Originally Posted by Psychotic
Mace the mothersmurfing Ace.
Also Mad King in Bran's visions!
BILL MURRAY?!?!?!?!
Also, I'm glad you muppets are finally on board with me that Dany's speeches are just over the top and more of the same. DO SOMETHING STOP JUST TALKING DOOD
Those scenes were great. The point was all this training and slooooooowly joining with the faceless assassins was meaningless filler.I half agree. The storyline itself has been meh, but I actually thought the scenes in the episode were the best she's had in a couple of years. She actually feels empathy for, of all people, Cersei and maybe realises taking lives isn't something to be done so casually after all. Which is good because the OMG BADASS ASSASSIN trout doesn't really do it for me.
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Then yeah, agreed. They handled the young kid trained by old master" thing a lot better with Bran by just having him skip a season. We could've done without countless episodes of staves and "Who are you?" "No-one".
I always thought Benjen was the most obvious identity for Coldhands, so not particularly surprised to see it. Sad he didn't ride his moose, but I suppose trained meese are pretty hard to come by.
I also didn't see the Tommen Joins the Church thing coming even though it probably should have been the fairly logical conclusion from his scenes in recent episodes.
Glad Arya has a name again. Hope she does something more interesting than training montages for the rest of the season!
I think Dany's story is so much more interesting in the books because the best development happens in the details, and the details don't make it through to the show, where the developments are large in scale but don't seem to amount to much.
Sam and Gilly's story is a nice change of pace to more personal development rather than political scheming and epic action. I like it, and hope it amounts to something important in the end.
Edit: Super agree with the above. And the whole deal with the other girl having it out for Arya? Yawn.
I've been rewatching Season 4 this week, and right after Joffrey dies Tywin asks Tommen what he thinks makes someone a good King. Tommen replies "Holiness" right off the bat. Lovely little piece of foreshadowing right there!
Yeah, I actually wasn't expecting Tommen to join the church, either.
RE: Arya and the Faceless Men
I don't necessarily think it's been for nothing. I think it's shown that Arya DOES care and DOES want to be a good person. That giving up isn't for her. But it's been going on for two goddamn seasons. They could've told it in half the time, really.
I also thought Benjen was the most logical option for Coldhands, but it was still great to see him return!
Yeah, even I, a big Dany fan, am getting a bit bored of it now.
Unrelated, I do wonder how many of the cast will be lost after their contracts end at the end of season 7, so many of them are becoming significantly older than the characters they're portraying. But then again I suspect fans would rage hard if some of the cast got replaced!
I like that during Sam and his family's dinner they threw in the little reminder that not many people south of the wall believe the white walkers are real.
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You say "So many" - but Sam Jnr, Bran and Rickon aside, I don't really see any reason for any of them to change. I think that changing active cast members from one episode to the next would break immersion considerably more than their IRL age changes would. Can you name who you think should change, out of curiosity?
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Apparently people consider events that lead to important character development to be pointless if that's all they accomplish. Strange.
Also, we've had what...five Mountains? The last Mountain was fine, but no one is believing his the Hound's older brother. He looks young enough to be his son.
I see no reason to change cast members. We're not actually given an exact timeline of the show, but things the characters say (I'm thinking of Sansa) makes you think it's been between 3-5 years in-world time. Given that the show is nearly over and the kids are almost done growing anyways, it'll be fine.
Basically, there's nothing to actually indicate they're too old to play the role they're in. Unless you think that like a year has gone by in world. Keep in mind that Danaerys was wed and nearly ready to have a child. So one year went by about in the first season alone.
Indeed. And let's remember that despite seeing the highlights, wars take time to wage and there's been what? A million of them?
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