GregR
Footballguy
This. Wargs are right up there with snarks and grumpkins. White walkers were nothing but a legend. They didn't even believe Jon Snow about the giants until Thorne was looking down at one for himself.
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Game of Thrones, tv only, books don't exist, no backstory...NERDS already ruining a series that hasn't started (2 Viewers)
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shadyridr
Footballguy
pretty sure he pissed off the wall in season 1
Evilgrin 72
Distributor of Pain
Northern Voice
Footballguy
cstu
Footballguy
Yep, I've never complained about an episode before but LOTR is a good description.
fruity pebbles
Footballguy
The 2 giants owned this episode
MyLeftHand
Footballguy
Glad i wasnt the only one. While some episodes have been less dramatic or enthralling than others, I never once felt a desire to turn it off. This one however had me wishing it would end on more than one occasion.
Almost feel ashamed to think that with how many hours of pure entertainment this show given me.
Drunken Poster
Footballguy
Chaka
Footballguy
I would have to review the scene but if he hit the anvil towards the top of frontal bone, just above the sinuses, which is the hardest part of the skull, it is plausible (maybe not likely but plausible) that it would have been a recoverable blow.
Alternatively if he hit the anvil with the hardest part of the script then that could explain his resilience as well.
timschochet
Footballguy
I think you guys are nuts. I thought it was awesome.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Mance is the leader of the wildling army. You've seen him. Google image search it, but beware of some unrelated weird cartoon sex art stuff.
krsone21
Footballguy
The guy with the Owl was with the smaller group that came through the front door, he is now dead. So Mance probably does not know.
timschochet
Footballguy
So one more episode lasting a little more than an hour. If I had to guess:
20% is Sansa, Arya, Hound, Littlefinger reunion (perhaps with Brienne as well, since she was headed toward the same place.)
10% is Dany basically doing nothing (she's done nothing all season.)
10% is Reek/Theon and Ramsay plotting some kind of ####.
10% Stannis and Witchy woman.
50% King's Landing.
We won't see any of Jon Snow, Sam, or Bran.
20% is Sansa, Arya, Hound, Littlefinger reunion (perhaps with Brienne as well, since she was headed toward the same place.)
10% is Dany basically doing nothing (she's done nothing all season.)
10% is Reek/Theon and Ramsay plotting some kind of ####.
10% Stannis and Witchy woman.
50% King's Landing.
We won't see any of Jon Snow, Sam, or Bran.
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PatsWillWin
Footballguy
timschochet
Footballguy
Lol- I didn't see it. Oh well.
Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
People would flip their #### that I put a spoiler in a spoiler box?I was just making a joke - check my post from a few pages back.
Sheesh!
Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
It should be obvious how much D&D influences the story. I mean, compare that tracking shot battle sequence to LoTR, where the Elf is sliding down the elephant's trunk. Try rolling the 18 needed for both of your simultaneous arrows to hit right after rolling the 18 to slide down the elephant's trunk, yo.
Or how the warg was seeing through the owl's eyes. You got a druid that's not overpowered right there...and it's just an owl, not some sort of hippogrif. Just an owl. Doing what owls who stay quiet do. Just checking things out, all surreptitious-like.
Psychopav
Help us, Joebi-Wan Brynobi, you're our only ho
Tell the truth now. You were googling weird cartoon sex art and a picture of Mance Rayder popped up, amIright?
Arizona Ron
Footballguy
So does everyone think we'll get and awesome last episode or just an episode of multiple cliffhangers?
Snotbubbles
Footballguy
Arizona Ron
Footballguy
Yeah agree, I don't see them wrapping any of the storylines up with only 1 episode left.
Chaka
Footballguy
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Norman Paperman
Footballguy
Dragons imo. They are going to do something.
the moops
Footballguy
My guesses.
Bran and Jon Snow meet up north of the wall and they kill Mance somehow.
Arya and Sansa miss each other. The Hound and Arya go their separate ways.
Tyrion's life is spared or he escapes. One of Jamie or Cersei eat it.
Dragons eat more goats.
Stannis and his daughter continue to be boring.
Any other "children" I am missing?
Bran and Jon Snow meet up north of the wall and they kill Mance somehow.
Arya and Sansa miss each other. The Hound and Arya go their separate ways.
Tyrion's life is spared or he escapes. One of Jamie or Cersei eat it.
Dragons eat more goats.
Stannis and his daughter continue to be boring.
