Finally a very good episode.
Game Of Thrones
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I'm really liking the season thus far. This has been an exciting episode, but I felt the first two had plenty of interesting plot development.
The Blue Elephant
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I'm still not over the Iron Islands went from being a weak banner nation of the north to a naval superpower this season defeating the Dorne's ships and now this episode the Unsullied ships.
The Iron Born have always been the naval power. They problem is that they get thumped anytime they fight an army on land. They were a banner nation of the north because they tried to fight there way inland and got trampled. If they had stuck to raiding costal towns/villages and basically being pirates they would have faired better.
Also the 'Dorn" ships were not Dornish, they were Iron Born rebel ships. The leader of Dorn and her daughters were only hitching a ride.
The Blue Elephant
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Dorne is 1 of the seven kingdoms and a coastal area as well (like all the other kingdoms) so I imagine they would have some sort of navy. The fact that a split up Iron Island fleet beat them seems like a reverse deus ex machina for me to make the cersei vs daenarys fight more dramatic and a way to kill of characters since we have too many. After looking elsewhere online no one else is having this problem and I guess I build up Dorne too much in my head. This season seems like daenarys (and allies vs cersei and next season daenarys (and allies) vs white walkers/others.
It was not a Dorn fleet. In the show they straight up ask Yara to take the Dorn queen home. The Iron Born fleet under Euron attacked and sank rebels. Not the Dornish fleet.
Tons of time warping and teleportation in Westeros these days.
That's one thing that really has the books bogged down, people taking A LOT of time getting from one place to the next and GRRM feeling the need to chronicle every step along the way. But the show has gone too far in the other direction.
First Euron build a huge fleet in no time at all. Then he teleports it to wherever it needs to be whenever it needs to be there.
John Snow makes it from one end of the continent to the other with apparently nothing eventful happening on his journey.
Just look at the map and realize Euron was first at King's Landing, then intercepted the rebel Iron fleet headed to Dorn, then delivered his hostages back to King's Landing, then intercepted the Unsullied fleet at Casterly Rock. He's got some fast ships!
That's one thing that really has the books bogged down, people taking A LOT of time getting from one place to the next and GRRM feeling the need to chronicle every step along the way. But the show has gone too far in the other direction.
First Euron build a huge fleet in no time at all. Then he teleports it to wherever it needs to be whenever it needs to be there.
John Snow makes it from one end of the continent to the other with apparently nothing eventful happening on his journey.
Just look at the map and realize Euron was first at King's Landing, then intercepted the rebel Iron fleet headed to Dorn, then delivered his hostages back to King's Landing, then intercepted the Unsullied fleet at Casterly Rock. He's got some fast ships!
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I agree. Plus the iron fleet is only half strength (or less) anyway since most of the iron fleet was team Dany (following Theon's sister)
But no one in Dorne(at least not a major character) is left.
Does Danny lose all of Dorne? Are they thrust into Civil War?
The Blue Elephant
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Even if Dorne (which has a capital located on the coast) had zero ships they were still on Yara's ships and the Iron Islands defeated the fleet by boarding onto them WWE style and dueling them in hand to hand combat.
The Blue Elephant
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HBO hacked which includes the script for Game of Thrones being leaked apparently.
http://gizmodo.com/someone-hacked-into-hbo-and-is-now-releasing-game-of-th-1797397619?IR=T
http://gizmodo.com/someone-hacked-into-hbo-and-is-now-releasing-game-of-th-1797397619?IR=T