The Knight of Flours

7/10 which is about all you can expect for an early set-up episode.

So many complaining about 'dialogue heavy', 'boring' (etc) and seeming to be expecting some dragon battle/war in the first few episodes.

Some seem to have forgotten that in series one of GoT we didn't even see a live dragon until the final seconds of the last episode.  And traditionally the 'OMG plot twist' has never really happened before Episode 8 or 9 (not counting final few shorter seasons ofc).

Patience people.

When I saw HBO post on FB about 'The Last War', I thought 'that's a pretty lame episode title'.

'The Bells' is also fairly lack-lustre.  I thought something like 'Queen's Landing' might have been appropriate.

I wonder if next week will be 'A Dream of Spring'?

22 minutes ago, Bustard said:

Do we still not know the title? What's going on with that?

Isn't it 'The Long Night'?

I prefer the 'intrigue' episodes (at least when they had GRRM's dialogue to use) to battles, but this episode certainly poured on the tension.  Had probably more pee-breaks (and refills) during this 80minutes than Avengers-Endgame and in those breaks I was pretty numb thinking about what was to come.

Still, stuff went down this ep and I still have butterflies in my stomach.

I hate 'fights in the dark' in movies/shows and probably missed some stuff (the show airs live in sunny lunchtime downunder) so will definitely watch it later in the dark with a bottle of strong liquor at my side.

I will have to watch again tonight (ep comes out in the brightness of sunshine downunder) as too much screen reflection.

Well, I will have to watch again when I am emotionally un-wrecked at least.

I usually prefer the 'talking' episodes to the battles (at least when they were able to use GRRM dialogue) but stuff got done this ep so it has to be a 10/10.  And that next week trailer..... I better stock up on strong drink.

1 hour ago, briantw said:

I wish someone would just point out that them getting married would solve basically every problem.

Didn't Davos point that out last episode (though unaware of Jon's true parentage/name)?

16 minutes ago, Bran the Shipper said:

And when did she ....become so good with a bow. 

Season 1 - episode 1?

When Tyrion was talking to Jaime about killing Cersei I was expecting Bronn to appear at Winterfell.

8/10 and nearly a 9.

Much better dialogue this week.  And I even had a bit of a tear in the eye at that 'Knight of the Seven Kingdoms' moment

Only 7 sleeps to go!

1 hour ago, House Cambodia said:

By the way, was Ned's body returned to Winterfell, or just his head .....?

Was just stated as 'his bones' if I remember correctly.

Can't go higher than a 7.  DIdn't expect much other than this 'dark mirror' of Episode 1 and reunion/set-up for the future.

I am still finding much of the dialogue to be cheesy, as I have since they ran out of GRRM-dialogue from the books.

The time-travelling is irking me too - surely Cersei should be showing by now.

The new series "Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams" (now up to episode 3) is featuring a few GoT actors.

Richard Madden was in the first episode while Davos Seaworth & Lady Crane are in episode 6.  Oona Chaplin's mother starred in episode 2 as well.

this thread is high art... oh wait

On 8/21/2017 at 11:14 PM, Talking Hodor said:

Even if the wights are brainless monsters, the white walkers are definitely smart enough to forge chains and could remote control a pack of wights into an abandoned smithy and make them.

lol NK should remote control em into making trebuchets and the like to toss walkers into the living armies and over the Winterfell walls

Bit late this week but...

9/10

Haven't been any 10/10s this season for a change - but a few like this one at 9/10 and pretty good.

Guess I will see all the haters back here in a year's time lol

4 minutes ago, Aemon Targaryen said:

One of the very first sounds this season was the chains carried by the NK clinking.

It was? Must have missed that..

Anyway I still wonder where he got them originally

7/10 - my lowest rating this season and probably equal lowest-ever.

Too much annoyed me about this ep (dialogue, Arya, teleporting, a shedload of unlikely last-minute saves, those chains magically appearing out of nowhere) to give anything higher.

Night's King: "Here are two massive chains I have hidden in my pocket"

Jon and Jaime had the same swimming coach

D

Just now, plectrum said:

Dragons will literally never stop being badass.

until they stop..

Ice and Fire

Jon "The teleporter is our only chance now"

While we're waiting, let's eat some of that food we brought with us - oh wait..

There are more unbelievable things that ice-spiders in this episode... Gendry's sprinting in snow for one...

Just now, Holly Macaroni said:

2) Who are those people who died? Where did they come from?

They have red-shirts on under their cloaks..