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Post by stuartmcd on Mar 5, 2019 19:10:01 GMT
Oh boy!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 14:25:41 GMT
Finally, season 8 is upon us  Alarm set for 2am and fingers crossed Cersei gets eaten by a dragon. |
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Post by dontdreamit on Apr 14, 2019 14:37:09 GMT
Finally, season 8 is upon us Alarm set for 2am and fingers crossed Cersei gets eaten by a dragon. We’ll be watching tomorrow evening, but recording it at 2am. Staying spoiler free will be fairly challenging for this, I reckon. |
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Post by peggs on Apr 14, 2019 14:44:30 GMT
Finally, season 8 is upon us Alarm set for 2am and fingers crossed Cersei gets eaten by a dragon. As long as it's feet first and slowly, I'd hate her to know nothing about it 😁 |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 14:56:33 GMT
I work alternating shifts and I'm on the late shift this week. I'm considering leaving my alarm as I set it for the early shift so I'd just get up earlier to watch before work. That's more sensible than crawling out of bed at 2am, right?
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Post by Backdrifter on Apr 14, 2019 15:09:33 GMT
Cannot be the only one to not watch it, tried switched off ar series 1 ep 3 ☹ I've never even got that far, having never seen any of it, despite noting that what's-her-name looks really nice. By my usual standards, I'll start watching it in about 7 years time. Right now though, I'm kind of in the place suggested by Stewart Lee's GoT routine. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 16:18:37 GMT
Characters I want to be left standing at the end: Tyrion, Brienne, Bronn, Pod, Ser Davos, Sam, the Hound, Jorah.
That list is way too long. I’ll be lucky if even half of that lot make it! :-(
Unlike Arya, I don’t have a list of characters I want to die...
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Post by viserys on Apr 14, 2019 18:52:50 GMT
#teamcersei
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Post by sophizoey on Apr 14, 2019 19:17:14 GMT
Total agreement, while she is a despicable character she's also the best written and best acted character on television. I will be very upset if Lena Headey doesn't win an Emmy, of all of them she deserves it most for managing to be that convincingly awful. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 20:25:23 GMT
I do love to hate Cersei - like many on the show she isn’t inherently evil but isn’t traditionally good either. It’s very easy to root for her because everything she does is for love and/or her children. Yes she likes power, but as a noble woman she never had any control on her own life and she now clings onto it now because it’s all she has left (except perhaps her grief).
But this close to the end? Let the dragons have her!
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 15, 2019 2:00:24 GMT
So many feels... a few dodgy green screen moments but overall a pretty decent episode 1
Loved seeing Arya's reactions to seeing some favourite people
Lots of good pay offs, reasonable set-ups
About as good as could be expected when you have so many plot strands to bring together
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Post by Steve on Apr 15, 2019 2:14:42 GMT
The great thing is the show is still fun, still an adventure, not just a bunch of grisly deaths, as some expected. Lots of fantastic family moments too. Wonderful episode!  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2019 7:27:02 GMT
I enjoyed it, but aside from a few reunions and Jon being told the truth. not much happened in all honesty. Loved the opening title changes. The problem is though, isn’t everyone but Cersei in Winterfell? I assume the walkers will win at Winterfell and keep marching... leaving Cersei (and Euron I suppose) to face them alone?
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Post by MrsCondomine on Apr 15, 2019 8:25:42 GMT
Has anyone got a favourite character that isn't any of the big players? Mine is Balon  lovely crochety old Balon, who was Permanently Disappointed (tm) |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2019 8:28:42 GMT
I'm waiting on this show to end forever so that I can use HBO's 1-month free trial to see the whole thing, then cancel my subscription.
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Post by NeilVHughes on Apr 15, 2019 8:38:16 GMT
Not much action, very much like the first act in a play where the premise and relationships are set up for the fun to come as we are now down to the final few.
The cynic in me thought one scene was there primarily for the dragon flying virtual reality ride in a Game of Thrones theme park.
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Post by viserys on Apr 15, 2019 10:42:45 GMT
The cynic in me thought one scene was there primarily for the dragon flying virtual reality ride in a Game of Thrones theme park. I thought EXACTLY the same - "this is a theme park rollercoaster waiting to happen" Otherwise I'm content. Didn't mind the slow build-up as I needed to remind myself of everything that had last happened where and when and between who. And yes, it's only Cersei and Euron in Kings Landing now. But the way she smirked when Qyburn told her that the Wall had been breached, makes me think that she'll just wait until everyone in the North and the Dead have decimated and destroyed each other, then casually stroll up north to clean up. It's what I'd do anyway, in her position. |
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Post by crowblack on Apr 15, 2019 11:07:59 GMT
one scene was there primarily for the dragon flying virtual reality ride There's a piece on Nerdist on this - I haven't read the books but if, supposedly, only people of Targaryen blood can ride dragons then Jon's ability to do so should be a 'sword in the stone' type revelatory moment, rather than one where you're just thinking 'oh come on, like hell he could stay hanging on there, why would she risk his life like that?' (flashback to childhood pony trekking incident where the pony had other ideas - had to grab its mane and hold on) I thought it was oddly flat, anticipated reunions rushed through and the first sight of dragons at Winterfell felt like an afterthought - it would have been much more exciting to have them rush over first (I live under an airport flight path and it could have been like Concorde or the Vulcan bomber, where you get that roar in the distance and rush outside and the cats flee for their lives). |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Apr 15, 2019 17:19:11 GMT
Characters I want to be left standing at the end: Tyrion, Brienne, Bronn, Pod, Ser Davos, Sam, the Hound, Jorah. That list is way too long. I’ll be lucky if even half of that lot make it! :-( Unlike Arya, I don’t have a list of characters I want to die... No Tormund?? |
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Post by welsh_tenor on Apr 15, 2019 19:09:49 GMT
“What do dragons eat?
Whatever they want.”
Brilliant scene!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2019 19:24:10 GMT
My favourite non-main character is Edd, but he is not quite as good in the show as he is in the books. Still, nice to see him!
There were some SUPER awkward reunions, weren't there? I cringed for basically the entire Dany/Sam scene.
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Post by peggs on Apr 15, 2019 19:30:20 GMT
Poor Sam. Her of the dragons is coming across as rather smug, i'm with Sansa. Oh and one particular scene really made me jump even though I knew it was coming.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2019 20:33:27 GMT
Poor Sam. Her of the dragons is coming across as rather smug, i'm with Sansa. Oh and one particular scene really made me jump even though I knew it was coming. I screamed. Reminded me of watching ‘Salem’s Lot’ when I was about 13. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2019 21:28:16 GMT
Characters I want to be left standing at the end: Tyrion, Brienne, Bronn, Pod, Ser Davos, Sam, the Hound, Jorah. That list is way too long. I’ll be lucky if even half of that lot make it! :-( Unlike Arya, I don’t have a list of characters I want to die... No Tormund?? Tormund, of course! Darn it. Why are there so many great minor characters in this show?! |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Apr 16, 2019 17:02:45 GMT
Watched it three times last yesterday, thought it a bit meh. A real foot on the brake of series seven. Just a big scene set and the blockbuster of Sam telling Jon. What a let down that scene was. And the dragon flying?!!? GoT goes romcom. The first three out of five stars episode since about season two?? Really can't think of the last that poor... maybe the first episode of series six.
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lovely crochety old Balon, who was Permanently Disappointed (tm)
