Spoilers Game of Thrones: The Final Season

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  1. The Nth Doctor

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    That needs to happen now. Just so we can see the look on Cersei's face. :D

    CLEAGANEBOWL!

    CLEAGANEBOWL!

    CLEAGANEBOWL!

    Yeah, I wondered the same. I felt like he was preparing for something...and then nothing happened.

    Yeah, I was hoping she would put on an undead face, too, maybe as a way to sneak up on the Night King. I guess it was more dramatic for to have her leaping out of the shadows. Maybe we'll get that moment in A Dream of Spring?
     
  2. thribs

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    A rather abrupt ending to the Night King. I expected more from him than that. Seems too easy now.
    Anyway, I hope Ghost is okay.
     
  3. eschaton

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    I think Bran is basically done on the show. Which is a shame, because in his last line to Theon he actually started seeming like Bran again, rather than the Three-Eyed Exposition Machine.

    I mean, a Stark must remain in Winterfell, where not much of anything is going to happen now other than rebuilding. Arya certainly isn't staying, and I think the writers have more to do with Sansa yet as well. What would Bran do in King's Landing? Warg into a rat for espionage purposes?
     
  4. Agony_Boothb

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    Well, that's me done. What a bullshit ending to a storyline that has been building since the FIRST SCENE of the show.

    Game of Thrones can Game of Fuck off
     
  5. Cyrus

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    So Bran's plan worked. If the NK had stayed back the dead would have won.

    Cersei's plan worked too. If she had sent her army north they wouldn't have made any difference and probably would be dead now. Now she has a much bigger army than her opponents. But the dragons are still a problem. She is probably counting on Qyburn to come up with something.

    Will Bronn join the good guys now? he did say he is not going to stay around when the dragons come.
     
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  6. Charles Phipps

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    This confuses me.

    There's 3 episodes left. That's a denoument.

    Sauron is dead. Now all that remains is the Scouring of the Shire and epilogue. Cersei will be run over I'm sure.
     
  7. Xerxes82

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    The Grand Alliance has won. But what now? With nothing left to unite behind, all the natural divisions they've been conveniently ignoring loom large. I can't wait to see the character interactions now that we're not all on the same team anymore. Some of the relationships forged will likely bloom in new and interesting ways, others I expect to implode. Spectacularly.

    They've saved the world. But have they doomed Westeros to Cersei in the process?
     
  8. JirinPanthosa

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    He sexually excited her, and hence he was a distraction.

    I’m thinking about which other armies in the world are still intact. Yara’s fleet, the Eyrie. Who else?
     
  9. Charles Phipps

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    The real crazy evil question?

    Did Sansa keep the Knights of the Vale from the fight?
     
  10. Cyrus

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    Aren't they (knights of Vale?) already part of the North army, led by that sour puss Royce who was no where to be found in this episode?
     
  11. Charles Phipps

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    Anyway, the day is won.

    The Iron Throne no longer matters.
     
  12. Cyrus

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    I have a question regarding the Night King:
    I haven't read the books but in the TV series it has been indicated that the dead dudes attack every 1000 years or so , that is why the built the wall. Does the NK get killed every time and somehow gets resurrected (kind of like the Borg Queen)?

    Also after the dragon fire failed to kill him, it seemed like the NK smiled, which was creepy.
     
  13. Kelthaz

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    There is no Night King in the books. He was invented for the show. It's possible he could be introduced in the 6th or 7th books though, but that doesn't seem likely.
     
  14. crookeddy

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    Yeah this was the best episode of anything ever, but how can the show go on now? The rest is anticlimactic. They beat death, who cares about Cersei?
     
  15. crookeddy

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    Lol
     
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  16. DigificWriter

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    You're right; I was stubbornly wrong in those two instances, but I didn't have the benefit of being able to analyze narrative structure and apply the lessons I learned in the creative writing and Journalism classes that I took in high school like I did here.

    In looking at the storylines that had to be resolved and the amount of episodes left in the series, my narrative instincts told me that the Battle of Winterfell wasn't likely to last more than one episode and we weren't likely to lose any of the series' remaining major "POV" characters because it just didn't make sense from a storytelling perspective.

    We'll probably lose a couple of other characters in the conflict with Cersei (Varys, for example, still has to die as per Melisandre's prediction), but it seems likely to me that most of the characters we care about will end up surviving to the end of the series.
     
  17. Charles Phipps

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    There's literally only 3 episodes left. Cersei isn't the Boss. She's Saruman in the Shire.
     
  18. crookeddy

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    I'm still exhausted from this episode and endgame in one weekend. This is the best cinematic weekend of my life.
     
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  19. crookeddy

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    Yeah, well there is a reason that wasn't filmed in the movies...
     
  20. Cyrus

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    What do we say to the God of Death?
    Not today


    After that exchange, for a brief moment I thought Melisandre was going to remove her mask and be revealed as Syrio.
     
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