We don't need a new, "official" season seven thread do we? Apologies if I've missed one.
The first episode was alright I suppose, at least within the confines of the "this is what everyone in Westeros is up to right now" blueprint that usually seems to start a new season. I didn't realise there were only seven episodes this time around. Full steam ahead, I suppose.
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I don't think I've been less enthused for a new series of this than I am for this one. I dunno how much of that is because the final endings I think seem likely are all awful.
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It's going to be Dany beats the ice twats with her dragons, marries Jon Snow and they rule the seven kingdoms forever after isn't it?
Any other ending would shock me to the core.
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You're right to offer Ed Sheeran a whitey, but Jim fucking Broadbent.
Broadbent was amazing, as expected.
Whole episode felt very average and very safe.
Nice of them to end the episode with a scene to really dull whatever excitement you may have built up.
Imagine how much different it could be if they hadn't cast a charisma vacuum as Daenerys.
I was thinking that as I was watching it. Cast an actress as good as Maisie Williams or even Sophie Turner in that role and the whole series immediately moves up a level in quality.
Although Emilia Clarke clearly garnered enough attention that utter bullshit like this is the most read article on the Express website six years later, so maybe she's such a draw in certain demographics that it'd have been binned early doors without her.
She got her tits out early on if memory serves, that will have sorted her for life.
She doesn't in any way get across the hint of madness that is always bubbling under the surface with the Daenerys character.
She really needs to become a / the villain.
Tits and fanny in the first episode and every one for at least the first twenty odd, but it can't have been difficult to find a more charismatic girl willing to get them out on a daily basis. That ginger tart they had playing 'Roz' in the first year or two seemed a much better actress, for example.
I haven't read the books, but through her actions in the program it does seem like she should have an almost Cersei like figure lurking just beneath the surface, and the performance just never comes close to putting that on screen.
I've heard one of the creators, Benioff I think, talking about the trouble they had finding a Jaime Lannister. He needed to be extraordinarily good looking and in his mid thirties but also have the acting chops to play both villain and hero and the natural charisma to make you root for someone who kicked the series off by murdering a child because he got caught fucking his sister. They realised such an actor in America or Britain would already be a movie star so went foreign, found Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, and the job was done. Surely an actress in her early twenties who was willing to get her tits out and could play vague menace behind a facade of good intentions would have been ten times easier to find. Two or three better candidates come to mind just from other actresses who have appeared on this series, Natalie Dormer chief among them.
Just watched it, 'safe' does seem quite apt.
I did like the killing of the Frey's but it did go on for too long and was pretty predictable fairly early on.
Sandor having that moment of realisation coming across the house was great as he was responsible for the Dad and his child being dead. Didn't really need his fire watching bit though.
Lol at Sheeran and the extra long camera pauses on his face to show that it was really him every single time he spoke. I was hoping that Arya would slice him open although I knew it was a long shot.
I think Ed Sheeran might have been there to offer some cover for Thomas Turgoose turning up. He'd be far from the first quality actor to appear and be dispatched long before his reputation would suggest, but there's no chance he's only there for those three singles about making wine. He'll have a part to play.
In my mind that character waiting to happen should basically be "What if Cersei had The Mad King's genes in her."
I find it hard to even know what she's supposed to be at this point because Clarke's dead-eyed delivery gives you bugger all to go on.
With Cersei (who is brilliantly played by the way) it's more of a logical defensive madness, whereas with Daenerys it's basically model princess 90% of the time but with just a hint of Targaryen unhingedness waiting to pop out every so often.
I guess with young actors (and she must have been what, late teens or early twenties at the start?) you're always taking a bit of a punt when there are multi-year complex story arcs to come.
Ed Sheeran is also going to be in the Simpsons. Guess he's using his fame while it's at its peak to pull parts in his favourite shows. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...pisode-w492833
This episode was a lesson in locking doors when you leave the house.
You lot are a miserly bunch, that episode was a belting first episode of a season.
