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 1:45 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 10:51 PM ^
The hound "you want to suck my dick is that it?" Tormund "dick?" Hound "its cock" Tormund "ahh dick, I like it" Hound "bet you do"
August 21st, 2017 at 8:37 AM ^
I also like Tormund's line about how to stay warm: "Walking is good. Fighting is better. Fucking is best."
August 20th, 2017 at 11:18 PM ^
Just wanna say F the guy last week posting shit like it was his predictions when he read the leaked scripts. DBAG
It fun to talk about theories and ya you can predict things that will happen but not EVERYTHING. Dick
August 21st, 2017 at 1:04 AM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 1:31 AM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 8:10 AM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 7:18 AM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 8:04 AM ^
Except the Sansa/Arya tension requires them both to be idiots.
Arya is supposed to be a cunning assassin who knows when people lie. Unless this is an act (which I doubt given the shoddy writing ever since the show has outpaced the books), her treating Sansa like this makes zero sense.
And then, why on earth would Sansa send her #1 ace to King's Landing while this was going on? Its incredibly forced.
August 21st, 2017 at 8:42 AM ^
I believe Arya is just faking it. Maybe somehow she found a way to get Sansa's face (to get an easier chance to kill Baelish, although I feel like she can easily kill him in his sleep since she can pick locks, but perhaps she has another plan) without her dying. I don't know. We will see.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:40 PM ^
Now Bran will save the day in this seasons finale. He will find a way to unite his sisters again and lead to LF's death while probably revealing some big facts about folks heritage.
I don't really buy that the show has decided to make LF a player again after making him essentially useless the last 3 seasons. I think they're setting him up for a triumphant death that ultimately unites and puts the Stark children on the same page.
August 21st, 2017 at 11:01 PM ^
Maybe Sansa sending her #1 ace to King's Landing has more to do with her going on *offense* against Arya (who Brienne is also charged to protect).
For example, Sansa could throw Arya in a jail cell much more easily if Brienne is not around to get involved.
August 21st, 2017 at 9:42 AM ^
To be fair, if memory serves I believe the idea of going beyond the wall to capture a wight was originally Tyrion's idea. But yes, Jon ultimately decided to go along with it.
Jon is a lot like other northerners. A great warrior and he inspires people to follow him (at least on the battlefield), but a crappy politician with little to no mind for strategy.
August 21st, 2017 at 11:46 AM ^
He bent the knee (proverbially) because Tormund gave his permission, for lack of a better word. Remember when they were talking about that? Tormund said about Maynce Raider - 'he was a great king, but lost thousands, and himself, because of his pride. You should have just bent your knee.'
Tacit approval to bend, with the Free Folk staying behind him.
August 21st, 2017 at 8:10 AM ^
So the good guys lost a dragon to capture a wight to show Cersei when they could have just went to King's Landing, flown the dragons overhead, announced that Cersei needed to surrender or be turned over in 24 hours or the capital gets it? Is there any reason to believe that one demonstration of dragon fire wouldn't have had Cersei body-surfing over the entire populace out the front gate and dropped at Dany's feet?
Oh and why on earth wouldn't Ghost be with them on their trek north of the wall? Why wouldn't they have taken ravens?
I'm also sick of Jon always being an idiot who costs his side dearly.
Game of Thrones is still entertaining, but its lost a lot of its prestige status.
August 21st, 2017 at 11:50 AM ^
The whole point of capturing a wight is to avoid burning down the capital. Have you paid any attention this season? Everyone knows the threat of melting cities will immedaitely win the war. But what Tyrion has been championing - this whole season - is that use of the dragons to indiscriminately incinerate people/things/places will not make for a good, comfortable, peaceful time on the Iron Throne. She would be just more of the same.
Try to keep up, man!
August 21st, 2017 at 12:36 PM ^
You probably shouldn't chastise people for not paying attention to a season of TV when you can't even comprehend a single comment.
I didn't say burn down the capital. I said use the threat of the dragons to have Cersei surrender. She either does or someone inside will kill her or turn her over. She has no real loyalty from the people other than their fear of her and that goes away once dragons enter the equation.
This would even lend itself to the perfect Jaime kills Cersei situation once Cersei prepares to set the city ablaze herself realizing she can't win.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^
Never threaten what you're not willing to carry out. If Kings Landing somehow doesn't surrender, then what?
August 21st, 2017 at 1:53 PM ^
Yeah but realistically they would. It makes much more sense than what we got.
