Game of Thrones Season 5 Ep 5 (the clueless about the books POV)

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Just watched this, and...

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...there were wa-ay too many Bolton scenes in this episode. Please, please, nice King Stannis, come and kill them all, including Ramsay's nasty girlfriend. Melisandre hasn't set anyone on fire lately, after all.

Maybe in the next episode?

Ah, who am I kidding? The Boltons will probably survive - or Ramsay will anyway. Probably, he'll contrive a way to kill his dad during the coming battle with Stannis, then dispose of poor Lady Bolton, and then he'll be free to make himself Lord Bolton and turn the entire North into Westeros's premier torture-friendly location.

Also, I am - as you might imagine - extremely unhappy about what's happened to Jorah (especially as I know it doesn't happen in the books - though apparently it happens to someone else so I suppose the two stories are being conflated). What on earth is the point of it? Have the showrunners just decided they're not doing any of Jorah's story going forward(except for kidnapping Tyrion) so they don't have anything for him to do, so they might as well give him a horrible disfiguring disease then kill him?

Really not happy (even though I knew he would inevitably die at some point).

Stuff that I did like - that eerie Valyria place (though shouldn't Jorah - and Tyrion - have known that's where people with greyscale get banished and thus that they should avoid it?) and Jorah and Tyrion seeing Dany's missing dragon.

I also liked the Missandei/Grey worm scene and the Missandei/Dany scene. Have to say, though, the Meereenese bloke (whose name I keep missing) looks a lot less than thrilled to be marrying Dany, and after seeing what happened to his fellow aristocrat, I can't say I blame him.

I'm not sure I have a lot else to say. Too many scenes featuring characters I dislike intensely. It says something about an episode when the most cheerful scenes featuring the nicest people all take place at the Wall.

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Well, they did spend a lot of time last week explaining that Greyscale can be cured...? Jorah has to catch a break at some point.

I dunno. This is GoT. I think he's probably doomed.

Unlike the Boltons. Ewwwwwwwwsssh. Nuke the entire clan, mistresses and dog-slaves included, from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Agreed, except for Lady Bolton, who seems harmless enough (and weirdly not that unhappy and scared-looking, given who she's married to).

Though I'm a bit worried about how likeable they seem to be trying to make Stannis lately, I wouldn't be surprised if he'll be making some cold and cruel decisions pretty soon.

Either that or the horrible Boltons are going to kill him. :(

Maybe Melisandre can make them spontaneously combust?

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And the spoiled can't really help re Stannis because Martin ended the last book on so many cliffhangers!

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That's...pretty evil, given there's no deadline for the next book coming out.

I know GRRM got (justifiably) really annoyed when people started saying that he should stop wasting time doing other things and just finish the books because he's getting old and isn't in great health and could drop dead any moment.

I do sorta, kinda understand how they feel, though.

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Honestly, I think that's why people are so annoyed with the wait. In sequence. He finished A Storm of Swords with Tyrion escaping the Red Keep and other Season 3 stuff. Then, several years later A Feast for Crows comes out, and Tyrion, Jon, and Dany aren't even in the book! And the book is full of Theons annoying uncles (not in the show), Sand Snakes, and Cersei unending stupid mean girl self pitying inner monologues that... Barely furthers the plot. And Arya was left with a cliffhanger.

Then ANOTHER 6 years to finally get Dany, Jon, and Tyrion to further the plot and Dany dithered the entire book lusting over Daario and dithering about the slave owners (most of which the show has now already done. We're 3/4 through her Dance plot in what took Martin 10 Years!). And then 1400 pages in, just as stuff was beginning to actually happen... Everything ended in cliffhangers. It was like he cut out the last act. I can't even tell what the hell was going on with Dany because it seemed almost hallucinatory (and may have been). Absolutely no one believes the ending of Jon's plot is what it looked like. No one. Tyrion, Jorah, and the nonexistent Penny were heading into battle. Up North the Stannis/Bolton battle was 'off screen' so you don't know what may have really happened, Arya got a climax to her story but it too is strange. Nothing much happened with Sansa and Jaime and Brienne head out to what looks like trouble but you don't know what happened. It felt like a book with no final act. Frustrating. And it's now been how many years? And how many more? I'm eager for the show to blow by the books. It's time to advance the damned plot, Martin.

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You know, the whole thing sounds so badly planned. At least JK Rowling wrote her whole saga relatively quickly.