Game of Thrones Season 8, we can finally stop waiting on GURM

[HardcoreRetro]

Well, now it's hilarious! I'm dying over here.

[agrajag]

memes are editorial cartoons but with sampled images in place of original art. They're funny because real life is funny.

[Himu]

It's funny because his face. You can tell his reaction by looking at his face. Knowing of the original meme is irrelevant.

How have you posted on gaf and here without seeing

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I've seen that gif a million times;  what does that have to do with not finding it funny? 

People posting reaction gifs aren't funny either. 

You just completely proved my point because you think I'd have to have not seen the GIF to not "Get it" lol

I really don't think that you need to see the gif to get it. It was an extra point.

[MMaRsu]

It's funny because his face. You can tell his reaction by looking at his face. Knowing of the original meme is irrelevant.

How have you posted on gaf and here without seeing

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Wow super funny man. I'm literally lmao'ing here

[agrajag]

how dare you post memes about my dragon sories

 

[MMaRsu]

Only meme worthy of anything

[I'm a Puppy!]

ZzzZzz more boring memes ZzzZzz

Nothing makes me feel older than memes;  it feels like an entire generation of people were created who think the dumbest shit is funny.   It's mostly "inside joke" humor; ITS FUNNY BECAUSE THAT GUYS FACE HAS BEEN USED IN 1000 OTHER MEMES!

 

[agrajag]

Jon turning Dany down is just another example of the writers snubbing the audience, many of whom are hardcore incest fans

it's pornhub's fault!

Now I am a hardcore bee fan.

 

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[Himu]

hey guys look it's daenerys' face. haha i get it!

[agrajag]

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[headwalk]

it would've made much more sense for dany's heel turn to have missandei's head lopped off infront of a cheering crowd, all callously having a great time with their hotdogs and foam fingers or whatever.

instead D&D did a complete 180 on the citizens of king's landing, who are usually portrayed as about as likeable as the home end at stamford bridge, by having them all as angelic innocents.

[agrajag]

that meme bothers me because it says "pet the ghost"

 

[Joe Molotov]

[Cerveza mas fina]

More memes plz

[Raist]

Reading you guys' "predictions" vs. what is going to happen is quite entertaining

[agrajag]

Reading you guys' "predictions" vs. what is going to happen is quite entertaining

The best was when Cindi said "Jaime is riding off to Kong's Landing to kill Cersei, you imbeciles. You fucking morons."

 

[thetylerrob]

Reading you guys' "predictions" vs. what is going to happen is quite entertaining

The best was when Cindi said "Jaime is riding off to Kong's Landing to kill Cersei, you imbeciles. You fucking morons."

 

Expectations = subverted

[Himu]

Reading you guys' "predictions" vs. what is going to happen is quite entertaining

The best was when Cindi said "Jaime is riding off to Kong's Landing to kill Cersei, you imbeciles. You fucking morons."

 

Yup.

I'll eat crow.



Those fucking writers.

The thing I don't get is...it feels like the themes are muddled. It's like they're saying prophecy doesn't matter, but some prophecies...DO matter?

[agrajag]

yeah, it's almost like the writing is.. bad

[agrajag]

technically, Jaime is the one that convinced her to go down to the basement, so he did kind of kill her

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[Raist]

The thing I don't get is...it feels like the themes are muddled. It's like they're saying prophecy doesn't matter, but some prophecies...DO matter?

When I asked Benioff and Weiss if it was possible to infer any overall intentionality to the upcoming 10 episodes, they sneered. “Themes are for eighth-grade book reports,” Benioff told me.

http://grantland.com/features/the-return-hbo-game-thrones/

(note the date)

[Raist]

Reading you guys' "predictions" vs. what is going to happen is quite entertaining

Shut the fuck up you spoiler reading chav.

Resetata is that way --->

[Himu]

This is why i'm not going to make ANY hard predictions for the finale.

I have no idea what the fuck.

And that excites me.

[BisMarckie]

Broke: Naming your dumb kid khaleesi and belief in her as breaker of chains and now act all surprised.

Woke: Always rejecting self-promotion and self-labeling of any politician that wants to keep the status quo of monarchy.

[thetylerrob]

"What if the Winter that was coming was actually ash from fire coming out of a dragon?"

"That's genius, no one will expect it"

I blame Star Wars.

[Himu]

The thing I don't get is...it feels like the themes are muddled. It's like they're saying prophecy doesn't matter, but some prophecies...DO matter?

