Let’s be honest, I really don’t think the show is going to spend a whole episode setting this up just to go “LOL, he’s not here.”
I don’t doubt there’s going to be a big battle in Winterfell next week. With that said, I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that the NK is elsewhere, though. Especially with half the season left to go.
IMHO, there have been some pretty big hints that King’s Landing is going to be sacked by the NK at some point (like Dany’s visions). Why not during next week’s big battle at Winterfell? Don’t forget the NK has a dragon – he can strike KL whenever he wants.
As others have mentioned, Winterfell is a relatively hard target compared to the rest of Westeros. They are ready for the army of the dead, and are well-armed with dragonglass and Valyrian steel, and two dragons of their own. King’s Landing is a sitting duck, relatively speaking.
Have we been watching the same show?
It’s not impossible. I used to bullseye White Walkers in my T-16 back home. They’re not much bigger than two meters.
Yes, this statement disappointed me greatly. I expected during the whole series that there would be much more about the night king and his host of dead people than “he wants to extinguish all life”. I expected some surprising reveal about the nature of the night king and the wight army.
At this point, I don’t even think we’ll learn anything about the lord of light, either. It will remain some mysterious entity acting for some mysterious reason. I expected a reveal about him too.
And also something surprising happening related to the faceless men. Here too I guess I’ll be disappointed.
Screw Gods. Screw prophecies.
By the way, is anyone else surprised at how weapons are being made from dragonglass in the show?
I always assumed “dragonglass” was obsidian (i.e. a volcanic glass). However, in the show, Gendry seems to be making weapons out of like it was a metal (i.e. hammering it like iron or steel).
For what it’s worth, this guy spent a lot of effort trying to cast a sword blade out of obsidian without much luck. The result was extremely brittle, and shattered with just a slight tap.
Before this episode, I had assumed the only way to make a weapon out of dragonglass was to knap it (like flint).
On top of the dead left behind by The Battle of the Bastards, theres also Stannis’s forces.
I have a hard time seeing Ramsey bothering to even bury those guys…not to mention set them on fire. Unless they were alive. Then he’d flay them and set them on fire.
It’s been quite a long time since those battles, the tv show might gloss over the months of travel time almost everything they do requires but i would imagine the time still passes.
Am I the only one who noticed Gendry saying “As you wish” to Arya?
It is supposed to be obsidian. The fact that they are forging it like steel is probably because someone thought it was cooler than knapping it like flint.
Yeah, in the conversation between Sam and Stannis, they actually called it obsidian.
OK, so if it is actually supposed to be obsidian, then the whole scene in the forge is just stupid. :rolleyes:
Especially since now that I think about it, all of the dragonglass weapons that we’ve seen look like they’ve been knapped (i.e. like a stone-age tool).
Gendry used his oiled, muscled. . . um, . . . muscles to knap the dragonglass with his hammer.
Maybe? What’s the significance?
Yes. I thought this was incredibly stupid.
An homage to “The Princess Bride”.
HBO already has several prequels to GoT in the works. We do not know which will get the nod but being prequels they may well deal with your questions.
So, you’ll have to wait and hope.
Well, but I’m not really interested in something that HBO will dream up for a prequel.
I was expecting that these were important elements of the overall story as imagined by Martin and necessary for the planed outcome of the series. To take stupid examples, the night king turns out to be the good guy saving the day from the evil queen Daenerys manipulated by the cultist of the lord of light, and it is revealed at the very end that Arya acted as an unknowing tool of the Faceless Men for some astonishing grand plan they had.
I really wasn’t expecting that the night king would be a standard archvillain who wants to kill everybody or that the faceless men only role in the story would just be to turn Arya into an assassin on steroid. I really expected during the whole series some original and massive twists and reveals at the end of the story. For instance, when Arya left the house of black and white, I didn’t beleive for an instant that she was just left to go, and that we were done with the faceless men. I assumed they had a very good reason to be revealed later to let her go.
I’m really terribly disappointed that the series seems to be headed towards a straightforward and unsurprising end (forces of life fight the ultimate evil and some guy or another climbs on the Iron throne).
Sam also called it obsidian when they discovered the stash at the Fist of the First Men.