OFFICIAL Game of Holmes Season 8 Thread - A Dream of Flat Tops 4/14/19

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

The scene depicting the death of Theon Greyjoy was so sad. It has somewhat been overlooked with the whole NK/Arya talk.

No other character had such a transformation in the show and he has been there since the first episode.

Brans acknowledgement of Theons redemption, the beautiful background score and Theon running into certain death makes it so epic

RIP Theon Greystark

He chose to die with the honor that was taken from him by Ramsey and his own actions.

 

[Daniel.]

People saying the Night King touched all these characters and the blood raven said the night king touched him. The thing is when the Night King got killed by Arya, the effect of his touch died with him (the dragon died as well as his army of the dead).
So wouldn't any effect on Bran be gone?

Reading all these theories and responses is like a roller coaster with yall man

 

[So-Chi]

Oh?

 

[Elle Seven]

Bran actor on that last staredown with Night King


Here is Issac's (the actor who plays Bran) explanation for his long stare-down with the Night King. His explanation brings a whole new meaning to the scene and, when I re-watched that moment, I actually got goosebumps...

"What we tried to do with that moment, where The Night King arrives and stares at Bran and Bran stares at him, and this wasn't in the script, this was me and [director] Miguel [Sapochnik] coming up with this idea of Bran feeling sorry for him. Bran is looking at him and thinking, "I'm so sorry that they did this to you", because Bran was there and saw the creation of The Night King. He saw that shard of dragonglass pushed through this guy's heart. He was strapped to a tree. He didn't want to become this evil ice zombie. So yeah, what we thought was just a really beautiful moment where Bran is feeling sorry for this, this monster that's got out of control. He just can't stop killing."

It's just such an epic moment because these are two of the ancient beings of Westeros, The Night King and the Three-Eyed Raven. There have been many Three-Eyed Ravens. You know, the last Three-Eyed Raven was killed by the Night King, and that's all he wants to do. He wants to end the history, wants to destroy all memory of mankind, and civilization."

Bran & The Knight King stare scene:

Edit: Source: EXCLUSIVE: Isaac Hempstead Wright spills on THAT major Game of Thrones moment

Thanks for posting. I literally just asked this question on here last night. The staredown scene was my favorite part of this entire episode and I have been wondering what Bran as supposed to be thinking.

So now its clearer - that's not fear in his eyes; it's pity.

 

[DGodRussell]

It was one stab, she couldn't do that? Night king wasn't some warrior, he could throw a javelin bit he damn sure ain't want no John smoke

Wasn't some warrior? Did you miss that nikka effortlessly catching Theon's lance, snapping that shyt and stabbing him with it in one swoop? Arya, the super assassin who apparently somehow has the best hands in Westeros, instant transmissioned behind him and dude had the quickness and reflexes to turn around and catch that bytch by the neck and knife hand. They were clearly trying to portray that he could throw down if needed. He walked away from the Jon smoke because he didn't feel he was worth his time, not because he was shook. Yall can't seriously believe a nikka that just walked down the biggest dragon in existence was shook of Jon's bytch ass. Dude went from casually one shotting dragons from 1000s of ft away with a damn icicle, to getting dropped by a little girl with a butterknife in the span of 4 episodes

 

[PikaDaDon]

 

[O.Red]

People saying the Night King touched all these characters and the blood raven said the night king touched him. The thing is when the Night King got killed by Arya, the effect of his touch died with him (the dragon died as well as his army of the dead).
So wouldn't any effect on Bran be gone?

???

 

[Stop_It_5]

Wasn't some warrior? Did you miss that nikka effortlessly catching Theon's lance, snapping that shyt and stabbing him with it in one swoop? Arya, the super assassin who apparently somehow has the best hands in Westeros, instant transmissioned behind him and dude had the quickness and reflexes to turn around and catch that bytch by the neck and knife hand. They were clearly trying to portray that he could throw down if needed. He walked away from the Jon smoke because he didn't feel he was worth his time, not because he was shook. Yall can't seriously believe a nikka that just walked down the biggest dragon in existence was shook of Jon's bytch ass. Dude went from casually one shotting dragons from 1000s of ft away with a damn icicle, to getting dropped by a little girl with a butterknife in the span of 4 episodes

If it was about not being worth his time why did he hold all his goons back and step toward Theon He knew Theon was a non-factor, no risk.


He rose the dead to combat Jon because he remembered what happened at HardHome, Snow Man turned one of his generals into crushed ice with that Valyrian steel blade. The risk ain't worth the reward in that show down for him. There's no risk in staring down a dragon with an ice spear when dragon fire can't kill you.

