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**Ry Vor** · 04-29-2019, 02:20 PM

(04-29-2019, 05:31 AM)RELLGAR Wrote: The worst writing of any episode yet. I can tell Martin had very little to do with it. So predictable after it was looking so rediculas.

I was saying that after episode 1 of this season: that you could really tell they had lost the trail of Martin. Then episode 2: first time I ever saw a story with two preludes - was more of episode 1, fireside chats, etc. Martin was never so buddy-buddy and so obvious as in these efforts to humanize all the characters. Martin was a sadist. The first couple episodes were more like Days of Our Lives than Game of Thrones. And some of the dialogue has been almost cringing instead of crisp.

So that is a problem with trying to predict how HBO decides the story ends. Not likely the same way Martin would - I think they are completely on their own now and may have decided just to give the audience what it wants. Dispatched of the Night King pretty easily I thought; kind of anti-climactic.

Season 8 is to be six episodes, from what I hear after the first two preludes, the two action episodes, and then two denouement.

**Eregnon** · 05-01-2019, 01:17 AM

One theory I guy I work with had. Cersei will die in labor, giving birth to an imp.

**Calidor** · 05-01-2019, 01:21 AM

I really thought Jamie would die and Arya would take his face and strangle Cersei.

**Ry Vor** · 05-01-2019, 11:12 AM

(05-01-2019, 01:21 AM)Calidor Wrote: I really thought Jamie would die and Arya would take his face and strangle Cersei.

Jamie might kill Cersei straight up with the next treacherous thing she does. I guess with the Dead so easily dispatched, attention turns to Cersei now.

Yeah, we have gone from a dozen things going on and who knows what is next to now its just kind of down to who kills Cersei and who sits on the Iron Throne.

**Strongwill** · 05-01-2019, 01:44 PM

Cersei will kill one of the two, and the survivor will kill her and take the throne?

**Wookie Panz** · 05-01-2019, 02:18 PM

The spy master has been quiet for too long. Surely he must have some roll to play before it ends.

**Ry Vor** · 05-01-2019, 10:21 PM

(04-29-2019, 02:20 PM)Ry Vor Wrote:
(04-29-2019, 05:31 AM)RELLGAR Wrote: The worst writing of any episode yet. I can tell Martin had very little to do with it. So predictable after it was looking so rediculas.

I was saying that after episode 1 of this season: that you could really tell they had lost the trail of Martin. Then episode 2: first time I ever saw a story with two preludes - was more of episode 1, fireside chats, etc. Martin was never so buddy-buddy and so obvious as in these efforts to humanize all the characters. Martin was a sadist. The first couple episodes were more like Days of Our Lives than Game of Thrones. And some of the dialogue has been almost cringing instead of crisp.

So that is a problem with trying to predict how HBO decides the story ends. Not likely the same way Martin would - I think they are completely on their own now and may have decided just to give the audience what it wants. Dispatched of the Night King pretty easily I thought; kind of anti-climactic.

Season 8 is to be six episodes, from what I hear after the first two preludes, the two action episodes, and then two denouement.

Just checked Metacritic and its the same view. Without Martin, the writers are turning it into a typical drama, way far away from Game of Thrones. They are just giving the audience what they think they want. Very disappointing to have seen such a great episodic adventure and ground breaking TV turn into blah.

Now we are supposed to be afraid of Cersi?

**Ry Vor** · 05-03-2019, 01:29 AM

I guess I should be shagrined. But seeing the posts from new players on The Avengers, I took the time to watch the first, quite entertaining!

Now I need to watch the second and then see the current one in the cinema.

Clever banter, fast paced. Better than expectations, and that is so important to some like me.

**Calidor** · 05-03-2019, 01:32 AM

Have you watched IronMan? That's the movie that started it all really.

**Ry Vor** · 05-03-2019, 01:39 AM

(05-03-2019, 01:32 AM)Calidor Wrote: Have you watched IronMan? That's the movie that started it all really.

Yes, I liked Iron Man. And I had a grin all through this first Avengers with Tony Stark wearing a Black Sabbath T. I grew up Sabbath, and BOC, maybe you can tell. Cool

So I saw Iron Man, and 2, and Spiderman, and 2, and Thor. I don't know, I guess I just thought recent vintage was just taking money, but it was definitely fun.