Also - they have absolutely wasted Matt Smith this season with this 6 episode nonsense at Harrenhaal.  

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And the Greens have Aemond/Vhagar, Helaena/Dreamfyre, and they just mentioned Daeron/Tessarion as well, but he would just be small and insignificant I would think.  Plus I think they're setting up Rhaena to claim Sheepstealer it appears (which I know differs from the book - I haven't read it but I have a cousin who has and she fills me in things that aren't too spoilerish) 

So yeah the Blacks have a huge advantage right now regarding dragons.  

 

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There is another dragon out there from the books that hasn't been mentioned called

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Nettles, who Rhaena had in the books, I think.

As for the episode. Oscar Tully is a great manipulator for someone so young. That part went a bit long, but the pay off was worth it.

The rest of the episode was good enough; things are bubbling up for the season finale. Wonder who will die?

 

 

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Nettles, who Rhaena had in the books, I think.

As for the episode. Oscar Tully is a great manipulator for someone so young. That part went a bit long, but the pay off was worth it.

The rest of the episode was good enough; things are bubbling up for the season finale. Wonder who will die?

 

 

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I could be wrong, but I think you're mixed up.  I think Nettles is the PERSON who claims Sheepstealer in the books.  It appears that they are going a different direction and just having Rhaena claim Sheepstealer instead.  

 

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I could be wrong, but I think you're mixed up.  I think Nettles is the PERSON who claims Sheepstealer in the books.  It appears that they are going a different direction and just having Rhaena claim Sheepstealer instead.  

 

Very likely.  The book was so boring, a lot of the names are kind of a mixed salad nowadays. Which was why I posted the image to try and keep up 🤣

I'm just gonna come right out and say it, that ish was f'ing awesome.

1 hour ago, The_Omega said:

I'm just gonna come right out and say it, that ish was f'ing awesome.

I wish I had a pet dragon that I could feed poor people  

2 minutes ago, Agent23 said:

I wish I had a pet dragon that I could feed poor people  

It was totally predictable, I knew exactly what was going to happen, and here was me watching it anyway 

The whole Vermithor thing was an absolutely cruel way to do it by Rheanera, but it was epic watching. Dragons go nom.

Will the White bears finally make it south for whatever is to come, or will it be next season that they arrive?

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I'm looking to the finale next week, that was a good setup episode

Looks at PVR to check the recording is setup

That was the season finale? WTAF. Damn

 

Way to be on top of things bro!

If they didn't cut down to 8 episodes they could have shown some of what's about to happen next. There's a lot of chaos coming

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I liked the vision he had of Daenerys and her dragons. Glad he didn't see the abomination of the last 2 seasons of GoT though

 

4 hours ago, Agent23 said:

Way to be on top of things bro!

I forgot with how much water treading that has been going on in the past few episodes. 

2 hours ago, Mike030270 said:

If they didn't cut down to 8 episodes they could have shown some of what's about to happen next. There's a lot of chaos coming

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I liked the vision he had of Daenerys and her dragons. Glad he didn't see the abomination of the last 2 seasons of GoT though

 

And that is part of it.

Whether they did the last 2 eps to move budget to next year or whatever, but it was a bit lacking when other stuff is about to go down later.  Give us a little more story meat to chew on

 

I read the next season likely won’t be released until 2026. My god.

10 hours ago, Blazehound said:

I read the next season likely won’t be released until 2026. My god.

Yep.  There is Dunk and Egg in January, and then a year or so to season 3.  They expedited this season because of interest in the show but it was planned to be a 2 year gap - supposedly, it has a 18 month turnaround time now.

Getting started on this saw first couple, It's solid enough fantasy to watch but still has all the problems of season 1, too many boring, dreary council scenes, nobody to actually root for, not seeing enough of Westeros, the roles of anybody commoner are all 1 dimensional, not enough boobies and where the f'ing F are the dragon jousts we were promised?  10+ hours man, lets go already!

16 hours ago, dawkins4prez said:

Getting started on this saw first couple, It's solid enough fantasy to watch but still has all the problems of season 1, too many boring, dreary council scenes, nobody to actually root for, not seeing enough of Westeros, the roles of anybody commoner are all 1 dimensional, not enough boobies and where the f'ing F are the dragon jousts we were promised?  10+ hours man, lets go already!

What can be fairly said on the dragon jousting is tune in next season to find out more!  But with all the foreshadowing, we should get some fun there.

man, I really thought this would start cooking in season 2, nope!  I counted FIVE small council scenes in one episode.  FIVE dreary arse nothing happens, bishing about blockades and ppl we don't know scenes.  There are at least 3 of them per episode and when they alternate with whatever the F is going on with daemon in harrenhall good grief its a drag.  i also saw an episode aptly called "smallfolk" where everything wrong with the ay this show treats the commoners was on full display. They are just unwashed masses who despite the complete disconnect from the rulers are only there to be manipulated easily and en masse by said disconnected rulers.

 

We finally got a real dragon battle and holy hells it delivered but the amount of filler here is ludicrous.  The only character i'm rooting for at this point is Aemond.

I dunno, I mostly enjoyed this season. I get people feeling like the end was rushed, there were other storylines that I think they could have developed further, like the brothers turning on each other. Trying to figure out where everyone’s loyalties lie there could have added some great tension. With Aegon dragonless, Aemond is definitely more useful to them now though.

Honest trailers had a line that said "the Greens stand accused to taking Black jobs”  

On 8/16/2024 at 5:10 PM, dawkins4prez said:

man, I really thought this would start cooking in season 2, nope!  I counted FIVE small council scenes in one episode.  FIVE dreary arse nothing happens, bishing about blockades and ppl we don't know scenes.  There are at least 3 of them per episode and when they alternate with whatever the F is going on with daemon in harrenhall good grief its a drag.  i also saw an episode aptly called "smallfolk" where everything wrong with the ay this show treats the commoners was on full display. They are just unwashed masses who despite the complete disconnect from the rulers are only there to be manipulated easily and en masse by said disconnected rulers.

 

We finally got a real dragon battle and holy hells it delivered but the amount of filler here is ludicrous.  The only character i'm rooting for at this point is Aemond.

I can't recall the book, but I listened to a non-spoiler podcast review and they suggested 💩will get real, whatever that means.  So while the season got repetitive by the end, it was delaying somethings else that will happen.  We saw the Greybeards on the move, and they made sure to subtly keep pointing that out over the seres. No spoiler from me there about how that ends up

Careful with rewatches of Game of Thrones. If you haven't read the Fire and Blood book then you can also get spoiled be some scenes that mention what happens to some characters in this show

1 minute ago, Mike030270 said:

Careful with rewatches of Game of Thrones. If you haven't read the Fire and Blood book then you can also get spoiled be some scenes that mention what happens to some characters in this show

 Guess I don't pay much attention because I've watched GoT three times and don't remember any spoilers about the civil war 

1 minute ago, mikemack8 said:

 Guess I don't pay much attention because I've watched GoT three times and don't remember any spoilers about the civil war 

I wouldn't go searching for it as it's a big spoiler for season 3 likely

12 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

I wouldn't go searching for it as it's a big spoiler for season 3 likely

Yeah I purposely try to stay away from that stuff.  I mean I think we all know that it doesn't really end up great for ANY Targaryen's eventually, but as far as the events of this actual war I'm pretty much in the dark.