darksellsword

That's why I said the Ramsay stuff was a mistake, it damaged her character development, it would be distasteful on tv now to have her seducing characters like the hound I agree that is why they didn't do it.

#1 Sandor is like 40 years old at least and the Mountain burned his face as a child, he is taking his sweet time getting round to confronting the Mountain, it would make sense that Sansa would try and guarantee the Hound confronts the Mountain when she needs him to #2 I know that, see my original post on the topic, it was still a tell as they say, it showed the Hound did have a strong attraction to Sansa something she would have suspected and something Arya may have picked up on aswell.

I'm not joking at all it would've made perfect sense. I wish they hadn't done that Ramsay Bolton stuff with Sansa that didn't serve the characters development at all. They could've had Sansa arriving to aid Jon in the battle of the bastards with the knights of the vale without any of that. I have a feeling the marriage to Ramsay was a Dumb&Dumber invention. I believe in the books it will be Sansa by herself that finds out the truth about LittleFinger and it will be her that kills him. I hate how D8D seem to be feeding Arya all the kills from everyone elses story arc.

It felt like they were half assing any desired outcome from that. I think they were tryin to acknowledge how much Sansa has changed aswell as paying some fanservice to Sansan yes. I think it would've been far more gutsy of them to have Sansa seduce the hound knowing one of his dying wishes was allegedly to bed her, Why not have her minipulate the hound into finally paying his brother back for what he did to him knowing that without the Mountain, Cersei would be more vulernable. It would have been a perfect way to show how Sansa has tied everything she has learned together.

I think the big twist at the end is it was all an advert for a cell phone carrier. I'd signup their coverage is impressive.

I don't know why Westeros needs the 3eyedRaven, everyone seems to know everything that has happened or is happening at any given time or place.

Why didn't they just have the hound saying I heard Little finger married you off to Boltons bastard you should've left kingslanding with me when you had the chance. It would have been consistent with the hounds character and not randomly vile but I think it is as you said D&D just wanted to shock everyone and make them feel uncomfortable again.

Did anyone else notice how Sansa walked over to the hound after he rejected that girl and said "she could have given you some happiness" was that a throwback to how Sandor while tryin to provoke Arya into killing him told her he should've fucked Sansa bloody and at least he'd have one happy memory ?. The hound then launches into "I heard you got broken in I heard you got broken in rough" wtf is that shit. Who would tell the hound that information and why would he throw that at Sansa like some kind of rape obsessed moron.It's like they have to allow Sansa to justify her whole character arc and virtue signal against anyone that has degraded her even comments she wasn't aware of. They put the hound in that position as some kind of symbol of rape culture

My criticism was based on Daenerys of the Tv show. I enjoyed book Daenerys chapters but I didn't have any attachment. Tv show Daenerys has had some dodgy bend the knee or die moments but for the most part before season 7 they've nearly always been somewhat justifiable. I mean nobody called Ned Stark a Tyrant when he was beheading people or Jon snow for that matter. I think it is fair to say that most end of the season moments for Daenerys gave people great enjoyment and faith in the idea that she could bring a sense of order and justice to Westeros. btw "idealistic dictator capable of brutality in the name of utopian aims and the pursuit of her narrow-minded life agenda for the throne. " that is how most people could describe every king of Westeros that has been called a good king.

