[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The theory I've seen is that the NK was only vulnerable when next to the three eyed raven tree / Bran himself (something about being tied to a magic tree when he was created?) and so Bran actually knew all along that the NK had to be lured to the tree at just that moment, and knew that Arya would kill him, so he actually was "doing his thing" just by making sure that the timing was perfect and everyone was where they were meant to be, when they were meant to be there. Sort of like the Lord Of Light repeatedly resurrecting Beric because he was destined to save Arya, who was in turn destined to kill the Night King...

if that sequence holds true then Jon will have done his part when he protects/kills someone at the right moment

[BBDodge]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Also no one believed me when I said that this battle would be the end of the White Walkers .

I did.

There's another battle on the fixture list.

[Daniel.]

Predictions for major casualties in the battle for the throne?

[reece(:]

Originally Posted by Rose-Colored Boy

Predictions for major casualties in the battle for the throne?

Tormund (shook he made it out of this alive)
Jaime
Davos (also shook he's still alive)
Grey Worm / Missandei
Cersei
Sam (maybe me just hoping )
Brienne or Podrick

then another big player

[BBDodge]

Originally Posted by Rose-Colored Boy

Predictions for major casualties in the battle for the throne?

Cersei, of course
Qyburn
Euron
The Mountain

Jamie
Gendry
Davos
Grey Worm

Maybe a Stark, maybe a Targaryen.

[reece(:]

Oh yeah all of Cersei's crew

[bitontheslide]

So many have now played their part that they are now expendable. Literally anyone could be a casualty in the remainder of the series

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

That ending was a choice

Like they’ve been building up to it for almost a decade and she literally just appears from nowhere and jumps out and stabs him in the stomach and that’s it?

[Epic.]

Originally Posted by Sullen Girl

That ending was a choice

Like they’ve been building up to it for almost a decade and she literally just appears from nowhere and jumps out and stabs him in the stomach and that’s it?

She didnt just stab him, she was face to face with him and he was ready to strangle her, and then she gets the spear out in the nick of time, bearing in mind he's already been responsible for the deaths of dozens

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Epic.

She didnt just stab him, she was face to face with him and he was ready to strangle her, and then she gets the spear out in the nick of time, bearing in mind he's already been responsible for the deaths of dozens

It just feels a little... soon. Like the whole theme of the show is that Winter is Coming, the dead are coming, now they're just not and we're left with Cersei, who, is a good villain, but she's not exactly threatening when placed next to the Night King.

[reece(:]

Originally Posted by Dia.

It just feels a little... soon. Like the whole theme of the show is that Winter is Coming, the dead are coming, now they're just not and we're left with Cersei, who, is a good villain, but she's not exactly threatening when placed next to the Night King.

Tea she should have been disposed of first

[arista]

Yes a Good Ending,
Good Sound on grabbing the knife

[Tom4784]

I love being right I remember saying years ago that the White Walkers wouldn't be the main threat and y'all were like 'nooooo, they're the main threat!' I feel REDEEMED.

That episode though, I have never been so truly SHOOK in all my life. I was in a constant state of stress, I was yelling at the screen and I literally had to pause a few times just to walk it all off. I was literally shaking throughout.

[Tom4784]

The show was always based around the question of who would end up on the throne though.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I love being right I remember saying years ago that the White Walkers wouldn't be the main threat and y'all were like 'nooooo, they're the main threat!' I feel REDEEMED.

That episode though, I have never been so truly SHOOK in all my life. I was in a constant state of stress, I was yelling at the screen and I literally had to pause a few times just to walk it all off. I was literally shaking throughout.

Yes a long shocking
episode.
Music was changed
you could feel the Buzz , Dezzy

[BBDodge]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

The show was always based around the question of who would end up on the throne though.

The clue is in the title (of the TV series, though not the whole book sequence).

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by BBDodge

The clue is in the title (of the TV series, though not the whole book sequence).

Just goes to show that the show missed the point of the books

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by Dia.

It just feels a little... soon. Like the whole theme of the show is that Winter is Coming, the dead are coming, now they're just not and we're left with Cersei, who, is a good villain, but she's not exactly threatening when placed next to the Night King.

