Very sad about Brienne's storyline the last couple of episodes - waiting for the light of a teensy tiny candle viewed from hundreds of meters away in an open window in a blustering and icy gale - yep, that's really making Brienne look like a big lump of blonde (or perhaps its the scriptwriters whose logic has failed them)!! She knows how fast things can turn south - no pun intended - for an unprotected female in this society. Like Brienne would sit around and shoot the polystyrene snow-breeze with Pod while Sansa gets brutalised repeatedly. I so love the books and the show, but it seems that without the carefully considered and strong story and script foundation the books provide, the scriptwriters are sadly not able to make it zing like GRRiM. That means that next season will be a mishmash too with Winds of Winter having come out by then, but some storylines being developed outside the books' arcs. I totally understand the limitations and the pressure the show is under to produce and they have done a pretty great job so far, but the concocted storylines are not up to snuff at the moment. A bit like True Blood going south when they strayed too far from the original book series. Let's not even talk about the ridiculous scenes in Dorne. In response to a number of comments on this topic about Bronn's exciting jail bait, I'm assuming that an increase in heart rate and blood pressure during sexual arousal increases or highlights the effect of the poison (I don't think it's about having an erection per say - a good jog would probably have done the same thing and she could have gotten him to prove he was tough by doing push ups and achieved the same effect!!). More importantly, it's about how the nudity increases or highlights the effects on ratings. Oh, and if that pair was pre-plastic surgery/medieval natural, I'll eat my bra! The showrunners did make a comment recently in an interview that it was hard to ask actresses whether their body was "natural" or not when casting for the roles - perhaps they didn't in Tyene's case and they were pre-empting their problem. Mind you, I can't imagine Brazilians were common in medieval times either, yet they seem to be very popular in LF's "establishments".
