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What if he wins, gets his hands on Dany and gives her greyscale? That'd be great, too, for some good schadenfreude.

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What if he wins, gets his hands on Dany and gives her greyscale? That'd be great, too, for some good schadenfreude.

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I thought Targs were immune to greyscale which is why Tyrion made it through the attack and said he was untouched.

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Doesn't mean he meant to...

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Doesn't mean he meant to...

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Jorah went back to fighting group specifically to get back to the stadium.

He's planning something that will likely end in his death to save Dany.

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Man that was an amazing end scene that would have been great in a movie, but it happened on TV!
Harhome was so much worse in the show than in the books, how could anyone betray Jon Snow after he was proven right that amazingly at Hardhome. He even had a lot of third party witnesses. I could really see Jon Snow not being stabbed on the show now after that.

Also, if you are a show only watcher, how do you go back to caring about the rest of the plots after last night? Grantland said it better than I can:

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Will it be possible to downshift back into minutiae now that we know what's coming and coming fast? All the questions that have bedeviled us for years suddenly seem downright trite. Who controls the North? Will Tommen leave his chambers? Dorne: Why? Does anyone honestly care? Even Arya's deep dive into raw bar management feels extraneous now. And yet there's no way Thrones can allow the existential tumult of "Hardhome" to trickle down into every one of its myriad plots, at least not yet. There are too many hours to fill, too many scuffles in Meereen to adjudicate. But not even Mrs. Lincoln was forced to sit through the rest of the play.

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http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/game-of-thrones-season-5-episode-8-recap-hardhome/

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just on the Jon Snow thing......did you not see the previews for the next 2 weeks after the show?

those are fair game right...warning spoilers ahead ................










looked like Alliser Thorne retakes control of Castle Black and is staring ominously at the returning nights watch guys and wildlings at the wall....i could see jon demanding a conference or soemthing as alliser refuses to let them through...and while there the nights watch loyal to alliser turn on him and stab him.

if you did not see it...and want to scroll to the bottom here:

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I don't expect Greyscale to become the new plague. First of all, that plague story was pretty forgettable. Second, there's not yet an army or even masses to infect. Third, he'd have to start swabbing his hands on everyone he meets.

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I think he hit him with his elbow. Maybe it's only direct contact with the infected area...

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Now that we've seen the full white walker army I hope they advance that story along faster than Dany's army.

This was the last scene from Season 3 Ep 4 after Dany got her unsullied army. 2.5 seasons later and she still hasn't crossed the sea.

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• I hate the members of the army of the dead that look like skeletons and act like zombies. The kids toward the end looked great and so did the "new recruits"

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Anyone got any theories/ideas as to what exactly happened when the White Walker struck Jon Snow in the chest (looks like it may have been his heart) and he started coughing blood?

At first I thought it was just a wound like any other but the cameras seemed to focus specifically on it in the same manner when Bronn was sliced by the Sand Snake's poison dagger.

So I guess what Im asking is, will there be and lingering effects from that blow? Did he somehow 'taint' Jon Snow in some way?

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So we learn that Valyrian steel kills Wights. But there are only three or four Valyrian swords. There are likely more in Valyria but it is full of stone people keeping everyone out. Except if you had someone already infected, like Jorah, they could go through and not bothered. I think that is his future purpose. After of course is helps defend Danny in the pits from the Harpies.

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So we learn that Valyrian steel kills Wights. But there are only three or four Valyrian swords. There are likely more in Valyria but it is full of stone people keeping everyone out. Except if you had someone already infected, like Jorah, they could go through and not bothered. I think that is his future purpose. After of course is helps defend Danny in the pits from the Harpies.

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So we learn that Valyrian steel kills Wights. But there are only three or four Valyrian swords. There are likely more in Valyria but it is full of stone people keeping everyone out. Except if you had someone already infected, like Jorah, they could go through and not bothered. I think that is his future purpose. After of course is helps defend Danny in the pits from the Harpies.

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i'm guessing the others "die off" or more appropriately rot away over time. otherwise, their growth would be exponential.

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Maybe I am missing something, but I see the Others (White Walkers) and the wights (zombies) as being two, distinct "species."

The Others seem to be converted in infancy or childhood from humans into ... something else. They grow and mature. They seem to be entirely sentient. Presumably, they eventually die.

The wights are just reanimated corpses, used as thralls by the Others.

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