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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 16, 2017 19:37:04 GMT
Who's staying up?
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Post by viserys on Jul 16, 2017 19:42:49 GMT
Not me (despite being a card-carrying GoT nerd). Will enjoy it more when I'm awake tomorrow  |
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Post by Marwood on Jul 16, 2017 20:03:39 GMT
Going to see it tomorrow night at Proud in Camden, with an appearance from Kristian Nairn (Hodor) - he's DJing after but as its a week night I'm afraid I won't be staying for too much of that (am also going to have to try and avoid the temptation to shout out 'hold the door!' when I see him)
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Post by ali973 on Jul 17, 2017 4:46:04 GMT
You know..I think I'm gonna let it slide by before I hop on this time. I still have the latest seasons of House of Cards and The Leftovers to catch up with.
Somehow GOT isn't a priority seven years later.
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Post by kathryn on Jul 17, 2017 5:58:11 GMT
Watched it already! But I'm in the right time zone for once. Good the have it back.
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Post by viserys on Jul 17, 2017 11:26:34 GMT
Just watched it now over lunch. Luckily I was finished by the time the latrine-cleaning scene came around.
It may not be as refined and stellar as it was during the first 1-4 seasons, but it's still amazing stuff and I just want to hang in now for the grand finale this and next year.
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Post by mallardo on Jul 17, 2017 11:32:23 GMT
It was pretty much a setting-the-table episode but good stuff. Sophie Turner made an impression.
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Post by primitivewallflower on Jul 17, 2017 13:34:20 GMT
Man, that first scene... and that very last line from Dany. We're off!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2017 20:42:07 GMT
If one of the rumoured spin-off series is Sansa, Brienne and Lyanna Mormont having adventures together, that would be the greatest thing.
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Post by crowblack on Jul 17, 2017 20:52:39 GMT
Ed Sheeran wasn't the worst thing about that scene. Were the others in it his band? I take it they weren't professional actors.
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Post by Marwood on Jul 17, 2017 21:04:07 GMT
Ed Sheeran wasn't the worst thing about that scene. Were the others in it his band? I take it they weren't professional actors. One of them was Thomas Turgoose, from This Is England and Somers Town, don't know about the others. |
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Post by crowblack on Jul 17, 2017 21:23:59 GMT
One of them was Thomas Turgoose . He was OK, but the rest of them - the dialogue was so flat! |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 17, 2017 21:58:21 GMT
Man, that first scene... and that very last line from Dany. We're off! This.
A good opener that
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Post by firefingers on Jul 17, 2017 22:30:19 GMT
One of them was Thomas Turgoose . He was OK, but the rest of them - the dialogue was so flat! Main person speaking was Billy Postlethwaite, son of Pete Postlewaite. |
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Post by crowblack on Jul 17, 2017 22:55:34 GMT
With the black hair? I don't want to seem bitchy, but he doesn't seem to have inherited much of his father's talent (I loved P.P.!). I thought maybe he was Sheeran's drummer or something. The whole scene played as though they were reading lines they were seeing for the first time on an autocue. Really stilted. |
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Post by viserys on Jul 18, 2017 5:26:59 GMT
I got a sense that it all felt a bit stilted because the guys were awkward around this strange young woman travelling on her own (certainly a rarity) and Arya was awkward because they were Lannister soldiers and thus the enemy. There was some fine acting by Maisie Williams as the guys' stories about their families seemed to make an impact on Arya. She might yet change her mind about heading to King's Landing to off Cersei and instead goes to Winterfell to see her own family. Sheeran was a bit awful and the whole scene not as subtly done as previous appearances of well-known singers/bands, but at least it's out of the way.
On another note, I found out that "Dragonstone" is somewhere in Basque Country near San Sebastian. Methinks a trip to Spain may be in my near future, the setting looked absolutely stunning.
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Post by hal9000 on Jul 18, 2017 5:28:15 GMT
I want Jaime and Brienne to rule on the Iron Throne.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Jul 18, 2017 5:54:08 GMT
With the black hair? I don't want to seem bitchy, but he doesn't seem to have inherited much of his father's talent (I loved P.P.!). I thought maybe he was Sheeran's drummer or something. The whole scene played as though they were reading lines they were seeing for the first time on an autocue. Really stilted. I agree. Ed Sheeran scene felt forced and sh*te. Like Ed Sheeran |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2017 7:03:22 GMT
I hate to be the one to make this point, but Ed Sheeran doesn't have a band. Like, even headlining Glastonbury, the whole point of him is that he doesn't have a band, it's just him and a guitar and a loop pedal.
I didn't actually recognise Billy Postlethwaite, that's the most sensible his hair has looked in YEARS.
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Post by hal9000 on Jul 18, 2017 8:43:05 GMT
Yes, that scene was so poorly paced and acted that even thoughI knew that them robbing/raping/murdering Arya was not on the cards, it felt like that was the intention up until the last moments of the scrne because the characters were so stilted.
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Post by crowblack on Jul 18, 2017 14:30:39 GMT
Dialogue in this was anachronistic too. (Btw, was testing an old mobile so that's a bit brief - but hey, it posted!) I didn't think there's be that much difference after they'd gone past the books but there were some very 21stc lines - the quip about the top knot, the 'everything before the but' speech, and so on. I thought it was just me being picky but the comments on the Guardian picked up on it too, so it does seem to be a slight shift in tone.
(Some dialogue, I should say)
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Post by Marwood on Jul 27, 2017 9:09:40 GMT
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Post by crowblack on Jul 31, 2017 8:45:39 GMT
Brendan Cowell fished Theon out of the sea in the new episode. |
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Post by alexandraastrid79 on Sept 24, 2017 21:07:53 GMT
Cannot be the only one to not watch it, tried switched off ar series 1 ep 3 ☹
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Post by Marwood on Sept 30, 2017 13:35:25 GMT
Finally watched the last episode of series 7: main gripe, the Night King not saying a single word, just glowering in silence: I like the characters in TV series (and films) to actually say something, we don't even get a 'maniacal laugh' so its hard to judge his(?) motivation (beyond wiping out every single person in the world) in this.
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