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Blobbo wrote:I've lost interest to be honest. Last few episodes just reinforced the notion that this series is just torture porn set in a pseudo fantasy setting.
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Rast wrote:XuaXua wrote:Yet no one was outraged when they mailed that one guy's ding dong to his dad and sister.
I guess the difference was that he was an adult, who had himself killed two children (child murder is the jaywalking of Westeros) and done a bunch of other bad stuff.
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mps wrote:I was surprised Stannis didn't end up winning.
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dowan wrote:Yeah, I'm noticing a pattern of huge armies unexpectedly coming out of nowhere to utterly crush forces that were previously thought to be far superior. Either military intelligence in westeros just sucks, or there's some really sloppy writing going on... Armies tend to be fairly noticeable...
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Blobbo wrote:So he went north and defeated a huge army of wildlings without even trying much.
Blobbo wrote:Where were his supply lines? How did he manage to project his forces so far from Dragonstone?
Blobbo wrote:Why did he piss around in Castle Black for so long if his objective was Winterfell?
Blobbo wrote:Why did he give a shit about some wildlings when his main campaign was to take Westeros?
Blobbo wrote:If he felt he needed to sacrifice his daughter, why do it in public and totally destroy the morale of his non Rhlorrist mercenaries and make them desert?
Blobbo wrote:How did Ramsay's 20 super-ninjas destroy his entire army's food source, if they could just walk in and do this why not just assassinate Stannis?
Blobbo wrote:Ellaria Sand's actions made no sense either. Killing Myrcella while Tristane's on the boat, wtf? How is Doran supposed to not kill her now for going rogue like that? I don't read the books but on scanning the wiki it looks like none of this happened in the books.
Blobbo wrote:Jon Snow's murder just takes the cake. (...) Apparently in the books they killed him for a completely different (somewhat more believable) reason, still a bit thin but not as totally arbitrary and random as the TV show.
Blobbo wrote:This season's writing is sloppy as hell and really can be summed up as the series producer's interpreting GRRM's narrative as "random bad things happening to stupid people for no reason", yeah got it let's just run with that.
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Magipi wrote:Blobbo wrote:Where were his supply lines? How did he manage to project his forces so far from Dragonstone?
He had no supply lines, just packed the remnants of his army on the remnants of his fleet, and sailed North.
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Blobbo wrote:Magipi wrote:Blobbo wrote:Where were his supply lines? How did he manage to project his forces so far from Dragonstone?
He had no supply lines, just packed the remnants of his army on the remnants of his fleet, and sailed North.
Oh sweet mercy. So much for being a great war leader, a three year old could tell you that's a terrible idea.
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Magipi wrote:He had no real chance after the defeat at the Blackwater, his army was crushed and he had no allies. A sensible man would have given up his claim at that point.
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Magipi wrote:As I remember, they killed him for exactly the same reasons: for dealing with the wildlings, for getting mixed into Stannis's things, and because half the Watch hated his guts. Maybe the weights were different.
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tasonir wrote:While they've diverged a decent amount at this point, it's my understanding that the show and the book series are more or less caught up/have roughly equal plot advancement at this point, so no one really knows the future for sure.
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tasonir wrote:Arya's probably one of my favorite characters, and she isn't dead yet! I mean, she's just totally blind, on a character whose whole life seems to be about sword fighting...It's probably karma for insisting the hound die a slow death or something
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Magipi wrote:Come on, nobody really believes that Jon is really dead.
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njvack wrote:Magipi wrote:Come on, nobody really believes that Jon is really dead.
This, of course, is why Jon actually is dead.
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Magipi wrote:That would be a gutsy move from George, showing that even crowd favorites can be killed. An interesting possibility.
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Arrhythmia wrote:More like, Lame of Groans!!!!!!!!
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Majang wrote:I'm reading Robert Jordan, instead.
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Rast wrote:Majang wrote:I'm reading Robert Jordan, instead.
Spoiler, he dies before the end of the series.
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mps wrote:Season 5 is getting too television-y for my tastes, I have to say. The previous seasons seemed to deal with the material in the book in a way that worked well given time constraints and kept things tight/well-planned, but now it seems like there's a lack of material to work with and it's being filled in with garbage (see the Jaime and Bronn in Dorne side plot).
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mattlistener wrote:mps wrote:Season 5 is getting too television-y for my tastes, I have to say. The previous seasons seemed to deal with the material in the book in a way that worked well given time constraints and kept things tight/well-planned, but now it seems like there's a lack of material to work with and it's being filled in with garbage (see the Jaime and Bronn in Dorne side plot).
Fortunately they've turned a corner on this now. The showrunners have full outlines in hand for the rest of the arc, so they know where they're going and how they'll get there. Season 7 will be 7 episodes, and Season 8 (the last) will be 6 episodes. No filler.
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