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The Night's King sitting on a frosted-over Iron Throne. The rest of the series will be a flashback showing how it all went down.
Or, if they don't want to go the route of Heroes or Breaking Bad season openers...
It'll be something (seemingly) relatively low key, like Theon attempting to free Yara.
[quote]He is still the son of a Stark, he was raised by Ned at Winterfell and he remains a selfless and inspirational leader[/quote]That may well be the significance of his speech to Theon about being both Stark and Greyjoy; he may have the blood of one house, but he was raised with the morals and outlook of another. The same is also true of Jon, and he needs to hope that the Stark allies see this in him the way he saw it in Theon.
She sees the seven deadly sins as her "to do" list.
They were hoping he'd one day get to use his name to taunt Theon.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers[/url]
Maybe she's collecting Great Houses. Her group already includes (either directly or via potential alliance)
- Targaryen
- Lannister
- Greyjoy
- Stark
If she gets Baratheon via Gendry, she only needs
- Arryn
- Tully
and potentially Frey and Martell (house statuses currently uncertain) to complete the set and have all Great Houses somehow represented under on ruler.
[quote]BTW, our moon does have a side which never faces us but it is not always dark. Sometimes the far-side is the dark side and sometimes the near-side is the dark side.[/quote]That much is true, I highlighted the wrong feature. The important part is that there is a side that always faces away from us.
As for the Westerosi not knowing of the planet - they're the equivalent of medieval Earth civilisation, before global circumnavigation; they wouldn't necessarily have known of anything too far beyond the western coast of Westeros or the eastern coast of Essos. Alternatively, there could be yet another continent inhabited by people who have killed all outsiders.
Or GRRM could have an entirely different explanation of time ("it's all magic").
Our own moon has a dark side which never faces us. The Westeros / Essos moon could be the same thing - all it would need is for its own speed of rotation to keep it facing away from the planet as it orbits. It's orbit would then determine the night / day cycle.
The only question (as Atarimaster pointed out) is if a moon can have its own moon / satellite.
It's OK - in the next episode, he's going to reveal that Bard the Bowman has recently immigrated from Lake Town.
I think that both you and Atarimaster missed the point of what I was saying. Kawada_Kira said [quote]If you force someone to have sex with you, it's rape. The legal status of marriage does not change that[/quote] Historically, including the time period on which GoT is based, the state of marriage [I]did[/I] change whether or not it was rape. Regardless of Dany's feelings on the matter, her husband would have right of control over her, so it is not rape.
It doesn't fit with modern law or opinions, but it is in keeping with the time in real human history which inspired a lot of the story. You can't apply modern opinions and morals to a time period (including fictional equivalents) when such opinions and morals weren't held.
That's actually a fairly recent thing from a legal perspective. Although women have campaigned against the relevant laws since the early 19th century (as far back as documentation goes, anyway...), it's only since the 20th century that countries have started treating forced sex within a marriage as rape. Previously, a marriage was considered to be permanent consent on the part of the woman as her rights were subsumed by the husband's.
It may well be that Westeros and Essos, rather than being on a planet, are on a moon. Day and night, rather than being based on their own lunar cycle, are dictated by the rotation of the moon on which they stand facing them away from the sun (or they could have their own, smaller satellite acting like a moon).
The length of a year would be dictated by their orbit around their planet, with the seasons dependant on when the orbit puts the moon in line with the planet and the sun (lunar eclipse). The variable length and severity of the winters would be accounted for by whether or not it's a total lunar eclipse or only partial.
She has far too many titles to rattle through, especially with her oh-so-serious delivery. She needs to get Paul Bettany's Chaucer from A Knight's Tale to do her introductions :)
Although part of the plot was very similar to The Girl Who Waited, I liked that they used an actual property of black holes to explain it, rather than having to invent a mechanism. Having time move at different speeds along the length of the ship was a nice touch. I'm looking forward to where the story goes from here :)
It's still a "happy thoughts win the day" thing, like Last of the Time Lords, Victory of the Daleks, Closing Time and The Big Bang.
It may as well have ended with Bill clicking here heels together and chanting "there's no place like home" :(
The resolution is the only part that bothered me. As soon as they said it was all being done by a psychic projection around the world, my mind went to the Archangel network, while the "remember something important" solution has been used far too many times.
I wish they'd come up with a more original, more intelligent way of resolving the story, but other than that I enjoyed it.
Likely an assumption based on it looking like the ones at Giza. It's one of those things that you get in such things that is never really explained, like "it escapes to feed every 3,000 years", when the whatever it is was only captured 3,000 years ago, so it's escape cycle can't possibly be known.
The controlling party in the episode could have been one of a few things
* "Evil" corporation
* Opportunistic sole owner (still capitalist-based, though)
* Under-funded Government
* Psychotic loon running the show
* Misprogrammed AI misinterpreting its directives (similar to in I, Robot or the episode Smile)
Other than having already used the "misinterpreted AI rules" option, they may well have used the "evil corporation" angle to tap into the current growing anti-corporate sentiment, rather than to express their own specific opinions. Although it's also often clear that governments are seriously overspending, that's nothing new; the anti-corporate thing is relatively recent and growing, so is a good zeitgeist hook.
The way things currently are, it's more likely that it will be corporations having large scale space operations because governments can't afford to fund them to sufficient level (hence NASA no longer going to the moon). It would therefore be down to the company supplying, transporting and storing the oxygen to determine pricing.
The baffling thing about the episode from that perspective is that the company bothered to send people there at all - with the suits being programmable and clearly being able to operate without human interaction, there was no need for the expense in manning the station to begin with.
Whilst I think that what happened was a little over the top (even for Sheldon), and they wrung it out a little too long, ending it on the kiss wouldn't have been suitable to the show.
Perhaps having Sheldon pondering possibilities (similar to him asking Gollum what to do with the ring after Amy finished with him) would have worked.