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Slurmee wrote:That last battle was insane. I didn't know who I wanted to win I didn't want either of the 3 main(ish) characters to die.

Slurmee wrote:The Dickon stuff is insanely funny.

Kreegs wrote: ↑21 Aug 2017 21:52 Man that last episode of the season was amazing.

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I totally called the dark dragon reanimation after it was killed even before it happened at the end. I am wondering if there are more that just the Night King and his three cronies. It seems that all you have to do is kill the white walker that animated the dead person / animal.

I am very excited to see how this all ends up. Still would be amazingly trollish if the Night King just slaughters everyone and the series ends with him sitting on the iron throne.

Kreegs wrote: ↑21 Aug 2017 22:35 I wonder what the white walkers would do with all that land and free time. They don't seem to have much personality, or appetite for recreation in a now peaceful society.

Slurmee wrote: ↑24 Aug 2017 11:27

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Bronn, Jamie, Tormund & Jon should all have died the amount of plot Armour was insane. Bronn and Jamie both fought off a dragon and jumped into water without drowning the Armour would have been so heavy. Tormund & Jon both were dragged away by walkers and Jon was submerged into ice cold water after being stuck on a rock for 2-3 days. There's no way in hell you fight have wights in that water and don't drown and then after that not be killed by the hoards of wights/walkers and somehow ride back on a horse.

This is really took me out of the show it just was way to unrealistic and it feels like they can't be killed and that's what I loved about the show it wasn't scared to kill off main or very popular characters.

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They spent minimum 5 days on that rock while the white walkers just stared at them not realizing the ice had frozen over

Also, I really dislike Sansa and Arya's interactions

The Shoemaker wrote: ↑24 Aug 2017 16:30

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They spent minimum 5 days on that rock while the white walkers just stared at them not realizing the ice had frozen over

Also, I really dislike Sansa and Arya's interactions

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Kong Wen wrote: ↑24 Aug 2017 17:05

The Shoemaker wrote: ↑24 Aug 2017 16:30

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They spent minimum 5 days on that rock while the white walkers just stared at them not realizing the ice had frozen over

Also, I really dislike Sansa and Arya's interactions

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Closer to 3 days, 4 tops, which makes sense. They would have waited longer if they had to. They wanted the dragons to show up.

What about the Sansa and Arya interactions do you not like? They're tense and uncomfortable, but they're 100% in keeping with both of their characters. Sansa is in charge, but she's freaked out by Arya acting like a freak and she also has a better eye for how tenuous their overall position is. She's also more prideful and practical now that she doesn't have to simper under whatever corrupt power has her under the thumb. I think they're doing a great job with Arya, too, since she's still a child and has an over-inflated sense of her own capabilities. Most of the internet fandom nerds seem to have this need to see Arya as a total unhinged badass, but she's actually only a low-ranking badass with some minor training who, due to being a self-centred teenager who's spent a lot of time alone, thinks she's the coolest kid in the world. She also hasn't seen Sansa in like 8 years, and they didn't get along when they were kids, and they're sisters, and they're kind of competing for the place their memories and legacies of Winterfell have for them.

All that said, it would be nicer if they had more time to explore these interactions. In general, I don't mind the increased pace of the show through the major plot points. The main reason it works is because most of the character interactions are already fleshed out, but this new dynamic between Arya and Sansa doesn't have the benefit of that. So it would be better if we got to see more of it. It would allow more detail and nuance. The only way I'd say I don't "like" those scenes is purely because I'm nervous of what the end result is going to be with Pointy-beard McSchemes-a-lot in town.