#game of thrones 8x02

[pippinsqueaks]

Gendry looked so Shooketh by naked Arya??

[clarkeblakess]

tormund: I sucked the tit of a giant

every other person in the room:

[sophmp3]

i think I’d burst into flames if someone looked at me like this

GIF CREDIT

https://itsgregserrano.tumblr.com/post/184439051463

[spiffyeclaire]

Brienne: I never wanted to be a knight

Podrick: *looks into camera like Jim on The Office*

[adecila]

Florence + The Machine - Jenny Of Oldstones (Lyric Video)

[king-brandrick]

‘My Little Crow’

[flossystormbornstark]

ok but can we stop pretending like political Jon is actually happening. Jon has never been deceitful for the sake of politics and it makes literally zero sense for him to start now just because he has the claim for a throne he doesn’t even want. It also makes no sense for him to be deceitful about loving someone when all he’s ever wanted is for someone to love him and have faith in him.

[jadegrey711]

Excuse me while I listen to "Jenny of Oldstones" for the 1000th time tonight.

[winterisfinallyhere]

Tried some new tags, regretted it immediately

It's really strange to read none-Jonsa/ pol!Jon theories and predictions when you've spent a lot of time in the Jonsa tag. Spec. the JonxD@ny tag. It's (seriously) all variations of Dany will find out about Jon and being happy for him / that they’re family, Sam giving Jorah his family sword to show he's on board with Dandelions. Boat!baby coming soon. The title (which might be The Rightful Queen) and how it's about the north accepting Dany or her somehow showing she's the best ruler ever. Dany in the crypts because she's overseeing making it safe for women/children. Fluffy happiness DxJ kiss-y scenes! Dany will kick ass with her dragons. Sansa and Dany making friends over shared hate of Cersei (which might be OK, but not very exciting). Dead are coming (obvious prediction). Dany won’t kill Jamie for killing her dad because she’s not petty like that (which we knew because he’s alive in the trailer in another outfit.) The most exciting prediction was someone saying 8x02 was sure to feature an AryaxGendry sex scene (which seems unlikely, but points for creativity). 

How boring and predictable! Like seriously, that’s what everyone thinks is going to happen? Like where is the twist? Where is the Game Of Throne-iness of it? If it was Disney, for sure, but this is GoT. HBO. Something interesting needs to happen in episode 2. Something shocking. Death, mayhem, betrayals, lies and a few bad decisions.

Else, what’s the point? We can’t keep going down the “let’s all be on the same team but squabble about all sorts of things while we all have a chance to reunite with everyone we ever met while waiting to die but nothing really happens” road. That would just suck majorly.

My 8x02 ep. prediction / wishlist

Jamie’s big thing isn’t about him killing the mad king it’s about him letting them all know about the fact that there is no Lannister army coming. BOOM! Mike drop. That’s what’s going to be the big take away from that scene.

Actual consequences from that reveal. Like Dany considering going to King’s Landing to burn shit down, her losing all her faith in Tyrion, the north trusting team!dany even less or something else equally “bad”.

Hoping for a Jamie kneeling and swearing fealty to Sansa + Arya. Actually doing it right with the kneeling + vows and shit to contrast with the fact no one has ever bent the fucking knee for real to Dany.

Sansa x Dany chat will be big on the tension and lacking in the Hair Braiding that Was Promised.

Little Tree Climbing Boy (or some other random kid) will go missing. Or more food problems with the dragons. Not sure we’ll get actual dead kids at this point (maybe not until some episodes later) but more hints of the problems with lack of food and what dragons eat.

Jon in denial about the parent reveal. Sam / Bran letting someone else in on the reveal seems like a possibility to make stuff happen here. That’s more of a wish than a prediction. Possibly Gilly will tell? I’d love a Gilly / Sansa or a Gilly / Arya scene.

Dany showing more of her ruthless “bad-ass” queen side, which goes over less than stellarly in the north.

More northerners being all “we don’t trust the Targs. Targs can’t be trusted.” making Jon even less likely to want to reveal whose his real parents were. Also making Jonsa marriage alliance more likely in later episodes.

Possibly an Arya / Gendry moment.

Sansa planing for the small folk, setting up the crypts, but in the end, not being down there for some reason.

Gendry revealed as the son of Robert Baratheon and some actual consequences for that. Because why bring him back after like 100 seasons if he wasn’t going to be a little bit important.