Dreadful episode I rated it 1. They started assassinating Daenerys character now after they humiliated Jon during the battle of winterfell, to see her begging Jon and asking him to hide who he is because she is so powerhungry at all cost was so cringeworthy. They took so much from her this episode and shoehorned her madness in there so fast it was sickening. I laughed at Euron being there with all his ships waiting possibly for months hoping that Daenerys would come flying by and her ships sailing along there for absolutely no reason. D&D are opperating at the level of ' hey the biggest threat against her are those ironisland makeshift pirates how do we give them the advantage, lets have her sailing down there even though she knows they have almost 1000 ships and scorpions' , it is utterly braindead at this point although I will give Daenerys some slack she couldn't have known they had hundreds of scorpions mounted on ships that can fire in any direction and reload in secs. At what point do secondary characters deserve to die. I will give you the answer, when they turn on the people they've shared 90 percent of their banter with and do something really stupid and vicious like Bron did with the Lannister brothers. I wish this idiot was dead now, infact I would've gotten a lot more satisfaction from Jaime randomly jumping to his feet, side stepping him and putting widows wail through his chest, it would've been so fitting that Bronn succeeds mostly because people underestimate him as just being a cutthroat it would've been poetic had he underestimated how good Jaime could become with just his left hand. I suppose he will pop up later in the story kill someone in a pointless fashion or die a meaningless death. The ironic thing about this episode is it pissed all over some of D&D's biggest triumphs. We as a presumably large section of the fanbase liked and related to tv show Daenerys far more than we ever did in the books. The idea of having someone fans have been cheering on for 7 seasons turn mad and have people openly betraying her and plotting against her was disgusting. Bron was a character they built on with the show and played a lot of fan service there but for it all ultimately to end with him randomly punching Tyrion in the nose just felt meaningless. I heard the story of how the actor that plays Bron(Jerome Flynn) dated the actress that played Cersei (lena Heady) and it ended so badly that they both had it in their contracts to never be in a scene together. I feel season 7 finale and now these last episodes suffer from that as it is pretty ridiculous that Bron is supposed to be playing out a dilema as to whether he supports Cersei or Tyrion & Jaime when they can't even have Cersei and Bron in the same room. I feel D&D pandered to the actors wishes and the perceived wishes of fans on this show and it has had a horrific result on character and plot development. Cersei should not have been the end game boss but I think Lena heady influenced the writers to the point where they extended her characters life by 1 season. It is my natural gut instinct that Cersei should've died somewhere in season 7, perhaps even before the whole Queen cersei maleficent shite began but when you have an actress that has been central to the show from the beginning and has no character death in the source material, of course you run the risk of having them say well I feel my character could do this that and the other and the showrunners feel obliged to go along with it. We can only know for sure when George finishes the books but Cersei lost all relevance for me when her children died and she blew up the sept of baelor. I can only hope that once this charade is over and George finally completes this saga that we get some kind of direct adaptation to an animated series or something.

They were so good I wonder why the British and the French bothered using cannons during the Napoleonic war. If they had used ballistas the opposing fleet would've been sunk in secs.

Anyone notice how there is a chink in the NightKings armor right at the spot where the Children of the forest pushed the dragonglass into his chest? very convenient right? 8000k years and he never found armor that covers his one vulernability, it's almost as unlucky as when he had the opportunity to attack an unprepared North for over 3 weeks with his new ice dragon before Danys forces arrived and he didn't know about it?

It would've been so much more satisfying to have Jon cut the head off Viserion a few moments before Arya killed the NightKing so we can say yeah Jon saved countless lives and served a purpose.

I took it that he was just accepting his fate before the dragon tore him apart, he didn't even raise his sword he just screamed into Viserions face. It was an underwhelming climax for him considering his story arc revolved around the NightKing the most.

I found the episode very enjoyable but after I sat down and thought about it for a while it felt very hollow on reflection. I know people have raised this issue with the show time and time again but there was so many ex machina moments that it never seemed as though anyone of note would die. D&D are on the record as saying they intentionally beefed up the female roles in the story because the fans had such a positive reaction to all the female empowerment on the show. I don't have a problem with that to an extent but I just have a horrible gut feeling that they rewrote Jon's part in the war against the night king in the same way I sense they rewrote the battle of the bastards to make it seem as though he was incompetent and the battle was only won thanks to the intervention of Sansa. Azor Ahai (Jon) didn't wield lightbringer didn't bring the dawn but instead literally hid behind a wall while his little sister killed the Nightking, that is how bad it has become. I laughed at the scene where lyanna Mormont killed the giant, I highly doubt that will be in the books and if that isn't something George would write , ask yourselves what else is just designed for female empowerment fan fiction wish fullfilment. very entertaining predictable television tropes in the place of something that used to be groundbreaking.

I gave it a 10, it is as good as it gets, some fan service but it was enjoyable fan service the last scene was one of the best fantasy battle sequences that i have ever seen on screen i loved it.

