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LISTEN TO ME!!!I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BATTLES!


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>LISTEN TO ME!!!
>I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BATTLES!
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>>71026877
>All those men died so sansa could act all smug

slag
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>>71027119
Worth every drop of blood to see that evil smile.
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>>71026877

Give me one good reason this cunt didn't just say "wait like 10 minutes, CIA is on his way"
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>I am apart of you now

Sansa is becoming pure evil now right?
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>>71026877

>don't do what bolton wants!
>jon does what bolton wants
>gets fucked
>has to get saved by his sister

How sad is that though
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>>71027452
Sansa lied, Rickon died.

>>71027551
>people actually get into relationships with non-virgins
Fucking cuckolds.
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BIG
COCK
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>>71027452
because then ramsey would have been able to think of a plan

this way he thought his victory was assured until the last second when he knew he was fucked
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>>71026877
i literally lol'd out loud at that part irl
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> Before we attack i need to tell you
> I made a pact with the Vale for us to take the North so if we stay in camp we can lure Ramsey out of Winterfell acting like we're retreating we can have the Vale take their flank and we'll regroup to attack.
> Nice one Sansa.

And thats how thousands of Wildling lives could of been saved.
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>>71026877
How the hell is anyone going to respect Jon now? The motherfucker just wasted literally thousands of lives, because he couldn't keep his shit together. So much for uniting the north.
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I imagined Forces by Hirasawa Susuma played when the Vale knights rolled in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n55QVlBoDxI
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>>71027781
keeping that a secret actually made the battle easier overall tho
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>>71027781
Literally who gives a fuck about some looney snow savages?
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>>71027810
more like untying the north
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>>71027781

>Getting mad about dead wildlings

Good, she let the Boltons do the genocide for her. The scourge of the wildlings that has plagued the north is no more.

The only good wildling is a dead wildling.
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>>71026877
WHOSE SIDE IS SHE ON?!
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Jon knew the Vale was coming he simply went to battle to rid the North of some snowniggers.
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>>71027831
this.
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That first cavalry charge was really good.
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>>71027452
he used Rickon, Jon and their army as bait (and sacrifice) to get an easy victory over Ramsey, she betrayed Jon.
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>>71027967
on the winning side, anon.
on the winning side.
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I just love how this show triggers virgins nad autists so much

Absolutely fantastic
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She was referring to her insight into the psychology of Ramsay
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>>71028026
wouldn't say betrayed, but definitely took the biggest risk
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>>71028081
I'm just mad as fuck that bovada had no deadpool for this week's episode.
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>>71026877
It's wizardry, she's so average in everything, but is somehow extremely attractive in that costume.
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>>71027452
If Jon hadn't been retarded and attacked out of anger they were planning to fight much more defensively and had dug trenches to prevent encirclement. There wouldn't have been an urgency at that point, so it's not important that he'd know. Furthermore, Sansa obviously doesn't trust CIA so she couldn't possibly know if he'd actually show.

Literally just pay attention and stop memeing with /got/ and the show makes a lot more sense.
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>>71028081
>anyone who criticizes a female character is a sexist
>muh catharsis
you're deluded
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>>71027818
That would have made it infinitely better.
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>>71028207
>Sansa didn't know that she could trust CIA

Yea, but we did.
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>>71028269
Your denial just makes it better lad
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>>71028325
Implying CIA isnt gonna make her pay for trusting him....

>I did warn you not to trust me
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>>71028483
Nah, he wants that Tully cunny bad.
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>>71027831
>>71027981
how so you retards
thousands of people died
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>>71028602
>settling for a non-virgin
Ho Lee Fuk a what cuckold
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>>71028483
CIA definitely gets some leverage now. Over Sansa and Jon. That's the interesting part in all of this.

Other than that, this episode played out like a low-budget fantasy movie on Sci-Fi.

>I'm not sure the good guys can win
>The good guys fight the bad guys
>Uh-oh, the good guys are losing!
>Something "miraculous" happens
>Bad guy loses
>Lol, fuck you bad guy

This was literally good prevails over evil: the episode.
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>>71028661
it was a war, not a tea party.
they have the troops from the vale to cover up the loses, so winterfell is safe from invaders.
but i'm not gonna deny the statemant was wrong; it should have been "keeping that a secret actually made the victory easier overall tho".
at least, from human invaders.
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>>71026877
>battle begins with two cavalries charging each other
>Infantry follow on one side and arrows are fired form the other
>Battle develops over an area of about 50-100 yards thick and 500 yards wide

>Shots of John Snow fighting in a battle that is clearly spread out and wide

>Suddenly a 20 ft high corpse wall appears between Johns army and Ramsay

>Ramsay gives the command simply as 'its time'

>His infantry march and create a Hannibal-tier envelopment trapping Jons army between their spears and the 20 ft corpse wall

>ramsay planned for the corpse wall to appear the whole time

>gandalf shows up with the riders of rohan

BRAVO
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There is actually a logical explanation for Sansa and the Vale. She didn't know if they're gonna turn up and they had to fight with what they've got the best they can. Right?
t. about to watch new ep
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>>71028698
Nimblefucker tells Jon he's a targ next week.
It will be revealed he was working all along to get Jon on the throne.
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>>71028698
Without episodes like this the entire show would be "fuck you" to anyone who feels hopeful. Nobody would watch it if they don't care about anyone left living.
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>>71028661
if he had known the vale was coming, he would've had a battle plan that factored the extra men in. Ramsey would recognize that his strategy would be irregular for the amount of men Jon had and would correct his strategy accordingly. Since Jon didn't know, Ramsey had thought he won and let his guard down a little bit, allowing the vale to slaughter his troops
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>>71028780
I just don't see how, where is the sense is this? He grabbed as much power as he could, but nothing seemed to be for this cause. He is from the Vale and has 0 connections to either Lyanna Stark, Rhaegar or Jon.
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>>71028752
yea I didn't mean the process of the battle I meant winning the battle
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>>71028602
he should go for Edmure then, pretty sure that cunt's never been fucked.
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>>71028207
>>71028207
This, Sansa warned Jon to not get taunted but he finally did. Jon is the retard
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>>71028829
wow how did i not see that, im watching the show all wrong
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>>71028772
No, that's fucking bullshit. Even though she wasn't sure, don't you think that information would have been relevant for John to know? Do you really think John would've gone forward with the battle if there was a chance for reinforcements, especially ones as numerous as the Vale's?