Hopefully, a Bran/ Jamie scene where Jamie asks for forgiveness and Bran is all 3ER weird but goes something like “it was destiny.”

Sam + Jon (or even everyone) finding out the Taryls were burnt alive.

Jon acting super weird around everyone because of the reveal. 

Jon is NOT going to tell Dany about the parental reveal. That’s my biggest prediction. Not in a million years. My boy Jon knows what Dany would think of that. (”That’s treason”)

My Jonsa heart hopes for more candlelit fighting scenes with even more UST now that Jon knows they’re cousins. Some sort of goodbye thing since the ep is probably going to end with the Battle of Winterfell starting with more unsaid stuff and looks. 

Reunions: Sansa / the Hound. Not sure how that will go but I think there maybe should be one. Tyrion / Jamie. Jamie / Brienne (my babies). Theon / Sansa?

I don’t predict much Jonsa just yet. I feel like these three first episodes are basically setup for the actually juicy bits, like Dance of Dragons 0.2, possible Sansa kidnap plot, Jon identity crisis ending with him picking the Starks in the end, possibly a “battle of the three Queens”, Jonsa wedding, love over duty, all that good stuff.

Those are my predictions. We’ll see in 30-ish hours how much I got right! And if you accidentally read some discouraging posts/ search some tags that make you doubt, remember who he turned around for...

[mmelolabelle]

sansa and dany already have had more development and chemistry in two episodes than j*nerys managed in an entire season can you believe

[convivialcamera]

My new number one favorite thing about Game of Thrones is Samwell Tarly throwing out “I STOLE A CONSIDERABLE NUMBER OF VOLUMES FROM THE CITADEL” as evidence of his street cred.

[pippinsqueaks]

[the-marvel-wars]

I need to talk about GoT 8x02

My thoughts on Game of Thrones 8x02 (grab a glass of wine because it’s a fucking ride and a half)

This will be moved over to my new blog for nerd reviews, Sounds Like Nerds.

WARNING: THIS WILL BE VERY SPOILER-Y AND FULL OF SWEARING!

PLEASE, IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THIS EPISODE, DO NOT READ THE SPOILERS!

IT’S SO HARD TO STAY AWAY WHEN YOU’RE CURIOUS AS HELL, BUT PLEASE DON’T LOOK AT THESE SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN THE EPISODE!

SPOILERS WILL BE BELOW THE CUT, SO IF YOU DON’T TURN AWAY NOW, I CAN’T BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SPOILERS YOU WILL SEE.

THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE.

ALRIGHT!

Let me be very clear that this episode brought about a slight meltdown for me. The little moments these characters had with one another broke me in half, and next week, I’ll be dead entirely. Resurrect me only to watch these episodes because life will mean nothing after “Avengers: Endgame” and GoT 8x03. I’m tired, dazed, very confused, and on the verge of a complete breakdown. While I still have some energy, here we fucking go.

That opening STILL gives me goosebumps after all these years, not gonna lie.

I lost my whole uterus when Daenerys stared down Jaime and was like, “yo, I always thought of how I would kill you. Here you are” (rough translation). I was like, “BiTcH nOoOoOoO”

ALSO, DAENERYS, HOW DARE YOU QUESTION TYRION! I FELT LIKE I WAS HALLUCINATING! Someone get me some water!

Sansa, a fucking goddess, the QUEEN IN THE NORTH, A RED WOLF. I DON’T GIVE A HOLY SHIT. I LOVE HER. I WANT HER IN MY LIFE FOREVER. TOUCH HER, AND I WILL BURN THE WHOLE WORLD TO THE GROUND!

“The things we do for love” -Jaime, 1x01

“The things we do for love” -Bran, 8x02

Me, during that scene:

Brienne standing up for Jaime the way she did is not helping my desperate need for them to get together. I’m trying to put OUT this fire, not add fuel to it, ffs.

When Sansa began speaking to Brienne after that, I was terrified that Sansa would be like “you vouch for him? You would fight beside him? Then you will suffer the same fate as him.” I was like, are they gonna get fed to the dragons? TaKe Me InStEaD!

Sansa giving Jaime a pass because of her respect for Brienne cleared my skin up, and I will breathe easier until I see Endgame on Thursday night. help.

LISTEN! Here’s my issue! Daenerys’ look at Sansa infuriated me when Sansa gave Jaime a pardon of sorts. Then, she’s like, “UH, JON! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS?!?!?!?!” like she’s just magically gonna get what she wants because they’re having………….the sex. Jon’s not gonna turn on his sister/cousin. I’m sorry, but don’t.