When I asked Benioff and Weiss if it was possible to infer any overall intentionality to the upcoming 10 episodes, they sneered. “Themes are for eighth-grade book reports,” Benioff told me.

http://grantland.com/features/the-return-hbo-game-thrones/

(note the date)

[Raist]

David Benioff and Daniel Weiss (GoT)
Damon Lindelof (Lost)
David Eick (BSG)


Coincidence? I THINK NOT.

[thetylerrob]

The real question is, does anyone in this last episode say the phrase Game of Thrones?

"And that's how you play the Game of Thrones, Jon Snow", Says Sansa as she executes him and his psycho gf

[BisMarckie]

She turns around and says: You know Arya, we really are the Last of Us.
fin

[thetylerrob]

"Winter has come to"

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[Nintex]

The end of Euron

"Are you the King slayer? Not much of a fighter are you!"

"I will kill you Euron"

"Would you really kill the father of your unborn nephew Kingslayer? I FUCKED YOUR SISTER GOOD HAHAHAH"

"Your baby? I fucked Cersei every day and gave her all her children. Including the one she's carrying now. We have a special bond"

*Euron vomits, allowing Jaime to stab him*

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This is pretty much how it played it out

 

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[TVC15]

Have there been any memes with the Autotune the News Bed Intruder guy? I would like a meme of that, plz.

[Nintex]

[Tasty]

The thing I don't get is...it feels like the themes are muddled. It's like they're saying prophecy doesn't matter, but some prophecies...DO matter?

When I asked Benioff and Weiss if it was possible to infer any overall intentionality to the upcoming 10 episodes, they sneered. “Themes are for eighth-grade book reports,” Benioff told me.

http://grantland.com/features/the-return-hbo-game-thrones/

(note the date)

[I'm a Puppy!]

So like Bran knew that Dany would end up killing way more people than the Night King and he's just like "LOLZ Look at the night king! Hurr hurr!"

[Nintex]

Bran is an amateur.

Robert without any magic or powers predicted everything back in season 1.

[Nintex]

Nintex writes the end of the Game of Thrones

Dany goes full Hitler in her Nazi rally. Claiming she'll destroy all that oppose her and 'free all the people' from their masters

Grey Worm, Dothraki and other dumb dumbs cheer her on and Tyrion is jailed for helping Jaime

Jon is shocked as he hears this. The news comes in that Sansa has declared the North independent after the decisive victory at Kings Landing and demands that Jon sends the troops back home.

Dany is enraged. Says that Sansa is just another Tyrant that is keeping people enslaved and must be destroyed. "I will burn Winterfell if that is what it takes. I've defended it, I can destroy it"

Jon is conflicted and after consulting with Tyrion who is still in prison awaiting trial he decides that he must confront Dany.

He confronts her in the throne room. She immediatly starts to attack him "Are you here to take my throne?"

He comforts her, walks towards her and stabs her. Dany dies in his arms. "This is the only way to stop you" he sobs.

Drogon, caught off guard cries. Takes her body and leaves for Dragonstone

Jon does what the other old Targaryen dude at the wall did. He returns back to the Nights Watch. Gives up his titles.

Firstly for what he did to Dany. Secondly so that none might use his heritage for their own gain. The Targaryen bloodline ends with him that is his duty.

Tyrion asks him why. "The wheel has to be broken. If I am the choosen one, I can break that wheel. I'm the only one who can."

Grey Worm goes back overseas after talking to Davos. "You now rule the Dothraki and the Unsullied. You should free everyone as she would've wanted you to do. Forget about us on this side of the narrow sea for we will never be free."

A council is formed to see what they should do next. Tyrion proposes that Sansa should be queen. But others oppose.

Sam says that maybe the people should have a vote. Everyone laughs at the idea.

In the end the council decides on Bran. Bran should be King. After all he can see and predict everything.

Bran is the new King. A council of Tyrion (Hand), Bronn (Master of Coin), Davos (Master of Ships) and Sam (Grand Maester) advices him. Arya serves as Kings guard protecting him

Jon Snow has returned to Castle Black to be reunited with Ghost.

Sansa rules the now indepedent North.

Gendry Baratheon and his new lady prepare to reclaim the throne taken from his family at Storms End...

Bran narrates the ending epilogue.

FIN

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Let's see how well D & D do next episode. 

