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Kytheros

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  1. Because you don't know whether an episode will be good or bad until after you've gone and watched it. Some of them are great, others are good. And this season has been up and down a fair amount.
  2. Oh, it's absolutely way worse on the show, and has only gotten more pronounced as they diverged from the books. The books at least had the same route take the same amount of time, more or less. And even when GRRM is fudging the travel times, it's not as blatant.
  3. To be fair to the show, travel times aren't something that GRRM put a lot of effort into making consistent in the books, either. So that particular problem didn't start with the show, although it's significantly more noticeable this season. Even odds Dany's approaching or landing somewhere in Westeros or on Dragonstone by the end of episode 10.
  4. To be fair, the last time we saw Asha/Yara and Theon on the show, an episode or two back, they were in Volantis, which is most of the way to Mereen already. And, it's not really all that clear where the Iron Islands stuff lined up with everything else chronologically, at least until they interacted with other plotlines. But yeah, the fast travel network is getting irritating. And, yes, book 6 needs to come out asap.
  5. Well, I think it's hard to argue that the camera work wasn't extremely good. The problem, in my opinion, is that however good it looked, that doesn't make up for the bad writing and plot induced stupidity. Admittedly, that's not been exclusive to this episode - it has, after all, been going on all season - but prolonging bad writing and stupidity doesn't make it any better, it just makes things worse, and a lot of it, especially in the North, came to a head in this episode.
  6. She didn't even mention the Vale as a possibility. The entire season. Maybe she wants to wait for confirmation one way or the other, but still, if she'd mentioned the Vale as a possibility, Jon would have been willing to wait to find out if they were coming or not. The only possibilities I see are she was deliberately setting Jon up or, she doesn't want Jon to know she asked Littlefinger for help because she's planning on screwing Littlefinger over.
  7. I'll give it points for the cinematography. It was exquisite camera work. The Mereen stuff was actually rather solidly written. Unfortunately, the writing for the North just failed. Failed hard enough that the cinematography and Mereen don't make up for the stupidity. Admittedly, the stupidity has been ongoing for most of this season, but prolonged stupidity is no less stupid. Jon explicitly asks Sansa "Where do you suggest we get more men?" And she says nothing. Right now, it looks like Sansa was deliberately setting Jon and the Stark-loyal forces up to get slaughtered by Ramsay.
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