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lancerman

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  1. Okay what was the mostly commonly complained about plots in the book. Dorne, Brienne, Sansa. Those were the three biggest changes this season, and still the 3 biggest complaints.
  2. Eh idk. I would have preferred the Pink Letter ending where you get blindsided with Stannis' defeat and then it really seems like Jon made a huge mistake and the Watch is justified in getting rid of this maniac who wants to fight a war. At the same time, you would have heard none stop bitching if Stannis' defeat was off camera. And the Pink Letter loses a lot of impact if you already know the outcome of the battle. So I don't know that this was the worst way to do it. I personally would have liked it the other way, but GRRM can get away with having an entire crucial battle and its outcome off page.
  3. Jon brought them in! lol. If you were them, why the hell would you trust Jon Snow if your reasoning was he just fucked you over for bringing the Wildlings back.
  4. No. It premiered higher than ever, then went down for the first five episodes or so. Around episode 7 it started climbing back up to being just as high as ever. It will likely overall finish at the same level as season four or slightly higher. They are already ridiculously high anyways. And we are only going by first airing viewings. HBO actually knows how many people watch the replays and on HBO go and all that.
  5. You do realize that scripts and the final outcome aren't always the same. The director can change scenes on the fly, things get edited out, etc. Jaws had a script. Spielberg and the cast literally rewrote every scene the night before they shot it.
  6. This a million times. If there was ever a time for GRRM to ever hurry the fuck up it's at this moment. And if he can't get Winds out before season 6, I'm giving up all hope of him finishing his series at all in by 2020.
  7. With 10 episodes it's already one of the most expensive shows on television. That's a pretty good excuse not to increase it 20%-40%
  8. True that. Really wasn't much of a reason to use them yet.
  9. Because unlike the books Kevan and Pycelle really aren't important enough that anybody would care if they died in comparison to an episode that just offed Stannis and Jon Snow (though Snow isn't really dead). Personally I thought the only way Kevan in Pycelle get killed is if Tommen went with them. Which would have been good with the death of Myrcella. But he must have a few more important things to do.
  10. Almost none of those are plotholes. The first 3, Brienne made an oath to kill Stannis and she left Sansa because after week/months Sansa didn't take her advice and she had the opportunity to get Stannis. Brienne wasn't part of the battle, she came in after it was basically done, and we don't know how much time passed while she looked for Stannis. Yeah it was obviously the lipstick that killed Myrcella. They made a point to show a long kiss and Ellaria's nose bleeding while she wiped the lipstick off. The Dothraki probably found her the same way they did in the books It was shown that all the Harpies ran out before episode 9 ended. All the faces of the faceless men are just fake identities. It doesn't matter which face they use, that's the point, they aren't who they say they are and they are never revealing their true identity. Trant screamed a little bit and then had a cloth shoved in his mouth in a private room. Also it's a brothel, pretty sure they are used to people screaming a bit there. As to why he didn't fight back? He got stabbed in the fucking face. Lancel didn't take the walk for the same reason he didn't in the books. Cersie confessed for the same reason. It was the only way to get away from the Sparrows. The evidence is her word against Lancel's and it's already established that the Faith has a low standard of proof. People can survive falls that far assuming they land on something that can break their fall. Bran survived a fall like that and he was less durable than a fully grown Theon and Sansa. Stannis didn't get surrounded. The Bolton's were just ready to fight right outside Winterfell, and Stannis was so outnumbered that his entire army got engulfed by the Boltons. The entire Bolton force was all straight in front of him. If Sansa dropped the tool then it probably wasn't going to be useful. The only one of those close to being a plothole was Mel getting to the Wall so fast. Then again, we don't know how much time passed between her leaving and arriving. None of those are plotholes though. Not even close.
  11. The irony is, what he is doing, watching a show he hates every week and complaining about it none stop and telling everyone why it sucks and why they shouldn't like it, but continuing to watch it, is a lot closer to staying with a boyfriend who beats you.
  12. I didn't think Stannis would tell Mel to burn his nephew. He did.
  13. Book apologists gonna apologize for the books and criticize the show for doing the same thing, then if the show does something different they are going to scream bloody murder about D&D writing "fan fiction", then if D&D say it happens in the books they are going to throw a tantrum about it getting spoiled for them and jump through hoops to justify it. Some people just want a reason to complain.
  14. " In the show, she's a fucking idiot sex freak incompetent nut job who has never been right about anything." ....who also has powers, but she misinterprets her visions. Also we have no idea what the circumstances of Stannis death and Shireen's burning are in the books. He could send a Raven to Mel or something that we didn't know about or something.
  15. Maybe because it's taking this man 15 years to finish 3 books with the incentive of trying to finish things up before the show spoils it. How fast is he going to write once he knows that everybody basically knows how his series ends?
  16. Except she's been wrong with what she's said before IN THE BOOKS. Lets be real, we know after all of Mel's talk in the books that Stannis most likely already died at Winterfell. The thing your missing is that we all know her powers actually do work, just not often the way she thinks they will. So she is valuable, just not infallible. Same way she is in the books.
  17. How many times did she tell Stannis that he was AAR? When we all know he's probably not. She isn't infallible. She said she saw the Bolton's banners fall, they probably will. She was always mistaken about Stannis being AAR and thought he would be king and lead the realm against the Others because she made a mistake, as most book readers already surmised. This isn't different at all.
  18. Nope you're right. Most major characters finished the way they did in the book. -Jon got stabbed -Cersie did her walk and got un-Gregor -Stannis died (sorry this just confirms the Pink Letter is most likely true) -Theon escaped Winterfell with Ramsay's bride. -Arya was blinded -Dany and Drogon are out of Mereen and the Dothraki find them -Tyrion stays in Slaver's Bay -Mel is at the wall and free to do whatever she planned on doing their. The only major characters in different situations are -Sansa because she took the Jeyne Pool role (otherwise we'd get an ending with her eating lemon cakes -Jamie, because LSH isn't happening -Brienne because LSH isn't happening. Everyone else who is in a different situation is a minor character like Selyse, Myrecella, Kevan and Pycelle
  19. Or she was just wrong with Stannis being AAR and it's someone else, like it probably is in the books, and she misread her visions, like she's done in both the show and the books before. It's not inconsistent. Shireen's death will likely matter, it will just manifest itself another way. Stannis just wasn't the guy.
  20. I actually wondered if they would do something like that in the books, where Jon comes back but is completely different. Sort of like a Super Saiyan (not really) Jon Snow that is some savior and actually has a bit of a character change.
  21. I doubt Jon Snow is gone. At the same time they aren't going to spoil their cliffhanger a few minutes after it happened. Within 12 months we'll know what happens with Jon Snow, whether GRRM gets TWOW or it's in season 6.
  22. Kills his brother, tries to kill his nephew, is burning people to death, yeah he was such a gooood guy. Also based off the last thing we read in the books, he's likely dead.
  23. Like Stannis won't die in the book, come on your better than this.
  24. "There has seldom been any TV series as faithful to its source material" This isn't though. And far too many people are doing a lot more reaching to support their hypothesis that GRRM supposedly hates the show when he's done nothing but defend it. And then when he says something good about it, people push it aside as "pshhhh he'll never say anything bad with the amount of money he's making".
  25. Tbf an old guy in the Night's Watch who is never going to lift a finger to help Dany in her conquest is hardly worth mentioning to her.
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