Where the show improved was getting Dany out of Meereen quickly. That’s where GRRM got stuck in the books. It’s been excruciating with no end in sight.

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Don't worry.

Winds of Winter is set to come out soon.....

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But you initially argued that the show faltered when it "ran out" of source material. That's clearly not the case. The show has always had a mixture of engaging and uninteresting characters--and the same holds true for its various interconnected subplots.

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Agreed. It's more a disjointed collection of cool scenes and moments than actually a great show.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

That Ramsey - Theon stuff was so overdone.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

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OK, ran out/went away from the source material. Like I said other than Meereen. And even that cost us Ser Barristan. The cost was too high hahaha.

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They established how bad he was and then went totally overboard with it and then like salt bae, they sprinkled in some old fashioned wedding night rape.

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The Arya stuff was kind of boring but Jamie got a pass because everything is on hold. I don't think that was the last time he has to answer for his past unless he dies.

To me the worst part was Jon being like "hey, we are related. Let's kill some dead guys!". Maybe wait a few days to tell her.

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No, it's a great show. The scale of the show is amazing and it's all getting tied together in a pretty satisfying way. It's like if the Sopranos not only told the story of the Sopranos but every ally and enemy they had from the start to finish. One could even argue that Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul combined are not anywhere close to as large as this show is.

For example, the entire Gus Fring saga takes place over 2 seasons + 2 episodes. The Red Wedding feels like a distant memory now and it happened in the 9th episode of the 3rd season.

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I think that that the sit down between Sansa and Dany was pretty powerful where Dany told Sansa that she loved Jon(Aegon). And Arya and Robert's bastard son doing the dirty deed makes an interesting twist, namely what if Sansa dies and Jon and Dany both abdicate the throne and go off to play with their dragons to their hearts content? That would leave ArYa and Robert's bastard to rule the 7 Kingdoms? WIth Arya being the Hand of the King?

I like happy endings.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

His revealing to her that he has a superior claim to the throne, mere moments before a battle whose success depends heavily on her willingness to risk the lives of her two remaining dragons, is just so on brand for Jon.

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I disagree. The Bravos stuff established Arya as the biggest badass in the show. Her ability to conceal her identity I think is going to be a huge key in the outcome of the show. Now that spear she had her lover make is also going to be pretty interesting. Think about this angle. Lets say that the Night King rains fire and brimstone down while riding that dragon he has and Arya uses that spear to pick the fucker off of the back of that Dragon? I think that this is going to be the end of the Night King and his army after it looks like they are all going to fall.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Should Westeros eliminate what amounts to an "Electoral College"? I mean, why should a handful of dumb hillbillies residing on vast tracts of mostly empty land in the North have equal say with the millions of smarter people living on the coast in King's Landing? Burn the North!

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I'm surprised the SJW's of Westeros hadn't made a bigger deal about the lack of female knights prior to Brienne of Tarth breaking the glass ceiling that Hillary of Park Ridge was unable to.

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It certainly feels like they are setting up the deaths of Brienne, Jaime, Grey Worm, Theon, and Mormont for this next episode. I think it's going to be some sort of stalemate in the the battle where the living realize they can' t win with pure force so they find some sort of MacGuffin way to trick the Night King into revealing himself, and they kill him. Sounds like Bran as the bait is how they are going to do it. Not sure why he would not stay in the back and let superior numbers work, but they will contrive a reason why.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

Does Bran have pencils and an eraser?

Could take out the Night King that way.

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We're going to find out something stupid like the Night King being a Stark

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

That’s been the most popular theory for over 3 years now.

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and it's precisely the type of idea that is dumb enough for them to add into the show.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

What would be your ideal Night King backstory?

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Night King = Zombie Jesus.

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Theon is the worst character in the show, his storyline is brutal. They beat the torture scenes to death. I've always hated Dany, bad job at casting. Her scenes are brutal as well.

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The Night King was created by the children and the guy who built the wall was a Stark so there's probably a connection there.

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He is the same house of Jon and Danny.

It’d be better if he was a Stark imo.

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The Stark that built the wall was named Bran. So there's the Bran connection.

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I have to laugh at people who are so very critical of this show and love to nitpick the minutia. This is the greatest piece of television greatness ever put together. The enormity of the scenes, the acting, storytelling, etc. has never been seen in especially a limited season format.

I also have to credit the storytellers quite a bit because Martin never finished his story so they had to make the ending up on their own. I think that for the most part they tried their best to follow the book but reached a conclusion that Martin wasn't going to deliver so they had to adapt things. My guess is that they would have preferred that Martin would have finished his book and to try to stretch the number of episodes accordingly but didn't have that luxury. And with the actors and actresses anxious to branch out also, the end gets cramped at the end. But so what? It is all very good story telling and fantasy to me.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Yep. And I loved the look on Brienne when she got knighted. That, after, she couldn't help to feel queasy about the big redhead wanted to spend the night with her before they all die.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

I'm telling you, Arya is going to pick off the Night King off of that dragon with her newly forged spear and the white walkers will all die off. It might happen when the Night King and his dragon attack Dany and Snow on theirs. This might also be a scenario where the Red Witch brings Dany back to life after dying in the fight. How's that for speculation?

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

The Night King's purpose extends beyond just dying from a spear attack.

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Successful calls:

Kyrie Irving will never win anything as a team's alpha: check
T.rubisky is a bust: check
Ben Simmons is a liability: check
The Fields Cult is dumb: double check

2013 CSFMB ROY