OT: GoT Episode 9

[The Maroon Pug]

Found a few of new characters that need to die very soon. Poor Shireen, but I saw that coming a few episodes back.

1) Stannis = New Mad King
2) Kingsguard escorting Mace Tyrell.. that whole scene made me sick
3) Melisandre, Stannis' puppet master
4) Master of Arms at Castle Black. I have a bad feeling he will do something very bad next episode

Drogon looked amazing flying into the fighting pits. Wondering where Dany will fly too.

Overall good episode!

 

[Xenomorph]

I say we take off and nuke the North from orbit.. Only way to be sure.

Seriously WTF... You knew after the scene with Davos that the writers were going to go through with it. But seriously WTF! That might have been the toughest scene to watch in anything I've ever seen. Worse than Schindlers List or the Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Hell it was worse than Howard the Duck!

You can't root for Stanis or the Boltons to win the north. Just nuke'em all.

 

[aTotal360]

I agree. That scene was hard to watch.

 

[mcdawg22]

I want Davos to stick a White Walker ice sword right up Melisandre. That ought to freeze that fire ***** to death. And I hope Stannis gets the most excruciating case of Greyscale ever. Then turns into a stone man, then rapes Ramsey Bolton as a stone man.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

No floppy weiners and dragons? Butters approves. Having not read the books, I did not expect dragons to be susceptible to spears. You could see Stannis' soldiers were even disgusted.

 

[tenureplan]

I'm now pulling for the Night's King

17 GoT humanity

 

[fishwater99]

I want Davos to stick a White Walker ice sword right up Melisandre. That ought to freeze that fire ***** to death. And I hope Stannis gets the most excruciating case of Greyscale ever. Then turns into a stone man, then rapes Ramsey Bolton as a stone man.

Nice...

 

[NIC.sixpack]

Having not read the books, I did not expect dragons to be susceptible to spears.

Having read the books, I didn't expect the dragons to be that susceptible to spears.

 

[aTotal360]

Smaug would have kicked all their asses.

 

[615dawg]

and Dany took Jorah's hand.

Jorah has greyscale.

Dany gonna die.

But seriously - you non-book readers are going to crap your pants at next week's cliffhanger, that will last a year.

#teamollie

 

[engie]

You can't root for Stanis or the Boltons to win the north. Just nuke'em all.

There is someone living that you can truly pull for in the series? Even those with redeeming qualities are flawed. Everytime they become truly favorable, they do something to take themselves back to grey. Or they die. Jon Snow is as close to a pure "good guy" as we've seen -- and we know what happens with him.

Here's a really scary thing that is somewhat foreshadowed in all of this ---- Sansa has king's blood. So do the Boltons though.

The Starks are going to rule the north in some manner before this is over. Winds of Winder in title is most likely foreshadowing their rise(they are Kings of Winter). One thing I always had issue with in all of this is how quickly Robb rebelled against the "honor" that killed his father by choosing to treat with Renly instead of pledging for Stannis as Ned would have done. This episode avenges Robb's position and gives it foresight....

 

[Chesusdog]

My gripes:

Stannis' character assassination.

The Unsullied are supposed to be the finest fighting force in Essos and yet they're getting butchered by peasants with daggers.

An army in camp in enemy territory that is low on supplies gets caught off guard by 20 Boltons. Really?

 

[engie]

Keeping in mind, Drogon is still an infant dragon. Dragons live multiple human lifespans in that world and continue to grow larger until the very end. Essentially, in human terms, he's still under a year old at this point.

 

[engie]

Who is behind the Poppy? I was positive that it was going to be Hizdahr, but that clearly isn't the case.

 

[Xenomorph]

We do?

we know what happens with him

 

[The Maroon Pug]

I agree with this, it's like stabbing a one year old with a pointy Lego. It will hurt the 1yr old, but not a 5yr old.

 

[sandwolf.sixpack]

The Unsullied are supposed to be the finest fighting force in Essos and yet they're getting butchered by peasants with daggers.

Agreed. I thought the Unsullied were supposed to be a bunch of badasses.....I was looking forward to seeing them turned loose because I was expecting to see a Spartan-esque type of fighting force. Pretty disappointing to say the least.

 

[uptowndawg]

The show has turned the unsullied into a fighting group on par with the police force from the original blues brothers movie.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

I didn't even think about that. Jorah did that snit on purpose. I want to know what's going to happen from Shireen's sacrifice. If she got burned I thought it was going to resurrect someone who will meet their doom by FTW.

