jiggles wrote:That was mostly pretty shite.
Bran is just a plot device to let characters react to information the audience has, Jon and Dany's magic carpet ride was saccharin and lame, and Asha's escape/Theron's departure was just comically breezed over.
Hey, remember when Danerys was the freer of slaves? Now she just sasses about her dragons and being boss. Yas queen! Yaaas!
The writing in this show has been in decline since it stopped being an adaptation and became an original work. It's all zingers and fan pairings and it really sucks. On the bright side, I imagine most of this season is going to be large-scale spectacle which just keeps getting better as the seasons go on.
While this is kinda harsh it does sum up a lot of my issues with this episode and the show in general for the last few seasons
A lot of the reunion type scenes here felt very stilted and awkward; conversations that should have been more developed ended up being very hollow and lasted like 30 seconds. It just goes to show that the show writers simply aren't very good and simplified a lot of these characters
As said in the post above, what the strawberry float was up with Yara's rescue? Why even set up that whole plot point just for the climax to be 30 seconds long and mostly devoid of anything meaningful? A lot of this episode feels exactly like that, but I guess there's time for them to unfuck the character dynamics somewhat
also man why is daenarys such a bitch now; the writers doubled down on her shitty traits I guess to make Jon's side of things more sympathetic. but like, what the strawberry float? you just end up with the shell of what was once a really cool character
They also seem to struggle with Varis and Tyrion; it's clearly too hard for them to plot around the intelligence of those characters when everything's become so much more action and spectacle focused, and it's just sad to see these dudes reduced to background characters; especially Tyrion whom before season 7 was a main characterAll that aside tho, much of the episode was solid and the last 20 minutes set up nicely for the next episode/rest of the season
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