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  1. I should have put it more bluntly- Nobody gives a shit about this on the show lol. Which is fine and makes sense to me.
  2. The show has explained that LF has the Vale because Sweetrobin likes and listens to him. So he basically rules by proxy through Sweetrobin.
  3. I think this season has been pretty good so far despite some rocky and clunky writing...but this episode was really really bad. The Arya stuff was unforgivably bad, I think Riverrun/Brienne's mission didn't accomplish much and really could have and should have been much better due to Jaime's poor characterization on the show, and the Mereen stuff continues to be terrible. The saving grace of this episode was the Clegane brothers. I really liked the King's Landing stuff and the Brotherhood without Banners stuff (although I wish Lem Lemoncloak got more to do).
  4. To me, the biggest mistake the show made this season, and probably its history, was omitting the Manderleys. I mean, I don't see how that got cut. In a season full of gloom and doom, Manderley's "the North remembers" speech is one of the few triumphant positive moments. It would have been very memorable. Not to mention freaking Frey Pie, another one of those triumphant moments. I really don't get how this show had time for Dorne, Grey Worm/Missandei, Meryn Trant's "too young", and several other nonsensical go-nowhere sideplots while it couldn't find time for Manderley. I think it could have been a brilliant move to transpose "Alayne's" story in the Eyrie to Sansa in Winterfell, having Sansa "play the game" with Northern lords such as Manderley and Dustin. You could also use that to cut out the rape, as the show hinted that Roose was pressuring Ramsay to rein in his behavior, and certainly having Sansa and the whole "Northern conspiracy" watching Sansa's treatment carefully would provide justification for that. But yeah...D & D needed a shocking moment so they just decided that Jeyne Poole's story was more important to tell than Sansa/Alayne's. Just really an awful disgusting decision on their parts imo.
  5. I give Mereen and Tyrion's arc the edge over their book arcs. I agree KL was well-done all year. Everything else...meh. I heavily disagree on cutting the Riverlands, especially as it pertains to Jaime. The siege of Riverrun and the parlay with Blackfish would be 1000x better than anything that happened in Dorne this season (which was nothing). I think the Wall was well-done until this episode. FTW was a mess logically speaking imo as there was no intervening event to really precipitate things. Knowing the written version of this with the Pink Letter, it's tough for me to agree with how it was done as I feel the book was far superior.
  6. I give it a 3. Arya stabbing Trant was awesome, the Walk of Shame was really well done and perfect and powerful...and yeah, that's about it. I liked the visual of the Dothrakis surrounding Dany, but kept wondering why Drogon wasn't there like in the books. Everything else was a mess. It's completely absurd and trollworthy to say you don't have time for a huge story like Stoneheart or Manderley, and then on the same hand wast 7 episodes in Dorne doing completely NOTHING. I mean nothing. Absolutely nothing. Completely pointless. There was no reason to go there without Doran's "fire and blood" speech and the Queenmaker plot. Don't get me started on For the Watch. There was no development at all for this mess. They just went one episode from Thorne saying "you have a good heart and will get us killed" to "Stabby stabby stabby". No intervening event at all. No development. No reason for it to happen. No Pink Letter. No Ghost (of course sub Olly in ugh). I could go on and on about the messiness of pretty much everything, but this was really poor writing and characterization on pretty much all fronts.
  7. Yes. I'm still holding out hope for the Stoneheart reveal to end the season. Just seems like it can't be cut, and considering how gloomy this finale is gonna be (Ides of Marsh, Walk of Shame, etc.), I think that would be a good ending to bring back some "hell yeah" fistpumping moment right after the Ides (which will be the 2nd to last scene). Except I don't think it will be Brienne hanging since that would just be extra gloomy lol. Best possible ending for me would be something like Stannis winning Winterfell, Roose managing to escape, then go through the whole Merrett Frey ASOS Epilogue just with Roose instead of Merrett.
  8. Yes. I'm still holding out hope for the Stoneheart reveal to end the season. Just seems like it can't be cut, and considering how gloomy this finale is gonna be (Ides of Marsh, Walk of Shame, etc.), I think that would be a good ending to bring back some "hell yeah" fistpumping moment right after the Ides (which will be the 2nd to last scene). Except I don't think it will be Brienne hanging since that would just be extra gloomy lol. Best possible ending for me would be something like Stannis winning Winterfell, Roose managing to escape, then go through the whole Merrett Frey ASOS Epilogue just with Roose instead of Merrett.
