Summer didn't even make "Inside". I guess it's hard for directors to get attached to a tennis ball. Still.
Where was Ghost when Jon left?
They're saving their budget for the dragons. That's why Shaggy dies off screen, that's why Summer dies so pointlessly, and that's why Ghost has been gone for forever.
Dragons are their trump card, not direwolves. Direwolves are used for sadness.
Just being stupid because the writers want her stupid?
Seriously.
"I'm gonna send Brienne to Riverrun to go get me a small, previously shattered and fragmented army, instead of just using the army that's literally twice as close, and is completely untouched and at full strength. Let alone just use both armies."
Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!
I guess that is true....But the leading up,how that entire thing happened i hope GRRM unfolds that revelation differently seeing as that fan theory does seem to be true.It just seems like a pointless end to Hodor.I'm still pissed off Summer.
Oh, amen! Especially on Summer.
On Hodor--aaah! But so many of the deaths or misery that people did by accident or when not fully understanding--those were also kinda pointless.
The thing that gets me about Hodor is the innocence. It's like sacrificing a child, almost. Hodor's reaction to Bran saying his name was one of the best acting moments in the season a few episodes back. Like he has known all of his life that this was coming but could never say. Ahh. And still went with Bran and into the cave and everything.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde.
I actually want to see Tormund go up against her when she has Oathkeeper. His idea of foreplay. Her idea of swatting a bug.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde.
"I'm gonna send Brienne to Riverrun to go get me a small, previously shattered and fragmented army, instead of just using the army that's literally twice as close, and is completely untouched and at full strength. Let alone just use both armies."
I'm trying to come up with a "move" she's making. But that moment seemed so emotional vs. plotting.
That said, when she lied to Jon re: Blackfish, I was thinking that she was re-evaluating Baelish. Maybe let him stew a bit and then send for his army? He has a TARDIS after all. Perhaps they could all fit.
Or the writers are not thinking this through. It was fun seeing Sansa tell him off. But not to see her do the high and mighty holier-thats-thou-but-still-self-sabatoging move.
I've had enough of Starks making those moves.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde.
Is it just me or did the heart tree in the flashback where they made the first white walker--did that tree already have Bloodraven's face on it?
And, in other news, they embraced the standard Star Wars mono-myth idea: they killed Obi Wan Kenobi before Luke Skywalker was really ready for his job.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde.
This sums up my feelings... Bloodraven, Summer and Hodor all in one episode. No way Bran is making it back south of the wall in a blizzard with just Meera pulling his cart... guess we don't get further information on the ToJ from Bran, i liked the flashbacks this season, and will miss having more of them. I found Rickard's comment to Ned to be odd, "don't start any fights, but if you can't help it win". sounds like there was more wolfishness in Eddard before Roberts Rebellion.
I think this eliminates Bloodraven/Bran being in league with the others. Confirms some other theories on the origins of the others tho.
i loved the Arya scenes. her face watching Ned be mocked was priceless, she wanted to slay the whole ensemble and the crowd for laughing. I think there was more than one purpose in having her take out the actress, poking at her family through the play, and i've got a feeling there is no way the kindly man didn't notice how that affected her.
Brimund is a complete one way street at the moment, but i hope that changes before the end of the show... loved that interaction again. Sansa Littlefinger was good, and i liked Davos and that scene. i really hope jonsa isn't the direction that goes... ewe.
probably the best episode this season, really gives some momentum to the back half...
"I'm gonna send Brienne to Riverrun to go get me a small, previously shattered and fragmented army, instead of just using the army that's literally twice as close, and is completely untouched and at full strength. Let alone just use both armies."
I'm trying to come up with a "move" she's making. But that moment seemed so emotional vs. plotting.
That said, when she lied to Jon re: Blackfish, I was thinking that she was re-evaluating Baelish. Maybe let him stew a bit and then send for his army? He has a TARDIS after all. Perhaps they could all fit.
Or the writers are not thinking this through. It was fun seeing Sansa tell him off. But not to see her do the high and mighty holier-thats-thou-but-still-self-sabatoging move.
I've had enough of Starks making those moves.
Indeed stupid Starks making stupid moves.
Also preview of Baelish next episode.
Darkstar will be the next Vulture King.
Craster has 19 daughters and there are 19 castles on the Wall, coincidence I think not!
Yes, but in a way, most of the characters have ended up doing something to someone else without intending to do so. Bran hadn't really so far. The fact that his adventurousness and curiosity ended up killing both Hodor and Summer, his literal other selves who were also their own" "people"--in a way in might work as a lesson Bran needs.
That said, aaaah. That hurt to watch.
I guess that is true....But the leading up,how that entire thing happened i hope GRRM unfolds that revelation differently seeing as that fan theory does seem to be true.It just seems like a pointless end to Hodor. I'm still pissed off Summer.
To be rather frank, that seems perfectly in line with all the kinds of endings that GRRM gives his characters, and it fits a Boomer who's been greatly affected by Vietnam--even if he never served, you can tell from his other writings that he's been greatly affected by it like the rest of his generation--because that's the lesson the Boomers learned from that war--human beings often end in pointless, meaningless ways of tragic irony.
As a little preview of my next part of my behemoth of an essay, I'll say that the only salvation is magic that saves one from pointless ends, and even that comes with a terrible horrible cost of its own--at least in GRRM land. Weisseroffland is a whole different beast.
As for the direwolves--yeah, I agree that D&D are just killing them off to save on that precious precious CGI budget, gotta save up next season for the dragons.
Also I agree that this is the best episode of the season, thus far. And I'm going to disagree with other people that the COTF/Bran/Hodor parts were the worst bits--to me they were the best parts. If anything--I feel like the lack of Bran last season really diminished not only this revelation, but also the meaning of the COTF's actions. Had we had a season to get to know them alongside Bran as he learned to warg other creatures and finally see visions through the tree, in parallel to Arya's training arc last season, we'd have a better connection with the COTF characters and thus feel the betrayal and then the emotional journey of them trying to atone for their tragic mistake, thus the actions of Leaf and her sacrifice would hold a greater impact than the truncated version of that plot experience that we got this season instead.
I.E. In order to make this type of storytelling compelling, you have to sit down and live with the characters to some extent--something D&D are not interested in doing--nor can afford to do in a lot of cases.