(SPOILERS) Criticise Without Reprecussion - Rant & Tear apart

[HairGrowsBack]

5 minutes ago, GeorgeIAF said:

Yep he was, until he became the 3ER, what if Bran warged him. It sounds stupid though ... I hope the Hodor incident was a one-timer. I fear that Bran having the mark of NK and the power to influence past events means that he is doomed and will meet his end sooner rather than later ...

I'll admit it's the only storyline I'm midly interested in. Very midly, that is.

 

4 minutes ago, Winter's Knight said:

 

BR in the show is a thousand years old. I'm guessing he's actually Bran on GoT and Bran is Bran the Builder.

Sure, I mean, why the hell not ?

[Nami]

25 minutes ago, GeorgeIAF said:

I won't be too surprised if we find out that BR is in fact Bran. Hopefully not.

Ugh that's what happens when you go into time paradox shit

[Qhorin Halfhand and Yoren]

Please no more time loops and time travel.

[The Prince of Porne]

8 hours ago, Ser Desmond Wine's Bane said:

Welcome to the boards

After so long banging on about 'the show is show' they seem desperate to try to attach themselves to the books at every opportunity.

Yeah, after several seasons of making a mockery of the source material (with S5/6 arguably being the worst of all), we're supposed to believe they've switched back to following it faithfully.

I won't form any judgment on anything from this season being true to the book until the book is available to compare and contrast with. Based on history, it's more likely it will look like Martin told *plot spoiler* to a drunk, who then translated it in and out of several languages and told it to a toddler, who told it to D&D... end result: "When George told us about this, we couldn't believe it!"

[Ninerings]

7 minutes ago, The Prince of Porne said:

Yeah, after several seasons of making a mockery of the source material (with S5/6 arguably being the worst of all), we're supposed to believe they've switched back to following it faithfully.

I won't form any judgment on anything from this season being true to the book until the book is available to compare and contrast with. Based on history, it's more likely it will look like Martin told *plot spoiler* to a drunk, who then translated it in and out of several languages and told it to a toddler, who told it to D&D... end result: "When George told us about this, we couldn't believe it!"

I love you. 

[Ferocious Veldt Roarer]

The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch was ridiculous. And, adding insult to abuse, she didn't even count to three.

On the other end of the world, that godawful play in Braavos dragged for way too long.

[Stannis Eats No Peaches]

So Bran gets touched on the arm by NK, so not-Bloodraven says, "oh shit you need to go and also I need to speed up teaching you stuff." They then just stand in Winterfell's courtyard doing nothing. What gives?

[Ojji]

Subpar writing from episode to episode, it's really quite pathetic. The kingsmoot was Dorne tier bad. Summer dying served literally no purpose, the zombies didn't even slow down. Completely. pointless. Atleast they're consistent about Brienne is still the same murderous wench, whose ready to kill Littefinger for not giving an anwer to Sansa in timely fashion.

 

Mereen scenes were pretty much the only positive side of this episode for me.

4/10

[GeorgeIAF]

11 minutes ago, Stannis Eats No Peaches said:

So Bran gets touched on the arm by NK, so not-Bloodraven says, "oh shit you need to go and also I need to speed up teaching you stuff." They then just stand in Winterfell's courtyard doing nothing. What gives?

Bran learning of what happens when you try to change the past and stay too long in a vision was way more important that what happened in the present.

[Ben Rivers]

I thought to myself that there must be a subway system only LF knows about.

And a letter is delivered to Castle Black with the Arryn seal and no one tells Jon?  And didn't Sansa just pass Mole's Town the other day on her way to the wall and now doesn't remember how far it is.

[Batman]

11 hours ago, LulaMae Barnes said:

I don't even care anymore HOW Baelish got the Wall THAT quickly and how he got there at all - but how did the Nightswatch not notice him coming?

How did they not notice her leaving? Seriously, what reason could she possibly have for leaving when Ramsay wants her dead? 

[Ser Quork]

For me, nothing (and I mean nothing at all) is of any consequence in the Wall plot line.  Sansa's very presence sends the whole thing out of whack and off kilter.  It's destroying Jon's storyline, and makes him look like a chump. Brienne and Davos should be in other plots right now and their presence just compounds the joke that is the GoT Wall storyline.  I wish I had one of the CotF's grenades right now.

[Ruhail]

7 hours ago, GeorgeIAF said:

In my opinion, the budget alone is the reason they are getting rid of the direwolves. It costs way too much to have them on the screen, and the direwolves are not doing too much to compensate that, in their opinion. I was ranting all over the place when i saw both direwolves dead.

