The Lord sees all. Even your colon.

I watched the original for the first time a few weeks back, and remember thinking "This is so early-90's it's perfect". Did it look dated and scream its era more loudly than pretty much any movie of its time? Sure. Did I end up enjoying it in a dumb, guilt-free way? You bet your eyeliner-applying, Trent Reznor…

Except that would make some narrative sense and weave into the storytelling in a cohesive and compelling way. Which this season has told us is totally for bitch-ass chumps, or something. Deus ex machinas and forcefully engineered conclusions is where it's at!

Stannis losing a few horses and then staging an impromptu snuff film for his entire army starring his daughter might be the single most extreme character overreaction we've seen on the show. By far. My reaction to that plot choice was a combination of "oh wow, that's harrowing" and "lolwut?".

That's a terrible way to speak to a man of God.

It's basically like they flipped those character traits full-on when translating to the screen, and then cranked them up to 10. Stannis became the Keystone Kops of army things, and Ramsay has become the William Tecumseh Sherman of Westeros. Except with flaying and shirtlessness.

Yeah, I'm with you there. I mostly feel disengaged and uninvested in the show at this point. Not even at a place of fan-outrage or whatnot, just sort of shrugging at what's going on. Which is something that only really started happening this season.

He's bragging about his fedora collection by proxy.

I know it’s become reflex around these here parts to call anyone who makes a criticism of D&D’s creative choices everything short of a pedophile, but am I the only one who’s weirded out by Ramsay’s transformation into some sort of invincible supervillain? I’m partially convinced season 6 is going to open with him…

Oh for fuck's sake.

I know people (deservedly) say this a lot, but this might win the best O'Neal newswire of the year for me. I was honestly laughing near to the point of tears.

At this rate I’m pretty sure the writers are going to have Jon Snow angrily sodomize a female orphan next season because she turned out to be a Lannister informant or something. But the thing is, Jon will be crying the entire time because this was a weighty choice that had to be made and nothing in this show is…

Details.

You just perfectly nailed everything that's been bothering me about this whole debate. Thank you, seriously.

Well I'll be a plucked goose, as the saying goes. That's still a bit like the writers confirming that Varys has intact testicles after all.

Not necessarily. (Spoiler alert for the books, I guess.) It would be effectively impossible for the scenario to unfold in the books as it did in the show considering where the various characters are located. The producers tend to point a finger at GRRM whenever a controversial plot point has happened, so I'm kind of…

This needs more upvotes.

Agreed. I've been watching all the way through, and both the Sansa episode and last night's latest "shocker" felt the same way. A bunch of people jumped on me for saying this, but to me they felt easy and cheap. Lots of forced emotional upset, little of what makes the show compelling from a narrative standpoint. The…

There is that, and we'll see how it pans out. All of the characters have been simplified to some degree, and it sounds like the show is running with their characterization of Stannis as a megalomaniacal zealot to the most dramatic conclusion possible. (I'm also kind of put off by Ramsay as a sort of prettyboy evil…

And sure, considering Melisandre shadow baby'd Renly, Stannis ritual murdering his daughter in the name of victory can make sense. It's jarring and abrupt, but maybe it works.