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eve11All caught up on Game of Thrones. It took 3 weeks but I watched them all. Now I'm waiting with the rest of everyone for season 8.
How did Arya end up actually getting faces from the Faceless god? Jaqen H'gar said she was finally no-one after killing the other girl (the Waif?) but she obviously hasn't drunk that particular kool-aid, she didn't cast herself aside. She embraced herself and STILL became a face-changing killer. Also how did she get Walder Frey's face? And how did she impersonate his voice? More magic I guess.
Stannis' ending was so anticlimactic, it just made me angry. Same with Margaery and Loras. Margaery didn't even have time to reveal her true self to the Sparrow/septons or put in motion any schemes, instead she and Loras just got blown up. All that faith militant stuff was so out of left field. I can't imagine that Cersei would make that big of a mistake.
Why does Danaerys trust Tyrion so quickly? Why don't her dragons just devour him when he releases them? Also, whose job was it, I wonder, to keep giving the dragons bigger and bigger neck collars as they grew during their imprisonment?
Speaking of Tyrion, it seems like as soon as he joined Danaerys' council or whatever, he kind of ended up adrift as a character. It seems like, in the later episodes, there are a lot of confluences of characters but it's more like a "throw them together and see what happens" vibe than destiny or anything very well planned. I guess he has a bit more to do in the tail end of season 7, but also Cersei really keeps playing him. Also I thought she was going to poison him in the finale, but I guess she wasn't drinking because she was pregnant, not because the wine was poisoned.
Also, it's been a while since they killed a main character (does the dragon count?), and I was pretty sure someone wasn't going to make it through the finale, so I thought Cersei really would kill Jaime. She'll probably regret that she didn't, though I'm glad she didn't. I kind of like Jaime.
Bran's visions are really convenient plot devices. Sort of like ravens. How do ravens work? Danearys really is able to come to rescue them on that rock from the army of wights after what? A day? Anyhow I realize that there is some "time passes" stuff that goes on, but several times in the show they've had one scene where a raven is sent, and the very next one where the receivers are reading the letter. The way the ravens work in the show, they might as well give everyone cellphones. ("Why don't we fox them?" "Now, Mickey, I want you to take this message to the villagers as fast as you can go...")
Also, the thing about "grounding" the fantasy world--I kind of feel like the more the magic stuff comes up, the more the show is cheating. Like, okay, army of the dead, yeah. But then you step back and realize that the way things are going, it's like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, except it's like, Lord of the Rings and Zombies. Anyhow, it's a fantasy zombie movie. But they spent so many seasons with magic all but dead, and now it's becoming more prevalent you can't help but go 'bzuh?' along with the characters. It's kind of similar to Netflix's Defenders series; they make everything so down to earth and then both the audience and the characters need to deal with the comic book (or fantasy) tropes.
I still don't understand why Beric and Jon Snow keep returning from the dead. I wonder if we'll ever learn who/what the "lord of light" is, or if it will just shuffle away in the cards in favor of a different plot point. That's what I felt happened with Stannis' storyline. And it was basically replaced by the Ironborn, who I just can't bring myself to care about. Anyhow, Melisandre says she needs to die in Westeros, along with Varys, so maybe we'll learn a bit more about it.
Danaerys spends a lot of time standing and looking determined in this show. And I really do wonder how she's going to take the news that she should be the one bending the knee to her new nephew/lover/subject. For all that her people love her, she also is a pretty ruthless killer. I don't know that she'll be able to really "break the wheel" as she wants to, without either getting herself killed, or having to kill a lot of people.
All that said, much of my complaints were just kind of swept away by the last scenes in season 7. Holy crap. This is going to be one hell of an epic battle at the finish.
How did Arya end up actually getting faces from the Faceless god? Jaqen H'gar said she was finally no-one after killing the other girl (the Waif?) but she obviously hasn't drunk that particular kool-aid, she didn't cast herself aside. She embraced herself and STILL became a face-changing killer. Also how did she get Walder Frey's face? And how did she impersonate his voice? More magic I guess.
Stannis' ending was so anticlimactic, it just made me angry. Same with Margaery and Loras. Margaery didn't even have time to reveal her true self to the Sparrow/septons or put in motion any schemes, instead she and Loras just got blown up. All that faith militant stuff was so out of left field. I can't imagine that Cersei would make that big of a mistake.
Why does Danaerys trust Tyrion so quickly? Why don't her dragons just devour him when he releases them? Also, whose job was it, I wonder, to keep giving the dragons bigger and bigger neck collars as they grew during their imprisonment?
Speaking of Tyrion, it seems like as soon as he joined Danaerys' council or whatever, he kind of ended up adrift as a character. It seems like, in the later episodes, there are a lot of confluences of characters but it's more like a "throw them together and see what happens" vibe than destiny or anything very well planned. I guess he has a bit more to do in the tail end of season 7, but also Cersei really keeps playing him. Also I thought she was going to poison him in the finale, but I guess she wasn't drinking because she was pregnant, not because the wine was poisoned.
Also, it's been a while since they killed a main character (does the dragon count?), and I was pretty sure someone wasn't going to make it through the finale, so I thought Cersei really would kill Jaime. She'll probably regret that she didn't, though I'm glad she didn't. I kind of like Jaime.
Bran's visions are really convenient plot devices. Sort of like ravens. How do ravens work? Danearys really is able to come to rescue them on that rock from the army of wights after what? A day? Anyhow I realize that there is some "time passes" stuff that goes on, but several times in the show they've had one scene where a raven is sent, and the very next one where the receivers are reading the letter. The way the ravens work in the show, they might as well give everyone cellphones. ("Why don't we fox them?" "Now, Mickey, I want you to take this message to the villagers as fast as you can go...")
Also, the thing about "grounding" the fantasy world--I kind of feel like the more the magic stuff comes up, the more the show is cheating. Like, okay, army of the dead, yeah. But then you step back and realize that the way things are going, it's like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, except it's like, Lord of the Rings and Zombies. Anyhow, it's a fantasy zombie movie. But they spent so many seasons with magic all but dead, and now it's becoming more prevalent you can't help but go 'bzuh?' along with the characters. It's kind of similar to Netflix's Defenders series; they make everything so down to earth and then both the audience and the characters need to deal with the comic book (or fantasy) tropes.
I still don't understand why Beric and Jon Snow keep returning from the dead. I wonder if we'll ever learn who/what the "lord of light" is, or if it will just shuffle away in the cards in favor of a different plot point. That's what I felt happened with Stannis' storyline. And it was basically replaced by the Ironborn, who I just can't bring myself to care about. Anyhow, Melisandre says she needs to die in Westeros, along with Varys, so maybe we'll learn a bit more about it.
Danaerys spends a lot of time standing and looking determined in this show. And I really do wonder how she's going to take the news that she should be the one bending the knee to her new nephew/lover/subject. For all that her people love her, she also is a pretty ruthless killer. I don't know that she'll be able to really "break the wheel" as she wants to, without either getting herself killed, or having to kill a lot of people.
All that said, much of my complaints were just kind of swept away by the last scenes in season 7. Holy crap. This is going to be one hell of an epic battle at the finish.
