Random Rant- Why I’m super pissed about Game of Thrones- Still. And yeah, this post is dark and full of spoilers.

OK… so here’s the thing. Yes, it’s common for me to go ‘this sucks’.. but then I turn it over in my head and either sigh and accept that it had to go that way ‘for reasons’ even if I don’t like those reasons…

Or I see another way it could have been done just as easily and stay flaming pissed.

GoT writers, I’m still pissed. Readers and followers, I’m sorry that you have to put up with it when you were probably expecting something fun or uplifting. I’d remind you you always have the option to skip the post.

OK.. darkness and spoilers to follow.

I can forgive a lot of things in storytelling… ’cause the script said so’ for unreasonable plot twists, ’cause sciency stuff’ for tech that just doesn’t work that way within reason… and ’cause budget’ when we don’t see dragons for a season or two.

But you gotta stay true to your characters.

Whatever HBO execs may think, we don’t watch the shows for tits and gore and dragons and zombies.. we watch because of these characters that were so carefully crafted to be real to us. We worry for them, we wish we were as glib and clever, we see people in whole new lights that open vast wells of empathy.. and sometimes, yeah, we just love to hate them.

And you just shit on them.

The entire track of Daenerys’s story was to protect innocents. From the time she kept the women from being raped by Khal Drogo’s men to the slave children to her own dragons. And the reason you gave for her internal switch flipping to burn the innocents of King’s Landing for seriously weak and unnecessary.

Let her and Jon have mended their fences and gone into the siege in concord, with the mild disagreement about resting the troops still in the air. Then let it appear from Daenerys’s perspective that Jon and her Dothraki and her Unsullied were in mortal danger, overtired, outmaneuvered and it’s her fault… and she takes the SAME ACTION. So you still get all your horrible gore death and destruction shots.

Then she finds out that wasn’t the case… that she has inadvertently become everything she swore to defeat, always with the best of intentions. Switch flipped.

But you know, that also takes some kind of ability to write realistic female characters and give a shit about truly developing them as three dimensional. And we already know (re: Sansa and Hound conversation this season, random pointless Arya sex scene) that they don’t give a flying fuck about doing that.

I’ll be honest.. if it wasn’t all over tomorrow, I’d be done. As it is.. what I was looking forward to with great anticipation is now covered in shit.

Thanks, guys. You suck.