Season 7 Episode 1 "Dragonstone" - "Book readers"

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RobbingBandit

The night is dark and full of terrors.

Savage Tyrant

I rate this episode 10/10
I know it doesn't start for another 25 minutes. But still, 10/10.

RobbingBandit

Winter has Come

Zemuppet

Off to a great start already

laugh

Oh nice.

Zemuppet

I see Lyanna Mormont hasn't lost her charm in the off-season.

RobbingBandit

Euron needs the eye patch

Liamalone

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Euron needs the eye patch

He's away to gouge it out for Cersei's present

eviltwin

Interesting cameo there.

laugh

Why have him in it?

PTH2009

eviltwin wrote: »

Interesting cameo there.

He's everywhere

Quite good so far, my stream only stopped twice for a few seconds

ricero

Ed sheeran yuck !

RobbingBandit

Get him Arya get him please

PTH2009

8/10 for that episode

Can't wait for next week

RobbingBandit

Alys Karstark a pivotal book character weirdly used, Nice Cameo towards the end, made me jump as much as Sam did.

ZeitgeistGlee

Bit too much set-up for my tastes when we're not getting full seasons but a solid episode nonetheless, lots of nice little bits of character development. 7.5-8/10

Also Starring LeVar Burton

So glad to have it back. I forgot how much I missed these characters.

rawn

Those guys Arya met seem really nice. RIP

RobbingBandit

Arya is all business, the whole faceless man thing in the books is to remain anonymous she hasn't grasped that part all too well as of yet, when I heard the song I thought ah great Tom O'Seven, Jebus the Twins feast was epic, can't see it being that easy in the book, rather she will seduce him I think, so glad it's back my gods the wait has been tough.

Savage Tyrant

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Arya is all business, the whole faceless man thing in the books is to remain anonymous she hasn't grasped that part all too well as of yet, when I heard the song I thought ah great Tom O'Seven, Jebus the Twins feast was epic, can't see it being that easy in the book, rather she will seduce him I think, so glad it's back my gods the wait has been tough.

She rejected the Faceless and kept her identity. That's the point. She refused to become no one. She used them for the training... She's a stone cold, trained assassin, but she's Arya Stark all the same.

RobbingBandit

Arya has unfinished business, the Hound scenes made me sad, Wun Wun scared the ****e out of me, this is gonna be the best tv show ever this season. I'm trying to place the Archmeister know I've seen him somewhere.

Crow92

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Arya has unfinished business, the Hound scenes made me sad, Wun Wun scared the ****e out of me, this is gonna be the best tv show ever this season. I'm trying to place the Archmeister know I've seen him somewhere.

Didn't Wun Wun die at the battle of the bastards? So he's past the wall, probably just a random giant.

Also the Archmeister is Jim Broadbent!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Broadbent

Dave_The_Sheep

Crow92 wrote: »

Also the Archmeister is Jim Broadbent![/URL]

Was that the AM?
Or just a random M?

RobbingBandit

It was Wun Wun as far as I could see. Knew I recognised the Archmeister thanks for that.

RobbingBandit

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Was that the AM?
Or just a random M?

Sam asked him permission to visit the restricted part of the library calling him Archmeister

Crow92

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Was that the AM?
Or just a random M?

Yea he's the Archmaester Marwyn

RobbingBandit wrote: »

It was Wun Wun as far as I could see. Knew I recognised the Archmeister thanks for that.

But then how did Wun Wun's dead body become a wight and then get back over the wall to the army?

RobbingBandit

It was a Bran vision may not have happened yet

Crow92

Yea good point, forgot he could see into the future!

EagererBeaver

Decent but as mentioned, we're on a relatively quick countdown to the finale so could do with the pace picking up.

Nearly threw my breakfast at the TV when Sheeran turned up.

duffysfarm

Didn't catch who this was - who was it?

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Ned umber Alice Karstark two pivotal book characters weirdly used, Nice Cameo towards the end, made me jump as much as Sam did.

ceadaoin.

duffysfarm wrote: »

Didn't catch who this was - who was it?

