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Gogossos

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  1. 5 minutes ago, Lady Rhodes said:

    Well put.  There was a respect to tell him the truth and allow him to process without criticism.  Someone mentioned above regarding Sam's feelings - I don't think it was his dad dying that got him, but his brother.

    I agree that I am happy the "burning Tarly shoe" finally dropped.  It has occurred to be that the last few seasons have had the same issue - the plot points aren't necessarily bad, but they lack detail in execution.  For what it is worth, I think the chief problem last season (and, thus, sadly, what I think will be a problem this season) is the decision to make it only 7 episodes.  They could have packed three episodes with dialogue that makes things real: more accurate travel, a dinner scene or two between Jon and Dany, some more scenes with Sansa and Arya and Bran, etc.  I think about the relationships we are invested in - Arya and the Hound, Jaime and Brienne, and those relationships were not made through spectacle but through plodding through the riverlands.  Let's bring back the full length seasons and the plodding. (Obviously, it will never happen now, but I think you all get my point)

    Well put, I couldn't agree more. A dinner scene doesn't cost much more except time and wages, they already have the actors, the costumes, the sets. Without additional CGI and complicated battles, they could give us a 10 episode season that puts in the details. Most of these reunions are playing out offscreen and it irks somehow.

  2. Well, it would be rather nice if some people round here would accept the possibility that the showrunners might be cleverer than they are and know what they are doing, it being their job after all.

    One of the things everyone learns very quickly at MIT is that there are people at MIT that are much smarter than they are. If you are very very lucky you discover that even though there are folk who are smarter than you are in general, there are some areas in which you might be on a par with them and on a really good day exceed them.

    D&D are actually very clever and they do seem to know what they are doing a lot better than the average poster here.

    You sound like a broken record. It's possible for D&D to make a mistake or lots of them. They work on this show none stop, 5 years into the job mistakes are bound to creep in.

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