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![]() ![]() “Funny old life.”) Still, not a bad survival rate overall. (“I just got bit by a dead bear,” he told Beric. The answer seemed to be “enough to kill off some people for drama without losing anyone you know.”Įxcept Thoros, that is, who got mauled by the bear - maybe lead with the dragonglass weapons next time, guys - and would eventually die. How many good guys are there, exactly? I wondered more than once. The first foe was a tremendous zombie bear who dispatched the first of who knows how many luckless, nameless Wildlings. (Spinoff idea: Tormund and the Hound get an apartment together.)īut soon it was time for fighting. “Like she wants to carve you up and eat your liver?” “How does she look at you?” the Hound asked him. Then you had Jorah, who Ned condemned and whose own dead dad (Jeor, former Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch) is revered by Jon and hated by Tormund (because Jeor battled Wildlings), who adores Brienne, who almost killed the Hound. Gendry thinks his father (Robert) fought alongside Jon’s (Ned, he thinks), only Robert really killed Jon’s father (actually Rhaegar Targaryen). You had Jon Snow and Beric Dondarrion comprising the formerly dead bloc, while Gendry and the Hound made up the formerly prisoners-of-Beric-and-Thoros one. But just as implausible, he’s transformed from the cagiest person in this story, outthinking even Varys and Littlefinger back in Season 2, to one given to almost universally terrible decisions.īut whatever odd choices led to the Wight Expedition, I did enjoy it, because it featured some of the show’s most likable characters negotiating the dizzying knot of connections between them, which made for fun conversation. ![]() You’d think Tyrion, who knows her better than almost anyone, would understand this. (The internet says it was Viserion.) This means the forces of annihilation have not only a constantly replenishing army of wights, but also their very own version of the one thing that seemed to tip the scales in favor of Team Breathing. In the episode’s final moments the White Walkers retrieved and reanimated the dragon the Night King brought down with his ice javelin. We also saw what the Dragon Queen didn’t: Confirmation of the long-rumored, much-feared Zombie Dragon Scenario. (I’m no fashion expert but Dany’s winter whites were really something.) Unlike previous White Walker confrontations, this was a true song of ice and fire, complete with frozen wastes, dragon fury, undead hordes, flaming swords and breathtaking outerwear. (Hey, we’ve probably done it, and it’s certainly been done to us.Viewers got an eyeful as well, with a wintry battle of the living and the dead that figures to foreshadow the culminating clashes of the story. Otherwise, you run the risk of missing out on something substantial and many of your friends running over to you with spoilers like jerks. We feel for everyone out there who’s had to go through this on separate occasions now - while most HBO users certainly have the ability to watch shows On-Demand or after the fact via their DVR, this is one of the few series out there that does really benefit from having the ability to watch it live. This was far better than last year when HBO NOW crumbled completely during the premiere episode. Interesting, there were no issues from our vantage point with the HBO NOW platform - we’ve used it the past two weeks without a problem, though we did hear of some interruption that happened for some users during the premiere. Anytime this happens to a server, it’s liable to cause some issues and you just have to be prepared for it. However, Game of Thrones is the #1 show on the network and it draws huge spikes. 99% of the time, HBO GO doesn’t have this sort of problem. We cannot say that we’re shocked over the crash, mostly because the culprit here is the same thing that it often is with the streaming platform: High traffic. ![]()
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