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I just finished season 6 and have two comments regarding The Battle of the Bastards:

1) Ramsay Bolton is using a special type of bow when he releases Rickon to run across the battlefield. It uses counter-balanced arms in addition to the regular arms. This is apparently a specially designed bow for Ramsay because nobody else is using one. I have never seen one outside of the show and wondered if it had a real-world application. I looked it up and found it to be called a Micmac or Penobscot bow.

2) Why didn't Wun Wun have a weapon? Give that giant a whittled down tree truck to use as a mace or something!


Variation of a compound bow maybe?

Edit: Found this, Micmac or Penobscot Bow
https://www.quora.com/What-kin...ttle-of-the-Bastards


Clearly, you didn't read my entire post about it. I already named it.



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2) Why didn't Wun Wun have a weapon? Give that giant a whittled down tree truck to use as a mace or something!


A scythe would have been quite effective.
 
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Link to original video: https://youtu.be/yqq5rM3nfPA



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31 hours and counting!!!




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I've been watching five or six episodes per day in the past week to catch up. I finished watching Season 7, Episode 6 on Friday but am waiting to watching Episode 7 right before the Season 8 premiere. Razz

I saw Kit Harrington's interview on The Graham Norton Show and felt sad for him when he related that after the show had wrapped, a fan asked him if he was Jon Snow and he sadly replied, "Not anymore."
https://youtu.be/oC-GdmsDvEk



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BREAKING: Jon Snow is really Senator Palpatine! (Why is he hunched over like this?)




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BREAKING: Jon Snow is really Senator Palpatine! (Why is he hunched over like this?)



I would guess as an allegory on the burden of leadership. It is also a similar pose to the one Ned Stark was in for season 1.



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It is also a similar pose to the one Ned Stark was in for season 1.


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I just realized something from that photo: Ned Stark didn't wield Ice as an EDC, so why would he bring it with him to King's Landing?



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A little disappointed it was only an hour long but glad to be back in it. It'll be a long week until the next episode.

Oh, and the opening credits are really well done. It's a nice touch that would have been cool to see in previous seasons.



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I'm glad most of the episode took place at Winterfell. It was really good to see everyone coming back together. I personally think there's gonna be a day when Cersei hands Euron's testicles to him on a silver platter...just don't think she's diggin' the scene as much as Euron is.

Hopefully there's a replay of Ep. 1 during the week...I'll need to watch it again a couple of times to digest it.



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I say Snow will kill Daenarys in front of her dragons in an episode 7 year jerker.

Or...here’s my theory...Tarly asked Snow if “she”(Daenarys) would give up the crown/life etc, like Snow did. This could be foreshadowing that she will give up everything to save everyone or her ice dragon...to accomplish this, she dies in dramatic fashion.
 
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That episode was too short.




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That episode was too short.

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I thought each episode was supposed to be much longer in length...

Enjoyed it nonetheless



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It was speculation that all the episodes would be 90 minutes. HBO released the run times about a month back with the first two episodes being close to one hour, and the remaining episodes being closer to 80 minutes.




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I like Bran's "I'm waiting for a friend"...who happens to be Jaimie.

Or he's just always in the courtyard like a pervy Professor X because there are no wheelchair ramps....


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Or he's just always in the courtyard like a pervy Professor X because there are no wheelchair ramps....


And Hodor's not around to schlep him up and down the stairs any more.
 
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So it's true that Daenerys is hoping for 8 inches of snow?
 
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