>Brienne is 6'10 with a Lannister sword and trained since birth to fight in direct 1v1 combat
>Arya is 5'2 and trained briefly to be a spy/assassin with one day of sword training with a little shitty rapier
>they spar
>Arya is magically the best swordswoman ina all of Westeros
This is why the show went downhill.

>>211532206 (OP)
The show sucked 50 episodes before that, but, yeah.

>>211532206 (OP)
in season 1-2 Arya would have trained months specifically for this moment, and then Brienne would have still beat her easily and possibly accidentally cut off one of her fingers

and ended up with Arya getting told a harsh life lesson: no matter how good she is, no matter how hard she trains, the single greatest deciding factor in a swordfight is who has most reach and as long as she's tiny, she will never be great

Two Virgins Fighting

>>211532206 (OP)
rule of cool vs believable, consistency, and character.

hardhome broke the show. season 5 was a mess. but then hardhome hit and everyone forgot about the previous 7 episodes cause hardhome was cool as fuck. so they just ran with it. as long as something crazy happens it doesn't matter what comes before it
season 6 happens and the writing and plot is pretty terrible, but every single episode ends with a cool as fuck moment and so nobody cares about the shitty writing. It's pay off after pay off, reveal after reveal. that shit was cool as fuck.
but it can only sustain itself for so long before cool becomes lame. and it got super fucking lame

this shit is dumb in both movie and book. Arya has to become a magic assassin for some reason. Her story is literally just Bran's but retarded since Bran's magic shenanigans will definitely be important in dealing with the Others. We get two Stark kids getting magic training for some reason. Which fat retard wrote this shit?

>>211532206 (OP)
Newsflash, kid: some people are just naturally better at something than a person who trained all their life at that thing. That's life.

>>211532206 (OP)
I wish I had just stopped after season 4. Then I would have nothing but fond memories of this show.

>>211532783
There is no world in which Arya even comes close to defeat Brienne in a swordfight.

>>211532783
Yes, and for sword fighting, the big muscly tall one is naturally better than the tiny little midget who can't even lift an average sword.
Remember the mountain versus the viper duel? Now imagine if instead of a spear the viper was using a rapier and instead of having trained all his life, he just started practicing a year prior?

>>211532206 (OP)

>>211532206 (OP)
I've never watched the show, but I read the books, and yeah, that sounds fucking ridiculous.

>>211532577
oh my you're a proud shit eater aren't you

>>211532783
Kek OP forever BTFO

>>211532577
Hardhome was shit, I don't understand the appeal

>>211532783
Brienne would have had longer reach with a kitchen knife than that little shit
reach is basically everything that counts in a swordfight, you can simply slice the enemy's hand before she sticks her needle between the gaps in your armor
nothing personnel

>>211532783
>some people are just naturally better at something than a person who trained all their life at that thing
This literally never happens unless the prodigy has an already substantial amount of practice. Nobody is *already* the best at something with just innate talent.

>>211532206 (OP)
The hound shouldn't have lost to Brienne in the first place.

Brienne the Beauty lost to Biter and her squire saved her in the books which is realistic. Gurm knows that women are worse than men in everything.
Brienne and Arya being sword masters is woke and one of the reasons the show went off the rails.

Forgot the pic.

>>211535191
>Brienne and Arya being sword masters is woke
Yeah but it's more realistic for a sturdy 6'10 woman to be a capable fighter than a scrawny midget

>>211532206 (OP)
>This is why the show went downhill.
lmao bet you fags think the duel in the Vale and the Battle of Blackwater were 'realistic'

did any of you faggots watch this show recently? how does it hold up?

>>211535801

Just boomer-gen x faggotry.

>>211532495
And this is why George will never finish the books. His commitment to "muh realism" is preventing anything from happening. He's going to need ten more books to get people to where they're needed.

>>211532206 (OP)
>This is why
lol

>>211532944
You would have missed the best tits ever to appear on a screen though

>>211535191
Isn't Brienne fighting multiple people and kills Rorge before getting tackled by Biter?

