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[Phillip V]

Great action.  It may just be the immediate adrenaline speaking, but that episode had me the most pumped of the entire series.

[Sophie Scholl]

No season ends this happy.  I'm expecting some named deaths on the "good" side next week.  Missandei, Grey Worm, Davos, Tormund.  Someone or someones are going to even the scales.

[Admiral Yi]

Sansa is semi-disposable.

[Martinus]

Great, so Polish HBO GO cocked up something and first uploaded episode 9 with video of episode 5 and now took it off completely. So I can't watch it before work. 

[Jaron]

I wouldn't call the episode squeaky clan.

I'd be okay with a bit of a break in Westeros if they'd hammer down on Daenerys a bit. She's had a very easy ride.

[Grallon]

Pity for Rickon.

Good points for the hounds' feast.



G.

[Zoupa]

Why exactly is Daenerys letting the city burn for a couple of hours before acting?

The writing is pretty stupid sometimes.

[Habbaku]

No season ends this happy.  I'm expecting some named deaths on the "good" side next week.  Missandei, Grey Worm, Davos, Tormund.  Someone or someones are going to even the scales.

I think a lot of baddies are going to drop this season to weigh the scales the other way.  We still have a certain group of birds waiting to stab 1-2 people while another group of birds is, I think, going to explode under Cersei's direction.

[LaCroix]

I hope cersei blows up kings landing

[Admiral Yi]

Very good animal CGI.

[Martinus]

Very good animal CGI.

Ok, TheBrain. 

[Phillip V]

Very good animal CGI.

Ok, TheBrain. 

Very good human CGI as well.

[crazy canuck]

Why exactly is Daenerys letting the city burn for a couple of hours before acting?

The writing is pretty stupid sometimes.

Yeah, It was a very awkward way to give a pretext for the imps speech.  And then we see Dany fully transformed into the good queen again when she acquires her fleet.

We went from the war of the Kings to the collaboration of the Queens.  Now we just have to see whether Sansa plays along when Dany returns.  And what is going to happen with Jon and backstory of who his mother really is.  Is it going to be as corny as Jon and Dany getting married and together facing the Others?

[viper37]

Why exactly is Daenerys letting the city burn for a couple of hours before acting?

The writing is pretty stupid sometimes.

deploy the troops, free the dragons, plan a counter attack, make sure everyone understands their part.

[Berkut]

Good episode in over all plot progression, but I am still consistently disappointed in the weakness of the writing in the details.

So much of it is so trite and predictable.

Sansa tells Jon "Don't play into Ramsey's plans! He will lay the trap!"

And what happens? Jon does exactly that, of course. Ramsey basically, in every reasonable way, outthinks, out-fights, out-smarts Jon....and we have the deus ex machina "solution" come riding to the rescue at the nick of time. Jon wins despite working really, really, REALLY fucking hard to hand the battle to Ramsay.

Another thing - the idea that someone is going to shoot a fleeing man with an arrow at any kind of range? Stupid. Not possible. Fuck Rickon, run in anything other than a perfectly straight line and the shot becomes basically impossible.

And where in gods name did the giant mounds of dead bodies come from? WTF was that?

The actual visual of the Knights of the Vale crashing into the lines was awesome however.

And the Masters are the opposite of Westeros villains. Just complete imbeciles in every way.