Also I think the Eyrie is many leagues from there, many leagues.

I was thinking that the Eyrie was further south than the Twins … and the Freys are enemies. Probably wrong, I dunno.

Great episode. Definitely time to get rid of Ramsay, his character had become a cartoon. Great to see Dany’s army have its first real battle/walkover … even though she did spend the night chatting with Tyrion while her people were slaughtered in the streets. Glad to see she did spare lots of ships and go for the combo megafleet multiplier. Loved the “All four of us had terrible fathers” line.

This leaves episode 10 free for King’s Landing drama, then.

I was thinking … the Brotherhood Without Banners are basically Robin Hood and his Merry Men, right? Beric is Robin. Thoros is Friar Tuck. The archer bloke with his longbow is Will Scarlet. (The Lannisters represent the Sheriff of Nottingham.) This means The Hound is now Little John …

Oh, and where did Varys bugger off to? Maybe he’s headed for King’s Landing himself. That could be interesting.

poprock wrote:

I was thinking that the Eyrie was further south than the Twins … and the Freys are enemies. Probably wrong, I dunno.

Yeah this is right. Promising to marry Freys daughter was the only way Robb Stark could get his army south as they controlled the only route large enough to pass an army through (I think). Hopefully they'll address this next episode or it can pile up on the rest of the plot points they no longer give a shit about.

monkey wrote:

Hopefully they'll address this next episode or it can pile up on the rest of the plot points they no longer give a shit about.

This leaves the question of how Littlefinger got the Knights of the Vale through the Twins, then. By force? The Frey army was busy at Riverrun with Jamie Lannister, after all. Surely we would have seen Walder Frey get his though. Another cartoon baddie, waiting to die for the audience’s amusement. I guess maybe Littlefinger could have given Frey the news that his daughter and grandson (all he wanted was an heir in a fancy family) were offed by Ramsay and then he could have passed through the Twins to kill the bastard with Frey’s blessing.

Might have to rematch this episode to see how the leap from ‘raining fire on the Yunkai fleet’ to ‘chatting with the Greyjoys’ actually happened. Was it as blankly jarring as I thought, or did I blink and miss a proper transition?

It's good to see that the characters have discovered the fast travel option - they must have finally read the manual. Although, I don't think the two Ironborn had been to Meereen before, so I didn't know how they used it.

*eugh* the eyrie is west of the twins, doesn't need to cross the river. You only need to cross the river to go south try though to the river lands etc

Well, as the video I posted says, there are a number of insane problems with the Knights of vale showing up without Ramsey knowing. It's an indication of how fucking dumb the show has got now.

Who gives a fuck? geography homos.

I am gutted about Ramsey. He was the last good guy you could root for in the whole show!

legaldinho wrote:

Well, as the video I posted says, there are a number of insane problems with the Knights of vale showing up without Ramsey knowing. It's an indication of how fucking dumb the show has got now.

That was a good vid - summed up the huge silly that GoT has dived into of late. I still enjoy but more in the style of a marvel summer movie.

Also, they put too much stock in the spectacle episode. Risky avenue to go down when you only have an admittedly large tv budget. If season 7 is the last and we are building to a giant battle between walkers and dragons, I'm guessing we can expect some wonderful single room talky episodes.

Did the Greyjoys get to Mereen rather quickly? I'm not sure to this, GRRM takes forever to move characters around.

Behind the scenes on the battlefield bits:

Liveinadive wrote:

I think that was right up there with any of the best on-screen battles I have scene. Pissed all over anything Lord of the Rings did.

Little finger arriving to save the day was the only downer really. Felt a bit convenient.

Made me want to go back and watch Band of Bros. This ep was rather exciting but I don't think I was quite as tense as during BoB.
Rando director guy did good.

I think he jumps about the timelines a bit in the books.
I guess they are doing the same in the show but not really communicating it very well.

It needs a big 1970's style title card at the beginning of each scene.

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