I gave this episode a 6, I felt it had some of the worst acting performances of the series especially from Maisie Williams although she did a good job in her scene with Nymeria it doesn't make up for the lacklustre performance with hotpie, it was just a painfully awkward reunion between two grown up child actors. I'm confused as to why Daenerys only confronted Varys after they got to Dragonstone, so we are supposed to believe they never talked on that long voyage to Dragonstone.I feel like their continuity director does a bad job or they don't even have one, to avoid that obvious plot hole all they needed to do was not have Varys at the end of season 6 standing smugly behind Daenerys on her ship, having said all that I enjoyed the dialogue in the Varys and Daenerys scene it was well written as sometimes happens with Bryan Cogman.The scene with Melisandre was a bit odd in the way Varys asked her if she had any other reason to believe Jon has a part to play other than "what you've seen in the flames" even though she never mentions seeing anything in the flames The battle scene at the end was great and the only reason I didn't score the episode a 2. The Greyworm & Missandei sex scene felt meaningless as though they were paying fan service to non existent fans. I really don't understand why they gave Jorah greyscale if they were going to have Sam cure it so easily .There are way too many scenes now were one scene segways from a character sending a message by crow to a character receiving the message, it's like sitting with a friend while they are constantly sending text messages, great entertainment right

I gave it a 4, it was very underwhelming and as always the dialogue was dreadful, it feels as though every second character is obsessed with trying to find out what every other character "wants" or "believes". The thing that really bothers me is characters knowing things that have happened half the world away in what seems to be the blink of an eye as though they can switch on a tv and watch 24hr news courage, is planetos at this point 3 miles wide?.It has become more apparent after each season that D&D have no real affinity with the source material and without Georges input as a script writer are happy to write Game of Thrones as some crappy soap opera. the only redeeming scenes were Ed sherans song about Jaime and Cersei, even that was ruined by one of the soldiers asking Arya if she was " old enough to drink" as if some medieval cop is going to come rushing out of the woods to arrest him for giving alcohol to a minor. I won't even mention the Samwell chamber pot emptying montage only that D&D must have been spending too much time with Guy Richie during their lazy gap in filming. i quite liked the hound and Beric scene aswell.

a rare 10/10 for me, sure there were some plot holes like why were Ramsay's hounds locked up when he threatened to use them in the battle? I suppose he could've just decided they were too valuable and overkill but that seems out of character,The Dothraki and the ironborn seem to have done a bit of teleporting ,putting that aside the whole episode had me sitting on the edge of my seat, I liked Daenerys dealing with the slavers army like a boss, yeah it was just a great piece of entertainment and they progressed a lot of the story too.

7/10 I was ok with most of it, I didn't like anything in kingslanding.The return of the hound was always going to be a winner but I felt the Ian mcshane scenes were a little ropey, the dialogue was dreadful.why after nursing the hound back to health to the point were he is fit enough to work would he be telling him about how he found him for he first time.This episode moved the plot forward and hopefully the next episode will be better.

7/10 wasn't a bad episode, it did seem a little pointless at times and it wasn't very entertaining, glad to see Coldhands confirmed as Benjen I have no idea why they didn't introduce him earlier. Danys scene feel like that scene from avatar to anyone else??

This episode was fantastic , I criticize this show a lot it has had some major flaws, this episode had some crappy moments, Littlefinger teleporting again, a bunch of seemingly intelligent people sitting around a table thinking Ramsey would wait around long enough for Brienne to ride all the way to the Riverlands, Leaf is apparently thousands of years old hmm I dunno how I feel about that.. Every scene was entertaining and progressed the plot, the acting was superb. The kingsmoot could've been done better but the acting and intensity was spot on , Sansa and Brienne making littlefinger squirm was a really good scene. The scene with Jorah and Dany was one of their best in the entire series very heart breaking.I loved the scene were Jaqen and Arya are walking through the hall of faces and he was explaining where the first faceless man came from, I feel that scene and Sansa confronting littlefinger were the strongest in terms of dialogue.The mummers play was perfect , the wart covered cock was a bit gratuitous but who cares in the greater scheme of things.The great revelation that the children of the forest created the nights king that scene was well done the CGI and cinematography were on point. Bran is now the key to the wights being able to breakthrough barriers put up by the children of the forest that is interesting and a huge plot development, I laughed when leaf died holding the pine cone hand grenade it is such a cliched action movie moment, last but not least poor Hodor and Summer , a moments silence please....I gave this episode a 10 , it was very enjoyable, everyone that voted 10 HOLD THE DOOR!! don't let those 1/10 voters get through

I think you've hit the nail on the head with that prediction I've a feeling summer died to make you know whos intervention more important next episode.

I said the same thing when people were convinced D&D came up with Daenerys burning the khals with the help of the dosh khaleen, the very existence of dosh Khaleen and their temple meant Dany was going to tip the table there.

one of the best episodes they've ever made if not the best