Any other "children" I am missing?
skol asylum
Footballguy
It will be a whole hour of Rickon wandering around the north evading Ramsay Bolton. If captured and found to be a Stark he will be subjected to much worse torture than Theon endured...nonstop singing from Roose's brother Michael.
Celph Titled
Footballguy
bicycle_seat_sniffer
Smells like chicken
Drifter
Footballguy
He was also the one that betrayed Ned back in Season 1 by telling him he had the support of the City Watch and then backing out.
Maik Jeaunz
Footballguy
I actually liked the last episode, and thought it was time they did something like that. it seems like the watch is an afterthought with most viewers...just as it is with the people in Westeros. but just think of the scope of it.
these guys commit to the Night's Watch (many times involuntarily), they take an oath and give up any thought of family, title, land, or future prospects. they toil in the freezing cold as the defenders of the realm, and are largely forgotten by everyone. they can't say " A giant?! #### that!!!" and run, or they might be putting the entire continent (world?) at risk. the folks south of the wall play their game without caring too much about these guys who may ultimately prove to be their greatest protectors.
I thought it was good to finally see what it means to be a man of the Night's Watch, especially evident when Jon's buddy was sent to hold the inner tunnel gate, which he did at the cost of his life.
these guys commit to the Night's Watch (many times involuntarily), they take an oath and give up any thought of family, title, land, or future prospects. they toil in the freezing cold as the defenders of the realm, and are largely forgotten by everyone. they can't say " A giant?! #### that!!!" and run, or they might be putting the entire continent (world?) at risk. the folks south of the wall play their game without caring too much about these guys who may ultimately prove to be their greatest protectors.
I thought it was good to finally see what it means to be a man of the Night's Watch, especially evident when Jon's buddy was sent to hold the inner tunnel gate, which he did at the cost of his life.
Celph Titled
Footballguy
100 dudes total seems a little light.
Chaka
Footballguy
I agree with KP that Olly seemed to come out of nowhere to be a big player during the battle but a quick check of the GoT television wiki reminded that he was actually significantly featured earlier this season as well.
When the Thenns & Wildlings first crossed south of the wall they attacked Olly's village and he watched his family brutally murdered (in fact it was Ygritte who killed his father). It was the leader of the Thenns who killed Olly's mother and spared Olly (after telling him that he was going to eat his parents) so he could tell the Watch about what happened. The Wildlings were trying to draw the Watch out from the Keep leaving the Wall minimally defended.
So it actually makes a lot of sense for Olly to save Jon after Jon killed the leader of the Thenns. In that moment both of his parents were avenged.
ETA: I also think it would have been incongruous for Sam to kill Ygritte. I don't remember if he ever met her but Jon told him all about her and Sam is a really sharp dude so I am pretty sure he would have figured out that the girl hesitating to shoot Jon was the wildling Jon was in love with. I don't think Sam would have killed her.
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Chaka
Footballguy
It really is part of the brilliance of the show how they give arcs even to very minor characters like Olly and ser Janos. It makes it tougher on audiences, particularly after long season breaks, to remember the details on these terribly minor characters when it is tough enough to remember what the 20 or so principal characters have going on at any given moment.
On the plus side that lends to a very high rewatchability factor for GoT.
On the plus side that lends to a very high rewatchability factor for GoT.
biggamer3
Footballguy
oh man, i totally forgot about all this. Not sure how some of you can not just remember these things for years but remember the character's name when I dont think they even mentioned it this week.
Drifter
Footballguy
Do you watch the introductions to the show? They tailor the clips from past shows to fill you in on people they haven't talked about in a while. This week, they showed Janos indignantly yelling that he has been the head of the King's Landing City Watch.
mozzy84
Footballguy
Like drifter said above they usually cover this stuff in the intro so its fairly easy to follow along if your paying attention.
biggamer3
Footballguy
my torrent didn't have the previously on part
Chaka
Footballguy
The brief less than 2 seconds on Janos from season 2 didn't really help most people, myself included.
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
Slynt has appeared in 11 episodes so far, believe it or not.
5 this season alone.
He was the baby stabber too, if you will recall.
(that said, I get how it's easy to forgot)
5 this season alone.
He was the baby stabber too, if you will recall.
(that said, I get how it's easy to forgot)
JerseyToughGuys
Tough Guy
good quote from a few episodes ago:
Janos Slynt: "I commanded the City Watch of King's Landing, boy."
Jon Snow: "And now you're here, you must not have been very good at your job."
Janos Slynt: "I commanded the City Watch of King's Landing, boy."
Jon Snow: "And now you're here, you must not have been very good at your job."
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