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  1. What would they need protection from? They'd be in more danger in KL, Cerci blew up a Sept full of people not too long ago. If Danny had been consistent to character in Season 7 she wouldn't have even attacke anywhere else and made it clear she was looking to depose Cerci. All she had to do was seige KL.
  2. This episode circles back to the beginning of season 7 to me. In particular how I didn't like how Danny changed from getting the locals to revolt and supporting the revolt, to listening to the nonsensical advise they had Tyrion give her. Add on to that shifting plot armour to fit narrative needs. So, instead of getting the word out for people to leave KL her "advisers" blame Danny for the deaths of people who chose to stay in KL knowing Dragons et al would be gunning for KL. This just reeks of more the same bad writing in that the writers seem to change a developed character to meet bad plot development.
  3. Can't speak for others, but I tend to rate them as stand alones, then discuss overall impact elsewhere. Since season 5 it became obvious to me the writers went away from what Martin richly developed to a more all sizzle no steak effot. For that reason I gave it a 7, but if I rated the show overall as a 7.5 coming in then incorporated this episode it would drop to 6. Basically, it's a high budget popcorn matinee at this point. My concern is it will become a complete parody of itself and undermind the underlying character development and social commentary. Even last episode Arya was laying in bed emotionally detached after what should have been a very intimate experience. This was in character to me given all she's been through and the evil she's done, aside killing all the male Freys was in the kill them all territory. Now if all she is shown to be is badass hero all that goes out the window.
  4. No worries, fyi there is an "Arya" topic floating around. The only Stark sacrificed was Ned offering himself to save his daughters, the others were just killed.
  5. This wasn't a plot twist. This tossed many characters' plots and development out the window along with a great deal of the lore of a variety of cultures and thier associated fantasy genre traits. Wtf was the point of over 50% of the world building?
  6. When you brought up "her brother " thought you were referring to Jon. Is it her sacrifice if she had no choice in the matter? If she sacrificed Jon to kill the NK I would be more inclined to agree.
  7. It's not just Mel's phophesies though. There are other sources. Getting Stannis wrong nearly broke her. Now she left at the beginning of season 7 for? I hope the explanation is better than the NK wanted Bran because of memories ...
  8. Sorry 4 2x quote. If you are referring to Jon salt would be his Mom's/Ned's tears. Not sure on the fire. Lightbringer was forged with a blood sacrifice. They brought up ptwp in season 7 w/Danny and Jon.
  9. She didn't fit any of the professies. It also makes the arc of Stannis, Mel, and Jon completely pointless. Danny can still break the wheel or hers would have been ruined as well. I don't what to say about Bran at this point, he was as useful as ghost ... They could have had Arya do that type of kill in KL and saved the value of the early seasons' development.
  10. 7, mainly -1 for pointless Calvary charge, -1 for artillery undefended after said charge b/c foot soldiers in rear, -1 b/c no one bothered to consider NK would raise them ala Hardhome. I thought of taking more off b/c more than Jorah and Theon should have died imo. But they gave a giant a weapon.
  11. 8 out of 10, would have liked to have seen a Stark only fireside chat as well.
  12. Gave it a 5. Mainly deducted points for them making Sam dumber yet again. He's always been well read and perceptive, but since he's been in Old Town they've made him dumber and dumber. No reason he would not remember Dragon Glass at Dragon Stone, tonight he's been given work by someone researching the War of the 5 Kings, his wife mentions a Prince going to Dorne for an annulment. Given this context and the Stark history and his best friend being a Stark there's no reason he wouldn't be interested even if it doesn't seem to relate to the Dead Army et al. No reason to trash this aspect of his character like they have.
  13. on a curve I gave it an 8. -1 point for being only 50 minutes (these episodes should all be an hour at least). -1 point for continuing Cersi plot armor and conveying any sense of timing of events.
  14. Yeah the ice shield was tongue in cheek along with the iced snow balls. But, they've already shown him breaking down a door on his own at castle black, he would just need cover to do so. Not that hard imo. Also, how many troops would Ramsey really have left? Other than Bolton and Karstarks weren't most of them killed at the Red Wedding? They had recently fought Stanis and would have been somewhat depleted from that fight it seemed their numbers held up for show plot reasons more than anything. It would have been better if Ramsey thought the Vale army was coming to re-enforce him than to have an Army that never seems to run out of troops.
  15. This hit's a bit of a nerve w/me indirectly. The Wildlings had a "Giant" siege engine walking talking potential artillery all in one. They just forgot to arm him or give him any armor because if they had that entire battle plan of Ramsey would have went to crap w/the Giant using a tree as a flaming Bo Staff if nothing else to smash the shield wall. Which they basically already showed a Giant using during Hardhome. Any type of scaled armor/decent shield and those arrows would have been pin pricks at best, but they wanted/needed to kill him off. He could have spent the night make iceballs to chuck and he would have been more effect in that battle on the field. In your scenario, it's Winter they could have melted snow and made a shield out of ice even for him and use that for cover as he breaks the gate, assuming they didn't want to take the time to make a full length shield out of trees as planks for him. But, why break the gate when he could chuck things over the gate to let others scale walls/take out archers. Really, he was the most underutilized/under-protected resource in that entire battle purely for plot reasons.
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