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25 minutes ago, Nerf said:

re: Jaime/Cersei dynamic

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I've had a prevailing theory for a while now that Jaime won't be the one to kill Cersei. When Daenerys inevitably takes Kings Landing, Cersei will opt for a trial by combat as one last act of defiance and obviously choose Robot Mountain as her champion, while The Hound challenges and defeats him. Ties up both stories full-circle and fulfils the 'little brother' prophecy which has largely been a red herring until that point.

 

13 minutes ago, Ms. Canadian Destroyer said:

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2 minutes ago, Benji said:

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Interesting point. I wonder if this is going to be what finally snaps Jamie on Cersei. He's going to realise that she doesn't even care about him, just power.

 

4 hours ago, Lint said:

 

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Pretty sure it was Bronn.  If you pause it at the right moment, you can see the guy who saved him was unarmored.  Dickon was wearing armor, Bronn wasn't-/spoiler]

7 hours ago, Mick said:

Episode 4 leaked online. 
 

Major spoilers folks, just FYI
 

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Winterfell

Bran says something to Littlefinger I couldn't make out, after Littlefinger gives him the dagger. Baelish looks pretty spooked afterwards. Arya returns, whom Bran gives the dagger to. Later on, Arya and Brienne spar (Arya citing Brienne's victory over The Hound as the reason why she waits to train with her), and Arya shows off her fighting skills. There's a nice little "let's get dangerous bit" as things get heated. Littlefinger watches with approval, as if he knows that if Sansa's not down for his scheming, Arya might be. 

 

Dragonstone

Jon shows Dany a cave full of dragonglass, but inside they find images drawn by the Children of the Forest. Including depicitions of White Walker. Dany realizes that the Children and the First Men fought together against the White Walkers, and that Jon isn't as full of shit as she once thought. 

Dany's also pissed at Tyrion, since his advice has cost her the Greyjoys, Tyrells and Martells. Word gets back of the debacle at Casterly Rock. 

Theon returns....only to be greeted by Jon. Jon tells him that the only reason he's letting Theon live is because of how he helped Sansa. Theon asks where Dany is. Jon says she's gone. WHICH BRINGS US TO...

 

Outside King's Landing

Jamie, Bronn and Randyll return with a caravan with the spoils of Highgarden. In the Red Keep, a pleased Cersei treats with Tycho, and there's mention of Qyburn trying to employ...The Golden Company.

Jamie quips to Bronn "See, paying our debts". Bronn does his typical bitching about being underpaid. A couple scenes later, they're talking....then they hear horses. It's the Dothraki. 

The Lannister army goes into full "oh shit" mode, and then...they see it. Drogon. 

Jamie orders Bronn to man the Scorpion (Qyburn's ballista). His first shot misses, but on the second shot, he hits Drogon. Drogon's going down, but then manages to stabilize, and begins a strafing run against Bronn, who jumps before he's roasted. 

Randyll Tarly gets burnt pretty bad, but we don't actually see him dead, so he might be alive. 

Tyrion watches the battle. Drogon lands and Dany hops off to remove the spear that he was hit with. Jamie sees this, grabs a spear, and begins to charge. Tyrion quietly begs him to flee, as Drogon turns....

 

Right before the flames hit, someone knocks Jamie into the water. It ends with him sinking. 

 

 

 

 

I saw an early screening of The Dark Tower last night.  I love the books, and I knew going in I had to separate myself from them.  The movie is basically taking the ground work of The Gunslinger and the Tower and making an entirely different story with a few references to the source material.  Once you get passed the fact that the movie is in no way shape or form the story from the books you can enjoy it for what it is.  It's not what I hoped for but I didn't leave the theater mad about what I got, it just made me want to read the books again.

8 hours ago, SeanDMan said:

Given EWB is essentially one giant comments section... >_>

 

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I really wish Robb had lasted just one more Tribal Council in Thailand.  I would have loved to see the reformed Robb interact with Clay and try to apologize for the whole strangling him thing... and just seeing him try to deal with Jan would have been great.  He's one person I'm really sad didn't make the merge... or in this case when both tribes lived together.

I take back any bad thing I said about Thailand, this season is amazing.

10 minutes ago, Bobfoc said:

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Well, Jaime himself didn't really drive Tyrion to murder Tywin because he was convinced of his innocence all along. The scene might have had extra impact in the books because, in that version, Tyrion (falsely) admits to Jaime that he killed Joffrey. For Cersei, though, you're right, although it was years of hatred more than anything that led her to automatically judge Tyrion guilty, rather than push for a genuine investigation.

