705- Eastwatch

gguenot

Sorry didn't see this yet and we're 15 mins out!

Directed by: Matt Shakman
Written by : George RR Martin (ha jk, he doesn't write anymore) Double Ds wrote it

A_Ron_Hubbard

Thanks, I was just on my way! Carry on!

Vasilnate1

Ship it!...and last week was all Dragon, so this week I'm expeting tits!

gguenot

Vasilnate1 said:

Ship it!...and last week was all Dragon, so this week I'm expeting tits!

That's the face of " I really want to fuck, but I know you're my nephew"

Alkaid13

So if and when the wall comes down (it probably has to at some point yeah?) what'll they do for the intro?

GredalBee

Oh you cockblocker, Jorah!

Dummy

"Thought you might still be rowing" 

Trolled by the muthafuckin' Onion Knight

Cory

Who's this "Ragger" fella?  HA!

Alkaid13

This episode was like wish fulfillment.

gguenot

Half of bottle of wine deep so:

1. I give this episode a 10/10. For fun. For development. For shock. This episode may not have been action packed but it was important. I laughed, gasped, and was on the edge of my seat. As far as TV goes it was excellent

2. There are some holes like how Jamie got out of the water without being captured and how quickly the north wants to turn on Jon but imo it didn't distract from the episode.

3. Gendry with the hammer! (Eludion to Robert Baratheon wielding his hammer in the war

4. The facial expressions in this episode had me cracking up! Jon jealous of Jorah. Cersie's silence when Jaime told her she met with Tyrion. Sam when Gilly was talking about the steps in the citadel.

Excellent episode

(This was written before any Eastwatch development )

Edit:

Ohhhh shitttttt Jon, Jorah, Gendry, Davos, Tormund, the HOUND all at the wall?!

johnnytruant

I liked it. Things are starting to get a liiiiittle hokey. But I like it.

darwinfeeshy

The Gendry has landed!!!!!!!! I like how he rocks a warhammer just like his father.

Also, we've got: Thoros, Berric, The Hound, Jon, Gendry, and Jorah going north.

If that's not a wight-slaying dream team, I don't know what is.

TopKnot

Gilly discovers that Jon is not a bastard Targ.  He is a MFing true born Targ.  I love how they just skipped right past it.  Sam didn't even acknowledge it.  I know they will come back to it but it was just too perfect.  

Alkaid13

That was a really fun episode, which is not what I thought I'd say about it beforehand. If they can't be as tightly plotted without a full book to reference I prefer it this way with cool, impactful, or narratively satisfactory things happening. This season has worked surprisingly well for me despite my pre-season worries.

Dummy

There is approximately a 0% chance that they will all make it back, but which ones don't? Gendry, Beric, and Thoros are the likely choices, but I think Davos is a dark horse candidate as well.  Can't wait for next week. 

johnnytruant

TopKnot said:

Gilly discovers that Jon is not a bastard Targ.  He is a MFing true born Targ.  I love how they just skipped right past it.  Sam didn't even acknowledge it.  I know they will come back to it but it was just too perfect.  

This also means his right to the throne supersedes Danys.

Plus she mad as fuck.

johnnytruant

Dummy said:

There is approximately a 0% chance that they will all make it back, but which ones don't? Gendry, Beric, and Thoros are the likely choices, but I think Davos is a dark horse candidate as well.  Can't wait for next week. 

Gendrys gotta make it back for the Jon Snow/Gendry buddy cop spin off.

OldGriswold

Eugh. Hated this. Probably my least-liked episode since season 5.

Swimming one-handed in plate mail? Easy peasy.
Jon can just stroke a dragons face now and not shit his pants?
Cersei's pregnancy, wtf? She's about 50.
Gendry's return... Why? So Davos isn't bored in kings landing. FANTASTIC. Oh wait he's also Robert incarnate!
The fucking fellowship of Eastwatch.
Jorah looks like he just got a chemical peel and it's done him the world of good.
Arya being a dumbass shit.
Lets capture a white walkers and show Cersei's even though we don't need her to believe us if Dany comes with her dragons

I could go on but this bullcrap can be summed up in one word.

HOLLYWOOD.

pavlovsbell

Wait, an annulment? For the crown prince? That no one knew about? Rhaegar set aside his wife and children for Lyanna? On what basis, because they sure as hell consummated the marriage. I don't know what to make of that.

OTOH, GENDRY!!! I'm very happy about that. Less happy that Gendry did not see the importance of mentioning that he had rollicking adventures with Jon's sister, Arya, who saved his life a couple of times. Bullshit.

