So I was under the impression that they condensed this season so that every episode would be action-packed.
But two episodes into this season and they're still going at such a leisurely pace.
How are they going to remotely resolve everything or give the series a good sendoff?
I think it's fair to say now there's no chance of there being a major plot twist like Littlefinger faking his own death or any of the other cool theories, meaning they're going to be playing it pretty straight.
But anyway between this recent episode and episode 1 of season 8, there was nothing really that indicated the episodes were so resource consuming that they couldn't have included a few more episodes, so why?
Is it because now they're ahead of the books they can't rely on their writers to carry the show for longer?
Is HBO out of money?
Are they saving up for a spinoff?
Only 6 episodes... wtf
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don't be stupid, they don't have content or writers to handle an entire season worth of story
this could've ended in a 1 hour and a half special but they were greedy so now you have to put up with seven hours of this garbage hollywood tier show
The Night King shit ends next episode. Last three episodes are dedicated to fighting against Cersei. Take an adderall and calm down, the pace has been fine
they can't even have extras in scenes anymore
it's just the main cast in small hallways or rooms talking to each other
even on top of the castle with tens of thousands of troops they had no one manning any of the walls like yikes
The Night King wins next episode. People have already spoiled episode three. Podrick dies, Edd dies, Gendry dies, and Jorah dies. Everyone else leaves through the tunnel. The Night King's dragon is immune to dragon fire.
The undead wipe out Winterfell in a rush.
How do you make 2x50 minutes of television where NOTHING happens? in the last season of an epic that's supposed to be the most grand and inspiring? I don't understand. It's genuinely impressive how bad this show has become. What a fucking shit way to taint your legacy. And no, there won't be any emotional payoff even if most of the cast dies in the next episode. They deserved better than this.
>The Night King shit ends next episode. Last three episodes are dedicated to fighting against Cersei. Take an adderall and calm down, the pace has been fine
I have no problem with the pace, if there were more episodes.
>The Night King shit ends next episode.
But this is exactly the problem.
The Night King and winter is supposed to be the big bad, not Cersei. How unsatisfying would the ending be if Cersei and the rest of the kingdoms never even remotely feel the touch of frost and white walker death encroaching on the kingdom?
It'd only reinforce to her that her selfish behaviour and dismissing the rumours of the threats coming from the north was the correct course of action.
And even ignoring Cersei, The Night King losing a battle and dying in one episode is still a travesty of storytelling. Where's the real threat, if a handful of men (not even a quarter of the forces of Westeros) can hold back and kill the Night King.
>and they're still going at such a leisurely pace.
Jesus you kids are garbage.
>where's the action? O want people dying and stuff
The first 2 episodes have been great. There are plot lines that need work and they have been working that shit out. I've loved it and now in episode 3 the shit's going to hit the fan and it will be kino.
>How unsatisfying would the ending be if Cersei and the rest of the kingdoms never even remotely feel the touch of frost and white walker death encroaching on the kingdom?
They do. The spoilers that were confirmed by the last episode and this one now have King's Landing being destroyed by captain ice man
>The first 2 episodes have been great.
It's been forced sentimental shit. Cringeworthy "feelsy" scenes and dialogue.
Reddit must love it
I know your posts are spoilers but I've conditioned my eyes and brain to see but not register the contents.
But I acknowledge what you're saying is that the WW may indeed encroach on the south, which is fair enough. Will have to wait for the rest of the season to see.
Still, point still stands about 2 of 6 episodes being essentially wasted filler, and not important filler either. Like Bran randomly piping up about the Night King being after him and everyone just tacitly agreeing despite having no reason to believe him. He's never showed his powers enough to have others trust in what he has to say enough to completely shape their battle plans.
Now if you spend a good portion of both episodes 1 and 2 showing off Bran's power to each of the characters, then it would warrant everyone believing him.
>It's been forced sentimental shit.
>where's the fighting?
>I'm such a fucking idiot if there's talking and stuff it must suck
It wouldn't be so bad if the dialogue was better, but the dialogue is shit
who else fapped a little when Aya took off her clothes??
If by 'fapped' you mean 'regurgitated your stomach contents' then yes.
Found the moronic incel. Season 8 is the best one so far. Finally we have good female role models that can inspire our sons and daughters to greatness.
When my little girl turns 18, I'm going to sit down with her and we are going to binge watch GoT nonstop together. I'll be like fucking look at this. This is what a powerful woman looks like.
>powerful woman
>not strong
>not intelligent
>simply abrasive
Yeah, sounds like you'll be raising a feminist.
>littlefinger faking his death would be a cool plot twist
Please apologize to your parents and neck yourself.
And what the hell wrong with being a feminist?
Wow you POL morons really are toxic as fuck. Have fucking sex.
