Game Of Thrones Season 8 Predictions and Discussion

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Haven’t seen a thread for the upcoming [final?] season 8, so…

What do you guys see happening this season?

SPOILER OUT

IMO…

I think one of the biggest questions to ask is, is Danerys really the “good guy” anymore?
Ok, so we all want to see Cersi get wrecked (not like that you perverts :laugh: ), although Jamie is kinda a good bro-dude all of a sudden.
However, there seems to be, as she climbs the ladder, indications that there is less and less interest in, or intent to “break the wheel” as they put it originally and actually free Westeros, and more indication that she’s going to pursue the same position of sole leadership that every other ruler before her has. Her only interest when meeting Jon Snow was that he (and the North) bend the knee TO her, not fight WITH her. And then there was the little matter of roasting poor Billy Bones and his dad with a dragon after ambushing that Lannister convoy…Brilliant political tactics there…Join or die. Hell of a choice…kind of like any other potential ruler would do…:rolleyes:
Meesa IS a master…?

Which brings us to another point- Jon Snow knows nothing.
Or at the very least, he seems to have a bit of a hard time seeing broader pictures…
First off, he’s barely managing to hold the North together right now, what with division over letting the Wildlings over the wall, and then he barely managed to pull together any army at all before they got battered against the Boltons, due to a certain not-so-brilliant decision on his part (and the Onion Knight too, but let’s be honest- Jon almost cost them that battle). And YET…somehow after all that they still decide to pick him as King of the North because they believe he’ll have their best interests in mind to keep them free from any Southern king/queen’s meddling nonsense.
And then he gets all doe-eyed over Dany because dragons are cool (well, ok…they are…), and technically surrenders the North to foreign rule…exactly what he was NOT elected king to do…
I get a kick out of the fact that he didn’t even try to counter-negotiate for an alliance before just going all in…

I have a suspicion none of that is going to play well when he gets back to Winterfell. I think there’s a good chance he’s going to lose a lot of support from the other Northern Lords, and it isn’t like Sansa doesn’t want a shot a ruling the North herself…
And according to Bran’s revelation at the end of last season…Jon and Dany are related anyway, so…there’s that. :laugh:
Or maybe finding that out will put an end to the shenanigans right away? I can see some sort of joint-rule situation working out since they’re related and Targaryen technically has proper claim to the throne…Who knows…
Gendry’s still in the mix too, after all. I don’t think he’d really want the crown though.

Both the Dornish queen [?] and shame-nun are jerks and I have little sympathy for either of them. Although somehow I suspect the Dornish one will wriggle out of it all somehow…

I suspect Grey Worm will die in epic fashion in battle at some point. Which will be a bummer- he’s such a starch-arse he’s actually kind of likable…

Euron Greyjoy is to cocky for his own good- I predict a justifiably hard fall coming his way. The only question is who he’s going to kill on the way out… I have a suspicion nothing will turn out well for the Greyjoy clan…

Jamie will end up killing Cersi, in a near-exact rehash of what happened when he killed the king which got him his nick-name…
Remember the vision Danerys had back in season 2[?] of the burned-out throne room in the Red Keep? And we’ve established Cersi has a liking for wildfire… I think she’s gonna be like “Buhn dem”, and Jamie’s gonna be like “aw hell nah fam”! And he’ll end up sacrificing himself to stop Cersi and the Keep will burn instead of the whole city. It will all be very poetic, since we all know Jamie wouldn’t want to live without Cersi anyway…

I kinda want Tyrion to ride a dragon at some point. That would be epic.
The Hound vs The Mountain is long overdue as well…
Sansa is going to become the “little finger” of the North, possibly backed up by Arya as the enforcer…
Although Arya does have a bit of a penchant for rash action…and there’s still a couple names on “the list”…

Also, Brienne and Tormund is the best thing ever…:laugh:

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What thinkest thou all?

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I predict it will be an even bigger train wreck than Season 7. I mean WTF has been going on with the writing the last couple seasons? And I swear the characters in GOT do more fast-traveling across Westeros than I did in the Mojave Wasteland while playing Fallout: New Vegas…
But I’ll watch it anyway, so HBO still wins…

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Jamie will kill Cerse to fulfill Maggy The Frog’s prophecy.
Jon will kill Dany to become Azor Ahai forge Lightbringer and defeat the Night King.

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I predict Dany will get naked and I’ll watch.