>Biter’s mouth tore free, full of blood and flesh. He spat, grinned, and sank his pointed teeth into her flesh again. This time he chewed and swallowed. He is eating me, she realized, but she had no strength left to fight him any longer.

>>211535191
It’s bullshit that we never got that scene in the show

>>211536051
At the beginning the Starks had the opposite of plot armor, then for the survivors it evolved into shit like this. Ned and Robb really tanked for the team.

>>211536317
>rickon is once again forgotten

>>211536305
the hound's character arc is way better in the books
>be ultimate badass
>do bad shit while working for the bad guys
>redeem yourself slightly by keeping arya from the lannisters
>succumb to injury
>helmet is taken and passed around from bandit to bandit
>legend of the hound grows until he becomes a legendary boogeyman in the region
>in reality he is (likely) living a simple life as a gravedigger at an island monastery

>>211532206 (OP)
Yeah, it sounds retarded when you explain it, but it's actually even more retarded when you see it happening in notion, I know action scenes are all terrible nowadays but even still, this one was... wow.

>>211536400
I didn't remember if he dies before or after this desu. Kinda fucked that he didn't get any magical rescue or powers. I guess he saw some dreams.

>>211536476
cant believe they filmed the jon snow-night king staredown at the end of hardhome then decided THIS was how NK was gonna die while jon cowered behind a wall from a dragon

>>211534635
Even as a short sword Needle was not for as a dueling type of weapon which just adds to the bullshit.

>>211536020
Still think it's funny as shit just how absolutely fed up Bronns actor got having to do this scene numerous times just for them to fuck it up in increasingly new ways each time.

>>211536795
How were they fucking it up? This from an interview?

>>211536020

>>211536890
>>211536020

>>211532206 (OP)

>>211536862
From what I remember they were missing cues, couldn't keep up, tripping and bumping into each other; essentially none of the ladies playing the 3 snakes were trained whatsoever compared to some who were put through a pretty through bootcamp of sorts for swordplay and making the combat look good

>>211536862
the men who trained with actual training swords for their acting job got put beside women who were handed foam daggers and given brief directions on what to do with it.
and when a take is fucked up the directors and producers and showrunners can't keep blaming the woman so they have to keep injecting the occasional "okay bronn should be a little more shocked here" to pretend like everyone is just having a bad day

>>211536996
Everything that happened in dorne is just a fuckup from top to bottom, like at a writing/production level nobody cared. Of the sneks jessica henwick at least can learn choreography and do fight scenes, she was better at it than the lead on iron fist.

>>211537158
>lead on iron fist.
Who also happened to have played Loras.

>>211536476
This is how I killed Nacho in Farcry 3. It was stupid then too.

>>211537158
>Everything that happened in dorne is just a fuckup from top to bottom
I liked the breasts

>>211537185
the drugged up wackadoo bossfights in that game really took me out of it. it was fun being a lost generic white guy in a jungle full of mercs and crazies. i understand the thematic importance of him becoming a crazy merc but the steps to get there felt really hamfisted

stabbing some psycho shouldn't be so distressing when you've already gunned down a hundred guys easily

>>211537158
Did the Dorne plot even provide anything. Seems like you could have killed Myrcella another way. I know in the books there is this entirely different storyline with Dorne, but given the characters for that were not there it seems like they should have just cut the thing in entirety if they were not going to do the actual plot.

>>211532206 (OP)
Pretending that the "tall" female actor would be a good fighter is equally fucking stupid. A tall woman still doesn't have the strength and fighting potential of a man.

>>211536051

>>211536041
carice?

>>211537389

>>211537312
She does if she's a genetic freak, which Brienne was, and actually spends most of her life training to further build on her natural strength. Brienne is mentioned many times to have the body of a man. Jaime saw her naked and felt pity for her because nobody would ever love her as a woman with a body like that. She's a genetic freak, basically, no different than Gregor Clegane, and you can clearly see the vast gulf in difference between the female and male versions of that freak of birth.

