LordFirkraag

The most annoying thing about this episode for me was the Hound. Nobody cares for a beaten character. Being beat is a resolution as far as a story arc is concerned. If you keep bringing back soundly defeated characters you risk looking self-referential to the point of dragging on. The Hound will be remembered as the guy who was bested by Brienne; not as the grey, hateful-yet-oddly-principled anti-hero badass that he's supposed to be. He lives on in the Quiet Isle? Who cares? Benioff and Weiss burned him as a character for the sake of a fight scene and a feminist vibe.

The most disappointing episode in the series for sure. It's come to the point where they're going off on an ego trip and the adaptations they're making are unnecessary and incredibly inferior to the original. It's not merely that GRRM is a better writer than them. To be brutally honest, I get the feeling that Benioff and Weiss aren't that bright. Just in general intelligence. It's like they can't even comprehend the nuances of the GRRM's work ... let alone improve upon it, for God's sake.