Maisie knocked out her silent acting scenes, and for once I enjoyed a Cersei and Jaime scene. I even thought Emilia Clarke was good in the Painted Table scene, even if the romance between her and Jon is super rushed.

I enjoyed it okay, but the writing for this episode felt very televisionesque, less Game of Thronesesque.

walkthesky

Bump...
Loved it

mtron32

OldGriswold said:

Eugh. Hated this. Probably my least-liked episode since season 5.

Swimming one-handed in plate mail? Easy peasy.
Jon can just stroke a dragons face now and not shit his pants?
Cersei's pregnancy, wtf? She's about 50.
Gendry's return... Why? So Davis isn't bored in kings landing. FANTASTIC. Oh wait he's also Robert incarnate!
The fucking fellowship of Eastwatch.
Jorah looks like he just got a chemical peel and it's done him the world of good.
Arya being a dumbass shit.
Lets capture a white walkers and show Cersei's even though we don't need her to believe us if Dany comes with her dragons

I could go on but this bullcrap can be summed up in one word.

HOLLYWOOD.

I can't disagree with anything you said, this show just slid into walking dead territory with this latest episode. Bring a walker back? That's a stupid ducking plan, just assassinate cersei and move on the north

Lannitik

When Jim and A.Ron come on this week and say "What can I say, I loved it" we know they are officially paid by HBO... 

My GOD has this show taken a turn for the worst. 

"Hey so I was watching Walking Dead a couple weeks ago, they trapped a walker, lets do that" 

Are they serious right now? 

I loved Gendry showing up and ready to do some shit, I loved the most important info to date "yeah they got divorced" but my goodness this plot...

johnnytruant

Dammit, Jim and Aron are affirming all the issues I was trying to hand wave.

Vasilnate1

By By Jon Snow.  Hello Jonny Targaryen! OD(Original Dragon) whats an annulment? haha

Michelle

"This is Gendry."

"He'll do."

LOL

Mevalle

Gendry was the best part of that episode. It was like watching a young Robert Baratheon with his warhammer alongside Ned Stark. So happy about that scene that I cried a little!

[Deleted User]

Who thinks Cersi made up her pregnancy when she found out Tyrian and Jamie were meeting? What better than a little baby to draw Jamie back into a suicide mission, she may think she can trick Danny but Jamie has seen those dragons.

Where was Euron? Cersi didn't mention him, just money to buy an army. Although maybe I missed it.

johnnytruant

Vasilnate1 said:

By By Jon Snow.  Hello Jonny Targaryen! OD(Original Dragon) whats an annulment? haha

They should have used animatronics for this scene. The dragon touching was a little rough.

[Deleted User]

johnnytruant said:

TopKnot said:

Gilly discovers that Jon is not a bastard Targ.  He is a MFing true born Targ.  I love how they just skipped right past it.  Sam didn't even acknowledge it.  I know they will come back to it but it was just too perfect.  

This also means his right to the throne supersedes Danys.

Plus she mad as fuck.

Jon doesn't want to be king of the iron throne. Let's not jump to conclusions about Danny. She doesn't know about how things go down in westeros, she doesn't understand what it means to kill off an entire house, plus as she said, she is the breaker of chains

gguenot

OldGriswold said:

Eugh. Hated this. Probably my least-liked episode since season 5.

Swimming one-handed in plate mail? Easy peasy.
Jon can just stroke a dragons face now and not shit his pants?
Cersei's pregnancy, wtf? She's about 50.
Gendry's return... Why? So Davos isn't bored in kings landing. FANTASTIC. Oh wait he's also Robert incarnate!
The fucking fellowship of Eastwatch.
Jorah looks like he just got a chemical peel and it's done him the world of good.
Arya being a dumbass shit.
Lets capture a white walkers and show Cersei's even though we don't need her to believe us if Dany comes with her dragons

I could go on but this bullcrap can be summed up in one word.

HOLLYWOOD.

Listen, I see where you can come from for this. I happen to disagree but I've been in a position where I'm expressing your sentiment to a crown of The Walking Dead fans. We're just going to have to accept the jetpacking and plot holes and whatnot and just enjoy the episode for as a piece to television. Did it go in directions we werent expecting? Yes. But its TV and doesnt need to be super. serious. From a story telling standpoint I found it awesome and am so excited for the rest of the season and the 8th. I support your ability to disagree and hate the episode, but I went into this expecting a good time and wast disappointed. But that doesnt mean that if you were disappointed that you are wrong; I just REALLY LIKE THIS EPISODE! 

FernNYC17

Soooo Cersei is going to kill bronn or Jaime is going to do it so no frooking castle for him?