Game Of Thrones Television series *may contain spoilers*

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Donald Twain said:
Now thats more like it!!!! Unbelievable episode !
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totally agree, half way through i was moaning and groaning that all that was going on was bloody talking, then bam, full on action.

I didn't even know beric was dead, i thought it was him but then i thought i saw him back on the rock, anyway, was a bit shocked with that, i thought he was going to die assisting jon to kill the white leader later down the line, hence why he was constantly brought back. Because now him being brought back constantly didn't really have any sort of impact

Anyway, great bit at the end when he called her dani and she mentioned her other brother being the only one to call him that.
 
toffeejack said:
totally agree, half way through i was moaning and groaning that all that was going on was bloody talking, then bam, full on action.

I didn't even know beric was dead, i thought it was him but then i thought i saw him back on the rock, anyway, was a bit shocked with that, i thought he was going to die assisting jon to kill the white leader later down the line, hence why he was constantly brought back. Because now him being brought back constantly didn't really have any sort of impact

Anyway, great bit at the end when he called her dani and she mentioned her other brother being the only one to call him that.
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Eh? Berric is alive......it was Thoros of Myr who died. Along with the 'redshirts' (Thoros had a red cloak, like)

Unless I have missed something, he was there on the back of Drogon as he flew off
 
Dylan said:
Eh? Berric is alive......it was Thoros of Myr who died. Along with the 'redshirts' (Thoros had a red cloak, like)

Unless I have missed something, he was there on the back of Drogon as he flew off
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Correct. When they load the captured wight into the dinghy, Beric says "We'll meet again Clegane" and the Hound replies "[Poor language removed] hope not." That's after Dany rescues them and just before Jon arrives back at Eastwatch. Beric is alive, Thoros is dead.

The holes in the plot are getting stupid now though: anyone care to explain how the Night King's troops managed to dive down to the dragon's corpse and loop those gigantic steel chains around it's neck? I mean, the same troops couldn't cross the water to fight Jon and co when the frozen lake gave way... so how come they can raise the Lizard version of the Titanic? And given that they had several of those javelins, why didn't the other White Walkers have a pop at taking down the other two dragons? How exactly do people stay seated on the back of those dragons anyway?

Jon's plot armour is amazing, as usual. Falls into icy lake during hand to hand combat with flesh eating wights who apparently can't swim, but earlier in the episode similar wights nearly drown Tormund while they themselves tread water. Jon survives, despite wearing heavy leather armour and not having a weapon, and them climbs out of the lake. Time once again passes at a completely different rate depending on who's doing what (Gendry running how many miles back to Eastwatch, followed by a raven getting to Dragonstone, all before Thoros dies of his wounds?). Benjen joins the Blackfish, Stannis, Barristan Selmy and Loras Tyrell in the ranks of the great book characters sadly wasted by D&D's lack of inventiveness.

Another action-packed and enjoyable episode, but the writing is more like a Michael Bay movie at this point than the masterpiece the earlier seasons were - there's simply no sense of peril anymore, nothing unexpected. Tormund was always going to get saved from drowning; The magnificent seven were always going to get away with the captured wight; Jon was always going to escape; Dany and the other two dragons were never going to get hurt. There is still potential in the Arya / Sansa storyline though... something tells me it was a fake scroll that caused Sansa to send Brienne away, but was it Arya or Littlefinger who sent the scroll?
 
Tree13 said:
Correct. When they load the captured wight into the dinghy, Beric says "We'll meet again Clegane" and the Hound replies "[Poor language removed] hope not." That's after Dany rescues them and just before Jon arrives back at Eastwatch. Beric is alive, Thoros is dead.

The holes in the plot are getting stupid now though: anyone care to explain how the Night King's troops managed to dive down to the dragon's corpse and loop those gigantic steel chains around it's neck? I mean, the same troops couldn't cross the water to fight Jon and co when the frozen lake gave way... so how come they can raise the Lizard version of the Titanic? And given that they had several of those javelins, why didn't the other White Walkers have a pop at taking down the other two dragons? How exactly do people stay seated on the back of those dragons anyway?

Jon's plot armour is amazing, as usual. Falls into icy lake during hand to hand combat with flesh eating wights who apparently can't swim, but earlier in the episode similar wights nearly drown Tormund while they themselves tread water. Jon survives, despite wearing heavy leather armour and not having a weapon, and them climbs out of the lake. Time once again passes at a completely different rate depending on who's doing what (Gendry running how many miles back to Eastwatch, followed by a raven getting to Dragonstone, all before Thoros dies of his wounds?). Benjen joins the Blackfish, Stannis, Barristan Selmy and Loras Tyrell in the ranks of the great book characters sadly wasted by D&D's lack of inventiveness.

Another action-packed and enjoyable episode, but the writing is more like a Michael Bay movie at this point than the masterpiece the earlier seasons were - there's simply no sense of peril anymore, nothing unexpected. Tormund was always going to get saved from drowning; The magnificent seven were always going to get away with the captured wight; Jon was always going to escape; Dany and the other two dragons were never going to get hurt. There is still potential in the Arya / Sansa storyline though... something tells me it was a fake scroll that caused Sansa to send Brienne away, but was it Arya or Littlefinger who sent the scroll?
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They really need to make the time past more obvious. I did read a reddit post that explained how Gendry could have got back to Eastwatch that quickly.
 
Of course, if Jon is related to one current ruler, as is being implied, then it means that he is not that closely related (well, cousins) to a former family member, who is currently honing her statemanship - my tip for the last couple standing...
 
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