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Ned umber Alice Karstark two pivotal book characters weirdly used, Nice Cameo towards the end, made me jump as much as Sam did.

Ser Jorah. Not exactly a "cameo" tbh!

RobbingBandit

http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Alys_Karstark

Ned Umber is no one, I was mistaking him for Eddard (Ned) Karstark who dies.

RobbingBandit

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Ser Jorah. Not exactly a "cameo" tbh!

His arm sticking out of a cell isn't front and centre now is it

EagererBeaver

RobbingBandit wrote: »

http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Alys_Karstark

Ned Umber is no one, I was mistaking him for Eddard (Ned) Karstark who dies.

A boy is Ned Umber.

RobbingBandit

EagererBeaver wrote: »

A boy is Ned Umber.

Walked right into that one didn't I.

duploelabs

You'd think Stannis would've locked the doors when he left

Billy86

They'll want to pick up the pace a little with only 13 hours left, but fairly acceptable as the first episode back and a very good one in my opinion.

SB_Part2

I thought it was an excellent opening and I like that they got a lot of things that could have been dragged on out of the way (The Frey's getting their comeuppance, Dany reaching Dragonstone).

As much as I like Ed Sheeran I thought he was a bit pointless in it.

Vicxas

What was the point in Ed Sheeran, and the bloody singing! UGH!


But great episode, didnt realise how much I missed GoT.

Daith

Yeah I was hoping the pace would pick up but great setup. Pretty much established the focus and cut away a lot of the old stuff.

Euron was quite unnerving I thought.

duploelabs

"It's where the wall meets the sea, there's a castle there."

log pops

"It's... probably fine.."

Billy86

Vicxas wrote: »

What was the point in Ed Sheeran, and the bloody singing! UGH!


But great episode, didnt realise how much I missed GoT.

Wasn't looking forward to it when I saw him but he had one line (and hard to tell but I think one of the other guys was leading the singing?) so not really bothered either way personally.

Billy86

Daith wrote: »

Yeah I was hoping the pace would pick up but great setup. Pretty much established the focus and cut away a lot of the old stuff.

Euron was quite unnerving I thought.

Thought his reaction to The Mountain stepping forward was brilliant, and the look he gave him when he leaned in slightly even more.

Really liking Pilou Asbaek in that role, very random by the way having two Danish lads sharing scenes in the biggest show possibly ever but Waldau has been excellent throughout and Asbaek is very much looking the part two. Saw a gas comment on reddit over his garb though - "you don't sail the 14 seas without getting a little bit funky". :pac:

wp_rathead

While ya, tad random having Sheeran I still really liked the scene with Ayra and the Lannister soilders- the way she didn't trust them, looking for their swords, then being wary of the wine (she did just murder people using poison so fair enough) then seeing the Human side of conflict's and how most soilders (one hoping their child a girl so they don't have to serve) don't particularly give a sh!te about the wars they're involved in

(Was one of the soilders the kid from This Is England?)

I still don't know about Euron, loved him in the book's, especially the released chapter from TWOW, but he doesn't seem to flow with shows narrative quite yet

Once again, The Hound gets best lines in the show- "baldy cnut"

Guessing there's gonna be a big ass battle up at East Watch

Daith

Anytime a "good" character says something like "I'm going to do X" it never happens. I can see Arya getting sidetracked or deciding not to continue her quest.

Cina

Tormund's sexual looks at Brienne make me laugh every damn time.

Kunkka

Good episode but felt it was missing something... 7/10 for me. The Hound scenes were the best for me, love that character.

I'm still convinced that Gilly's baby is a whitewalker spy...

theteal

wp_rathead wrote: »

(Was one of the soilders the kid from This Is England?)

Yup, Thomas Turgoose iirc. Seemed a little out of place tbh but then he'll probably never shake that old character

awec

Decent enough episode, obviously they still have to have setup episodes but at least now there won't be 7 of them per season.

wandatowell

Kunkka wrote: »

The Hound scenes were the best for me, love that character.

Yep he seems to have found what he was looking for. Something he can believe in or a higher power, as opposed to following orders and killing people.