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  1. It is the reverse. with the exception of roglic (if he indeed doesn't have the legs) nobody wants to risk it all in a itt that nobody knows who is stronger. Dunbar and caruso need to gain time against each other. Thomas doesn't want to go to the last stage with only 18 secs. Almeida probably will only attack if he is sure he won't lose much time if things go wrong. Roglic will probably try to be creative on thursday if he is in bad shape and wants to win the giro (the stage on friday is for those who are in really good shape).
  2. worst mountain stage I have seen in years. the cyclists can't start a war to have a 75 km stage and then do nothing.
  3. he is more dispointed now. Remco is out because of covid
  4. after remco the happiest of the other contenders is almeida. TGH has a tough battle ahead of him against thomas for the leader position. If the team choses thomas he will lose lots of time during the giro...
  5. It had a good start, but the story seems to be going downhill. FAST. From this ep and the trailler for the next one all things point to a huge and weird mess. I am amazed that the show is greenlit for a second season.
  6. So you can be happy to know that I have extreme doubts about sansa marrying aegon and danny controling western essos. I may be wrong but don't the people in the book describe it as a short voyage? And sunspear is probably on of the worse places for her to land. Given arianne's possible "friendship" with aegon and their familly ties if danny invades sunspear and takes control over it then her first act on westeros is to start a war with aegon anf the martells. It is more likely that she will land in the north. And there are several good reason for her to do so. First, because she will think that it is still under the control of the boltons and therefore she could gain goodwill if she helps the north get rid of them. Second, because she can bring food to the north during winter and that would gain her automatic support. Third, if she wants to amend her familly's mistakes and prove she isn't aerys or rhaegar then making peace with the north is a great first step. Fourth, it is a good place to set a base of operations because no army will march north of the neck during winter so her people will be safe there. So it is either the north for a eastern port or casterly rock for the simbolism. Most of the other places don't make much sense for 1 reason or another.
  7. lots of people disagree. creepy that anyone would want davos hitting on missandei, how the hell is he suposed to know this? and isn't the gelding process for the unsullied discribed in the books? LOL. I don't even know what to say. I think this shows how disconected they were from grrm until season 8. If they were suposed to use the horn they just had to have the NK take it and have tormund on top of the wall say something like this: "the fucker. He had it all along. RRUUUUUNNN" And then have some ask him what was that horn and have him explain...
  8. The movie format should be obvious to anyone that it is a bad idea. Got episodes lasted an hour. You can't add 30 mins to a normal ep and call it a movie. At most they could do something to the last kingdom where a 2 to 3 hours movie would replace the last ep. Given that the Ds were adapting 1 book per season it is normal for them to plan 7 seasons. That doesn't really mean anything. Even saying that actors were scooped is kind of stupid. Given the filming time and number of eps of each season I doubt that filming GoT took a lot of time for the actors. They could clearly film GoT and another project. And I would risk that several actors had important roles is movies while shooting GoT. And I think that when HBO stops giving independence to the creators it will lose some of its spark. You can't create controversial things if there is a guy from the network breathing down your neck making sure your series follow some kind of guidelines. The problem with the Ds is that they are charlatans. They were able to gain power, trust and influence with the earlier seasons so they had a lot of credibility to do whatever they wanted towards the latter seasons despite not having the talent to write or direct a show as big as Got. I bet there must be a lot of stories how HBO aproved the script for season 8. Any person related to the industry had to know there were a lot of red flags there.
  9. I don't think you are taking into account how bad the reputation of danny's troops is. If I was a riverlander (and given all the chaos the war of the 5 kings brought to the region this is the worst region you could chose) I would volunteer into several wars if it would keep dothriaki, iron born, r'hllor zealots that like to burn people/simbols of the 7 and sellswords (because of all the death sellswords did in the region) as far away from me and my familly as possible. Here you are forgetting the geography. you can only use essos as a food supply if you have a connection to the east coast. And in winter even that will be difficult. Jon has the advantage that braavos and eastwatch are close. So at least it is a feasable situation. Danny would need to control an important port on the east coast and keep her troops around it in order for the essos option to be viable.
  10. in the letter ramsay says he has mance in a cage for all the north to see. He has to have told the people in winterfell something about the man they are seeing in a cage covered in the skins of several women. And if he intends to march to CB he has to have told them why. I am not saying that ramsay told the people there exactly what he wrote, but he must have told them that the dude in a cage was mance, that he kidnaped (?) farya with theon's help under jon's orders (?) and therefore he is going to attack CB to get his bride back? And given that everybody knows mance was burned by stannis (in the PL we are told this is common knowledge) and that theon has betrayed the starks several times and even killed bran and rickon ramsay's whole story sounds crazy. right?
