Season 6 Episode 8 "No One" - "Non book readers"

OneOfThem Stumbled wrote:

--- So what was the point of the Riverlands scenes?

As a way to allow the Tully army to go north and support Jon Snow get Winterfell and fight the whitewalkers?

Billy86 wrote: »

To be honest, I'm getting very worried that it's the writers that think that.

Yeah, thats a disappointingly good point

Did Arya pass her test because she came back to put the face on the wall? Like, does that mean she does actually serve the faceless god? Because she could have just left without going back there

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

What was the "old rumour" that Pycel had his 'little birds' investigate?

That of the Mad King's stores of vast amounts of wildfire (green fire) under and throughout King's Landing.

DUN DUN DUN

tom_k wrote: »

Would it have anything to do with Gendry, who we saw rowing away a few seasons ago? The bastard son of Robert Baratheon and rightful claimant to the Iron Throne could be useful to Cersei in correcting the balance of power in her favour.

Given how much foreshadowing the characters have made to 'burning down cities' - a theory like this would be a great change, though possibly less spectacular.

Although, maybe things could get out of hand and it all ends up going ka-boom!

Canadel wrote: »

Best episode of the season by some distance.

Last week was much better.

This one gave us Arya surviving stupidly. I bet the writers think the more injured she was the more epic it was when she beat the waif. It looks like the Bravos was Tv's most tedious training montage. She didn't learn anything too particular, didn't develop as a character, we don't learn anything about the many faced god or faceless men which is important to the rest of the story.

And that Dany coming back at the end out of the blue. Good writing never makes you think about the writing. This was as much the opposite of that as possible.


Good to see the Hound again though. The show has really suffered from killing some great characters, Tywin in particular, and the Hound coming back shows it.

If it missed something vital (or the bowel wasn't perforated) she would be less likely to die. infection is possible but takes a while to set in and if she found Lady Crane quickly enough she could clear out the would. The river there empties directly into the bay and it looks pretty clean and only certain canals/rivers would be used for waste. As a healthy girl, with adequate medical attention she could live. Running is a separate issue that could be explained by time passing the second fall likely pulled her stitches - limping and wound holding- that would slow her down but if it was outer (not inner) stitches not too serious as long as its patched up again, blood loss would be the main danger.

Drogo refused treatment until the infection got bad and Miri purposely screwed over Dany on that front. Robert was gored by a bull, a large wound, perforating his bowel, easily leading to infection, even today. They could only do so much, especially as his own bowel contents would have caused infection, which if treated by a surgeon and given antibiotics, he probably still would have died. The two stab wounds by a thin blade could have done minimal damage especially as it was low on her left side likely missing the bulk of her bowels and (other then them) her other organs. Prompt treatment and rest and she would live. We have no idea how long she was out so could be partially healed reducing likeliness of further organ damage from parkour though her stitches ripping could still lead to blood loss. Its not too unbelievable when compared to real life examples like that man who was stabbed 66 times or all the people who have survived gunshot wounds which are automatically worse. Replace the weapon of injury with a gun and a gun shot wound to the arm or leg is deadly and yet John Mac Lane and various others still lived on to have sequels.

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Everyone is concentrating on Arya, I'm more concerned with The Hound's corny dialogue. "Bunch of nancies" "You're **** at dying". I genuinely cringed.

I've no idea why they're suddenly trying to make The Hound funny, he's not Bron.

I agree. I don't think they expected the Hound to become so popular and now that hes back they're trying very hard to conform to standard.

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Did Arya pass her test because she came back to put the face on the wall? Like, does that mean she does actually serve the faceless god? Because she could have just left without going back there

She'd need to be concerned if the face wasn't added in case she ended up marked for life.

tom_k wrote: »

Would it have anything to do with Gendry, who we saw rowing away a few seasons ago? The bastard son of Robert Baratheon and rightful claimant to the Iron Throne could be useful to Cersei in correcting the balance of power in her favour.

He's not the rightful claimant, precisely because he is a bastard.

Only got around to watching it today due to work, was terrified I'd hear spoilers. Enjoyed it, despite a few bum scenes. It's great to see The Hound back, watching him stride towards the 4 poor ba5tard5 with an axe in his hand in full on man on a mission mode was deadly. Thought the scenes between himself and the BWB lads were great. Dany's convenient dragon shenanigans entrance and her storyline in general is doing nothing for me.

Can't say I found it try-hard. The Hound has always been snarky and quick to make a smart comeback.