7 Minus: --The interminable bitching between Jaime and Cersei: it doesn't make sense. Why would Jaime give a shit about the Lannister family power-game prospects when he's already decided long ago to go full-in just for Cersei and not family power? Why does Cersei harangue Jaime ad nauseum about "family responsibility" when she sees every day that he has committed to her and not the long-term family power-game prospects? Martin understands this logic far better than D + D. --Mance Rayder: Jon: It's about your pride. (accurate). Mance: No, it's not about my pride, and if you think so, you know nothing. (completely without evidence). Mance dies anyway, without shit prospects for the free folk. Martin gives a better "out" for this issue that I don't think D + D will follow...so this conflict is contrived and stupid. --If Littlefinger is taking Sansa to Winterfell (not directly stated, but one probable possibility)...then...all I can imagine--based on at least two actors' pearl-clutching near-spoiler gossipings to the media--is that we are headed to some Ramsey torture-porn on Sansa later in the later episodes. If that happens...it would be one of the cheapest, dumbest pieces of exploitation ever committed in American television. Do D + D think so little of Sansa's intelligence-survival instincts, that she would agree to an LF plan that would involve her married into the Bolton mafia...without any back-up? Seriously, who in the fuck--above a 30 IQ--would agree to that? Plus: --The Tyrells: well done. --Varys-Tyrion: well done. --Dani's missteps in Mereen: well done. --The Unsullied murder: well done. --Brienne, bitchy and sulky, with Podrick: well done. --Production values: well done...The Harpy statue fall is memorable. I don't need "Urgggg...Urgggg...Violence, sex, swords through brains, dragons fry people, moon door fly, urggg, urggg..." every second, as many of the TV fans seem to crave...All I want is plot logic and character logic.
