I'm sorry you can't recognize shoddy, lazy storytelling for what it is. This show is rapidly speeding downhill the further it gets away from Martin's material.

What makes me so angry is that you have an audience that is super willing to suspend disbelief (i.e. dragons are real, magic demon babies can be born, etc.) but these writers abuse it by just being freaking lazy. Hell, they used a montage to show Sam's work at the Citadel but they refuse to employ one to actually make…