Season 6 Episode 7 "The Broken Man" - "Book readers"

Nody wrote:

Well Clegane needs to die but I'd guess as a final act he wrenches the helm of the mountain to show him being a zombie forcing an outright fight between the church and the state is the likely outcome here.

O i like the sound of that. Yeah i can't see him living happily ever no matter the outcome.

I loved how they ended his arc in the books, one of the only characters i can think of to truly find some sort of peace.

Really enjoyed that episode and this series as a whole. It's been one quality episode after another in my view. Monday is now my favourite day of the week as it means I get to watch a new episode of Game of Thrones.

jebidiah wrote: »

Good episode.

Only thing I'm not happy with is the BwoB killing all those people.

Seemed a bit out of place for them?

Wasn't there some freys going around killing off villagers near bwb territory in the book? Surely bwb would have taken food etc not just slaughter?

Even with Lady Stoneheart it does seem completely out of character of the BWB to just slaughter innocent people and leave what looked like all their food in situ.

Saw someone mention that the guy on the horse saying "the night is dark and full of terrors" was Thoros of Myr. Unless they changed the actor then no it wasn't Thoros.

Disappointed to see Ian McShane gone so quick as it looked like he could be a great character and could have had some really great one on ones throughout the season. Him meeting the BWB/Thoros Of Myr or Lady Stoneheart could have been excellent.

I think the guy with the bright yellow cloak was Lem, short for Lemoncloak, of the Brotherhood.

Definitely not Thoros.

http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Lem

I actually liked this episode and last week's in that both featured some great tense dialogue.

Episode 7 already!

The Blackfish holds Riverrun (it isn't already lost like in the show), the Freys have an incompetent siege going on, threatening to hang Edmure every day etc. Jaime arrives and negotiates peaceful surrender of the castle, but blackfish himself escapes out the river.

The hanging is very telling. Lady Stoneheart is also know as the Hangwoman, that's her method of execution for all Freys, Lannisters and Boltons.

The Brotherhood saw the Hound, a famous Lannister ally and hanged the Septon for aiding him.

Ya seemed very strange she was walking around so confident in the open air. Especially when you consider how the last scene wih her went blowig out the candle and going into darkness.

If it was a dream they probably would have had her wake up this episode and surely not wait another week hair to have her wake from a dream.

While it'd make most sense that Sansa is sending the Raven to LF, any chance it's for the Blackfish to hurry him up to help?

riffmongous wrote: »

Maybe she wanted them to think they got her? Risky but better than looking over her shoulder the rest of her life?

The faceless man always seemed to know what arya had done before she would even tell him so I'd imagine if the waif says she killed arya he will know she didn't.

Squeled when I saw the hound was a brilliant episode.

I hope Arya will be ok and get her revenge and that Theon will get over his trauma but I thought it was very well played out. Maragaery seems to be up to something which I'm glad about because I'd hate for the Sparrow will win.

Loved the Blackfish and Jaime (especially the backhand and Bronn). Looks like the brotherhood has finally turned which while awful (is there allowed to be one happy village) at least we have Sandor back and ready to bash.

Hope Sansa wasn't stupid enough to trust littlefinger again and that letter wasn't to him but it probably is.... sigh.

Strider wrote: »

Anyone else think there's an higher chance of LS this season than in previous ones? I know it's said every year, people cite references to the RW as evidence she's coming etc. but there seems to be a bit more going on in the way of 'evidence' this year.

Personally I stopped really considering it when she didn't show just after the RW episode but there's just something about this year that has me thinking it again; scenes in the show, future scenes from trailers, interviews that have been given by some of the cast, the way characters are placed at the moment etc.

I dunno how you all feel about it but if she did turn up I wouldn't be suprised.

After the final scene of season 4 I had made peace with the fact that they were leaving out such a huge twist. Although Lady Stoneheart hasn't been up to much in the books, bar the odd hanging, I still love the fact that she's a part of the story. I get why people see her as a pointless character but I personally love LS and I hope she has a bigger role in the books to come.

As such I was ragin that she was left out but I felt that halfway through season 5, if she was to be reintroduced it would have been lazy use of the classic 'Game of Thrones twist' and little more than fan service. But I agree with you completely about there being "something" about this season that wouldn't surprise or disappoint me to see her return. The Mountain, The Hound, Jon Snow, Rickon, Osha, Edmure, The Blackfish. All those characters were supposed to be gone but are now back. It's like the writers were waiting until resurrection (or just surprise returns) were essential to the story to start bringing back a slew of characters they knew were going to be returning.

Swegen!!