Game Of Thrones Season 8 Predictions and Discussion

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[FromMyColdDeadHand]

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...

The age of boobs and debauchery is over in their world and ours. It already has been on the wane. The actors are bigger stars, the general public is supposedly tired of the objectification of women, and it is now a PITA to get a sex scene in an HBO production. So now Dany, Jon, and Dragon threesome anytime soon. Plus cold weather and nudity?

Bron either finds nobility and dies a good death, or just melts away at the end.

Is Lyanna Mormont legal yet?

[Circle_10]

Is Lyanna Mormont legal yet?

In Westeros she is.

In the real world, not so much. The actress was born in 2003.

[Grand58742]

Plus cold weather and nudity?

Sure didn't stop Jon and Ygritte in that cave.

"You know noth..."

[Achilles11B]

Lyanna Mormont ends up on the throne from sheer will.

I’m a huge fan of the series, but I’ll be glad when it’s over. The last two seasons felt a little hurried to get everything to this point but overall, it’s been an outstanding show. Here’s hoping HBO doesn’t spin up thirty prequel/spin-offs to ruin the whole thing.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

So how do you watch the GOT season 8 in 4K? I have Xfinity cable, but on there and online I can't seem to find out how to get it either on a 4k channel or stream it in 4K?

[SteyrAUG]

So far rather meh.

First they try to do an EPIC introduction before the actual series intro. Reminded me of something between the NFL buildups prior to a bowl game or something from the WWF days.

I can just hear the creative department sitting at their tables saying "It's going to have to be EPIC!!!!" The sad part is you can't make something EPIC, it either is or it isn't. And this wasn't. But for the first time in my life I understood why some people dismissed Citizen Kane. While it was a brilliant film, especially for the time, I now get that Orson Wells and crew seemed to decide they were smarter than everyone else on the planet, and when that isn't the case and you try too hard to be clever or epic, it comes of smarmy and insulting. Thank god I watched a recording so I could just FF through that bullshit.

Time wasted letting the yokels bathe in the wonderment of Dani and Jon on a magical CGI dragon flight. I can almost hear the ten year old girls squeal in delight, I hoped they enjoyed it, it wasted my time.

And yes we are starting to get more and more evidence that Dani isn't a "good guy" ruler and once things get resolved with Frosty King and his Icepops crew, there will be a reckoning because it turns out Jon Snow is the one true king of everything. Raise your hand if that revelation wasn't particularly shocking and reminded you of the line "Luke, I'm your father...Obi Wan lied to you."

Oh and Bran, he still bores the crap out of me.

Of course we need to kill the snow zombies before we can get anything meaningful done with the storyline.

[prdubi]

All I care for is the Hound.

I riot if he dies.

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[Alex V]

All I care for is the Hound.

I riot if he dies.

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News flash... everyone is going to die... maybe. Martin said that the ending of the books will be a battlefield with everyone dead and the snow is beginning to melt signifying the coming of spring. We shall see if HBO sticks to his outline, I doubt it.

I felt EP8x01 was a 6/10 at best.

SPOILER ALERT: Stop if you have not seen the episode yet.

I understand that they need to gather all the main characters at Winterfell in order to stage the battle with the Night's King so I am not too mad about the setup episode. It needs to happen. Having said that, with only 6 episodes and a lot of people to kill, its hard to spend an entire episode on gathering everyone. Plus, they haven't even done that. Beric and Tormund still aren't there, neither is Dolorous Edd, so we have still more setup in the next episode.

The scene where Sam tell Jon he is really Aegon Targaryen felt rushed. It was far too important to the story to just be a quick scene in the crypt where Sam blurts it out. Bran should have been there as well to provide CCTV footage, it is hard to believe that Jon will just take what Sam said as truth. Jon didn't ask for any proof and was only concerned with the treasonous aspects of what Sam was saying. Wouldn't you be more concerned that you had sex with your aunt at that point?

There was a huge misstep and missed opportunity when Jon (Aegon) got to ride Rhaegal. The dragon is named for his father after all. In Spoils of War (EP7x04) when Daenerys comes back from burning a shit ton of Lannister men and lands in front of Jon, he takes his glove of and touches Drogon. Dany looks astonished that he was able to do so and Drogon was calm with him. This foreshadows what we already know, that Jon is a Targaryen, the dragon can sense it. This time, Jon gets on Rhaegal and there is no reaction. She should know that only Targaryans can ride dragons, why didn't this set off alarms? It's like he was just borrowing Dany's space GSXR 600 while she sits on her Hayabusa. Come on. We know he is a Targaryen, but she doesn't, more should have been made of that for her. Then it just turns into the dogfight scene from Independence Day. They turn a really significant event into some comic relief with Drogon giving Jon the stink-eye like a kid who doesn't like the new guy banging his mom.

This also goes back to EP6x02 when Tyrion frees the Virerion and Rhaegal in Meereen. There is a theory that Tyrion is the rape baby of Aerys II and Joanna Lannister. Which would be a good reason why Tywin hated him (other than killing Joanna in child-birth) and would explain why he was able to approach the dragons and not die. With Viserion being an undead ice dragon, I don't think this will be explored any further and we will not get the Three-Headed dragon from the prophecy.

We have 5 episodes left, let's see if the wait was worth it.

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

The scene where Sam tell Jon he is really Aegon Targaryen felt rushed.

No proof, not even a 'search inside yourself' moment.

Well put that there is a lot of dying to do and not much time.

Needle has been used once or twice....it's been inside more people than Randy Spears...