The season where things got very dark, very quickly, and I don't just mean Jaime Lannister's locks
The massacre at Hardhome, Shireen's demise, Jon's dance with the many faced god, Sansa's capture, Cersei's fall from grace and the most senseless death of all in the warm waters of Dorne. In retrospect, I expected this to be 'the boring season' only to realise that many of the cliffhangers and 'oh no they didn't' moments were all in this season.
1. So if Ser Alliser Thorne was the one they sent with the un-dead hand to beg for more men in Kings Landing, why is he unconvinced that they need to do more than business as usual? If Melisandre has seen death marching on the wall and Stannis believes this...why are they still working on other projects? And jumping the gun a bit, but why were they hell bent on convincing Cersei when there are millions of others with armies and less animosity? What can we learn from John's blunders? Clearly singing to the choir (yes getting a band of trusted men for your mission is key, but convincing the naysayers was critical) wasn't the best choice. Perhaps taking Thorne would have been a tough decision-leaving the wall leaderless but...we're talking about the White Walkers and folks are still out here, on and on about 'we've been fighting the wildlings for thousands of years'. Also, let's not forget the many wights they could have captured at Hardhome as proof and forestalling the need to return with dragons.
2. Tyrion had to do a dumb thing for character development, and also so Ser Jorah could get greyscale. I get it now. [spoiler alert] Sam Tarly needed to practice extreme debridement on someone right?
3. I want to know the waif's story? Why doesn't she like Arya? Was her path to assasindom more noble? How did she come to understudy the faceless men. Why was Jaqen H'ghar in Westeros anyway?
4. Can we talk about the ease of travel, inter-connectedness, free trade and borderlessness that seems to be operating between Westeros and Essos? This is what you get when you ask someone with mediocre geography skills to draw Europe...and this person knows quite a lot. Could Westeros look more like England+Scotland? Could the shadowlands look anymore like India? Is the Rhoyne exactly where the Rhine is? Greenland, is pratically in the same location and is already conveniently called "the land of always winter" It is known that no one has ever returned from the Sunset Sea. Perhaps Azor Ahai will Columbus it after winter comes and perhaps, the Song of Summer will be sang in the New (Water) World.
5. Maester Aemon was dancing with death for many moons, why hadn't they sent Sam to the Citadel already? oh wait...cos that's what happened in the books and it makes too much sense. Guess it wouldn't have fit into the newly truncated timeline
6. So this is why Myrcella didn't attend the wedding?
Sidebar, what the hell is Ellaria's deal? Is her plan really to go to war with the Lannisters? Oberyn did die in a trail by combat, ironically because he sought to avenge his sister. Now, you want to also do something dumb to avenge him? A lot of this storyline leaves much to be desired. It doesn't advance the story overall and the critical parts were greatly changed from the books. As depicted in the show, we ought to be concerned about Prince Doran's seeming indifference. Is there a plan underfoot? sadly we never get to find out, and the seemingly undefeatable sand snakes all die a horrible lacklustre death. Why did he decide to send Myr back...with Trystane? He's supposed to have 2 other children, but in the show it seems as though he's sending off the heir to Dorne as well as their/betrothed/ward/captive/bargaining chip. I guess they feel bad about never having sent those ships!
7. Melisandre...after all that, you defect at showtime and run to Castle Black which is quickly becoming a wintery Bed and Breakfast? Can we talk about how killing your own children is easily more evil than stealing others' and turning them into your soldiers? On second thoughts...doesn't this make him more likely to be the Prince(ess) who was promised? Maybe it's all the same but any time you see this and shiver:
Remember this and cry:
The massacre at Hardhome, Shireen's demise, Jon's dance with the many faced god, Sansa's capture, Cersei's fall from grace and the most senseless death of all in the warm waters of Dorne. In retrospect, I expected this to be 'the boring season' only to realise that many of the cliffhangers and 'oh no they didn't' moments were all in this season.
1. So if Ser Alliser Thorne was the one they sent with the un-dead hand to beg for more men in Kings Landing, why is he unconvinced that they need to do more than business as usual? If Melisandre has seen death marching on the wall and Stannis believes this...why are they still working on other projects? And jumping the gun a bit, but why were they hell bent on convincing Cersei when there are millions of others with armies and less animosity? What can we learn from John's blunders? Clearly singing to the choir (yes getting a band of trusted men for your mission is key, but convincing the naysayers was critical) wasn't the best choice. Perhaps taking Thorne would have been a tough decision-leaving the wall leaderless but...we're talking about the White Walkers and folks are still out here, on and on about 'we've been fighting the wildlings for thousands of years'. Also, let's not forget the many wights they could have captured at Hardhome as proof and forestalling the need to return with dragons.
3. I want to know the waif's story? Why doesn't she like Arya? Was her path to assasindom more noble? How did she come to understudy the faceless men. Why was Jaqen H'ghar in Westeros anyway?
4. Can we talk about the ease of travel, inter-connectedness, free trade and borderlessness that seems to be operating between Westeros and Essos? This is what you get when you ask someone with mediocre geography skills to draw Europe...and this person knows quite a lot. Could Westeros look more like England+Scotland? Could the shadowlands look anymore like India? Is the Rhoyne exactly where the Rhine is? Greenland, is pratically in the same location and is already conveniently called "the land of always winter" It is known that no one has ever returned from the Sunset Sea. Perhaps Azor Ahai will Columbus it after winter comes and perhaps, the Song of Summer will be sang in the New (Water) World.
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| customs union anyone? |
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| the original Jorah Mormont |
5. Maester Aemon was dancing with death for many moons, why hadn't they sent Sam to the Citadel already? oh wait...cos that's what happened in the books and it makes too much sense. Guess it wouldn't have fit into the newly truncated timeline
6. So this is why Myrcella didn't attend the wedding?
Sidebar, what the hell is Ellaria's deal? Is her plan really to go to war with the Lannisters? Oberyn did die in a trail by combat, ironically because he sought to avenge his sister. Now, you want to also do something dumb to avenge him? A lot of this storyline leaves much to be desired. It doesn't advance the story overall and the critical parts were greatly changed from the books. As depicted in the show, we ought to be concerned about Prince Doran's seeming indifference. Is there a plan underfoot? sadly we never get to find out, and the seemingly undefeatable sand snakes all die a horrible lacklustre death. Why did he decide to send Myr back...with Trystane? He's supposed to have 2 other children, but in the show it seems as though he's sending off the heir to Dorne as well as their/betrothed/ward/captive/bargaining chip. I guess they feel bad about never having sent those ships!
7. Melisandre...after all that, you defect at showtime and run to Castle Black which is quickly becoming a wintery Bed and Breakfast? Can we talk about how killing your own children is easily more evil than stealing others' and turning them into your soldiers? On second thoughts...doesn't this make him more likely to be the Prince(ess) who was promised? Maybe it's all the same but any time you see this and shiver:
Remember this and cry:
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