Face it, Sansa let thousands die just so she could be the hero. She's just as bad as Ramsay at this point.
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>>71028991
Jon knows nothing, we've been through this
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>>71028829
he didn't even have a battle plan for the number of men he thought he had, he just went full retard
you are overestimating the level of writing of this shit
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>Download episode
>Firsdt scene is dany

fucking hell why
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>>71029078
B R A V O D & D
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D
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>>71027621

He's a shit leader
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>>71029112
already? where? im at like 30% after 40 mins
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>>71027831
>We could have only ambushed the boltons so long as Jon Snow also didn't know anything about the Vale knights.
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>>71028829
yes this was all part of sansa's ingenious plot to actually make jon march forward even though she was insisting he shouldn't
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>>71028799
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Jon won. If he hadn't, there wouldn't have been any progress. I just feel like in any other season, something either bad or at least bitter-sweet would have happened. This all just felt so cliche. Then again, I can't think of anything specific I would have like to see instead, so my opinion is just an opinion.
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>>71028769
I agree with everything you just said but God damn if it wasn't fun to watch.
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>>71028881
He's a targ loyalist because the mad king killed the dude who cucked him.
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>>71026877
Glad in the show and even in the Inside the Episode Kit called out how Sansa claims to be of use but admits she doesn't know what to do about anything she's advising Jon about
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I am getting really fucking tired of rape being the worst possible thing in the world.

John has dealt with the undead, traitors, turncloaks, oh and Craster, the Westerosi version of Fritzl. If anyone's seen evil, it's him.

Ramsay touched Sansa's pee-pee. Only Sansa knows true evil, apparently.
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>>71028769
>>gandalf shows up with the riders of rohan
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Winterfell Victory Party where?BOW DOWN BITCHES
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>>71029337
>Sansa's pee-pee

wot?
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>>71028829
Lol what? Who fucking does that? When you have the element of surprise, why would you form a battle plan that completely puts you at a disadvantage?

This train of thought is as stupid as the writers. Stop trying to defend this retarded shit.
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This show has become tumblr-tier. All the male characters are either evil or so fucking dumb that they need a woman to tell them what to do. And the conversation between Dany and Yara was painful to listen to. George better fucking release that book quick before this becomes Game of Tampons.
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>>71027669
This actually makes a lot of sense. Could you imagine what a siege would have been like against Ramsey? Jon would have been slaughtered.
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I won't lie, that was a pretty great battle scene though.

>D&D touching on the fact that people often get trampled
>That badass charge being met and showing the absolute chaos of it where Jon is literally just trying to not get run over.
>actual tactics being used on the show with the spearwall etc.

Only thing I felt a little annoying was that the spearwall became bowling balls with the appearance of the Vale cavalry and none of them reacted at all. However, not even Ramsay knew what the fuck was going on so I guess people in the heat of battle would have no idea what was happening until Vale lances were in their throats.

Also, it felt a little weird that everyone is constantly talking about how Winterfell can hold if they wait and a giant just breaks through. Wouldn't trebuchets/battering rams replicate that force over time?

Overall though, the action shots and battle itself were 9/10 those details aside.

Meanwhile, Dany gets another free win and more stuff because why not.
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>>71026877
SUCH A SHIT ACTRESS
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>>71027818

Fuck that would have been gold.
>HBO and good production decisions
never the twain shall meet
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link anyone ? no hbo
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>>71029371
Yeah. Her fat cock is called Winter.
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>>71028207
You can tell this is gonna be John's moment to realize he's not yet fit to rule/command.
Especially the trampling. His men were a mess. He needs an army, not a rag tag group and little finger can supply it, but at the cost of Sanza.
Eventually he'll ally with the lannisters when they're inevitably dethroned due to incest.
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>>71028829
>Jon Snow would have walked over to Winterfell to tell Ramsay that he had reinforcements ahead of time..
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>>71028207
And at what point did Sandra mention the Vale to Jon?
She could have said something like "wait just a few minutes, the Vale wl might show up"
Or let's visit our cousin at the Vale, he has an army
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Speaking of Sansa being a terrible person

why the fuck did we need that last shot of Rickon getting impaled by 20 more arrows
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Sansa is a retarded woman
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>>71027669
So then why was Sansa trying to convince him that marching forward was a bad idea and insisting he should wait?

hurrr
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Is literally everyone on tv trolling me. The fucking flight plan only had bolton charging on it, not jon rushing out, sansa is basically 'right' the show is written for kids, strategy etc was literally thrown out the window.
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>>71029488
Just to drive the point home that the kid is fucking dead and he wouldn't be dragged back and saved.
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>>71028325
But the characters in the show didn't. Hence, it makes sense.
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Weird that the Boltons, Umbers and Karstarks were 6000, seems ridiculously small.

Ramsay said he had 5000 before Stannis, Karstarks made up half of Robb's forces and that number like 12000 or something. Umbers weren't even at the Red wedding since Greatjon didn't get killed there but I guess would've lost a fair number fighting their way to the North maybe

>>71027810
He sacrificed mostly Wildling lives.

He just made the North look like bitches if anything. Wildlings helped fight and die to liberate the North while most of the North didn't do jackshit.
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>>71029361
>DUDE THIS SHOWS USE SWORDS IN FIGHTS THEY ARE RIPPING LOTR LMAO
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>>71029390
yeah, I didn't like Tyrion's sniveling at the start. At least she ended up seeing the merits of his ideas.
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>>71029457
>John
>Sanza

Are you doing that on purpose?
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Darth Sansa wants all of the wildling scum and Jon dead.
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>>71029337
The point she was making was that John needed to know how Ramsay thought before he could plan. If he had, he would have treated rockon as dead already and not ran after him, putting himself in firing range, nor would his troops had to come running to his aide.
Next ep will be Jon eats crow, for a change.
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>>71027818
>>71028295
>>71029415

>these weebs legitimately thinking inserting synthesized nip music into a middle ages fantasy setting would be good

I bet you applauded when yeezy started in the Ass Creed trailer.
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can someone explain to me why the fuck Jon still deserves to be king of the north?
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>>71029571

He doesn't.
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>>71027818
what is this weeb garbage

stay away from my high fantasy télévision
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>>71029480
>Sandra
>>71029457
>Sanza
>John

Are you all retards?
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>Corpse wall in an open field
>Just watching a bunch of people encircle them instead of actually charging them
>Not giving the giant a weapon at all
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Good night sweet prince
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>>71027119
>everyone is praising her for it like she saved the day
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>>71029549
No, I'm on my phone, and autocorrect can't into got names
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>>71029571
He is good sword like prince James before Skywalker curse hit him.
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>>71029560

How else would that battle have gone though? They needed to clash at some point, and two armies just sitting across from each other holding their dicks would be dumb.
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>>71029592

