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Game of thrones season 8 [contains spoilers]

Lord Camomile said:
This, to me, is symbolic of my problems with the later series'. I really enjoyed the politics, scheming, manoeuvring and personalities that was Varys' world, with a little bit of magic thrown in here and there for fun.

Now it's just "there's a relatively generic, very identifiable Big Bad Evil coming for everyone" and it's a bit more run of the mill. The likes of Varys have been pushed to the side, along with Tyrion when you think about how he's now being written.

As I say, I enjoyed last night's episode in part because of the weight of the past 7 series, but there hasn't been a whole lot to grab hold of for a while.
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Well yeah and no...it's not the time for politicking so a fair few characters aren't involved in this bit. Lots of others are though because it's their time.

But there's still 3 episodes after this one and let's be honest...fuck knows what happens there...we can't even put up a proposition because everything depends on what happens in the next one, it's so important narratively. (narratively is not a word apparently)

Many character arcs can stop here, so it's probably good for the ones not involved just now.
 
xenon said:
Anyway, reckons. Will definitely not die next week.
Tyrion.
Sansa
John
Sam
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Jaimie cant die till Bron turns up either, he has to at least get threatened with that crossbow. And he has to kill Cersei. And because of that other reason which is more debatable.

Anyone who wasn't in season one episode one is in a lot of trouble. It's goodbye to Brienne, and to Tormund. It's looking dodgy for Gendry, especially after shagging death, but I can't really see them getting rid quite yet. There has to be a couple go from S01E01, so I think it is goodbye to Ser Jorah (at fucking last). But no more than one member of the main main cast. Seven of them have to survive at least to carry out some ritual as prescribed the the Faith of the Seven, where each character represents one of the seven. I suppose they could do that to protect Bran whilst he's doing whatever he does by the godswood - although, would one religion 'protect' another like that? We'll see.

Oh, and that last one was a great episode, if you disagree, you're a cold heartless bastard!
 
Arya takes Jaime's face and kills Cersei whilst disguised as him.*

*Not my words, the words of a woman at work who got it off some podcast I think.
 
When she takes another's face, is she just Arya with a convincing mask on or does she shapeshift so she resembles the person bodily as well?
 
It wouldn't be that satisfying for Arya to kill Cersei though would it? Narratively it has to be real Tyrion or Jaime killing her, for the simple reason she wouldn't care about anyone else doing it. The big living baddie has to have a decent comeuppance.
 
Orang Utan said:
When she takes another's face, is she just Arya with a convincing mask on or does she shapeshift so she resembles the person bodily as well?
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She appeared taller when masquerading as Walder Frey, and had his voice. I'm assuming the faces have some juju that affects people's perceptions of the wearer, if not their actual physical form.
 
Plumdaff said:
It wouldn't be that satisfying for Arya to kill Cersei though would it? Narratively it has to be real Tyrion or Jaime killing her, for the simple reason she wouldn't care about anyone else doing it. The big living baddie has to have a decent comeuppance.
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It would for Arya.

Cersei would think it was Jaime.

I don't think that is what will happen. Just an Interesting idea.
 
Is GoT the biggest programme ever? I think the finale of M*A*S*H had the biggest audience, but I've never known a programme to be so discussed and anticipated in my life.

Not Friends or OFAH.
 
belboid said:
Seven of them have to survive at least to carry out some ritual as prescribed the the Faith of the Seven, where each character represents one of the seven. I suppose they could do that to protect Bran whilst he's doing whatever he does by the godswood - although, would one religion 'protect' another like that? We'll see.
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"their gods do not know winter"
The Roman Catholic smells and bells of the 7 have shown zero magic or power all through the books and TV show.
What works is generally dark magic associated with sacrifice and blood.
Winters coming, its the Lovecraftian Old Gods or at least the sanitised version of them on the TV show together with possibly the power of dragons (though this is really no their "realm", that was hinted at in the TV show and with the fall of Viseryon).

Other possible working magic that might be relevant here could be some blood magic linked to Nissa Nissa type sacrifice or Mad Mel whipping up something with kingsblood. I count three of royal blood (discounting Varys being a Blackfyre).
 
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belboid said:
Different times now... the MASH finale will never be topped, certainly not percentagewise
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I knew it was first in viewing figures, but holy hell... Over 100 million people watched that! That's more than 1 in 3 (getting close to 1 in 2 even) of everyone alive in the US and Canada together!
 
Chz said:
I knew it was first in viewing figures, but holy hell... Over 100 million people watched that! That's more than 1 in 3 (getting close to 1 in 2 even) of everyone alive in the US and Canada together!
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It was 40 years ago and there was nothing else on.
 
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