Came around watching this season after quite some time and well... all the intrigue is gone along with decent writing I guess (last episode excluded). It's still the best tv-series out there, but just not on the level it was initially.
The kung-fu bullshit with Arya, with her getting away from the cult yet somehow keeping their powers (idk, perhaps I missed something, but how the shit is she able to change her face if she didn't complete the training).
Everything seems to try so hard to be EPIC, even the Hodor scene wasn't as powerful as it could be due to star-wars magic grenades and wall-walking zombies nonsense that lead to it. Dramatic teleporter is off the chain as well, Half-zomb uncle saving Brand, LF coming to the Bastard's Bowl just-in-time, Daenerys preventing the second bombing of Baghdad. Shit like that is level below the usual quality of the show, it's a shame really.
Most of the moves became predictable. Seems like "We're not clever like you Southerners. When we say we'll do something, we do it." became a motto for almost every single character.
Besides you can (could) fix almost every problem currently present just by shooting someone in the face and yet nobody does it (aside from the last ep, where it's shown how easy it would really be, with children of the corn and Cersei going all gangster and shit). Take Ramsey situation for example, imagine him getting shanked during their initial ball-flailing (pre-battle) meetup, by Snow or Sansa preferably. It would actually show some character development in their case (we already knew that Cersei is fucked up), but instead we got slightly less retarded Sansa and roughly the same Snow that we had for 6 seasons. Who by the way, is a true Stark for sure... the war ineptness gene's strong in this one.
Also, were there some budget cuts or something? CGI has been pretty shit this season.
Loved me some hound and Al Swearengen tho and of course:
So it wasn't all bad and last episode got me hyped for things to come, I just wish the real players would get more screen time next season (and better plot lines).. like Varys, Olenna, Little Finger and such.
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Davos is the man.