So far it looks like the supposed leaks are real.

which is pretty fucking awful to me

More like they don't know what the fuck they're doing.

Characters now don't even have the same interactions, personalities and nuances as before. Instead they outright say what they're thinking every time as if they were talking encyclopedias. To make up for it the writers through in a dick joke or a fart joke here and there, just in case you weren't already weary of them after the thousandth time.

The Tower of Joy fight...no emotion or somberness to it, you don't get the feeling that these are noble men doing what has to be done. They really made it like any other skirmish. Bran looks on as if he's staring at paint dry, not the fucking greatest swordsman who ever lived in action, only to say at the end. "He's better than my dad." and "Oh look, he stabbed him" as if the viewers aren't smart enough to see what's right in front of them.

Oh forgot about the other Stark boy they better not kill another Stark.

This is what I wanted to complain about. The dialogue is so dry and straight forward. We've lost Martin's metaphors and allegories that kept everything mysterious, but if you were planning close attention, you could piece together the clues. These writers are freakin terrible, which is sad, because I've read David Benioff's novel 'City of Thieves' and it's one of my favorite novels of all-time (not kidding). But his contribution to Game of Thrones? HORRIBLE! It makes me feel like he had a ghost writer for his novel.

Forget about him. We need more screen time for Ramsey. /GoT writers

I've always been a pretty casual fan and this season hasn't gotten me super excited nor has it dissuaded me from continuing watching

I had put my thoughts from today's episode in the largest thread ever.. I feel it would be better to post my thoughts here..

Just watched Game of thrones.. What an ending.. Truly amazing! I don't want to spoil so I can't say much.

About damn time they brought Littlefinger back. I can't wait to see what his great plan is. Bolton is one cold blooded little bastard. I hate that punk so much.. Jon and Sansa have very good chemistry working together - Sansa beautiful as always.

Emilia Clarke is truly truly drop dead gorgeous! What more can I say about her? I thought she was breathtaking the moment I laid my eyes upon her in the very first episode.. I think I have the biggest crush on her from the show.. she is beautiful person on talk shows I have seen her on too <3 <3

And the Ramseywinslol trend continues...

Outside of that, a very good episode. Finally they're making some legit pushes in the plot.

Don't know about timid, but doubtful . And makes sense, since he literally was dead just about 48 hours ago in the show. Don't think he's too eager to get into battle and do/see killing again. Getting stabbed must give the mother of all ptsd's 

great episode, the dany scene at the end was a little....odd

I am intrigued on Brans story in next weeks episode.....white walkers finally making a appearance, whether it is in the past or present still good to show them again

Continuing the trend of really really good episodes.

I like this.

Sorry guys, long post. It is my thought process as I try to wrap my mind around what just happened. Maybe it might help somebody else figure it out.

Quick explanation of that ending making sense.. goes a bit into theoretical physics.

Quick short background..
So you probably already know that our world has 3 dimensions and you may know that the 4th dimension is time, which we cannot manipulate but can experience as 3-dimensional beings. Now, there is a possibility that an extraterrestrial being out there could be 4th dimensional being. This being can manipulate all 3 dimensions of space and 4th dimension of time (but cannot control it). A 5th dimensional being can control time, which was represented in the movie Interstellar if you ever saw it with the future humans who made the black hole from a different time (what Bran is doing, a 4th dimensional being can do).

Game of Thrones has become very similar with Bran having the powers equivalent to a 4-dimensional being.

For the game of thrones world, Bran and the old man have such power so you can literally say they are a different species entirely with the powers they have to manipulate time. We knew that they could see into the past so we thought they were just not really there and that they had no influence on the past or present. This episode proved the exact opposite!

SPOILERS BELOW *** WARNING** EPISODE SPOILERS **

Bran can absolutely change the events of the past! Everytime he changes the past, the future MUST change as well kind of like the butterfly effect. In the case of Hodor, he was normal guy but he started chanting Hodor because Bran had gone back in time in the same moment when the whitewalkers were heading to the cave. Bran fucked up by warging to the past at the wrong time and not returning to the present at the right time.

Here's one major issue that breaks this whole plot apart logically.. it is a paradox well-documented with the concept of using time-travel to change the past to change the present.
The only reason why Bran is in this position of reaching the children of the forest in the north is due to Hodor. If Bran fucks up like he did here and changes the past, then there is NO guarantee that Hodor would even have been able to bring Bran here in the first place. It makes it all cyclical and fucks up everything. There is no way out of this time-travel paradox AFAIK. Even though Bran didn't technically time-travel, he DID alter the past which had a direct impact on the present so this paradox absolutely applies here.

Second issue is that Meera was yelling "Hold the door" in the present so how the hell did that impact the past of Hodor and then in return the present-time Hodor being the way he is? Is time somehow represented as being circular? Hodor may have been busy thinking to himself "hold the door" and at that exact moment, Bran returns back to present so that is the moment Hodor's mind gets stuck at thinking of for all of eternity.

Man, it was a bittersweet ending for me, so much death, you almost felt like the white walkers were going to slaughter everybody, poor direwolf

Thing is, I agree with you bladefd , the only way for this to work is that time is in a way circular, so events of the future can also affect the past, that would be the only way of explaining the Hodor thing.

Coldhands next episode?


Yeah, Coldhands next episode.