how stupid the show has become.

As always, I am hesitant to reply to comments with the knowledge that the Kinja system elevates Staff contributions and thus the comments themselves, but I want to address this since I’ve seen it pop up a couple of times in my notifications.

Hey, at least we got that super-important Euron vs Jaime duel/fisticuff everyone was so looking forward to.

The complaints have more to do with the fact that they undid his arc so sloppily and swiftly, and in a way that doesn’t make sense given what they’ve shown us of the character. It would be like if at the end of Endgame, Bucky just shot Cap in the back and then had the writer be like “What?! He’s a brainwashed Hydra…

When Euron and Jaime started fighting, I was like, ugh, this is the fight scene NO ONE wanted.

This whole season couldn’t be more “let’s get this shit over with already.” Logic and characterization be damned. Last episode the magic fleet kills a dragon and Missandei in five minutes just to set up Dany going all Mad Queen. Then she does and it’s so ridiculously over the top it doesn’t even make sense. Even her…

I’ve wondered this too - the final two seasons have easily been the weakest (and it isn’t just because the books have been passed by; much of season 5 and all of 6 was past the books while still being quite good - hell, I’d argue 6 was one of the best seasons) - they tell more than show, they have things develop too…

Tyrion really didn't need to mention the bells 6 times in 10 minutes.

I don’t know about other places, but the general sentiment here seems to be negative about the way they did it, not that they did it.

The three of us watching it tonight just groaned when he showed up. As my wife put it - it was like two drunk guys at a bar fighting over a woman who does not really care for either.

Euron can sense main characters from 100 miles away. It’s one of his powers that he has.

lazy writing giveth magic crossbows, lazy writing taketh away magic crossbows.

Sorry, are you talking about Dani? The one who burns alive anyone who doesn’t follow her or bend to her will? The one who “liberates” foreigners as long as they help her ascend to the throne so she can rule over them? She’s been just as ruthless and bloodthirsty as anyone else in this series.

That Dany was in danger of crossing a line has been in the books and show for a very long time. There have been cracks in her empathy and humanity throughout going all the way back to her reaction to Viserys’s death. She’s gone for mass murder more than once and usually in horrific ways — Qarth, Vaes Dothrak, various…

I think there’s room for Arya to consider what’s next for her after bagging the ultimate kill. I could even see the Hound being the one to show Arya the perils of letting revenge consume you. Of course, none of that narrative work actually happened on screen.

What are the odds that Jaime not only runs into Euron, but get to Cersei just in time so they can die together?

So Arya gives up her quest for revenge, which was the basis of her entire storyline, after a 5 second convo with The Hound? OK cool. At least there wasn’t other rushed stuff like Euron running into Jaime in the middle of the battlefield.

I think that was fucking Shadowfax

The scorpions were only as accurate and powerful as the plot needed them to be.

Guys, I’m starting to think that executing Missandei in front of Daenerys instead of holding her as a captive inside the Red Keep may not have been the smartest thing to do...