MotherofStrife

46 minutes ago, Caryn Stark said:

Yes. To all of this. 

And also, could someone BESIDES Davos had begged Mel for magic. We set up seasons of Davos hating/being afraid of her magic. And then today he 'magically' oh Mels, can't you do a little hocus pocus for us? That line couldn't have been delivered by anyone else? They just assassinated the character they set up.

I do think they did Davos dirty. I wish he'd learned of Shireen's death and demanded Melisandre burned herself as a sacrifice this time around. The resurrection felt so underwhelming.

9 minutes ago, Terez said:

Um, no shit Sherlock, but she died from childbirth, so if her death was caused by her willfulness, then she wasn't raped. Besides, the books make it pretty clear that Rhaegar was a good guy. He just thought he had to have more children, and Elia couldn't give him any more, and she was Dornish and not very uptight when it came to sex.

Yeah, no need to be rude, I don't even think she was kidnapped, I said I was making a point to the other user. though if she died from childbirth then her death is caused by childbirth, not because she is willfull. Maybe you can say that she managed to live as long as she did to speak with Ned because she is willful.

And Rheager the "good guy" could have married to someone else (as Targaryens did) who was not Lyanna if he wanted another child instead of ..you know starting a war knowingly.

4 , sooo underwhelming but not as bad as last week's at least.

Ok, nitpicky time, so the show didn't give Starks black hair except Jon. Whose father is Rhaegar and mother is Lyanna. Then why the heck does Lyanna have light brown/sandy blond hair :c . I know it's a stupid thing to complain about but c'mon :c

I liked the stuff with Bran and King's Landing but I'm getting pretty tired of Ramsay's bullshit. I didn't like that Roose died just like that. Oh and I wished Jon's return was a bit more epic. His return wouldn't be surprising anyway so I wish the execution had been more grand/shocking.

1 hour ago, Justin Danford said:

 

GRMM's story is like a beautiful windy road that is fun and an adventure to travel on. When D&D are either forced or decide to adapt that experience they tend to iron out the bends and draw straight lines. The "drive" as it were, falls flat, gets stale, and is really just boring.

 

Pretty much what I think. The show set itself apart from others because it didn't rely on cliched and obvious TV writing and tropes. It saddens me to see it become this way.

It's the little things that make the writing seem so lazy. Like they didn't bother to explain how the Sand Snakes got on that boat and why no one was protecting the freaking heir to Dorne (He is Doran's only kid in the show right, they didn't mention anyone else). Did they take over the boat? How did they catch up to it? Did they kill all the guards? Will they blame it on the Lannisters? Or when the guards at the gates of Vale were just like "whatevs" when the Hound claimed to have Arya Stark with him. "Oh, you're Arya Stark, we thought all the Starks other than Sansa were dead and this kind of makes you the heir to Winterfell since your sister is missing, we'll just let you go tho, your aunt's dead gtfo". I mean, I definitely don't think wanting explanations for these is asking to be spoonfed. These details just make the world believable and ground it in reality imo.

I gave it a 3, I despise what they've done to Dorne. The only parts that I liked were when poor Ghost was howling and trying to get to Jon and when we see Cersei's joy turn to ash (I adore Lena Headey).  

Plus the dialogue was just painful. Seriously, after bad pussy, we get white pussy? :////