But the gold plating!

Thiiiiiis. They gained absolutely nothing from it. They didn’t get him to give up a *single* thing that brought him down. They just fucked around for weeks and then went “oh JK, we kill you now.”

Jay Peterman, world famous seller of clothes and the best the Jets could scrape together to play QB. They were also going to make history by bringing in Elaine Benes to play wide receiver but she refused to take off an Orioles hat to put on the helmet so they had to cut her.

The thing that really irritates me about the whole Littlefinger plot is how pointless it was. They didn’t entrap him in any way, or use it to uncover incriminating evidence. They had exactly the same evidence against him as they had in the second episode, and could have dealt with him then. Their devious, time…

I mentioned this in the AV Club article yesterday, but I think this season really captured the weakness Benioff and Weiss have. And that is filling a framework with content rather than the other way around.

I hear he also has a lovely singing voice.

That would be a hilarious turn of events, and would drive Cersei crazy and push him and Theon together straightaway, so it makes sense.

I feel like the “capture a wight” plotline was similar. They started from the end and then tried to figure out a way to get there. Which as you say seldom works - just look at BvS, for example.

“That wraparound with Euron seems like a screwball way to get him to Essos.”

He ain’t going to Essos. Cersei may think he’s following her orders, but he now has all the gold, Cersei still hasn’t had sex with him and shows no indication of being willing to keep up her part of their agreement, and he has every reason to…

I write, and while I inevitably come up with the climactic scene early, I write from the start and see if the characters can get there themselves. You never, ever, write backwards like that. It made it all feel like a slog; it simply is not as interesting as it would be if you let the characters get there organically.

While I do think the show has done a (largely) admirable job of telling a fantasy mythology in the broad strokes that it’s able to, it’s always going to be missing the richness and density of all the conflicting legends in the books.
Becasue in the books we don’t yet have any sense that there even is a Night’s King for…

Likes long walks in the snow

My friends and I have a drinking game where we watch that movie and have a drink every time Schwarzenegger delivers an ice based pun.

I don’t see any mention of the Bloodstone Emperor. His reign is what allowed the Lion into the world:

The Night King doesn’t even have anything remotely resembling a personality.

Here is the original version of the Night King but they decided against it.

I love the way that GRRM worked in a half-dozen different tales about the Long Night into the books, and we don’t know which are “real” accounts and which are simply folklore. If I were to look for a real-world parallel, I think it would be the way that many different ancient societies have a “Great Flood” myth…

Would it kill the Night King to look happy? He seems to be doing pretty well. Has a big army, lots of friends, and now a dragon. But he still always looks so...