Game of Thrones, Season 8 (spoilers allowed)

If they decide to kill him (assuming that Jaime is alive after, which I seriously doubt) he'll be dead before he knows they did.

 

The memes on that are everywhere this morning.


Oh, BTW, there are already massive leaks regarding Ep 5 up on Reddit. The forum that has them has a history of getting such things and the upvoting the hell out of them until it gets to the front page of Reddit. I'd stay the hell off of there if you don't want to get spoilered by a topic name on the front page.

 

In a general sense, the writing on this season (and to some degree last season) disappoints the hell out of me. Lots of poor choices made, chances squandered by the writers. HBO's decision to end it so fast means that they're having to cram these episodes with plot threads and then they don't have a chance to breathe, to resonate. I *know* they spent a shitpot full of money on GoT and were ready to shut it down, but I wish that Seasons 7 & 8 had each gotten eight episodes instead of seven and six.

Lord knows that HBO has gotten a huge payback for the money.

That said, when I heard that GoT was going to come to HBO, I was happy because everything I saw before Season 1 indicated that they took it seriously and were going to try to do it right. I may bitch, but in a general sense GoT has been a homer onto the stadium roof.

 

Cersel with the extra little touch of cruelty putting Missandei back in chains. Nice not-so-subtle dig at the "Breaker of Chains".

 

She actually said it. "So much for the Breaker of Chains."

 

As basic as Dany has been this season, it's really not shocking that she was drinking a Pumpkin Spice Latte.

 

If they were on r/freefolk, they're gone now. Please PM the leaks. I don't mind spoilers.

 

There's a LOT that feels rushed this season, and a lot of characters doing things out of character. The way this show has worked, they should've been laying the seeds for the Mad Queen last year if that's where they're headed. Brienne crying over Jamie when a conversation about him going to King's Landing to perform his duty to the realm and his family to try to stop Cersei would have fit both characters better. Gendry being a school boy with a crush and asking Arya, who has told him multiple times that she's no lady, to marry him and become a lady. That should've been him saying, "You know, we could be together when all this is over." And her saying, "You know we can't. You're a lord, and I'm no lady." "I know. But it was worth trying."

And how the fuck does Dany think it's a good idea to legitimize the bastard of the former king? How did she not just hand him a legitimate claim to her throne? Even if he doesn't see it that way, there would be plenty in Westeros who would.

I'm thinking more and more Sansa ends up on the throne.

 

I read about it and avoided Reddit. I'll see if I can find the article where I saw it. I read a lot of articles and speculation, but I actively avoid spoilers so far as possible.

*edit* Lost it. I was on my phone at that point.

 

Agree re Gendry. There's always someone with an eye toward manipulating a contender for the throne with an eye to becoming a power behind it.

Sansa shapes up as a solid contender, and looks like the best candidate so far as the realm is concerned. It also seems very likely that she stays alive. I'm thinking that both Cersei and Dany wind up dead, and Jon and Jaime likely do too. Arya's out if Sansa is alive. Gendry has no backing, no experience, and no allies.