August 21st, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^
Realistically, Randyll Tarly and his son, Dickon, should have bent the knee, too. But instead, Dany had to burn them alive because that's what she said she'd. It's called follow through... Once again, the whole point is to avoid fire bombing the entire country. Threatening to do so means that you just might have to do it.
So its not that I didn't understand your comment, it's that your comment was, well, wasn't particularly enlightened.
August 21st, 2017 at 4:12 PM ^
Again, from the standpoint of the show, what plan makes more sense: Bringing the might of your army to King's Landing and demanding surrender or 5-6 important characters (varying degrees) going on a mission north of the wall to bring back a single wight?
On one hand, we've seen Dany conquer numerous cities without burning them down, have we not? Why not actually have all that be worth something now that she's back in Westeros?
On the other, we have a suicide mission that is only saved through questionable storytelling.
Also, your comment, though you don't know it, proves my point. After the Tarlys were fried everyone still standing bent the knee. You could just have Drogon land on a castle mount and roar fire into the air. I think people would get the picture.
From a competent storytelling point of view, you know I'm right.
August 21st, 2017 at 4:28 PM ^
*sigh
August 21st, 2017 at 2:44 PM ^
What I can't believe is that Tyrion would ever even consider the plan of capturing the wight. He knows Cersei well enough to know she wouldn't give two shits about some nothern zombie. At best she would completely dismiss it as not a current or pressing issue. At worst she uses it to hurt Dany's armies or claim.
Dany was already about 97% on board with anything Jon was going to tell her. She risked everything to go save him with no proof but cave drawings (more excellent writing). The wight was to try and convince the capital. And Tyrion Lannister of all people should know the folly of trying to convince Cersei Lannister to do something for the good of the realm.
August 21st, 2017 at 4:36 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 12:17 PM ^
was a stupid, stupid idea and storyline meant to set up a made-for-TV set piece with all of our favorite characters vs. the army of the dead. I mean, that was clear when the plan was hatched so no need beating that dead horse (pun intended! heyyo).
I thought the same about Ghost. He should have been there. Sad they've just written out the direwolves completely (although I'm still hoping for a return from one or both at some point).
As for ravens, maybe they wouldn't survive in a cage in the cold, and usually maesters are the only ones trained in sending them, so that's more plausible that they wouldn't have brought them. Also, what were the odds they found themselves in a situation where sending a raven could help them instead of near immediate death i.e. stranded on on island in the middle of a frozen lake that wights (ridiculously) can't get to?
August 21st, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^
Wasn't Lord Commander Mormont pissed at Sam for not sending a raven back in season 2 or 3 when they were north of the wall?
What you're saying is plausible, but for the sake of the show, sending a raven immediately would make more sense than the Gendry runs however many miles and for how ever long and then a raven is sent.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:59 PM ^
brought Sam specifically so he could tend to and deploy the ravens if need be. He was a steward working with Maester Aemon so he knew how to deploy them. You supposedly need to be trained in ravens and it's likely no one on the trek last night knew how to do that.
Also, Mormont's ranging was one to explore what was happening to previous rangers that didn't return and whether there actually were walkers. He figured that if they came under attack and didn't make it, at least they could send a raven to tell someone what actually happened to them. Bringing the ravens wasn't really to call for a rescue mission. In last night's case, if the team didn't return, everyone would know what happened to them so bringing a raven for informational purposes was unnecessary.
And yes, a raven could have flown faster than Gendry could run, but again, it's not like you plan for the absurdly unlikely event that you're on an island surrounded by wights with enough time for a raven to summon a rescue mission. You leave thinking you're successful or you're dead.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:12 PM ^
They couldn't have been on an island when Gendry was sent or he wouldn't have been able to get off the island. That is to say, he was sent before they knew there would be time for a rescue.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
we know. What's your point?
It is discussed below how absurd it is that Gendry was sent for help at the moment he was sent because, at that time, they were in immediate danger with very little chance a resuce mission would help. Same reason ravens with them wouldn't help.
August 21st, 2017 at 4:03 PM ^
Bringing ravens north of the wall has precedent on the show and in the books and makes for a more realistic rescue than Gendry's run. In a season that's writing has suffered, small things like would go a long way.
August 21st, 2017 at 4:29 PM ^
They were trying to move fast, and be able to fight. Having someone bring a cage full of ravens doesn't help with any of that.