If he had been carrying a tree he could have demolished the shield wall in no time.
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>>71028207
This is literally the only non-retarded comment in this thread.
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>>71029571
So Sansa doesn't become Queen of The North
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>>71029592
>>Not giving the giant a weapon at all
This.
They could of atleast carven up a giant club for him
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>>71029592
>Not giving the giant a weapon at all
This is the only thing that irked me about this episode. Why not give him a dead tree or something? He would have wrecked shit.
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You know this battle does confirm that Stannis beats the Boltons in the books because Jon absorbed his story in the show
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>>71029571
>king of the north

LIterally all but a few dozen men died in the battle
he isn't king of shit
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>>71029629
wtf i hate americans now
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Did Rickon seriously not even considering trying to fucking dodge?
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>>71028207
Nah, I maintain sansa is trying to play littlefinger's game, keeping all the cards hidden, etc. But she sucks at it because she's like 16.
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>>71029571
for real though can someone explain to me why Jon deserves it over Sansa? I literally never thought I'd say that but here we are. Sansa clearly was written to look like she saved the day (even though the dumbass could have just told Jon about the Vale forces) yet everyone is still going to back Jon, who almost got all of them killed? I Just??????????
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>>71029655
At any moment the fucking shitter could have picked up ANYONE and thrown them with the force of a fucking cannon, demolishing the entire wall.

He deserved to die for being so shit at killing. Standing around getting poked.
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>>71029685
Mostly wildlings died, a shitload of the minor Northern Houses didn't fight and the Manderlys sure as fuck didn't. He could be King of those
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>>71028207
Your last point is very true, so many people here completely miss out on a lot of dialogue because they're here shitposting instead.
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>>71029565
>Giants

>Muh immersion
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What's going to happen at the Twins next episode?

Don't tell me it's just "frey piees xDD!!!!" because there's no reason to follow Jaime there

Something with Arya is going to happen
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>>71029637
The archers couldn't fire first because their own men were in the way.
Ramsay gave no fucks and killed his own men.
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>>71029696

It's kind of hard to run and dodge extremely fast arrows coming from behind.
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>>71026877
>sansa gets the credit
>becomes a strong independent womyn ™
>john apologizes for not listening when she offered no help

it writes itself
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>>71029361
>implying Tolkien invented deus ex machina
Damn guys you're not even trying to exercise your head before heading to conclusions anymore, it seems like you really just spew the memes you saw
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>>71029674
>>71029655
>>71029640

Just a long piece of fucking iron to swing at head level and he'd of ended that stupid bullshit straight away, also:

>Ramsey takes his free shot to kill the giant and not John
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Fucking rickon can only run straight.
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>>71028698
The battle scene being built so well gives a good excuse. I know I'm a little strange but I actually enjoy the show, and I was so excited at the scene that I completely forgot about the Vale.
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>>71029696
He only existed in this show to die.
That's it. That was his only purpose. To die and, therefore, make Jon mad.
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>>71029696
SERPENTINE!

SERPENTINE!

DON'T JUST RUN IN A STRAIGHT FUCKING LINE YOU FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
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And still, if jon had listened to her they wouldn't have needed plot armor to save him (specifically when he was charging a batallion of archers by himself). I really don't get the point of having Jon be this irrational this deep into what is supposed to be a character arch
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>>71029480
U mean Salsa m8?
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>>71029707

He doesn't.
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So is jon secretly a targy ahead of danny in the line of succession and rightful ruler of the 7 kingdoms? Is that whats going to happen now?
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>>71029240

Rickon died.

From the audience's perspective that doesn't matter at all because he's only been on camera maybe 5 or 6 times.

But for Jon and Sansa, that's their brother.

You're SUPPOSED to feel it through them, but it doesn't work very well.
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>>71029675
Part of me wonders if this is how the book story will go:

Stannis and the Bolton Vanguard fight at the Crofter's Village and Stannis wins a costly victory but doesn't have enough to march on Winterfell proper afterwards. Selyse burns Shireen at the Wall after receiving word from Stannis that he needs more of the forces at the Wall to win the day. Jon marches south to join him after being resurrected and the battle we saw just now happens.
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I dont get it. The whole point was for CIA to conquer the North. Why help Jon instead of letting him fight to the death and THEN destroy the exhausted Boltons? Why give Winterfell to the Starks? Why marry Sansa to the Vale?
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>>71029560
>he would have treated rockon as dead
Yeah, it's better to just roll over and let the bad man do what he wants with you rather than try and take any hand in your own outcome.

That's why women get raped.

That's why men save each other.

Yeah, Rickon died anyway. At least he tried. Meanwhile 90% of the Stark forces get annihilated as Sansa hems and haws before finally letting lilfinga come to the rescue.

Sansa didn't think twice about letting Jon and his entire army die. I dare say she looked disappointed when he climbed out on the top of that pile.
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>>71029750
>Ramsey takes his free shot to kill the giant and not John
To be quite honest, family, the Giant is a larger threat. Better to insure it's dead than to hopefully kill Jon and then hopefully kill the Giant when there were 20+ archers aiming at him.
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>>71028207
She didn't trust Jon either - for different reasons - which turned out to be the correct move because he fell right into Ramsay's trap.
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>>71029112
But it was actually a good Dany scene. The first good Meereen scene.
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>they fucking copied the tearing out the jugular with their teeth after being beaten senseless from TWD
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>>71029816
He needs other people to lead so he can control them. Without people to control he's nobody.
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>>71029775
I said the exact same thing
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I very much enjoyed the episode, even with the obvious logic flaws. It is a show at the end of the day, not like it has to be 100% realistic.
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>>71029637

>Army stare down
>Ramsay has the strong position and refuses to budge
>John knows that the only way to win is to force Ramsay to charge or come up with a better battle plan
>John struggling with his ideas of what an, "honorable," battle should be

How is that not more interesting than:
>Brother dead
>Retard angry!!!!! RETARD CHARGE!!!!
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>>71029834

The giant was no threat at the time and was moments from death. It was a stupid moment.
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>>71029776
If she told him about le seekrit armee then he would have waited. It's that simple. It's her fault.
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>>71029803

He's Robert's son and he'll marry her.
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>>71029337
You will understand it when you grown up anon
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>>71029707
>he actually thinks a man is going to do something right in game of thrones in 2016

reminder if you aren't a woman your only place is either as a hot asshole, a literal cuck or a dickless cuck who will be ridiculed for being tortureraped
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how come the dogs knew/waited for sansa to give her speech why didn't they eat before that
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>>71028769

What I need to know is whether the corpse wall is a historically accurate phenomena?

Surely at a certain point you would cease clamouring over and fighting atop the writhing and screaming bodies of your brothers, cousins, friends and start moving around it.

