Game of Thrones (season 8)

[7evens]

Have watched the episode three times now and it's comfortably in my top fifteen of Game of Thrones' entire run.

 

[domalino]

Spoiler

lMO, my guess of the survivors would be:
Podrick
Sansa
Tyrion
Gendry
Sam
Yara
Lyanna Mormont
Davos
Arya (possibly to kill the night king after he gets to Bran as he morphs into the body of the night king)
Bron ( he will choose not to kill his friends Jamie and Tyrion for Cersei, he could die?)

Those likely to Die:
Bran, (IMO he will have entered into the mind of the Night king to in effect travel back in time and stop the white walkers before he dies, hence why he is so accepting of Jamie pushing him out the window and why Sam is spared by the white walkers, how he knows what is going to happen etc. He's completing a circle like with hordor.)
Jon
Theon
Beric
Danny
Euron
The mountain (he will have a duel with the hound and kill each other)
Cersie (she will be killed by Jamie?)
Jaimie
Greyworm
Brianne
Tormund
The hound
Jorah

I think Sansa will be queen of an independent north, assuming Jon/Danni both dies then Gendry to be ruler but maybe destroying the iron throne itself as a gesture of a new start?
Tyrion to be an advisor.

Spoiler

I think Theon, Beric, Jorah, Brienne & Greyworm all had their deaths set up pretty definitively last night.

 

[willipp]

I understand why people didn't enjoy it, but for me it was a really sentimental way to set up what is to come. Never have we seen so many of the main characters all together just sat around talking, interacting with the impending doom hanging over them. What i think was a bit weak (if it does pan out that way) was how it gave almost happy endings to certain characters who will probably go on and die in the war. For me thats not what GOT is about and never has been.

 

[che_don_john]

I wasn't a fan of Season 7 as it all felt a bit Marvel; 'favourite' characters surviving when they should be dying (at least Bronn or Jaimie should have perished in that battle) or being put together purely for fan service (that sparring scene between Ayra and Brienne), and everything moving at a ridiculous pace. It seemed more like a GoT fan fiction.

In earlier seasons, travel and downtime were the most important parts. That was were plots were hatched and characters developed. Therefore I think the slow pace of the first two episodes of season 8 has been welcome; it's allowing characters to interact properly and for future twists and plot developments to be set up rather than sprung upon us all deus ex machina (e.g. the plot to do Littlefinger in, which was shoddily written).

As for predictions:
- The Night King will raise all the corpses in the crypts, and that's how a lot of the characters will die
- The next episode will see the NK defeated, and then things will move south as a final battle between this Northern alliance and Cersei

 

[7evens]

I understand why people didn't enjoy it, but for me it was a really sentimental way to set up what is to come. Never have we seen so many of the main characters all together just sat around talking, interacting with the impending doom hanging over them. What i think was a bit weak (if it does pan out that way) was how it gave almost happy endings to certain characters who will probably go on and die in the war. For me thats not what GOT is about and never has been.

Yep. It was, as Gandalf would say, "the deep breath before the plunge".

I've had the general outline of this season pretty much mapped in my head for so long now that I actually started to get a little blase about it. "Yeah, some second-tier characters are gonna die in the battle for Winterfell, and then we'll get down to it", I've been thinking to myself, but this episode really caught me off guard and reminded me just how much of a connection I've made with those second-tier characters... just as they're about to be taken away from me. As the episode wore on I realised that I'm actually not ready to say goodbye to Grey Worm, or Theon, or Jorah, or Brienne, or Davos, or Tormund, or Sam, or Lyanna Mormont, or Edd, or even Winterfell itself, and by extension I'm not ready to say goodbye to the show either. These characters being wiped out en masse is a reminder that I'm four weeks away from there being no more Game of Thrones. When Sam mentions Green and Pyp I start welling up, and then when Podrick starts up with 'Jenny of Oldstones' I have to fight with everything I have not to cry. Watching those characters brace themselves for imminent death, knowing that they'll be just three episodes from leaving my life even if they survive, it all got a bit too much.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Have watched the episode three times now and it's comfortably in my top fifteen of Game of Thrones' entire run.

I agree,in fact i'd rate it higher.It all felt a bit forced last season in terms of plot progression and character development,but it appears the writers have now got to grips with the dialogue and the mood,and it's all the better for such.

 

[aguero93:20]

It seemed more like a GoT fan fiction.

That's essentially what it is, the show writers have long moved past the books at this stage and are probably working with a loose plot line from GRRM if even that.

 

[Henkeman]

That's essentially what it is, the show writers have long moved past the books at this stage and are probably working with a loose plot line from GRRM if even that.

Given he's going to cark it before getting remotely close to finishing, this is as good as anyone is going to get in terms of a conclusion.

 

[TonyM]

Just a thought but will the Night King actually be at the battle next week? Although mentioned, he wasn't actually in the trailer for next week was he.

Hamstring. Gonna miss the rest of the season.

 

[moon]

The 3 dragons should be interesting in the battle
How do they stop a dead dragon?