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really weak episode tbh

- WHY WOULD THEY KILL OFF THE BLACKFISH? They could've easily had him swim (or row) away and escape like he did in the books. Like I don't even get that uppity about show changes usually, but this would've been so easy to do since he was, y'know... right by the water. And then he just decides to suicide. It would've been really cool to have him escape with Brienne/Pod
- WHY IS JAIME STILL CERSEI'S BITCH GODDAMNIT! Where is the burning of the letter. I thought Brienne's return would start that character change but now I really don't think it's happening. So basically his arc's reverted all the way back to S2
- Beric why are you still alive. At least it made sense why those Brotherhood members were suddenly acting like assholes...kinda. Still seemed like a purposeful LSH tease tho
- CLEGANEBOWL OFFICIALLY DEAD GET UNHYPE :///
- the Mereen scenes were terrible (as usual). All that time spent on that awful 'joke' scene only for a few seconds to be devoted to "o look the masters are attacking" and "o look Dany's back yay". The editing seemed really sloppy
- The Arya stuff was so, so, SO bad. The waif turned into an absolute cartoon villain right down to the monologue that buys Arya enough time to escape. And then she ends up killing her by...luring her into her dark hiding place, which she was already in a few episodes ago. Why didn't they just have the waif go straight there instead of drawing it out with the whole stabbing episode (which made Arya look p dumb)? Why did the waif not wear a face almost the entire time (I get they want to show the actor's face like with Jaqen but still, it's kinda silly considering facelessness is their entire schtick)? Why did Arya just leave Needle in the hiding place anyway? How the hell did she walk all the way to the House of Black and White with a reopened stomach wound?

it's weird having an episode this bad come off the heels of what's been a really solid season to this point. I hope/think the next two episodes will turn it around tho with what's still to come. Hardhome director's coming back for those

I will say the blood trail leading to the waif's face on the wall was a rly cool moment

Grimapple @ 13/6/2016 12:25

I'm still hoping Arya wargs Nymeria and the superpack rips Ramsay's army apart.

I'm almost positive the ending next week will be Littlefinger swooping in with the Vale's army and saving the day when all hope seems lost. I kinda hope not because it'd be pretty obvious but I can't see it not happening

Though the consequences of Sansa's "deal with the devil" that she wanted to avoid would be interesting to see. Littlefinger might just take back Winterfell for himself

Nobert @ 13/6/2016 17:23

I knew Arya would end up being herself again and kill the waif, but to not see the fight was lame

how would they show this fight Jeff

Wikey @ 13/6/2016 18:17

Anyway, this episode was all kinds of bad, and pretty much summed up this season for me. D&D seem to think GoT is all about meaningless shocks and OTT violence. Don't get me wrong, this show has always been violent, but it has never really felt gratuitous to me until now. Before now, I would say most of the shows violence served a purpose. Oberyn's death, for instance, was one of the most violent things we have seen in this show. But it served a purpose in that it drove home just how big a mistake Oberyn made by not finishing the fight when he had the chance. It was also a character that people had come to care about, so to see him die in such a gruesome manner had a real effect... Tonight we had: The Hound cutting some guys head off, before gutting another man and spilling his innards, and then we had The Mountain rip a guys head off so forcefully that he brought the spinal cord with it. What purpose did any of this serve other than to shock?

wat? I didn't like this episode either but I wouldn't put any part of this season (except for the Dorne shit, but that was like 5 minutes of screentime) on the same level as this

The purpose of The Hound's kills was he was on a slasher rampage like we all expected from last week's ending. Making a PG-13 version of it would've just been dumb imo. Would've been sort of akin to the awful decision to cut away from Stannis' death because it was "too gratuitous"

The purpose of The Mountain's kill is it pushed the High Sparrow to nix Trial by Combat

Wikey @ 13/6/2016 19:54

It just feels like they are resorting to cheap thrills to me. I get that the point behind The Mountain killing that guy was to force the High Sparrow's hand, but that's not what I'm complaining about. I'm complaining specifically about the ridiculously melodramatic way it was done. That scene would have lost nothing if The Mountain had simply choked the guy to death. As for this season in general, I'd say it's been the worst one by far personally. I don't care about any of this anymore, the show just feels like a medieval soap opera now. There are plot holes everywhere, the characters exist purely to progress the story and don't feel real anymore. The dialogue is plain bad. Worst season hands down imo!

Agree to disagree then (: I think this season's been a huge step up from S5 and will probably end up around the same level as S4 for me. I acknowledge that the show's probably not gonna reach its S1-S3 heights though since everything's moving so much faster and shows no signs of slowing down