How many bodies does it take to create such a wall. It must have been at least 3 m high. I'd estimate somewhere around 1,000.

Looked pretty cool though.
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>>71029846
SEASON FINALE FINAL SCENE ALL THE KINGS LANDING CHARACTERS WILL SIT IN A CIRCLE WITH THE MOUNTAIN SINGING EENIE MEENIE MINIE MOE THEN BASHING ONE PERSONS HEAD IN WITH HIS FISTS BUT YOULL HAVE TO TUNE IN NEXT SEASON TO FIND OUT WHO
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>inb4 episode 10 has euron walk in on the greyjoys
>"Uncle victarion?!"
>*tense music, zoom in*
>Season end
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>>71029834
To be quite honest, he's fucked at that point. He can fuck the Starks one last time and kill Jon Snow or hope his arrow reaches the magic number to kill a dragon. He dies no matter who he shoots.
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>>71029405

The show doesn't do a very good job of showing WHY Winterfell is so hard to attack.

The only way to approach it is up a relatively steep hill, while the archers on the wall have you completely in view.

Getting a battering ram up the hill and to the door would be almost impossible if the defenders are even a tiny bit sensible.

Although honestly it should be impossible for the door to get knocked down anyway, since its supposed to be made out of fucking Ironwood.
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>>71029891
there's no way he isn't lyanna's and rhaega'rs son
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>>71029751
he was zigging when he should have been zagging
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>>71029906
wymyn are above logic, senpai
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>>71029907
It was an exaggeration but shit like that isn't entirely divorced from reality.

Medieval battles often avoided getting to the melee because the melee is bloody, bodies start to pile up, etc.
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>No-one recovers Rickon's body and it literally gets littered with even more arrows and then the charge likely turned it into hamburger.

I honestly laughed a little bit.
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Who cares about this nerd shit?

LEBRON WON ONE FOR THE LAND! TRUE KING!
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>>71028207
Yet she knew of the possibility of him coming and neglected to tell him even the slightest bit about it. If she told him, he would have waited. There's no debating that. It's her fault that he was in that position.
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>>71029883
>The giant was no threat at the time and was moments from death
It's a giant. They're big and strong and scary. Better to insure it's dead than allow it a chance to survive and fuck your entire stronghold up.
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>>71029907

>SHIT I'm about to die
>better stack my ass up don't want to leave a mess
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>>71029722
I know you're trying to shitpost but this one doesn't even make sense on any level.
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>>71029961
Ah. He was juking when he should have been jiving.
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>>71029976
>WON
>WON
ref ball handed him the win after they took away the only player who makes james quiver
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>>71029947
Exactly. So why not shoot the thing that can potentially destroy the whole keep single handedly?
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Literally nobody cares that they killed Rickon
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>>71029976
(You)
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>>71030007

Go to bed Curry, your assassination attempt failed.
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>>71029993
It got a rpely
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>>71029975
They had the body on a stretcher at the end of the episode.
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>>71029975
they did get it though. he said it'd be sent to the crypt. ??
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>>71029975

So you basically closed your eyes during the scene where they recovered his body, have it in a stretcher, and Jon tells them to bury him in the crypt?
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Ramsay did literally nothing wrong. I know it gets memed a lot, but honestly, how was he not the good guy. Only a child could think otherwise.
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>>71029813
> literally rewriting the plot as Stannis fanfiction
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>>71030054

There would have been nothing left of it. It was right in the center of the battle, it would have been smooshed and trampled beyond all recognition.
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>>71029834
He was actually putting the giant out of its misery, intentionally or not
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>>71030029
I imagine the actor who plays Rickon is probably the most disappointed out of everyone in the world right now. He was part of this phenomenon from the beginning, part of the Stark family, and he's had like 4 lines and dies a worthless death.
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>>71028769
Kek
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>>71030027
Because there was zero guarantee it would kill it. Literally none. And it was with the attackers and subdued. It wasn't just going to randomly go berserk and level all of fucking Winterfell. Killing Jon, however, would fuck up the whole purpose of the attack, and be way easier.
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>>71030080
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>>71030054
>>71030062
>>71030063

I must have looked away when the stretcher was on screen, my bad /tv/. I had assumed the burial part was....well what was left.
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>>71030027

Why would he care about the keep retard?
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jon and sansa are both so incompetent and stupid they should just stand down and wait for Omniscient King Bran to come back i swear to god
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>>71030095
I don't understand why people put real life expectations on a show and sit there going NO NO NO THAT'S NOT HOW IT'D HAPPEN!!
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>>71029975
you silly little bitch
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>Winterfell the "Can hold the castle with 500 against 5000" couldn't hold a giant for more than 30 seconds

how is that fucking thing the main gate, and why on earth wasnt it reinforced
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>>71030080
leaving winterfell was an awful mistake
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>>71030148
>Because there was zero guarantee it would kill it. Literally none.
Right, but there was a guarantee it'd kill Jon?

>It wasn't just going to randomly go berserk and level all of fucking Winterfell.
>implying

>Killing Jon
Which isn't guaranteed, according to what you just said.

>would fuck up the whole purpose of the attack, and be way easier.
Despite all these wildlings already being inside of Winterfell.
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>>71030152
fair enough. It would've been pretty funny had they just brought a pile of hamburger on a stretcher.
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>>71030095
uh Jon should be a trampled pancake too but. LOGIC
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>>71030196
because bolton wasn't expecting a siege retard
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Some people in this thread are fucking idiots

>Sansa told Jon not to lose his cool
>The plan was for Jon to hold back and let Bolton charge, kill, rinse and repeat
>If he stuck to that plan The Vale shows up long before they get slaughtered
>Jon lost his fucking cool and charged totally screwing the plan
>Sansa specifically told him not to do that shit
>Sansa was right
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>>71030173
Because he's been waggling his dick about it for about 3 seasons now?
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>>71030196
Why is no one concerned that giants are now extinct?
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>>71030255

Maybe Sansa should have told him that was the plan then.
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>>71029907
certainly not i the conditions of the battle they showed

Cavalry didn't really kill anyone

They were shock troops. You send him to break morale and hope the enemy runs.

The show showed them literally smashing into each other.

In reality commentators and veterans would joke that when 2 cavalries would attack each other they just ran by each other and did almost nothing in the way of actual fighting and it was almost considered a joke.