As opposed to one of the smartest men who ever lived to suddenly die to SHANSHA, yes.
Well it makes sense since Sansa is the smartest character in Westeros.
This was wrapping up story lines. All the characters you are talking to each other? Like podric, tormund, brienne, jorah, etc? They're dead next episode
Littlefinger was smart, but not smart enough to anticipate a demigod fucking his shit up.
there's still around 6 hours left in the next 4 episodes
That's a solid 2 movies right there
Killing characters won't redeem the fundamental plot.
Night King can't be a pushover and shouldn't lose before at least King's Landing.
But all the good characters have put themselves in between NK and KL.
The only other way I can see this working out and still be what I consider good writing (and consistent with the world) is if they go full on bad end - EVERYONE we see in the north dies, NK continues his march south and attacks AND destroys KL as well, and the show ending in a bleak note. But other indications so far suggest they aren't going this route.
If you're talking about Bran... did he even do anything to help kill Littlefinger? I don't think he did. And he wouldn't/shouldn't even care about LF since he has no significance in the ensuing fight with the NK OR Cersei.
They will lose the battle at winterfell and some main characters will escape south
The 3ER told the Starks what happened, and he was executed. Try watching it again. Of course he cares, he can't have one of the most dangerous men meddling with shit in Winter fell days/weeks before the NK comes.
god she is so hot
SHUNSHU PWEASE!
i expected a lot more deaths next episode honestly. it's clear this 2nd episode was a reconciliation/final goodbye among a lot of the characters. the 1st episode was horrible but this 2nd episode did a pretty good job of tying all the story lines together into the last one. we've already seen enough CGI fighting so having these last character interactions for entire episodes is a lot more fitting. now it's time for death and destruction naturally.
the rest of the deaths happen in Episode 4 and 5, it's all ecalation until the end of Episode 5 and plateus then settles down by the end of episode 6 (from some leaks we've heard)
I agree this episode was a joke.
GoT has literally ALWAYS been 80% talking at a minimum.
no one made it this far in the show for the 5 horrible action scenes a season you get
>got will be kino
damn it's 2011 again hooray!
never read the leaks for this season but that's what i've pretty much anticipated. i imagine the battles scenes will be short and completely one-sided in favor of the night king. being the last season i don't really care who dies and how, i just hope they have a good ending that wraps everything up.
I wish the dialogue was actually good to make that 80% worth it.
If you want a "good" ending that ship has sailed, these show runners have strayed so far off book material and it's utterly clear with the piss poor pacin and weak dialogue.
I don't even mean good as in happy ending, I mean an ending that is satisfying to watch. I could also care less who dies, but I can feel a Lost/Seinfeld last episode coming.
The soldiers are sleeping. Thats what watchmen are for. They watch while the rest sleep.
Episode 1: Filler
Episode 2: Filler
Epiosde 3: Night King Fight
Episode 4: Filler
Episode 5: Cercei Fight
Episode 6: Some shit sitting on the Throne
They worked 2 years for this shit.
>Episode 4: Filler
said fucking who
then dont watch it faggot..Go watch 300 again
>a Game of Thrones
>last scene reveals it was a bunch of nerds playing a DnD-style game this whole time
can u imagine
kino
100% correct.
this shit feels like some extremell streched carricature scene from evry jewflix show. dialoge included.
Where do you find the spoilers?
>GRRM get's up from his desk
>ah yes, that truely was A Song of Ice and Fire
Releases the 6th book of the 7th then dies shortly afterwards
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>GoT: Filler of Thrones
the feelsy stuff was great it just that we only have 4 episodes left, they fucked up the pacing of the episodes or they just should have made it a 10 episode season and not half ass it
the most infuriating thing is still the absolutely revolting 2 year production time and the resulting subpar dialogue for a show of this magnitude
it feels like fillers so far because it's been a lot of reminders about character's story lines and interactions. it's pandering to majority of the audience that binge-watched, don't remember what happened, were too stupid to understand, etc. can't really blame the writers for that, it just sucks for people who aren't retarded.
I've always said that any story that that has boring build-up is a boring story..
Too much filler.
It's like when you buy a music albums and it has 3 good songs on it.
Episode 802 was based. Preview of Episode 803 was hype.
Get fucked, haters.
Did anyone get a funny feeling in there balls when arya took her clothes off?
Are they going to reveal it was a post-apocalyptic sci-fi story all along, with the others being genetically modified humans, or are they leaving that to GRRM and letting the show have the shit tier lotr good vs. evil plot?
fuck off Preston
this is bait.
Try again.
Euron final boss?
Back in August 2017 the script for S08 leaked and Euron was the final boss.
>TALKING GOOD, rly joggin muh noggin
>ooh it's talking, so intelligent, so cultured
shut up, the dialogue has been nothing but cringy quips for a long time. They are really scraping the bottom of the barrel to find anything a character could remotely say.
