Game of Thrones: Season 5 (aka A Feast for Crows + A Dance with Dragons)

[ehh]

Re: Game of Thrones: Season 5 (aka A Feast for Crows + A Dance with Dragons)

The Sand Snakes are the worst storyline we've seen yet in the show and that whole Dorne fiasco yesterday was probably the worst scene we've ever had.

Bronn and Jamie just waltz right into the palace - no guards,no entry plan, no nothing. Happen to immediately find Myrcella, then happen to have the Sand Snakes right there as well, perfect timing. I saw a post somewhere else but that looked like a scene out of Xena.

What was Jamie & Bronn's plan? Walk in, say "Hey, Myrcella, let's go" and walk right out?

The House of Black & White and the "face room" was cool to see. The Winterfell wedding was brutal but I was expecting it. It could have been much worse. I really hope we get the Battle of Winterfell next ep and it looks like we will.

BTW anyone know if they're skipping next Sunday due to Memorial Day? I don't want to wait two weeks!

[Leon]

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I need all the Stark kids to get Ramsay in a fighting pit, kick his ***, and quote Oberyn the whole time "YOU RAPED HER!"

Damn that was tough. Theon/Alfie Allen/all of us viewers really did know Sansa as a little girl and now.....this. Man that got me infuriated! Still, I appreciate the show going where no other show wouldn't. It serves the story, and I wouldn't want them copping out because it might make people mad.

[Brandwin]

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All this outrage about the ending of last nights episode. People saying they are going to stop watching *smh*

[Boltman]

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All this outrage about the ending of last nights episode. People saying they are going to stop watching *smh*

I'm not going to stop watching but I'd be lying if I said that scene didn't upset me.

If they feel that they needed to have that part of the story showed/implied then so be it. But I could've without it, oh well.

[ehh]

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All this outrage about the ending of last nights episode. People saying they are going to stop watching *smh*

As the saying in ASOIAF goes, "it's not a wedding without a bedding". Sansa was extremely fortunate in the way Tyrion treated her after their wedding, I believe every other wedding in both the shows and books ended with a bedding.

[kingkilla56]

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Just seems like they are piling on with Sansa. They had her be a tough *** in one scene then completely tore that **** down with the final scene. I guess you cant have character growth without some unwanted bedding.

I just dont want that scene to be the reason Theon magically grows a pair. After all the torture and **** hes been through and repeated failures by him to take a stand, he BETTER not have a revelation just because it finally happened to Sansa. Because if Theon is the one that gets Sansa out of this situation at this point, it will be a complete waste of seasons worth of buildup imo.

[RockinDaMike]

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I think it makes sense for him to grow a pair. That's basically his sister. I can take all the punishment in the world and just take it and hope to die but if you rape a girl in my family and actually witness it, I'm gonna kill that mother ****er and die for it.

I don't think that's magical, it's a natural reaction.

[Sandman42]

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I agree that the Sand Snakes storyline is pretty bad on the show. The whole Dorne storyline has been pretty meh so far. I was hoping adding Jamie and Bronn would spice it up from the books , but its still been pretty boring.

Would have rather seen the Iron Islands and the Kingsmoot I think. Granted that's not as relevant to what's happening on the show because of Myrcella.

[fistofrage]

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I agree that the Sand Snakes storyline is pretty bad on the show. The whole Dorne storyline has been pretty meh so far. I was hoping adding Jamie and Bronn would spice it up from the books , but its still been pretty boring.

Would have rather seen the Iron Islands and the Kingsmoot I think. Granted that's not as relevant to what's happening on the show because of Myrcella.

That whole Jamie and Bronn meet the Sandsnakes was some of the worst television I've seen in a long time. It was absolutely brutal. It was like some slapstick comedy duet musical meets a cheezy episode of Xena the warrior princess. The fight scene was horrible like they hadn't rehearsed it. In fact the action scenes in Xena were better, this was closer to the A-team fighting sequences. Never thought Jamie Lannister would turn into comic relief, but that's where this appears to be headed.

The Sansa scene was unnecessary, but I didn't mind it. I assumed Ramsey would do something along those lines if Sansa didn't pull an ice pick from her sleeve and poke his eye out first.

