Bran is either sacrificing himself this week to defeat the Night King, or will be one of the ones that survive everything. The Hound I feel they want to keep around for some sort of final confrontation with The Mountain, but they could subvert our expectations and have him die now Sam I feel is very likely to be one of the ones alive at the very end, perhaps the one who writes "the song of ice and fire", but I fear for Gilly & baby Sam, he could have a sad life from now til the end. Gendry is the last remaining Baratheon, he needs to be involved in the final King's Landing plot Varys clearly has some final role to play, perhaps with Mellisandre Theon, Tormund and Jorah seemed destined for the hero's sacrifice saving someone else, but they may surprise us Grey Worm, Beric, Podrick, Edd and Lady Mormont are total wild cards. Anything is possible. I don't think Beric's link to the lord of light matters with Mellisandre still around. Hopefully I didn't forget anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 A. A. Ron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Wojo 2,453 Posted April 25, 2019 Share Posted April 25, 2019 Protect the Stark family. At all costs. #whateverittakes 1 hour ago, Quintus said: I thought of this as soon as Pod started singing. I sang it for my wife after the episode, but I musta sucked because she didna recognize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Fargo 297 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 So this is r/freefolk now, lol Bilbo and A. A. Ron 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demodex 557 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 I want to know if we'll ever find out who Quaithe is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 2 hours ago, Fargo said: So this is r/freefolk now, lol I tried to start a discussion of who will live and die this week, and no one replied! 1 hour ago, Demodex said: I want to know if we'll ever find out who Quaithe is. Who? I don't remember that Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demodex 557 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Yavar Moradi 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A. A. Ron 1,738 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 2 hours ago, Demodex said: I want to know if we'll ever find out who Quaithe is. No chance in hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,281 Posted April 26, 2019 Share Posted April 26, 2019 Huh. Even seeing that picture I have no memory of that character. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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