The writing is really getting bad. :2mad:
A show suspends too much reality.
A wonderful and succinct explanation of things. Well done. This kind of "shock value" type of writing is just something I haven't really connected with this series up till now...save for the random stray BOOBIES
I just finished getting caught up on "HBO Now." Yeah... Unfortunately, I think the above about wraps it up.
There were a lot of
GREAT scenes this Season. However, the lazy (and often outright
hackish) quality of the writing really makes it hard to give them too much praise. Some of this crap was getting to straight up Prometheus "lets run in a straight line in the shadow of the giant space ship about to crush us... Oh! And one of us just happens to be sprinting, leaping, and hanging off ledges with a gaping stomach wound that's only being held together by staples" levels of bad.
No One
Dumbass Arya plotline is still dumb. No surprise there. Her actions make no sense, and those stab wounds should have killed her. Period.
I
did, however, like how she put out the candle so that she could defeat the assassin chasing her in the dark. That was a nice call back.
Though... Unfortunately, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense when you think about it. Remember when Jaquen "killed himself" last season, and it turned out he really didn't, because "Jaquen" doesn't really exist? Arya just kept pulling dozens of different masks off the corpse she thought was Jaquen, and the girl who had been standing behind her suddenly transformed into Jaquen, because the assassins are literally "no one," and can fluidly assume different personas at will?
Why didn't that happen with the assassin girl that Arya killed? Did they just forget about that, or what?
Blackfish getting killed off screen was lame.
Of course... The scene with the Hound killing those goons was freaking
EPIC.
Battle of the Bastards
Probably the best cavalry charge scene I've seen on screen since Lord of the Rings. I actually didn't mind the thing with Rickon, or Jon charging in like a fool. All of that was in character, and reasonably well handled.
The latter stages of the battle did seem a bit contrived, however, IMO. Ramsay's forces apparently suck at scouting if they didn't notice a giant army of horsemen hanging out right on their doorstep. That sort of thing isn't exactly easy to hide. lol
Loved Ramsay's death - Beaten to a pulp and ripped apart by his own dogs. Little puke couldn't have deserved it more if he tried.
As far as Dany's storyline goes... Just ugh. She magically appears out of no where just because the script calls for it. Then... She apparently sits around and lets the city get bombed while she does absolutely nothing for a few hours.
Why on Earth didn't she start blowing up those ships with her dragon from the very start?
The final scene with the slavers was cool, at the very least.
Winds of Winter
Now
THIS is more like the Game of Thrones I know, love, and remember. Cersei blowing up the Sept without really thinking the consequences through is absolutely in character for her.
It really whittled down the cast as well. I think they killed off half of the major characters on the show in one blow!
I'll be interested to see where all that goes next season. LF
definitely looks like he'll be taking a more prominent role.