Game of Thrones Season 6 Thread "I choose violence"

[Phoenix Dark]

More hot spoilers:

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North of the wall: - Bran has a vision in which he finds out the Children of the Forest are the ones who created the white walkers to guard something, but it went wrong. He has another vision about Tower of Joy, we see a baby, Lyanna whispers something to Ned, and we cut to Jon. Bran sees the whitewalkers in his vision (episode 5 possibly?) and the Night King senses him, and they find them. Night King kills 3 eyed raven, the others escape.

Castle Black/North: -Jon and Sansa go to bear island and the mormont girl backs Jon as the King of the North, so does Sansa apparently. They get support of several Northern houses, but apparently the Mormonts only have a hundred men left to pledge. Overall seems a bit funny. Davos is there and has a sick speech. Other houses pledge to Jon as King of the North. -Sansa meets up with Littlefinger in episode 5 in Moat Cailin(?) and says she doesn't believe he didnt know about Ramsay. She doesn't want anything to do with him. -Bastardbowl happens, at the start Rickon is running towards Jon who rides to him, but just when he arrives Ramsay aims for him to die and he dies in Jons arms. Team Jon wins in the end (unknown if its because Littlefinger or not) and he imprisons Ramsay, he does not kill him. Wun Wun survives, no other Stark dies.

Kings Landing: - Tommen jumps out of the window and kills himself. - Tyrells/Other big Kings Landing actors get slaughtered in the end, red wedding style. - Cersei's trial by combat gets denied, Mountain kills the Septa Unella.

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Dude who posted these originally has a track record of posting real spoilers.

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sounds like all the things that kings landing rulers have deserved for five seasons now finally catching up to them. Gonna be interesting to see how the pull of motivation for Tommen suicide tho. I don't see him having the stones for something like that.

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seems like the High Septon has his ear. What if he converts him into a true religious believer and then tells him he's the product of abomination/incest? I could see Tommen killing himself in order to seek forgiveness or some shit.

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[bluemax]

More hot spoilers:

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North of the wall: - Bran has a vision in which he finds out the Children of the Forest are the ones who created the white walkers to guard something, but it went wrong. He has another vision about Tower of Joy, we see a baby, Lyanna whispers something to Ned, and we cut to Jon. Bran sees the whitewalkers in his vision (episode 5 possibly?) and the Night King senses him, and they find them. Night King kills 3 eyed raven, the others escape.

Castle Black/North: -Jon and Sansa go to bear island and the mormont girl backs Jon as the King of the North, so does Sansa apparently. They get support of several Northern houses, but apparently the Mormonts only have a hundred men left to pledge. Overall seems a bit funny. Davos is there and has a sick speech. Other houses pledge to Jon as King of the North. -Sansa meets up with Littlefinger in episode 5 in Moat Cailin(?) and says she doesn't believe he didnt know about Ramsay. She doesn't want anything to do with him. -Bastardbowl happens, at the start Rickon is running towards Jon who rides to him, but just when he arrives Ramsay aims for him to die and he dies in Jons arms. Team Jon wins in the end (unknown if its because Littlefinger or not) and he imprisons Ramsay, he does not kill him. Wun Wun survives, no other Stark dies.

Kings Landing: - Tommen jumps out of the window and kills himself. - Tyrells/Other big Kings Landing actors get slaughtered in the end, red wedding style. - Cersei's trial by combat gets denied, Mountain kills the Septa Unella.

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Dude who posted these originally has a track record of posting real spoilers.

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sounds like all the things that kings landing rulers have deserved for five seasons now finally catching up to them. Gonna be interesting to see how the pull of motivation for Tommen suicide tho. I don't see him having the stones for something like that.

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One theory I saw was that Margaery dies and Tommen finds out she was carrying his unborn child. I dunno, that was the one twist of the whole thing that I had never considered and would be pretty amazed to see how they pull it off.

