Game of Thrones

[Boris13c]

so how does everyone like Season 6 so far?

I'm liking it a lot

[ZiggyXT]

I'm a little late to the party on this one but i am loving the 6th season so far. It is MUCH better paced then last season.

[UOK]

EP6 was definitely a dull episodes by this season's standards, but still a lot of stuff happened, especially for Arya. I have high expectations for E7 if who I think will be featured finally appears.

[Bad Flanders]

Yeah, this last week rang a little hollow. Seemed like it had to just try and get a couple different story lines cleaned up a little, feels like maybe this is where the show runners are taking over from what Martin left them?!?!? The whole Benjen Stark thing is kind of annoying, what's that about, is he a good white walker, is he like the Eagles at the end of The Lord of the Rings, coming from no where to save the day? Why the Hell didn't he help out earlier if he's a good white walker? LOL

The only part I really thought was decent was the Sam story line.

Khalesi's appearance was only slightly less gratuitous than her standing naked in a fire for 3 solid minutes! not that I'm complaining about that part!

[Boris13c]

Season 6, Episode 8 : No One - I like how the entire episode last week played out ... there were character and dialogue references to previous seasons, and they were well used and well placed rather than being simple throw-away fillers

Arya' s story continues to twist and turn ... and now she is on a mission towards home (not knowing home as she knew it no longer exists)

Daenerys making her entrance back to Meereen was done in an interesting and understated way ... I think she is ready to run amok

I am kind of curious we have yet to see any action in Dorne ... would have thought Jaime and Cersai would have been on a blood hunt to avenger their daughter, but instead seem to have simply brushed it off, sending Jaime and his army north instead of south ... but maybe there are already too many war fronts on the fire to satisfy all of them ... and Jaime's dialogue interaction at Riverun was compelling

and then there was The Hound back in fine fighting form

good stuff ... really liked the episode

[UOK]

I need a cigarette.

[Boris13c]

I need a cigarette.

man, that finale was certainly full of so many satisfying elements ... I was curious how they were going to make sense of what I perceived to be way too many loose ends, but I think they hit a home run on this effort

Cersei certainly gets the award for tying up all of her individual loose ends ... was not expecting that series of events on her behalf

Arya also scored well on taking care of her business

then John Snow of course, and his events being 3rd place in the "taking care of business" sweepstakes tells all one needs to know about the intensity of this wrap up

happy to see the evil ladies of Dorne taking a side and joining the fray ... some may have missed that, but seeing the folks standing behind Daenerys on her ship told the tale

awesome episode

[Pagan]

The season finale was great. I've been a fan of the franchise... though I haven't read the books yet.

For those of you that love reading great fantasy fiction I encourage you all to look into a little series called "The Wheel of Time", by Robert Jordan.

Seeing how successful the GOT series has transitioned to TV I'm really looking forward to the WOT series making the leap.... but that can be a whole new thread!

[Boris13c]

the "shame shame shame" nun who escorted Cesei on her walk of atonement (and who is now in the hands of zombie knight Gregor Clegane) actually looks much different when out of her GoT nun outfit :

[IE]

she looks like Megan Kelly

[Boris13c]

anyone else just nuts over Natalie Dormer?



she definitely gives the impression she could be all sorts of wonderful trouble

[UOK]

Natalie Dormer is one of my faves. She's got incredible eyes and cheekbones. And lips. And yeah, just

yeah

[Boris13c]

Time to revive the thread since the new season is upon us. And it certainly started in an interesting fashion in episode 1.

As we approach week 4, many interesting things are afoot.

[Boris13c]

Season 7 was pretty awesome in so many ways ... Littlefinger meeting a well deserved demise was just one of many many highlights

and Season 7 is all we're going to get for a while ... Season 8 (the final season) won't air until 2019

Game of Thrones star says final season won't air until 2019

Game of Thrones‘ final season won’t return until 2019 — that’s according to series star Sophie Turner.

While HBO has yet to confirm the season 8 premiere year (which EW first revealed was the most likely option back in June), Turner let slip in a new Variety interview that “Game of Thrones comes out in 2019.”

Her quote follows news that GoT — which is currently shooting its final six episodes — will continue filming until the summer of 2018 (which also suggested that the show wouldn’t be back until the following year given the amount of post-production work required for each season).

The 2019 date arguably benefits HBO a couple ways. Since Game of Thrones season 7 aired last summer, the show is competing in the 2018 Emmy awards, which air next fall — which allows HBO to focus GoT publicity efforts on its Emmy campaign next year rather than promoting a new season at the same time. Also, when you’re a subscription-based network, keeping the highest-rated show in your history around for a bit longer never hurts either.

But ultimately the reason for the pushback seems to stem from GoT showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss simply looking to take their time and make the final season as epic as possible. The Emmy-winning duo explained previously they wanted to spend a year and a half making the fantasy show’s climactic round. Former GoT actor Jason Momoa recently visited the season 8 set in Belfast and declared the final season is “going to be the greatest thing that’s ever aired on TV. It’s going to be unbelievable. It’s going to f— up a lot of people.”

I like Jason Momoa's preview of things to come

[Boris13c]

Season 8 - the final frontier

This is slated to be the last season of GoT ... and it has had a very good run in my opinion.

Episode 1 was a nice start, and I really liked Episode 2. Lots of things coming together in Episode 2 that made for entertaining story lines.

Based on the end of episode previews, it very much looks like the shit is ready to hit the fan in Episode 3 this weekend.

