I'm just going to say it ... pretty damn sucky writing.
6 Episodes of mostly garbage. I could have done a better job.
The heroes sitting around the fireplace and talking before the battle. Good stuff.
Sansa and Tyrion reunion. Good stuff.
BUT ...
The entire Battle of Winterfell was too damn dark.
I get having the Dothraki in the dark for the flaming swords, but afterwards ... comeon ...
And no commander in history would send CALVALRY straight into overwhelming foreign forces
like that let alone in the dead darkness etc etc.
And what about the hundred thousand widows and orphans over in ESSOS
that Daenerys just created by throwing away all the Dothraki?
They should be pissed. They are poor. No men-folk around to save them from the slavers.
And she hasn't given them a second thought or even a slight mention.
She calls herself the 'breaker of chains' and frees slaves .. but she's just an F5 Tornado with silver hair.
And hiding in a crypt full of dead people that the night king could raise?
They knew he could do that, but they hid there anyways.
Sansa went instantly from nitwit to 'the smartest person I know' and battle hard and brilliant.
A champion of the North. Oh? Since WHEN?
Jamie was on the cusp of full redemption when, inexplicably, he slid back to being bad.
And he instantly teleported 1500 miles from Kings Landing to Winterfell.
Bronn shows up, riding 1500 miles or so instantly, and threatens to kill both of his buddies and then disappears into the night.
Bran .. who we were told 'everything depends on', and who can super warg into people which is something no one else has ever been able to do ... just sits as the world falls apart around him. He does nothing with his super powers.
And Tyrion and Daenerys show up at the Kings Landing gate demanding Cersie surrender. But why would she. The dothraki and the unsullied were nearly wiped out and two dragons are dead. Tyrion looked retarded demanding surrender with his little group of soldiers at the gate.
And for that matter, Cersie should have destroyed them where they stood. The bulk of the forces were still with Jon Snow coming from the North. Easy pickings.
Only 6 episodes? They could have had lots and lots and lots more story.
I'm dreading #5 and #6. Lazy freak'n writers.
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