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Hanley! wrote:Lets start with the obvious: Dorne sucks. It sucked last season, and now they've killed off all the characters that could have made that story interesting. Myrcella wasn't an interesting character, but she was an interesting political pawn. Gone. Doran wasn't an interesting character in the show, but he was in the books and they hired a great actor to play him. Gone. What are we left with? The fucking Sand Snakes. The notoriously terrible characters from last season that nobody liked. Great.
@UTK already explained the plot contrivances here too. Why would these women who are obsessed with the murders of their kin go and murder more of their kin? Why didn't Jaime go back and kick some fucking ass when his daughter died while their boat was just 10 minutes away from the dock? Can boats not turn in Westeros?
Speaking of once great characters becoming boring ... Arya.
Next week we need more Tyrells. Call me crazy, but Margaery and Lady Olenna are my favourite characters in the show at this point.
Viazon wrote:I have a question about Daenerys and the fact that she is being held by the Dothraki. When did she actually lose the Dothraki people? I mean, she married Khal Drogo and became their Queen. After he dies, she becomes their leader. From what I can remember, the Dothraki were with her when she made it to Qarth and then they were there when she free the Unsullied from their slave masters. Then she went to Maureen and ruled there for a while. Then the Sons of Harpy attack and her dragon flies her away where she is found by the Dothraki. That's the basic gist of what has happened, from what I can recall. When did the Dothraki break away from her. Did I miss something?
Headlesspete wrote:The Jamie thing i can understand. It was just him and Bronn, what were they going to be able to do on their own?
Headlesspete wrote:Oh, and Lady Olenna is my favorite character too. Between her, Margery and Cersi, Kings Landing is still the most must see parts of the show!
Everlong wrote:I think the show has officially lost it, and I'm very quickly giving up hope. It's a shame, because I think there's far more hope for the books at this point than the show.
Hanley! wrote:Everlong wrote:I think the show has officially lost it, and I'm very quickly giving up hope. It's a shame, because I think there's far more hope for the books at this point than the show.
Here's where I'm going to be a bummer. The books are better in a lot of ways. BUT. If the show has killed off an interesting character that's still alive in the book, or skipped over an interesting plot point that you loved in the books, the likelihood is that those characters and plot points will ultimately be of no consequence at all in the books either. They are still basing the show on Martin's story and what he's told them about where it's going.
The truth is that at this point, the majority of this story is padding, and that's even more true in the books than it is in the show.
Hanley! wrote:Everlong wrote:I think the show has officially lost it, and I'm very quickly giving up hope. It's a shame, because I think there's far more hope for the books at this point than the show.
Here's where I'm going to be a bummer. The books are better in a lot of ways. BUT. If the show has killed off an interesting character that's still alive in the book, or skipped over an interesting plot point that you loved in the books, the likelihood is that those characters and plot points will ultimately be of no consequence at all in the books either. They are still basing the show on Martin's story and what he's told them about where it's going.
The truth is that at this point, the majority of this story is padding, and that's even more true in the books than it is in the show.
Headlesspete wrote:but i think Brienna killing Walder after she's already killed both The Hound and Stannis is way too much.
Hanley! wrote:When Brienne pledged to serve Sansa, she hesitated and looked over at Theon who nodded at her. Why the fuck would or should she turn to Theon for direction at that moment? She can make her own decisions. Particularly on an issue like that one which is much more her area than his. I took it as confirmation that Sansa isn't supposed to have any agency at all as a character. She'll do whatever the men around her tell her to do, and that's her role now.
SlightlyJames wrote:She turned to Theon because he has a strong connection to her past and probably served as a reminder that she was in fact noble, rather than a pawn of Littlefinger, a thrall to Ramsay or a prisoner of the Lannisters. It's the first time she'd really been a Lady in a good few years and it may well have been jarring to have that kind of pledge made to her. I don't know man it feels like you're picking at bones here.
Hanley! wrote:In contrast, I really liked the moment where Sansa stumbled over her words when saying her part of the vows and Podrick had to help her. During her struggles Sansa has forgotten some of what she was taught during her upbringing, but she managed to find the words with help from Podrick, who would naturally know this stuff. I thought that was a really nice touch.
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