Bran just keeps staring at people. Just get that kid a blindfold, he’ll be less of a creep.

Me at Bran the ENTIRE episode:

Let me say this, I knew from the moment Arya did that little eyebrow lift at Gendry in the beginning of the episode, that they were gonna sex by the end of it. I’ve shipped it since they first met, and I will ship it until I die.

“It’s gonna be safer down in the crypt” -Gendry, totally oblivious to the little assassin Arya’s become.

“I know death. He’s got many faces. I look forward to seeing this one.” -Arya, giving me goosebumps while throwing dragonglass at a post. What a little fucking queen. Oh, God, take me away.

I lowkey want Arya to stare right into the face of the Night King, right into the face of death, and I just want her to say “not today” as a callback to season 1 and her training with Syrio Forel. Ugh. SHIT.

“Bran looks like a coconut” -my friend, 2k19

“At least Cersei won’t get to murder me” -Tyrion, giving me goosebumps because Bronn’s got that fucking crossbow of poetic justice, and I WILL NOT HAVE IT! TOUCH TYRION, AND I WILL RIOT!

Podrick has also gotten so much better with the sword, and I AM JUST SO PROUD!

“I’m not the fighter I used to be, but I’d be honored to serve under your command if you’ll have me” -Jaime, giving Brienne the credit she has always deserved, but that’s not even the best part. What happens later is what truly had me weeping.

I just want Jorah and Daenerys to kiss one time in a ship-fulfilling way. I just want him to be happy. I NEED him to be happy. Jorah fighting on behalf of Tyrion made me love him all the more, and if he dies, I WILL RIOT AGAIN!

The Sansa/Daenerys interaction had me quaking. I was literally sitting on the couch, head in my hands, shaking. I was both angry and relieved. While I’m upset they’re being pitted against one another, I’m relieved that they’re staying true to their characters. Sansa is true to her home and her people, Daenerys just wants to take what is rightfully hers (I mean, as we all know, it’s not TECHNICALLY hers *cough* Jon Snow). They’re both such headstrong women, and I hope they come together at some point. The women of this show would bring the entire population of Westeros to their knees.

Theon and Sansa reuniting had me in tears yet again. This episode was so fucking emotional for me, but I know that next week will break me even more.

“I want to fight for Winterfell, Lady Sansa, if you’ll have me” -Theon Greyjoy, reformed.

Those two have been through so much together (too much, really), and so much on their own. The fact that they are together again makes me so emotional. JUST KILL ME!

That little girl that Davos served made me cry AGAIN! He was reminded of Shireen. He wants to protect the little girl he couldn’t save.

Tormund TACKLING Jon like a quarterback was hilarious as shit in such a touching scene.

“The big woman still here?” -Tormund Giantsbane, the man who just wants some fuq

Seeing my favorite characters gathered around the command table made me shake with pure fucking fangirl excitement. It’s what I’ve wanted from the beginning.

“I took this castle from you. Let me defend you, now” -THEON GREYJOY oh my god, just bury me at this point with my collection of Marvel comics, my Star Wars pajamas, and my replica dragon eggs. Just put me to rest because I can’t. I cannot. I have been unable to can. No.

“We’re all going to die” -Tormund, putting it all out there like it’s no big deal. It’s a VERY BIG DEAL

Missandei and Greyworm having their little moment just drove home my fear that one of them is going to die before the end of the season, perhaps by the end of the next episode. WHEN YOU MAKE PROMISES IN THIS SHOW, YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP THEM! YOU FUCKING FICTIONAL CHARACTERS SHOULD KNOW THIS!

Ghost just chilling in the background of that scene with Sam, Jon, and Edd is a whole 2019 mood. He gets no attention, barely any screen time, and others may not even notice him. But not us. Not us.

I’M BEING SO SUPER SERIOUS RIGHT NOW, IF SAMWELL TARLEY DIES, I WILL FUCK EVERYONE UP IN THE WORST POSSIBLE WAY! I SWEAR TO THE WHOLE UNIVERSE! SAM IS THE LAST GOOD, PURE, INNOCENT CHARACTER IN THIS GOD FORSAKEN WORLD, AND IF HE GOES DOWN, I’M GOING DOWN, TOO! I WILL HAVE A COMPLETE AND UTTER MELTDOWN, AND MY THERAPIST WILL BE GETTING A CALL AT 10:30 AT NIGHT! IF HE DIES, YOU’LL CATCH MY WHOLE ASS PICKETING IN A WALMART PARKING LOT, WEEPING.

