| LurkerJ said:
Things I hate about this season: Yara and Theon's uncle showing out of nowhere, he was rushed into the story but then he disappeared. Tyrion's role has diminished but I am kinda fine with that, Mareen isn't nearly as complicated as Kings landing, and he practically ran away from his old life anyway. The pacing is questionable, Brann story moved too fast then he also disappeared. I am so SICK of Arya, but this isn't exclusive to this season. They dragged her solo journey for too long. The way they handled Dorne and the Dornish storyline is just horrible. Sand snakes are scary as kittens.
Still though, there is a lot to like. Queen of Thorns, Margery, Jamie and the High Sparrow and Kings Landing in general is unpredictable and just great. I always loved Yara (Asha in the books) and I am very glad she got to shine this season. Hodor twist was well done. I used to love Osha too, sad that we won't be seeing more of her. Ramsay's downfall today was also well done. The last episode is 70 minutes long, longest in GoT history. I am so looking forward to next week! |
The issue with inconsistent story telling is brings into questions why characters have limits at times and not others. When you establish that moving from one place to another takes time (especially a large force) it makes someone going across a continent and back in days seem like deus ex machina or brings to mind earlier story lines why they didn't move so quickly before. This was something even early on the show messed up in having people somehow know information half a world away far too quickly. The whole idea is this a vast epic, making the world small changes that.
Arya's story is butchered. She becomes a bad ass assassin and can skin change into cats. In this she fails, quits, and the assassin guild just...lets her go? Even non book fans have to see the insanity of that.
Pacing issue can be excused at times due to logistics of shows versus books. Books can have a character do little for a while, but show needs to use them so we get Sansa's story being dramatically different. She's still incognito in the Vale in the books.
Dorne is a complete and utter disaster. You cannot just kill the ruling family in a kingdom and expect everyone to be okay with it. If Dorne is not engulfed in Civil War or chaos as every other house hunts the Sand Snakes to extinction then the writers are simply too lazy or stupid to understand how Westeros works. Bad enough we have the Stormlands with no ruler (thanks to show Stannis being insane and killing his heir).
I will agree on Hodor, that was my favorite moment all year and alone bumped my score 2 points because it felt like Martin's work on screen with minor changes. I was also pleased to see Coldhands finally show up.
The thing is in the first 3-4 season I was the optimist among book fans about the show forgiving many errors or changes, but last year an dinto this one they are so bad and so dumbed down I just throw my hands up. If the writers care so little about the characters and world I have to ask why should I?
I'll keep watching, but more out of sense of obligation than joy I use to feel. The wait for books 4 and 5 was bad enough, book 6 is agony now.