[Himu]

http://www.twitter.com/Shvartacus/status/1123258428686721025

[Himu]

[Himu]

from reddit. not all will agree but I feel a resounding SAME.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/bohsbl/spoilers_let_it_be_fear_aka_why_the_bells_was_one/

A lot of people complain that the shifts in a lot of characters' arcs felt too sudden in this episode. They're not wrong. Because they also did for the characters themselves, as the entire episode is about who we all are, or what we reveal ourselves to be the moment fear takes control of us. It's sudden and dramatic by fear's very nature. The episode's title, "The Bells", even calls to attention the precise instant this happens for most of our key characters.

We see it in the war scene itself. It's not so much "one good side versus one bad side" as much as it is just one collective mass of people scared shitless fighting for their lives, and all it takes is one catalyst to bring that collective fear all the way to the forefront and, amidst pure chaos, for everyone to find out who they truly are.

Dany is that catalyst. As we know, she is already afraid. But once she hears the bells of surrender in King's Landing, that's the moment the fear fully takes hold of her. The throne, the one thing she's always wanted is now finally hers for the taking. The people of King's Landing do not love her, and she will not lose the product of her life's work the way she did everything else, so she does the only other thing she sees she can do: "Let it be fear". She torches the city.

So, motivated by fear, this is the very moment she puts the fear in everyone else. The walls break down completely. All masks come off. Everyone's true selves and desires rush to the forefront.

Grey Worm, feeling only wrath from the love taken from him, seizes this opportunity to massacre innocent surrendering forces.

Formerly surrendering forces fight for their lives. They want only to survive.

Some of the victorious forces of the North do the same, while others seize the opportunity to wreak savagery upon innocents. It's who they were all along, and we've taken their good will for granted.

We've all seen Jon Snow's face of realization: "This is wrong. This was wrong all along." From that point on, he can only make futile attempts to correct what can't be undone.

Knowing it's all over, Cersei's thoughts turn entirely to her unborn child. It's not about "who wins" the throne anymore. To her, the throne was merely her and her family's refuge, a refuge she held by committing countless evils in the name of protecting herself and those she loved. Now, all she knows is that she cannot let her unborn baby die, not here. She flees. She weeps for her child.

And even among all of this, the sound of the bells was only the moment the fear hit most of our characters. Others had fear take control of them slightly prior, but the bells served as the crossroads for those very fears nonetheless.

The moment fear took control of Jaime was one episode prior. By every observable metric, he was a changed man that had every intention of atoning for his past. But the moment Sansa told him that Cersei would be executed without him, that's when his fear took hold. He could not let the woman he'd loved his entire life, from the moment of their birth, die without him there. It was not a "reversal" or "squandering" of his character arc. He had indeed become a better man. But he was the only person to ever see that side of Cersei, and he was afraid to let it die. Even at the moment of he and Cersei's death, he tells her "it’s just us, that's all that matters". The fear made him realize that his memory of that love is all he would have been content with, and given familial love being the sole motivator for all of Cersei's sociopathy, it was literally his answer to her lifelong struggle.

Obviously, The Hound fears his brother. He knows this crossroads at King's Landing is his chance. He fears NOT getting revenge, and Arya thinks she shares this in common with him. So as a litmus test, he makes it as clear as he can to Arya: if you follow me down this path, you will die.

And despite all her talk, that is the moment the fear hits Arya. She doesn't want to die. She runs through the streets trying to escape, and in doing so finds that she doesn't want the people to die as well. Fear triggers her survival impulses, not just for herself, but for others as well. She's afraid to die. There's more she needs to do. There's more everyone needs to do.

And lastly, or firstly rather, seeing the crisis of "the bells" coming days in advance in true character fashion, Varys remains the person he's always been. He fears the wrong person being seated on the throne, one that leads by instilling this very fear in them at all, the fear that arises from fire and blood.

And that, my friends, is why this episode is brilliant. It is pure Game of Thrones. We're nothing but sacks of meat and blood, and some bone to keep it all standing. When life-or-death fear hits, we become our basest, most elemental selves, and no one is invulnerable.

TL;DR: Characters' arcs shift fast because the whole episode is about fear and who we reveal ourselves to be once that fear is put in us.

[agrajag]

TLDR; version?

[Himu]

Everyone gives in to their fear and most base selves.

I think the general sentiment going around now is that most people are fine with the overall plot strands but hate the execution and feel it's rushed. Everyone thinks it's rushed.

