Nits gon' nitpick

Hmm yeah you're right, they could wrap up a cliffhanger in Dorne rather quickly and without much development.

I still think a Stannis/Ramsey battle is unlikely though. They'd have to rush through Davos at the Wall and his reaction to Shireen's death when he gets back and still end up with not enough time to properly wrap it up in KL and Braavos. Plus we've already had ~20 minutes of action in e8 and e9 each.

I'm not getting the sense that Stannis cares too much about the white walker threat. He's got his eyes on the iron throne and think he can use this Lord of Light to get there.

Holy ****, I can't breathe

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This season hasn't really done much for me. Just meh. Still watching of course.

Lots of gold in this thread, thanks for lol's

#7 did it for me, glasses A+ touch

Omg stannis Went Full ****** l, Never Go Full ******..

my contributions to the Meryn Trant meme train

Not if he sees the guy he killed as the better fighter. In that scene Jorah basically lost to that other guy meaning he was not as good of a fighter, so the +ev play would be to kill the better fighter, which is what he did.

full grown dragon;

GoT has had #CockMerchant, why not #Fetus****er?

After rewatching season 4 and I gotta say it's much more enjoyable watching it the second time around. I picked up a lot of subtleties and things I've completely missed the first time around. I have sworn off the internet and anything related to GOT while watching the show after having been spoiled on some major plotlines (Red Wedding FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!)
Anyways, after watching season 4 again we actually see Olenna stealing one of the diamonds on Sansa's necklace during Joffrey's death. Only bookreaders would've picked up on that scene. Knowing what we know now, that episode made it really clear that she was the killer but while watching the show it wasn't clear until the next episode.

I've also completely forgotten that the Mountain and the Hound were brothers and that he burned the Hound's face, wtf. Speaking of the Hound, does anyone think we'll see him again? I don't trust anything on GOT unless I see it happen with my own eyes.

Hopefully they grow fast -s erious firepower will be needed soon!

Bingo, as you can see, fully grown spears aren't going to do squat to it. Dany's are still quite young. In GoT lore their natural life span is apparently about 200 years, and Dany's are what? Like 2-5 at most? Big and strong enough to easily kill, but small and weak enough to easily be killed.

According to GoT lore the older dragons get, the larger and more intense flames they can produce, and for longer durations. So their power sort of grows exponentially. Like Dany's aren't to the point they can melt castle walls and stuff yet.

Other random thoughts:

1. The Sand Snake chicks have been absolutely useless in every way this season. Outside of one flashing scene they haven't done squat. Unless they have some important role to play in the future not even sure why they were in the season, all they did was sit around talking, then have one really short, terrible fight and get caught.

2. It's clear they went a different direction this season in regards to the finale. Previous GoT seasons you had the big OMG stuff in episode 9, and episode 10 was sort of a wrap up. This year with so many story lines you had in effect 3 finales (8, 9, 10), each of which are less overall OMG than past singular episodes, but combined are more so. Episode 10 this year will almost certainly feature some major developments in King's Landing and perhaps something regarding Stannis/Boltons/Sansa/Brienne.

3. Sorta disappointed with the lack of nudity and sex scenes this season. If you rewatch the earlier seasons there's a lot more of it. I mean seasons 1 and 2 were absolutely epic. The only truly awesome, extended nude scene this year was Ramsey's side piece girl.

You have to remember to that the Dragons are not trained. In the past the Targaryens trained them for war. One single dragon destroyed Harrenhal.

LOL

I predict we'll see more of them at some point, possibly even this episode, but I think it's near universally agreed that their story sucked.

Last season was fairly active. Tyrion kills Tywin and escapes KL, Brienne and the Hound battle (which may have resulted in the death of a top 20 character). It seems like the finales have been increasingly more eventful each season. Agree that this one should have more consequence than any so far.

Don't be sexist!

lol donkaments

I really hope that Melisandre has been lying all along about the power of king's blood as a way of exerting more control over Stannis. The whole concept of royal blood somehow powering dark magic is pretty silly. It's an old fantasy trope that doesn't fit well in a show which discards many tropes. Is royal blood somehow different from other blood? Robert was the first of his line and wasn't king for all that long - does sitting on the Throne immediately give his, and his brother's blood, a steroid injection? It's a dumb concept that doesn't make much sense.

Does Stannis know that Davos can read? I seem to recall him reading some raven message, but I'm not sure. The reason I'm asking is because I'm wondering if his message to Jon Snow is that Davos should take the black or something like that.

The three people named when the leeches were burned all had something bad happen to them shortly after (though Theon got hurt instead of his father). So there probably is something to it.

yes he knows

I'm pretty sure he knows. The message is probably sealed either way.

Interesting thought. I think it's possible Davos ends up taking the black after what happened, ordered by Stannis or voluntarily. More likely voluntarily imo.

Two out of three isn't amazing during war time, I'm more interested in the shadow creature she created.

I do agree the power of king's blood thing is silly.