re: Game of Thrones S7 E7 "The Dragon and the Wolf" MAESTERS THREAD NO SPOILERS

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Whatever happened to the dragon glass that Jon was supposed to mine?

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I'm hoping/thinking they stopped off at White Harbor to unload it.

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I'm sure the books will give me more detail if they ever get finished

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The published books tell most of the story indirectly already. If we get the Knight of the Laughing Tree and the Tourney at Harrenhall I'll have to change my pants, but it ain't happening.

From the Wiki:

Tourney at Harrenhall

The tourney was announced in 280 AC by Lord Walter Whent shortly after he was visited by his brother, Ser Oswell Whent of the Kingsguard. The rewards offered by Walter were three times greater than those offered by Lord Tywin Lannister in the tourney in honor of Prince Viserys's birth at Lannisport in 276 AC.[6][N 1] The lavish prizes offered by Lord Whent brought hundreds of challengers to the tourney.[7] Walter also wanted to present his massive castle and his fine sons.[3]

While most believed House Whent was displaying their wealth and splendor, some believed the Whents lacked the funding for the prizes and were instead supported by a "shadow host"; Maester Yandel suggests Crown Prince Rhaegar Targaryen.[2] King Aerys II Targaryen attended the tournament only because Varys warned him that his son Rhaegar arranged the tournament as a pretext to meet with several high lords to discuss removing his father as king in an informal Great Council.[8] Many in attendance were shocked by the king's physical decline.[2]

During the tourney's opening ceremonies, fifteen-year-old Ser Jaime Lannister was admitted into the order of the Kingsguard. Although Jaime wanted to compete in the tourney the next day, King Aerys commanded him to return to King's Landing that night to guard Queen Rhaella and Prince Viserys.[9] Also that first night was a great feast within Harrenhal for lords from throughout the realm.[10]

Tourney
The tourney took place over ten days,[5] of which the competition lasted seven days,[2] with five days allotted to the joust.[10] There was a seven-sided melee in the ancient style,[5][10] in which Lord Robert Baratheon unhorsed many.[1] Besides the melee and the joust, the tourney included an archery contest, an axe-throwing contest, a horse race, and a tourney of singers.[10] There was also a mummer show.[7]

Lord Walter Whent's fair daughter was the queen of love and beauty when the tourney began. Her honor was defended by her brothers and her uncle, Ser Oswell Whent of the Kingsguard, but they were all defeated in the tourney.[10]

A mystery knight, the "Knight of the Laughing Tree", appeared in the lists to fight for the honour of a crannogman.[10] King Aerys sent men to learn the identity of the mystery knight, who appeared and disappeared mid tourney, but they were unsuccessful.[2]

Rhaegar Targaryen was champion of the joust, defeating four knights of the Kingsguard,[2] and in the end he chose Lyanna Stark as the new queen of love and beauty, placing a crown of blue winter roses in her lap. This was scandalous in that, not only was Rhaegar already married to Elia of Dorne, who was present at the tourney, but Lyanna herself was betrothed to Robert Baratheon.[1][10]

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Sansa's speech from the trailer, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives, sounds like a eulogy

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It also sounds similar to Arya's words when she was wearing Walder Frey's face. Could those actually be Arya's words while she's wearing Sansa's face?

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Sansa's speech from the trailer, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives, sounds like a eulogy



It also sounds similar to Arya's words when she was wearing Walder Frey's face. Could those actually be Arya's words while she's wearing Sansa's face?

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If so, they have done a thoroughly bad job with this. I haven't gotten the slightest hint of deception or malice from Sansa, not to where I could begin to support Arya doing this. She's actually doing a good job: she's the one that pushed Jon to become King in the North, she could have taken that role without contest (he didn't want it). And she's been able to keep Littlefinger in check, without either falling into his games or antagonizing him enough to drive him away.

And I also haven't gotten the sense that Arya is truly that crazy; she's remained a Stark throughout her ordeals. If Sansa's on her list, she would HAVE to be below Cersei and some others.

Nothing but Littlefinger makes any sense in the big picture. Sansa is only under consideration because of the past 2 episodes.

My take is that it's Littlefinger, and I'm not real sure Sansa is completely in on it.

I COULD see her helping lure Littlefinger into a trap, and the two using the Littlefinger face to deal with Robin (and others, for that matter). It would add depth to Sansa, that she be in on this, and run the intrigue and spy games that way.

But then again, that seems a little too obvious and happy a solution. It'd be like Jon and Dany immediately hooking up when they met (I know, bad example... and for the sake of drama they did drag that out two episodes before it happened). You could wring a little more drama out of the plot if Sansa doesn't know... that way Arya can truly find out if her sister misses her , is loyal to Jon, etc.
And Sansa would be picking up a difference in Littlefinger, something that would make her suspect, but also suspect a scheme too.

Do we really have time for this all, though? Soon enough, Winterfell is going to be swarming with the dead army, and all the schemes will be pointless.

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I'm hoping I can avoid spoilers for the next few days and watch an episode of GoT without knowing what would happen first.

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Yup, didn't happen. I was trying to find out why Sansa had made a certain decision to send someone away in episode 6 and ... poof! Spoilers, without warning.

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That just looks like jon snow's fur to me. Why would she be standing behind everybody like a scared kid?

So I saw Jeremy Podeswa is returning again for this episode. I guess that's fine and all, but I really hope Sapochnik is back for next year. Just to re-iterate (for anyone who may have forgotten, these are the episodes he has directed so far:

The Gift
Hardhome
Battle of the Bastards
The Winds of Winter

Also, instead of having different directors for each episode, wouldn't it make more sense to have different directors for each location?

Some of these main character escapes are starting to feel like the guy being saved by the dumpster in Walking Dead.

Jorah almost falls off but is miraculously grabbed.
Tormund is saved from wights who are attacking slower than any in the episode.
Jamie swimming half a mile in heavy armor
Etc.

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Jamie swimming half a mile in heavy armor

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Yeah, but most of that armor was "plot armor"...