OFFICIAL GAME OF THRONES THREAD | HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Premieres 8.21.22 | OFFICIAL TRAILER REVEALED

[IATT]

yall seen the theory where drogon is headed to:

 

[shogun]

drogon ain’t headed to rachel weisz to help dany, he going for that cunny.

 

[had pants]

 

[hand2handking]

Meera Reed Deserved Better
She risked her life, watched her brother die, watched Hodor die, dragged Bran across a frozen tundra, drank rabbit’s blood, and all she gets is a half-hearted “thank you”?!

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https://www.theringer.com/game-of-thrones/2017/8/7/16107158/game-of-thrones-spoils-of-war-meera-reed

The French have an expression: “l’esprit d’escalier,” or “staircase wit,” for when you can’t think of a zinger when you need one but come up with the perfect retort after the moment’s passed. Like the Tim Robbins cameo in High Fidelity, only it sounds more legitimate because it’s French.

On Sunday night’s Game of Thrones, poor Meera Reed had a near-fatal case of l’esprit d’escalier, as she said her goodbye to the man she’s been protecting since the moment she met him, Bran Stark. In their last meeting, she does call out Bran for being nonplussed and ungrateful not only to her but to her brother, Hodor, and Summer, all of whom died protecting him as he leveled up over the course of years. But she could’ve done better. You can see it on her face; she’s too stunned to give Bran a proper telling-off. I bet she got halfway down the steps of the tower in Winterfell and wished it had gone a little differently.

Bran and his band of misfits have been wandering around in the woods for so long it’s almost difficult to remember that Meera and Jojen Reed were jaunty teenagers when they first encountered the Stark boys. Meera had cool hair and a cool bow and arrow back then, and she was full of pithy one-liners about protecting people because she was at the age where people develop a strong sense of how the world ought to be but haven’t yet realized they can’t eliminate evil and injustice all by themselves.

This is not the dead-eyed young woman we saw last night—being exhausted and terrified, all the time, for five years will do that to you. And now Bran, who owes his life to her a thousand times over, is sending her home without so much as a handshake or even a bit of eye contact.

It’s frustrating not because Meera’s suffered more than anyone else on the show, but because her suffering has been undeserved, unredemptive, and unending. She watched her brother die in front of her, she was almost raped by Night’s Watch mutineers, she almost died half a dozen times, all to aid in Bran’s spiritual journey. She spent five years in the woods eating pine needles and field mice, occasionally washing it down with rabbit’s blood from Bran’s creepy half-dead uncle. And even on that diet, Bran somehow grew to be a 6-foot-4 giant, which became an issue when Hodor died and Meera, the Mother of Draggins, had to pull Bran across the North like the alien in Will Smith’s parachute inIndependence Day.

Even when she wasn’t in mortal peril, she was forced to sit inside a cave while Bran took greenseeing lessons from an old dude with a tree up his butt, an environment so action-packed the show just bailed on it for a season. Imagine spending your last two years of high school in a cave with nothing to do but throw rocks at the wall and nobody to talk to except Hodor, a direwolf, and a bunch of creepy, 10,000-year-old plant women because the only other teenager around is stoned out of his gourd on weirwood paste. And when they finally did leave, it was because Bran, that oblivious, selfish little jackwagon, broke the One Rule of the Matrix: Don’t let the Night’s King touch you. Hodor, Summer, and the Children of the Forest all died horribly as a result, and Meera became the world’s coldest pedicab driver.

Meera understood that she had a supporting role to play in this story—and listen, it’s not Bran’s fault he has to be carried everywhere—but the worst part about her ordeal is that not only did Bran not seem to grasp the enormousness of what she’d sacrificed for him, neither did showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. She was just baggage, the person who walked and fought because Bran couldn’t do it himself, and because Bran is—gazes serenely and glassy-eyed into the distance—the Three-Eyed Raven now, we’re supposed to just accept her unrewarded sacrifices. Everything Meera experiences, from fear to … well, mostly fear, if I’m being honest, is shown in the context of how it affects Bran.

