Rewatching all seasons before Season 8 arrives...

Kunkka · 07-04-2019 9:15pm

duploelabs wrote: »

Worth taking a look at his audition reel, his change in demeanour is brilliant
https://youtu.be/TIWX2fPx-5k

Yeah saw that a good while ago, brilliant. That particular scene was cut from the series too, which is weird as it was a good part of the book.

seligehgit · 07-04-2019 10:56pm

duploelabs wrote: »

Try Alt Shift X

Just started watching the videos.

Exceptionally good.

Mokuba · 07-04-2019 10:57pm

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Please can you explain to me how the decimated Lannister army managed to take High Garden? I'm not being sarcastic here. I always thought the Tyrell's had a far superior army and grain store, which is why Tywin wanted to forge an allegiance with them. High Garden should have been able to withstand a siege. Was it just poor writing to move the plot along or did I miss something? It's always bugged me.

It was extremely poor writing, just a few episodes previously - they couldn't take the castle in the Riverlands without Edmure betraying the Blackfish. The Blackfish told Jaime they could hold out for 2 years and while Highgarden didn't have a river around all of it, they still had a lot more resources available.

The writing in season 7 was an embarrassment. The Winterfell plot was the worst in the shows history, just barely followed by the quest beyond the wall and all the f*ckery which that involved.

Euron Greyjoy had nothing and all of a sudden had the best fleet in Westeros in the space of a few episodes? Theon and Yara stole all his ships! I could go on for days about the character and writing inconsistencies.

mrcheez · 07-04-2019 11:03pm

Bit late to the party but started into Season 1 again yesterday... prob gonna cram in 2-3 episodes per night... might fast forward through some of 'em.

I keep getting distracted with episodes of Love Death + Robots though

At least I can watch all the intervening episodes while waiting for episodes 2 and 3 of Season 8

RobbingBandit · 07-04-2019 11:08pm

chris_ie wrote: »

Just starting to watch it now (first time). People had my head wrecked so thought I'd give it a go! ha. Might take a while though, only 2 episodes in! Just 65 to go....

Stick it out it gets gruesome but the character development as things go on is so rewarding. The shocks are mind blowing too, it's one hell of a ride.

Cina · 09-04-2019 3:54pm

Finished season six.

Much, much, MUCH better than season five, but not as good as the earlier seasons.

That said, Battle of the Bastards and The Winds of Winter are stunning TV. Miguel Sapochnik is an unbelievable director, especially when you consider parts of both episodes are absolutely ridiculous yet he still manages to make them work superbly. In fact both are full of the sort of poor writing and silly plot contrivances as season seven yet he still worked around that to make them both amazing!

And I agree with the poster above that the cut to Jon from the Tower of Joy scene is arguably the best in the entire show. The music and cinematography are goosebump inducing.

Not even bothered to watch season seven but I guess I will. maybe I'll skip Beyond the Wall, that episode was just the worst.

Dave0301 · 09-04-2019 11:24pm

Mokuba wrote: »

Paddy Cow wrote: »

Please can you explain to me how the decimated Lannister army managed to take High Garden? I'm not being sarcastic here. I always thought the Tyrell's had a far superior army and grain store, which is why Tywin wanted to forge an allegiance with them. High Garden should have been able to withstand a siege. Was it just poor writing to move the plot along or did I miss something? It's always bugged me.

It was extremely poor writing, just a few episodes previously - they couldn't take the castle in the Riverlands without Edmure betraying the Blackfish. The Blackfish told Jaime they could hold out for 2 years and while Highgarden didn't have a river around all of it, they still had a lot more resources available.

The writing in season 7 was an embarrassment. The Winterfell plot was the worst in the shows history, just barely followed by the quest beyond the wall and all the f*ckery which that involved.

Euron Greyjoy had nothing and all of a sudden had the best fleet in Westeros in the space of a few episodes? Theon and Yara stole all his ships! I could go on for days about the character and writing inconsistencies.

Just finished my run through ahead of S8. The plot holes and jumping around Westeros is hard to defend on a 2nd viewing. I think the first time around I was more forgiving as we were getting more of the story. This time around it was more jarring.

