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Started by Josquius, April 04, 2011, 03:39:14 AM

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Habbaku

#7185
June 12, 2016, 09:27:07 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 06, 2016, 12:14:24 AM
Short of magical healing, some sort of switcheroo (the Waif is really Arya!11zomg!), or plot armor, I don't see how Arya survives those wounds.  But I know she will.  It will be interesting to see how they pull that off.

Welp, I was wrong.  It wasn't interesting at all.  It was just handwavy magic healing plot-armor to the rescue.
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Admiral Yi

#7186
June 12, 2016, 09:35:51 PM
Terrible resolution to the Arya storyline.

Habbaku

#7187
June 12, 2016, 09:37:27 PM
More confirmation that Cersei will end up trying to burn the city down (and maybe succeed) a la The Mad King, by the way.  I loved that, at least.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Habbaku

#7188
June 12, 2016, 09:40:05 PM
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

HVC

#7189
June 12, 2016, 09:45:38 PM
The faceless men are kind of pushovers.
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Hamilcar

#7190
June 12, 2016, 09:53:42 PM
Beric alive implies no LSH.

grumbler

#7191
June 12, 2016, 10:05:02 PM
Terrible episode.  Not sure whether to laugh or cry after that wretched performance. Arya's death wound doen't even get a nod, she just recovers from a dagger to the hilt in her guts, followed by immersion in shit-filled  water, without so much as a fever.  That arc (and, it turns out, the Blackfish arc) was credibility-busting.

Boo that episode!
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Bayraktar!

grumbler

#7192
June 12, 2016, 10:06:59 PM
Except the Bronn, Hound and Brienne bits.  Those were gold, as always.

No Samwise Gamgee moments lowers the boo volume to painful.
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Bayraktar!

LaCroix

#7193
June 12, 2016, 10:23:10 PM
milk of the poppy = anesthetic + strong will + luck. it's possible, even if it's not plausible (but I agree that arya's plot was meh, but that's the case in the books, too. consequence of GRRM failing to time-jump)

don't see the credibility issue re: blackfish

viper37

#7194
June 13, 2016, 12:44:57 AM
Quote from: Habbaku on June 12, 2016, 09:40:05 PM
Quote from: viper37 on June 11, 2016, 04:08:57 PM
http://thronesrealm.com/game-thones-photo-next-episode-hints-another-character-return/

So glad this turned out to be BS.
lots of BS theories out there, this was fun however.  The length some fans will go :)
I saw one where Arya was in fact a double and the real one was walking right beside her.
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Martinus

#7195
June 13, 2016, 01:14:53 AM
Gotta agree with grumbler. While I liked some stuff that happened (Cersei using the Mountain like he was a California primary and Bernie Bros just came to ask her for her emails again; Hound/Dondarrion courtroom drama and stuff with Pod and Bronn), the main plotlines kinda sucked. Worst episode of the season hands down.

Liep

#7196
June 13, 2016, 05:02:11 AM
Is it my Scandiweenian anti-religiousness that makes me actually root for the Mountain vs. the Fanatics or do everybody else also do that?
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Martinus

#7197
June 13, 2016, 05:03:28 AM
Definitely - most people I spoke to were disappointed Mountain stopped after one.

Grallon

#7198
June 13, 2016, 09:15:25 AM
Worst episode of the season and one of the worst of the series.  Every scene felt contrived.  From Arya not dying then returning to her mentor who lets her go - to the 'siege' of Riverrun where that dolt Edmuire ends up giving his castle without a fight to those who tortured him for years - to Brienne who's 'sworn' to fight Jamie yet runs in the middle of the night - to Blackfish, reintroduced last week only to be killed off in passing - to Danny who returns in the nick of time on Drogon-express...  Pfff  <_<

Oh well I guess there had to be one shitty episode in this, so far the best season of the series.

And btw, where's Varrys going?  I stopped reading the books after the 3rd one so.



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Valmy

#7199
June 13, 2016, 09:18:31 AM
Quote from: Grallon on June 13, 2016, 09:15:25 AM
And btw, where's Varrys going?  I stopped reading the books after the 3rd one so.

In the Books he is supporting a claimant who is not even in the TV series so the books are no guide here.
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