Real effective cavalry basically used to flank and break the line so as to scatter organization and cause retreat.
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>>71030255
>jon gets crowned king in the north anyway because hes a do-no-wrong gary stu
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>>71030080
he killed based roose the goose set the freys loose on robb's caboose bolton you absolute fucking cucker
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>>71030285
Just hand some pale tart 3 giant eggs and start a revolution.
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>>71030255

>hey Jon, remember I told you to hold back? Yeah, Littlefinger is coming to help, sooooo yeah, you should REALLY hold back lol
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>>71029089
ramsey didnt need to send his 20 good men over the wall of bodies to fight, the shieldmen were holding them off
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>>71030336
god I honestly dont know which one of those two came out of this episode looking more stupid.
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>>71030255

People are mad, because Sansa didn't mention anything about the Vale to him. She let thousands die because of it. Do you really think the whole situation would have played out the same if John even knew there was a chance of reinforcements?
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>>71030255

>If he stuck to that plan The Vale shows up long before they get slaughtered

Yeah because Jon can see the future. Maybe if she told him about the Vale.
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Wun Wun x Lyanna Mormont when?
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>>71030327
Daros conquered Dorne with 3 giants and becomes King WHEN???
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>>71030310
sansa is a bolton. bran or arya have the claim.
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>>71030285
Oh I am the last of the Giant folk or however that song goes
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>>71030302
>In reality commentators and veterans would joke that when 2 cavalries would attack each other they just ran by each other and did almost nothing in the way of actual fighting and it was almost considered a joke

Lol are you pretending to be friends with a cavalry man? Lol shit has been extinct for hundreds of years
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>>71030255
>jon faces enemy cavalry alone to avenge his fallen brother, pretty much accepting death
>"omg hes so dumb!!!"

nice meme
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>>71030412
LORD STONEFISH NEXT EP
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>>71030420
TRUE KING OF THE NORTH
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who is this?
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nothing happened: the episode
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>>71030478

A fucking tree can't rule the north.
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You know, there's a really important question that needs to be answered...

What were Rickon and Osha doing lo those many years, as he was coming into his manhood in the presence of that sultry wildling woman?
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>>71030487
The moron with the brand on his forehead. Zealot fuccboi.
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>>71030388
Are you implying Sansa can?

Is it that hard to believe that Sansa didn't know the Vale would come until they charged around the corner?
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>>71030487
It looks like Lansel to me.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvigPvVKZLA

Link to full battle scene.
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>>71030487
Stannis
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>>71030527
SHE SENT LITTLEFINGER A FUCKING RAVEN LAST FUCKING EPISODE ASKING FOR HELP.
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>>71030487
Stannis.
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>>71030499
You are stupid and you should feel bad.
>mfw taking the bait
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>>71030527

She sent the letter. Even if it wasn't guaranteed she could have at least told Jon that she had requested reinforcements and that Littlefinger would likely come through.
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>>71028698
no it's the battle of helms deep
right down to the guy with the cool beard coming down the hill on horses
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Everyone is fucking stupid, annoying or both in this show I can't root for anyone anymore
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>>71030547
Is still the rightful heir to Westeros
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This is Fathers Day

They go with "Our fathers were the problem"
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>>71030500
>ignores when bloodraven specifically told bran he wouldn't be a tree
no need to feel threatened the true king and most powerful person in westeros is on his way to save us all
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>>71029189
>public tracker plebs
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>>71030619
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>>71030557
>asking for help

>implying a hundred different things couldn't happen that would prevent the Vale actually showing up to battle

>implying it wasn't a Hail Mary from Sansa and she wasn't banking on the Vale actually coming back
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>>71030627
The Blood Ravens are here???

What did they steal this time?
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>>71030619
nothing is sacred anymore friendo
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how I hope next episode goes down:

>the 12 people left alive at winterfell: "lol jon your kind of a shite leader and almost got all of us killed but here you can be king of the n-"

>raven flies in

>"bran is alive at castle black and is on his way back to winterfell"

>fake king jon BTFO
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>>71030676

She still could have told Jon that she had asked.
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>>71030557
>>71030527

Even beyond this, Littlefinger's scene with Royce clearly implied he was rallying the Vale knights to go. Littlefinger knew she'd beg for help before even she did. Littlefinger was going to be at that battle no matter what.
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>>71030527

She should have told Jon that there was an army of 50k willing to help and that she sent a letter. Maybe tell him to wait a week in case reinforcements come.
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Given that Jon didn't know about CIA's army he made a choice that, according to the circumstances he could consider, would've doomed him and his army.
Sansa not telling him about CIA is less consequential, maybe less terrible judgement, but definitely more absurd. It had no motivation other than making a scene.
I don't know who did worse desu
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>>71027979
This. Literally an army of kangz n sheeit
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>>71030785
>you can do three things
>the right thing
>the wrong thing
>or nothing
>nothing is the worst of the three
Jon made a decision. Sansa did nothing. She is in the wrong.
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>>71030688
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMj16A7j4RM

>They'll call him the phoney king of Westeros
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>>71030688
Radmere Bully probably knows about Jon's legitimization by Robb.
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>>71030285
>>71030428
>>71030428
canonically, he isn't the last one.
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>>71028698
A story can have the good side win in a interesting or well written way. Ramsay should be dead a thousand times over and not been able to do half of what he did, I just wish Jon did not fuck up so hard to get saved again
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>can shoot a man from half a football pitch away
>wont just shoot snows legs

I enjoyed the episode but jon and ramsay are retarded.
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Why didn't Ramsay kill Jon Snow instead of WunWun?

Is he dumb or something?
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How the fuck did the Vale's army go unnoticed through all the north until Winterfell?
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>>71031024

Ramsay is dumb. Jon has plot armor. Same reason Jon didn't die when getting stampeded over by hundreds of soldiers.
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>>71031024
He was dead either way.
He just wanted to fuck with jon one more time.
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>>71031064
I imagined every foot hitting him would be like getting punched, only hundreds of god damn times, guy must be made of dragon skin
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>>71031093
maybe he could have fucked with him by shooting him in the face
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>>71030843
Sansa was not against a battle, she was warning against falling for Ramsay's games, which is exactly what Jon did, instead of letting ramsay charge. In that sense, Sansa made the good choice and Jon the bad one
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>>71031133
this
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>>71030731
>Maybe tell him to wait a week in case reinforcements come.
The only reason to delay is if there is a solid promise of reinforcements, not "let's wait a week and see if Ramsay dies on the shitter". Sansa KNEW FOR A GODDAM FACT that there were more warriors there for the asking and let Jon go into a hopeless battle.

you can't just wait a week and let all the people who have agreed to fight for you think about the consequences of their actions. Suddenly, 5000 people becomes 2000 and no one will ever take you seriously again.
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>>71031024
Real question why didn't Ramsay just shoot Jons leg or knee, why was he constantly shooting the only place he was defending.
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>>71031024

Because shit writing.