>>211537297
The truth is that the majority of the plot points don't provide anything. The story begins at a completely arbitrary point (the death of Jon Arryn), and a huge amount of the characters have nothing to do with the ending, and the writers killed a lot of them out of the way anyway. What was the point of Stannis, the Tyrells, Littlefinger, Varys, Ser Barristan, etc? Stannis's actor even said that he didn't understand the character, and Barristan and Varys got mad with how they ended.
The story could have started at Robert's Rebellion, or after it, or after the Red Wedding, or at any point really. Ned Stark has very little to do with the arc of the story.
Dorne is just another example. The show doesn't have a cohesive or satisfying arc that was properly planned, but the characters are fun to watch anyway. It's just lots of set up with way too many characters and a failed ending.

>>211537312
That's not the point of the thread, retard. A scrawny midget with barely any experience is not going to beat a ~6'6 meat titan of a woman with tons of swordfighting experience.

>>211537255
>that cunt
best scenes in the series
beside the sausage wiggle

>>211532206 (OP)
>Both are females
Even Tommen could solo both.

>>211536041
The mexican with the bolt ons? Pass, deported.

>>211534392
KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK

>>211537753
She's Italian and she had just turned 18.

>>211537539
>>211537586
Even the most extreme genetic freak would still be a worse fighter than the average soldier. Also, she's not 6'10 or 6'6, but 6'3, and in every video of her, you can tell she's not particularly fit.

>>211537255
The fact she didn't have a subsequent career after that is criminal

>>211536476
I had a problem with almost everything that season, but not this.

>>211537841
I think she went to college, then covid happened

>>211537868
*sniiiiiiiifffff*

>>211537813
wouldn't but cute

>>211537868

>>211537753
>bolt ons
lol, incel

>>211537984
gay

>>211534392
An instant classic. I recall that being posted almost before the episode ended.

>>211538102
too late I already seen that other anon's picture lol

>>211538198
I posted all of them. I only have one where the mind virus really escalated but I shant be posting it

>>211532206 (OP)
FIght it anon. Don't let it live rent free in your head.

>>211532206 (OP)
u sure all those queers at the burlington bar seemed to love it especially that fat chick with the big tits

>>211538221
>I only have one where the mind virus really escalated but I shant be posting it
please do, so we can not_ejaculate in peace

>>211538285
No

>>211536051
Oh, the Andor lesbo girl, Vel

>>211538365
She got naked when she was even younger and hotter

>>211532577
But Arya wank is the opposite of cool.

>>211538365

>>211535191
>Brienne the Beauty lost to Biter

She succeeded in defending the orphans and gave biter a mortal wound. She didnt straight up get raped by him, biter was dead no matter what after the fight

>>211538262
BESSIE

>>211535984
Lol that's not why. Hes cashed out, fat old and retarded

>>211532206 (OP)
As ridiculous as it was, she basically spent the entire show being trained for combat. So no wonder she actually knows how to fight by the end of the show.

>>211534895
Wasn't the hound ill that day? With the flu and the shits or something?

>>211538565
He had a debilitating infection from getting bitten by Biter that he wouldn't clean because it required fire. Arya had just before left him and refused to kill him despite him begging for it because she judged it to be a more cruel fate.

>>211535262
Is this Brienne after facing The Hound(Biter) in the books? She gets pretty fucked up.

>>211538565
Sunset found him squatting in the grass, groaning. Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up, he was shitting brown water. The more he drank the more he shat, but the more he shat, the thirstier he grew.

>>211537320
>open wound
>lands in Medieval city sewer
>somehow no infection

Khal drago is fuming from the night lands from this horse shit

I fucking miss my life when this show was airing. I was even just a casual fan of it, but my life has been utter shit since the show ended. Fucking hell

>>211537312
Anon, there's vasts differences between men and women, but there are outliers. About 1-2% of women are as strong as an average man, so if you seek out a 1 in a thousand or 1 in a million woman you can find someone who will perform pretty well.