Also PD's post about succession got me thinking, will they even bother bring Gendry back? Is anyone who can prove who his father is still alive? (Cersei and Littlefinger?)

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[Mandark]

speculation

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http://uproxx.com/tv/game-of-thrones-pink-letter-littlefinger-theory/2/

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Either way, Littlefinger's the fucking Achmed Chalabi of Westeros.

[bluemax]

I saw some more spoilers that cover pretty much all the Westeros plotlines for the rest of the season, still some details of how and why things happen but some interesting stuff.

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Dorne only shows up one more time, as the final location in the finale. Hoping it is because Dany finally fucking gets to Westeros.

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[Tasty]

I don't understand the ending

Warging can affect the past?

[bluemax]

More spoiler stuff for most of the rest of the season:

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http://www.iswintercoming.com/game-of-thrones-season-6-spoilers-all-around-t2952-1485.html#p100738

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Super huge visual spoilers confirming some of the above:

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http://imgur.com/a/VShlZ

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Oh the visual spoiler is from tonight's episode, it was posted earlier and I didn't notice, so yeah not really a spoiler now.

[doctavius bonbon]

Puberty really hit all the boys in the show pretty rough, huh. By S7 Hodor will be carrying around 7 foot Bran


#SaveHodor'sBack

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[ZephyrFate]

GoT Season 6, in a nutshell:

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take every fan theory, make it canon. kill as many possible minor characters as quickly as possible to thin the cast out. make it so only one of those 30 million deaths actually works on an emotional level (hodor).

also lol at turning the CotF into idiots. They make the White Walkers to protect their forests, don't realize the White Walkers would have a mind of their own (why, exactly, did they create something that would turn against them?) and then ally with the humans against their own dumb creation. Are the CotF as dumb as Etro from Final Fantasy?

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[Kara]

It took 6 seasons, but tonight we were rid of the worst character in Game of Thrones.

[Human Snorenado]

...Summer the dire wolf???

[Phoenix Dark]

So everyone is cool with kinslaying now huh. That's now three houses led by a kingslayer who everyone knows about

Hodor

BTW grats GRRM. Way to not finish Winds and presumably get your big "why is Hodor called Hodor" question answered on the show first. GRRM

Great scene btw. That could have come off super corny or laughable but it was really well done.

Unfortunately most of the rest of the episode was ehhh. Euron is boring. And LOL @ Yara/Theon escaping like Lindsey and Tobias Bluth...and magically stealing dozens of ships before anyone found out. 

[bluemax]

Maybe Theon and his sister borrowed Baelish's magical transporter?

[helios]

Hodor

He lived up to his name.

[Human Snorenado]

Euron is almost as dumb as a Stark child. "Oh no, let's not murder my niece and nephew until AFTER my drowning ceremony, so it's all nice and royally decreed."

[TVC15]

Digging this Urine Greyjoy dude.

[eleuin]

 

[Human Snorenado]

[TVC15]

  Dat ending  :'(

[Phoenix Dark]

Tv spoiler for next episode

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sounds like a Bran and company are going to be saved by Benjen. No Coldhands for some reason. Seems like the perfect time to introduce Coldhands...

But now that Bran is marked does that mean he's not safe in any cave? If so I guess the only way they can survive is by reaching the Wall. But given that it took them forever to find the cave I don't see how they can make it. Then again the show has everyone teleporting large portions of land lmao...

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[toku]

I know predictability does not equal bad storytelling but I do love how fans have pretty much guessed every revelation like years in advance

[Tasty]

Can't wait for Zombie Hodor to show up leading the horde against Jon in the season finale.

[Phoenix Dark]

What "Hold The Door" Says About Gender Roles

#slatepitch

[toku]

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fuck hodor what about the dire wolf  im not shedding tears over hodor lmao you guys are stupid

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[Phoenix Dark]

https://ventrellaquest.com/2014/04/20/got-got/

[toku]

ASOIAF really is trash 

[TVC15]

What really pushed this episode to an A+ was the dick shot at the beginning.

