Game of Thrones season 5 - Your thoughts now that it's over

[Breakdown]

Game of Thrones has turned into a handful of slickly produced, well acted scenes stitched together with incredibly stupid and nonsensical plotting.

 

[Somekindofgold]

To put as succinctly and to the point as possible.

I am still mad.

Can you point me to some of that acting? I keep hearing about it, try to watch another episode and it's like watching about half great actors, and half deeply mediocre ones. That they're being forced to interact in nearly every scene does I find, cast a bit of a pall on the whole thing.

In my opinion the best actors/characters were;

Tywin
Varys
Stannis
Davos
Melisandre
Ned
Big Bobby B
Salladhor Saan
Jorah
Mance
Papa Tyrell (I love how terribly incompetent yet always happy he is)
Queen of Thorns
Oberyn 'suffering from a severe migraine' Martell
Viserys
Joffrey
The High Sparrow

And a lot of them are dead now.

 

[the_dramatica]

Stannis must've been a real badass. 1,300x2(he lost half) cavalry disbanded an army of 100,000 wildlings.

Now historical battles have occurred with these numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Montgisard , however 2,600 v 100,000 is just pathetic.

I'm really upset the season ended with little to no geopolitical warfare, as an armchair historian that was really the thing I enjoyed most about the show. here's hoping bealish comes out huge.

 

[Silvanus]

Sansa's arc was fucking terrible. I love the Boltons but Sansa had no reason to be there. It was to "give her something to do" but they should've just left her alone for a season. Maybe have her show up for a couple of scenes and use the extra screen time to maybe make Dorne less shit.

Actually, there's something I hadn't previously thought about: as Sansa's fled Winterfell with Theon now, that means there truly wasn't any point in the controversial scene (between her and Ramsay). There was previously the (slightly thin) justification that she's still working for her own ends, keeping quiet but secretly trying to take back her home... but now she's not playing that game any more. The scene was solely shock value.

If Lady Stoneheart doesn't make an appearance then what the fuck was the point of the Brotherhood Without Banners?

Give Arya something to do? Brienne's plotline in S4+5 has generally just been there to keep her busy, it seems.

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Okay, to be honest, in comparison to the rest of the show so far this was easily the weakest season yet. But so were the fucking books! Okay, Dance of Dragons is more good than bad, but did the meaningless piffle of A Feast for Crows escape anyone's mind? When I think what this season could have been had it been completely faithful to the books, I'll happily take it as is. I liked that Brienne actually met up with Sansa, yes I said it! I liked that the Dorne subplot, while slapdash in execution, at least tried to tie itself somehow to the main characters, yes I said it! I liked that Tyrion and Daenerys met, yes I said it! I didn't miss Arianne being locked up in a dungeon or Sansa meandering around in the Eyrie or Cersei bitching to herself all the time or Sam being angsty and miserable or hours on end of side character Greyjoys or Brienne just piffling about at all!

If forced to score it, I'd say 6/10. Sue me, fuckers.

 

[Drops a Sweet Katana]

I have never seen a show take a nose dive as spectacular as this. My housemates and I had to pretty much force ourselves to sit through for the last half of the season. Not that the first half was good, we just hoped they were going somewhere with all the nonsense. Guess not. I can only think of a handful of episodes with some actually good scenes, but none that weren't any more than mediocre piss at best. I'm not even coming from the perspective of a book reader. I've only read the first book and maybe half of the second, and I know a few things that happen further on. I'm not asking for the show runners to make a beat for recreation of the books, but I expect them to show me something better than fucking 'You want a good girl but you need a bad pussy', Dany and Drogon in A Neverending Story, professional soldiers not knowing how to fight, pointless deaths that meant fucking nothing, comically evil characters, needless torturing of certain characters, fucking floor scrubbing, stupid changes from the source material that killed their respective scenes (The mutiny at Castle Black being a prime example) and somehow making me hate any scene with Tyrion in it. Overall, fuck this season, fuck this show and the fuck the people who wrote it. The next season had better be the white walkers coming down and slaughtering everything so we can put this show to rest before it gets fucked any more.