Also
>aim at Jon's head
>he protects it with a small shield
>try again
>same shit
>TRY THE HEAD AGAIN INSTEAD OF AIMING FOR THE WAIST OR LEGS
>surprise, same thing happens
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>>71030731
jon didnt have a week though, the only time he was going to bait ramsay out of winterfell was the next morning.
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>>71031125
B+L=J CONFIRMED
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>>71031133
>instant death
>fucking with him
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>>71028207

Sansa's decision not to tell Jon she asked LF for the army of the Vale to come was fucking stupid as every decision Sansa has ever made.

For a commander of an army to have more information is never going to hurt. If you know you have (may have really, 'cause you don't know for sure if LF is going to show, but whatever) an advantage you may take a more conservative approach.

Now, if you don't know you have that advantage but you actually believe you're on the probably going to lose side, it's more likely that you take risks or you go 'fuck it all i'm gonna die for my honor and my brother 'cause we're gonna lose anyway'.

>b-but this way Sansa caught Ramsay by surprise!

Yes, same way Jon could have done if Sansa had told him. With the little difference that this way Sansa risked not only the lives of thousands of people (including Jon), but losing the battle itself. What if by the time LF appeared Jon's army would have been already slaughtered and the mounted army of the Vale had to face an army of pikemen? Well... fugg...

And yet there she appears, top of the hill, with that confusing and stupid smug face. Why the fuck are you smiling? Your brother almost died.

Well, according to D&D in the insider she smiles because "for the first time she's achieving things on her own". Well, yeah, I guess now calling daddy LF for help is achieving things on your own.

I have to say I enjoyed the episode, mostly because of the production, but D&D are truly dumb (just as Sansa, but that's part of her character) and a lot of the things they do make no sense.
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Why did sansa reject littlefinger when he offered her an army the first time?
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>>71026877

Why didn't sansa tell jon that she wrote to littlefinger? I don't get it, would he get mad? Cause I'm pretty sure he never met littlefinger. And I'm sure he wouldn't mind the extra help, considering it's coming from the vale, who is related to sansa. I don't get it.
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>>71031024

His chances of survival probably increase by attacking the Giant and goading Jon. If he shoots Jon he is killed instantly. If he goads Jon he perhaps is taken prisoner, perhaps he kills Jon also in their duel (I doubt he'd be naive enough to believe everyone would throw down their arms after though). He probably didn't foresee Sansa feeding him to his dogs though.
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Well, it was certainly better than the Dany scenes
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>>71031341

Because she's a stupid emotion driven bitch.
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So Little finger will marry sansa but where does that leave jon?

What is his title now general???

Doesn;t sansa have power to make jon into a stark??
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>>71031341
Because she doesn't live in the real world, sansa spent the last 5 seasons being an object.

This season they're trying to make her seem determined, but she's a fucking idiot, she doesn't understand that while she was being mildly mistreat as an object, people were having their whole lives destroyed by wars they didn't start.

she thought everyone would suck her tits and be like 'ITS DA QEEEN OF DA NURTH'.
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>>71031389
he is the most useless hostage in all of westeros.
>no one likes him
>he has no family at all
>has no defensible claims
And he knew they would kill him anyway as he mad 3 attempts to shoot Jon after he killed the giant. I'm surprised the archers let it happen and surprised he didn't go for Jon first.
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>>71031527

Only kings can make a bastard official.
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>>71031527
_______azor_____
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>>71031597
this desu.
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>>71031597
I AM NOT A KING!!!
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>>71031351
maybe she didn't want to feel responsible for losing the battle by rejecting LF the first time?
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>>71031700
Still bothers me that her eyebrows are black as fuck. If her hair was really that light her eyebrows would be too. Only DYED blondes have that sort of major discrepancy.
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Fucking plebs
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>>71028799
Or do it like the books would. Two sides, both with good and bad in them battle. Reasons why either side shouldn't win, or should win.
Battle of the Blackwater is awesome because of that, Tyrion on one side, Davos on the other.
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>>71031597

> Every book fag now remembers Robb's secret letter

I always wondered if GRR retconned that plot point
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>>71031781
That's not always true, retard.
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>>71031341

Because she felt little finger couldn't be trusted. He had betrayed her. what would stop him from killing off the remnants of the Boltons and Jon snows army after they beat each other to hamburger? She probably suspected that CIA wanted to be KINEEDERNURFF.
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Anyone else think sansa and jon will get it on? imean technically they are not related...
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First time on /tv/ in a while...

Reminder:
You're all a bunch ungrateful cunts that manage to shit on one of the (righteously) highest rated shows on television.
"Hurrrrr feminist propaganda."
You guys are retarded and need to redirect your shite criticisms towards your own shite lives.
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>>71031781
its meme magic
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>>71031808
How many people with natural CORN SILK WHITE hair have Italian black eyebrows?
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>>71031332
>What if by the time LF appeared Jon's army would have been already slaughtered

This would have be no ones fault but Jons considering he charged his undermanned army straight at the Boltons

Did none of you fucking retards listen to the battle plan they talked about the night before?
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>>71029565
To think both of those guys in that picture are dead now...
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Were Tormund and the wildlings fleeing or just trying to get out of the shield wall?
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>>71029474
Jon's dumb charge is why ramsay had his men go in the most insecure battle formation of leaving their backs open on all sides. It didn't even look like Ramsay had that many people tbqwh
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im confused. what happened to the other half of the cavalry? this screenshot was after the first charge

theres a second one showing more
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>>71029592
>>Not giving the giant a weapon at all
Seriously, give the guy a tree to swing around for fucks sake
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>>71029761
yeah i enjoyed it too for the most part; even if I knew the Vale was gonna show up, I like cliches sometimes
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>>71029804

To add to this Rickon was the only "Stark" who could be Winterfell in the for the foreseeable future

Sansa has lost her starkness and she's a grill

Arya is a grill and wouldn't want to rule

Jon is bastard and somewhat unlikely to survive the whole stroyline to rule

Bran is a cripple mage
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It's clear that sansa was late to the battle because she was hoping jon would die, remember she wants to marry littlefinger and she knows she will have to kill jon sooner or later because littlefinger will want him dead
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>>71031953
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>>71029078
>in a fit of rage sansa tells jon
>you know nothing jon snow

Pottery
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ep was better than expected. and I expected good.

