Me, too. Now that Sansa knows what Arya can do with faces, that solves her Littlefinger problem....Arya kills him, but he stays around to keep the Vale contingent in line.

I've read the books, so I understand how they were adapted. I just think there could have been a tightening of the narrative way back in S3 at least, and in my OPINION, I feel that some of that had to do with the fact that they wanted GRRM to provide them with another book to adapt and delay the need to go off-book.

I watched the show all the way through when it aired. I never got around to liking Brenda. Nate was definitely a dick at times, but she was kind of a sociopath. Billy was fully crazy, but often comic relief instead of menacing towards the end. It’s still one of my favorite shows. I feel like it had a balance between…

Season Finale: Bernard Herrmann rises from the dead to be revealed as the Head White Walker. What a twist!

If it is true that shortening the narrative had everything to do with creative choice, then that is very disappointing to hear. Ten episodes could have certainly solved at least some of the pacing problems of this season.

I saw somewhere that yes, it could be late 2018-early 2019 before we get a last season, but it is supposed 6 episodes and all of them "feature-length", which I guess means at least 90 minutes long. I hope they figure the pacing out and give us a kick ass final season.

I'm not crazy, thanks. From everything that I read, they were forced to cut down the overall running time to accommodate the cost per episode. Perhaps HBO would have been good with 18 seasons of ten episodes each filled with shitty CGI?

Benjen can't go beyond the Wall. That has been established in a previous episode. Maybe he didn't have time to explain that to Jon while he was busy trying to prevent Jon and the horse from being overtaken by wights. (As for horses and torches, I dunno. Maybe they wanted to be stealth? LOL)

Well, we HAVE seen Littlefinger in cahoots with the Maester of Winterfell. Maybe Jon has been contacting Sansa and LF has been intercepting all of his ravens.

It's only my opinion, but I honestly think that the show stretched things out the first few seasons to give GRRM a chance to catch up with them, But between the fact that he didn't, and wouldn't, catch up to them and the fact that the actors and producers only agreed to eight seasons, they had to start compressing the…

I agree about this 7 episode season….it needed the 10 episodes to flesh things out a bit and eliminate this break-neck pacing. But from what I've read, next season's episodes are all going to be feature length, so in totality, it will be 10 hours of TV, just in bigger chunks.

From what I've read, each episode of the last season will be feature-length. So the whole 10 hours will be there, like it usually is, just broken into 6 pieces.

I mean, I guess if you wanted to either recast all the main roles or double the current actors pay.

IMHO, there were a lot of places in the last six seasons where they could have tightened up the narrative, but were maybe giving GRRM some more time to finish up Winds of Winter, at least. However, I think if they'd made 10 episodes instead of 7, they would have had probably enough time to expand on the narrative…

What I meant about Dany was why didn't she use the dragons to destroy Euron's fleet before he had a chance to use it to take out most of her sea forces? It took her a ridiculous amount of "show" time to come to the conclusion that she could use her dragons to kill the enemy and his forces only, instead of raining fire…

No one wanted to do more than 8 seasons except HBO.

Or how about the million and one ways Dany could have already used her dragons and Bran could have used his sight and warging abilities, and yet neither of them are doing it? That's the frustrating thing…..they give these great weapons and abilities to characters and then the characters don't use them in the most…

Slut Mobile FTW

Then you must find the "Slut Mobile" incident, because THAT is the funniest thing he ever did.

I agree, I always saw his schtick as more absurdist than anything.