Honestly this is one of those rare few shows where I don’t try and figure out all the subplots, I just watch and enjoy. Although frozen zombie army making a frozen zombie dragon really did bumb me out. Should not have been that easy to bring a Dragon down and it it was Dany should have known better.

Honestly I’m sick of the whole frozen zombie army plot, wish a dragon would just char broil them and be done with that noise already. They show was more fun when little cunty kings were getting killed by the poison clan and things like that.

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I just want it over. It started out awesome and you get hooked onto the characters, but the last season was a hot mess. Just show me how it ends and what happens to the characters.

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Targ male claims always outweight Targ female claims…in the books at least. So Jon has the better claim…if they win the war should be King of everything. Which will be the big plot twist after a half the episodes of Dany riding the Frost Dragon.

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The series is dependent upon a draft dodging college deferring then conscientious objector, boomer democrat, gun control and Islamic refugee candidates proponent,
Who believes the lore of Marvel comics is of greater significance than that of history’s greatest literary works, and has written screenplays about how much braver the guys who went to Canada to dodge the Vietnam war were than the combat vets who went, and has a vile, horrendous twisted mind full of horrible things,

To actually finish some books vs phone in some half baked non fleshed out plot lines.

He is a brilliant, but horrible, undisciplined human being.

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They all got jobs in the DC universe. People can’t die and get out fast enough as all the good gigs get swept up, they’ll be left clamouring for “crumbs”.

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Heresy of the highest order. That’s a blammin’. :big_boss:

Although frozen zombie army making a frozen zombie dragon really did bumb me out. Should not have been that easy to bring a Dragon down and it it was Dany should have known better.

Honestly I’m sick of the whole frozen zombie army plot, wish a dragon would just char broil them and be done with that noise already. They show was more fun when little cunty kings were getting killed by the poison clan and things like that.

…Although I gotta agree with this assessment. I liked the “people” stories better too, I’m tired of the White Walker nonsense, and I feel like “But frozen zombies, you guys!” was the angle to making them such a focal point of the show, just trying to jump on the Zombi craze bandwagon.

Well, I will still be sad to see it go…but yeah. Things did get noticeably less well-thought-out after season 4-ish.

Well isn’t that just what a right wing incel would say… :wink:
In all seriousness though, do not underestimate the power of politics influencing this show…

That being said- I wouldn’t mind Jon being the One King to rule them all- despite my misgivings about his naivete, I think he’s the only person in a position to take rulership of anything who would truly have the best interests of the people of the Seven Kingdoms in mind. In fact, I can theoretically see him as being the only one that would actually follow up on the whole “break the wheel” meme, as Dany is clearly intent on taking the throne before anything else at this point…

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I predict…

Lot of gratuitous boob shots.

Lot of wine drinking.

Some quippy one liners from everyone’s favorite Imp.

Sex.

More gratuitous boob shots combined with wine drinking and sex.

On the serious side…

I have this feeling Bronn and the Hound are going to get into it eventually, but end up fighting together against the Mountain. (Bronn and the Hound are two of my favorite characters in the series)

Even though they made up at the end of Season 7, something will happen between Arya and Sansa. Too much tension in that area. I think Arya ends up back in Braavos running the house of faceless men.

With the major discovery of Jon Snow being a half Stark, half Targaryen, this will play somehow in the whole King of the 7 Realms thing and the southern houses taking his side.

Good bet Jon rides a dragon at some point.

Though, I’m calling the shot right now. Sansa to the Iron Throne by the end. I just get this feeling.

What I’d like to see…

A cameo of Ygritte. Damn, that woman was all that. Maybe in a dream or something?

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The age of boobs and debauchery is over in their world and ours. It already has been on the wane. The actors are bigger stars, the general public is supposedly tired of the objectification of women, and it is now a PITA to get a sex scene in an HBO production. So now Dany, Jon, and Dragon threesome anytime soon. Plus cold weather and nudity?

Bron either finds nobility and dies a good death, or just melts away at the end.

Is Lyanna Mormont legal yet?

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In Westeros she is.

In the real world, not so much. The actress was born in 2003.

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Sure didn’t stop Jon and Ygritte in that cave.

“You know noth…”

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Lyanna Mormont ends up on the throne from sheer will.

I’m a huge fan of the series, but I’ll be glad when it’s over. The last two seasons felt a little hurried to get everything to this point but overall, it’s been an outstanding show. Here’s hoping HBO doesn’t spin up thirty prequel/spin-offs to ruin the whole thing.