09-04-2019 11:35pm

I'd nearly forgive them the plot holes if the dialogue in season 7 wasn't so terrible..

Sawduck · 10-04-2019 1:06am

Trying this myself, on season five right now, the first half of that season was a drop in quality

nothing · 10-04-2019 2:15am

I've just finished season 1 (had been rewatching earlier in the year but we only got 6 episodes in and my friend had to study, poor her). It's going to be a tight few days, but I'm off work with a viral infection so need something to keep me going. So so many things in season 1 have a completely different interpretation now! Loving it.

mrcheez · 10-04-2019 8:07am

Yeah Season 1 is great, I'm 75% through. I saw it all those years ago but completely forgot how good it is.

A lot of the subtext makes more sense now, having seen all the other scenes.

For example I know who Stanis is (they mention him a lot in Season 1)... also "the seed is strong" makes more sense now.

I reckon I'll re-watch Season 1 and Season 7 just before starting Season 8 as I think those are probably the 2 most relevant?

tHE vAGGABOND · 10-04-2019 9:47am

Just onto season 7; after watching them all from the start over the last few months!

Noticed a few things that I had missed in the last couple of seasons that could be a factor in the big picture. But really love the show!

Sleepy · 10-04-2019 10:35am

Watched the ludicrous Beyond the Wall last night. Great to see the dragons in action against the army of the dead but the suspension of disbelief required for Gendry's successful run to the wall and the travel time of Ravens is really stretching things to breaking point. The interactions between Sansa and Arya are a bit painful too.

One episode left in the re-watch before Season 8 starts on Monday

Paddy Cow · 10-04-2019 11:46am

It's like they discovered teleportation lol. There is a map in this link which shows how many journeys Jon made after leaving Hardhome, compared to the progress made by the Knight King.

Jon vs the Knight King

golfball37 · 10-04-2019 3:28pm

Sawduck wrote: »

Trying this myself, on season five right now, the first half of that season was a drop in quality

The show suffered terribly when Lord Tywin left imo.

GS11 · 11-04-2019 12:47pm

Cina wrote: »

Finished season six.

Much, much, MUCH better than season five, but not as good as the earlier seasons.

That said, Battle of the Bastards and The Winds of Winter are stunning TV. Miguel Sapochnik is an unbelievable director, especially when you consider parts of both episodes are absolutely ridiculous yet he still manages to make them work superbly. In fact both are full of the sort of poor writing and silly plot contrivances as season seven yet he still worked around that to make them both amazing!

And I agree with the poster above that the cut to Jon from the Tower of Joy scene is arguably the best in the entire show. The music and cinematography are goosebump inducing.

Not even bothered to watch season seven but I guess I will. maybe I'll skip Beyond the Wall, that episode was just the worst.

Rewatching 6 now, it's a lot better than I thought, obviously being carried by Ramsey and the battle of the bastards.

Likewise will watch 7, agree, a big drop, particularly the one beyond the wall.

Sawduck · 12-04-2019 4:53am

golfball37 wrote: »

The show suffered terribly when Lord Tywin left imo.

He was a class character,Charles Dance is awesome

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 12-04-2019 8:41am

Just finished watching them all myself. Really went off a cliff in season 5 and never recovered. So much time in S5&6 dedicated to irrelevant and boring story lines, along with some of the most cringe-inducing lines.

That being said, it's still an amazing show full of brilliant characters and great main plot. I can't wait for season 8 to see how it all ends up.

....... · 12-04-2019 9:11am

Big Pussy Bonpensiero wrote: »

...along with some of the most cringe-inducing lines.