 

[RingN2012]

How did the spears make Drogon not be able to spit fire? How could he fly away but not turn the Harpys into fireballs?

 

[Chesusdog]

Agreed. I thought the Unsullied were supposed to be a bunch of badasses.....I was looking forward to seeing them turned loose because I was expecting to see a Spartan-esque type of fighting force. Pretty disappointing to say the least.

The fighting choreography has been laughably bad this season, Episode 8 excluded. The fight between Jaime, Bronn and the Sand Snakes was just absurd, as was the back alley slaughter of Grey Worm and Barry the Bold.

 

[Chesusdog]

Not sure how they'll pull that off considering casting spoilers.

 

[engie]

How did the spears make Drogon not be able to spit fire? How could he fly away but not turn the Harpys into fireballs?

He did burn a bunch of them. They "tamed" his entrance a bit different than it happened in the books. There, he was indiscriminate about who he burned, Harpy or common folk alike. Which I took to parallel Dany's finally-decided hatred for their culture overall. Here, outside of one roar at Dany, he was already basically trained.

The Harpy massacre was interesting because of how indiscriminate it was vs just going straight after Dany. They have a still larger role to play. Have to.

 

[engie]

Agreed. I thought the Unsullied were supposed to be a bunch of badasses.....I was looking forward to seeing them turned loose because I was expecting to see a Spartan-esque type of fighting force. Pretty disappointing to say the least.

They are developed for open-field battle against Dothraki. Not as a police force. Dany has put her army outside of their element.

 

[aTotal360]

Because he's wild and doesn't know to kill people in masks?

 

[The Maroon Pug]

I think you have to actually touch the greyscale on the body to be infected. Jorah had it covered up.

 

[mcdawg22]

I didn't even think about that. Jorah did that snit on purpose. I want to know what's going to happen from Shireen's sacrifice. If she got burned I thought it was going to resurrect someone who will meet their doom by FTW.

He has it on his left arm, he offered her his right hand.

 

[aTotal360]

Didn't Stannis touch his daughter's greyscale during the embrace right before....

 

[tenureplan]

Storm Troopers

nm

 

[tenureplan]

Can I add the Never Ending Story fly away on Drogon's back?

 

[engie]

Didn't Stannis touch his daughter's greyscale during the embrace right before....

Shireen was cured. Her face was just the remnants of it...

 

[aTotal360]

Good point. I forgot about that.

 

[Hypnodawg]

How did the spears make Drogon not be able to spit fire? How could he fly away but not turn the Harpys into fireballs?

I didn't get the feeling it made him unable to spit fire. I would just think of it as fire is an exhaustible fuel. He is a baby and set 30-40 people on fire.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

 

[WeWonItAll(Most)]

The Unsullied are supposed to be the finest fighting force in Essos and yet they're getting butchered by peasants with daggers.

They seem to fight like Greek phalanxes. They are unbreakable and nearly unbeatable as an army and when they are in formation. But they are weak in individual combat due to their weaponry and their training being oriented towards fighting as an army. She has them wayyyyyy out of their element if you ask me.

I will say that I still thought they would do better in one on one combat against the people in the gold masks than they are. The gold mask people are nobles aren't they? They are way too skilled to have probably never been in combat in their lives.

 

[Optimus Prime 4]

Theres also suddenly ten thousand of them? It looked like the crowd was overwhelmingly them at one point. I want Spartacus level fight scenes, damn it.

 

[TheDawgInMe]

There is someone living that you can truly pull for in the series? Even those with redeeming qualities are flawed. Everytime they become truly favorable, they do something to take themselves back to grey. Or they die. Jon Snow is as close to a pure "good guy" as we've seen -- and we know what happens with him.

***.

 

[coach66]

Yep, made me sick. Pretty obvious that

Stannis and Big Red aren't long to this world. I'm looking for Dany to do a flyover on Kings Landing next week just to get their attention. I stand by my position the Starks and John Snow will prevail.

 

[woozman]

I watched it twice more this afternoon and the spears hardly went into the flesh. The points went in, but not the full blade. Probably about like a hornet sting to Drogon. Also re-watching it, Drogon burned at least two Unsullied in his attack.

It didn't necessarily bother me that the Unsullied didn't fight better. They were greatly outnumbered. What was odd to me was that there were so few in the arena.

Something will happen to Jon Snow next week, but it won't be clear what that final outcome will be...

 

[mcdawg22]

Not only that, even though one of their wives spent all night making those masks, the peripheral vision has to be bad with those things.