Game Of Thrones Season 8 Predictions and Discussion

[Jellybean]

Haven't seen a thread for the upcoming [final?] season 8, so....

What do you guys see happening this season?


SPOILER OUT
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IMO....

I think one of the biggest questions to ask is, is Danerys really the "good guy" anymore?
Ok, so we all want to see Cersi get wrecked (not like that you perverts ), although Jamie is kinda a good bro-dude all of a sudden.
However, there seems to be, as she climbs the ladder, indications that there is less and less interest in, or intent to "break the wheel" as they put it originally and actually free Westeros, and more indication that she's going to pursue the same position of sole leadership that every other ruler before her has. Her only interest when meeting Jon Snow was that he (and the North) bend the knee TO her, not fight WITH her. And then there was the little matter of roasting poor Billy Bones and his dad with a dragon after ambushing that Lannister convoy...Brilliant political tactics there...Join or die. Hell of a choice...kind of like any other potential ruler would do...
Meesa IS a master....?

Which brings us to another point- Jon Snow knows nothing.
Or at the very least, he seems to have a bit of a hard time seeing broader pictures....
First off, he's barely managing to hold the North together right now, what with division over letting the Wildlings over the wall, and then he barely managed to pull together any army at all before they got battered against the Boltons, due to a certain not-so-brilliant decision on his part (and the Onion Knight too, but let's be honest- Jon almost cost them that battle). And YET...somehow after all that they still decide to pick him as King of the North because they believe he'll have their best interests in mind to keep them free from any Southern king/queen's meddling nonsense.
And then he gets all doe-eyed over Dany because dragons are cool (well, ok...they are...), and technically surrenders the North to foreign rule...exactly what he was NOT elected king to do...
I get a kick out of the fact that he didn't even try to counter-negotiate for an alliance before just going all in...

I have a suspicion none of that is going to play well when he gets back to Winterfell. I think there's a good chance he's going to lose a lot of support from the other Northern Lords, and it isn't like Sansa doesn't want a shot a ruling the North herself...
And according to Bran's revelation at the end of last season...Jon and Dany are related anyway, so...there's that.
Or maybe finding that out will put an end to the shenanigans right away? I can see some sort of joint-rule situation working out since they're related and Targaryen technically has proper claim to the throne....Who knows...
Gendry's still in the mix too, after all. I don't think he'd really want the crown though.

Both the Dornish queen [?] and shame-nun are jerks and I have little sympathy for either of them. Although somehow I suspect the Dornish one will wriggle out of it all somehow...

I suspect Grey Worm will die in epic fashion in battle at some point. Which will be a bummer- he's such a starch-arse he's actually kind of likable...

Euron Greyjoy is to cocky for his own good- I predict a justifiably hard fall coming his way. The only question is who he's going to kill on the way out... I have a suspicion nothing will turn out well for the Greyjoy clan...

Jamie will end up killing Cersi, in a near-exact rehash of what happened when he killed the king which got him his nick-name....
Remember the vision Danerys had back in season 2[?] of the burned-out throne room in the Red Keep? And we've established Cersi has a liking for wildfire.... I think she's gonna be like "Buhn dem", and Jamie's gonna be like "aw hell nah fam"! And he'll end up sacrificing himself to stop Cersi and the Keep will burn instead of the whole city. It will all be very poetic, since we all know Jamie wouldn't want to live without Cersi anyway...

I kinda want Tyrion to ride a dragon at some point. That would be epic.
The Hound vs The Mountain is long overdue as well....
Sansa is going to become the "little finger" of the North, possibly backed up by Arya as the enforcer...
Although Arya does have a bit of a penchant for rash action...and there's still a couple names on "the list"....

Also, Brienne and Tormund is the best thing ever...


What thinkest thou all?

[Circle_10]

I predict it will be an even bigger train wreck than Season 7. I mean WTF has been going on with the writing the last couple seasons? And I swear the characters in GOT do more fast-traveling across Westeros than I did in the Mojave Wasteland while playing Fallout: New Vegas....
But I'll watch it anyway, so HBO still wins...

[Alex V]

Jamie will kill Cerse to fulfill Maggy The Frog's prophecy.
Jon will kill Dany to become Azor Ahai forge Lightbringer and defeat the Night King.

[SteyrAUG]

I predict Dany will get naked and I'll watch.

