re: Game of Thrones S8 E5 "The Long Melt." Official Thread

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The whole pirate swimming up to a secret cove just in time to challenge a guy he’s got an axe to grind with scene was ridiculous

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Dumbest scene in the show IMO

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Can someone explain to me whether Bran sees the future or not?

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I doubt he's able to read it like a book, but he can catch glimpses of it at least. He saw Dany flying over KL here and here.

Back in the 3rd season, Jojen implicitly confirmed that those with "the sight," like he and Bran, can see things in the future.

Don't know what the books have to say.

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I'm a bit disappointed that Winter never came to KL

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May as well have, let's save humanity and give our lives so this teenage idiot can use her dragon to destroy it.

When drogon is taken from her, they're going to have a hell of a time rehabilitating him for a new forever home.

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I'm a bit disappointed that Winter never came to KL

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May as well have, let's save humanity and give our lives so this teenage idiot can use her dragon to destroy it.

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Wrong on several counts;

Dany has to be well into her 20's at least, approaching 30. Remember we're following them literally years.

And the threat of Dany is not the same level as the Night King. She's had a brutal, mildly genocidal sack of King's Landing, but I figure well over 50% of the population survived. She may kill more off, especially if she continues to rule, but there will also be a birthrate.
In other words, she's terrible, but well within historical context.

Night King was an extinction level event. Zero survival rate, with the vast majority of his victims now becoming part of his army.
In fact, we might have clamored to see him take King's Landing instead of hitting Winterfell first, but that scenario ends with an overall defeat. Assuming the 1 million figure they toss around, and assuming 90%+ can walk once reanimated (young children were part of his army and old folk would be as effective as any other corpse), that big of an upgrade to his forces would be unstoppable. It already was for a practical purpose against Winterfell, but you're talking more than double, plus whatever lay in the route down to KL.
But you can still kill the Night King... sure you can, but you need a way to get to him. If he ignored Bran and Winterfell in favor of KL, odds are the ambush trap isn't effective later. It would mean he's patient enough to stand back and wait for his armies to do the work, and he wouldn't expose himself needlessly. Afterall, Bran's a dude in a wheelchair, he won't be outrunning anyone.

Shes not approaching her fricking 30s. She was 16 at the most when she was given to Drogo, and about 6 or 7 years has passed.

Book Dany was 13 when she was with Drogo, and she just proved she is immature and unfit to lead no matter everything she has done, it was all bullshite.

Shes just another insecure girl that needs admiration.

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Good, don't care. Still way better than Night King and extinction. Cersei was too.

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I'm convinced that people who still like this season are NPCs.

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I'm convinced that people who still like this season are NPCs.

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well, quit watching, and let the ongoing discussion go. I mean, if you hate this that much, just move on? Seems the reasonable thing to do.

Otherwise, there's precisely 1 episode left, wrapping up what has been a great series. It's not going the direction I would have picked myself, but I'm going to see how it all plays out.

One thing I legit don't get, is that the producers seemed to say the ending would be bittersweet, which I'm failing to see happening. I don't think anyone WANTED a true psychopath Dany, which we're seemingly getting. Jon or someone having to kill her off and then claim the throne, or to allow Westeros to balkanize, that doesn't seem to have any real appeal at all. Unless the "sweet" moment is the battle for Winterfell, and the rest is bitter.

Well she’s a crazy person so it’s not supposed to make sense. She snapped. That’s it.