although what i thought happened. it was better than I'd thought it'd be. that body pile up. phew
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>>71029189

mega links sub on reddit mine downloaded in like 10 mins through browser
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>>71029947
If anyone is narcissistic and short sighted enough to assume he's gonna pull through somehow despite everything screaming otherwise it's Ramsay. D&D mentioned in the afterwards that they thought of him not completely accepting his fate until the very end and I agree. He's made it through in other situations and he's a sociopathic survivor. He'd probably do shit like sell out the entire Bolton lands for his own life if he could live long enough to negotiate.
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>>71031922
The tall shield-like race were proving too hardy. They decided it would be more better progress to kill the much softer pile-dwelling people.
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i hate that ramsay died, at least he was entertaining

- jon is always "imma do the right thing but it backfires"
- sansa is all "women rulez"
- davos is boring
- tyrion has officially become worst character with dany
- theon is just there, does nothing
- arya is lame

im gonna miss you ramsay, sweet dreams
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>>71031853
This season has been drowned in feminist propaganda. If you were listening to the conversation between dany and yara you'd know it's true.
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>>71032066
Not to mention the only men in the room were

1. A literal manlet and
2. A cockless siscon
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>>71029879
oh stop lol

humans do things. the fuck else is there to do? i didn't see any unicorns
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>>71031998
>she wants to marry littlefinger
The preview had littlefinger talking like Sansa's oblivious to his desire for her. Either way, she doesn't want to marry the man who sold her to Ramsay.
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>>71032057
DAVOS IS A NATIONAL TREASURE
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>>71030029
Why should they? HE'S A FUCKING WHITE MALE
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> sending cavalry to meet cavalry
> not mowing them the fuck down with arrows
> not forming a spearwall to kill the majority of the survivors
> not then using your cavalry to mop up and then counter attack

Jon blew his wad way too fast and all Ramsay had to do was sit tight and brush it off. The fight was shot really well (aside from the obvious cavalry clash green screen), but literally everything else about it was Fucking retarded.
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>>71027639
she wanted the claim to winterfell, it was intentional
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>>71031953
pls respond
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>>71029907
Bodies pile up in a charge
https://youtu.be/4SQqVEu135E?t=6m30s
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>>71032057
Davos is based he only seems boring because jon has to be the level headed cunt making his level headedness seem redundant.

There's still hope for Tyrion he just needs better people to play off of, everyone he's met in mereen has not complimented his character at all. He can't be the clever short funny man, because grey snake and melisa don't get humor and things needed to go wrong so dany could have a use for the horsefuckers she picked up.
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So what happened in this episode?
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>>71027669
>>71029396

No it doesn't make fucking sense. They could have had the same strategy while taking fewer risks. Jon was seconds away from dying, Sansa's "plan" was horrible.
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>>71032308
Sansa let all of Jon's friends die
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>>71031883
Your MOM
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>>71028829
If the Arryn host was large enough to turn the tide of the battle when they charged in, I find it hard to believe Ramsay didn't get word that a sizeable force was marching up North.

Jon is a shit commander, yes, but Sansa's also at fault for keeping vital information from him and insisting he wait while giving him no reason to do so.

Inconsistent, shit writing just to force out some drama. I didn't think D&D would outdo their retardation after Arya's careless stroll through the city with a face-changing assassin on her heels.
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>>71029480
>Sandra
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>>71029771
You're right. The entire character, all these years and Rickon's whole purpose was to die at the right moment.
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>>71032351

Besides that.

Was the whole episode focused on the battle?
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>>71032351
Those friends would have eaten Jon faster than Ramsay's hounds.
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>>71030119
>All the Stark actors have get togethers on set
>Jokes about being northerners
>Special tables at cons for years to come when they're running low on drug money
>oh... and you Rickon. Yeah sorry we forgot to invite you again, but your here now.
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>>71029537
The mannis confirmed for decimating the bolton forces.

I'm sad they didn't bring him back this ep. And now they've ruined Davos' character by making him be like he never liked Stannis.
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This episode triggered the Medieval tactician in me way too hard.

I can't figure out what era or nation the "Northmen" are supposed to be based on. Like everything else in the show has some kind of basis. Usually the North is pretty much Scotland with some Norwegian/Swedish thrown in. But not in combat apparently. Also the whole cavalry charging into cavalry...thing....yeah...

The spearwall bothered me a lot because Jon's army just...lets them do it. They just stand by and let them. The wildlings prove to be super fucking effective shock troops, why didn't they just break the lines and get in between them BEFORE the wall formed instead of trying to deal with it after?

But it also looks like they have massed shortbows or some shit like why but also crossbows but crossbows are only for castle defense and the only longbow in existence belongs to Ramsey because...?

Goddamn I am triggered. I know what tumblr must feel like when they see Donald Trump winning another state.
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>>71029902
>yfw Dany, Yara, Sansa, and the Sandsneks rule the world
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>>71028769
>ramsay planned for the corpse wall to appear the whole time

You're right; I mean, what was he gonna do if there wasn't a corpse wall? Surround them with the extra infantry that were stacked up behind each other?
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>>71032466

Finally a sensible post for once.

Keep in mind a lot of what we know and understand of warfare from historical time periods (such as this one albeit historical fiction) comes from trial and error.

A lot of the know how isn't going to be 'known' to them.

You have two bastards who are still quite young 'leading' an army. Although they do have men of higher ranks from other houses/bannermen with more experience. Still, we don't know what they know or don't know.

In the middle of a battle such as that, it's a little hard to be critical on just what one should and should not do. I can imagine the mix of adrenaline and panic coming into play while being attacked and surrounded by the looming spearwall formation.

Wildlings aren't the most effective at fighting 'southerners' so it stands to reason that while in that state of mind, it wouldn't be difficult to manage to surround whatever was left of jon's army.

Also, it's a tv show. I hate to bring that up seeing as you actually had something reasonable to point out as opposed to most, but I can't help but bring up the fact that some things bend in the favor of suspense and excitement for the show and to keep you on the edge of your seat.

I can't in all earnest answer your issue with the bow/crossbow though.
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>>71029696
He should have rolled.

>Rickon starts running in zigzags and rolling every few steps
>Ramsay: dafuq is that little prick doing?
>Umber: *interrogation marks*
>Rickon is running for half an hour going left and right
>Jon catches up to him
>Rickon dodges Jon's hand and keeps running
>all the way to the wall and beyond
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>>71030462
its just as if books about the matter had never been written..
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>>71032769

this made me think of rolling in dark souls
.....actually, that might have worked.
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>>71032593
To be fair the Umbers were right there on the corpse wall in fresh reserve. It made things even easier for them, but without it they would still be surrounded or contained. Turning towards the anvil of the Bolton infantry would have made their backs open to the phalanx/shieldwall which would be even worse than attacking it head on.
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>>71030487
the Spaniard
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>>71030255
Jon's fucking brother runs to him, he thinks he has an actual chance to save him so he charges and watches his brother get butchered seconds before help arrives

or course he loses his cool, wouldnt you?
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>>71031232
>>71031240
Presumably Jon would have used the shield to block wherever he shot at.
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>>71032736

I guess it's also possible a lot of the in-universe warfare is how it is because it just isn't like our universe's warfare. The GoT universe is much more stagnant than ours was. Cavalry vs. cavalry might just be a thing in it. A really stupid thing but whatever.