Thats a stupid excuse for a show that brags about being the biggest ever and gives deadpan three cgi dragons 

7 hours ago, Lord Syv Aldlark said:

Remember when even in the show getting leadership over people actually took some effort?

Robb had to make pacts.

Stannis had to assassinate his brother.

Tyrion had to barter with mountainmen

Dany had to make deals with slavers

Jon had to barter with Mance then with his own men.

Now adays..

Thorne kills Jon with his small group.. rest of NW.. well okay..

Ellaria kills Doran.. he was weak everyone hated him.

Euron kills Balon.. easy breezy tipsy bridgey

Ramsey shanks Roose.. eh he was a cunt anyway

Dany burns all the Khals... we don't like magic but you can survive fire.. you must be leading us now!

 

The show completely died with Stannis.

[Danelle]

13 minutes ago, Batman said:

How did they not notice her leaving? Seriously, what reason could she possibly have for leaving when Ramsay wants her dead? 

No reason at all.

 

Absolutely no excuse.

 

 Jon or Edd or Davos would notice her absence. They would inquire about her whereabouts.

 

Have the brothers of the NW ceased to go to Mole's Town? Hasn't anyone told them that a smooth talking southerner, who wears a pin in the shape of a mockingbird, met Ramsay Bolton's runaway bride?

Also the arrival of the most powerful man in the Vale, who formerly was Master of Coin, was not noticed by Ramsay Bolton or any of the Northmen who support him...

 

 

The 20 good men were probably sleeping when he arrived in Moat Cailin and crossed the North.

 

 

 

[AryaSansa]

11 hours ago, LulaMae Barnes said:

Favourite part so far: KellyC DEMANDING Jorah to heal himself! When he got rid of his nasty greyscale problem, he is allowed to come back....that seems clever.

And instead of Moqorro as Red Priest in Meereen - we get a Melisandre look-a-like. Does it imply every Red Priest has to actually be a hot Red Priestess?

Of course, we couldn't  have an old, black guy -  no one would want to see him naked ...doing his magic.

I would love to see Khal Drogo naked doing his "magic"

[SquirrelTeamSix]

I really feel like this season has been the most poorly thought out and rushed season so far.

This episode left me thinking. ...i need to quit watching and wait for book 6.

That Kingsmoot was CRAP

Summer diving wights for nothing? k.

and you give 2 minutes of a flashback just saying btw, the CoTF made the others....like WTF

[White Harbors Wrath]

10 hours ago, Nami said:

I feel like Arya didn't change at all. What's the point of showing her hard training if she's not changing?

It's a terribly boring part of the books and even worse on screen, and we've had to toil through it each episode so far.

[kissdbyfire]

So, 'we won't do visions and flashbacks because that's lazy writing'. And then they do the flashbacks, in the laziest way possible just to infodump the hell out of the story to get to the end as quickly as possible. Well, for once I agree, get to the end already and be done with it. But not only flashbacks, but Bran will solve everything through manipulating events back and forth  in time. I'm sure that will go amazingly well, what with the show runners ability to keep facts straight and all, and sure, that's not at all lazy.

 

[maicao]

This episode was so full of shit that I even created an account to comment. Shit shit shit shit, ugh.

RIP Summer, Hodor and BR ;/

No RIP CoTF, you damn idiots...

The worst part is that even though D&D are shiting on the show, I can't bring myself to stop watching it aahhhhhhh

[Dolorous Gabe]

Interestingly, i didn't mind the HoldTheDoor thing in itself. The way I see it is that's not Bran changing the past because it's already happened. There do appear to be major flaws in the make-up of the sequence though, for example Bran and Meera's continuing survival seems ludicrous despite Hodor's sacrifice at this perplexing backdoor to the cave. I don't see how anything that happens next to help them survive wouldn't be a case of deus ex machina. If it happens in a similar fashion in the books, there's at least Coldhands established to help out. But for BR, all that time waiting and watching for Bran and he ends up having to rush the training seems off to me.

I'm beyond being surprised by this, but it's amazing just how careless the show is with details and previously established in-world concepts like guest right, kinslaying, kingslaying etc. There's really nothing going on beyond the surface level. No intrigue, no sleight-of-hand storytelling. Everything is simply as depicted.

It's also terrible that they have decided to show a Sansa with true agency after Winterhell in S5. It's character jumping (not development, because that's carefully built through nuances over time) based on rape.