Game of Thrones Season 5 Discussion (No Spoilers!)
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Well episode 1 is over. What did people think? I haven't read the books so I don't know what else is going to happen etc.
Overall I thought it was good but it had quite a sluggish pace. not much happened. Just lots of recaps etc.
Looking forward to the rest though.
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Yeah, it was a bit sluggish, much more so than other first episodes.
Perhaps they are expecting a lot of first time viewers who need to catch up.
I imagine things will heat up pretty quickly.
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I have read the books so I guess that means I need to be quiet ;)
I will say though that towards the end of Season 4 were a few of the first instances of the continuity moving away from the books drastically. So I'll be interested to see if they pull things back a little over the coming episodes or if they change more to compensate for the changes they've made already.
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I am aware that the Bran story and perhaps littlefinger story are now beyond the books?
I just want some action! Here's what I hope/imagine:
Lord of the rings return of the king style battle with:
Dragons, Khalessi, Stannis and golden army, white walker army, wildling army with giants (headed by jon snow) and kings landing armies united all in one HUGE mash (topped off with Bran flying the black crazy dragon :P ).
Am I close?! Please tell em I'm close lol!
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in addition to what neonplanet40 said, what I'm hoping will happen is bran does his weird mind-meld possession stuff on hodor and in the final showdown fight, in a big epic 'there can be only one' Riddick style 'you take what you reap' mega fight, hodor does the knock out punch on drogon, and seen as it was technically hodor who killed the last contender, then hodor becomes king by default.
but I am expecting (not read the books, so only guessing) a big fiery battle between that fire witch lady and khalessi. where they burn down an entire city fighting each other, then realise they are both fire proof, they just look at each other and smirk, khalessi then realises her clothes weren't fire proof and its a bit draughty ;)
I expect it felt sluggish and not much action in the first episode because they were setting up the storylines for the rest of the series.
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I am aware that the Bran story and perhaps littlefinger story are now beyond the books?
I haven't read that far, but I believe you are right with Bran and thus there won't be any/much Bran to allow the books to catch up.
We've already seen Littlefinger and I imagine we will see a lot more in season 5.
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Jamie Lannister isn't where he should be right now either if I remember rightly. I need to recap the end of season four and book five to be honest as it's been a couple of years since I read them now.
I'll try to be nice, not spoil anything and tell you what I THINK will happen soon, based on what I've read - Word of the dragons will start making its way to Westeros and those in power will stop treating them and Daeny as a rumour/dirty secret, leading to something of an arms race and stopping some of the war for the throne itself.
Stannis, the watch, the wildlings and what remains of the northmen not under the Boltons boot heel will join forces. Probably at around the same time people in Dorne start to get involved, although what they have planned will remain something of a mystery.
The people of the iron islands have their own plan and won't ally themselves with anyone, they think they know something everyone else doesn't right now, however I think that may come back to bite them in the ass.
Several parties will then march on kings landing at once under the impression they have the rightful claim to the throne and a strong enough force behind them, the white walkers will then make EVERYONE rethink their priorities and the dragons everyone's scared of will come into their own and defeat the walkers, leaving whoever remains to make a grab for power.
So yeah, I think you're close, I think there's almost certainly an epic battle involving several of those armies afoot. How it plays out though and who lives and dies will be a mystery though. We all know George R.R Martin isn't shy of killing people you love off without a second thought ;)
*edit* By the way, if you think any of this constitutes spoilers (I've omitted names and events and just hypothesised but even so) shout up and I'll delete them :) */edit*
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Nice to see it return and part of me wants to download the leaked episodes but I must refrain from spoiling it by watching low bit-rate videos!
I don't think the neighbours were happy Monday evening when the title music started pounding-out :) But it was much what I expected for the first episode of a new series, pretty much re-capping what happened at the end of the last season, plus the one big event right at the end of the episode.
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but I must refrain from spoiling it by watching low bit-rate videos!
It's not just the low quality and the moral argument, but also the excruciatingly long wait between watching episode 4 and being able to watch episode 5!
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Does anyone know at what point they're up to currently for this season?
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Well well, after a few weeks of build up things are really happening now!
The last 2 weeks episodes have really got me going......shame the season is going to be over when it seems to have only just started :(
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I'm struggling to get into this season as much, maybe it's just watching it once a week. When stories line don't develop for a couple of episodes then come back into the forefront I've lost track/interest in what's going on.
Also, I know it's got nudity and scenes of a sexual nature, but the jail scene seemed a bit unnecessary and cheapened the character.
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I too have found this season to be quite lackluster. Too much happening but characters not getting enough screen time to develop their stories. The scene in bravos etc was very rushed.
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Episode 8 certainly wakes things up.... cant wait for the next 2.
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This and the previous season I have felt (wife has said also) that it feels like filler and setting a scene.
Monday night episode started interesting with the meeting with Tyrian, then it dropped off until the stuff with the watch.
Scenes with Cercei in the cell were overly dark, I had to turn the brightness up on the TV, same goes for meeting John Snow was in with the Wildlings, the whole Winter battle scene at the end again was overly dark.
Last season the high point for me was anything involving The Watch, the episode near the end fighting off Wildlings was EPIC and certainly a season high point!!
Interesting seeing John take out a White Walker with his sword after discovering the Dragon Glass wasn't there. Hopefully next week there will be more on The Watch.
I am also hoping that Dog is still alive somehow after being left
There was also talk of Catelyn Stark making her reappearance this season, if so I am getting the impression that it is going to be right at the end of the last episode.
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This and the previous season I have felt (wife has said also) that it feels like filler and setting a scene.
Yeah, same here - I was the verge of binning the whole thing, but this episode was very good.
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Ferral
Monday night episode started interesting with the meeting with Tyrian, then it dropped off until the stuff with the watch.
Dany's story was going stale too, but I'm quite enthused by the idea of Tyrion being her advisor.
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Ferral
Scenes with Cercei in the cell were overly dark, I had to turn the brightness up on the TV, same goes for meeting John Snow was in with the Wildlings, the whole Winter battle scene at the end again was overly dark.
No issues here - it was perfectly watchable.
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Ferral
Last season the high point for me was anything involving The Watch, the episode near the end fighting off Wildlings was EPIC and certainly a season high point!!.
They were fighting the white walkers, not wildlings, but it was great to watch nonetheless.
The annoying thing is that we've been waiting for a season and a half for things to get exciting, and now there's only two episodes left before another lengthy break. :mad: