Game of Thrones

GoneToShowgies wrote: HuntysCousin wrote: .It's gonna be interesting to see what Jon will do once he learns of his lineage   How will he learn of it tho. Nobody else knows the truth. Ned Stark didn't even tell his wife it was his sister's child.

I have to say I think the relationship between Jamie Lanister and Bronn of Blackwater Bay is brilliant. During the feast Bronn says 'you prefer them blonde'. Which of course was a jibe to Jamies sister. If anyone else said that they'd be dead on the spot. But the characters have a mutual repsect and fear of each other. And in an odd way are friends even though they use each other for their own means.  

Had so many episodes to catch up on after France. Surprised I didn't hear about anything while I was away.
Was already said but the music during the first 15/20 minutes of the last ep really heightened the tension. Some new things like the slow motion of the horses running into battle, it even visually looked good.

What did everyone make of season 7?

Fairly meh, very predictable, think it lost its way

Only incest this season

Yeah rushed was the word I'd use for it too.

I think the lack of source material is part of the issue. GoT has always had two elements to it, the intricate storytelling a around the intrigue in the game itself and the big spectacular action sequences. When they had the books to mine there was no end of sub plots involving the main characters they could use. In fact, there was so much that some book fans were getting pissed off that some of it was getting left out.

But now they've passed out the books all they have to go on is the synopsis that George Martin gave them. Benioff and Weiss seem to be doing most of the writing and clearly can't go as deep into the detail as Martin could. So they've just thrown everything at the action set pieces that they've so good at. Those fans that were more into the action element have no issue with that whereas those who were big into the details are still enjoying it a but just question the fact that we had 5/6 seasons at one pace before going into breakneck pacing this season. It picked up the pace a little last year but this year has been insane.

Yes and it will be the shortest in terms of episodes only 6 but the episodes will be longer than the usual 50 mins.