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Agreed, on big differences between the books and show.In the books I expect that the third dragon will be ridden by another Targaryen (not the Night King). I think that will likely be Tyrion. On a different note. A recent interview of the actor who plays the Night King indicated that the Night King is on a mission to kill a specific person. Can that be anyone other than Bran?
It's pretty clearly Jon or Bran. There's nobody else that's had significant interactions with the Nigh King. I read a theory about him being after baby Sam because he feels cheated out of a kid that was offered to him but that seems like a stupid motivation.
Wow ... this is some deep stuff!Just finished watching Season 7, so I've now seen the entire series twice. Loved it more the second time, and Mrs. 82 couldn't believe how good it was. She's mad at herself that she didn't watch it the first time around when I did! We're both looking forward to next month.
Interesting remark. Reminds me of something my wife and I talked about when True Detective Season 3 came on. We discussed whether to watch it each week or wait two months to watch it all at once.I think one reason that GoT seemed better the second time through is that when bingeing, you remember way more detail from show to show. So much of the detail of what has happened is lost when you have to wait 7 days for the next hour. Netflix has spoiled all of us, I guess.Chances are we will watch every Sunday night, but that decision is based mostly on being able to talk to people about the show on a weekly basis.
The Night King can't win, can he? Can he?
We only semi-binge-watched it. My wife has to wake up early every morning to work (Sugar Mamas have a tough life). So we only have about an hour in the evenings to watch TV. So it's not as if we would watch multiple episodes at a sitting. And we have other stuff we want to watch. Plus, we took about a month break between watching the end of Season 5 and the start of Season 6. So it took us many months to watch all 7 seasons.Having watched it once before, I knew the arc of the series. I had a vague memory of the first few seasons, a better memory of the more recent ones. Watching it again led to many, "Oh yeah, THAT'S what happened to so-and-so" moments. Also, watching with a person who hadn't seen it before made me the "authority." Helping explain some of the more complex stuff to my wife actually made it more enjoyable to me. There were a few times we had to rewind to make sure we heard what we thought we heard or saw what we thought we saw. I did a good job of not "spoiling" some of the more shocking scenes. Like I didn't say, "Oh, wait till you see the Red Wedding in the next episode."All in all, it was a very enjoyable experience, and we're looking forward to Season 8.The Night King can't win, can he? Can he?
Happily, I was wrong about not being able to watch it live on HBO GO.Enjoyed the episode very much. Moved the story forward nicely. A couple of nits, but nothing major.
Was Arya's drawn weapon one to take out the ice dragon, the night king, or both? Looks like a ranged dragon class weapon.
Depends what comes up on the 20 sided die when you roll it.
Pity, she'll be dead within the year from the pox.Which one?
Maybe it was just sky high expectations and hype, but I found the first episode to be pretty slow and boring. I'm sure it will pick up, but with only 6 episodes in the season I expected more.
The first episode of the season is always a bit slow in order to reset the pieces in the right place. Even in a 6 episode season I think it was necessary. On the flip side, I felt the reveal of Jon's parentage came out rather abrupt.
My main nit from last night was why would the Night King bother to "send a message"? Why wouldn't he just lay waste to everybody and everything? He doesn't seem like the subtle (or even not-so-subtle) message-sending type.
Maybe this is overly optimistic, especially with only a handful of episodes left, but I'm hoping this is the introduction of the white walkers as "just another house" in the sense that they have their own motivations and traditions and even sentimentality. I get that their supernatural origin will always mean they're very different from the human houses, but I think a more "I Am Legend" type of zombie (the book not the movie) vs a Romero brain stem only type of zombie would add a lot to a story that is in danger of disintegrating into chaotic plot development where I don't really care about any of the major characters. Between the Night King actor's slip about killing a specific person, the swirl sigil, etc., it seems we might be moving that direction.
The episode was 54 minutes, 5 minutes of which was watching Jon and Daenerys ride around on Dragons. 30 seconds of this would have been cool, but this just felt like filler. Sure, there was some semi-interesting dialogue and set up, but nothing really happened. I give the episode a C-