It wasn't bad, some unexpected stuff like the Tommen proclamation, and The Hound meeting the Brotherhood, and no mention of LSH so I guess they really weren't setting that up which is kind of good. And the Meereen stuff was kind of wtf, would have been much better to have them look out the windows and see Drogon WTFBBQing the entire fleet.Thought the episode was pretty good. Not exactly shocked that people that spent all week bitching about the Arya storyline weren't going to like how it ended up.
They had to tie up that storyline and sadly it never really made sense for her to go there and train. It goes back to the really bad idea of the 5 year delay that GRRM wanted to do. Glad it is over with though.Glad we spent all that air time on Arya and the faceless for absolutely nothing. What a waste. This whole season has felt....very strange.
Well, in context it probably wasn't out of the blue but it still felt out of the blue and forced (or at least really rushed). The way the blackfish lost riverrun was just... so anti-climactic. Jaime goes in and talks to Edmure for about 2 minutes and that's how that arc resolves itself?How was the riverrun scene terrible? Jaime and Edmure scene was great, Blackfish was cool, just not seeing what you wanted that would make you think it was horrible.
Also, Maester's attacking wasn't exactly out of the blue.
This. Can't believe people disliked this week. Aside from Arya story being...a long fucking wait for not much payoff (although I feel like we haven't seen the last of JH), the plodding, boring shit stories are getting tied up. Dany coming back means they can finally take care of the Mereen bullshit, and once Yara/Theon arrives with her fleet she can finally get to Westeros (the thing everyone has been bitching about forever). Arya story, crappy ending aside, was getting old and tired and now she can finally get out of it. Jaime story almost completely caught up to books, and he still allowed Brienne to leave (when Cersei would obviously want her taken care of). Edmure/Jaime scene was actually a lot better than I was expecting. No trial by combat was a nice twist, and sets up the potential Cersei Wildfire rampage.How was the riverrun scene terrible? Jaime and Edmure scene was great, Blackfish was cool, just not seeing what you wanted that would make you think it was horrible.
Also, Maester's attacking wasn't exactly out of the blue.
tonight was the first time i realized how much the showrunners like fucking with our heads. that shadow was purely there for nerds like us to spend time talking about.there was a dude behind the waif on the steps, it looked like syrio i think people posted pics of it during the week as well. that was a well played troll
This isn't really true, Edmure actually gave a pretty good scene to us, when otherwise he's been mere fluff for us to laugh at for not being able to shoot a flaming arrow, and just a plot point for the Red Wedding. Also Jaime once again showing his strange blend of blind devotion to Cersei along with the curious streak of honor and integrity that Brienne seems to drag out of him. We needed to know what would happen with the Blackfish since Sansa was hoping for his help for the fight at Winterfell. The fact that they won't be showing up will make LF arriving with the Vale's army all the more important (most likely).It's just really not worth watching or even caring about. I guess that's my problem with it. That whole story could have just been told to us by Littlefinger via a letter to Sansa about what happened to her Uncle and it would have had the same effect.