It is true that "plot armor" has always been there in the show, but I don't think it's ever been "in your face" so much until lately. That is why it is so glaring and why people are easy to pick at it.
the more i watch the inside the episode things, the more i get annoyed they did a shorter season. they clearly are great storytellers; i just wish they weren’t so done with the show that they had the time to write out the things they’re saying in something we shouldn’t have to be forced to watch
I mean, I certainly called that out through my entire watch, but I became the thread heel for it. Lol. Arya and The Waif will always be a top five use of that. At least it led to the hilarious sequence of her falling down on fruit for a million steps.
Sure, it doesn't bother me when people point out stuff like that in general, it's just... be consistent! I see people who have loved the entire series all the sudden worrying about realism and shit and it's like, what show have you been watching??? Haha
That's one of the issues I have with this season. We saw only a handful of Dothraki ride back toward Winterfell after their failed charge, but last week there were obviously way more of them. The number of survivors at the end of episode 3 would've resulted in Cersei having the upper hand (even with the gross under-representation of the Golden Company), but W&B chose to magically re-populate Dany's forces because it suited their story. Someone mentioned that W&B don't have the same edge that Martin does, and I completely agree. The hallmark of his world has always been the subversion of traditional fantasy tropes by showing the mortality of all the characters, and the real consequences of every action. The show has dabbled with those concepts post-books, but only when it suits the story. The defeat of the Night King and Euron hitting Rhaegal repeatedly both seem a little too open-and-shut for Martin's version, but they obviously occurred to facilitate Dany's actions last week, and those seem a little more like something Martin might spin.
So all over yahoo news today (one of the few sites that isn’t blocked at work) there are stories about people legitimately thinking Jaime will be in the next episode. Because “it’s GoT, nobody really dies in this show”
A friend sent me in article enthusiastically arguing that Littlefinger is alive and is a faceless man and will sit on the throne. I had no idea this theory existed or that there were Littlefinger fans out there
I think there was some leak or rumor a long time ago that said he was contracted for six episodes or something and people had been making theories about his survival based on that. Maybe Bran will finally do something and he’ll be in a flashback.
people are so bad at consuming media, the idea that anyone could watch this show and really think this is absolutely fucking insane to me
I’ve seen posts like this for Syrio and Stannis and Littlefinger and anyone else who wasn’t brutally killed onscreen.
Ok now I just saw one that says Little Sam will sit on the throne because he has white walker blood and the white walkers will return. Wtf.
There's also just a different element to those deaths as the show goes on where they feel an obligation to give those long-term characters a more meaningful death or something. The Walking Dead went through the same thing. You have the core cast of characters, some of them get axed early on and it's awesome and surprising and ruthless. Then you have the characters who make it through 5 or so seasons. Then what do you do? You can kill them off in a similarly uncaring way you used to kill off characters at the beginning of the show, but it would just feel like a waste having them survive this long just for that to happen. You just can't really deal with it the same way. Both shows kind of just chose to save major character deaths for season finales or the big hallmark episodes. Some of them (Littlefinger, Jorah, Theon) kind of had most of their major story already played out, but the show kept them around until they felt like they needed a big character to die. It's just tough to get right.
I’m a big fan of the memes where Little Sam is a communist but I have absolutely no idea where that started.
I think it might be in those TLDW recaps? I tried to find some just now and I can’t, but I know I’ve seen it as a weird running gag in the fandom.
Yeah, I posted it a couple days ago but it got buried. There are some great screengrabs about war crimes that I need to save for future use.