Looking back on season 5. What did you enjoy most this season?

[A spoon of knife and fork]

The season was really uneven for me, with a lot of unmet expectations and hard to watch material, but so were the books so I'm not sure I can complain hahah. So, I'm going to not worry about the wasted potential of moments, but rather concentrate on how awesome they were at the time...

Sansa in her old bedroom, old lady saying "welcome home lady sansa"

Jaime viewing Tarth / sad face

Brienne meeting sansa and LF face to face!

LF being such a twisted little snake with sansa in the crypts and Cersei in KL. He's becoming a really good character this season.

R+L moments in ep 4.

Brienne and Stannis resolution.

Stannis and Shireen hugging!

Jorah and Tyrion in Valyria, including poetry!

Dany ultimately forgiving jorah (really everything Jorah was gold).

Dany and Tyrions conversation made me so happy.

Neither daario OR Hizdar being the harpy!

Generally daario being a chill upbeat dude

Jon as LC, giving Thorne props, being a boss.

Hardhome battle and 4 WW horsemen of the apocalypse! Valerian steel = dragonglass.

when Roose tells Ramsey to stop eating and listen, and later that Walda is pregnant.

Cersei getting arrested YES. Also great work with that asshole septa.

[Primalsplit]

The Best part was the rant and rave. This season was a pile of shit. It was an insult to human intelligence and to the books, an abusement of one's emotions and a complete waste of brilliant actors; all packed up with internal sexism and porn.

[Mister Stoneheart]

Bolton Dinner Scene.

Pretty much everything Roose.

Shireen bonding moments.

Selyse's too little too late breakdown.

Pretty much everything Cersei.

Evil wicked Queen Ellaria (purely from a love of camp--everything else Dorne was god awful)

That's it. The rest of the Season felt belaboured, rushed and bloated--like a big angry poo.

[aFeastForDragons]

Very very little.

The High Sparrow was brilliant and Stephen Dillane delivered an outstanding performance with the material he was given.

[Northernmonkey]

The Best part was the rant and rave. This season was a pile of shit. It was an insult to human intelligence and to the books, an abusement of one's emotions and a complete waste of brilliant actors; all packed up with internal sexism and porn.

But lets be honest you probably decided that before the season started.

[The Eunuch]

My favorite parts :

- Hardhome,

- Daznak,

- Cersei's plot and the High Sparrow,

- FTW,

- Tyrion and Dany,

- Valyria,

- Stannis's fate.

And the fanatic haters were really entertaining too :lmao: :lmao:

[AlpenglowMemories]

Hardhome was the best thing about this season. The dragons were (mostly) good as well. Walk of Shame was a solid effort, too.

The worst thing? Dorne, maybe. Stannis as well. Brienne the Candle-Seeker. Olly Chekrov. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's Ramsay! The complete lack of effort that went into staging some of these big scenes. Ser Barristan being murdered in an alleyway and then totally forgotten. The conflict free Meereen. Saint Tyrion, may he forgive us our trespasses.

[Barristan Whitebeard]

The Best part was the rant and rave. This season was a pile of shit. It was an insult to human intelligence and to the books, an abusement of one's emotions and a complete waste of brilliant actors; all packed up with internal sexism and porn.

And yet you will be watching the show next season like 90% of the Rant and Rave folks. See ya all in april! HBO thanks you for your support!

[Weeping Sore]

This was the worst season so far, but that was to be expected given the elephantine source material they attempted to adapt. Still a lot of high points in my view.

Jonathan Pryce as the High Sparrow

Qyburn's new hair style.

Sansa's interactions with Reek/Theon were strong even if the Winterfell plot was a disappointment.

Meereen was surprisingly watchable all season, and there was a

sense of genuine peril/suspense in the Daznak's Pit scene.

Jon Snow /Castle Black/ Hardhome - the most consistant location in S5.

Tyrion with Jorah.

Cersei and the Sparrows plot was compelling if we ignore the flaw that the Sparrows seemed to come out of nowhere (no time was given for build-up, in other words)

Braavos - I liked having Jaqen/not-Jaqen as the Kindly Man. Though it should have been foggier.

low points:

Dorne. This all seems like some other B-grade show. Awful.

Too much Ramsay. The North was too empty without Manderleys, Umbers, etc. Not to mention no Freys...

A lot of other stuff to nitpick, but I was basically on board with the season until Stannis burned Shireen. Even if that comes from GRRM, I would have re-written it to having Stannis refuse to do it, having the army freeze/starve in the snow, Melisandre flees back to Castle Black after realizing Stannis is not AAR. The end result is death for Stannis anyway. And there needed to be MORE SNOW on the screen, ffs.

No Riverlands. The Riverlands are the soul of AFfC where we get a sense of GRRMs compassion for the "smallfolk" and the horrible consequences the game of thrones has for them. But maybe we get more Riverlands along with Iron Islands in S6...

[Pumpkin G. Snark]

Well, what I definitely enjoyed (in the broadest sense of the word):

ep 1: Maggy’s prophecy.

ep 2: Arya in Braavos: the very beginning (looking from the boat with tourist’s amusement).

ep 3: Tyrion and Varys in Volantis.