Davos appears to be the only true general, and he does in fact put forth a lot of tactical know-how. Jon's just good at fighting and has like a B- level knowledge of tactics, but he let Ramsey beat him psychologically.

It's entirely possible Ramsey just got fucking lucky with his shield shit, just like EVERYTHING IN HIS FUCKING LIFE. Like how Shitjon Umber didn't shank him for murdering his bannermen with his archers. D&D ruined one of the better houses in the North. I'm glad they kept the Manderlys just a name drop. It's like watching those mummers in Braavos play out the ASoIaF books sometimes.

In retrospect I should also be more confused how they got those shields in position. Those are fucking heavy. There's a reason they stopped being in use in the medieval era. You have to carry that shit into battle. They outran the wildlings and Davos' archers with giant fucking tower shields...

But seriously the fucking bows... I guess I can reason that crossbows are expensive as shit. Joffrey did have one as a status symbol after all. And if a material like yew isn't readily available a longbow could be ridiculously expensive, to the point only a noble could own one.
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>>71033048
No. I am the sword in the darkness, Azor Ahai reborn and I shall not falter.
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>>71032769
First lesson Jon is going to teach his kids when his training them is
>DODGE
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>>71031953
>>71032010
>>71032281
The budget happened to them. I think a lot hung back with Ramsay while the shields and pikes were poking jon. But when CIA showed up, it was just Ramsay and 2 others that rode off to winterfell.
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>>71033048
It really bugged me how stupid Jon was but it just occurred to me that he doesn't know Ramsay like we the audience do and that was even pointed out in the dialog. He might assume that Ramsay is less brutal or more wild than we know him to be and he would actually be risking a chance to lose his man hostage out of arrogance or something rather than setting up a trap.

It's a hard thing to turn down because Rickon would make so much of their troubles trying to reunite the north under the Starks easier even if he wasn't their brother.
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>>71032769
>Rickon runs straight into the Far North
>He slaughters the Night's King, show ends.
>All in one continuous shot.
I'd give the show an instant 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmc21V-zBq0
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>>71033279
Who cares how fucking cruel Ramsay is? They're about to ride into a fucking battle where it's 100% murder murder murder. Do they think he's going to stop mid-combat and start pulling someone's fingernails or something?
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A few possibilities for why Sansa didn't tell Jon about the vale:

1. It was a condition of little finger. He told her they would help but only in a position that was very advantageous to them. This probability isn't a reason, though, since the shield people were exposed for a while before the rohirim charged them.

2. She didn't know if he'd actually show up and didn't want to get anyone's hopes up.

3. She's manipulative and wanted to use him as bait.

4. She thought it might make him even more aggressive than he already was. "Sansa will be safe, so i don't give a fuck about myself." Idk, maybe.

I think it's probably a combination of 2 and 4. Maybe she was wrong about 4, but it still could be what she was thinking.
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>>71033137

The shields might not even be heavy, all depending on what they're made of. And they didn't have a long distance to travel from outside of Winterfell. It would have served as a problem had they not been backed by a second wall with pikemen in between. Thromond did manhandle the shields right from their arms but as we saw he got cut up.

9 weeks, and finally someone with constructive criticism for the show.

Twas a nice chat.
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>>71032057
literally Varys and Little Finger are the only people who will do anything interesting now
Bronn, the Hound, and Jamie are alright but are pretty reddit desu
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>>71033374

literally?
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>>71033374
>but are pretty reddit
What the fuck does that mean?
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>>71032769
nah, he should have used the premiere evasive pattern

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdaQHTWT_ZI
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fantatic ep. i didnt like how when jon came to winterfell and the blood was off his face though
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>>71033364
The least she could do would be to say "I sent a raven to the Vale. They seemed pretty enthusiastic about aiding me if I asked. Let's wait a while and see what happens."
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>>71033364

5. She's a stupid bitch.
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>>71033360
I meant Jon might, against all good judgement, assume Ramsay was a more honorable lord and he was giving back the boy to settle the issue honorably on the field of battle or something. Or at least be giving him a fighting chance. An incredibly stupid assumption, but some lords would actually think like that. Rickon is their liege and they were until a couple years ago on good loyal terms with the Stark dynasty. Jon might not know better or be delusional.

In truth Ramsay wouldn't let him go without certainty that he would die as Sansa said, but, again, Jon doesn't know that.
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>>71033364
Forgot 5 mate.
Jon is the general who takes winterfell back, if he wins he get's all the glory and becomes king in the north, Sansa doesn't know Jon enough, time has passed, she wanted him dead so he wouldn't go agaisn't her. Obviously he wouldn't, but she doesn't know and wants him dad for it.
>TFW it doesn't matter and he's crowned king in the north next episode.
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>>71033445

It means he doesn't like them.
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>>71033364
6. She's jealous or threatened by Jon's claim to the throne and is weakening him and his army while putting herself in the dominant position of the relationship.
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>>71033601
>>71033445
it means I'm meming
Also that they spend all their time not really doing anything except throwing out quips and fighting. It means I like them but they're dumb.

>>71033424
Literally
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>>71029537
Pretty much this. When he goes full azor ahai on them they'll all follow him to the death because wildings and a 11 year old were braver
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>>71029537

You're forggeting Rob started with 20 thousand strong, he didn't end before he died with that many.
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>>71027962

Make the North great again !
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>>71033368
this was very clearly the same person lol
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>>71033665
Bitch move, if you ask me. After that heartfelt hug when they reunite at Castle Black, she just stabs him in the back after reclaiming their home.

It can be tragic and is the only way Sansa's decisions look less retarded in hindsight but that just makes her a lot less likeable, probably moreso compared to how she used to behave in season 1. That doesn't feel where her character was intended to go.
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>>71030285
I'm pretty sure I remember reading somewhere that not all giants went south of the wall so it's entirely possible that there are still some left

Also, this is the show. In the books there are way more giants and they haven't been killed yet.

Or at least this is what I tel myself
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Looks like ts Sansa is just as annoying as book sansa. LISTEN TO ME, OH BUT I DON'T KNOW JACK SHIT ABOUT FIGHTING ARMIES.
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Why the fuck is Salsa dumb?
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>>71035587

Lack of a penis.
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