 

Until Jon gets all the pieces of Exodia

Oh wow, the villains of Marquesas are Paschal and Neleh.

They spend the entire first half about how they want to play fair and not use alliances or manipulate people... but they are in an alliance the entire time.  They then form a 5 person alliance to take out the Rotu 4 for being arrogant, then brag in front of them about how they only want people who deserve it to win.  They are straight up saying people shouldn't be in alliances, so lets form an alliance and vote them all out.  They aren't bad or mean people by any means, but they go on a power trip and are very holier than thou about the entire thing.

This is a weird season.

For whatever reason (laziness) I watched the recap episode to see if they were worth it.  It at least showed Sean/Vee/Kathy/Paschal/Neleh making the alliance to take down the Rotu 4.  Also it showed more personality for the General then the rest of the season combined... in that his luxury item was a voodoo doll which is kind of hilarious.  It also makes me wish luxury items were still a thing, they just need to say no to flags, pain and notebooks.  It tells you a lot about the people like Robb bringing a god damn skateboard to the beach or Brandon bringing chapstick.

When I think about it, I was a little upset that one of my favorite characters was written out of the show (Victarion Greyjoy).  Then I realized they basically just most of what I liked about him and gave it to Euron, so I guess, yay!

In a confessional he calls him "a big time queer" but a while later when they are having a heated discussion about voting together or not, Rob ends it with a "by the way, you're gay, right?" and John just sighs and says "thanks for outing me".  He does say in a confessional he has been out for a while though so he may have meant that he hadn't told his tribemates or something.

Rob just tries to stir shit up, it can be somewhat entertaining but he just comes off as unlikable.  Also, considering the Varner/Zeke thing was such a big deal, Rob basically does the same thing to John in this season.  John doesn't care but it was interesting to see that it kind of happened way back at the beginning.

Sean on the other hand, I just don't like.  He complains so much and says even more uncomfortable things than Rob.  Like saying Hunter is treating him like a slave because he was asked to get water.  Although I think the absolute funniest thing in this season so far is Sean and Vee on beach.  The other 5 Rotu are in the water and Sean is talking about how they are minorities and how everyone is going to just assume they are in an alliance.  This is happening while they are away from the rest of the tribe talking which is probably a bigger indicator of an alliance.  Secondly, they absolutely should be making an alliance at that moment.

Its not just that he insults people, he also plays one of the worst games possible.  He tries to stir up shit so everyone just votes him out.  At least he caused his own downfall.  The Rotu 4 were going to vote for Kathy until Rob told her and caused a shit storm, and scared Kathy enough that she bossed a challenge to win immunity.  Which is weird because Boston Rob basically votes himself out here and his ally Tyson does the same in HvV.

Started Marquesas again, I'm still not sure why this is supposed to be considered a good season.  Rob and Sean both really make me dislike this season.

I just realized, Teresa Cooper may have accidentally made one of the best moves in early Survivor by voting for Lex.  Lex went insane which I'm sure she couldn't have planned and it completely flipped Kelly.  Frank, T-Bird, Kim P, Brandon and Kelly could have taken over the game if Brandon was smart.

2 hours ago, Bobfoc said:

What about Ramsay? He put into motion the chain of events that obliterated Stannis' army, and all he needed was twenty good men.

Then immediately lost to Jon Snow while killing a bunch of his own men.  Even if he won the battle he would have lost the North.

Robb had a good track record until his wang got him into trouble.

In terms of storylines, Brandon vs Frank is one of the most ridiculous season long angles.  From the Elders vs Mallrats in the first 4 episodes, the swap happens and Brandon tells people that Frank hates women despite his closest friend being Teresa.  Then come the merge Samburu has a chance to actually take over with Kelly flipping but Brandon won't do it just because he doesn't want to vote with Frank.  To be fair, he was probably in the same position either way, maybe slightly better with Samburu because of Kim P.  The cherry on top is him using his jury questions to try and take a dig at Frank after they were both voted out and I have no idea why he expected Ethan to answer how he wanted.

I really enjoy Africa for some reason, I think I just like the grouping of Lex, Tom and Ethan as players.  Frank Garrison is absolutely the castaway that becomes infinitely better on a rewatch.  I also have such a crush on Kim Powers, I would put her probably top 3 most attractive Survivor Players ever.