The whole faith militant thing seems a bit rushed. Just like that they rule the city and they are Cercei's goon squad or SS Stormtoopers meet the Spanish inquisition.

Seems to me that Cersei just handed all the power in the world over the Littlefinger. Considering Cersei created a monster with this faith militant and Littlefing I am sure has all the evidence he needs to have them turn on Cersei if need be.

I have a feeling the Bolton's hold Winterfell but after they are weakened with the fight with Stannis, Sansa will light a candle in the window and the North will rise again and a coup will kill off the Bolton's leaving Littlefinger with a choice to make on how he becomes the warden of the North.

But it doesn't really matter because Winter is coming and it will all come down to Chumlee finding a way to kill off the white walkers and Jon Snow figuring out how to mount a dragon and come flying in to save the day and unite the realms.

[Boltman]

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Many of the current story lines (at the point they're at right now) are incredibly boring to me.

Not to say I'm no longer invested in the show, I still am.

[H8ter2]

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I think it makes sense for him to grow a pair. That's basically his sister. I can take all the punishment in the world and just take it and hope to die but if you rape a girl in my family and actually witness it, I'm gonna kill that mother ****er and die for it.

I don't think that's magical, it's a natural reaction.

I agree with you on this, its one thing for you to be belittled and tortured going into a dark place in your mind and forgetting who you truely are to become what your tormentors have made you through their methods, but something completely different when it is someone that you see near and dear to your heart that is on the recieving end of cruel punishment right before your very eyes, so I would not be surprised nor overly dissapointed if he snapped out of it and grew a pair in response to what happened to Sansa, I think him crying as it was happening showed that he had come to a point to realize what was happening and its impact and may be the foundation for him snapping out of his torment

[ehh]

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Many of the current story lines (at the point they're at right now) are incredibly boring to me.

The good news (I guess) is that they were boring as hell in the books too.

[souljahbill]

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To me, this is just the ebb and flow of the show. Things have to be set up before it all comes crumbling down. Afterwards, they gotta build up to the next set of big events.

[kingkilla56]

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I agree with you on this, its one thing for you to be belittled and tortured going into a dark place in your mind and forgetting who you truely are to become what your tormentors have made you through their methods, but something completely different when it is someone that you see near and dear to your heart that is on the recieving end of cruel punishment right before your very eyes, so I would not be surprised nor overly dissapointed if he snapped out of it and grew a pair in response to what happened to Sansa, I think him crying as it was happening showed that he had come to a point to realize what was happening and its impact and may be the foundation for him snapping out of his torment

Theon should have already grown a pair. At this point in his stockholm syndrome, he is irredeemable. This a guy who is so physically and mentally broken down, that he forcefully refused to be rescued by his blood sister, because he didnt want to upset Ramsey. A guy who knows what Ramsey does to his victims, his enemies, his "lovers". Continuously turns the other cheek to the abuse(and sometimes forced to watch by Ramsey). But now that his Not-Actually-Sister Sansa is abused, he is ready to emerge from his terrible character cocoon and become a white knight butterfly? Its a hard sell man.

The camera staying on his face during that scene was a slap to the face of Sansa and the audience. It basically screamed "LOOK AT HOW BAD THEON FEELS ABOUT SANSA BEING VIOLATED. THIS IS HIS TURNING POINT EVERYBODY LOOK!!". And all I can ask is, who the hell cares about what Theon is feeling about Sansa's tragedy?

This makes it all about Theon. The episode is titled "Unbent Unbowed Unbroken". How about you show that in Sansa's face? Instead of having her vocally writhe in pain while showing Reek's sorry good for nothing tears, how about you show Sansa morph from frightened victim, to furious vengeance filled queen? Show that Sansa is metamorphosing from this tragedy not ****ing Reek.

[Leon]

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^ Very good points, but I can only imagine what the backlash would be if they actually focused on Sansa. Keep in mind, it WAS her first time to experience this (sex) so it's only natural for her to react badly considering the situation. I thought she put up a relatively brave front up until Ramsay ripped her clothes and had her kneel.