Given your username I would have thought you would have liked the "the baad pooosy" line?

duploelabs · 12-04-2019 12:40pm

Sawduck wrote: »

He was a class character,Charles Dance is awesome

His introduction scene, particularly because he's butchering the Stark sigil, was fantastic

12-04-2019 1:09pm

I couldn't sit through season 5 when I tried it again. The worst season by a mile. 7 is good but its no longer what I came to love about game of thrones. Its devolved to common action film marvel tropes. Taking of high garden. Eurons magic Fleet. Gendry's speed walking. Jamie surviving with Bronn. Red shirts dying beyond the wall. Jon being saved by his uncle. The entire plotline of bringing a Wight to cersai. Little finger's plot to turn Sansa and Arya against each other. There's probably more but it's weak on paper.

bur · 12-04-2019 1:30pm

Finally finished season five, thank the gods. It's the only season that is more bad than good. The NW's stuff is good and Jamie's journey, everything else i could care less about(Dany, everything going on in KL) or is just badly done(Arya, Stannis, Sansa).

duploelabs wrote: »

His introduction scene, particularly because he's butchering the Stark sigil, was fantastic

Baratheon!

duploelabs · 13-04-2019 11:54am

bur wrote: »

Finally finished season five, thank the gods. It's the only season that is more bad than good. The NW's stuff is good and Jamie's journey, everything else i could care less about(Dany, everything going on in KL) or is just badly done(Arya, Stannis, Sansa).

Baratheon!

Well at least I've a career as a greenseer ahead of me considering my sketchy sigil knowledge

mrcheez · 14-04-2019 8:23am

question bothering me about season 2... how did Stannis know about Joffrey's parentage? I dont recall seeing Ned sending out a raven?

Teddy Daniels · 14-04-2019 8:30am

mrcheez wrote: »

question bothering me about season 2... how did Stannis know about Joffrey's parentage? I dont recall seeing Ned sending out a raven?

a little bird told him

bur · 14-04-2019 9:09am

mrcheez wrote: »

question bothering me about season 2... how did Stannis know about Joffrey's parentage? I dont recall seeing Ned sending out a raven?

They didn't show it but Stannis says something like 'when Ned Stark found out he told only me, i won't make that same mistake' before sending ravens to all the lords in Westeros.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 14-04-2019 10:10am

mrcheez wrote: »

question bothering me about season 2... how did Stannis know about Joffrey's parentage? I dont recall seeing Ned sending out a raven?

As far as I remember Ned gave a command in season 1 to get word to Stannis when he found out. How he got word there I don't think was specified.

mrcheez · 14-04-2019 10:23am

Right, I might have missed it. In the book I understand a raven was sent out, but in the series I thought only Little finger and the Queen were told before Ned was killed off.

Thought maybe implication is Little finger sent word.

nothing · 14-04-2019 11:33am

mrcheez wrote: »

Right, I might have missed it. In the book I understand a raven was sent out, but in the series I thought only Little finger and the Queen were told before Ned was killed off.

Thought maybe implication is Little finger sent word.

Didn't he give a letter to one of his men and tell him to give it to stannis, not his guards or his maester, to stannis only?

mrcheez · 14-04-2019 12:16pm

nothing wrote: »

Didn't he give a letter to one of his men and tell him to give it to stannis, not his guards or his maester, to stannis only?

Ah yes you're right! Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1II1M77-C2E

c.p.w.g.w · 14-04-2019 12:24pm

Just finished season 7 last night, is there any specific episodes that would be good to watch tonight before season 8 premier?

Brief_Lives · 14-04-2019 12:59pm

Tick tock lads and lassies.... We have arrived...
Its been fun awaiting this...

I hope you all enjoy this season.. We know its gonna be a bloodbath...

mrcheez · 14-04-2019 2:32pm

c.p.w.g.w wrote: »

Just finished season 7 last night, is there any specific episodes that would be good to watch tonight before season 8 premier?

Rewatching Season one was best for me in terms of reclarifying how all the families are related and what's at stake for each so perhaps pick a few from that

Recliner · 14-04-2019 5:00pm

Did a marathon rewatch yesterday, had half season 6 and all season 7 to get through. Exhausted today, but glad I did. I must have missed some of S7, some parts I didn't remember at all.
Can't wait for 2.00am.

PsychoPete · 14-04-2019 5:41pm

I have 4 episodes of season 7 left to watch, going to get cracking on that later on

mrcheez · 14-04-2019 6:14pm

I've caught up a lot, but not everything. I'm going to watch the other seasons in the days between the releases of Season 8.