  11. I would actually like a pov in winterfell to know what the people there think about ramsay's statements in the PL. Do people believe abel is mance rider or that ramsay is lying? Because for the people in winterfell his story must sound insane. Even theon helping farya escape after everything he has done must sound insane. Him wanting to march to CB must sound insane.
  12. It is bittersweet because he would do it out of necessity and to do something good with the body but at the same time he is doing something awfull and ends up not being able to let go of a new body capable of walking, be a knight and everything he ever wanted. And bran has proved he is a little asshole with warging into hodor when he thinks he has to do it. Can you really say he wouldn t take over the body of someone evil if he was tempted enough? And I think this is in line with asoiaf. That people are capable of good and bad. There are no saints. You are wishing for the 3 characters to have parallel hero journeys... And sansa staying in the vale is the best thing that can happen to her. She can grow into a player of the game. Learn to gain power, to gain allies, to understand LF and learn how to beat him. And it is funny that you are complaining, but sansa learning from LF so that she can backstab him at some point and use the vale to help the north is exactly the type of journey you want for her. In regards to the show, I think it is rather easy to understand. The Ds didn't want to spend money/time developing the vale so they turned into an afterthought and forced sansa into the storyline of the north (and it makes sense that when she learns of jon trying to unite the north she will try to help). As a reader of the books you know that in order for the knights of the vale to participate in the story we need a pov in the vale and that is sansa. She has familly in the vale. She has her father's friends in the vale. The old gods mean something in the vale but they also care about southern costums like tourneys and knights. The vale is the region that best represents sansa. A mixture of north and south. Sansa wouldn't fare well in this north where the most civilized northmen are making frey pies, wildlings are marrying karstarks, cannibal skagosi might be joining the fray, cragnonmen and some iron born might also be more proeminent. And I am not even talking about how everyone is just more wild and angry given all they have sufered. Of the 2 stark girls arya is the one that would fit better in the north now
  13. I want to agree with you, but I don't think the Ds understood the mensage they were sending with their ending. I think they actually thought that it was a happy ending with a stark on the IT, sansa as queen after having sufered so much, arya the sailor (never going to understand why they didn't say she was going to explore essos) and jon with his friends (whoever they may be besides tormund)... Even if you ignore the story (and you should never do that) we are talking about people that ended GoT without having good battle scenes in the last season. Like, why didn't someone kill vyserion doing something insane? why didn't we have some awesome fight between several characters and several ww? why didn't we have several characters gang up on the mountain to kill him in a travesty of the toj scene ith arthur? why, plese wHY DID A DEAD GIANT GRAB LYANNA AND BROUGHT HER TO 30CM FROM HIS EYE? why did the dothriaki ride to their doom in the first 30 secs of the battle? And I could go on. Both the story and the execution were too bad to try to understand grrm intentions based on the last season. And we just have to compare it with the battle of the bastards that had a ridiculous story that made no sense but as it had several cool scenes people liked it. For some reason they couldn't even mantain this standar in season 8.
  14. you are judging this decision using wrong parameters. If dorne had the force to make tywin pay for what he did obviously doran's decision would be wrong. The idea that no matter what tyrants do the important thing is to have peace is dumb and it is how monsters get the power to do what they want. war is bad and hurts a lot of people, but it is a price to pay in order to achieve your objectives. If your cause is worthy enough then you should go to war no matter the price. Alys was facing a simillar situation and jon found ways that his vows let him help her. Simply because it was the right thing to do... Book danny isn't show danny. In the books she doesn't want to break the wheel, reinvent the wheel or even think about wheels. This isn't a story about socialism or democracy or women's rights. Danny likes to be a targ, to be the rightful queen and expects obedience from her lords wether they like or not. She does not want to go to westeros and hold a grand council where a bunch of nobles will decide if they should follow her or some usurper. And we just have to look at the IB kingsmoot to see how that isn't really the best election sistem there is.
  15. they want independence so he refuses to send troops to die fighting for rebels? feels threatned by jon claiming to also be rhaegar's son so doesn't want to help him? the southern lords don't believe in the others and therefore convince him to not send troops? there are ways to make it work.
  16. faegon takes cersei role in the show. So he decides to let the north fight the ww alone. Bran decides to skinchange into faegon so that he can give the right orders and ends up deciding to live as faegon instead of as bran stark.
