GoT returns Sunday

• superman

  SnotBubbles;1866706 wrote:My gut tells me someone (someone major) is going to die Sunday night.

  My guess is Tormund and maybe Beric. I have no reasoning. Just a gut feeling.
• bigorangebuck22

  Ned's "proof" was only about Joffery, Tommen, and Mycella not being Robert's kids. Gendry is one of Robert's many bastards and has no claim on the throne. He can only be legitimized by the Crown, not a Septon. He potentially could have a claim then but no power to back it up. Having a character sit on the Iron Throne after disappearing for 30+ episodes seems kinda cheap to me.
• SnotBubbles

  

  superman;1866707 wrote:My guess is Tormund and maybe Beric. I have no reasoning. Just a gut feeling.

  I'm thinking a character more major than that - no idea who...but it's just being built up that way. GoT is notorious for having their 2nd to last episode be the shocker with the finale clearing things up and with only 8 or 9 episodes in the series left....there are way too many main characters in play.
• bigorangebuck22

  SnotBubbles;1866706 wrote:My gut tells me someone (someone major) is going to die Sunday night.

  My guess is Beric, Thoros, and Mormont. Bringing a zombie Mormont back as proof would have the most impact on Dany. Tormond lives only because there are no other named Wildling characters imo.
  
  Littlefinger is dead weasel walking.
• SportsAndLady

  

  I think little finger will somehow come out of this ahead, like he normally does.
• Heretic

  

  With Littlefinger, if he doesn't come out ahead until next year, it'll be sort of a letdown, as he'd been a master schemer for most of the show's run, but hasn't really done much of anything impressive for a while, with his whole current arc being weak attempts to suck up to Sansa. At least, the end of Sunday's show made him a schemer again, although "create hate between Arya and Sansa so he can weasel back into the mix" is a HUGE step down from "plot with Olenna to kill Joffrey and frame Tyrion and Sansa" as far as evil plots go.
  
  As for the North trip, it's hard to say who all will die. I mean, due to being minor characters, Beric and Thoros are probably fairly safe bets and, despite being the last named Wildling, Tormund is enough "pure support cast" to go too, but with the accelerated pace of the show right now, you really can't say anyone but Jon and probably The Hound has plot armor. I mean, normally, you wouldn't expect Jorah to get killed off right after being saved from Greyscale; or Gendry to be killed off right after being re-introduced and getting his Baratheon lineage brought to the forefront...but who knows. I mean, this week, I really wasn't expecting Dickon to be immediately fried after he got brought into focus last week with the scene where he felt bad about killing the Highgarden people and then saved Jaime's ass during the battle.
• gut

  Mormont being the zombie they bring back to Dany is a REALLY good call - I think Cersei and Jaimie know him, too?
  
  I don't think they'll kill Tormund. I think they save that for the first big WW battle at Eastwatch. Won't kill him before he gets it on with Brienne.
• Laley23

  

  Tormund is dead, but I don't see it until he helps Jon kill a White Walker, almost sacrificing his life so Jon can survive and be king. Don't see it as part of this episode.
  
  I think Gendry is gone for sure. He was an open ended character who they need to "pay-off" to he audience. Dying is a great way to end a plot line you haven't focused on for 3 seasons and don't want to focus on moving forward.
• SportsAndLady

  

  I think Gendry will stick around to help build weapons (using dragon stone) to defeat WW's
• gut

  Laley23;1866799 wrote:Tormund is dead, but I don't see it until he helps Jon kill a White Walker, almost sacrificing his life so Jon can survive and be king. Don't see it as part of this episode.
  
  I think Gendry is gone for sure. He was an open ended character who they need to "pay-off" to he audience. Dying is a great way to end a plot line you haven't focused on for 3 seasons and don't want to focus on moving forward.

  I don't see how they can kill off Tormund before a full-blown battle at Eastwatch. Unless that particular battle isn't going to happen, but that would mean the Wildlings abandoning that post, or Jon and a much larger army meeting them there (neither of which makes much sense). I suppose it's conceivable Tormund dies, and Jon pulls everyone from the castle back in retreat knowing they have no chance of defending that wall.
  
  Gendry is expendable, but Jon, as King, could at some point legitimize him to restore/rebuild one of the great houses. The dark horse theory is, with Sam's help, he'll forge more Valyrian steel. But that seems too minor of a plot point to spend time on - they have dragon glass and dragons, do they still need Valyrian steel?
• gut

  SportsAndLady;1866804 wrote:I think Gendry will stick around to help build weapons (using dragon stone) to defeat WW's

  Yeah, maybe I won't be so quick to dismiss this....operating on the theory that nothing is shown without a purpose - otherwise why make him a blacksmith, or why have Davos eyeball some of the swords he'd made?
• Automatik

  

  
• bigorangebuck22

  gut;1866781 wrote:Mormont being the zombie they bring back to Dany is a REALLY good call - I think Cersei and Jaimie know him, too?
  
  I don't think they'll kill Tormund. I think they save that for the first big WW battle at Eastwatch. Won't kill him before he gets it on with Brienne.

  Cersie and Jamie should know Mormont's name at least. They would definitely know the face of the Hound or Thoros
• GOONx19

  

  Just watched tonight's episode. Edge of your seat for most of the hour, for sure.
• SportsAndLady

  

  GOONx19;1867795 wrote:Just watched tonight's episode. Edge of your seat for most of the hour, for sure.

  How?
• GOONx19

  

  It's been on the internet for most of the week. (At least since Wednesday.) I just streamed it on my firestick.
• gut

  GOONx19;1867797 wrote:...I just streamed it on my firestick.

  Was going to ask....I think it's an absolute shame if anyone is watching GoT on anything other than a big screen
• Iliketurtles

  

  Yeah my wife watched on our firestick last Sunday night. Won't say anything about it though.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Iliketurtles;1867799 wrote:Yeah my wife watched on our firestick last Sunday night. Won't say anything about it though.

  Through the HBONow App?
• superman

  ernest_t_bass;1867806 wrote:Through the HBONow App?

  I'm assuming Kodi
• GOONx19

  

  superman;1867809 wrote:I'm assuming Kodi

  Yeah, mine was through Kodi.
• kizer permanente

  Well... shit
• Laley23

  

  We knew the Night King would eventually get his dragon.
• SportsAndLady

  

  Laley23;1867817 wrote:We knew the Night King would eventually get his dragon.

  We did?
  
  I never once thought about that lol
• superman

  Viserian is Kevin Durant, confirmed.