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Umm yes. A bit much...



Could be. I'm hoping she'll take on the Lady Stoneheart role and avenge herself on all Freys and Lannisters she encounters, regardless of their personal guilt. But more likely (in D&D world) she'll meet up with the Brotherhood and ride North with them, giving us some more of those popular Arya/Hound scenes. Which I'm fine with, I just think she's darker than this in the books.



Yes but so are Jon's, and still he has to fight Sansa every step of the way. She wants to play the Game, and I expect Bran will take Jon's side and remind her that the Game no longer matters.
I am also hoping that his mere presence will force her to back off a little. She currently thinks she should be ruling Winterfell, and that Jon doesn't really deserve to rule. But Bran is the rightful lord/king, and even if he doesn't choose to step into that role, he will still be a reminder every day that there are two male Starks ahead of her and she'll just have to find her own castle somewhere else.
Not to mention that Bran apparently can look at a person and see their life history (as he did with Edd)...? That won't work out well for LF, I imagine.




Sigh. Thanks for reminding us that none of it ever made any sense. Arya has superpowers. The End.



I learned long ago that you have to just ignore holes/inconsistencies/random shit that makes no sense in Arya's show plot. It's sad, and frustrating, given how amazing her book arc has been ... but there is no way around it. It's just crappy writing, by people who apparently didn't understand who the Faceless Men are, what they do, how the face changing works, etc. Trying to understand it will only make you throw things at your TV.




That's why I think she's going to kill them. Otherwise, why spend so long showing her have a meal with some Lannister soldiers??? It's a waste of time that she meets them at all, if nothing comes of it. I expect it will, and if she kills them despite how very, unusually nice they were to her, this will justify the time spent on the scene, IMO.



And when she asked Jaime "are you afraid of me" and he answers "should I be?", she doesn't tell him no.



They did foreshadow within the Hound's plot, showing the murder/suicide of the man and his daughter. That was SO SAD.

Bran v Littlefinger:

www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ed-glosser-trivial-psychic/n10314?snl=1

I really love your optimism man

Looking forward to this, Maester Sam!

I don't know about Bran. I got a feeling he's not into the whole "I am the heir of Winterfell" thingy now that he's the 3 eyed raven. And like Maester Aemon, he probably would be content to allow Jon or Sansa to fulfill that duty seeing as he's got someother shit on his plate. Jon has Targ blood and he's probably in line to rule the whole Westeros, so maybe we get Sansa as Wardeness of the North. I know, this ain't Dorne where a woman can rule, but you never know. Stranger things have happened.

That's fair enough but he can't control other people's actions in this regard (well, maybe he can). Remember, Aemon had to join the NW and get as far from the politics of the capital as possible, Bran doesn't have that luxury, he will have to remain at Winterfell.

Why don´t we all face it?

12 eps to go to wrap the whole damn thing. At this point I want tits (ah...turds), dragons, blood, sweat, violence, more dragons, more tits (ah...turds), even more dragons, MORE EVERYTHING !!! And not motherfucking *On Golden Pond*!!

I want this shit to go Full Metal Senseless Michael Bay, so that westeros.org and aosiaf.reddit implode in indignation once and for all.

(Meanwhile, another 10 million dollars on Fat Gandalf´s account for syndication royalties).

I wasn't a big fan. I could see why they did that scooby doo shit with Arya in the cold open and how it was designed to fire everyone up as revenge for the red wedding (it worked on my roomie, and a lot of you, so success?) but I thought it was weak. They could have had her kill everyone in a more 'realistic' way than that, well, scooby doo shit.

The scene of the Hound looking into the fire and seeing a bunch of white walkers also didn't work for me b/c they showed nothing to the viewers; seems a low budget move for such a show. Didn't even realize that ginger singer had a cameo so that didn't bother me at first, but remember there are only 6 more eps left this season.

I've been seeing more and more criticism of recent seasons lately (as build up to this season, there are so many reviews) and i'm getting it.

I did appreciate the Sam montage if only b/c this show never does shit like that (Preacher does)

Disappointed. But it should pick up