[agrajag]

I think Arya's ark is BS. She spent years breaking herself down psychologically, reprogrammed herself to be a nameless cold blooded killer, only to become scared little Arya Stark in crucial moments. Yet she keeps falling upwards.

Btw, it seems to me that being a veteran in the battle against the army of the undead is a more stressful and PTSD-inducing experience. The northerners and dothraki sacking, pillaging and raping their way through King's Landing just seems like appropriate behavior for the time period.

[Nintex]

I think Arya's ark is BS. She spent years breaking herself down psychologically, reprogrammed herself to be a nameless cold blooded killer, only to become scared little Arya Stark in crucial moments. Yet she keeps falling upwards.

Btw, it seems to me that being a veteran in the battle against the army of the undead is a more stressful and PTSD-inducing experience. The northerners and dothraki sacking, pillaging and raping their way through King's Landing just seems like appropriate behavior for the time period.

I believe the fire is the problem.

The starks are used to the cold but they don't do well in the south.

A song of Ice and Fire. 

[agrajag]

I think Arya's ark is BS. She spent years breaking herself down psychologically, reprogrammed herself to be a nameless cold blooded killer, only to become scared little Arya Stark in crucial moments. Yet she keeps falling upwards.

Btw, it seems to me that being a veteran in the battle against the army of the undead is a more stressful and PTSD-inducing experience. The northerners and dothraki sacking, pillaging and raping their way through King's Landing just seems like appropriate behavior for the time period.

I believe the fire is the problem.

The starks are used to the cold but they don't do well in the south.

A song of Ice and Fire. 

There were dragons and lots of fire in Ep 3. Including a hostile zombie dragon.

Oh, and

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a27472338/the-simpsons-game-of-thrones-prediction-daenerys-twist/

[BisMarckie]

There were dragons and lots of fire i Ep 3. Including a hostile zombie dragon.

It‘s like when people go to Florida, it‘s not the heat that gets to you it‘s the humidity.

[agrajag]

There were dragons and lots of fire i Ep 3. Including a hostile zombie dragon.

It‘s like when people go to Florida, it‘s not the heat that gets to you it‘s the humidity.

pro tip: you never get used to it

[Himu]

Btw, it seems to me that being a veteran in the battle against the army of the undead is a more stressful and PTSD-inducing experience. The northerners and dothraki sacking, pillaging and raping their way through King's Landing just seems like appropriate behavior for the time period.

So you're saying that man is the real enemy and the real monster? Is that it?

[shosta]

no because that's gay

[agrajag]

Btw, it seems to me that being a veteran in the battle against the army of the undead is a more stressful and PTSD-inducing experience. The northerners and dothraki sacking, pillaging and raping their way through King's Landing just seems like appropriate behavior for the time period.

So you're saying that man is the real enemy and the real monster? Is that it?

That goes without saying, but what I'm getting at is that Jon is naive as fuck for -ing about it. He must have had his head buried in the snow this entire time if he didn't realize that's the world he was living in.

[Himu]

Btw, it seems to me that being a veteran in the battle against the army of the undead is a more stressful and PTSD-inducing experience. The northerners and dothraki sacking, pillaging and raping their way through King's Landing just seems like appropriate behavior for the time period.

So you're saying that man is the real enemy and the real monster? Is that it?

That goes without saying, but what I'm getting at is that Jon is naive as fuck for -ing about it. He must have had his head buried in the snow this entire time if he didn't realize that's the world he was living in.

haha

the thing about jon is that he does the right thing even if it's hard, and tends to assume the best of people. The point I think is those values, much like how they subsisted within Ned, do not belong in a feudal war monarchy. But they're also values people desperately need to remember what goodness is like. That's the crux of his character. He's a man out of his element. His actions directly led to the sacking of KL by not taking up the crown and believing in Dany's goodness. The people of the north - his own men - who flaunted themselves as loyal only to the north even caved into their most human desires.

You're not wrong. But that's why I like him.

I truly believe he'll know what to do next ep.



Make it come full circle bae.

[agrajag]

Ned also naively thought that Dany was a little girl that posed no threat. Starks are

[Himu]

Look at Dany's true character.

The breaker of chains is completely fine with Dothraki sacking KL and raping their women.

What a she-ro.

[agrajag]

Cindi, thoughts on this video? (it's about premature ejacu resolution). I think it raises some good points.

[Himu]

I mean, season 8 does fail.



So does season 7.

Season 6 was the last good season imo.