Brienne saying to Podrick: “And a man… could be killed” (about Stannis).

ep 4: Cersei sending Mace Tyrell to Braavos.

ep 5-6: Tyrion and Ser Jorah Mormont in the same boat.

ep 6: Littlefinger in KL.

ep 7: Olenna Tyrell and the High Sparrow.

ep 8: the final shots. The Battle of Hardhome was very impressive, but I think it’s too early to show the real enemy in such a full force.

ep 9: the moment in Daznak Pit when all the Harpies suddenly rise in their golden masks.

ep 10: Tyrion + Jorah + Daario + Missandei + Grey Worm in the Great Pyramid.

Arya (Ser Meryn F-g Trant, all these faces).

Cersei’s Walk.

And:

Bronn of the Blackwater singing “The Dornishman’s Wife”.

The very fact that Daenerys and Tyrion have finally met. Not the actual encounters.

In general, almost all scenes with Iain Glen, Lena Headey, Stephen Dillane, Jonathan Price, Diana Rigg.

[King Tyrion I]

Out of the top of my head I'd say:

- the Boltons' dinner table

- Ramsay "pardoning" Reek

- Tyrion and Jorah (that was great stuff => Stonemen and Valyria)

- Tyrion meeting Dany (and their talk about reigning)

- Daznak's pit

- Theon rescuing Sansa

- Cersei's WoS (including Septa Unella and the HS)

- the appearance of Ser Gregorstein

- Hardhome

- the HS, the QoT, Marge, Tommen, Cersei and Loras (this includes Olyvar)

- Dany and Drogon (ep. 10)

- Selyse showing real concern for Shireen

- Davos and Shireen

- LF

- Sansa meeting that old woman in the north ("The North Remembers")

- Sansa and Theon in general (their actors did a great job)

- Maester Aemon's "Egg, I dreamt that I was old."

- Arya in the Hall of Faces (ep. 10)

- Bronn singing "The Dornishman's Wife"

- Jaime and Myrcella

- Sam taking action (and not being craven at all)

- Brienne and Pod and the horse chase (kudos to Daniel Portman for that scene!)

- the brothel scene with the Unsullied before the harpy kills him

- Maggy (even without the "valonqar")

- Doran telling Ellaria off (Ellaria was... dunno... I'd have liked to see Arianne)

[Primalsplit]

But lets be honest you probably decided that before the season started.

As funny as it may sound, I was very hyped at the start of the season. I started really happy and content. All I've seen was on the level of bad fanfiction. And no, I will not watch the next season. I don't want the show to spoil me the books. I don't give a bugger if you think I will not be able to do that. I followed through the end of this season to take enjoyment in the rant and rave of it. Yeah, that part was funny and enjoyeble I advise everyone to do the same. Also, at no point I stated that I will not "watch the show after this episode waaaah" before. Stop being so judgemental towards others too.

[RoamingRonin]

Everything about Hardhome.

Arya's arc was the most faithful and fulfilling. I wasn't all that thrilled with her arc in the books but the show made it so much more exciting and interesting.

Tyrion and Dany meet. I expect it will happen much the same in the books: they meet, duel with dialogue and then something happens to separate them because GRRM is sadistic and doesn't want to do what we want him to do. Like keep them together and have them do stuff together...

No iron islands! No finger dancing! Seriously, these are the greatest sailors in the world and they risk their hands tossing axes at each other? For fun?!

No rambling "Reek, reek it rhymes with..."

[nubreed000]

I enjoyed the Sand Snakes the mos---LOL I'm kidding. They were so horrible.

I'm really disappointed we didn't get a Reek in the Godswood scene. I was hoping that would tip him to the right side, and rescue Sansa like that, but it seems the producers have given up on character development.

Tyrion's reaction to the dragon was priceless. Hardhome was awesome.

That's about it.

[nubreed000]

The Best part was the rant and rave. This season was a pile of shit. It was an insult to human intelligence and to the books, an abusement of one's emotions and a complete waste of brilliant actors; all packed up with internal sexism and porn.

Ya I was really disgusted at how 90% of each episode was porn :bang:

[abacabb]

LOL maybe this show should have aired on Fox not HBO.

[oierem]

I'm really disappointed we didn't get a Reek in the Godswood scene. I was hoping that would tip him to the right side, and rescue Sansa like that, but it seems the producers have given up on character development.

Nope, they thought interacting with an actual person (Sansa) instead of a tree would be a better way to portray Theon's character development.

[WheelofIceandFire]

I thought Jon Snow and Arya had by far the best written and acted storylines this season

[Xie]

The best moment of the season was the moment it ended.

QFT.

I enjoyed Hardhome. There were a handful of specific scenes I enjoyed, and most of them involved Jon, Mance, Tormond, Tyrion, Olenna, and/or Varys. But honestly in the long run, someday when I rewatch the entire series, significant sections of season 5 will largely be a skip. It wasn't just that nothing really happened until the last couple of episodes - which is the truth - it was that the majority of "quiet" scenes were not fun to watch. Bad dialog badly acted (not the actors' faults, generally speaking - you can't take bad dialog and turn it into gold). GoT, in seasons past, was at least usually reliable for interesting witty banter, and it was sorely lacking this year.

Overall, I am glad it's over. I hope TWoW comes out before season 6, and that a draft copy of the book is already in D&D's hands, so they won't have to make stuff up.

[LordImp]

- Bronn and Jaime was good , but Dorne was dissaspointing.

- Hardhome was great , the Nights King raising his arms.

- Roose

- Drogon

- Cersei and the high sparrow

- The North remembers

- Theon and Sansa

- the house of black and white

- Valyria

- Qyburn

- Littlefinger