[Smithy]

she was in skins not the inbetweeners

[Nicky91]

a real possible spoiler (idk for sure) for episode titles

Spoiler:

8x01: Winter is here.
8x02: The Rightful Queen.
8x03: Winterfell
8x04: Exodus.
8x05: Ice and Fire.
8x06: A Dream of Spring.

[bots]

Originally Posted by Smithy

she was in skins not the inbetweeners

you passed the first test

[Nicky91]

Spoiler:

the Azerbaijan eurovision HoD Husniya, apparently said when doing this photoshoot ''we have our own game of thrones''

[bots]

Spoiler:

11 hours to go

[Vicky.]

****s sake..been looking forward to 9pm all day, then clicked on that it will be 9 american time, so like 2am in ours

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

****s sake..been looking forward to 9pm all day, then clicked on that it will be 9 american time, so like 2am in ours

How did you not know this? It's had the same time slot for 10 years

[Vicky.]

I never watched the others on TV..bingewatched the lot last year over a week or so

[Smithy]

Are you gonna stay up Vicky?

[Smithy]

5 hours omg uGH

[Daniel.]

I'm staying up but it's the first episode so It's unlikely something huge is gonna happen

[Vicky.]

I would be up at that time anyway, but no way will gavin be up and hes wanting to watch it too, so will prob just find it on the internet tomorrow. Will have the ads cut out too so theres a plus

[BBDodge]

Will watch on catchup 1st thing tomorrow, before coming on the internet.

[Barry.]

Taping at 2am

[BBDodge]

Originally Posted by Daniel.

I'm staying up but it's the first episode so It's unlikely something huge is gonna happen

There are only 6 more episodes and a lot of storylines to resolve. They won't keep all the shocks till the very last episode.

Something like Theon's Story can be dealt with early.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

I would be up at that time anyway, but no way will gavin be up and hes wanting to watch it too, so will prob just find it on the internet tomorrow. Will have the ads cut out too so theres a plus

I honestly don't understand how anyone can watch it with ads, even recorded to fast forward them. It would totally break immersion for me, so I torrent it even though we have Sky

"OMG this is so dramatic, one of my fav characters might die in this epis - WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY A CAR?? HOW ABOUT SOME REALLY FUKN SOFT TOILET PAPER??"

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by BBDodge

There are only 6 more episodes and a lot of storylines to resolve. They won't keep all the shocks till the very last episode.

Something like Theon's Story can be dealt with early.

The review I posted on the previous page said it was in the top 5 episodes of the show which is promising

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

I honestly don't understand how anyone can watch it with ads, even recorded to fast forward them. It would totally break immersion for me, so I torrent it even though we have Sky

"OMG this is so dramatic, one of my fav characters might die in this epis - WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY A CAR?? HOW ABOUT SOME REALLY FUKN SOFT TOILET PAPER??"

Last time I watched (live) at 2am there was only one ad break and it was really short

[Babayaro.]

Originally Posted by BBDodge

Will watch on catchup 1st thing tomorrow, before coming on the internet.

.

[DouglasS]

Can’t wait to watch. It’ll only be like 9pm for me so I can relax and watch it while Im not tired

[Daniel.]

The Telegraph has done a review of the premiere, you need an account to read it but someone on Digital Spy posted it

Spoiler:

The voice of Sansa Stark, filled New York’s Radio City Music Hall last week along with 6,000 eager invitees. “Welcome to the beginning of the end.”

Outside, a giant Iron Throne sat in the spot more often occupied by Rockefeller Plaza’s iconic Christmas tree, while inside the auditorium, attendees were warned by the actress Sophie Turner of the penalties of recording, taking pictures or leaking plot spoilers of this, the premiere of the first episode of the final season.

“Remember what happened to the last person that *******'d with us,” chimed in the voice of her co-star Maisie Williams, aka the trained assassin, Arya Stark.

After seven seasons, 67 episodes and 47 Emmy awards – a record for any scripted show in television history (it also holds the record for the most expensive pilot episode ever) – the wildly popular, critically acclaimed epic fantasy Game of Thrones, is finally bidding farewell.

And its creators David Bennioff and DB Weiss have wasted no time in getting straight down to business, with a season premiere packed with big plot point moments.

Directed by GoT regular David Nutter, the episode, as yet officially unnamed, is heavy focussed around reunions – many of them familial and long-awaited, between fond siblings (“all Arya has really thought about for a long time is reuniting with Jon Snow again”, said Williams on the red carpet) – others less so; the most unsuited of former wives and husbands are also flung together again, along with a would-be murderer and his seriously damaged would-be victim.

The show is based on the series of books A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin.“The allegory that I don’t think even George realised he was writing until recently was that, for seven seasons, you’ve got people vying for power, and suddenly, they have to come together and collaborate in order to save the planet,” said Jerome Flynn, who plays the sarcastic sellsword Bronn.

“I think that’s coming from somewhere deep in his subconscious – that the most popular show on the planet contains that metaphor.”

Unlike some season openers in years gone by, this eighth premiere contains no epic battles or large-scale set pieces, but what violence there is, is dark, brutal and unsettling. That’s balanced out, however, by a noticeably lighter, more humorous tone, with plenty of witty one-liners.

Collaboration is also a key theme. In previous seasons, the competing houses were spread out across Westeros, waging wars on one another in a bid to expand their empires. As season seven set up, however, many of Westeros’ key players are now heading north – to fight together against the White Walkers, who are advancing on the kingdom in colossal numbers.

Daenerys Targaryan (Emilia Clarke) soon learns what the audience already knows from last season too – that the wall has been ruptured, and one of her dragons killed and conscripted into the army of the dead by the Night King.

But that’s not Danaerys’s only challenge. Fans of the show will know that her relationship with Jon Snow (Kit Harrington) was taken to the next level in the season seven finale. But now she’s on his home turf. With his snide, sniffy sisters (“women supporting women” is not, it seems, a motto that has yet reached Westeros), and a population of frosty locals. Not that the chilly welcome appears to be cooling Daenerys and Jon’s PDAs.

There are plenty more new and surprisingly collaborations too – some merely political, others carnal, with, no doubt, an eventual eye to the political. But Cersei Lannister is one notable omission from the convoys heading north, remaining at King’s Landing – constantly scheming, and apparently, not letting her bed get cold in Jaime’s absence.

As Bran Stark, his all-seeing abilities threw up season seven’s biggest plot twist – that Daenerys is actually Jon’s aunt, and, as the son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, he is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne.

Rest assured it won’t be a secret much longer.

But who – if anyone – will finally claim the throne remains very much an open field. “I was worried about how the guys were going to wrap it up – that’s a high-pressure gig, and you’re never going to keep everyone happy,” said Flynn.

“But I was really relieved when I read it – they have done an amazing job. It’s deeply moving, it’s shocking, and it also makes sense, in some bizarre way.”

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Last time I watched (live) at 2am there was only one ad break and it was really short

True, I think the ads trail off during the night, but tbh I'd even find that distracting.

[Moniqua]

honestly let it die @ this point

[Babayaro.]

Originally Posted by Moniqua

honestly let it die @ this point

It is...

[Moniqua]

Originally Posted by Babayaro.

It is...