The other thing that seems to be happening, just based on the fact that what felt like standalone were in fact for us setting up a lot of different pieces of the puzzle, I think you're going to feel more momentum from the stories, episode to episode. Occasional cliffhangers, which I feel are more like a Marvel Comic…

You understand that Ned Stark was 40 when he finally figured out the "no honor" thing, right? And it took him being imprisoned and beheaded to finally get the point. I don't know why Sansa doesn't get a pass for making the same mistake when she's like 15.

don't the people at the back of the rope perceive their input to be less (since it's more or less dependent on the person before you)? maybe the solution would be to fray the rope into 5-12 ends, so no one stands behind another and everyone feels a direct way to enforce the pull?

I could be way more patient waiting for an overall plot if the characters were any kind of interesting. I know it sucks to compare it to Firefly (apples and oranges on many levels), but i'd trade any one of the AoS actors for a FF alumni. The actors are bland and generic, the roles themselves are bland and generic -…

Darn, beat me to it. Totally agree. In my opinion the first 7 were really good (up until the end of the Serpentwar Saga), and then it went downhill from there.

Read so much of that. While I liked the original Riftwar Saga, my favorites are without a doubt The Serpentwar Saga and The Empire Trilogy. Oh, The Empire Trilogy. Might just be favorite book series ever. I got so invested in Mara's story of managing herself as a woman in a feudal men's world. I just devoured those…

The first 3 or 4 were good. Or was it 5 or 6? Really good, like my favorites for a while.