Well, Kilgore wasn’t targeted specifically. Jon, otoh, realised that all this death approaching was aimed at him. And I think he looked like a truly valiant man - fully aware of the situation, resigned to his fate, yet determined to not go quietly.
Yeah, it was a good moment in an otherwise mess of an episode.
When he took off his belt and scabbard my wife asked “why,” I said “He’s not expecting to ever get to put his sword away again.”
It might have been a good “WHA!COOL!” moment to have one Bolton man really want to get Jon (should have been Karstark) and reach him first and have Jon chop the legs off the horse with his Valyrian blade…and THEN have the opposing calvary smash up.
I don’t see it. I see the horrors of war where everyone who walks away had to escape countless random occurrences in order to do so - just like every other battle in all of history.
The others aren’t the main character of the story.
There isn’t much magic in this show that isn’t completely obvious and blatant. If Snow survived because of magic, I suspect someone else would have noticed. Every time there’s been magic, casual observers have all crapped their pants in amazement.
I thought I saw the other men actively protecting Tormund in one sequence (during the ring-of-shields part), pulling him back from harm’s way. That takes some of the luck out, at least during that stage of the battle.
I think Essos is west of Westeros; the real question is there anything in between them other than ocean. Even if “Planetos” is the about the same size as Earth it doesn’t mean it has an equivalent “New World” to balance out the “Old World” of Westeros & Essos. Or maybe it’s just in the Southern hemisphere.
I imagine it would have to be before her trial unless she plans on taking out everyone with here. I doubt she’s going be tried in absentia so Mountainstein or no Mountainstein she will be transferred from the Red Keep to the Great Sept.; that alone should be interesting to see.
New theory: Bran is a teenager on late 21st-century Earth with a degenerative disease that caused him to lose the use of his legs. He wants to grow up to be a nanobot surgeon and robotics researcher to fix his issue. And the whole world we’ve seen is a VR/computer simulation he plays with in his spare time after school.
In the finale, after whatever catastrophic shit has gone down and most of the characters are dead, we cut to modern day as Bran is shown taking off his VR headset. From the other room, we hear Bran’s mom yelling:
“Bran, you need to stop spending all your time with that damn game! Have you even done your nanobots homework?”
Bran rolls his eyes and gets back to another computer terminal with a barely-started essay paper on it.
The End.
No. In a masterstroke of cartographic subtlety, Essos is east of Westeros.
I think you missed my point.
Of course, but they don’t do it within a single minute. This scene was almost cartoonish in the number of different threats Jon dodged.
Pretty much the formula for Targ conquest; “we’ve got dragons and you don’t”.
And not also west of it? You think the world is flat?
There’s no reason to believe that their known world is but a tiny fraction of whatever is out there (or to a lesser extent, that it is even spherical, but that does present other issues). We know there’s at least one other massive and almost completely unexplored land mass, Sothoryos, to the southeast of Essos. That’s a pretty good indication that they don’t really know much about what’s in their own world, and there could be quite a lot more to it than we know of.
I had the same idea, until he started getting crushed under the pile of dead bodies.
I have to agree that when I first watched the episode, during the initial sequence, with Jon all alone on the field of battle with hundreds of arrows firing directly at him and only him, I started thinking that the Lord of Light was actively protecting him. That was followed up by the miraculous saves where every time someone tried to flank him they got taken out by someone else.
I definitely got a deus ex machina vibe from the whole thing. (In the original sense, not the modern pejorative one.)
I agree it was just the chaos of battle. Everyone who survived caught some lucky breaks but we were mostly following a single protagonist.
Like the multiverse theories, there are many stories where Jon takes an arrow to the eye in the first seconds of engagement but that isn’t this particular story.
Missed the edit window: It wasn’t necessarily the first volley of arrows that was aimed just at Jon that got me thinking deus ex machina, but the rains of arrows when both cavalries had engaged that really got me thinking it. I remember thinking at the time that if someone analyzed the video in slow-mo, there’d be examples of cgi arrows miraculously changing direction around Jon.
Hm, maybe the Gods take charge in turns and right now their KOALEMOS is blessing his flock - which explains why Arya and Jon cannot die.
Very possibly. That’s not uncommon in fantasy settings. In fact, in such settings I never assume that the world is a ball orbiting a sun, assuming that it’s of any relevance (it is in GoT because of the weird cycle of seasons).
I always just assumed it had two suns, or maybe a sun and a black hole since we never see two suns in the sky. (Not that the show is chock full of views that include the sun.)
I, for one, love the theory that what we see in the intro graphic is, in fact, a somewhat factual easter egg => the world they live on is the inside of a hollow sphere. I know there are all sorts of scientific reasons that wouldn’t be the case. My answer would be “Magic, motherf…”