Game of Thrones Season 7 Thread | Winter is Here

[bluemax]

Well that was boring.

I thought the whole point of only 7 episodes this season was because episodes were going to be longer with more shit happening?

They're going to add a couple more seasons. Just watch.

According to spoilers next episode is the longest one in the series I believe (which makes up for this week being the shortest). I forget if episode 7 is also longer than usual, but next week is long.

[seagrams hotsauce]

My 70 y/o mother said the word 'cunt' for the first time in my life tonight to describe Cersei. This show truly is breaking new ground, folks

[Dennis]

[Human Snorenado]

Gendry gonna get power levelled tho

[team filler]

Laughably bad show at this point, oh well.

[seagrams hotsauce]

lol like it didnt such shit already



 biaaaaatch

[Phoenix Dark]

Gendry gonna get power levelled tho

"Don't stand in bad stuff"
"ok"

*five minutes later*

GENDRY HAS DIED

[Dennis]

[Dennis]

[Steve Contra]

7 episodes was such a stupid decision. They left so much plot development and characterization on the table. It feels rushed as fuck.

Not really a decision so much as "here's your budget, get fucked"

[Phoenix Dark]

D&D wanted 10 eps for S7, and for it to be the final season. Either way it was gonna be rushed.

[Himu]

7 episodes was such a stupid decision. They left so much plot development and characterization on the table. It feels rushed as fuck.

Not really a decision so much as "here's your budget, get fucked"

Why would HBO do that exactly?

[seagrams hotsauce]

I'm guessing HBO wanted to split up the season to milk the cow as long as they can. They've wanted more GoT shit for a while. They did the same thing with the last season of the Sopranos.

[Phoenix Dark]

7 episodes was such a stupid decision. They left so much plot development and characterization on the table. It feels rushed as fuck.

Not really a decision so much as "here's your budget, get fucked"

Why would HBO do that exactly?

Two seasons>one season. Their business model demands sub retention, so letting the cash cow go is hard. Remember The Sopranos' last season was split into two parts as well. Of course, The Sopranos is significantly less expensive than Game Of Thrones. The Sopranos shot on location in Paris in that last season, too. At the time it must have been a pretty impressive budget.

[Steve Contra]

Exactly, they needed two seasons but they couldn't afford full ten episode seasons, so we have what we have.

[bluemax]

Considering the amount of SFX in this season I kind of wonder how tame next season is going to be. You know it is going to be 5 episodes of build up, 1 battle episode, and 1 episode for the denouement.

[zepblackstar]

At this point, HBO accountants are looking at Game of Thrones as a big expense, all the stars on the show got big raises in addition.

Its just shortened seasons is more money to play with but you sacrifice the setup from going one place to another for example.

[zepblackstar]

Ack! Episode 6 got shown by HBO Spain.. SHIT IS GOING DOWN!!!!

[chronovore]

https://twitter.com/tiffpeso/status/896913552266510336

You truly have an impressive array of obscure source images, even indirectly.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Why did they speed up the show so much?

This season could easily have been two seasons. It would have been better.

PS: I called Lord Baelish setting Arya up the second he looked over to the spot she was standing.

[Momo]

They fucked up by having earlier seasons be slow as molasses. Didnt Arya take like 4 seasons to cross the sea? Now you have people fast travelling 2x that in the span of 20 mins lol

[eleuin]

Ep6 is out there, 1080p

[toku]

[Vertigo]

Gifs and clips of the leaked episode all over the internet. Good luck if can avoid them until Sunday.

Seems those leaks from late last year were pretty much correct.

[zepblackstar]

about leaked episode 6

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Episode was pretty damn good, but at this point it is fan service. It played out like an action horror and night king is overpowered as fuck. Now I kinda want to see the first men era where the walkers and NK came about because pushing him back  to the far north must have been insane.

Yes, there are teleport jumps but at the pace they are going it is needed and welcomed

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[eleuin]

Okay this episode makes it pretty clear that the budget was blown

[El Babua]

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Dany making it to the far north from Dragonstone in the span of like 4 hours is peak lol Those dragons must be doing mach 3

Also, this ep is pretty much the first half of whatever ADOS is supposed to be told in a little more than a hour.

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[Raist]

Watched it because what's the point in waiting for sunday.

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OH. MY. FUCKING. GOD.

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Could someone PLEASE for the love of the 7 kill Sansa already. ARYA PLS

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[Tasty]

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I totally called at least half of these spoilers. I'm only wondering if the dragon spits ice or fire right now.

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[bluemax]

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Tormund's dialogue is so fanservicey.

The time logistics of this episode take the teleporter complaints to a new level.

RIP Tyrion Dragonrider theories.

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[eleuin]

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WW dragon was a forgone conclusion

Won't have to hear much more of his dialogue as he's definitely dying in the wall attack
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Suspension of disbelief rant

Thoros' death was  , its quiet enough for them to sleep? was the captured wight only making noise sporadically

If their fire swords emit heat why didn't they use them to warm up

Also is fighting needlessly a Stark thing, 1st Jon keeping everyone waiting and then Benjen who could've hopped on the horse too

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[Raist]

So about that old theory that for some reason popped up in the past couple of days on various news sites...