[Human Snorenado]

Keep complaining the lack of dicks on the show, ladies and gay dudes. This one was uncircumcised and had warts, next time it will be a micropenis with grayscale.

[Kara]

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fuck hodor what about the dire wolf  im not shedding tears over hodor lmao you guys are stupid

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Sacrifice a useful member of your party so literally its worst member can be kept alive just a little longer to give book stans something borderline hilarious to catch feels about brehs.

[studyguy]

Motherfucker held that door tho

That play did a better recap of S1 than any pre-show cut did.

[Phoenix Dark]

Motherfucker held that door tho

That play did a better recap of S1 than any pre-show cut did.

Ned portrayed as a distinguished mentally-challenged fellow was pretty accurate.

[Steve Contra]

What's with Euron being a pudgy little shit?  Probably the worst casting of the entire show.

[Human Snorenado]

Also- I can't find the name of the woman that played the "Sansa actress" in the play.

You know. For, uh, science and shit.

[ZephyrFate]

I didn't realize

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"Some child's snow knight" was foreshadowing for the CotF reveal this episode. Goddammit, GRRM.

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[toku]

I didn't realize

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"Some child's snow knight" was foreshadowing for the CotF reveal this episode. Goddammit, GRRM.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/4klqi7/spoilers_extended_the_books_already_told_us_who/

[Phoenix Dark]

I saw that this morning.

GRRM

















GRRM

[TVC15]

He must've had a particularly inspiring bucket of fried chicken the morning he wrote that.

[El Babua]

Hope all these reveals are getting breh sweating and writing more, rather than him being resigned and deciding to masturbate to anime or whatever the fuck he does at home.

[Phoenix Dark]

Agreed. Last book came out in 2011, and instead of bunkering down he went ham with the appearances and tours. If he had simply got serious about writing in 2012 it might have been finished by now.

Gotta wonder what he was thinking last night, seeing the Hodor stuffon the show first. And what will he think after episode ten when they reveal the biggest mystery of the entire damn series. What an embarrassment. And I'd imagine his publishers aren't happy either. Getting books out while the show airs seems far more lucrative than getting them out after the show ends in a couple years. The books will sell well regardless but having it out in Feb/March/April 2016 would have been more lucrative.

[helios]

GRRM coinciding the book with the beginning of this season would've made him all of the money. But he'd still be years off from releasing the last book (or two) while the last season (or two) would be finished in a year (or two). Either way, the show would've finished his series for him instead of the other way around. GRRM should've been on his shit.

[Human Snorenado]

Show gonna be canon, Fatty ain't finishing shit

 

[TVC15]

Show gonna be canon, Fatty ain't finishing shit

 

Truth. He could have been known as the next Tolkien. Instead, he'll just be remembered as that dude that wrote that 1980s Twilight Zone episode about the Elvis impersonator that goes back in time and meets Elvis.

Man, it would be awesome if Bran warged into the 70s and met Elvis.

[brawndolicious]

Bran is a huge dickhole. Everytime he gets bored he goes climbing or warging or whatever and eavesdrops on somebody causing a war to break out. First with Cersie and Jaime and now this shit. Each time like everybody he knows ends up dead.

Motherfucka ruined Hodors whole life basically.  :'(

The other issue for Team Winterfell is that they have Brien who is the most OP knight in the world but then send her on a diplomatic mission because Sansa believes in girl power. I think all the Starks are gonna die and only Jon will be left.

[Human Snorenado]

Let's be honest: the Starks deserve to die. All of them.

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Jon gonna survive cause he's half Targ, natch

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[Kara]

His pops the Amateur Geneticist gave 2 claimants their cause for claim in the Not War of the Roses, too.

Failstarks, not even once.

[brawndolicious]

I "knew" that since season 1 breh. Always made me think that he's the character that GRRM identified with the most.