The Hound was brilliant.
Yeah, I thou - ED SHEERAN LOOK - ght it got everything in - ED SHEERAN FROM MUSIC - place.
I bet they offered him a standard cameo (i.e. appear in shot briefly once-twice) and he cried.
I was more impressed by the little lad out of This Is England being in it.
I wouldn't be surprised, it sounds like he's more precious than @bruhnaldo.
He's always crying off Twitter.
Enjoyed that first episode, shit cameo aside.
There must have been something being filmed nearby that has a glam metal extra in it, judging by Euron's costume.
I'm surprised they had enough eyeliner left for the female cast.
I'm counting Euron's costume as at least half a Russell Brand cameo.
Adding my name to your jokes won't make them any funnier, skinhead.
So fucking rude
Can't just be nice even for a minute, bloody yanks.
So mean.
How could PSG pay Ł196m for Neymar when there's financial fair play and they don't have Premier League TV money?
I don't think the Lannisters ever claimed their antics amounted to 'fair play'.
A Lannister always pays his debts. Footballers of Latin origin, not so much.
Euron is a fucking annoying twat if ever there was one.
I liked him, but mainly because he was the only person who cracked a smile in the entire first episode. GoT needs to have one or two characters gently ribbing the ridiculousness of the whole thing.
I dunno, I was lolling all the way through the Samwell and Jim Broadbent scene.
Ed Sheeran 'It's a new one' line should be edited out of the DVD in case it's contagious.
The bloke who directed that also directed Ali G In Da House.
Theon.
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Jorah Mormont is BACK (probably).
That was a pretty strong episode all around, even though it still had more Daenerys than you'd like (0 that is).
The Denier of tits was on top form, christ. Great to see Tyrion slapping down the nonces in the war room though.
Greatest scene was clearly Euron, the fucking beast, putting down two of the sand snakes was one of the greatest things ever.
lol at Theon.
That whole battle was a fucking mess.
Euron is a fucking hero.
The evil laugh as the boat landed.
Why?
Pretty good episode, even if it does feel like the main storyline isn't that interesting and it's the sidelines which are more intriguing (Arya, Varis etc.).
Varis' speech was pretty mega too. Not quite "Chaos is a ladder" but cool
I found it pretty hard to follow. It pretty much came out of nowhere and ended as quickly. Felt like they were trying to pack as much in with only a few minutes to spare.
That's because it was staged at night, presumably to offer some cover to the absurdity of a ship that size breezing into the middle of the fleet unnoticed, and both sides were Iron Islanders dressed in identical gear, other than Euron who seems to be on his third iteration in as many appearances. Obviously having a provably crap director in charge of the whole thing didn't help. Black Sails has put on about six better nautical battles than that, and it's ostensibly working on about a tenth of the budget.
It's yet another stall, by the way, because the sequence ends with another huge section of Daenerys' fleet being burned down. They're not even hiding the stalls now, since they're using the same one they used about three years ago because she was obviously ready to go long before the show wanted her to actually go.
I thought they might just get stuck right into the action this year, with the reduced episode order and short amount of time left to resolve everything, but these first two episodes have felt almost exactly as static as the early chapters in the last few seasons.
Black sails. Speaking of which Billy Bones as Sam's brother
That episode had a bit more about it than last week (Dragonwoman aside) but still, it feels more like shit being shuffled about than anything particularly interesting actually happening.
I expect Dany to have a cracking at King's Landing soon with one of her dragons getting punched out of the air by Cersei's ballista. Fear of losing the other two will see her spend two more series cowering in Dragonstone.
There are thirteen episodes to go, so that's unlikely.
EDIT - Eleven, actually. I had it in my head that the last two seasons combined comprised fifteen episodes. Fucking hell, that means they have to get from where they are now to the full on end of the entire story in what would traditionally be little over one season.
If the next episode is yet more shuffling tripe it's time to start worrying that the whole thing is going to end midstream, much like it started.
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