I'm fine with stupid shows being stupid--I will love DOCTOR WHO until the day I die--but I feel like I was promised a 4 course meal and given cotton candy and skittles instead. What on earth are the writers thinking? Are basic concepts of continuity something else that little Arya McSociopath has indiscriminately slaughtered? Does Westeros shrink when it gets cold?
Emilia Clarke and Maisie Williams still can't act, though I doubt anyone could salvage the writing of those characters at this point. I protested to Cannoli last week that Danaerys was being purposefully written as unstable. I think I was wrong. I think the writers are unstable.
What a train wreck.
The writers are filling space between spectacles with navel-gazing and dialogue that follows the formulas of "smart" drama, and forced conflict, to get the critical praise, while the spectacles and gratuitous pandering keep the general audience hooked. Their job is not to tell a coherent story but to keep people talking. This medium was called the "boob tube" years before HBO was allowed to show actual mammaries.
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*