Amph Game Of Thrones (uh i guess it's done now? Edit: No!)

And last night's episode was no different!

Assuming we don't care about anyone last night, the next one's going to be Tormund, at Castle-on-the-Sea or whatever.

 

How ballsy would it have been if the writers had the wolves kill Arya last night?

 

I have a suspicion that Grey Worm is going to die during the assault on Casterly Rock.
Which makes his scene with Missandei all the more heartbreaking for fans.

 

It's what Martin would have done. It seems pretty clear though that the showrunners are no longer trying to channel Martin. To paraphrase Monty Python more or less, Weiss and Benioff are stampeding toward a climax, and they have enough sense not to do the most Martinesque kinds of things to get there.

 

Not likely, Martin would have done another cliffhanger where we think that happens, and then maybe in a decade we would find out that's not the case and Arya had survived. Martin isn't half as ruthless as people think.

 

If the theory holds true that the GoT television show is all being composed by Sam Tarly after the events (hence the compass shown in the opening credits matching the giant compass in the Citadel), then Arya will survive and tell him her story.

It also means that Tyrion will survive to tell of how Jorah got infected with greyscale....but Jorah himself is a goner because we don't know how exactly he wound up at the citadel.

Varys will die because we have no clue as to what he was doing after he and Tyrion were separated in S5.

 

Episode 3, Sam finds a 2000 page book on "local anesthetics"

 

Three ravens were sent to Jon. 1) Sam, 2) Dany and 3) Castle Black. Did the Castle Black raven get lost?

 

Castle Black ravens don't travel as fast as everyone else's. Or Littlefinger.

 

Except that in the books, Arya wargs into Nymeria while sleeping on numerous occasions. There's an incredibly strong bond between each of the Stark children and their respective direwolves. The last thing Martin would do is have one turn on its "linked" Stark. Martin's twists are well thought out and usually heavily foreshadowed, unlike the random shock for shock's sake that the show repeatedly sinks to.

 

Taxi for Theon Greyjoy!

 

Just want to say how much I enjoyed the cuts from Grey Worm going downtown to the Archmaester putting a book back on the shelf and then Jorah's pus-filled chest being excised to the pie being cut open in the inn. Well done, Mr Editor!

 

You mean this one?

 

Aye that's the one.

 

As opposed to the other one, presumably...

 

Well Sansa wanted Jon to trust her, and he just put her in charge so there ya go.

I figured something would turn Arya way from Cersei. The wolf scene...and the showrunners confirmed that was her dire wolf...even if Arya goes back to her family she will not be one of them.

Ayra kills Littlelfinger?

I liked Dany vs Varys.

The entire scene with Dany meeting Melisandre, starting with that overhead shot, was a sweet high fantasy moment in appearance. Loved it.

So Jon Snow will go meet Dany..."Uh no, my Queen I will wait over there out of sight when you meet Jon Snow." Melisandre.

Dany's tyrant side is showing. Jon Snow bend a knee?

Theon will rescue his sister. Betcha.

I guess the showrunners liked the dragon killing bow from The Hobbit flicks too.

 

Next week has potential for 3 big moments:
Jon & Dany meet for the first time
Arya returns to Winterfeld
Ser Davos reunites with Melisand

 

I think it will be Jorah who tells Sam the story of Daenerys.


Why would Littlefinger be so stupid to tell Jon that he's creepily obsessed with Sansa? Though Littlefinger now thinks he only needs to kill off Jon, then Sansa will be leader in the North. He did not look happy about a Jon-Daenerys alliance.


I wonder if Bran and Arya will meet each other on the road back to Winterfell, at that crossroads not far outside the castle, where Ned said goodbye to Jon. Nymeria will definitely return at some point.

And I totally forgot Sansa was married to Tyrion when Jon said "you know him better than any of us," it seems like ages ago.

Dany was way too snappy out of nowhere with Varys. Her council though is an explosive powder-keg ready to blow. When will Tyrion find out Lady Olenna framed him? FINALLY going to attack Casterly Rock!!


I'm kind of glad the 2 most annoying Sand Snakes died.

But I worry that Yara Greyjoy will now become her uncle's sex slave, since I heard that happens in the books (though the timeline is changed for it, or it would have happened back in Season 4 or 5).I wish Euron would die but they seem to be building him up as the new Joffrey/Ramsay.

I'm hoping Theon finds a way to save his sister, though by then she'll be Euron's Reek and understand him.

 

Sansa is going to be manipulated by Little Finger completely in his control and as he plans. Until, at the last moment, she turns on him and she's pulled a fast one, having never actually been manipulated. He dies, the twist is revealed.

 

Ya the hottest sand snake seems to have survived.

 

I was really nervous about that because her and Bronn were the only thing good to come out of the S5 Dorne side quest. Now we get to possibly see a reunion of those 2 in KL which should prove entertaining I think!

 

I don't recall that. Asha's role in the book is similar to that of the show (at least up until the aborted rescue of Theon from the Dreadfort which never happened in the book). She remains at Deepwood Motte until she hears of Balon's death, then she returns to the Iron Islands to stake her claim to the throne. When Euron wins the crown, she goes back to Deepwood Motte and joins up with Stannis' army that's marching on Winterfell. Her last scene in the fifth book is recognizing Theon as he escaped from Winterfell with Jeyne Poole.

 

I've seen a lot of people giving Theon grief about running away, but it was probably the most sensible thing to do in the situation. He was outnumbered and would have been taken out quite easily by Euron and his men. At least this way he's still alive, and can figure out a way of rescuing Yara later.