GoT - Leisher's viewing

Post by **Leisher** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 9:43 am

GORDON wrote: Loving this.

I figured you guys would like someone not knowing what's coming speculating on it.

Before I get into what the last two episodes showed me, I noticed they do the Archer thing a lot. One person says a sentence and they cut immediately to someone it fits. For example: Someone was telling a story and the moral was something along the lines of "one thing the gods will not forgive is taking a guest into your home and then mistreating them". Immediately we cut to a scene with the king of the twins sisters after he massacred Robb Stark and company. Foreshadowing...

So Littlefinger and the Tyrells were behind the poisoning. I'm still a bit confused on how they pulled it off. I know the necklace was involved, but how? When did the actual poisoning take place? I must have missed that.

Still pretty disappointed in Joffrey's death. I feel like when you make a character that sadistic the audience wants him to, maybe not suffer, but be aware of what their sadism has brought them. Hopefully, Tywin will realize the house and name he so painstakingly sacrificed for is doomed when he dies.

I really wanted Tyrion to call him a coward when they were discussing how Tywin finally defeated Robb Stark by murdering him at a wedding.

Cersei (that's the right spelling I guess) is batshit insane.

Meanwhile, despite raping his sister at her son's funeral (I mean, it was pretty forceful), Jamie still seems to be going through a face turn.

You know that sadistic guy torturing Theon? He plays a psycho in every thing.

Here's things I know about the future of the show due to spoilers (updated list):
-The hot redhead love interest for Jon Snow dies. (Thanks Troy!)
-Tyrion is alive next season (I saw the promo image for season 5)
-Cersei is some sort of mad queen in season 7. (There was a front page story about the upcoming season on a website and that was the headline.)
-I also, thanks to Imgur, saw Cersei walking down some stairs in shame.
-Jon dies and comes back to life or something.

From another thread:

Ok, sorry for ruining your GoT viewing.

You didn't ruin my viewing. You probably just took away a single moment. You did destroy a speculated plot line I had envisioned for her and her love interest.

GORDON wrote: HOnestly I thoguht Ygritte was way earlier than S4.

This actually adds to it as now I have a time frame. Based on what's going on where I currently am in the story, I have a feeling I'll be seeing her death quite soon.

To be fair, saying someone dies in GoT is about as spoilery as saying the sky gets darker at night.

It's part of the problem with the show. Maybe this is because I'm binge watching it and the deaths are coming fast and furious, but there's no impact to them.

And again, everything happening is because Ned Stark was a moron.

Post by **Leisher** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 2:25 pm

I just read that by the time I catch up, and I'll catch up before the month is out, there will be only 13 episodes left in the series.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 2:30 pm

7 + 7, I heard. could be wrong.

Post by **Leisher** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 2:32 pm

Just saw an article that said Season 8 will only be 6 episodes.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Mar 14, 2017 2:36 pm

Snap.

Post by **Leisher** » Fri Mar 17, 2017 1:18 pm

Thanks to a cracked tooth, some surgery, and another ruined day off I just finished season 5.

So here are my thoughts since the last update:
-The best moment of the series, so far, is without a doubt the Mountain vs the Viper. One of the best deaths I've ever seen. The only death scene in this show that got an emotional reaction from me. I even knew what had to happen and I was still surprised by it. Not by who died, but how.
-Hottest woman award goes to the Dorn girl flirting with Bonn in the jail cell. Maybe not the best face, but a great body and the attitude...
-Snow's finally dead and with the red woman there I expect he'll be resurrected shortly.
-Theon finally grew some balls, figuratively.
-So Tyrion killed Tywin. Very, very weak writing to get him to go to Tywin's chamber while escaping, but what he found there made up for that logic hole.
-They were yelling "Shame" at Cersei, but damn. From what I saw she had nothing to be ashamed of...what a body. Oh, and I'm pretty sure everyone in that city is going to die at her hands. Plus, she's down to one kid! That bitch gonna be cray cray.
-Arya's killing of that king's guard was bad ass, but I'm not digging the whole god with many faces thing. Kind of stupid.
-Tyrion and Khaleesi teaming up seems unstoppable, and it appears she got her army at the end of season 5?
-Tide has turned as I suspected. Starks used to die every episode, now it's Lanisters.
-Stannis was a steaming sack of shit. Possibly the worst character on the show. Ned Stark was about as smart as Homer Simpson, but at least he was interesting. Stannis never was and I'm glad he's dead.
-This whole religion thing seems like filler and utterly ridiculous. Terrible writing. It reminds me of Season 5 of The Shield when the network asked them to stretch the series out another season, so they came up with one really quickly and it just didn't seem to fit. Same thing with the rebellion Khaleesi faces.

