When I have a teeny, tiny rock in my shoe it doesn’t usually cause me to come crashing to the ground. Usually.
Irritant, sure. But the injury to Drogon was about equivalent to you stepping on a thumbtack. Ouchy, for sure, but not crippling.
In any case, that must have been an extremely lucky shot. Even a bolt that large should have just bounced off a dragon’s scales. It must have hit a soft spot between two scales.
Which seems to be about what happened. To use your example, if I were jogging with a thumbtack in my foot, I’d stop immediately, pull it out (assuming I can’t get Dany to do it for me) and in the next scene I’d be back to normal. I don’t remember: Did we see any sign of a scab or scar afterward?
GRRM didn’t write the script for the show, any (in)significance it might have on the show doesn’t necessarily reflect what GRRM originally had planned to do with it.
No need to make it easy for them though.
Even if there’s been a (male) dwarficide, there are still children, female dwaves etc that mean if he wears more humble clothes, and tries to cover his head at least a little, and shaves*, he won’t stand out from a distance.
Meanwhile there’s no reason to wear fancy clothes. His brother and Bronn will recognize him no matter what.
And the walk back to the boat was kinda silly. It’s a stretch imagining in a place as open as a beach he’d get that close before noticing there were soldiers there.
He was clean shaven when he left King’s Landing, so the beard is actually a better disguise.
Also, the guards specifically mention that Cersie was looking of a dwarf with a scar on his face. The weren’t concerned with his clothes or his beard.
He did write some episodes, though nothing recent I think. Looks like S4E2 was the last one.
I get the point you’re making though.
Great episode, all in all. Glad to have Gendry back. Jon bonding with the dragon was very nice. And Cersei is (maybe) pregnant!
Well, OK, there was that. Not a high point of the show.
A cliff hangar would be a good place to keep your dragons, come to think of it.
Agreed as to both. And behold!: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHNdnUOVwAIo9VZ.jpg
Absolutely. Loved that scene.
Didn’t Stannis say he was willing to release Jon from his NW vows and/or royally pardon him? Any king could get someone off NW duties if he really wanted to, I think.
Yes. And Dany’s amazed reaction spoke volumes, too.
That could be a great GOT spinoff right there!
Take another look when King Jon & Co. go out through the gate at Eastwatch. It’s just barely visible, but they’re being followed by some men who look to be dragging or carrying something. I’m betting it’s an undead-proof cage.
Make up your mind!
:: drifts into a sexual daydream ::
Hmm, sorry - what was that you said…?
That’s nothing like what happened. Drogon went into a tailspin and essentially fell out of the sky, plunging hundreds of feet straight down and barely pulling out of it just before he hit the ground. Danaerys was having a hard time holding on to him, and the look on Tyrion’s face indicated he thought they were goners.
It would be like stepping on a thumbtack while jogging and nearly falling flat on your face, barely saving yourself from smashing into the ground at the last minute by putting out your hand.
He makes a pretty good recovery when he does pull up. But once he lands and Danearys dismounts he crawls along the ground as if he is really hurt. He yelps when Danearys tries to pull out the bolt. He was being a big baby.
Obviously, it was set up to make Drogon’s injury look much more serious than it actually was to increase the drama.
No. Drogon was perfectly chipper and ready to toast Tarleys as soon as the battle was over.
Agreed about the big baby - but then I don’t think he’s ever been hurt before (except maybe play-fighting with his siblings?).
You’re running/thumbtack analogy is apt, I think, but I think Drogon’s response was realistic. He’s got something in his shoulder/wing, it hurts if he flaps his wing, so he stops flying.
Noticing the ground coming up fast, he decides a little pain is better than face-planting, tries the wing and determines it doesn’t actually hurt that bad.
Until Mom starts screwing with it when she isn’t strong enough to actually pull it out and so just wiggles it around (which probably really did hurt).
He was wounded by a couple of spears in Meereen during the assassination attempt on Dany by the Sons of the Harpy. But he was only about a tenth the size he is now, maybe the size of an elephant. Even so he was able to fly away with Dany. But he is injured enough so she can’t get him to fly back right away, leading to her capture by the Dothraki.
Commenting an episode late here… but the thing that bugged me the most about Drogon’s injury was … What the heck was she doing another pass for? She broke the line and they were routed. Let the Dothraki clean up. As soon as she came around for an entirely unnecessary pass I knew it was only to get shot down. Once the first bolt narrowly missed, she knew it too.:smack:
She and Jon are perfect for each other in this regard.
In that they, combined, have the tactical skills of a walnut?
It’s still a valid point about the show’s writing; maybe they will do something that gives significance to greyscale beyond the didn’t-seem-to-lead-to-much stories of Jorah and Shireen. But then again, maybe they won’t. Maybe the show’s writers considered it merely something to fill the time and provide a bit of emotional angst for viewers.
I don’t see much sexual tension, but I am assuming that the final episode of the series will contain a Restoration of the Natural Order scene–that is, after all the emphasis on Daenerys asking people to Bend the Knee, she will Bend the Knee to Jon (as his properly-submissive bride) and the vast majority of the audience will sigh with satisfaction that the world has been put right.
If the writers aren’t building toward that, I will be astonished.
I’d prepare in advance then. GRRM has characterized the ending as “bittersweet.” Dany kneeling before the stupidest man in the North doesn’t quite fit that description.
Aside from the general idiocy of the “catch a zombie for Cersei” plan, doesn’t it seem like the wights are the instruments of the White Walkers, under their direct control? Recall the iconic shot at the end of Hardhome, where the Night King raises his arms to reanimate all the freshly killed bodies. Is there any evidence that wights can maintain an independent existence if physically removed from the sphere of influence (the cold zone, presumably) of the White Walkers?
If we want a comedic end to this dumb plotline, perhaps they will succeed in kidnapping a wight at great cost, only to find that it collapses in a heap of dead bones once they carry it south of the snow line. Then they realize that they do have plenty of dragonglass, so one of them volunteers to be stabbed in the heart to be turned into a White Walker to reanimate the wight… at which point they realize that they could just have gone WW locally at Dragonstone, and reanimated any old dead body for Cersei’s benefit.
This entire series has been about dismantling fantasy tropes. If it ends with the true male heir saving the days, I will be extremely disappointed.
We have seen wights go into action in Castle Black, far from the White Walkers
We have no reason to believe that just anyone doing nothing but stabbing any old person in the heart with dragon glass will create a new Nights King.
Queen in to strumpets is she…?
Yes, of course. Some other magic was probably involved.
In any event, we’re all pretty much expecting that one or more major characters (a dragon even) will be wighted at some stage. I think a major character (Cersei!) turning WW would be pretty cool too.
