Heartbreakingly inept treatment of the penultimate episode.
Agree with all said in comments.
Awful episode. Nothing makes sense. Daenarys never showed a sign of being crazy, not like this, then she goes global thermonuclear? One dragon did this? What was she waiting when she had 3? Why need an army? The guys that killed the other dragon, on furlough? Clegane into a fight with his brother, turned Darth Vader, that nothing, nothing can kill and then disobeying Cersei, his queen he always obeyed, while everything around them is burning or collapsing? Euron Grayjoy just swam and happens to arrive where Jamie was? Jamie gets mortally wounded and minutes later he is walking? Cersei dying by brick? Jamie dying by brick? Arya leaving in a white horse that appeared out of nowhere that goes into the horizon? Worst episode of the series. Now where to go from here with one episode left? The producers really messed this up. Incoherent.
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@Raul Martinez it was not perfect but I enjoyed it. Remember Daenarys just lost (a) her best friend Missandei (to Cersei), (b) her lover Jon Snow (because, you know, she's his aunt), (c) her dragon Rhaegal, (d) closest adviser Jorah Mormont, (e) most of her army, and (f) Varys (through betrayal). No one in Westeros loves her and she is being threatened by Jon Snow taking the throne after all the work she's put in getting to this point. They needed another episode to build this up, but she is the daughter of the Mad King after all. She was waiting to sack Kings Landing because her advisers like Tyrion convinced her not to do so in previous seasons. Also, I imagine she was prepared to handle the scorpion arrows after Rhaegal because she wasn't surprised (though their aim was as poor as Stormtroopers) and was riding the biggest and strongest of all the dragons - Drogon. The Mountain hates the Hound more than anyone in the world and that overcame his obedience. Not happy about the way Jamie and Cersei ended, and yes Jamie was stabbed twice in the kidneys and should have been a goner.
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Pretty sure Arya's white horse scene was a reference to OJ Simpson's heroic ride on a white bronco.
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It seems that the three of the first four comments want more realism. Very Interesting, considering even the land mass is imaginary.
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I'm not a surgeon, or a doctor for that matter, but from my personal experience with pain and injury, I would have acted those scenes differently. #1 Scream #2 beg for help #3 weeping because I'm bleeding out #4 (based on first person writing of the Civil War) begging for water. All that talking and walking seems very unlikely.
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Yup I'm going to miss Euron. Such a fun-loving bad guy. It'd be great if he wound up living through his injury, but of course, we'll probably never know, as it seems there won't be sequels forthcoming.
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That episode was a sloppy mess. reminiscent of cheap kung fu movies in its unbelievable "resolutions". CGI dragon flames are easier than writing dialogue and creating satisfying endings, as we watched once complicated characters get the simple-minded comic book treatment. "Miracles" happened (Greyjoy unaffected by the YUGE blast of Drogon's fiery breath), and we were left with a "ho-hum" feeling after once carefully sculpted character development was burned away.
Disappointing, but then this is just commercial entertainment, getting dumbed down a bit more every year.
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I think GOT took some rather big leaps of creative license such as Euron getting impaled, then mouthing a dialogue or so, and then smiling for a while; Laime getting cloberred real bad but able to walk, and then somehow appear right next to Cersei through the maze of bombing, and then he also able to mouth a few dialogues of his own.
Shabby, shabby, shabby.
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