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I sent a PM with the newest one. If anyone else wants to read the full (and confusing) list of what has been leaked so far and how it may or may not fit together, it’s currently pinned on freefolk.

 

Thanks for the heads up on where to find them.

Holy LOL if that’s how this all plays out.

 

i’m hesitant to believe it. the person originally posting also got numerous things wrong (jon killing viseryion; killing the dead with “shards” or whatever). kinda seems like they threw a bunch of things at the wall to see what would stick and got one or two things right. i wouldn’t be surprised if parts of their leak were right and parts were way off

 

Nah I just think he sounds weird saying it. Everyone else can say it

 

Not sure what the shards would refer to except maybe the fact that everyone had dragonglass weapons, but the other dragon stuff all seemed pretty correct. The flames coming out of the neck is SUCH a specific detail to be right about, and if all they had to go on was the scene with Jon and Viserion but not Arya and the NK, it definitely could have seemed like Jon would be the one to finish him off. There’s also some telephone going on for sure, so who knows if the leak for this week is correct in some ways but missing other context to make it less blatantly terrible.

EDIT: Ugh these are so hard to keep track of. The stuff with the dragon may have actually been a different person from the post last night. That guy I think is credible because of correctly leaking most of S7 and maybe something else recently? It’s as convoluted as the show at this point, but fun to pick through.

 

I'm past the point of looking forward to this show, but if the leaks are accurate then I at least look forward to the internet burning down.

 

Aerys was secretly the 3ER and when he said burn them all he meant every discussion about GOT. He was driven mad by watching the entire series.

 

How Euron Greyjoy Embodies the Late-Season Plot Failures of ‘Game of Thrones’

Has ‘Game of Thrones’ Forgotten About Breaking the Wheel?

 

Book Euron (And Victarion) would have made his story line so much better. They worried way too much about "introducing new characters being confusing for viewers and such", hence why they slaughtered Dorne and the Iron Islands. Shoulda just done it, cowards.

 

Aw man and now that link is just reminding me of poor Meraxes.

And reminding me that I really wanna know what words were exchanged between Aegon and the Princess of Dorne that made him relent.

 

New promo shots up.

Jon and Davos arriving at Dragonstone and an actual promo shot of Harry Strickland

https://ew.com/tv/2019/05/08/game-of-thrones-photos-season-8-episode-5/

 

That face says “this is too easy,” and killing Rhaegal was. Established canon was thrown out the window to allow Thrones’ deus ex pirate to put his thumb on the scales and even out the power imbalance between Daenerys and Cersei. He’s a cartoon villain who is somehow always in the right place at the right time to do exactly as the plot demands. No character is a better embodiment of Thrones’ late-season pacing and plot failings than Euron.

 

I don't think this show is free from criticism, it's clearly full of issues, but what canon was broken by killing Rhaegal like that? I don't get why people keep saying that.

 

Ep4 was definitely my least favorite of the season so far, but I still enjoyed a lot of it, particularly on the front end. The strategy, or lack thereof, at the end frustrated me. It was cool to see the scorpions tear apart ships, though.

 

did you read the article I linked?

To be fair, Thrones had been setting up Rhaegal’s death. Viserion died thanks to the Night King’s javelin toss, and even Bronn showed that, on the show, a scorpion bolt could pierce a dragon’s scales when he hit Drogon during the Loot Train Attack. But this was the most egregious violation of the canon: Euron’s aim can’t be explained away by magic like the Night King’s can, and Bronn missed a shot from a stationary platform in addition to the one, nonlethal bolt that found its target.

Rhaegal’s death seemed symbolic of this season as a whole. In the service of speeding along the plot, the show has disregarded the magic and fantasy elements of the story. The Night King was killed in an evening, Bran has been sidelined, Jon abandoned Ghost, and Rhaegal fell from the sky. Euron could have been a worthy Thrones villain, but the show turned him into little more than a plot device, there to take the script from Point A to Point B as quickly as his fleet teleports across Westeros.

 

I didn't realize that quote was from that previous article, but even reading this explanation, it's easily explained: Euron is a better shot than Bronn, I don't get why that is an issue. Isn't it known that Euron and his family are the best of the best archers?

 

Like, going after character motivation, poor direction and cinematography, etc... I can get all of that. But saying that a character killed a mythical flying beast is outside of the shows' canon, especially when we know that's one of the ways to kill them, is just people grasping at straws.

It feels like people are hate-watching the show at this point and are taking something that would be best described as a nitpick and blowing it out of proportion for likes and retweets, tbh

 

Call it convenience, call it a deus ex machina or a lucky shot or whatever, but one thing it 100% is not is a "violation of canon." That makes no sense.

 

My complaint isn't Euron landing three hits on a flying dragon (even though it's ehhhh), it's more how did Dani not see them coming....it was a whole fleet of ships in open water. Not just a few hiding out somewhere.

 

I was fine with Euron noscoping a dragon.

Would’ve preferred dragonbinder tho

 

I don't even fully understand the complaint that Daenarys didn't see the ships in open water. He knew they were coming and positioned all of his ships with the intent that they target the dragons or fleet as soon as they became visible. They waited and when she turned the corner, he got the first shots off and it worked. The ships were clearly positioned to surprise Daenerys. She was careless and it cost her.

 

bUt HoW dId He ShOoT tHrOuGh ThE mOuNtAiN

 

Wait, wait, wait... how do we know these people even know how to shoot a large arrow?

 

Uh, they never show us Euron learning how to operate the Scorpion, how does he know how to use it, that's a clear plothole right there you guys,,,,

 

Crazy to think Dany came to Westeros with a full Dothraki army and 3 dragons, and now she's down to 1 dragon and her Dothraki army is pretty much all wiped out. I'd be surprised if she shows restraint now. This has to be on Tyrion, right? Dude has fallen off hard as an adviser.