Look at elite female athletes for some perspective on this. There are powerlifters (female (as in biologically (XX chomosome (not frauding trannies (possibly on steroids tho))))) who have benchpressed over 200kg. That puts them way beyond the average guy.

At least Brienne's actor looks a little bit like she might be able to beat a guy up. Compare that to fucking Ana de Amas or whatever she's called.

>>211538815
hey emilia

>>211538838
kek

>>211538838
I wish she was my wife.. we could've made things better together.

>>211535984
Nah. It's probably that the world has changed dramatically since the lost book he wrote. One wrong step, one wrong word written that makes the fems and trannys look anything less than the best thing ever and he immediately gets the JK Rowling treatment. His hands are tied and he's backed into a corner creatively. Either he compromises his soul and shits out something the militant pozzed Hollywood left approves of or his all access Hollywood card gets pulled.

Best not to finish it at all from his perspective.

>>211537320
>>211536051

>>211536890
>>211536952
>jump cut
>jump cut
>jump cut
I fucking hate modern "cinema"

>>211536994
The little dagger flip is pretty cool, but it defeats the purpose when you can see they're timing their movements with each other and not choreographing it like they're proper fighting.

>>211538837
Id think you are full of shit, but there was that Chinese woman that beat a tranny in power lifting a year or so ago

>>211538963
Does she have a wolverine healing factor or something?

>>211538453
She roons

>>211539183
Just google women's power lifter records (and make sure you find a list that removed all the tranny frauders)

>>211539470
>A list that removed all the tranny fraudsters.

Not as easy as you think. The rot goes deep.

>Arya goes through a many year journey to learn that family is the most important thing, so she ditches the faceless to return to them
>when they still desperately need her help to rebuild after a devastating war, she immediately abandons them to go die at sea pretending she'll discover Americos

>>211538511
>basically spent the entire show being trained for combat.
she spent a few months at best with Syrio and maybe a year with The Faceless Men.

>>211540940
If she'd paid more attention to her tutors she'd have learned that people had already circumnavigated the globe several times and they already knew what was west of westeros.

>>211538511
The "entire show" is like 3 years tops, and she didn't even spend the whole 3 years being "trained in combat". She had only started the basics with Syrio, then had to spend weeks, if not months, as a fugitive, then spent untold weeks as a servant in the House of Black and White before they allowed her to do any kind of assassin's training.

So she's had maybe 2 years of training. She's not even 15 yet so any physical conditioning she's done is to a child's body. A grown man in armor could literally kill her with a casual swing of his arm clipping her skull.

>>211540940
>>Arya goes through a many year journey to learn that family is the most important thing, so she ditches the faceless to return to them

What does any of this have to do with trans rights CHUD? If Grrm is going to finish the series it needs to focus on what important. That being queer rights and freeing Palestine. Also immigration.

>>211536051
this was the exact moment the show became total dogshit

>>211537826
The actress doesn't live up to the book description, go figure. In the books she was freakishly big and strong for a woman, towered over most men. Again: she wasn't just a natural freak, she'd also trained herself to build on natural advantages. A normal woman would never be a match for a man no matter how much strength training she did. Her normal female body is too frail and can't mass enough muscle to ever challenge even a normal man in combat. Brienne isn't a normal woman though. That's the point.

>>211541062
Sorry, Arya master assassin ninja knife jump

>>211532206 (OP)
There are flippen dragons and literal magic in the show but this is what broke your suspension of disbelief?
Like get a grip my guy.

>>211541501
Are you retarded or just pretending to be retarded?

