Jamie and Bronn will both be captured.

Drogon will die (poisoned bolt to the shoulder) just like Khal Drogo did, with a shoulder infection.

Arya will kill peter Baylish with the catspaw dagger.

Vayres won't be around for long, unless he has one more trick up his sleve. His story arc is done.

Greyworm won't make it back to Mesandi, their sex scene sealed his fate. G.R.R.M builds these attachments then tears them apart. (Dead by the end of the season)

Tormund will die at eastwatch by the sea. There will be a big battle. I don't expect him to live.

Everyone with a valyrian sword will live till the final battle. Jon, arya, brianne, Jamie, and Sam.

....that is all for now. I've got a prediction for how it will all end, but I think I'm right and don't want to spoil it completely.

This is not entirely true.

The prophecy in the show stops short of explaining crecsi's death. It just says that her kids will die before her.

In the books it says that she will die from the younger sibling. She always thought it was going to be Tyrian, but it could be Jamie because he's younger by a couple minutes.....

Although the prophecy was in old Valyrian, which is gender neutral and is not necessarily her younger sibling. So it could be any younger sibling, maybe Arya.

Have you seen the show? I get that Jon being Roberts true son could be possible in the books; the foreshadowing all over the place and could support that theory. But the show has just basically confirmed it. They didn't spoon feed it to the audience but all the clues are there. And incest is common among Targaryen.

I have no doubt that G.R.R.M is a much better writer then dan and dave and that the books ending will not leave as many holes/questions. Possibly G.R.R.M is purposely waiting for the show to finish. so that his true story will differ enough from the show that it will leave room for the license to be remade in 20 years, just like the rest of Hollywoods assets.

Think LOTR; that was attempted before with the cartoon from the 70's and might someday be remade again, considering how popular they were

I don't think cost is a major issue, it's a very popular show. I heard last week that all of the remaining episodes will be longer than normal. Last sunday was about 1h15m and I heard next season some episodes will be 1h30m. That's almost like a movie for each episode; even if it's only 6 episodes.

The pacing has suffered because G.R.R.M only provided the show writers with bullet points on how things will unfold, it's been left up to them to connect the bullet points into the ending of the story. (I'm sure the books will be better) because of this slimmed down plot leading up to the final battle the show writers had to create drama artificially, like the Arya and Sansa BS. We all know that the characters are smarter then what's been shown to us in this episode.

As soon as we passed book content the shows quality has declined. During the early seasons there were direct quotes from the books that they could use for dialogue, but now Some of the things they have people say and do is not on par with the earlier seasons. I love the show but I'm at the point now where I just have to sit back and enjoy where the ride takes us. Dan and dave have done a great job with the show, but I think that G.R.R.M will do the ending better then anything they dream up.

That's the mountain, he's the hounds brother; he's the one that gave him the burnt scar on his face. The mountain died during trial by combat to save Tyrian (the imp). He was killed by a poisonous spear tip stab right before he crushed in the skull of Tyrians hero.

He was resurrected by Qiburn, the man that is now Cersie's "Hand of the King". He was a maester that was kicked out of the order for doing crazy experiments with the dead/living. It was interesting how he dealt with the undead soldier at the meeting. He didn't seem scared as much as fascinated by it. Maybe he will play a role in season 8 when the dead are knocking on the door of kings landing.

The best part is that talking about everything is on the table, no fear of spoilers, everything is just a theory. Anyone that has said they saw a leaked season 8 script is complete bs.

I wonder, if Cresi hires the Golden Company to aid her what will happen.....could the golden co. be led by Dario Naharis (Danny's ex boyfriend). He was a hired mercenary before they met. Would he double cross Cersi and joint the fight in the north? Would he be pissed that Danny has a new man? At any rate they mentioned the golden company is 20 000 men; would that be enough to stop the undead or dothraki?

I think that the war in the north will be lost. Everyone will have to retreat south.

Kings landing has high walls, maybe that will keep them safe.......nope

The nights king will breach the city walls and it will be wildfire that saves the world.

