TV Thread

[LionsFanInJapan]

It wasn't bad, but I saw that ending coming a mile away. I feel like they're trying to outsmart themselves and are just making it too predictable.

[LionsFanInJapan]

Did you guys know the mountain has his own brand of vodka? I kinda want to try it.

http://icelandicmountainvodka.is

[ame]https://youtu.be/c19HRM0x-lA[/ame]

[jaadam4]

It wasn't bad, but I saw that ending coming a mile away. I feel like they're trying to outsmart themselves and are just making it too predictable.

Meh.. Lets go capture a white walker isn't the soundest of plans. I've thought this has been a great season but that episode was a major let down. Hopefully the finale brings it home.

[Topweasel]

Meh.. Lets go capture a white walker isn't the soundest of plans. I've thought this has been a great season but that episode was a major let down. Hopefully the finale brings it home.

Besides the plan being a bit poor, it was also the cost of reduced storylines. The teleporting was a bit annoying, but this one takes the cake. Normally this would have been done over 3-4 episodes but there really isn't enough content to stretch it out to 10 episodes and the beats for Jon still had to happen. Basically making this have to happen in a single episode.

[jaadam4]

Yeah I've thought the same about how quickly plans have been hatched and executed. I haven't been a fan.

[Topweasel]

Yeah I've thought the same about how quickly plans have been hatched and executed. I haven't been a fan.

It's probably why GRRM is struggling to finish the books. Even he is going to struggle to whittle down the on separate storylines and will have to find away to keep people interested while he continues to have these sprawling stories of travel and events. I mean I think he will do it better than HBO, but it will still be a problem.

[Cody_Russell]

I feel like a lot of the conversations have been filler too, like The Walking Dead pointless.
Example: Jorah tells Thoros that it was cool that he charged in with a flaming sword at the Siege of Pike.
Very reflective, not much substance to it... which is the product of Benioff and Weiss writing.
Whereas in the first four seasons, more conversations had meaning to it as it came from GRRM's books.
Example: Tyrion tells Jamie the story about his cousin Orson and how the beetle smashing doesn't make sense. ... given I don't think this conversation was in the book(s)? Still, early seasons had more of this.
But again, it makes sense because GRRM had years to write his books. Whereas series producers are given a few months.
David Benioff was the writer that made Brad Pitt say "You sack of wine" in the movie Troy... also being a writer of "X-Men: Origins."

Hopefully 7.7 is as amazing as season 6's season finale... with Jeremy Podeswa directing? IDK...

[Topweasel]

Nope I can almost assure you that it will be a political drama for most of it, both in Winterfell and Dragon Pit. Then in the last few moments at least one big thing will happen and another implied with a cliffhanger.

There doesn't seem to be much room for anything else. The question is which location gets the definitive big thing and which gets the cliffhanger.

[jaadam4]

I feel like a lot of the conversations have been filler too, like The Walking Dead pointless.
Example: Jorah tells Thoros that it was cool that he charged in with a flaming sword at the Siege of Pike.
Very reflective, not much substance to it... which is the product of Benioff and Weiss writing.
Whereas in the first four seasons, more conversations had meaning to it as it came from GRRM's books.
Example: Tyrion tells Jamie the story about his cousin Orson and how the beetle smashing doesn't make sense. ... given I don't think this conversation was in the book(s)? Still, early seasons had more of this.
But again, it makes sense because GRRM had years to write his books. Whereas series producers are given a few months.
David Benioff was the writer that made Brad Pitt say "You sack of wine" in the movie Troy... also being a writer of "X-Men: Origins."

Hopefully 7.7 is as amazing as season 6's season finale... with Jeremy Podeswa directing? IDK...

I completely agree. Even the scene where Jon Snow wants to give Jorah the family sword back was terrible, quick and lacking any sort of substance. I get the scene but it just felt rushed and like filler.

[LionsFanInJapan]

Yes, having them able to send a raven to Dany and her to fly all the way up there while they were still waiting made the world feel very, very small.

[jaadam4]

They might as well pulled out the new iphone 8 and called her

[millenwasmyfavorite]

I completely agree. Even the scene where Jon Snow wants to give Jorah the family sword back was terrible, quick and lacking any sort of substance. I get the scene but it just felt rushed and like filler.

That scene is important.

Jorah is basically ceding his pursuit of Dany to Jon.

Probably not super obvious because they had to manufacture that tension over 1-2 episodes.

"You'll want it to pass on to your kids"

Yea, it seems like this whole season is going to culminate through a really stupid plan.

The Winter is dangerous. More so than Cersei... We need to convince Cersei that White Walkers are real. So... Let's risk everything to get a wight. And let's now risk everything again in King's landing to show her in a all out mob meet-n-greet. No one adamantly opposing the plan. Cersei just blew up almost her entire city and sacrificed her child in doing so. Not sure if she has a lot of reservations about any million opportunities to kill Dany then and there. But Dany won't die, which almost makes it seem even more unlikely.

Episode 6 was fouled up with transitioning/mystical arrivals.

They made a point of showing us Gendry literally sprinted up entire mountains. Cut scene to Gendry and he is SCALING a mountain at full speed. He goes from blacksmith to Kilian Jornet. He runs solo through the North w/ no weapon and over mountains.

I get that they made the timeline make sense scientifically (The lake would take 4-5 days to refreeze/support weight -- roughly the corresponding time of..... Gendry's epic marathon... Raven to Dany.... Dragon movement), but that is the only indicator that they didn't absolutely foul it up.

Uncle Benjen appears out a place so unexplainable, they just cut to him magically appearing amidst the horde, w/ fantastically aimed morning star bludgeoning zombie heads in cadence.

Arya and Sansa better be playing LF right now, because if he is manipulating them both simultaneously at this pace -- it is just fucking stupid. Like, Sansa has learned nothing? Arya Not viewing these crumbs with any grain of skepticism? These mistakes would be 100% contrary to their character arcs.

[jaadam4]

Uncle Benjen appears out a place so unexplainable, they just cut to him magically appearing amidst the horde, w/ fantastically aimed morning star bludgeoning zombie heads in cadence.

I'd like to reply to several things that you said but I'm cracking up reading this part.

[Cody_Russell]

I like how Uncle Benjen's line to Jon is "There's no time."
As in the writers are making fun of themselves that they don't have time in the series to write him a competent role. Given a 7 episode season and 6 episode final season.

[millenwasmyfavorite]

lol, ya.

I was going to harp on that, but maybe I could see a hard spin on his inability to pass the wall/tired of living as half dead, etc.

I just feel bad for the actor

HEY GOOD NEWS MAN, YOU ARE IN SEASON 2 *pssst. You uhhh don't have any scenes*

HEY MAN GOOD NEWS, YOU SURVIVED UNTIL SEASON 3 *pssst. You uhh have, like, 2 minutes of screen time*

Repeat repeat repeat repeat

HEY COME BACK FOR SEASON 7. UHH WE'LL JUST HAVE YOU APPEAR LIKE A MOVING POP UP TARGET ON A 240B RANGE AND WHEN GIVEN THE CHANCE TO LIVE, YOU'LL DECLINE. call it good.

Thanks for all your hard work unckle Benjen.