Episode had two amazing high points with the return of Benjen and Aerys. Ultimately, it also got us to one of the better stories in the books- Jaime in the Riverlands, so I'm pretty stoked for that. When I read the series, I wanted Benjen to return almost as much as I wanted anything else to happen, so that was a really nice moment.
Episode was decent. The Sparrow conclusion at least makes sense for a plot twist. Just really poorly written. Like Dany's speech last week.
I loved the development & movement in that episode BenHands Return of Arya Jaime to the riverlands Drogon big as fuck w/ a clear Daenerys plan Sam stealing the valyrian sword as he heads to oldtown (likely important af). Flashback to Aerys & the wildfire
Sparrow is gonna get fucked up. Let him win this episode as long as he gets destroyed soon. Tommen found religion for that pussy.
So Arya empathized with Cersei, realized how important her family is/was, and decided it was time to go home. There better be an Arya/Hound reunion is all I'm sayin
It doesnt look like we're going to see Jaime start to turn on his sister like in the books. Very disappointing.
The actor that plays Blackfish, I would like to speak with him about hair maintenance and styling. Wonderful for his age.
Freys gonna be fully committed to Riverrun and Petyr is gonna march right through with his knights of the Vale in his way to Winterfell
Benjen was confirmed not Coldhands by GRRM but they clearly merged them for the sake of the show. if Martin ever reveals how the Others were made(like the show) then I'm sure show Benjen is basically Coldhands' story with more exposition but RIDE A FUCKING MOOSE WHAT'S SO HARD ABOUT THAT
I don't know, I feel like seeing Aerys was one of the coolest things that the show has done. It's interesting that Bran sees Jaime killing King Aerys as he orders everyone burned, what does it mean!?!?
It's from a Bran vision in season 4. Maybe drogon, maybe not. Personally I'm hoping Dany and her dragons get the worst ending.
yea I've definitely seen it before, you're right about that, just seems like they popped it back in for effect.
How many trained moose do you think there are? Too expensive to use more cgi. Much easier and cost effective to use a horse.
I've always thought that Tommen would die relatively quickly after Joff and Cersei would try to burn the city down with the wildfire caches. Jaime kills her like Aerys but chokes her out
feel like this episode absolutely sealed his fate. I feel like Margaery might be in trouble, too. they're going to have a big old war soon, I'm guessing one episode for that and one episode for Winterfell, and a bunch of people are going to die. I'm not entirely sure Robert Strong can be stopped once Cersei unleashes him and it would fall totally in line with Cersei's horrible luck for her own Frankenstein to kill her last child.
Arya talking about a mother wanting revenge for her son's death. Frey name dropping the Brotherhood Without Banners. Jaime and Brienne both in the Riverlands. Think they could keep Stoneheart a secret for this long?
Thinking Margaery is playing the long con with the Faith, she gets Tommen to raise them up and soon the Sparrows will get fucked
lied about Coldhands, they can lie about LSH. I doubt she's in this season, though. everyone would just blab who LSH is during the 9 months of downtime anyway and from what I remember nobody has seen Michelle Fairley on a set since RW. I'm betting book fans will know what's up when someone takes a pic of her in Ireland or whatever next year but it'll keep the surprise for show fans.
the problem is Tommen isn't smart enough to know it or have the ability to play along. he's already fully bought in and that means if Margaery tries to budge he won't and he'll side with the Faith over his wife.
the only reason he sided with the faith in the first place is because marg told him to. marg definitely has the upper hand over the sparrow imo. pussy remains undefeated