>>211535984
The tryhard realism aspect is annoying and completely disingenuous.
Even 20 years ago before the redditor type had completely emerged I used to read fun theories online and those retards would try to attach a 'realistic' explanation to every cool and mysterious aspect of the world and it's all Martin's fault.
It's a world that used to be riddled with sorcery, dragons, magical objects, prophecies and demonic entities, but apparently the doom of Valyria was due to volcanic and seismic activity and you can't visit it today due to environmental pollution.
It couldn't have been a valyrian cult that unleashed a curse, a demonic force that lay waste to it or a vengeful god that took offense to their culture, it has to be a heckin' scientific explanation.

>>211541621
Nta but it could be both

>>211541139
holy /pol/tard

>>211532206 (OP)
1. Bri was trained fight against clumsy swrodsmans
2. Arya was trained by the best master of rapeers

>>211541621
His hands are tied by the current culture. He would NEVER be able to write the book he wants to write today. It's literally why he hasn't finished it.

>>211532783
Arya is a womenlet, why would she be a better sword fighter than brienne?

>>211537158
>>211537297
The dorne plot was dogshit in the books as well. The story for the show and the books went to shit at the same time; as soon as it hits AFFC the story screeches to a halt. Fat fuck managed to write 2000 pages of filler.

>>211536400
He became gay emperor of Essos

>>211541915
Stop saying this retarded shit. At this point in his career he could write whatever he wanted. His delays have nothing to do with your culture war hard-on. I know you think everything has to do with le cancel culture SJW shit.

>>211537551
books have the exact same problem, except worse because the cast of characters is tripled.

>>211532577
why didn't the zombies just run around the wooden wall?

>>211532206 (OP)
It makes more sense why Arya would be a good assassin when you read the books, she is a Warg and can see with her own eyes and any animals that happen to also be watching, but she wouldn't be able to take Brienne.

The entire plot of her becoming a faceless man is that she cheats the tests by being a warg when they blind her, because she can see through the eyes of animals.

The TV show was braindead.

>>211542430
In the book she's 11 and seduces a grown ass man, kills him, then drags his ass through the canals and dumps his body. I know you don't touch grass but 11 year old girls are like 4 foot nothing and struggle carrying 40 pounds.
>good assassin
kek, both the show and books are retarded.

>>211542452
What a silly show. And then its fans look down on anime.

>>211536051
Reminder the showrunners wanted her to have a big chase scene directly after this and the actress had to remind them being stabbed is a problem

>>211532206 (OP)
It went to shit with the Brienne vs. Hound fight. He wasn't supposed to be barely competent.
>>211537155
>but THEN...

>>211538453
Greatest assassins in the world
Sprints across a wall directly at her opponent in broad daylight

I guess all the guards were sick that day too?

>>211542620
She stabs him and pushes him into the canal. I literally just read it, she doesn't drag him anywhere you moon howling retard.

Being a child prostitute is something that is explained as quite common in that world, so why do you think pedos trying to fuck kids is unrealistic writing?

>>211542625
lol at the bootyblasted weeaboo

>>211532206 (OP)
Remember when the show pretended that armour and reach mattered?

>>211542857
>“Well,” she said, “I don’t know how you’ll get there, then.”

“You’ll need to carry me.”
>“Valar morghulis,” Arya whispered, but Raff was dead and did not hear. She sniffed. I should have helped him down the steps before I killed him. Now I’ll need to drag him all the way to the canal and roll him in. The eels would do the rest.
No you didn't read it liar lmao. The dialogue is retarded, he's telling a 11 year old girl to carry him.

>>211542756
When you nut be she keep suckin

>>211543020
He'd dead you ESL retard.

>>211543020
>push body down stairs
>problem solved

>>211543114
He's bleeding to death and tells her to get a healer. Then tells her to carry him. Read the fucking chapter you lying pajeet faggot. Then she realizes she has to drag him to the canals.

She's 11 lmao.

>>211542203
You are literally, actually, clinically retarded if you don't think today's culture climite has anything to do with what art gets made, does not get made and how. It's literally the dumbest thing you could have possibly said.

>>211542917
Nah, anime is trash but so is this. If anything the animated action looks better than these jumpcut trashes. The point is that it's the same stupid shit.

