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replied to your post “That’s a sweet memory…”

See, by and large the show shenanigans don’t actually bother me. But this blatant revisionism? Jfc, we were there for s1, show. I’m not sure they remember they were there though.

Wellll, they forgot that Jon was recognized on sight by Mance because he looked like Ned. They forgot that Arya explicitly chose family over vengeance a couple of episodes back. They forgot that the Vale lords swore fealty to Jon so Sansa doesn’t really need Littlefinger there to keep them. They forgot that they’ve just shown that the wights remain alive in freezing water and that Jon fell in there with several of them without a weapon. They forgot that Benjen saved Bran and Meera in a similar fashion and managed to get them all out of there. They forgot that Robert’s Rebellion happened because no one would abide Aery’s tyranny, and that Jaime killed him to stop the usage of wildfire.

I can keep going, but we’d be here all night.

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replied to your post “That’s a sweet memory about Ned. But then we go into the stupidest…”

That part made me so fucking angry I saw stars. STARS. I have no idea what this is supposed to be doing? Undermining Sansa but for /what/, it’s bizarre at best.

It’s the show trying to build tension between the Stark siblings to raise the stakes and make us fear that Sansa would fall to Littlefinger’s ruse and turn on Jon. It’s an attempt to make us fear a Starkbowl so we’ll be oh-so-surprised when Sansa has LF killed. They don’t care that it makes no sense for either the characters or the plot. This is DRAMA, Kim. We should know how drama works.

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replied to your post “Aaaand cut to the sex. But why…”

Yeah, it’s my general feeling that show!Jaime is going to have been quietly storing all of these things away until the mountain crumbles and he can’t turn that blind eye any longer. Just- what the heck is going to be that thing at this point?! If blowing up the sept and killing their son weren’t enough, what’s going to break him? It’s going to make flimsy narrative sense at best.

I mean, that is one way to interpret it but I feel like it requires too much rationalization from the audience for even that to flow. I think  they should have showed more discomfort or hesitance on Jaime’s part than a fleeting question about Tommen and total radio silence on the wildfire. That should have brought a huge shock wave and some tangible struggling on Jaime’s part. Give us some sense of how he is growing increasingly unsettled or worried about the lengths Cersei is willing to go to, even as he persists in defending and lying to himself about her. Show us that Jaime is pointedly trying not to think too much about what Cersei has done and what she is capable of. But that’s not the sense I got from his conversation with Olenna. He was talking about Cersei with the same fervor and passion he used with Edmure last season. The one thing that clearly discomforts Jaime right now is Euron Greyjoy, and that’s just not enough.