>let's have Davos and Tyrion talk
>what could they say?
>in S4 we had a scene where Tyrion comments on coat of arms. lets do that
>lets also make it a joke about Davos' sigil
>what does Davos say
>he just concurs
The battle is literally starting next episode. It's not a complicated multi front battle against an adept opponent - it's some nigga with skeletons.
1.5 episodes for battle for the north
1.5 episodes for killing Cersei and uniting the kingdom
1 final episode where Varys reveals Littlefinger was alive the whole time and takes over the kingdom with an army from Asshai to live happily ever after with Sansa as his bride.
>getting this mad because someone criticized your meme show
absolute faggotry
weak bait, too obvious
battles cost lots of shekels pro bably
If the Night King gets defeated in a single episode that'll be fucking anticlimatic. Dude just broke a wall and killed a bunch of 1%ers from westeros. Big deal
wait so what the fuck is cerseis plan if they lose in the north? she has fucking nothing to fight undead this is retarded AF
Realistically, probably burn the entirety of king's landing down with the NK army in it and fuck off to Casterly Rock or somewhere else
What's stupider is that she has no claim to the throne either. Why are people even allying with her?
wasn't there a big thing about how every episode of the last season was going to be the length of a movie? what the fuck happened to that
Remember that there are supposed to be up to a hundred thousand dothrakis there, but all you ever see are unsullied.
One can hope, Lord of Light willing.
This whole show is so laughably bad at this point. Nobody gives a shit anymore, we just want it to fucking end.
The writing is contrived, awkward, forced, boring, and even obnoxious at points. The dialogue is used to basically drag every scene along, this second episode was like being banged on the head with a hammer, "HEY REMEMBER THIS HAPPENED? HEY, REMEMBER THIS HAPPENED?"
fucking painful, they should have narrowed it down to 1 episode and saved us all the trouble.
>The Night King shit ends next episode
How can you be so blind? It's been month we know the battle is going to be lost and the night king will die in Episode 4 or 5
they used up all of their budget on special effects
I'm hoping that spoiler that has Euron on the throne is true, the one with dead danny hanging from the walls.
Euron is a simple man, he pays the iron price.
It’s mainly Roberts and Lannister supports left right? She’s only has KL Left
*hits pipe*
Link to the read?
Cersei is sitting on the throne in King's Landing. Frost covers everything. Outside is the sound of battle. The Night's King himself walks in, wounded. He kills the zombie. He approaches the throne. Cersei cowers in fear. He whispers one thing to her, "You should have paid your taxes." Cut to black. Roll credits.
I don’t know how there gonna rap this shit up cleanly with 4 episodes left
last three eps are 90 minutes a piece
It's somewhere out there. It was posted on here back when season 7 wrapped up
Normies won't be able to understand so no
You and OP are a bunch of fucking idiots. Yes they condensed it to 6 episodes but the next several episodes are longer than any of the others in the whole series. Meaning bigger budget but slightly longer episodes.
You can see the difference between a writer and a movie director first hand now. The show is packed with the generic hollywood formula.
Episode 2 was better than episode 1. Might reach kino levels on episode 3
Gods I was strong then.
Christ what you consider great writting is fucking shit as fuck writting. Let me layout what good writting is...
NK wins. Takes over winterfell. Bran and NK have a moment.Remaining survivors flee south. Dealings with Cersei and Euron. Hound and Mountain go up with their arc. Shit goes down between Snow and Daenerys over the throne. At least that's what I see where everything is going. Just having a bleak duuuhhh "Everyone dies" is not good writting you retard. You're like every generic film student I know who always puts their main characters to die in the end of their stories to make it all "impactful".
Thank you sir
This is an adaptation fuck your book. The show is good without it.
I swear fucking bookworms always comparing movies and tv to the literature when it's most likely better in many ways than the book and different.
If it was just like the book shit wouldn't be so compelling now would it.
As some dialogue was shit. It is necessary for character development dumbass
It's not even that though. They're only going to be 80 minutes.
$15 MILLION AN EPISODE
$30 MILLION HAS BEEN SPENT SO FAR ON TALKING ABOUT FUCKING NOTHING
....are you dumb? The Night King has been battled numerous times. Characters found the weakness. It's no shit they're aiming for this large battle to end it.
If he dies well he dies but then they have Cersei to deal with. Also, the Night King wants Bran.
Are you a fucking moron?
Did you not pay attention?
Cersei is waiting for them to kill each other off. Have their numbers dwindled and scrambled. She has the fucking Iron Fleet with her.
Her strategy is to pretty much kill the scraps left behind and smash them. Strike when both sides are weak.
the pace would've been fine if the writing wasn't so shit
I'll give that at times their is shitty dialogue but you sound like someone doesnt even know what good writting is with all your stupid fluff words. Fuck off faggot.
