I was cracking up from the moment the Hound beheaded the first redshirt guy. Apparently he’s got a Vorpal Axe +3. Also loved him stealing the guy’s boots while watching him die.
Speaking of dying, I think we’re about to be all out of King once again. If Cersei won’t put a hit out on her son, someone else will do the needful.
Tommen may be meeting the Seven soon, but it won’t be on Cersei’s orders. He’s the one person on the planet she’d give up her life for. Even Jaime she’d kill if it meant saving her or Tommen.
For a split second I though the same, then I saw the Harpy on the sails.
I feel like the world’s most famous dwarf and the world’s most famous eunuch suddenly becoming administrators of a large city run by Dany Targarian and her dragons in the middle of a civil war isn’t exactly keeping a low profile.
I also suspect that Cercei probably doesn’t really give a shit about that at the moment as she has more pressing local concerns.
At least they set us up for a massive naval battle next week when the rebel Greyjoy fleet arrives.
That was actually my favorite scene. One of the funniest scenes ever on the show. Grey Worm wrestling with the concept of “joke” was hilarious.
Suck it up, all you Arya conspiracy theorists.
Yeah Tyrion’s location is not a big secret reveal. She found something to get out of her current predicament. My first thought was wildfire too.
Since there has been no need for anti-aircraft weapons I’m thinking one fire breathing dragon could take out a bunch of wooden ships.
Qyburn has only been shown to have co-opted Varys’ “little birds” in King’s Landing. I doubt that he has Varys’ connections in Essos (where Varys was from). And as has been said, in any case I doubt that Tyrion’s whereabouts are any great secret. I agree that Qyburn has probably located a cache of wildfire under the Great Sept of Baelor.
The Arya story was disappointing because it spun its wheels for an episode–there was no reason why this episode couldn’t have picked up immediately after this one. Arya was in EXACTLY the same place and condition as she was at the end of last episode as going into the chase in this one.
Riverrun was disappointing because nothing happened. I thought for sure they were going to show Jamie being eeeevil and slaughtering the Tully soldiers instead its largely ambiguous. If Brienne got the Black Fish the story would have at least given the ‘good guys’ something- The SnowStarks needed a general.
So… how do people see Jamie at the end of this plot? Was he 100% sincere with Edmure or was he bluffing on the “murder them all” front. He took the castle without spilling any blood except for the Black Fish…and it was clear that he would have preferred to take him alive.
Or… they somehow figured out who really killed Joffrey.
I would have liked to have seen the fight between Arya and the Waif. I don’t see how the Battle of the Bastards can go the Stark’s way.
If they don’t give the good guys a win it’s going to be too much of a downer.
If they do lose, I see something momentous and world changing at the climax.
Like a massive earthquake letting some of the good guys get away…and the episode ending with a cut to the remnants of the wall and the White Walkers making their way over the rubble.
When she was running, yeah. When she was walking, it was more like Pepe LePew.
Well, the whole point was that no one saw it.
(Pun intended.)
Seems like something all the apprentices would have gone through.
Since my predictions are currently pretty good, here’s some more predicting:
The Blackfish isn’t dead. He’s lurking in the cellars with some loyal pals. At some point they’re going to pop out and it’s bye-bye Freys. The clock is ticking on the Freys, I guarantee it.
I wouldn’t be all that surprised if this was all more-or-less planned (or at least expected) by Jamie. He delivered Riverrun to the Freys as ordered, it’s not his fault if the Freys get themselves murdered as soon as the Lannister army is over the horizon.
And a Jason Voorhees vibe from Cersei’s pet Mountain.
Yes, and it didn’t seem very true to what the Faceless Men are. I thought their thing was that you never see them coming, not that they’re just unstoppable killing machines.
Anyway, since I was 100% correct about the Arya situation, I’m going to go over it one more time for the people who still don’t get it.
Arya knew that she would be in trouble with the Faceless, but she didn’t know how quickly they would be onto her. This is not “bad writing” or “out-of-character”, it’s fully consistent with Arya’s tendency to over-estimate her own cleverness. For all that she’s been through and learned, she’s still young and a little foolish.
She was confidently walking around the marketplace because she underestimated the amount of danger she was in. See previous paragraph.
Both Arya and the Waif were being tested. We know who passed.
When, in the final scene, Arya says that she is Arya Stark of Winterfell and she’s going home, Jaqen smiles. No, she’s not No One, but she will certainly be serving the Red God on her mission. The Faceless Folks are basically a more refined version of the Thuggee: murder is part of their religion. And as Melisandre prophesised about Arya several seasons ago, Arya is going to be the death of a lot of people. The Red God is pleased with this.
Why do you have to be so obnoxious about this? This isn’t vindication for you, your gloating is misplaced. This is actually you bragging about being a less sophisticated viewer than others, which I will get to.
First of all, speculating about things not appearing how they seem to be on the surface in a piece of entertainment is not a “conspiracy theory”. People who create stories deliberately misleading their audience all the time and then reveal that misleading as part of a twist. Would people speculating after Joffrey’s poisoning that it was actually the Tyrells and not Tyrion be “conspiracy theorists”? No, of course not.
The writing on this show has generally not been stupid. In fact, it’s often very consistent and gets the details right, especially about the characters. The resolution of this Arya plotline may be the dumbest thing they’ve ever written.
This was Arya’s plan:
But of course Arya must’ve done this all on purpose as part of her brilliant plan, since she apparently did her best to bait the waif into attacking her in that instance, so what was her plan after that point?
So what you’re actually defending is that sequence of events was obvious, and acceptable writing, and that anyone who sought an alternate explanation and thought we may have been being mislead is a “conspiracy theorist”
And what are you gloating about? “Huh guys, see? I know you thought that since this show has always been pretty smart in the past, it would be smart now, and the incredibly dumb and inconsistent character writing you’re seeing must be some sort of mislead. But no, it was actually just incredibly dumb! Haha! Don’t you feel dumb now for your conspiracy theories?!”
The fact that you were so convinced that it wasn’t a mislead actually reflects poorly on your sophistication as a viewer. The whole reason that so many people thought there must be some sort of mislead is because the show has a consistent track record of not having characters act so wildly inconsistently, from relying on strings of ridiculous coincidences and bad planning working out like that. You are apparently oblivious to that and could not appreciate the good writing before, and apparently cannot recognize the bad writing this was, and actually gloat about it, thinking that everyone else somehow got their comeuppance for assuming the show didn’t suddenly take a dramatic turn for the dumber.
Yeah Arya getting stabbed in the gut, no armor, no coin purse, with a 5-6inch blade repeatedly, jumping into a sewage infested canal, finding her way to an actress who sews her up, gives her some nappy time only to have Arya wake up the next day felling mostly smurfy makes a hell of a lot of sense to me too.
The man knew that Arya Stark from Winterfel was Arya Stark from Winterfel, The girl was truly no-one because she has passed her training.
A mans knowing smirk tells all.
that 2 episode story arc wasn’t as bad as the sand turtles but it certainly wasn’t all that great either.
The Hound, I have much love for the Hound. “Yer shit at dying” is right up there with “Ill rape his corpse”
Cersie, oh what ever will you do without your trial by combat? for that matter whatever will the Clegain bowl theorists do without the trial by combat? or was that theory just that the two will fight? That I can see happening.
Dany arrives with Drogon in time to set fire to some masters and their ships. probably with a hoard behind her. So that will tie up the issue with Tyrions negotiations being a problem…now where are her other two dragons Tyrion?
