GOT season 7 episode 6
Well, here we have the penultimate episode of the penultimate season. If we follow the formula of the first 6 seasons wherein the second to last episode of each season provides the most dramatic twist leaving the final episode for exposition, then I think we can expect one hell of an episode tonight.
What are you looking for? And please refrain from commenting if you already have seen the link.
I expect a couple of people to die north of the wall, probably Jorah and Tormund (I will cry). I also expect someone to die in Kingslanding (probably Bronn as a punishment for last week). I am hoping we see Benjen and/or a dragon with Dany arriving to save the day. I am also hoping we see a surprise reveal from Sam or Bran. The only thing I don't want to see if Jamie or Jon die...
I would like to see Arya stab littlefinger but I don't think that is in the cards yet.
kick back and enjoy!
jdon
Edit: I wrote episode 7 the first time.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:58 PM ^
It is a contrivance, like most of what has happened the past two and a half seasons.
August 21st, 2017 at 3:37 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
100% just a plot device
August 22nd, 2017 at 1:16 AM ^
"Wight Walkers" Really? Please tell me that's a typo and not really how George R.R. Martien actually spelled it in the books. I'm sure there is some back story, but it just seems overly contrived and, well, dumb (and i am a fan of the show).
August 22nd, 2017 at 3:14 AM ^
In the books they're called the Others. In the show White Walkers.
August 21st, 2017 at 10:45 AM ^
Did Dany get better looking this episode? I always thought she was okay looking, but this past episode she looked conspicuously prettier to me.
August 21st, 2017 at 11:05 AM ^
Name checks out
August 21st, 2017 at 11:13 AM ^
LOL +1
Needless to say, I've had to ice my balls this morning. It's like a song of ice and fire down there.
August 21st, 2017 at 11:15 AM ^
The dialogue bits were great as usual, particularly the banter with Tormund and the Hound. The climatic action was great - dragons roasting armies is always a good time unless you're in the army. The acting was also generally good - I think Sophie Turner's controlled underplaying of Sansa is one of the more underrated performances.
But I'm having a really really hard time getting past the writing and story direction of this episode.
This episode was a master-class in 'let's have characters act stupid so we can advance the plot' I'm far from the most critical viewer out there, so if I'm noticing it than that's pretty bad. Jon's plan of 'kidnap a wight' so we can prove we're not loony-toons is idiotic and even though Dragonstone isn't as far from the North as people think, I'm having a really hard time believing that in during the time it took Gendry to run back to Eastwatch, then have a raven fly to Dragonstone and then have the dragons fly north, that the whole team (minus maybe Tormund) wouldn't have all died for frostbite.
Sansa v. Arya just really feels like forced tension to fill up time. Even if acting like idiots is the Stark was, it's just beyond plausible at this point. We gotta figure that this is all gonna blow up in Littlefinger's face but when/if it does, it's going to be totally unearned. You know how, in Agatha Christie mysteries, the action noodles along, then you find out who the killer is (who is someone you didn't suspect) and you see the seeds and breadcrumbs that were left out that pointed to the killer all along? If the Stark girls are playing some long con, I'm just not seeing it - they have one more episode to salvage this storyline but it's getting late early.
August 21st, 2017 at 12:30 PM ^
I hear you. During the beginning of the episode when they are walking beyond the wall in search of a wight, I noticed that no one's ears or nose was red, no one had a runny nose. There was no frost in the beard. I grew up in Michigan. That scene didn't pass the smell test to me. I know they have to make allowances for TV, but no way they are walking around without a decent hat on.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:11 PM ^
I promise there is no long con happening with Sansa and Arya. Anyone who has watched this show, yet still believes that is what is happening... well, I have a bridge for sale at a very good price.
The show-runners are plainly not capable of that kind of writing. They have made that abundantly clear in the past three seasons (once they ran out of source material).
August 21st, 2017 at 4:26 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 12:36 PM ^
enough fur to outfit a group three times the size. I would have been sweating, and the body heat would prevent ice on the face and beard. No red in the face though, good point there.
August 21st, 2017 at 12:40 PM ^
Was anyone else bothered by how easy it was for the dragon to go down? Like the crossbow that Bronn shot barely damaged it, but a hand thrown spear takes one down? Also where did the white walkers get the chains to bring the dragon from the bottom of the lake?
August 21st, 2017 at 12:53 PM ^
I would assume that that spear isn't just any ordinary spear.
Also, I'm kind of glad the Night King had an unexpected fast ball, because for a second there the dragons made it seem like "what's the big deal with this army of the dead?".
August 21st, 2017 at 12:56 PM ^
The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that cause it's the Night King, he's got magic on his side
And there's a theory going around that the Night King is a warg/seer like Bran, and that he laid a trap to get a dragon
August 21st, 2017 at 2:28 PM ^
are vulnerable to Valerian steel. There is some sort of mystical fire property in valerian steel that kills them.
And whether the dragons, being fire creatures, are vulnerable to ice in general (the way wights are vulnerable to obsidian) or if those are special mystical ice spears like valerian steel, there is a big difference between the regular iron/steel that Bronn shot and those ice spears, which literally exploded upon contact, sort of the way the white walkers shatter when hit with valerian steel.
August 21st, 2017 at 4:36 PM ^
Valyrian.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:36 PM ^
One difference: Drogon (who was shot by Bronn) is the biggest of the dragons, and more likely to survive such a hit than its smaller siblings.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:23 PM ^
I looked away for a second, who went into the water to attach the chains to pull the dragon up?
August 24th, 2017 at 12:57 PM ^
have Ice Depot to stock up on all their ice needs.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
seemed totally absurd. And my wife was irate about those. Where they got them, I dunno. I guess they have a massive mine and blacksmith operation somewhere.
It is somewhat believable that, assuming they have the ability to make the chains, they would bring them south because the chains could be used perhaps to bring down the wall. Also, it could explain why they're going so slowly since they have to haul the chains. Although we saw a few episodes ago that there are zombie giants, and they were nowhere to be found this episode.
August 21st, 2017 at 3:40 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 4:21 PM ^
My thoughts exactly. That is a hell of a feat of engineering to haul a massive object from the depths of an icy lake. I didn't realize the dead were such good workers. Why doesn't the Night King just have them build him a giant castle and then he can just hang out there with 10s of 1000s of servants at his beck and call. That's the whole point of it all, isn't it?
August 21st, 2017 at 6:33 PM ^