Everyone will die. The heros, the villains....everyone.

Magic is gone from the land. But your left with a feeling of better times ahead.

Sam will be safe in old town. Writing the whole story....the story of ice and fire.

Hahaha.

I don't get this. I don't think anyone is going to "win" the game of thrones. This is not a comedy. It will not end with a happy ending. I think everyone on that list will die. If anyone is going to live from the main characters it will be Sam, I believe that in the end he will be shown as the author of the story.

This was foreshadowed when the maester was telling Sam about the name of the book that he was writing. Sam commented that the name could be something more poetic. I think sams book will be called the story of ice and fire.

I though it was a great episode. Hit all the right bases to move the season along.

I throughly enjoyed the episode. Didn’t get the whole battle, but I guess if you dont think to hard it works out. Or maybe I’m missing something.

I thought that if you killed an undead with dragon glass that that turned to dust, also I thought a Valyrian sword turned the undead to dust, but that must just be the white walkers.

Everyone living (other then the Dothraki) had a weapon of either dragon glass or Valyrian steel, so all of the undead should have turned to dust as the battle went on.

So, when the Night King raises the dead half way through the battle, is he only raising the newly killed winterfell soldiers? Because I thought it looked like all of the “undead” were being reanimated. Did Jon and team first kill all of the undead, then have to kill all of their fallen friends?

What about when they kill the Night King, the bad guys (undead) all start turning to dust, yet there’s lots of bodies to clean up after the fight, wouldn’t those bodies have been reanimated by the Night King and dusted when he died?

I’m sure there’s a logical progression of events that I’m missing, I’ll have to watch it again.

I don’t think that Dan and Dave will have anything to do with the prequel series. HBO and George are bringing this into fruition, and George has written a couple extra books in the last couple years detailing the history of the Targaryens and first men.

After season 5 or 6 I watched an interview with the show creators, Dan and dave. At that time they commented how HBO wanted LOTS MORE Game of Thrones, but they were running out of steam on the project ant wanted to see the ending in 8 seasons. Not long after that we started to hear mention of “spinoffs”. Turns out that the spinoffs were in fact going into pilot production and are prequels to the story.

You do understand that a prequel is BEFORE our current story, none of the same characters involved. The end has been written, but what about the beginning? The 1st prequel is going to be called The Long Night (same as the title of the last episode; #3). This could show us the fight with the first men and the children of the forest, the creation of the white walker, how they drove him back last time. It could detail the first Starks, or the creation of winterfell.

Another prequel could be the doom of Valyria. How dragons were trained and then ultimately wiped out.

How about the story’s of Duncan and egg? There’s enough for another series there.

You’ll get more.

I like these episode breakdowns done by New Rockstars

I think the white walkers have always been the "B" plot. Just like the title says, it's all about the game of thrones. Everything else is just distractions. But this is just the TV show.

The books are a song of fire and ice. I'm going to assume the books wont follow the same events as the show for their ending

I’m amazed at people that can’t suspend belief and just enjoy the entertainment for what it is. It seems like everyone is an armchair quarterback these days, even without real experience, too many people feel like their an expert and would do better then the professionals.

I’ll agree mistakes have been made, and the quality of the show has dropped off since the end of season 5, but that doesn’t make me enjoy it less. After all I’m watching THEIR SHOW, not MY SHOW. This is how they tell the story, not how I would tell the story.

I’m glad that I’m not the only one that thinks the show writers did well
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Here’s a fan made trailer for the comedy Arya and the Hound.
https://vimeo.com/334729441/d687d2215d?cjevent=4b7aa1a1728411e9837500660a1c0e14

Sounds like you just lost all respect for Stephen King then. How certain are you that he’s been hacked?

The majority of the population dont tweet, and for those that do, it's a small percentage that tweet the most.

So if were judging by whom yells loudest is right, then by all means grab as many tweets as you like. I think Stephen's track record speaks for its self when it comes to literary works, that's why I chose those pics to repost.