To be fair, all of this culminating with only 3 episodes to go is hardly selling that theme short. We've had 7 full seasons and 3 episodes of "oooh what are these zombies gonna do?" and with just 3 episodes left to wrap up the characters who can actually talk (the NK and his horde were never going to be compelling enough to leave until the end, if they can't even bloody speak) I really wouldn't argue the "fear of death / fear of winter" angle has been sold short at all.

Especially not after the biggest battle in the history of film, lol

[Smithy]

Gonna change my avi to this tonight

UGH

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Shaun

To be fair, all of this culminating with only 3 episodes to go is hardly selling that theme short. We've had 7 full seasons and 3 episodes of "oooh what are these zombies gonna do?" and with just 3 episodes left to wrap up the characters who can actually talk (the NK and his horde were never going to be compelling enough to leave until the end, if they can't even bloody speak) I really wouldn't argue the "fear of death / fear of winter" angle has been sold short at all.

Especially not after the biggest battle in the history of film, lol

The thing is they awnsered "oooh what are these zombies gonna do?" with "die in their first real battle with the living" These are the White Walkers who survived a long night once before, who lived and bided their time for nearly ten thousand years, and then they get... iced in a sneak attack by Arya Stark in their first encounter

[Smithy]

Did anyone else scream when missandei came for Sansa, whining and bitching in the crypts whilst Dany is literally risking her life to save her

[Shaun]

It...wasn't their first encounter though?

They've taken Viserion in a battle, they've taken Hodor and the 3ER, finished the Children of the Forest, they've taken the giant, there was the battle at Hardhome. In this episode they took Theon, the House of Mormont, drained Melisandre of her powers, the Lord of Light too... I just don't really see what else there could have been without them also winning the entire battle. Leaving us 3 episodes of either rooting for Cersei to stop them (which I personally wouldn't mind ) or...3 episodes of waiting for unspeaking death to get the killing blow on her.

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Did anyone else scream when missandei came for Sansa, whining and bitching in the crypts whilst Dany is literally risking her life to save her

I mean, Sansa has good reason to be stand offish with Dany, Dany's father killed her Uncle and burned her grand father alive. Also she still thinks Dany's brother kidnapped, raped and murdered her brother. I think anyone would act the same as Sansa in those circumstances.

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Shaun

It...wasn't their first encounter though?

They've taken Viserion in a battle, they've taken Hodor and the 3ER, finished the Children of the Forest, they've taken the giant, there was the battle at Hardhome. In this episode they took Theon, the House of Mormont, drained Melisandre of her powers, the Lord of Light too... I just don't really see what else there could have been without them also winning the entire battle. Leaving us 3 episodes of either rooting for Cersei to stop them (which I personally wouldn't mind ) or...3 episodes of waiting for unspeaking death to get the killing blow on her.

Those were all minor skirmishes though, where the army of the dead had numbers on their side, this was their first real battle lol. They should have had the Night King win this battle and then march south, with everyone from the North retreating to Dragonstone to come up with a new strategy. Now it just feels kind of awkward with Cersei's plot having absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the show's plots until these last three episodes.

Don't get me wrong, I've still really enjoyed everything, and am looking forward to the rest. It just feels off to kill off the existential threat and leaving us with Cersei Lannister as the final bad guy. It'd be like if the Battle of Bastards was won, then it turned out the real baddie in that story was Ramsay's sidekick.

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Dia.

I mean, Sansa has good reason to be stand offish with Dany, Dany's father killed her Uncle and burned her grand father alive. Also she still thinks Dany's brother kidnapped, raped and murdered her brother. I think anyone would act the same as Sansa in those circumstances.

I know, but the fact she’s tried to speak with Sansa in Ep2, told her she loved Jon, told her she was going to defend the north and then Sansa literally see’s her flying around on a Dragon burning them all up before running to hide in the crypts doesn’t sit right

ALSO (and Ik Sansa doesn’t know this) but Dany could have quite easily killed Jon this episode if she was that bothered about the throne, but she didn’t, this whole narrative that that’s all she cares about needs to STOP