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So how do you watch the GOT season 8 in 4K? I have Xfinity cable, but on there and online I can’t seem to find out how to get it either on a 4k channel or stream it in 4K?

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So far rather meh.

First they try to do an EPIC introduction before the actual series intro. Reminded me of something between the NFL buildups prior to a bowl game or something from the WWF days.

I can just hear the creative department sitting at their tables saying “It’s going to have to be EPIC!!!” The sad part is you can’t make something EPIC, it either is or it isn’t. And this wasn’t. But for the first time in my life I understood why some people dismissed Citizen Kane. While it was a brilliant film, especially for the time, I now get that Orson Wells and crew seemed to decide they were smarter than everyone else on the planet, and when that isn’t the case and you try too hard to be clever or epic, it comes of smarmy and insulting. Thank god I watched a recording so I could just FF through that bullshit.

Time wasted letting the yokels bathe in the wonderment of Dani and Jon on a magical CGI dragon flight. I can almost hear the ten year old girls squeal in delight, I hoped they enjoyed it, it wasted my time.

And yes we are starting to get more and more evidence that Dani isn’t a “good guy” ruler and once things get resolved with Frosty King and his Icepops crew, there will be a reckoning because it turns out Jon Snow is the one true king of everything. Raise your hand if that revelation wasn’t particularly shocking and reminded you of the line “Luke, I’m your father…Obi Wan lied to you.”

Oh and Bran, he still bores the crap out of me.

Of course we need to kill the snow zombies before we can get anything meaningful done with the storyline.

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All I care for is the Hound.

I riot if he dies.

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News flash… everyone is going to die… maybe. Martin said that the ending of the books will be a battlefield with everyone dead and the snow is beginning to melt signifying the coming of spring. We shall see if HBO sticks to his outline, I doubt it.

I felt EP8x01 was a 6/10 at best.

SPOILER ALERT: Stop if you have not seen the episode yet.

I understand that they need to gather all the main characters at Winterfell in order to stage the battle with the Night’s King so I am not too mad about the setup episode. It needs to happen. Having said that, with only 6 episodes and a lot of people to kill, its hard to spend an entire episode on gathering everyone. Plus, they haven’t even done that. Beric and Tormund still aren’t there, neither is Dolorous Edd, so we have still more setup in the next episode.

The scene where Sam tell Jon he is really Aegon Targaryen felt rushed. It was far too important to the story to just be a quick scene in the crypt where Sam blurts it out. Bran should have been there as well to provide CCTV footage, it is hard to believe that Jon will just take what Sam said as truth. Jon didn’t ask for any proof and was only concerned with the treasonous aspects of what Sam was saying. Wouldn’t you be more concerned that you had sex with your aunt at that point?

There was a huge misstep and missed opportunity when Jon (Aegon) got to ride Rhaegal. The dragon is named for his father after all. In Spoils of War (EP7x04) when Daenerys comes back from burning a shit ton of Lannister men and lands in front of Jon, he takes his glove of and touches Drogon. Dany looks astonished that he was able to do so and Drogon was calm with him. This foreshadows what we already know, that Jon is a Targaryen, the dragon can sense it. This time, Jon gets on Rhaegal and there is no reaction. She should know that only Targaryans can ride dragons, why didn’t this set off alarms? It’s like he was just borrowing Dany’s space GSXR 600 while she sits on her Hayabusa. Come on. We know he is a Targaryen, but she doesn’t, more should have been made of that for her. Then it just turns into the dogfight scene from Independence Day. They turn a really significant event into some comic relief with Drogon giving Jon the stink-eye like a kid who doesn’t like the new guy banging his mom.

This also goes back to EP6x02 when Tyrion frees the Virerion and Rhaegal in Meereen. There is a theory that Tyrion is the rape baby of Aerys II and Joanna Lannister. Which would be a good reason why Tywin hated him (other than killing Joanna in child-birth) and would explain why he was able to approach the dragons and not die. With Viserion being an undead ice dragon, I don’t think this will be explored any further and we will not get the Three-Headed dragon from the prophecy.

We have 5 episodes left, let’s see if the wait was worth it.

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The scene where Sam tell Jon he is really Aegon Targaryen felt rushed.

No proof, not even a ‘search inside yourself’ moment.

Well put that there is a lot of dying to do and not much time.

Needle has been used once or twice…it’s been inside more people than Randy Spears…