  17. No. The " hold the door" is used to show the dangers and cruelty of bran's powers. There is no moral lesson to take from the event. And is there a more bittersweet ending than the king being an asshole refusing to help and bran skinchanging into him so that he could give the orders needed to defeat the others but deciding not to tell anyone (not even his familly) because what he did was terrible? THIS is the best and most belivable way bran can sit the IT. You literally said what her claim to the vale was... She just has to marry harry or robyn and if her husband dies she is the ruler of the vale. It is simple and fits well with what happened in the show. The rest is your wishful thinking. And even ruling the vale and turning it to assit the north in the coming war is probably against LF wishes. The whole north/wall/wildling situation remaining the same as it was in the beguining of the series is one of the most stupid things in the series and obviously doesn't work. First, if the others aren't fully defeated then what was the point of the story? just to repeat the past? Even in the show the others are completly dead. And the idea that after the long night ANYONE would want to be neighbours with the others makes no sense. Nobody knows when they would attack again... Second, jon has only started integrating the wildlings into the north and some of them have already joined the nw, setled in the gift and married into a great house. In the future they will be even more conected to the north. Their bulk isn't going anywhere. Third, most of the surviving wildlings will be war refugees (non fighters) and everything in their land will be dead, destroyed and frozen. Even if they wanted to go back they don't have the means to survive in their land. In order for the wildlings to survive they will need support and a northern leader that they respect and understands them so that he can make a truce with them that allows them to be free but follow some rules. Fourth, what will be the diference between the north and the true north? the wall, gift and karstark lands and probably more will be filled with wildlings. that is most of the northern part of the north. Does anyone think these wildlings will fight against other wildlings because the kneelers say so? That the north won't claim the lands north of the wall? fith, the ideia that we spent several books to unite all the people against the dead so that after the war we go back to how everything was is ridiculous. And the wildlings follow a king into a crises. Anyone believing that the most wild freefolk that are too wild to accept any kind of rules like the rest of their people would follow jon doesn't make sense. jon has no chance to lead people like the weeper in times of peace.
  18. I have huge doubts about a lot of the things you say. - I agree that some years ago grrm wanted bran to sit on the it and arya to go explore the world. However the plotwist is that bran will take over the body of who was suposed to be king and nobody will know it. -It is much more likely that sansa will be lady of the vale and control that region than the north. She is gaining power in the vale, it is a region where she fits perfectly (has several northern and southern elements like her) and it makes sense that she will end up marrying the ruler of the vale. -It makes no sense for the wildlings to return north of the wall. First, because either the others are defeated and the wall makes no sense or they aren't totally defeated and nobody would go live near them. Second, because they are being given lands on the gift and several of them want to live south of the wall where there are better living conditions. Third, because the north will need people and after the war the wildlings will have formed attachments. And finally, because it was wrong to have the wildlings live in misery north of the wall since the beguining. So after all the war people will have to do better and try some lasting peace. -So I believe jon will end up living with the wildlings, the northmen, iron born, skagosi and other war veterans/refugees in the north and that it will be very diferent land that it was in the beguining of the story. I could even see it separated from the rest of the kingdoms because they will be just too diferent from everybody else. - I doubt tyrion will be hand. There simply wasn't anybody else around to do it in the show and they liked tyrion. However he will end up in a position of power. Most likely a lord. -jaime may not have a redemption arc, but if he was going to kill cersei it would have happened in the show. They wouldn't waste such a moment. - the showrunners had no idea how to write a battle. I can garantee you that several characters will be fundamental in defeating the others. That maybe who gives the final blow wont be that important because it will only be possible thanks to the action of several characters. Like imagine there is a NK and jon cuts his arms, arya his legs, the hound kicks him and he flys into a bakery and hot pie takes the oportunity and kills the dude. Is hot pie our unsung hero?
  19. Even psycopaths care somewhat about their kids/familly. But that passage doesn't only show how wrong roose is. It is completly ilogical that he doesn't care about ramsay being his only heir. what if something happens to ramsay? Great houses care about having several heirs in case someone dies. And roose suspecting/knowing that ramsay killed his trueborn and not doing anything is wtf! It could make sense if he didn't plan to hurt ramsay until he had a spare heir. But roose actually aproves ramsay's actions and is ok with him inheriting his position. You can't call roose human. There is no way!
  20. I suspect anyone who likes leeches too much can't be a healthy person and roose doesn't seem to have any problem. But what completly sells me the bolt-on theory or a version of it is this. No human person can think like this. It is impossible that any father is happy that one of his sons will kill his other infant sons. And if you also take into account that roose probably knows that ramsay killed his first son who he raised since he was a baby contrary to ramsay and he still does nothing then roose can't be human. There is no way to explain roose's behaviour besides him being some kind of monster. But the prologue shows that even normal skinchangers can control people. So who knows what special ones like bran or bloodraven can do? what is that suposed to mean lol?
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