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The Night King is Bran, somehow. I always thought it was a bit of nonsense, but the more it goes, the more the NK looks like a 2,000yo (or whatever his age is) popsicle version of Bran.



Surely they wouldn't go deeper down the rabbit hole of time travel shenanigans, right? Right?

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[TakingBackSunday]

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I think it's more likely Bran is actually Bran the Builder through some timey wimey bullshit

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[CatsCatsCats]

Yo gotta hand it to them, they're trying to wrap this shit up clearly, can't wait for the Shamalamadingdong-esque twist

[Huff]

Bran is his own grandmother

[Phoenix Dark]

Thousands and thousands of years ago, Brandon the Builder had raised Winterfell, and some said the Wall. Bran knew the story, but it had never been his favorite. Maybe one of the other Brandons had liked that story. Sometimes Nan would talk to him as if he were her Brandon, the baby she had nursed all those years ago, and sometimes she confused him with his uncle Brandon, who was killed by the Mad King before Bran was even born. She had lived so long, Mother had told him once, that all the Brandon Starks had become one person in her head.

[toku]

https://twitter.com/Bearskopff/status/898554222882508801

[TVC15]

Not posting spoilers until a second watch on Sunday, but so much of this episode was bad bad bad. And you folks know I've been pretty forgiving on the common complaints.

[toku]

https://twitter.com/the_blueprint/status/897057439685763072

[Dennis]

It is funny how extremely fast the show is progressing now compared to the seasons where they followed the books.

Maybe a little too slow before and definitely too fast now.

[chronovore]

It is funny how extremely fast the show is progressing now compared to the seasons where they followed the books.

Maybe a little too slow before and definitely too fast now.

I'm just a bystander; I read the first book, watched most of s2, and the first 3-4 eps of this current season (s7?) — can someone tell me what the deal is?

Is the TV show past where the books have gone?

If so, has GRRM provided an outline to the show to keep them more or less in line with each other?

If this isn't the last season of GoT, why are they speeding up? Are they trying to finish a storyline?

[Mandark]

They're past the books. IIRC they said GRRM gave them an outline of where it was going, but they've also started freelancing more with the story.

There is another season, but both of the last seasons have fewer episodes for budget reasons. That affects the speed at which they're wrapping things up, also that the characters were still so widely dispersed (both geographically and plotwise) at the end of last season, giving them 14 episodes to wrap up about 60 episodes of sprawl.

Presumably next year will deal more directly with the white walkers and have less room for intrigue, so they're especially rushing the intra-human stuff.

[TVC15]

Well I watched the leaked episode.



Best episode of the series so far. I might bump it down to merely top 3-5 on a rewatch, but definitely one of the best ever.

Maybe if you eat like a handful of ecstacy before the ep.

[toku]

https://twitter.com/Cacophanus/status/899397069504258048

[Boogie]

Man, I was looking forward to all the shit Bran knows and can do now that he's back with civilization, but he's been a complete non-factor this season.  They really don't know what to do with him, do they?

[Dennis]

Bran is the Night King. Book it. Otherwise how would he know to bring giant chains to haul a dead dragon?

Also,

[Dennis]

[Himu]

Holy shit this episode had fanservice all over it.

Arya needs to go though. She's served her use. She's full blown insane. Leave Sansa alone!

I'm really disappointed Bran's autistic ass hasn't revealed Littlefinger for who he is yet. The wait is killing me.

[Lothar]

I long for the days when Ros and the Sand Snakes were the worst parts of the show.  We have a new low with tonight's Sansa/Arya scenes. 

This show's writing is Walking Dead level with a bigger budget and dragons.

[Himu]

arya is so wrong. You were fucking Tywin's cup bearer and didn't do shit you snot nosed punk.

[Tasty]

I long for the days when Ros and the Sand Snakes were the worst parts of the show.  We have a new low with tonight's Sansa/Arya scenes. 

This show's writing is Walking Dead level with a bigger budget and dragons.

At least this show is going somewhere.

[Himu]

https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/6uzz8r/spoilers_extended_discussion_game_of_thrones/dlwp0b4/

Holy shit

Something I noticed: every time there's a scene with Littlefinger, there's ravens making noises in the background. You could faintly hear them in the background of the scene between Sansa and Littlefinger.
Bran is watching him at all times

[seagrams hotsauce]

Ya'll bran theorists are giving these dumbass writers way too much credit

[Himu]

Apparently it's true though and there's a raven sound any time Littlefinger has a scene in Winterfell this season.

[bluemax]

https://twitter.com/bironjosue/status/899474863987052546

[Raist]

Apparently it's true though and there's a raven sound any time Littlefinger has a scene in Winterfell this season.

Bran is Varys confirmed.

[Mupepe]

It's John's fucking fault.  Instead of getting on the goddamn dragon he went all xp chain for no fucking reason. 

[Mupepe]

And Arya should have cut off Littlefinger's fucking face and used him to manipulate Salsa

[Lothar]

lol

Oh and this is how the Starks reacted to Sansa's letter in Season 1.

[team filler]

I really want the ice people to win. I hate every human character on the show at this point