I'm three DVDs into it and it loosing its cool for me. The TV miniseries has run off the end of the George R.R. Martin books, which are decent and I have read them all. Now that the TV is running it's own course, independent of the books, I am loosing track of what's going on. The show's habit of never calling anyone by name makes things tougher. An actor will appear on screen, I will say to myself "This guy was in the show a while ago, but I cannot remember his/her name or what he did." Not knowing frustrates this viewer of the show.
Then things don't seem to ever get anywhere. Denarys is still leading the Dothraki toward invading Westeros. In six whole seasons she hasn't been able to get her Dothraki to the seashore, let alone boarding ship for Westeros. Arya is still wandering around looking for something to do. Brendan is still a paraplegic having visions that don't lead anywhere.
Then they killed off so many characters over the past seasons that they have decided to bring some back to life, by witchcraft and magic. Running out of talent I suppose. They bring Jon Snow back to life in an early scene, but they never spoke his name. The episode was half over before I decided it was Jon Snow and not his half brother Rob Stark.
And the camera man is still refusing to turn on the lights. Pure black scene follows pure black scene. Arya has gotten her self into a strange place where another girl her size takes some pleasure in beating the stuffing out of Arya with a quarterstaff. In the fight scenes both Arya and the other unnamed girl wear identical black ankle length dresses. The scenes are so dark, I can't tell Arya from her opponent.
Continuity is weak. The show has at least six story lines (Denarys and the Dothraki, Brenden, Sam Tarly and his wildling wife, Jaime and Cersei Lannister, and Tommin the new teenage king) They cut from one to story line another so fast there is no time to get anything accomplished, and we viewers get confused as to where we are. And if the rapid story line shifts don't confuse the viewers, they do flashbacks and dream sequences.
Anyone know if they will do a season 7?
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