.....what the fuck do you think this is? Some abstract arthouse film? The state of you idiots
Glad I never started. Imagine the time you've spent watching this instead of actual cinema.
>NK wins. Takes over winterfell. Bran and NK have a moment.
Why would he stop there and not continue marching south.
>Remaining survivors flee south.
Realistically how many survivors could there be if they lose the battle? Fewer than 500, and all of that would die fleeing, it's not like NK won't be in pursuit with fucking undead dragons. And let's say the handful of people manage to flee south, what then? The Starks, Targs, Unsullied, Wildings, Aerie, Northman, Dothraki combo would still be completely outnumbered by Cersei's forces, who would still be loyal to Cersei. It's not like they'd magically join the northern forces. They would fight the undead, but given the chance they'd still capture/arrest/execute the survivors.
No, there's something missing from the equation. Either they lose in the north which also means most if not all the good characters die and the finale is just Cersei vs NK, or they win and it's a shitty story because the ultimate big bad gets stopped by a tiny tiny tiny force relative to the rest of the realm and winter is not the apocalypse it was portrayed as (including all the other problems mentioned like no one south even notices anything happened, like Dorne, let alone Essos).
The only other possibility that won't automatically be terrible is the theory where people say the NK actually chooses to hit the south first. It is also possible that they lose, somehow manage to overthrow Cersei with a tiny force and co-opt the south, but that's also farfetched and terrible.
NK doesn't get weaker after each battle though, only stronger since he can raise the dead. Also Cersei has 0 dragon glass and very little Valyrian steel, she has 0 chance against wights and white walkers.
She is making a stupid gamble that the northerners win against the NK, which might end up being a smart gamble because of the terrible writing.
>let's have Tyrion and Jaime talk
>remember that one time when Tyrion described how he wants to die
>let's make him say that and allow Jaime to complete it
>let's ignore the fact that the last time they met Jaime released Tyrion
>Tyrion repaid the favor by murdering their father
>Something that made Jaime really upset, thinking that if he had known it would happen, he wouldn't have released Tyrion
>Now hating him so much that he swears to kill him next time he meets him
small things
Please don’t post Eva along with such shit opinions
it's all cumming true
This. It's incredible how shallow the dialogue is. I wouldn't mind the leisurely pace and character interaction if any of it had weight. But it's just a bunch of flanderized caricatures having meaningless exchanges.
characters shouldn't interact for the sake of "wow, wouldn't it be cool if they interacted again after all this time" when it doesn't further the fucking plot. in fact, there was no fucking plot. i had to fast-forward through most of it until something happened, and i ended up having to fast-forward to the very end where jon snow revealed his true parentage to dragon queen.
it amazes me how far any shit-for-brains can go in show business as long as he belongs to the right race, has all the necessary family connections, and sucks all the right dicks.
>jaime gets killed by night king
>literally the point above says jaime survives and goes back to KL
minimum effort
>Davos will survive and be a farmer
Why not? It isn't like he sold his fingers to Stannis in order to become a minor lord.
God I hate this character.
This is a minor lord, you may not like it but it's true.
It thought this board liked nothing happens shows like better call Saul when the more tedious and duller the better, now you want more dragons and explosions?
I haven't watched any of this show but seen the cast and I don't understand why they decided to cast that troll of a woman
we already saw Jon coming back from the dead
I hope Lyanna Mormont turns into a zombie
Fucking annoying cunt
The difference is that Better Call Saul is kino. E.g. there is a scene where Jimmy paints walls with no dialogue, and it's far more interesting than the goblina's sex scene.
why do these leakers make so many typos in their little 'leaks'? fucking annoying
it's like they don't even know basic grammer
HBO are really doing a great job muddying the waters this time, last season there was 1 main trusted leak source posted here that turned out accurate.
This time there's 15 different conflicting accounts every thread.
Forcing characters together and have them have remember when conversations and getting drunk isn't wrapping up anything
It's actually a great way to counter them
Last 4 Episodes equal over 5 hours. they'll be plenty of time
>Daenerys is Nisa-Nisa
Stopped reading right there. As if D&D even know who Nisa-Nisa is.
When was the last time in the show Azor Ahai was mentioned?
Night king will ransack Winterfell in episode 3 and the survivors will escape to King's Landing where they face Cersei plus the Night King who chases them there.
>belongs to the right race, has all the necessary family connections, and sucks all the right dicks
this is the formula for succeeding in life
>that scene in episode 1 where Euron asks Yara "If I killed you, who would I have to talk to?"
>he randomly looks up at the ceiling off camera just after saying this
He was talking to the directors. The show is so shitty even the fictional characters are manifesting enough sentience to lampoon it.