[thunderspirit]

Yep. More deaths on the horizon than a Shakespearean tragedy festival.

[Ormazd]

Yep. More deaths on the horizon than a Shakespearean tragedy festival.

I fear it will be mayhem on the Infinity War scale - with half our beloved characters dying.

[wab]

What a crazy episode last night. The ending was 50% shock and 50% head scratcher.

[UOK]

What a crazy episode last night. The ending was 50% shock and 50% head scratcher.

It was intensely stressful, namely because the HBO GO servers were trash and the episode was shown with approximately 1% illumination, so for 90 minutes my girlfriend and I watched a bunch of dark blurry pixels flurry around chunks of fire.

[wab]

What a crazy episode last night. The ending was 50% shock and 50% head scratcher.

It was intensely stressful, namely because the HBO GO servers were trash and the episode was shown with approximately 1% illumination, so for 90 minutes my girlfriend and I watched a bunch of dark blurry pixels flurry around chunks of fire.

Right? I was yelling at the TV "did he die?! who was that!? wait...what happened there!?"

[The Marshall Plan]

What a crazy episode last night. The ending was 50% shock and 50% head scratcher.

It was intensely stressful, namely because the HBO GO servers were trash and the episode was shown with approximately 1% illumination, so for 90 minutes my girlfriend and I watched a bunch of dark blurry pixels flurry around chunks of fire.

Right? I was yelling at the TV "did he die?! who was that!? wait...what happened there!?"

I watched the show on Hulu with a 4K TV and I couldn't see shit during the whole fight.

[Ormazd]

I rewatched it with brightness maxed. A lot better.

[Boris13c]

What a crazy episode last night. The ending was 50% shock and 50% head scratcher.

it certainly resulted in a lot of death and destruction ... and the preview for the next episode showed the Dragon Queen talking about winning the next battle ... I mean, who do they have left to even fight?

It was intensely stressful, namely because the HBO GO servers were trash and the episode was shown with approximately 1% illumination, so for 90 minutes my girlfriend and I watched a bunch of dark blurry pixels flurry around chunks of fire.

Right? I was yelling at the TV "did he die?! who was that!? wait...what happened there!?"

was this just a problem with your apps? I watched on HBO via my DirecTV and had no issues

[UOK]

What a crazy episode last night. The ending was 50% shock and 50% head scratcher.

it certainly resulted in a lot of death and destruction ... and the preview for the next episode showed the Dragon Queen talking about winning the next battle ... I mean, who do they have left to even fight?

It was intensely stressful, namely because the HBO GO servers were trash and the episode was shown with approximately 1% illumination, so for 90 minutes my girlfriend and I watched a bunch of dark blurry pixels flurry around chunks of fire.

Right? I was yelling at the TV "did he die?! who was that!? wait...what happened there!?"

was this just a problem with your apps? I watched on HBO via my DirecTV and had no issues

It's a mixed answer. I stream through an AppleTV from 2014 or so, and the HBO NOW app/web client is kind of crap as it is. Lot of people who streamed on their PCs had similar issues.

[Ormazd]

It wasn't any better on the live HBO feed via FIOS.

[Boris13c]

What a crazy episode last night. The ending was 50% shock and 50% head scratcher.

it certainly resulted in a lot of death and destruction ... and the preview for the next episode showed the Dragon Queen talking about winning the next battle ... I mean, who do they have left to even fight?

It was intensely stressful, namely because the HBO GO servers were trash and the episode was shown with approximately 1% illumination, so for 90 minutes my girlfriend and I watched a bunch of dark blurry pixels flurry around chunks of fire.

Right? I was yelling at the TV "did he die?! who was that!? wait...what happened there!?"

was this just a problem with your apps? I watched on HBO via my DirecTV and had no issues

It's a mixed answer. I stream through an AppleTV from 2014 or so, and the HBO NOW app/web client is kind of crap as it is. Lot of people who streamed on their PCs had similar issues.

it was a much darker episode than usual for sure, but I was able to adjust the tv so I could see well enough

as a note, the darkness of the episode was noticeable enough that it warranted an actual news story ... and in that story, the creators said the lighting was like that on purpose and by design

[thunderspirit]

Yeah, I have to believe the lighting was pretty much an artistic choice, both to set the mood and to reflect "the night is dark and full of terrors".

The fog/blizzard, the Dothraki flames going dark, the hide-and-seek scene with Arya and the wights. All part of the Living army not knowing what exactly was happening.

[Boris13c]

they could have possibly improved the lighting a bit without losing the intended effects of it being night ... but there is no doubt having that battle at night was the right call and the resulting chaos seemed to be an appropriate approach to this showdown which was completed by the surprise hero

at least that was a surprise to me anyway ... and I won't spoil it by going into the details of that in case some haven't seen the episode yet

[G08]

I was watching via Xfinity on my OLED and we couldn't see shit either. Glad it wasn't just us!

[Boris13c]

I'm not sure what to make of how this final season is going ... and the episode this past Sunday was to me a confusing mess ... it was almost like they forced 2 episodes into 1 and in doing so bypassed parts of things in an unsatisfying way

maybe their rush to do too much is why a Starbucks coffee cup made it into the episode (HBO has now digitally edited the episode to remove it - https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2019/5/7/ ... ks-removed" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; )

a few strange and unfortunate twists in the story line had me scratching my head

so the first 2 episodes of season 8 were satisfying, but these last 2 weren't IMO for a multitude of reasons that can't be discussed without revealing spoilers