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Game of Thronesmade its name by tossing cliches out the window.
The noble hero could die, bloody and pointless.
The cute kid could be a vicious warrior, and/or another corpse on the pile.
The problem with the books if youthinkit’s a problem is how the details start to pile up.
It developed appetites."
Notably, that Waterston scene barely makes logical or historical sense, and wasn’t even in theNixontheatrical cut.
Weiss are actually high practitioners of a grander TV tradition: the sharp pivot.
Dorne’s not working?
Kill some, banish the rest to the finale!
Pair him up with Jaime!
Bad guy’s a miserable sludge?
Feed him to the dogs!
Vengeance came for Cersei in the season 6 finale, with an explosion that destroyed her religious zealot foes.
Sansa sent rapist Ramsay to the kennel.
Dany sailed toward conquest on Yara Greyjoy’s ships.
And: Did any of that matter?
It ended with a long walk, Dany’s dialogue-free arrival on her family’s ancestral island.
Dragonstone looked cheaper when Stannis lived there, but that seemed appropriate for the wannabe king’s frugal imagination.
Her long walk ended, Dany deadpanned: “Shall we begin?”
Did we need a prologue for such a short season?
Reply hazy; ask again in six weeks.
And I’m intrigued that the show has essentially staged a full in-universe reboot of the character Euron Greyjoy.
Rocking a tight-fitting leather ensemble, Euron is an assault onThrones usually meticulous Medieval-chic aesthetic.
Note taken, fans: This Greyjoy isn’t like the other Greyjoys.
This Greyjoy describes the population of the Iron Islands as “a lot of very unattractive people.”
(Leave it to the Greyjoys to invent self-aware self-loathing.)
I kinda loved Euron, because I love whenThronesindulges its soapier side.
Up North, newly-crowned King Jon and the show’s best characters are lingering in grim wintry stasis.
The latter is the overarching saga for Jon’s ensemble.
This was maybe the intention all along.
Weirdly,Throneshas become the most committed popular vision of the rise of millennials to political prominence.
“You deserve better.”
A moment of hard-won humanism well,afterthe Hound looked into the fire and saw his next plot point.
I don’t mind when the show moves its chess pieces into place.
For the Hound, at least, yesterday’s warsdomatter.
