Disbelief Sense and Story Sense

[tormond]

When Jon first saw a giant, he stared in disbelief. The northeners and all of westeros have heard stories of Giants, White Walkers for thousands of years but none of them believe them to be real, just stories to scare children. Ned Stark is told by a Wall deserter that he saw White Walkers and that's the reason he deserted, Ned Stark did not believe him and cut off his head. Janos lynt laughed at the mention of Giants. All of this seemed to go right with the story, seemed to make sense.

Then Sansa is told by Jon his story, or we assume he told her everything that has happened to him, she reacts nonchalant. The man came from the dead, she nonchalant, she see a GIANT in front of her, Nonchalant. The Mormont House is told of the Nighs King and the army of the dead, and they not only believe it, that's what convinces them to join Jon, The Boltons see a GIANT on the battlefield crushing some of them, Nonchalant, normal occurrence. Ramsey sees a GIANT break his door, Ransey kills said GIANT, Nonchalant, normal occurrence. The story has really lost all suspension, sense and disbelief narrative that it established earlier. There's no Somber feeling, there's no disbelief, no surreal out of this world feeling, no dreamlike. This is terrible storytelling, you destroyed the atmosphere that you had set at the beginning, the story loses its richness, it loses value. 

[Mista C]

I thought the same thing.  There seemed to be no shock and awe when anyone saw Wun Wun once he came South.  There could have been a quick scene of the Bolton forces spotting him on the battlefield for the first time and freaking out, like holy s***!!!

 

[King Perkis]

Ya the fact that no one seemed bothered by seeing a giant was mystery to me. But then again the Masters in Meereen just forgot Dany had a dragon and seemed shocked when it landed near them.