OK, I can’t deny that I will continue to watch GoT until its eventual end, but with the episode aired last night on August 20, the writers have gone too far with the magic shidt.
I am reluctantly willing to believe in dragons, and in an army of zombies, but one must draw a line somewhere. Zombies who have the ability to swim under freezing water with no equipment and attach ungodly heavy chains to a dead dragon so that a million or so of their comrades can drag the dragon corpse to dry ground? And their Master can touch it with his magic twanger and give it renewed life? Where, exactly did they get those chains – the links of which would have been too large to forge in that era? And there would have been no purpose on that planet to have such chains anyway? They just had the chains sitting around in a warehouse someplace?
Come on.
It was near farcical anyway, and the writers have just crossed the gap from near-unbelievable to laughable.
Other aspects of the story are also devolving into silliness. Journeys that used to take months are now done in a couple of days. The message from the stranded “heroes” north of the wall to Danaeris travelled faster than e-mail, for Christ sake. Arya turns on Sansa and doesn’t realize that the letter to their brother was coerced? She threatens to blackmail Sansa?
Come on.
If GRRM went along with this – which undoubtedly he did – he is just getting tired of the whole thing and wants to end it. This last bit of writing goes beyond creative and hits “don’t-give-a-shit.”
I agree with you on pretty much everything. Well, I've the dragon thing down since season 1, and the walking dead.
But you hit it right on the head with these zombies being able to swim underwater (they've always avoided water, otherwise they would have swam around the wall), and suddenly (out of nowhere) have these humongous chains, all somehow perfectly linked together, to pull the poor dragon out of the water. The only explanation I can have for that, is that the Night King saw the future, and made the chains so they would be ready, but that's a lot to lug around that we've never caught a glimpse of. We never see those humongous chains any other time during the series. It's just something they made really quickly without the essential materials (unless they're ice chains, and he can form them at will).
But... I have to suspend disbelief in a show like this. He could have done some crazy Yoda shit and levitated the dragon out of the lake, and that would probably be worse.
I also allow the fast-travel necessary in the short amount of eps left. Everyone always complained about how slow it was going, and now that they have it to "The Flash" speeds, everyone else is complaining. So I'm cool with that. They need to get to the end-game.
And I agree about the Arya/Sansa stuff. They just need to sit down and talk, and they'll figure everything out... Rather than prancing and brooding. Just fucking talk!
But still, it was an awesome episode. It was leading to what we all wanted to see, dragons vs Icemen. And the 7 samurai part at the beginning, where they're all getting to know each other, was funny as hell!
And I think the Dolphins should have picked up the Night King as their QB, rather than Jake Cutler... I wonder if he's available in my fantasy league?
I know we're all expecting some serious deep meaning to come from all this. But with 7 episodes left, they need to hurry up to the end-game.
And I like the "action" side of it, though it's definitely getting dumbed down. Fans should already have known there would be a zombie dragon. An "ice dragon" may be different though. And there's still the idea of a "stone dragon". So there may be many things still ahead of us, that will be even more deux ex machina.
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