Game of Thrones 8.06 "The Iron Throne" 5/19/2019 Show Discussion

:rolleyes: I mentioned a crapload of differences, including most crucially that Han knew the stab was coming. Your focus on dad/aunt is your own silliness. The two are only alike in the most superficial of ways.

Agreed. That was a pretty silly scene.

Even if that’d be bad story structure, Bran can’t know that. It’s pretty smart for him to look out for Drogon, just to make sure Dany stays dead.

Nothing in the last episode hints at this. Only Yara expressed any anger at all, and she quickly backed down. Everyone else seemed totally cool with the arrangement. And there ‘should’ have been representatives from other houses in the small council, instead of fan favorite nobodies. I think you are projecting a future based on what GRRM would have written, but the show definitely had a ‘peace descends on the land’ vibe going.

I though about that too. I would have liked that to be a little more spelled out… a Keyser Soze type reveal that only the audience sees (and no I don’t mean him getting out of his wheelchair LOL), just a clear signal to the audience that he’s been using his powers to play everybody all along and perfectly set things in motion to become King. I think that would have added a nice ominous tone to round out the happy endings.

Spin-off city!

Night of the Walking Daenerys.

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I guess Drogon is the only one who remembers the Red Priestess who thought Daenerys was Azor Ahai.

She addressed the Dothroki first in their language, then the Unsullied in Valyrian.

And I meant that it’s bloody obvious to everybody that the characters in Star Wars are not the same as the characters in Game of Thrones since they are very different settings and therefore silly to harp on about, but that the scenes themselves, which was what I was talking about, were similarly shot.

Two people hugged, one stabbed the other? Okay. It’s not like The Force Awakens invented that, but if you think that’s a solid basis for snark, cool beans. Everything else (motives, moment in the story, who was the protagonist/antagonist, onlookers, consequences) were different, but cool beans.

Can he see the future? I thought his powers were limited to what has happened.

Also, Tyrion had a hard road from the Purple Wedding on, all of it through Essos, until they sailed back west. He would have had to have picked up some Valyrian.

Also because Sansa Stark has gravitas and people have learned to take her seriously. Not the case with Edmure Tully. And he knew it as soon as she told him to sit down.

Really, I have to say that overall, one of the things that has become my favorite about this show is Sophie Turner’s portrayal of Sansa. I believed her character every step of the way, from naive child to hardened leader. If I want to know anything about what happens to these characters, I want to know about Sansa.

It was only peace because everyone has been completely crippled by war. Not because they are all ok with how things are.

They were a bit wishy washy with this. I would have said, no, he can’t see the future, but then he gave that line of “why else would I be here?” which indicates he expected it.

I think, possibly, that if you know everything that’s happened in the past, it would give you enough of an insight into the world that you could predict the future with amazing accuracy.

Then again, his vision into the past seems limited too. He saw Rhaegar and Lyanna get married, but he didn’t see Rhagar get an annulment, Sam had to tell him that?

Not even the first time it happens on this show, that was how Ramsay killed Roose.

Where in the episode was that shown?

That’s what I was on about earlier–Whisperer tells him the approximate where/when to look, Bran can then find the specific info and context.
Awwww…shiiittt. Obvious answer: Tyrion & Bran planned all this out by the fireplace before the war with NK!

YES! Tyrion is Mr. Kobayashi! :smiley:

It just occurred to me that according to the White Book everybody still thinks Tyrion killed Joffrey. With all the those involved and Jaime dead, does anybody else know?

When Tyrion asked if he would be king, he said “why do you think I came all this way?”. So he apparently knew what was going to happen there. When Jon told him that he was sorry he didn’t help him with the Night King, he said Jon was just where he was supposed to be. So he at least knew how all that was playing out. Which is why he didn’t seem very concerned sitting there waiting for Arya.

The White Book describes members of the Kingsguard. Do you mean A Song of Ice and Fire?

Besides Bran, you mean?