Have to have something to watch in the 6 days between each episode

RobbingBandit · 14-04-2019 6:15pm

Been watching best of character videos on YouTube the past 2 hours good stuff especially Littlefinger

wadacrack · 14-04-2019 6:36pm

I have never watched Game of Thrones, thinking of starting it tomorow. Finished Sopranos . Whats its like ?

PsychoPete · 14-04-2019 6:52pm

wadacrack wrote: »

I have never watched Game of Thrones, thinking of starting it tomorow. Finished Sopranos . Whats its like ?

Violence,incest and dragons! What more could you want from a TV show

wadacrack · 14-04-2019 6:59pm

PsychoPete wrote: »

Violence,incest and dragons! What more could you want from a TV show

Hopefully not too much of that

SureYWouldntYa · 14-04-2019 7:00pm

wadacrack wrote: »

I have never watched Game of Thrones, thinking of starting it tomorow. Finished Sopranos . Whats its like ?

If you're okay with not being fully clued in, and are someone who prefers moments rather than seeing character development, then watch a youtube recap of each season before starting season 8

If you are one for watching characters and the world itself develop, and have the time to watch ~60 hours of content over the next few weeks before it ends then do that

I don't think you'd enjoy it going in blind with season 8, far too much will be going on for you to enjoy or follow

mrcheez · 14-04-2019 7:12pm

wadacrack wrote: »

I have never watched Game of Thrones, thinking of starting it tomorow. Finished Sopranos . Whats its like ?

I started watching it about 2 years ago and had seasons 1-6 available to binge. It was probably the best few weeks I've had in TV watching as I didn't have to wait a week between each episode.

I didn't go in expecting much, but got hooked pretty quickly and ended up watching about 3 episodes a night consecutively.

Season 7 was agonising as I had to wait a week between each episode.

Probably a good idea to do the same before watching season 8, but you'll have to avoid your workmates casually saying what happened in season 8, and then by the time you've cleared off seasons 1-7 you'll have several episodes of season 8 ready to binge on.

Incidentally, I haven't seen a single Sopranos episode so I've got that to look forward to :pac:

rossie1977 · 14-04-2019 7:57pm

wadacrack wrote: »

I have never watched Game of Thrones, thinking of starting it tomorow. Finished Sopranos . Whats its like ?

Far more violent version of Lord of the Rings in many ways. Drags at times but Season 1-5 is mostly great and includes maybe half a dozen of the greatest scenes ever aired on tv. Season 6-7 not so much due to fact showrunners have no original content to go off and start completely destroying the logic of the world created in first 5 seasons.

theballz · 14-04-2019 9:39pm

Beyond excited for this!

Bowlardo · 14-04-2019 11:14pm

Just finishing last episode on the catch up on sky Atlantic and I know i’m Going to stay up to watch tonight’s episode even though nothing will happen in it

Wailin · 14-04-2019 11:29pm

Only 6 episodes so something will happen surely.

RobbingBandit · 14-04-2019 11:39pm

I caved I'm on the last two episodes of 7. The hound is the greatest character of the whole series.

tedpan · 14-04-2019 11:44pm

I'm doing the same, almost finished season 2 again! It's well worth it

wp_rathead · 19-04-2019 6:17pm

Finished the rewatch and few things
*Apart from Daeny and Sansa/Ayra presumably wanting Jamie's head, important to remember The Karstarks will also want justice for Jamie killing Torheen Karstark in Season 2
*Howlan Reed (Meeras father) was at Tower of Joy - he may have to be the one to confirm Jon's birth- be good to see him and good excuse to see Meera again in the show
*In the citadel a throwaway remark by one of the Masters was about "A Drowned God will rise up and destroy Aegon the Conqueror" - so don't be surprised if Euron ends up killing one of Jon or Daeny

....... · 23-04-2019 11:45am

wp_rathead wrote: »

*In the citadel a throwaway remark by one of the Masters was about "A Drowned God will rise up and destroy Aegon the Conqueror" - so don't be surprised if Euron ends up killing one of Jon or Daeny

Or Theon could kill Dani if she threatens Sansa.

Rewatching all seasons before Season 8 arrives...

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