[Human Snorenado]

Also- I can't find the name of the woman that played the "Sansa actress" in the play.

You know. For, uh, science and shit.

It's Eline Powell, you useless jerks.

 

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https://67.media.tumblr.com/b8e8097c37038671bc8562729732e0e2/tumblr_o7n2ltGOgl1tba4fxo1_400.gif

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[meeb]

So the three dragons are Dany, Jon, Tyrion.

Does Jon's parentage get revealed this season? I think so. And Tyrion's next.

Also the time travel paradox is weird. But w/e.

I guess they don't want to complicate things for viewers, so Coldhands is gone. Can't have a non-evil Wight/Monster. That's also why the show makes all of its villains of the "lol I kick puppies for fun" variety. Can't actually have any sympathetic villain. Too confusing to have gray morality.

[CatsCatsCats]

Would be cool if Bran was a dragon rider, warg'd the dragon

I'm thinkin

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Coldhands will show up and obviously be Benjen

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[meeb]

Would be cool if Bran was a dragon rider, warg'd the dragon

I'm thinkin

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Coldhands will show up and obviously be Benjen

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Pretty sure Coldhands is NOT Benjen in the books.

[ZephyrFate]

Show gonna be canon, Fatty ain't finishing shit

 

Truth. He could have been known as the next Tolkien. Instead, he'll just be remembered as that dude that wrote that 1980s Twilight Zone episode about the Elvis impersonator that goes back in time and meets Elvis.

Man, it would be awesome if Bran warged into the 70s and met Elvis.

Eh. Sandkings is some of the best sci-fi ever written, and I have a first-edition copy of it. It's awesome.

[Tasty]

"Coldhands?" Wait when did Kojima infect GRRM with terrible-name-giving nanomachines?

[TVC15]

Talking about 1980s Twilight Zone gets me all horny for some Harlan Ellison, nom nom. He'd gut GRRM in a UFC-style MMA bout or back alley knife fight. I'd get that PPV.

[ZephyrFate]

Talking about 1980s Twilight Zone gets me all horny for some Harlan Ellison, nom nom. He'd gut GRRM in a UFC-style MMA bout or back alley knife fight. I'd get that PPV.

I managed to get a short story entry in a Kindle-only collection anthology online, with a previously unreleased Harlan Ellison short story. I didn't imagine that would happen.

[Phoenix Dark]

Would be cool if Bran was a dragon rider, warg'd the dragon

I'm thinkin

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Coldhands will show up and obviously be Benjen

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Pretty sure Coldhands is NOT Benjen in the books.

He's not. Was confirmed when someone viewed the original Dance manuscript at Texas A&M's library.
http://i.imgur.com/FfI1goA.jpg
(green margin notes are his editor, red pen note is Martin)

[CatsCatsCats]

Maybe not in the books!

[TVC15]

Maybe not in the books!

Once the show finishes first, I think the books are technically just fanfiction.

[studyguy]

Those were some nice tits tho
Between wart dick and those tits, I feel like HBO has met its quota.

[Human Snorenado]

Show will be canon. It is known.

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Pretty much the only thing I actively dislike that the show has done is shit all over Jaime Lannister's character. I understand why, too- he's part of the "villain" house and ultimately can't have a redemptive story arc or some BS. I think it could have worked and the show didn't give viewers enough credit.

Well, that and Dorne. Dorne was a shitshow.

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[Human Snorenado]

Yeah, but even that was better than what we had on the show.

[ZephyrFate]

Dorne was a shitshow in the books too.

You have like one chapter where a character is literally just trapped in a tower, and the tower is her day to day life. Another chapter with some wanker named Darkstar cutting off a girl's ear and running. A bunch of descriptions of Doran looking out at gardens. And then he says "fire and blood" at the end, so people think the story arc is good for whatever reason.

Arianne's story is actually really good, and works with the War of Five Queens the books were leading into.