tennbengal wrote:End of book 5 still makes me mad. Mad all over again.
I figured you of anyone would have been happy with the end of last night's episode. What possible reason could there be for Melisandre, poor disillusioned Melisandre who doesn't understand how Stannis failed to become her Azor Ahai, to come wandering back to the Wall? Mm? Need further convincing? Recall that in another deviation from the book, she met up with Thoros on the show, and in a scene ready made for a
previously on GoT segment he was more than happy to tell her about resurrecting Beric Dondarrion.
A_B wrote:It's fucking stupid.
First the positive:
-Cersei's walk of shame was very well done, though I couldn't help but feel more for the actress than the character. Sort of took me out of the moment.
-Zombie Mountain. Nice. Am I off or did the books never 100% confirm that was who/what Qyburn was working on?
-Jamie's dad moment. All 10 seconds or so of it.
-Jon and Sam's quiet conversation, including the birds and bees talk.
-Arya's revenge and punishment.
The meh:
-Dany back with the Dothraki. I know it happened in the book, but I wasn't too enthused about it then, either.
-I guess Mereen is probably better off with Tyrion in charge than with Selmy.
-Brienne avenging Renly.
The "this just didn't work because they cut too much stuff out":
-Theon and Sansa. I can almost give them a break, because I have no idea how you bring 20 foot deep snow drifts to life on TV.
-Avoiding book spoilers, but Varys.
-Jon's death. As awesome as the Hardhome was (and it was really awesome), it's a problem here because there should be a dozen (more?) Black Brothers who saw what went down and who can tell everyone else that Jon made the right move. Instead we see Jon tell Sam, and that's it. At least give us another scene in the set/room they used for the election, where they try and fail to convince everyone else. Having Olly involved was no where near as powerful as having some of Jon's friends involved, as was the case in the book.
The bad:
-Stannis' defeat. I think I would have been OK with how it went down with the Boltons if not for the Shireen sacrifice last week. He could have rebuffed Melisandre and sent Shireen off with Davos. Or maybe if they had spent less time making Stannis likeable and killed her anyway? As it happened was fucking stupid.
-I think the Brienne plot could have worked if they had forced her to actually choose between saving Sansa and going after Stannis. But having her sit in a fucking hut for weeks looking out a window towards Winterfell (from where? who knows?) and leaving literally seconds before the candle goes up in the window? Fucking stupid. Brienne managing to find Stannis in the middle of that massacre without otherwise getting caught up in it herself. Fucking stupid.
-Dorne. They turned Doran Martell into a weak little dude in a wheelchair. And Bronn knows the Sand Snakes know poison, and knows they have antidotes, so why not turn the boat around? Maybe they were sparing us, but they didn't make Myrcella's reaction as graphic as Joffrey's so maybe there was time. Fucking stupid.
-Where the fuck was Ghost? GRRM at least made sure to have an excuse to remove him from the scene. It's made worse by the fact that he showed up to save Sam and Gilly a couple of episodes ago. Fucking stupid.
I felt aswirl with warm secretions.