August 21st, 2017 at 9:34 AM ^
The thing I didn't get: why did Jon send Gendry to Eastwatch to raven Danny? What was he supposed to tell her? "Jon is north of the wall and he got a wight! Also zombies e'rywhere!" He couldn't have told her that Jon and crew were trapped and needed help, he didn't know that.
August 21st, 2017 at 11:40 AM ^
No dude, it was more like:
August 21st, 2017 at 2:03 PM ^
they knew they were going to encounter zombies everywhere, that was the purpose of the mission! Jon sent away one of the guys who was brought specifically to help with that exact situation, just to run back and call for help when at the time, there was literally a negligible chance they'd survive long enough for the help to come.
August 21st, 2017 at 9:35 AM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 9:45 AM ^
I'm as irritated as everyone else about the time travel breaks from reality and am critical that the writers went too slow for 6 seasons and left themselves with too little time resolve things realistically in the final seasons.
That said, the writing is still very good. Loved the dialogue as the characters marched North last night. More so, I love those characters and was convinced we were getting to see some of them for the last time last night. A major difference between the "just a TV show" and GOT season 7 (even with some loss on the story telling end) is that underneath the movie quality cinematics, we really care about the characters due to the great writing and long build up to these scenese. We believe any of them could die. I was edge of my seat tense when Bronn was shooting at Drogon a couple episodes and just a bit gut sick last night wondering which of my favorites wasn't coming back from North of The Wall. I haven't cared about characters in TV or movies like this in a long time. Especially in special effects driven movies.
I'm going to forgive them the time travel, suspend disbelef on it (the earned some mulligans) and simply relish the fiinal episodes of some the best TV ever in a genre I love and rarely get to enjoy at this quaity level.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:04 PM ^
we got to know them through the first five seasons the way we were intended to (well, that goes for the Hound, Jon, Jorah and Tormund, not really the other three which is why no one cared when Thoros died). Back when the show followed the books was when these characters were developed and you fell in love with them. GRRM handed the writers a well set up narrative and complex characters people love. It wasn't just a TV show for five seasons and now we've seen this transformation into a TV show. The showrunners have thrown in some endearing moments too, but...
....Martin's willingness to off anybody at any time is what made you believe any of them could die last night. The fact that no one important (other than the dragon) died last night is evidence we've moved into fully typical television in which the characters you like are invincible (if that wasn't already clear when Bronn and Jaime both survived the loot train battle).
August 21st, 2017 at 10:00 AM ^
dragon's mouth spray turn things to ice? That will be cool to see. Expect some epic dragon vs dragon battles. The problem I had with last night's episode was when Jon Snow motioned over to the Night King and his dead brass. When the dragons arrived he could have pointed to the Night King and Dany could have taken him out, destroying the entire horde.
August 21st, 2017 at 10:31 AM ^
How? The White Walkers are immune to fire.
August 21st, 2017 at 11:04 AM ^
Exactly, there was even a scene with the Night King walking through fire to get to Jon.
August 21st, 2017 at 12:30 PM ^
Wights can be killed by fire, not White Walkers. Only Valerian steel and black obsidian will do it.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:16 PM ^
And Dragon glass from Dragonstone?
August 21st, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
obsidian.
August 21st, 2017 at 3:19 PM ^
But he said "from Dragonstone", which is where they got the Dragonglass (obsidian).
August 21st, 2017 at 3:18 PM ^
Valyrian.
August 22nd, 2017 at 1:21 AM ^
Why do you keep doing this? Who cares? It's just something George R. R. R. Tolkmartein made up. We get it. You know-it-all. Now let it go.
August 21st, 2017 at 10:23 AM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 10:39 AM ^
I just started watching this year, with a binge watch of seasons 1-6 leading up to this season. I'll probably go back and watch it again because I know I missed a lot the first time around. What I really didn't understand in last night's episode is why Jon Snow would lead a way too small group to face the Wight Walkers? Just stupidity or did he have a legitimate plan? Or, more likely, a plot device to get the dragons into a future dragon vs dragon battle?
August 21st, 2017 at 11:54 AM ^
The plan was to capture one from a small party. And they did exactly as they planned. Except that when it screamed, it brought the whole army. That wasn't expected... Those things apparently have a hive mind.
August 21st, 2017 at 12:41 PM ^
OK, I missed that. That seems like a plot contrivance, but I'm such a newbie that others with more knowledge might disagree.