Post by Marendil on Apr 2, 2019 1:54:09 GMT
I doubt most would agree season seven was the worst, let alone 'by far.' A cursory glance at the
IMDB ratings doesn't suggest it, though I'm aware there's corrupting influences reflected in those ratings there's no reason to think they'd favor seven over five or six.
1. I liked that Sansa/Jon and Sansa/Arya clashed, they ought to, they're very different sorts of people, especially now after their varied experiences the past several years.
2. Littlefinger has been playing a very dangerous game since the first season, all that was needed were two or three people to sit down and talk to each other and his goose was cooked--it finally happened.
3. It was a difficult and painful procedure that demonstrated Sam's prowess and connected him to one of the Targaryen team.
2. So Littlefinger suddenly made beginner's mistakes and was found out by the magic spy who sees everything. Seriously, this was a very bad joke. You are now bringing arguments like "the results are right, who cares if the maths along the way are sloppy?" Well, the maths were what made this thing worth watching in the first place.
3. Fat Sam is worth something after all, yeah! Well, Fat Sam was a fool all along the series and this is just more of that catering to shits.
I saw the "loot train attack" and it was just as ridiculously illogical as the battle against Ramsay in S6. Dothraki charging lines before the dragon attacks, standing on horses to shoot arrows, Daenerys burning supplies instead of stealing them. An insulting fool pleaser.
1. On the other hand I believe that no matter how many people contend something silly it's still a silly thing (vox populi fallacy). In this case it's easy to see how a bandwagon effect was generated, you have the Stark sycophants who will believe nothing ill of their favorites and the Stark haters disappointed they didn't gut each other and all presuming the way they did it was aimed at 'fooling' them as opposed to an entirely rational conflict arising from established differences and experiences with misdirection intended for the vast majority of viewers who don't spend significant portions of their lives online arguing about the show and their favorite GoT factions. It's some of Turner and Williams' best work on the series with Arya coming across creepy as fuck and Sansa showing her maturity yet obviously frightened by what Arya has become but determined to hold her own as Lady of Winterfell.
2. Baelish made the 'beginner's mistake' at the beginning of the story, it just finally caught up to him. It was always a tremendous risk to tell Cat that dagger was Tyrion's (while admitting it was originally his), that he got away with it for so long was the 'sloppier math.'
3. I didn't like Sam much in the beginning either, plus his impenetrable plot armor and Gary Stu-ish qualities make me cringe often, but I liked his scenes at the Citadel and this and other elements of it developed his character tremendously in my view. BTW, why did you use the term 'egalitarian' there? Sam is amongst the highest of the Highborn.
I nearly rose from my seat during the 'Loot-train attack' exclaiming 'not the food!' However it did make for an awesome visual and fit in with their blockade strategy. But yeah, stealing was the wiser play by far. I guess as Littlefinger put it at the Council meeting early season two '...we'll have less peasants.'
