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Would mean Episode 4 is a recovery from battle/dealing with the losses/set up episode, Episode 5 the battle for the throne, and then episode 6 wrapping up the loose ends from the fallout of the battle and setting up a new leadership and etc...The amount of anxiety I will be feeling watching these episodes is already giving me anxiety hah
I'm glad the season starts next month but god I'm going to be so useless on mondays during that 6 week stretch...would have been so much better for me to have it in the summer when the school year is done lol

 

Thanks for the info! Good to prepare myself.

 

Yeah I've been thinking about how this season would go best from a dramatic writing perspective and my personal thought on what the main storyline looks like has been:

Episode 1 - Table Setting. Show where everybody is and set up the stakes of the season. Stark reunion, Jon parentage revealed, word of the Wall collapse from Tormund. Folks aren't excited Cersei reveals she's not going to Winterfell to Jaime. Bran touches the Great Tree to see the White Walkers and tells Dany about the Ice Dragon. Night King sees him and focuses the march on Winterfell.

Episode 2 - Calm Before the Storm. With the White Walker army on their way, everyone is trying to work out how they feel about possible death. Lots of small conversations. Jon and Dany talk about parentage and put it off until after the battle because they don't know if they'll be in the world anyway. Jon gets his dragon. Jaime decides whether or not to come to Winterfell but probably doesn't.

Episode 3 - The War. Massive battle. No idea who lives or dies, but I'm pretty sure Jon and the dragons are goners at least. Probably any of the Lord of Light people as that storyline has to pay off somehow. Humans win, Cersei never shows up.

Episode 4 - The Aftermath. No Jon anymore, so Sansa asserts herself against Dany, who has a decimated army after the Long Night. Dany definitely can't take King's Landing without an alliance. Lots of internal arguing about how Winterfell defeated the Night King and thus should hold the Throne. At Arya's request, Sansa puts all that aside in the interest of revenge on Cersei. Theon saves his sister and defeats Euron because the episode needs action.

Episode 5 - Battle for King's Landing. No idea who lives or dies, but I assume most of the fighters who have a direct relationship with Jon (minus Sam) are dead by the end of this or Episode 3. Cleganebowl. Heroes from The North are losing but the Iron Island led by Yara and Theon come to their aid. Cersei reveals during the battle that still has some Wildfyre and will destroy the entire city if they lose, echoing the Mad King. Jaime kills Cersei.

Episode 6 - What It All Means. Dany is pregnant with Jon's kid and ends up on the Throne. Tyrion as Hand, Jaime as disgraced but alive, looking for peace somewhere after all the fighting. Sansa as a seperate Queen of the North. Ayra wanders off for more adventures.

 

Wait there’s only six eps!?

 

I thought 7-8 for some reason

 

I'm sorry you just found out haha. Luckily they all are definitely 60 minutes. Probably will edge towards 90 for the last few.

But yep, only 6 more weeks of Game of Thrones.

 

HBO has updated its schedule and the length of the first two episodes will be 54 and 58 minutes, respectively.

 

Had to go and jinx us, didn't you?

 

Actually Watchers on the Wall got the runtimes for all 6 episodes so:

Episode 1: 54 minutes
Episode 2: 58 minutes
Episode 3: 60 minutes
Episode 4: 78 minutes
Episode 5: 80 minutes
Episode 6: 80 minutes

 

I was hoping for at least one 90 minute one.

 

Whatever you need to do to me, I deserve it.

 

Yeah that’s kind of a bummer...def thought all the episodes would be 70+ minutes.

The BluRay package that comes out this summer/fall that’s gonna cost a bajillion dollars better have like an hour of unused footage haha

 

Jon has been plot-armored far too many times for him to make it out in the end. Though I don’t see him being killed by anyone except the Night King. So if he makes it through that battle then he’ll probably be good

 

Jon making it to the end would be far too conventional for this story, though I do wonder how often they can attempt to subvert convention without things feeling meaningless. Also, I very much do not want the final shot of the show to be a surviving character raising Jon and Dany's child, who will rule one day.

My broad fantasy booking, which I'll spoiler tag for no reason whatsoever, but whatever: Dany as Azor Ahai/Jon as Nissa Nissa. Jon sacrifices himself so that Dany can bring forth Lightbringer and defeat the Night King. Dany, completely uninterested by a game of thrones after all that she's done and seen, decides to return to Qarth and the House of the Undying to live out the rest of her years with Drogo and her son in the vision room/alternate dimension/whatever the hell it is, leaving the playing field open for a final showdown between Cersei Lannister and Sansa Stark for the throne.

 

Has dany even touched a sword?

 

I don't think that matters if said sword is Lightbringer and she's surrounded by other skilled warriors, like Brienne, Arya, Jaime, etc.

 

I still think jon kills bran to forge it

 

Would killing Bran immediately kill the Night King, since, you know, they're the same person?

 

I don't think Jon winning the throne is very 'typical' because he was never supposed to be a King. I thought that's part of why GRRM killed off Robb, because he was the typical oldest son of the murdered father, destined to extract revenge and blah blah. Jon, on the other hand, has started as a 'nobody', despised as a bastard by the world. He was never supposed to be the 'hero' of the typical fantasy story, and even though we all expect it now, gotta remember GRRM started writing this in the 90's, where Jon's story wouldn't have been as expected.


PS-I'm basically spoilering anything that could potentially spoil past seasons of the show for new viewers who may be coming here ready to catch up.

 

My prediction is that the Night King kills and resurrects Bran so that the White Walkers have a warg and they rule the world forever.

 

Wait, is that confirmed anywhere?

Edit: I don't want spoilers for episodes that aren't out yet if that's what you're talking about.

 

Jon is incredibly predictable haha.

 

Fair point. I wonder if this is where the show ending and the book ending will diverge. Jon on the show is very much a typical hero. Whereas the book can do so much more to show how his "bastard" status makes him one of the most unlikely people to win at the end.

 

No, that's not confirmed. Except in my head.

 

Lol, okay, that's what I was thinking! You scared me for a minute there, haha