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

Wasn't some warrior? Did you miss that nikka effortlessly catching Theon's lance, snapping that shyt and stabbing him with it in one swoop? Arya, the super assassin who apparently somehow has the best hands in Westeros, instant transmissioned behind him and dude had the quickness and reflexes to turn around and catch that bytch by the neck and knife hand. They were clearly trying to portray that he could throw down if needed. He walked away from the Jon smoke because he didn't feel he was worth his time, not because he was shook. Yall can't seriously believe a nikka that just walked down the biggest dragon in existence was shook of Jon's bytch ass. Dude went from casually one shotting dragons from 1000s of ft away with a damn icicle, to getting dropped by a little girl with a butterknife in the span of 4 episodes

bu bu bu but shes a stealth ninja assassin of many faces and shyt...

At the end of the day NK was a career all hype jobber breh...

WalkerSet deserved better...

 

[DGodRussell]

If it was about not being worth his time why did he hold all his goons back and step toward Theon He knew Theon was a non-factor, no risk.


He rose the dead to combat Jon because he remembered what happened at HardHome, Snow Man turned one of his generals into crushed ice with that Valyrian steel blade. The risk ain't worth the reward in that show down for him. There's no risk in staring down a dragon with an ice spear when dragon fire can't kill you.

No one's decisions that night made any sense whatsoever, but if he really felt Jon was a threat he could've easily bodied him last season but chose to flex on him instead.



For whatever reason dude only gave a fukk about killing Bran and Theon just happened to be between them. If he was worried about risks he never would've entered the battlefield in the 1st place.

 

[Piff Perkins]

I thought that ep was a great example of how far the show has fallen, and it actually made me excited for the book (which I hadn't even thought of in ages because of Martin's slow ass) because none of that shyt is gonna happen. When you create a "big bad" you inevitably risk an anti-climatic ending where the heroes overcome him. Think about it...there was literally no way for this not to end at Winterfell. Given the decision to have super fast zombies...something that NEVER happened in the previous seasons until they ran out of book material...it would have been impossible for the heroes to lose and retreat elsewhere. Fast zombies would have made retreat impossible. So everything came down to Winterfell. One battle. One night. After 8 seasons of buildup. Meh.

And for it to happen via a corny ass anime moment, where the hero jumps out of nowhere and just so happens to kill the villain perfectly...nah. I wasn't feeling that. Lot of things to like about the episode in terms of the direction, music, some of the shots, some great scenes etc...but that ending was corny.

Where do we go from here? What was even the point of the NK? He just wanted to kill all life...why? Meh. And now we go back to the game of thrones. How am I gonna get excited about this next battle. 2 dragons vs 0 dragons? At this point the question becomes: how will the writers illogically FORCE this to be a close or emotional battle? For starters I'd expect for someone to get murked next ep. Bronn gonna kill Tyrion or Jaime, which will be the emotional hook for the next episode.

 

[Eddy Gordo]

SHE HAD A CHANCE TO KILL JAIME
BEFORE HE LEFT FOR WINTERFELL.

ALLOWING HIM TO GO,
LET THEM KNOW HER PLANS
THEN KILLING HIM IS shyt WRITING.



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You lack perspective.

Cersie ain't gully enough to kill the only man she's ever loved right in front of her while carrying his baby. This woman literally defines herself by her family and children.

Now after this dude legitimately walked away from her and the chance to "start the family over again" she felt some type of way. And put a hit out on him.

This shyt makes perfect sense for who she is as a character. She is overly emotional and not as smart as she thinks she is.

Y'all want the plot to drive the characters and not have the characters drive the plot.

 

[FlyGuy]

A lot of people in here talking book shyt have either not read the books or have extremely poor reading comprehension

In the books the Night King was the 13th Lord Commander of The Watch (Jon is 998th) who allegedly fell in love with one of the Other's (white walkers) and had to be stopped by a team up of the Stark in Winterfell and the King Beyond the Wall

There is no Night King like in the show, at least not yet

And please. If you've read them once, read them again


Bunch of people in here talking about 'Gang Starr is my favorite rapper'

 

[CHICAGO]

You lack perspective.

Cersie ain't gully enough to kill the only man she's ever loved right in front of her while carrying his baby. This woman literally defines herself by her family and children.

Now after this dude legitimately walked away from her and the chance to "start the family over again" she felt some type of way. And put a hit out on him.

This shyt makes perfect sense for who she is as a character. She is overly emotional and not as smart as she thinks she is.

Y'all want the plot to drive the characters and not have the characters drive the plot.

FOH WITH THIS PLEA COPPING.





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[Dorian Breh]

You lack perspective.

Cersie ain't gully enough to kill the only man she's ever loved right in front of her while carrying his baby. This woman literally defines herself by her family and children.

Now after this dude legitimately walked away from her and the chance to "start the family over again" she felt some type of way. And put a hit out on him.

This shyt makes perfect sense for who she is as a character. She is overly emotional and not as smart as she thinks she is.

Y'all want the plot to drive the characters and not have the characters drive the plot.

This was a really dumb post, bro.