GOT Season 7 - Trailer #2 released
Slow day.. figured some GOT fans would want to see this, it's action packed. Let the speculation begin
Hopefully this link works, if not someone please help a brother out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mlhnt0jMlg&feature=youtu.be
Given the increase in production quality, they're probably going to make S8 an IMAX experience to compliment the HBO airings. ... This will do nicely until football season.
It will do nicely, but I cannot stand that it's only six episodes.
We are getting 7 episodes
- Episode 1: 59 minutes
- Episode 2: 59 minutes
- Episode 3: 63 minutes
- Episode 4: 50 minutes
- Episode 5: 59 minutes
- Episode 6: 71 minutes
- Episode 7: 81 minutes
Personally, I am far more interested in when the final books will be published. I don't care for Martin's style of publishing in piecemeal. Sure, it provides for a faster payday, but the overall quality suffers. A good comparison is lord of the rings: just as long and detailed (more so in fact), but published as one continuous, finished product.
Yep. He took on the Dan Brown effect. Once the tv money started rolling in the writing suffered
It wasn't the tv money. It was plotting and narrative troubles that he created with book 4 (where he had to split one book into two) that really put the series off track. The sprawling narrative and the first person perspective became too unwieldy (and his publisher didn't help by not editing him forcefully enough, telling him to cut some of the multi page description of meals, etc)
To put it on a timeline, Book 4 was published in 2005. HBO didn't acquire the rights to Gt until 2008 and the pilot didn't air until 2011
Actually... the Lord of the Rings books COMBINED are only slightly longer than any single one of the GoThrones books. Unless you're counting the Silmarillion, but no one's read that. And if you have, then you'd have to count the appendices from the GoT books, the last of which topped out at ~100 pages.
I expect they're doing seven episodes to try and keep production costs within reason; Winter will bring with it a huge CGI bill.
Agree completely, they havent even finished writing season 8 yet so im not sure how many episodes we are going to get there but id guess under 7
I think season 8 is 6 episodes.
That's what I thought too, that this is a move to try and save a little money.
I wish my kids would let me save a little money during the winter, but NOOOOO......Christmas and that blasted list.
They are spending the same amount as previous seasons, but concentrating the money on less eisodes. Supposedly the production value of these last 13 episodes is gonna be out of this world.
I think this season is seven episodes. The final season is six.
But it seems to be a common thing for the all-time great shows... Mad Men, The Sopranos, and Breaking Bad did similar things. Okay they made into "Part A" and "Part B" seasons but basically it was the same thing.
Even movies like Harry Potter and Hunger Games split their final chapters into two movies.
Not only can I not stand that it's only 7 episodes, I also can't stand that I now need to watch it in real-time.
I had avoided watching the show for years, then I convinced my (non-fantasy fan) wife to start from the beginning this past winter. I think we tore through all 6 seasons in like a month.
Having to wait week to week will be murder.
On the up side, based on my suggestion that we watch GoT and her loving it, she has now also agreed to watch Breaking Bad, so we're now on Season 2 of BB (second time viewing for me, first for her obviously).
So based on the quality of GoT and BB, I'm now in a position to suggest most shows that we watch & she'll trust that it'll probably be pretty good based on my 100% track record thus far.
We so excited.
Thank you, couldnt figure that part out
Currently, you can't embed videos in an OP. Hopefully you can in the new version to come.
I don't think it can be done in the OP, has to be a post. But you have to switch to plain text editor, paste the youtube embed code, and switch back to rich text editor.
There simply is no better show on television.
Yup. It's not even close.
Return of Beric Dondarrion and his flaming sword. I wonder if that is actually Lightbringer.
I keep thinking lightbringer is a metaphor for Dany's Dragons. She had to sacrifice her family to bring them to life and they are also the best weapons against the Darkness in the form of The Others. Just a theory.
I like that idea, especially if you look at what Thoros of Myr said about the prophecy.
According to prophecy, our champion will be reborn to wake dragons from stone and reforge the great sword Lightbringer that defeated the darkness those thousands of years ago. If the old tales are true, a terrible weapon forged with a loving wife's heart. Part of me thinks man was well rid of it, but great power requires great sacrifice. That much at least the Lord of Light is clear on.
In the other mentions of the prophecy there is no mention of dragons.
There will come a day after a long summer when the stars bleed and the cold breath of darkness falls heavy on the world. In this dread hour a warrior shall draw from the fire a burning sword. And that sword shall be Lightbringer, the Red Sword of Heroes, and he who clasps it shall be Azor Ahai come again, and the darkness shall flee before him
I think it is one of the dragons, but not wielded by Dani. I thinki Dani dies fighting the Ice Dragon (one of her own dragons, killed and reanimated by the Night King), and that scarifice will be the final push that forces Jon Snow to become a dragonrider himself, and defeat the Night King. So the sacrifice is Dani (we all know Dani and Jon are going to be lovers) and Jon is Azura Ahai. Or the reverse, but I don't see Jon getting killed; HBO would lose a quarter of their subscribers.
Yeah i dont know... looks like a suicide mission and at the end of the clip it appears Jon is fleeing the scene alone - could uncle Benjen save the day again? That could mean some major deaths are coming north of the wall this season
Looks like both Beric and The Hound are north of the Wall with Jon.
I do not want to lose the Hound
Go to 1:22 mark. Looks like The Hound to me and looks to be south of the wall. Hard to say if this happens before or after him being in the north. Maybe we will finally get to see Clegane Bowl.
Yoda thinks that sword is kind of cute.
wouldnt mind one more scene from her if you catch my drift
She swore them off sadly.
She revoked the no nudity clause. Be ready.
You were so caught up hating the season that you missed the scene when she meets with the Khals.
Burn, mother fuckers, burn, mother fuckers, burn.
True. This is the only season I haven't rewatched.
Emilia is so fine.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives”
Amazing line from Sansa. Who is the lone wolf? I really hope it isn't Jon. Maybe refering to Ned because he actually said quote in the books.
Sounds like Sansa asking Jon to fight against all odds and sacrifice himself. Or could be her sacrificing herself (lightbringer through the heart?). Leaning to the Lone Wolf being herself, as she's been alone for a while and Jon is the White Wolf.
means "All men must watch."
LOL wow. That is excellent. I must say that if that were the real introduction and I had not seen the show that I know it is now, I would be disinterested in it. So cheesy, but because I know it's a joke, it's also so awesome.
your avatar strongly resembles Sean Bean there....
Looks somewhere between 7 and 26 million times better than the previous season. Can we all admit now that that was boring and everyone knew where it was headed and most of it was a waste of time?
Cool battle scene in Battle of the Bastards, but that was about it.