She was baggage the whole time, and now that we’re bringing the show in for a landing and she’s no longer narratively useful, she’s sent off with only a “thank you,” and not even a convincing one. It’s a better ending than Rickon got, but not by much.

Meera says she’s returning home to sit out the White Walker invasion with her family at Greywater Watch. She shouldn’t. She should go find a beach somewhere and spend 16 hours a day sitting in a chaise lounge with a trashy paperback in one hand and a goblet of wine the size of a watermelon in the other. And she should stay there until she no longer cries herself to sleep every night as “Hold the door! Hold the door!” rattles around in her head.

She’s earned that much, even if nobody seems to have noticed.

 

[CP1708]

Sansa would marry, and not have a Stark.
Arya either wouldn't have children, or would have a child also no longer a Stark.
Bran's **** don't work per Sansa.
Jon can't have kids.

Targaryen, and Stark name is presumably over. Damn.

 

[sb]

damn somebody said big bang theory had a better finale

(i dont watch big bang theory)

it did.

 

[jape]

when did drogon learn to reason, use context clues and think independently?
how the hell would he know what the symbolism of the iron throne is and how in the **** would he know where that witch was to bring dany there?

 

[Bantz Lord T]

By far my favorite character in the series (as all of you can probably tell by my avy). A flawed man, sure; but aren't we all? He always spoke bluntly and never missed an opportunity to remind the nobles he worked for that beneath the silk robes and fancy titles, they were just like everyone else.

 

[checks mcgee]

bro close the thread the ******* show is over

now moving onto a show that won't dissapoint : stranger things

 

[getback]

now moving onto a show that won't dissapoint : stranger things

Apparently you didn't watch season 2.

 

[checks mcgee]

Apparently you didn't watch season 2.

what was wrong with it?

other than the random episode thrown in i think it was fine

billy and max

 

[IATT]

 

[getback]

what was wrong with it?

other than the random episode thrown in i think it was fine

billy and max

I didn't really feel that intimate connection to the characters like I did in season 1. Also felt like the story needed to be expanded upon more in depth, or a new mystery created. Big part of the allure of season 1 for me was wondering WTH the upside down was. We were really never even given answers about how Eleven re-appeared after she sacrificed herself, or what happened to the season 1 Hawkins antagonists? I don't know. Fell short for me.

 

[VARNELL HILL]

when did drogon learn to reason, use context clues and think independently?
how the hell would he know what the symbolism of the iron throne is and how in the **** would he know where that witch was to bring dany there?

 

[WASPS ANDD ASPS]

Skranga Thangs is overrated

Its aiight.

 

[red81]

 

[freeze]

Yeah, if you want to stop at the peak then stop at s4. And if you made it thru s5, then you might as well goto s6, at least that had some payoffs. Stopping at season 5 is crazy

cant stop before the end of season 6. when cersei had the wild fire and GOT aired one of the best cinematic scenes in television history with Cersei becoming queen. Everyone owes it to themselves to see that scene as the culmination of all of her acts and decisions. Series can literally end right there tbh.

 

[danger style]

cant stop before the end of season 6. when cersei had the wild fire and GOT aired one of the best cinematic scenes in television history with Cersei becoming queen. Everyone owes it to themselves to see that scene as the culmination of all of her acts and decisions. Series can literally end right there tbh.

Not a whole lot I like about the last three seasons but when the score hit during this moment...

 

[freeze]

These 14 seconds > the last 2 seasons

bruh....how i aint know janelle monae had all that going on under them tuxedos???????

she still smashing Tessa Thompson?

 

[freeze]

Not a whole lot I like about the last three seasons but when the score hit during this moment...

that scene was a game changer too. i love '0h ****' moments. That was top 5.

especially because you immediately remember he deep stroked his auntie.

 

[danger style]

bruh....how i aint know janelle monae had all that going on under them tuxedos???????

she still smashing Tessa Thompson?

Seeing Janelle in moonlight opened my eyes...

 

[freeze]

shawty was Maleficent.

 

[IATT]

 

[robtoofresco]

Seeing Janelle in moonlight opened my eyes...

EXACTLY what I was about to say before scrolling down to your response.

Bet she had Chiron questioning his affinity for meat.

 

[Nike Jordan]