  9. I'm pretty much in agreement. This was a herculean task, and all-in-all they've done a decent job. That being said, some decisions made this year have been rather mind-boggling, although Hardhome was magnificent so it kind of cancels out. 1) I thought it was a great idea to put Sansa in WF. It made perfect sense in theory. But yes, as you've said it has been an absolute mess and nothing about the execution of it makes any sense. I've said before, but this could have EASILY been fixed by including Northern Lords in WF. I will never understand how and why Manderley was cut (especially with 2 fuck yeah awesome moments of "the North remembers" and Frey Pie). If you have Manderley and a few other Nortthern Lords in WF, you can send Sansa there and at least have her "Play the game" and try to win their allegiance/support and work against Ramsay from the inside. 2) Yeah, the less said about Dorne the better. Failure on all levels and the worst thing the show has ever done. Arrianne should not have been cut, as simple as that I think. 3) and 4) I've liked what the show has done with Jon, Tyrion, and Dany's arcs. Dany's arc in particular to me has been a MASSIVE improvement over her book arc. They've simplified them in most rational ways, cut out a lot of pointless meandering material, and gotten them generally to where they need to be. I too HATE Olly though. It's really bad writing and we should have much more Thorne/Yarwyck/Marsh as opposed to constant Olly bitching and reaction shots.
  10. Huh? That's what you get from Euron? They are casting him for obvious reasons, none of which involve rape. The guy is a sexy pirate wizard, of course he was gonna be in the show lol.
  11. The implication to me seemed to be it would "quiet" the storm and allow Stannis to move on Winterfell more quickly. But yes, that was left pretty vague lol.
  12. The show's...sort of gone off the rails. The changes have added up and none of it makes much sense more. The Sansa rape last week was bad enough, but now you got an attempted Gilly rape and a pointless Tyene tits scene as well? They've undone years of Sansa's character work for no apparent reason. The "friends in the North"...you're telling me this is better than Manderley and the North Remembers? Why is Jon not taking Ghost with him on a dangerous mission?
  13. Yeah, I think you just kind of have to take the book's and show's word that the High Sparrow is really powerful because he has a shitload of people supporting him. It doesn't really make too much sense when you think about it, beyond "Well, there are a shitload of poor sparrows in KL supporting him, and because Crazy Cersei has armed them all, they have all the power." I agree on Tyrion. I think D & D have done their best work in Essos in terms of simplifying and consolidating, between Dany, Tyrion, and Arya. I just wish that same amount of attention was paid to the North and especially to Dorne, which has to be a freaking joke at this point.
  14. I can't believe people didn't like this episode. I thought it was another really good one. 3 straight. The wall-climbing scenes were absolutely epic, and as cliche as Jon/Ygritte could be in the books the show has really made it work, mainly through Rose Leslie's fantastic acting. Really amazing job with that whole Jon scene. ETA: I gave the episode a 7 btw, though it was between a 7 and 8 for me. It seems that was what most votes went for. Giving Tywin/Olenna a scene together was brilliant and awesome. Likewise, I liked Tyrion/Cersei together basically commiserating over everything. The Boltons are doing an awesome job being trolls. Roose has finally started to be the awesome witticism machine and super troll we all love from the books. I loved his "Haven't you learned not to overplay your.......situation by now Jaime?" I have to disagree on Aidan Gillen being bad. He's absolutely PERFECT as a creepy, smarmy slimeball Littlefinger. He just has this perfect smirk that he plays that makes you loathe him. I think he's done great as LF. My only real 2 complaints are about Sansa's ridiculously stupid question about bringing her family to the wedding ("Yes Sansa, of course you can bring your family who is now currently rebelling against and killing your husband's family's soldiers and allies"), and Melisandre magically being able to travel to and find the BWB in the middle of the freaking war even though they're supposed to be in hiding and impossible to find and half of Tywin's army is searching nonstop for them. But I did like the Arya/Mel faceoff and foreshadowing and the look of wonder on Mel's face and jealousy that the drunken Thoros could do stuff she couldn't.
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