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Post by Jason Aiken on Jun 6, 2016 1:42:51 GMT -5
Crom! If you're going to have a Margaery scene, don't have it back to back with another one. Zzzzz.
This episode: SPOILERS!
The Hound! And Al from Deadwood! The Brotherhood, though? I don't know, not really there style. Maybe a Lord of Light splinter sect led by....oh I don't know....Lady Stoneheart.
Jaime and Bronn, my favorite dynamic! Can't wait to see Bron meet Brienne next episode, too. I wish they would have used a scene with the Queen of Whores that's farther along in the book for Jaime, though. I loved that scene in the book as he's referencing Cersei, but it may not match the dynamic between the twins on the show now.
Jon and Sansa kiss a kid's ass and get basically nothing.
Cersei and Emma Peel, Zzzzz
The Greyjoys - Useless til they get to Maureen.
Arya - That's one way to get me interested in her story again. If that was her, some think it was Jaqen posing as her.
That's another theory confirmed I guess, regarding the Hound. Cleagane Bowl seems like a possibility now.
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Post by Erik on Jun 6, 2016 10:52:44 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't know if that was the Brotherhood, but if they're being led by Stoneheart, it might make sense.
So, do you think the acting troupe helped Arya? I wonder if she used stage props, fake blood and some kind of protection around her abdomen. I'm betting those actors are helping (or going to help) her in some way.
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Post by johnnypt on Jun 6, 2016 12:13:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I don't know if that was the Brotherhood, but if they're being led by Stoneheart, it might make sense. So, do you think the acting troupe helped Arya? I wonder if she used stage props, fake blood and some kind of protection around her abdomen. I'm betting those actors are helping (or going to help) her in some way.
It would help make sense of that, but it would also be too convenient. I'm actually better with her just somehow surviving it than some kind of trick.
We were talking about it at this morning and realizing there are a LOT of threads that are going to come crashing together very very soon in possibly unexpected ways. You have people headed for Mereen, River Run and Winterfell in all odd combinations with Arya, the Hound and yes, even the Sand Snakes out there without knowing where they'll turn up.
I do feel a little sorry for GRRM after nights like last night, with (possible) big reveals already...well, revealed. I think people will be reading Winds of Winter (eventually) to see what DIDN'T happened!
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jun 6, 2016 15:12:18 GMT -5
So, do you think the acting troupe helped Arya? I wonder if she used stage props, fake blood and some kind of protection around her abdomen. I'm betting those actors are helping (or going to help) her in some way. Never thought of that, but the lead actress does owe her. Arya just wasn't acting or walking like herself, though. Unless she was playing a role for her own purpose.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jun 6, 2016 15:29:14 GMT -5
I do feel a little sorry for GRRM after nights like last night, with (possible) big reveals already...well, revealed. I think people will be reading Winds of Winter (eventually) to see what DIDN'T happened!
Yeah, this has to suck for him losing out on these big reveals and plot points but 100 years from now the books will be finished and stand on their own. So it's a relatively short term problem. It's still a weird situation, though.
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Post by Erik on Jun 6, 2016 19:29:13 GMT -5
So, do you think the acting troupe helped Arya? I wonder if she used stage props, fake blood and some kind of protection around her abdomen. I'm betting those actors are helping (or going to help) her in some way. Never thought of that, but the lead actress does owe her. Arya just wasn't acting or walking like herself, though. Unless she was playing a role for her own purpose. Yeah, she definitely seemed injured and worried. My initial thought was that the lead actress would come to aid her, but I was reading some posts by others speculating that the role of the acting troupe could be larger. Like johnnypt said, it seems a bit convenient for her to be armed with stage props in all the right places, but it would also make sense for Arya to take some precautions instead of wandering unguarded through Braavos with a dopey smile on her face. I really seems like there's more to it...
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jun 6, 2016 19:44:16 GMT -5
I believe the acting troupe will be in Winds of Winter (I think a chapter may have been released that their intro scene is based on), so I bet they'll be Arya's new POV cast replacing the House of Black and White acolytes. I bet they'll be her ticket out of Braavos, but where she goes from there is hard to tell.
Might be easier for her to go to Mereern then from there back home.
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Post by Erik on Jun 6, 2016 20:25:25 GMT -5
Mereen might be a good choice, as Tyrion knows who Arya is...assuming the book version of Tyrion actually meets Daenerys. Though, in the novels Barristan Selmy (who's still alive) would know her too. If she headed back to Westeros, I'm not sure where she could go.
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jun 6, 2016 20:48:47 GMT -5
Yeah, Sansa already made her way to Jon, it would be a bit too redundant and "happy ending" for Arya to do the same.
Maybe she should head to the Riverlands and start warging with Lady Nym...Arya the She Wolf of the Trident lol
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Post by Erik on Jun 7, 2016 9:52:36 GMT -5
Well, I hope Arya eventually comes across Nymeria again. She could have a pack of wolves on her side, as Nymeria is leading a large group. It's too bad the TV series doesn't show her having her wolf dreams, as I think that's going to lead to something important (besides dragging Catelyn's body out of the river).
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jun 7, 2016 12:01:19 GMT -5
Well, I hope Arya eventually comes across Nymeria again. She could have a pack of wolves on her side, as Nymeria is leading a large group. It's too bad the TV series doesn't show her having her wolf dreams, as I think that's going to lead to something important (besides dragging Catelyn's body out of the river). I could see the scene with Lady Nym dragging her out of the river as a cold open to episode 10, ala the Hound this past week.
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Post by Erik on Jun 7, 2016 17:47:03 GMT -5
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Post by Erik on Jun 8, 2016 13:49:25 GMT -5
The lastest at EW: Game of Thrones: HBO confirms super-sized season 6 finale Plus: Titles of last two episodesAlso, in the comments below the article, I found this interesting theory that I hadn't considered: "Regarding episode 8, I support the theory that the Arya that got stabbed in episode 7 was instead Jaqen H'gar testing the Waif who has been found lacking (she was supposed to not make Arya suffer while killing her, and stabbing in the gut definitely doesn't qualify), and thus will be killed instead of Arya."
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Post by johnnypt on Jun 8, 2016 14:47:47 GMT -5
Two 60 min+ episodes back to back, they want to load things up, don't they!
Hey, any theory may end up coming true at this point. But if something like that actually does happen and he pulls the mask off himself, I'm just going to have this Tom Servo voice going off in my head "Oh, come onnnnn!"
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Post by Jason Aiken on Jun 8, 2016 18:48:52 GMT -5
Two 60 min+ episodes back to back, they want to load things up, don't they! Hey, any theory may end up coming true at this point. But if something like that actually does happen and he pulls the mask off himself, I'm just going to have this Tom Servo voice going off in my head "Oh, come onnnnn!" LOL Should have just called episode nine what it is. Bastardbowl
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