GAME OF THRONES - S6E9 BATTLE OF THE BASTARDS 2AM ONWARDS SPOILERS/THEORIES ETC ENTER AT PERIL

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THIS THREAD IS FOR THE EPISODE TITLED BATTLE OF THE BASTARDS

FIRST UK SHOWING 2AM 20/6/16

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AND WHAT DO WE SAY TO THOSE WHO ASK IF SANSA IS MARRIED TO TYRION OR RAMSEY?

WE SAY THAT MIGHT RESOLVE ITSELF THIS WEEK!

WARNING THAT MANY OF US HAVE READ THE BOOKS AND DISCUSS PLOTS CHARACTERS AND BACKSTORIES THAT HAVE YET TO APPEAR/MAY NOT APPEAR IN THE SHOW

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WE SAY NOT TODAY!!!!

Wow!!

I loved that battle - properly gory (though Jon completely ignored Sansa, didn't he)

Is the Bolton sigil supposed to be a union flag?

I'm now watching it again.

The flayed man.

Whoah
That was epic. I loved it. I thought they had fucking had it when they did that deadly circle formation. Poor wun wun.
The Ramsay sigil is a flayed man upside down on a cross

Yes, but ultimately Ramsey was the flayed man. Did you not see his fingers?

OMG!!

Silly women - they know nothing Jon Snow! Smirking LF, I sometimes wish he'd get his, but he's deffo there for the long haul. He'll be getting his hands on Winterfell next from the trailer.

I was holding my breath when Jon was stuck underneath everyone!! Horrible flashbacks to a doc I've just seen on Hillsborough.

Eaten by his own hounds - what a way to go! I did love Sansa's turn back to watch, just to make sure!

Poor old Wun Wun 😢

Just marking my space for later though it sounds like I have a fantastic episode to come

I've never watched at 2am before, but woke up at 1.56. I think my body clock was trying to tell me GOT was on.

Anyway, an amazing episode. I usually get bored with long action sequences but the battle was incredible. I'm a bit of a medieval history nerd and the hideous rawness of the battle seemed incredibly realistic.

I live really close to the site of the Battle of Towton which was the bloodiest battle of the wars of the Roses (the bloodiest ever on British soil I think) and have been on a few tours of it with experts and read lots of books. That too was fought in the snow, and is described pretty much exactly how the battle went down on got last night. Men trying to climb over piles of bodies, men just hacked to pieces, being driven back with nowhere to go. I think (I suppose as far as we can know) that it was an incredibly true depiction of what it would have been like. It also reminded me a bit of the first part of Saving Private Ryan.

Poor Rickon - he had a miserable life really. I hope Sansa stays tough and does not consider uniting with Littlefinger.

Fuck. Ing. Hell.

Just sitting here letting all the feels sink in now.

OMG

Just watched it, forgot it was a longer episode so when I paused it to get coffee I thought it was going to end with Jon under the bodies.

I hated Sansa both in the books and the first series, she has grown on me and learned from everything she has been through.

Now as Ramsey's widow she should inherit the Dreadfort.

At a number of points I wondered if Sansa was hoping for the death of Jon. All those secret smiles.

That battle really irritated me. Even though it's a TV programme.

If Sansa had happened to mention she had a massive army arriving sometime soon, their battle strategy would have been completely different. Thousands of men died because... why? She knew they were coming. She could have let them delay for a while.

Why didn't she tell him? All she did was warn him not to fall for Ramsay's messing. Well, duh. And then she looked all smug when Littlefinger finally turned up, as if she'd proven something.

Got up at 5.30 to watch. Fucking hell - what an episode.

And does Tyrion's mention of the wildfire under the Sept of Baelor tell us what Cersei is going to do?

Did she know they were coming though? Or did she just write to littlefinger and hope?
I also suspect there is a lady stoneheart growing in Sansa, I hope not but I wonder whether she is the stark girl who has been most damaged by her experiences rather than arya. They both have resilience but arya has more agency and power (or did until this episode)

Hello! Not seen it yet, but impatient.

Was there any indication who the burning flayed bodies on the crosses were? (As seen in the trailer)

No to the burning bodies.

Yes to BelfastBloke - I thought the same about Sansa. Withholding the information that she'd asked for LF's help was more than "I didn't know if he'd come or when" "I don't know anything about battles".

Hope Jon and/or Davos call her on it.

Judging from the trailer he will call her on it. But I thought it was unforgivable.

Bugger - didn't post

She knew they were going to be there, she was riding with them! LF must have sent word.

Shame Brienne (of Tarth, if you didn't know) and Pop didn't make it back, but at least they're not dead!

I've started now.
Go dragons.

I honestly thought they might suffocate Jon Snow in the mud. Now that would have been hardcore.

How do we feel about Dany/Yara? I'm kind of tempted, if only to see Daario put in his place.

Wow. That was absolutely amazing. I don't think my heartrate's got back to normal yet. Re Littlefinger - Sansa knows he's not to be trusted, so maybe she didn't want to tell Jon until she was sure he was actually going to turn up. I was watching this on my own at home (fortunately) as I got up and started dancing around and cheering when the Arryn army turned up.

Great episode. Loved the Mereen parts as well as the BoB. Dany and Yara were great together.

Not normally a big fan of the set piece battles but quite enjoyed this. Really portrayed the confusion of the battlefield. The getting trapped and crushed sequence was so claustrophobic (in a good way).

Kept waiting for Karstarks/Umbers to turncloak. Is this the end of the great north conspiracy theories? For the show at least.

Tormund and Davos live on - yay. I'll share a drink of sour goats milk in his tent any day

The director of this episode is also the director of the 'Hardhome' White walkers attack last season. I did think that episode was a remarkable piece of telly in a way that this 'BATTLE OF THE BASTARDS 'one wasn't. But I am warming to the episode, despite my aforementioned (08.08.42) irritation with Sansa's secrecy.

There's a fascinating interview with the director about how he shot the battle www.ew.com/article/2016/06/19/game-thrones-battle-director

How he initially drew from the Battle of Agincourt, but how it morphed into other more ancient historical battles; and how the suffocation of Jon came about without it having been planned or storyboarded.

Varys was sent on his Top Secret Mission so he can’t form that Theon-Varys-Grey Worm eunuch super-hero group - “Ex-Men”