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<blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 7604543" data-attributes="member: 6801286"><p>This episode was one giant character assassination. I know that they were trying to build up to Dany's madness, but they had not built it up to the point where killing thousands of innocent civillians feels like something she would do. This feels completely divorced from her character up to this point.</p><p></p><p>Also, apparently dragon fire behaves like a missile now, and has concussive force to blow apart stone buildings. According to the books, dragonfire can melt stone... but it is not explosive.</p><p>At this point I suspect George RR Martin gave the show runners some very basic outlines of how the story would end:</p><p></p><p>-Dany goes mad</p><p>-The Red Keep falls.</p><p>-Cersei and Jamie die in each other's arms</p><p>-The Hound and The Mountain fight, and the Hound dies by fire.</p><p>-Euron dies by Jamie's hands.</p><p></p><p>But it doesn't seem the details were fleshed out by him yet, and so he gave them the freedom to do whatever, thus explaining how clunky this all feels. It lacks the feeling that anything came full circle, or that gutpunch from earlier seasons, when they were still more or less following the books. There's a lot of plot points from the books that did not get a pay off at all, and I don't suspect they will with the final episode.</p><p></p><p>-No pay off to Sansa's dream about the Hound</p><p>-No pay off regarding the valonqar prophecy</p><p>-No pay off to The Hound's spiritual journey</p><p>-No pay off to the Ironborn and to Asha's (Yarra) storyline</p><p></p><p>By the way did Arya do anything useful at all this episode apart from running around a lot?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Imaculata, post: 7604543, member: 6801286"] This episode was one giant character assassination. I know that they were trying to build up to Dany's madness, but they had not built it up to the point where killing thousands of innocent civillians feels like something she would do. This feels completely divorced from her character up to this point. Also, apparently dragon fire behaves like a missile now, and has concussive force to blow apart stone buildings. According to the books, dragonfire can melt stone... but it is not explosive. At this point I suspect George RR Martin gave the show runners some very basic outlines of how the story would end: -Dany goes mad -The Red Keep falls. -Cersei and Jamie die in each other's arms -The Hound and The Mountain fight, and the Hound dies by fire. -Euron dies by Jamie's hands. But it doesn't seem the details were fleshed out by him yet, and so he gave them the freedom to do whatever, thus explaining how clunky this all feels. It lacks the feeling that anything came full circle, or that gutpunch from earlier seasons, when they were still more or less following the books. There's a lot of plot points from the books that did not get a pay off at all, and I don't suspect they will with the final episode. -No pay off to Sansa's dream about the Hound -No pay off regarding the valonqar prophecy -No pay off to The Hound's spiritual journey -No pay off to the Ironborn and to Asha's (Yarra) storyline By the way did Arya do anything useful at all this episode apart from running around a lot? [/QUOTE]
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