*ahem*

sorry.

The scene with everyone around the fire was such an incredibly beautiful scene.

Also, Tyrion pouring Podrick a full cup when Brienne clearly said “HALF” is a wholeass mood.

I’m scared that the characters by the fire are the ones who are going to bite it in the next episode, and I’m not ready. I’m just gonna blackout.

TORMUND TELLING THE STORY OF HOW HE GOT THE NAME “GIANTSBANE” MADE ME CACKLE. A BEAM OF PURE LIGHT IN THIS SAD, TERRIBLE UNIVERSE! I’m still laughing.

Arya and Sandor drinking together. Leave me alone, I’m weak. I can’t talk about this right now. I’m too emotional about it still. One of these little shits is gonna die in the next episode, and I just cannot.

“I fought for you, didn’t I?” -Sandor Clegane, coming in at the last moment to rip the soul from my body. Thanks.

HeLp!

“I’m not spending my final hours with you two miserable old shits” -Arya, about to go get her freak on with Gendry ;)

When Arya started talking about Gendry’s experience with women, my friend and I both looked at each other, knowing exactly what the shit was gonna happen. It was gonna be weird, but it was gonna happen no matter what.

When Gendry finally admitted that he had been with three women, I was like, “Arya’s gonna say some smooth shit, like “want to add a fourth?”” but I was gonna be happy no matter what because these two are cute as shit together.

Me, when they were doing...the...sex:

Also me:

“Women can’t be knights” -Brienne, laying down some realness

AND THEN JAIME KNIGHTED HER, AND I CRIED LIKE A LITTLE BITCH! I TURNED INTO A PUDDLE ON THE FUCKING GROUND BECAUSE I HAVE WAITED FOR THIS MOMENT FOR SO LONG! BRIENNE DESERVED THAT TITLE MORE THAN ANYONE I’VE EVER KNOWN, AND THIS WAS SO INSPIRING TO WATCH!

I cried, babies cried, my dogs probably fucking cried.

“ARISE BRIENNE OF TARTH, A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS”

oh my HOLY ASS!

I’m crying for my giant baby right now.

LYANNA MORMONT BEING A BABY QUEEN!

“I pledged to fight for the North, and I will fight!” -Lyanna Mormont, a little beast.

I PLEDGED TO FIGHT FOR THESE CHARACTERS, AND I WILL FIGHT FOR HER!

Sam gifting Jorah his family’s sword just drove home my suspicion that they won’t see each other again because ONE OF THEM IS GONNA DIE! SO HELP ME GOD, I WILL BURN IT DOWN! I’M GONNA FUCKSTART MY TV NEXT WEEK, AND I’M GONNA THROW UP!

Jenny’s Song.

Jenny’s Song.

Jenny’s Song.

shit.

Jon telling Daenerys about his lineage had my heart POUNDING in my chest. I DO NOT want this to be a rivalry. I don’t want it. I do not...want it. Not at all. I want it a negative amount. None want. Will not support.

I’m not ready for next week.

I’m not ready for any of this.

I will never be ready!

MY LITTLE, GROWN UP BABIES ARE GOING TO DIE! I’VE WATCHED THIS SHOW FOR LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT NOT EVERYONE IS MAKING IT OUT OF THIS SHIT ALIVE! I’M GONNA GO DOWN WITH WHOEVER DIES NEXT WEEK. I WILL BE BURIED WITH THEM, SO HELP ME ASS! I’M GONNA PUKE!

Honestly, this episode made me so fucking emotional. I think it sunk in that these characters I’ve been following for so many years through the books and show, are likely to meet their end so soon. I’m just having a hard time grasping this concept, and it started to sink in tonight. I’ve read these books since I was a young teen, and I started watching the show when it was coming out (against my father’s wishes). I’ve followed these stories for such a long time, and a lot is going to happen this week for me, between Endgame and this upcoming episode. I’m experiencing too many emotions, and my body may just decide to shut down altogether. Who knows?

[sophmp3]

Arya: *watches and checks out Gendry while he’s working*

Gendry: don’t you have something better to do?

Arya:

[b-juned-91]

Basically what the Game of Thrones fandom will look like next week:

[miss-machine]

Podrick Payne had the best Game of Thrones glow up of all.