It's funny because a week ago we were *****ing and moaning about the scenes with Sansa and Aryia. How the writing was horrible and how their behaviors totally demolished their character development. I'm glad the writers made me look like a jackass.

To be fair, building the drama with bad writing is still bad writing

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It's funny because a week ago we were *****ing and moaning about the scenes with Sansa and Aryia. How the writing was horrible and how their behaviors totally demolished their character development. I'm glad the writers made me look like a jackass.

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I'm glad it didn't finish how we feared, but I still don't really think that whole arc was written/depicted very well.

It was the payoff we wanted but they just skipped to that. No context or anything to allude that the sisters were ever on the same page. Came off as cheap writing to me to intentionally divert one way, then without any lead-in deliver a "lol jk" scene.

But I still loved it because I was ready for him to die.

BallerStaf2003 said:

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Two sons being named the same is odd, it'd take a moron or to think so.

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George Foreman says hello.

Was anyone else really disappointed in the way the wall came down?

They built this thing up since season one and it was down in 1.5 minutes of screen time. On top of that, what the heck was the night king going to do if they didn't gift wrap a dragon to him last episode? Just seems like the writers just didn't have time to get to the goals they plotted for this season so they just went with the simplest solution.

I liked the episode but thought it was really lazy writing to have such a simple solution fall right into his hands with little to no work involved.

Awesome a dragon! I will kill it with a magic spear that never appeared in the show before, drag it out of the water with giant chains that are somehow available, raise the dead dragon and use his super-fire to melt the wall that has stood up to every challenge for 1000 years.

Thirty minutes and a 6 pack and I could have come up with a better plot to get past the wall.

titanmaster_race said:

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To be fair, building the drama with bad writing is still bad writing

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Which parts are bad writing, exactly? Just curious.

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BallerStaf2003 said:

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Does anyone else find it odd that Rheagar's first son that Gregor Clegane murdered was also named Aegon?

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Does anyone else find it odd that Jons name is aegon and so was the nights watch's maester?

A great-uncle with the same name...its almost like it's a family name.

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The maester was named Aemon.

This Aegon thing is mind-numbingly stupid. First, the nerds had already read Lyanna's lips last season and decided his real name is Jaehaerys. It makes sense that Ned would call him Jon.

Second, why would Lyanna name him Aegon? She knows Rheagar already has a son with that name. Why the George Foreman treatment? It make more sense that they agreed on names before he left for the battle at the Trident. And, Jaehaerys makes a lot more sense than Aegon. Because at the time he alteady has a son with that name. Had Jon been a girl would they named it the same as his other daughter?

This is so easy. Why do they need to try to screw it up?

Yes. It was also like that dragon all the sudden got an invincibility cheat code once he was turned. At least during the Dany scenes with dragons they couldn't just breathe fire non stop, they had to fly away and sort of refresh before coming back.

This was just an ice dragon easily destroying the wall, which used to have some credibility..but within seconds the wall is crap. I know the idea was to set the stage for the final scene, but another of many cheap things in the ep imo.

But I don't want to say too much...because apparently no part of any episode of GoT has been awful. Don't wanna disturb the locals.

Maybe Raegar knew his son would be the prince who was promised and wanted that prince to be named Aegon. He obviously realized that his first wife and family wasn't going to cut it, so he had to try again with Leanna and write the song of ice and fire

NK on a dragon. Based on episode 6, shouldn't he be at KL next S8E1?

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titanmaster_race said:

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Either Bran told Sansa what LF had done, or sansa knew he was full of it, had an unnecessary murderous conversation with arya and sent her bodyguard away

If sansa didn't know what was going on until bran told her what LF had done (and potentially what he was up to in Winterfell) then she trusted littlefinger even after he explicitly told her not to, still let him be her closest adviser, and let him talk her into sending brienne away and mistrusting arya.

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I think Sansa played the game to lure him into being there at the trial. She went to him for advice on Arya on purpose to play into his desire to meddle. She went into Aryas room to either confirm she could trust Arya, with Littlefingers dagger being the secret handshake, or to keep up appearances in case little finger was watching.

Everyone says it was bad writing a have the feud between the sisters, but what if the feud was a ruse to bait Littlefinger into exposing himself?

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Generally you would have something in the scenes to tip the viewers off that it is a ruse.

BallerStaf2003 said:

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Two sons being named the same is odd, it'd take a moron or to think so.

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Douglas Odor disagrees

Bran and Sam reminding the audience that Jon was ****ing his aunt for the finale.

By the way, was Rhaegar (wedding scene) played by the same actor who played Viseris? Looked like the same guy to me.

txswag06 said:

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BallerStaf2003 said:

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Two sons being named the same is odd, it'd take a moron or to think so.

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George Foreman says hello.

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2 is odd 10 it's perfectly acceptable

Haven't read much of tonight's posts, so siap. My brother said they should have had LF demand a trial by combat. Then Sansa could have said, "fine. You can fight Arya." That would have been sweet.

Tripacer said:

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Haven't read much of tonight's posts, so siap. My brother said they should have had LF demand a trial by combat. Then Sansa could have said, "fine. You can fight Arya." That would have been sweet.

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Maybe somebody who knows the rules of Westeros better than me can chime in, but I don't believe LF would be eligible for 'Trial by Combat'. I remember a podcast from 'The Ringer' that stated the parameters of being able to request that. Maybe he could have requested it since he was married to Lysa Arryn.

I've reached my nerd quota. Would have loved to see Arya mess with him in a duel for sure.

It wasn't the same guy. He was noticeably taller.