Around season 3 I was getting into this show and season 4 was great. Season 5 had some good moments, but started getting dumb with the religion and rebellion. It feels like the show is treading water. Now I know why people stopped talking about it. Sometimes you never want a show to end because it's always so consistently good. Other shows you really enjoy, but get to a point where you want it to end because it's enough already. That's where I'm getting with GoT.

Post by **Leisher** » Sat Mar 18, 2017 4:32 pm

Glad to see the Hound back. Figured he wasn't dead. He's got a date with Gregor.

Arya Stark is awesome.

Ramsay Bolton died in a fitting way.

If they held a "biggest piece of shit" contest in this world, I have no idea who'd win. So many choices...

Cersei is queen, but what resistance can she put up against Khaleesi? She's lost the north, she's lost her allies, Tyrell and Dorn are allied against her, etc. She has power in King's Landing, but little else. Hell, her husband's right hand man will abandon the cause as soon as he sees Tyrion.

I expect that to be resolved in season 7.

Then we can focus on the real war in season 8.

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 8:13 pm

Leisher wrote: -Hottest woman award goes to the Dorn girl flirting with Bonn in the jail cell. Maybe not the best face, but a great body and the attitude...

I completely agree. Rosabell Laurenti Sellers is ridiculously hot.

Leisher wrote:...the whole god with many faces thing...

Don't forget this is a show in a world with magic and the gods are real. The many faces thing is totally supernatural in nature, it's not something mundane like rubber face masks. Those are literal faces carved off of people that the many faced god lets his followers use to totally change their physical form. Magic.

Post by **Leisher** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 9:05 am

Rosabell Laurenti Sellers is ridiculously hot.

And she's one of my people! Nice!

Magic.

Yeah, I know it's magic and I'm fine with that. I just think the story and dialogue surrounding it got a bit hookey. A lot of the writing in season 5 got...I don't want to say bad, but it wasn't good...

Prediction: Arya Stark will kill Cersei while wearing one (or more) of her kid's faces.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:27 pm

Leisher wrote:
Rosabell Laurenti Sellers is ridiculously hot.
And she's one of my people! Nice!

She's mexican?

Post by **Leisher** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:52 pm

Racist cracker.

Post by **TPRJones** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 2:43 pm

???

Post by **Troy** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 8:53 pm

Cracker Snow Flakes with a Swastika? How am I seeing this for the first time here and not on Breibart?

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 10:04 pm

Troy wrote: Cracker Snow Flakes with a Swastika? How am I seeing this for the first time here and not on Breibart?

That's an old-school tin of crackers from back in the late teens or early twenties, maybe. It helps if you know American Biscuit Company was trying to compete with National Biscuit Company, aka Nabisco, so they slapped their logo in the upper left corner of all their products. The white Tibetan good luck symbol is the result of Nabisco suing the fuck out of them ... it used to be a vivid red.

If you play enough pub trivia and watch enough mundane "buying old shit" TV shows, you learn weird things.

Post by **Leisher** » Thu Apr 06, 2017 1:52 pm

Post by **Leisher** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 1:19 am

Theories are coming.

Post by **Leisher** » Fri Jun 16, 2017 1:35 pm

Post by **Leisher** » Mon Jul 10, 2017 9:55 am

Avoid looking at season 7 show titles. From what I understand there are spoilers in them.

Here's a graphic breaking down all the betrayals and whatnot (If you can't see it close, open it in a new window. Link is http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/c3aTGa ... DPLmJJ.jpg):