Honestly this is one of those rare few shows where I don't try and figure out all the subplots, I just watch and enjoy. Although frozen zombie army making a frozen zombie dragon really did bumb me out. Should not have been that easy to bring a Dragon down and it it was Dany should have known better.

Honestly I'm sick of the whole frozen zombie army plot, wish a dragon would just char broil them and be done with that noise already. They show was more fun when little cunty kings were getting killed by the poison clan and things like that.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I just want it over. It started out awesome and you get hooked onto the characters, but the last season was a hot mess. Just show me how it ends and what happens to the characters.

[Spiffums]

And according to Bran's revelation at the end of last season...Jon and Dany are related anyway, so...there's that.
Or maybe finding that out will put an end to the shenanigans right away? I can see some sort of joint-rule situation working out since they're related and Targaryen technically has proper claim to the throne....Who knows...
Gendry's still in the mix too, after all. I don't think he'd really want the crown though.

Targ male claims always outweight Targ female claims.....in the books at least. So Jon has the better claim....if they win the war should be King of everything. Which will be the big plot twist after a half the episodes of Dany riding the Frost Dragon.

[ramairthree]

The series is dependent upon a draft dodging college deferring then conscientious objector, boomer democrat, gun control and Islamic refugee candidates proponent,
Who believes the lore of Marvel comics is of greater significance than that of history’s greatest literary works, and has written screenplays about how much braver the guys who went to Canada to dodge the Vietnam war were than the combat vets who went, and has a vile, horrendous twisted mind full of horrible things,

To actually finish some books vs phone in some half baked non fleshed out plot lines.

He is a brilliant, but horrible, undisciplined human being.

[Joelski]

I just want it over. It started out awesome and you get hooked onto the characters, but the last season was a hot mess. Just show me how it ends and what happens to the characters.

They all got jobs in the DC universe. People can't die and get out fast enough as all the good gigs get swept up, they'll be left clamouring for "crumbs".

[Jellybean]

...Honestly this is one of those rare few shows where I don't try and figure out all the subplots, I just watch and enjoy....

Heresy of the highest order. That's a blammin'.

Although frozen zombie army making a frozen zombie dragon really did bumb me out. Should not have been that easy to bring a Dragon down and it it was Dany should have known better.

Honestly I'm sick of the whole frozen zombie army plot, wish a dragon would just char broil them and be done with that noise already. They show was more fun when little cunty kings were getting killed by the poison clan and things like that.

...Although I gotta agree with this assessment. I liked the "people" stories better too, I'm tired of the White Walker nonsense, and I feel like "But frozen zombies, you guys!" was the angle to making them such a focal point of the show, just trying to jump on the Zombi craze bandwagon.

I just want it over. It started out awesome and you get hooked onto the characters, but the last season was a hot mess. Just show me how it ends and what happens to the characters.

Well, I will still be sad to see it go....but yeah. Things did get noticeably less well-thought-out after season 4-ish.

Targ male claims always outweight Targ female claims.....in the books at least. So Jon has the better claim....if they win the war should be King of everything. Which will be the big plot twist after a half the episodes of Dany riding the Frost Dragon.

Well isn't that just what a right wing incel would say...
In all seriousness though, do not underestimate the power of politics influencing this show...

That being said- I wouldn't mind Jon being the One King to rule them all- despite my misgivings about his naivete, I think he's the only person in a position to take rulership of anything who would truly have the best interests of the *people* of the Seven Kingdoms in mind. In fact, I can theoretically see him as being the only one that would actually follow up on the whole "break the wheel" meme, as Dany is clearly intent on taking the throne before anything else at this point...

[Grand58742]

I predict...

Lot of gratuitous boob shots.

Lot of wine drinking.

Some quippy one liners from everyone's favorite Imp.

Sex.

More gratuitous boob shots combined with wine drinking and sex.

On the serious side...

I have this feeling Bronn and the Hound are going to get into it eventually, but end up fighting together against the Mountain. (Bronn and the Hound are two of my favorite characters in the series)

Even though they made up at the end of Season 7, something will happen between Arya and Sansa. Too much tension in that area. I think Arya ends up back in Braavos running the house of faceless men.

With the major discovery of Jon Snow being a half Stark, half Targaryen, this will play somehow in the whole King of the 7 Realms thing and the southern houses taking his side.

Good bet Jon rides a dragon at some point.

Though, I'm calling the shot right now. Sansa to the Iron Throne by the end. I just get this feeling.

What I'd like to see...

A cameo of Ygritte. Damn, that woman was all that. Maybe in a dream or something?