Oh God this episode was just appalling, me and a couple of friends were sitting there watching with our jaws agape at how hilariously bad things have got in such a short space of time.
So many wtf things happened:
1) Jon about to tell his sisters about his secret then the camera cutting away.
So? Do we, the audience who already know need to see/hear this again?
2) Sisters then telling everyone about his secret three scenes later.
Sansa only, and because she's now playing the game, Dany be damned - being nice and honourable gets Starks killed, she's looking out for her own now.
3) Jaime and Brienne's cringeworthily awkward and 100% unnecessary sex scenes.
In your opinion - felt like a natural way for these two characters to go after all they've been through together. You know, character development, which brings me to the next point...
4) Jaime throwing away seasons of character development and rendering himself pointless to run back to Cersei. Utterly bizzarre.
If he's going back to seriously join Cersei I'll eat my hat - he makes off as soon as he hears she's ambushed Dany and taken out a Dragon and has a good chance to win...
5) Jon leaving Ghost without so much as a pat or a hug.
Finally, an actual good point! They might be expensive to show next to humans close up but the characters needed a goodbye (unless that's not actually their goodbye?!).
6) Arya running off to join The Hound on a merry jaunt despite spending seasons trying to get away from him or kill him.
Erm, what? Do you watch the same show? If you can't tell these two are close then you're lost!
7) Bronns utterly bizzarre appearence and cringingly awkward dialogue. Everything was so out of character it hurt.
I'd say it was 100% in character for Bronn, sick of being messed around. He still likes both the brothers which was the only reason he didn't kill them (that and playing the odds).
8) Daenerys not seeing an entire fleet waiting just around the corner from where they knew a fleet would/should be.
They were hidden away between two outcroppings of land and no one thought they'd be a threat even if there. I suppose sfx could have shown the scene differently with the dragons skimming the water rather than being up higher...
9) Euron Greyjoy managing to destroy a fleet of ships by machine-gunning ballistae bolts.
Yeah, a bit over the top with how powerful they were but meh, the story has them getting blasted, if it takes 3 hours or 3 mins the end result is the same. Get some pretty sfx.
10) Danerys's fleet was seemingly wholly destroyed, washed up on the beach, then appearing in front of the city as though nothing has happened. How many died?
This is a bit of a lapse that the sfx and the story writers/directors not always thinking things through.
Clearly the story called for not all the ships being destroyed but that's not what we see. The ships were ferrying a small force to garrison Dragonstone only. Perhaps the rest of the fleet where moving off to setup a blockade which was stopped when they know the dragons could no longer protect them.
11) Daenerys standing in front of a city with her dragon sitting within range of every ballistae on the walls. The army standing within range of every archer on the walls. Daenerys having zero archers or units with ladders capable of breaching/scaling said walls.
They were there to parley, not attack! That's just a small escort. Come on, pay some attention. The Dragon was placed well behind so if they did attack they'd have an angry dragon charging in. Don't kill him and you're toast.
12) Missandei standing there with only her hands loosely shackled directly next to Cersei while knowing she would shortly be killed. Being the brave uberwoman she is surely she could have struck or grabbed Cersei and jumped off the wall?
Looked fairly chained up to me, maybe costume should have added more but whatever. Would have been futile with the mountain within arms reach and she wouldn't have got her final word in.
The directors clearly have zero idea what they are doing now and are just rushing through it in the most haphazard way they can. The script is bad, the directing is bad, and the show has lost all gravitas as well as emotion. It was like a bad romcom.
They will deservedly go down in infamy for this.
It's an open thread, but for the sake of your own dignity why make such daft and childlike posts? If you can't handle criticism of your favourite show like an adult then that's your problem. For the rest of us intelligent people capable of giving open and honest critique, we shall continue to post our thoughts.