(Fyi i dont use Twitter, i read them on The Chive)

The show never mentioned that she will die at the hand of her younger sibling. It just said that she would have 3 kids that all die.

Jamie mentioned that he wanted to die in the arms of the woman he loved.

GRRM’s books are not Dan and Dave’s show.

I liked the episode. War is not supposed to be easy or fun. I liked that vares died for no reason, that chaos erupted, that innocent was murdered. This was very gritty and dirty and nasty. Such a contrast to other battles that the show has done before. Soldiers going crazy. Jon was having trouble controlling his troops. Then Jon snow is shown killing his own man, (when Jon was stopping him from raping that girl, then he turns to kill Jon in rage.) I think that moment is when a little of jon’s Honor was tested, before that moment I don’t think he would have killed his own men, now he sees the destruction all around and gets jaded. Now he’s the man that can kill Danny, she was his queen, now she’s the enemy.

I liked the white Walker story line. It wasnt useless. It showed that even facing certain doom people couldn't get their shit together and solve the bigger problem. I think its appropriate for a "B" villan

3 minutes of game of Thrones actors being disappointed with the last season.

Tyrion vs. Monty Python

I disagree.

Everyone is criticizing the shows writing for the last 2 seasons, I’ll agree that’s been poorly done. But, the show overall is still fantastic. It’s would be hard for anyone to criticize the acting, set design, musical score, costume design, cinematography, special effects, ect.

How can you criticize a scene with no dialogue? Without words you can feel that emotion coming through, the actors have portrayed the characters well. The blame lies in writing, nothing else. Dan and dave didn’t have the creativity to properly see the show through to completion as well as GRRM (probably) could have. But we won’t know until the books are complete, it might turn out that the books end relatively close to the shows ending. I doubt it, but we won’t know for sure until the books are finished.

I think this is a great show.

Kings landing being torched to Metallica’s for whom the bell tolls

Well he’s going to be running the show up north, so it’s kinda like he’s king of the free folk, Sansa is queen of the north, and bran gets to rule the south.

Tell that to the unsullied whom want to kill Jon.

I’m kinda surprised the dragon didn’t blast him with fire.

Bran is the Internet, a master of whisperers is the google search bar.

I think the books will flip the order of the final battles and ultimately the Night King will be the final villain

The old three eye raven (aka,Brendan rivers. Aka,bloodraven, aka,Targaryen bastard) would have had the power of foresight too. The pieces were getting put in place way back in the first couple seasons. But the show doesn’t spoon feed you this Information you really need to pay attention to family connections and history. Bran wasn’t bran at the end, he even told us this.

I think this will be revealed in a prequel story. I don’t think the average show watcher gets the cyclical timeline. Bran the builder, Bran the broken, both the same?

Here’s two videos explaining the ending. The first one predicted bran would be king weeks before the final show.

And the second give a decent in-depth breakdown

Bran since he’s become the three eyed raven is actually a Targaryen bastard; one that waits in a hole under a tree until Jogen Reid and his sister bring him a little crippled stark boy that he can dump his mind into. Then he “lets it all happen anyways” and “let’s himself be King” because as a Targaryen bastard he’d never sit on the throne.

Mind = blown

Here’s a great video, it has a bit on the next episode, a behind the scenes / making of / bonus footage show. It also has a lot of the history of Westeros that will be featured in the upcoming prequel series.

This YouTuber is called Emergency Awesome, and he’s got videos breaking down each episode from the beginning. They’re a great watch for anyone wanting to learn a bit more.

Another video breakdown. Jump to 15min mark to get to bran’s plan from the beginning.

Chaos is a ladder and Bran is the best climber.

That's a good one.

Ya might want to rewatch the series. Game of Thrones is not the story where good things happen to good people, quite often bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people. Also, Jon from the very first episode wanted to travel to the wall and live in the north, other then Bran, he’s probably the only character that actually got what they wanted.

If you didn’t like the ending, then this video might help you with some of the subtleties of the story that the show failed to convey to the audience.