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[Carlybee]

Wait, I thought the girl knew what she was volunteering for. Did she expect something less painless?

The decapitation scene was pretty badass, and I LOL'd.

The end was sorta expected, I guess next week she will set the 2 dragons free and burn down the city.

Huh? The girl didn't know she was volunteering to get burned at the stake.

 

[Suzanimal]

Wow. I did not expect Stannis to kill his daughter. I figured he and the witch lady would fall out over it but I guess she has more power over him than I thought. His wife lost it, I wonder if she kills or attempts to kill the witch and gets herself killed. No loss if she dies and that would open Stannis up to marrying the witch and possibly becoming Queen.

If I were Dany, I would burn that shit hole to the ground and not look back. I'm confused about who the gold mask people are. Are they the nobles, the slaves, or both?

 

[Suzanimal]

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Wow. I did not expect Stannis to kill his daughter. I figured he and the witch lady would fall out over it but I guess she has more power over him than I thought. His wife lost it, I wonder if she kills or attempts to kill the witch and gets herself killed. No loss if she dies and that would open Stannis up to marrying the witch and possibly becoming Queen.

If I were Dany, I would burn that shit hole to the ground and not look back. I'm confused about who the gold mask people are. Are they the nobles, the slaves, or both?

Yep, no one will have any sympathy for Stannis after that.

The gold mask people are some of the old nobles/upper caste who want things to go back to the way they were.

 

[Suzanimal]

Yep, no one will have any sympathy for Stannis after that.

The gold mask people are some of the old nobles/upper caste who want things to go back to the way they were.

Okay, thanks. Then I would just kill all of them.

 

[Occam's Banana]

I'm confused about who the gold mask people are. Are they the nobles, the slaves, or both?

They were "Sons of the Harpy". - the same group that was killing Unsullied and other supporters of Daenerys (such as Ser Barristan) in earlier episodes.

In the books, they were pro-slavery members of the Meereen nobility.

In the TV show, I suppose they might be both nobles & ex-slaves (recall that Daenerys pissed off a lot of ex-slaves when she had that one fellow executed ...)

 

[Suzanimal]

They were "Sons of the Harpy". - the same group that was killing Unsullied and other supporters of Daenerys (such as Ser Barristan) in earlier episodes.

In the books, they were pro-slavery members of the Meereen nobility.

In the TV show, I suppose they might be both nobles & ex-slaves (recall that Daenerys pissed off a lot of ex-slaves when she had that one fellow executed ...)

I was confused because it appeared the prostitutes were in on the killing of the unsullied. I assume they're not nobles. At the games, they appeared to be noble. I'm just guessing based on their clothes.

 

[Carlybee]

Where were the rest of the unsullied? Weren't there like 8000 of them?

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Where were the rest of the unsullied? Weren't there like 8000 of them?

Yeah, there were several things in that episode were stretching our "suspension of disbelief".

 

[Occam's Banana]

Where were the rest of the unsullied? Weren't there like 8000 of them?

LOL. While I was watching this episode, I remember thinking, "At this rate, she's gonna run out of Unsullied ..."

But they're not all attending Daenerys around the clock, of course.

Most of them would be off duty - and the ones on duty would be manning the city walls/gates, patrolling the streets, etc.

Once things got started, they happened so fast that there wasn't really any time for coherent word to get out, let alone for even just a few hundred Unsullied to muster and be dispatched to the arena (even it there are still, say, 7000+ of them left).

 

[Occam's Banana]

Stannis' reputation is as good as dogshit. It takes a really evil person to make me root for the Boltons and Stannis is that.

Yep. Fuck Stannis.

Actually, I should rephrase that: Fuck TV Stannis.

Book Stannis is still OK - so far. (In the books, Shireen, Selyse and Melissandre all remained at the Wall while Stannis marched south to besiege the Boltons at Winterfell.)

For those who are interested, here's a good article discussing the differences between the books and S5E9 (contains book spoilers, of course):
What Game of Thrones changed from the books: season 5, episode 9

 

[CPUd]

Aside from whatever they are planning for the story, if they were looking to write a character out for practical purposes, she would be an ideal candidate:

I would imagine the time they were spending on her for makeup didn't leave but a few hours per day to do her scenes, being underage and all.

 

[Suzanimal]

Anyone else think of dannno when this guy came on?

 

[Terry1]

She finally rode the dragon--I've been wondering when this was going happen since the beginning. Now I'm wondering if the dragon will live after being hit with spears and where's the other dragon.

They burned Kerry at the stake-that was lame too. Can't say I was sorry to see Cersei Lannister's evil lil ass tossed in the dungeon either.

 

[CPUd]

So, did all the deaths from episode 10 happen in the books? The last one, I have read comments where either they were in extreme denial, or they knew it was not exactly final.

Also, the new King's Guard- pretty obvious they saved The Mountain; he is now like a medieval Robocop.

 

[Occam's Banana]

***** BOOK SPOILER *****

So, did all the deaths from episode 10 happen in the books?

No. Myrcella, Selyse & Stannis were still alive at the end of the latest book. (Assuming Stannis is dead - we didn't actually see it happen, after all. If he's not, I'm going to be pissed. I hate it when stories yank my chain like that.) And the situation with Jon in the last book was the same as it is in this episode - a big fat question mark. We'll have to wait for the next book or the next TV season to find out his fate - but I'm pretty damn sure he's gonna live, somehow, in both the books and the TV show ...







ETA: What I want to know is: where the hell is Ghost? He popped up briefly in one scene an episode or two ago and then disappeared again. I mean, WTF?

 

[Suzanimal]

***** BOOK SPOILER *****






No. Myrcella, Selyse & Stannis were still alive at the end of the latest book. (Assuming Stannis is dead - we didn't actually see it happen, after all. If he's not, I'm going to be pissed. I hate it when stories yank my chain like that.) And the situation with Jon in the last book was the same as it is in this episode - a big fat question mark. We'll have to wait for the next book or the next TV season to find out his fate - but I'm pretty damn sure he's gonna live, somehow, in both the books and the TV show ...







ETA: What I want to know is: where the hell is Ghost? He popped up briefly in one scene an episode or two ago and then disappeared again. I mean, WTF?

I think Stanis is alive and Ghost is busy doing direwolf shit.

 

[Occam's Banana]

I think [...] Ghost is busy doing direwolf shit.

Yeah, but what's up with that?

He showed up to scare off those assholes when they were beating the snot out of Sam.

But then he goes AWOL when they do a "Julius Caesar" number on Jon. I mean, what the hell ... ?

 

[Suzanimal]

Yeah, but what's up with that?

He showed up to scare off those assholes when they were beating the snot out of Sam.

But then he goes AWOL when they do a "Julius Caesar" number on Jon. I mean, what the hell ... ?

I dunno. I had forgotten about him until he showed up and saved Sam. It was strange for him not to have made an appearance for Jon Snow when he needed him.

I wonder what happened to that guy who was the bastard son of King Baratheon. The one Milasandre drew kings blood from when Stanis attacked Westeros. Didn't they just prick his finger? Why did they have to burn Shireen? Am I remembering that wrong?

 

[Occam's Banana]

I wonder what happened to that guy who was the bastard son of King Baratheon. The one Milasandre drew kings blood from when Stanis attacked Westeros. Didn't they just prick his finger? Why did they have to burn Shireen? Am I remembering that wrong?

Davos helped Gendry escape from Dragonstone (Stannis' island fortress), gave him a boat, and suggested he head for King's Landing.

And we haven't seen him since ...

(It's the same in the books, IIRC.)