SPOILER ALERT! So am I the only one excited about a new round of GoT?

[Hupp n at em]

I was not very keen on the idea of the Children chucking mills bombs.

It's the CGI cheap way of representing the Children using magic as a weapon, and we know from the books that the Children used magic frequently in their battles against the First Men.  I understand it bothers some, but I never had a problem with it personally, it's another of those "my imagination did this better!" moments.  But obviously it did, imagination will always trump physical representation when it comes to fantasy. 

[Captain Blood]

Well it all just goes to show how we are all drawn to different things... 
I thought episode 5 was all a bit bitty and 'meh' and basically dull.
I liked the Sansa / Littlefinger encounter. And the cheesy Dany/Jorah tearjerker. Thank God Iain Glen has been rehabilitated.

The rest of it left me pretty cold. Partly, I suppose, because my favourite part of the series is what happens in King's Landing, and obviously this was their week off...
The whole Bran storyline is still a mystery to me and therefore not that interesting, including the demise of poor old Hodor.
I also find it a bit sad because the lad playing Bran was such perfect cutesy casting in season 1. Unfortunately, a year in book time has taken 6 years of that young actor's real life to shoot, and he has turned into one helluva gormless-looking spotty youth... (Well, not literally spotty, but you know what I mean... )
Just unlucky I guess. An outcome of the process taking so long. But it doesn't help my suspension of disbelief. I think this is one occasion when they might have been better off changing the actor as he started to shoot up...

[Charlie_]

That kingsmoot was seriously underwhelming.

[OSHIROmodels]

Jon Snow is Robert's bastard 

cheers

James

[Captain Blood]

That kingsmoot was seriously underwhelming.

Yep, they clearly spent all the 'extras' budget in Mereen and Vaes Dothrak... 

[Hupp n at em]

That kingsmoot was seriously underwhelming.

I didn't hate it, but the "lets go kill my niece and nephew me hearties, har har har" Euron was pretty meh/bleh. That line did it in for me. 

[Elk101]

I didn't hate it, but the "lets go kill my niece and nephew me hearties, har har har" Euron was pretty meh/bleh. That line did it in for me. 

He reminded me of Lord Flashheart from Blackadder for some reason,  particularly with that line. I quite enjoyed the episode but was dismayed to see the direwolf population decline further. Also, shittest crown ever, though I could actually see a kingsmoot being as anticlimatic as that in reality. Sit in on a council meeting and you'll see what I mean!

[Charlie_]

I didn't hate it, but the "lets go kill my niece and nephew me hearties, har har har" Euron was pretty meh/bleh. That line did it in for me.  

Agreed, I didn't hate it either. It was probably a very good scene! But the one in the book was so much better...

Likewise, the show's Euron and the guy that plays him seems perfectly fine. It's just the book Euron is infinitely more interesting, mysterious, dangerous.... Important to note that he has a massive reputation in the book, and before we ever meet him as the reader we hear how he has sailed in just days after Balon's death and taken the Seastone Chair, and how Victarion and Aeron are all up in arms about it... And when we meet him he's quite a character. And he has a crew of 'mutes and monsters'.... And a god-damn dragon horn which he uses to announce his arrival at the kingsmoot! In the show it's more like.... oh, who's this guy? And then Asha/Yara and Theon steal all his ships and he's like "Yeah, we'll do everything I just said, but we'll have to build the fleet from scratch again! Let's get ship-building!"

Plus, there are lots of other interesting Ironborn characters who seek to claim the Seastone Chair, before Victarion, Asha and then Euron make their election speeches.

[Dr. Zombie]

Is this one too soon or to cruel?

[Malebolgia]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/05/25/hold-the-door-now-game-of-thrones-fans-are-making-hodor-doorstop/



Cool end scene in that episode...but left me cold emotionally. The whole explanation for the "Hodor-Hodor-Hodor" was a bit...dull...

[Captain Blood]

Cool end scene in that episode...but left me cold emotionally. The whole explanation for the "Hodor-Hodor-Hodor" was a bit...dull...

My feelings exactly. Feels like a really cheap explanation...
I wonder if this was in GRRM's mind all along - or whether this is a hastily concocted solution to the mystery of Hodor, dreamt up on the back of a fag packet by Weiss and Benioff... Feels a lot like the latter to me 

[Elk101]

My feelings exactly. Feels like a really cheap explanation...
I wonder if this was in GRRM's mind all along - or whether this is a hastily concocted solution to the mystery of Hodor, dreamt up on the back of a fag packet by Weiss and Benioff... Feels a lot like the latter to me 

I read an article that said it came from GRRM and he told W & B it was in his plans. I'll see if I can find the link.

[Hammers]

Episode 6: That was *fucking* good! I especially like the Shakespearian thread.

[manic _miner]

 Just watched the latest episode and it was very good.Quite a few twists which i was not expecting.The Crown and the Faith now working together.The Battle with the Riverlands looks like it will be good.With Jon and Sansa's forces heading there too and other Houses joining the Blackfish's side.
 Great to see Benjin back.So what would you call what happened to him then?Frostborn maybe.

[tomrommel1]

Is Benjen really alive or somehow a  "good" undead?