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I get why everyone is hyping but I don't know why they would because we have the important information about Jon anyway.

Finally catching up on Billions Season 2 at the moment.

Had two accumulators tonight of about 20/1 each miss out by 1 goal thanks to Fulham and Nice not scoring, and a 35/1 BTTS and Win treble (Fulham, Aston Villa, Leicester) fall down on Fulham being unable to beat Bristol Rovers at home. Needless to say, Fulham can fuck off. Also a decent sized bet on a Middlesbrough/Sevilla double at just over Evens, so Sevilla can get fucked too.

Cersei surviving let alone sitting the throne at the end would be a horrendous ending. People fall into the trap of thinking that the moral of the story is that ruthless/bad guys win in this world but that's not true. The story is, at it's core, actions having consequences whether you're a good or bad person. The whole story is about people doing things because they think they need to and then having to live with the results. Ned thought it was right to be honest and honorable even when he was backed into a corner, he died for it. Jon thought it was right to bring the wildlings through the wall, he died for it. Robb thought it was fine to marry for love and break his vow to Walder Frey, he and his mother died for it. It's not JUST the good guys though. Tywin thought it was fine to treat his children like dynastic pawns and he eventually died for it. Joffrey thought he could be as cruel as he wanted when he was King, he died for it. Cersei slept with her brother, cuckolded and then killed the King she was married to, did loads of other shady shit, and blew up the Westeros equivalent of the Vatican. Okay her consequences were the walk of shame and Tommen's suicide but she hasn't learned as she's still willing to tell the world she's having Jaime's child, deal with it, and she's planning to pull a trick at this parlay with Daenerys. She can't end up on the throne, consequences!

Howland Reed (Meera's father) was at the Tower of Joy so he probably knows.

1. I reckon he has a role to play in untangling the Sansa Arya Littlefinger issue. 2. Not sure but I think he might stop off at his family home again and find out about his father and brother, or possibly find out on the road and go to see his mother and sister as a result. 3. Cersei is surely going to try something at this meeting but I don't know what. 4. Not yet unless he makes it back to Winterfell in this episode and sees Bran. 5. Don't think so. 6. I think so but not sure how, the dragon is surely not big enough on it's own. 7. Yes, please god. 8. How can he?

I know this is the internet but not everything has to be so black and white. You can criticise a tv show without being a book snob or a whiny bitch. Also the writers can't really use a lack of source material as an excuse for some of the things they've been criticised for. They're writers, shockingly that will involve them having to write material and as they've probably made more off this show than the last several generations of most families, most fans might just hope it's of a high quality. Again, let's not try to be black and white here and think this means I hate the show, I still love the show but if I criticise elements of it I won't burst into flames.

Sansa had a line in the trailer - "the lone wolf dies but the pack survives". We haven't yet had this line so it must be in the finale. Her father's words from season one used to convince Arya of her loyalty, or to convince Bran to stop being the three eyed raven and be a Stark/wolf for one minute to solve the Littlefinger and Arya issue. If not one of those two, it's a pro-Stark unity line, still confident the girls sort their shit out and end Baelish.

No, just think it was sloppy writing. If the Night King had some sort of future seeing ability there's been absolutely no indication of that during the show or books before now.

Haven't looked back personally but people on reddit are saying there was some rotting ship on/in the lake where they probably got the chains.

My thoughts below...

12 hours left to avoid any more spoilers - am I the only one who hasn't watched yet?

Funny because it's true.

Cheeky cunt with those comments today. Chelsea owe him nothing and should add £5m to the price in response to this nonsense.

Yeah you can't expect to keep all the intrigue. It used to be interesting to see what Little finger, Varys, Tyrion, Cersei etc. were plotting now cards are pretty much on the table. The early seasons were great for the intrigue, scheming and character development. The later seasons naturally lose a lot of that because they have to finish the story but they're still great or at least good for the massive battle scenes and the end game of every major character's stories. I'm a book reader but after the show had got through a few seasons. I'd certainly rather have read GRRM's version before seeing it on the show but that's life. There are bits I don't like about the show and the writing in it which I'll openly say but it's still much better television than pretty much anything else that's on so I plan to just appreciate that.

Already seen one spoiler on the title of a YouTube video but not sure it's real as I don't see the two characters involved being in the same place by the end of next episode....

I've read that the Targaryens inter married because the silver hair Valyrian look is a recessive trait. E.G. a female Targaryen married Robert Baratheon's grandfather and the Baratheon family all inherited the black hair of their ancestors. I can't remember whether this was a theory or real though.

Sake, HBO Spain accidentally put the next episode online last night so the rest of this week looks like hiding in a bunker away from social media and spoilers again. Someone even posted a shortened 52 minute version on Facebook today, I saw the first few seconds of the episode. Be careful out there guys and if you're going to watch a hookie version, it sounds like there are some 54ish minute links missing some of the footage and some 67 minutes long which are the full episode. Don't spoil me though or I'll explode your head .

It's all about Spennymoor Town in National League North who beat Bradford PA 3-0 tonight to make it three wins out of three. Newly promoted after coming up through the playoffs last season.

Leyton Orient slapped 6-1 at Bromley tonight while Torquay lose 4-2 at home to Boreham Wood and Tranmere draw 0-0 at Guiseley. 3-3 draws between Dagenham & Redbridge - Ebbsfleet and Solihull Moors - Barrow so an eventful night in the National League. Aldershot conceded a late equaliser at Maidenhead but are still top after four games with three wins and a draw.

I shall have to watch The Wire...

Logically they'd have sailed from Dragonstone to Eastwatch all the way up the East Coast. Even stopping off at White Harbour would have added about 40% extra journey length. It does make me laugh though how in Season 2 it took Davos and Stannis an entire season to get from Dragonstone, to Storms End, then to Kings Landing. This episode Davos travelled from Dragonstone to Kings Landing, back to Dragonstone, then all the way to the wall in one hour.

Deulofeu couldn't hold down a place in the Everton side ahead of the likes of Mirallas, Bolasie and Barkley, then AC Milan I believe chose not to take the option to buy after he was loaned there - might be wrong on that second detail. Given his obvious talent it's not impossible that he succeeds at Barcelona but why they've found themselves in a situation where a player who was loaned from Everton because he wasn't in the first team is now starting against Real Madrid is beyond me.

I do agree with this. The show hasn't been the same from season 5 onwards, rather it has become a still very good show with moments where it still reaches the heights of the "good old days". Fan service is definitely how I'd describe a lot of the stuff from this season and the last one too, I find it frustrating, especially stuff like the shot of the "squad" heading beyond the wall in this episode of popular peripheral characters which if we're honest half of them have been brought back more for popularity than for the story.

I can understand the travelling being faster now. Part of it is down to them rushing it admittedly but part of it is down to there only being 4-5 story lines. At the start of Season 5, for example, every episode or two you had to have scenes for each of these story threads: - Jon Snow, Sam and Stannis at Castle Black - Roose, Ramsay and Theon at Winterfell - Arya arriving in Braavos - Sansa and Littlefinger in The Vale - Brienne and Podrick searching for the Stark girls - Jaime and Bronn travelling to Dorne - Cersei, Margaery, Tommen and the Sparrows - Tyrion travelling East with Varys - Dany ruling in Slavers Bay For most of this season it's been narrowed down to: - Dany, Tyrion, Jon and Co all at Dragonstone - Cersei and Jaime in Kings Landing - The Starks and Littlefinger at Winterfell - Sam and Gilly in Oldtown You're probably going to each location more than twice as often so this year in one episode the story advances for each character about as much as what used to take maybe three episodes.