God dammit. God fucking dammit Stannis
WHY?! It was extremely difficult to watch that scene. And it sounds like it happens in the books too. Can't imagine how, Shireen is still at the Wall after all, so I imagine Selyse and Melisandre burn her without Stannis knowledge or consent? Or maybe Stannis does turn towards it. I dunno, I think in the books at least that decision will have the time to grow and we see how that decision was made. Bit of a difference in here considering the decision to burn his daughter alive was made within an episode.
Gonna be a book purist for once and say I wish the pit played out more like in the books. I dunno, there's something cooler about Drogon just being lured to the pit because of all the blood and people there and wreaking shit up rather than just conveniently swoop in like a Final Fantasy summon to save the day. The scene on TV itself was a bit weird, the choreography again wasn't great and there were moments in that fight sequence I found hard to accept. Like, really you have them all outnumbered right in the middle of the pit, and you don't all attack at once? Daenerys walks away from everyone, including her bodyguards and you don't attack her? So yeah, I wish it could have been better but even so, I still enjoyed it. If that makes sense
I really can't stand how they're portraying Ramsay as an experienced tactician. FFS, he practically burned half of Stannis camp with 20 men. May as well take 40 and march straight to Kings Landing to take it over. I hope Dorne isn't finished like it was so neatly wrapped up here. Not that I have any real love for the story in the books either, but it just feels like there's zero consequences. I hope episode 10 has Doran reveal that he has a plot to overthrow Tommen so Myrcella and Trystane are king and queen. That would be nice. Otherwise it's a waste of Jaime's character this season. Probably the biggest disappointment of the season for me.
The finale's coming! The actors of Davos and Podrick says it will break the internet. Emilia Clarke says "Reaction videos are incoming". Judging from it though, there could be a lot of shit that goes down, so much that it might be hard to fit it all in! I mean we could have *SPOILERS*
Battle of Winterfell, Sansa fleeing Winterfell (maybe), whatver Brienne and Podrick chooses to do, Dany fleeing with Drogon, Cersei's trial, Robert Strong reveal, the shit that goes down at Castle Black, what Tyrion, Jorah and all do after last episode, Arya killing Meryn Trant. In one episode! If Davos dies, then I revolt.