>>211543284
It has nothing to do with why the fatso hasn't finished. Why is he able to write his other Westeros books then? He self-censors them, but is unable to do so for ASoIaF? He really doesn't need the excuse of the culture wars to keep procrastinating. In terms of his publisher, he has a blank check and could write a thousand pages of Dany shitting brown water if he wanted to, and it would sell.

>>211543530
>In terms of his publisher, he has a blank check and could write a thousand pages of Dany shitting brown water if he wanted to, and it would sell.


But could he write a book about Daenerys getting bent over and brutally raped by the man she eventually fell madly in love with, today? I don't think he could. No matter how much clout he has.

>>211542756
Whatever even happened to her?

>>211543732
He literally could. There are still rape stories in media. You think the publisher would stop him, or that he would stop himself?
That's what the books are like, anyway, so it's not like it would be a surprise to fans either.

>>211543808
>There are still rape stories in media.

You're damn right there are. And they all fit the --approved-- narrative.

>>211543899
Books aren't your Netflix shows though. There's more leeway there.

>>211532783
This. It's why Bruce Lee would have easily defeated peak Mike Tyson.

That is, of course, unless Mike was in possession of Bruce's one weakness: car doors.

Never saw this show, but I now want to watch GoT. Which ep should I start with?

>>211543977
You think he could right whatever he wants now with no consequences? With the massive level of fame he has now? In today's climate? Oh my sweet summer child.

>>211532206 (OP)
Arya was training her whole life and Brianne was obviously not trying her hardest since she was her protector.

>>211544314
Start with S8 ep. 5

>>211544690
Dude's extremely woke. Yes, he can write whatever he wants, because it fits the current narrative.

>>211535191
>Biter and her squire saved her in the books which is realistic
I thought it was gendry, roberts bastard that saved her? Unless that was a show thing. In books at least briennes squire, podrick payne, saved tyrion from the kingsguard that tried to kill him after the battle of the blackwater. The one who cut tyrions nose off.

>>211532577
>rule of cool
it's not cool if it's not believable

>>211544880
Whether it's real or not he HAS to be. He's got no other choice. So deep down he knows he can't match the level of writing he had with the creative freedom he had before. The more you have the more you have to lose.

>>211532206 (OP)
In your scenario, OP, maybe it's like this:
>Ben (*srael) is 6'10 with a modern F-35 trained since adulthood to fight in indirect 109v1 combat
>Ali (*ran) is 5'2 and trained briefly to be a pilot with one day of flight training with a big fast Tomcat
>they spar
Ali is magically the best pilot ina all of Wahhabia
This is because the F-14 "Tomcat" is the best combat aircraft of all time, handily defeating the (((modern))) "Lightning II" by virtue of four factors:
>f-14 tomcat is way cooler
>f-14 radar is way better
>f-14 on blessed holy mission
>it's not the plane so much as the *man* in the cockpit -- better natural pilot with arguably more pertinent training in a single day than their opponent gets all year due to a variety of factors like training expenses, et al
Arya may've just been the superior natural fighter compared to Brienne (or optimized against her -- nimble versus ponderous), like the pivotal trauma of watching her father get decapitated at *just* the right age, and just had the natural genetic tendency towards advantageous factors like calculated aggressiveness and a feel for flying.

>>211537155
this scene doesn't even fucking make sense
>searching for sansa everywhere for catelyn
>find arya fucking stark
>being defended by clegane
>arya wants to stay with him
>hes abandoned the lannisters
>they're on the way to the vale, catelyns sisters home
You would think brienne would help them or something but no
>attacks clegane
>arya tells her to stop
>defeats clegane
>abandons arya and just fucking leaves
It makes no sense, she's supposed to find ALL of catelyns kids, she found arya, then she just fucking leaves after defeating/killing aryas guardian.

>>211539101

When the actors' fighting looks like shit jump-cutting is all you can do to save it.

>>211545227
Someone post Seagal webms.

>>211544690
>>211545093
What would he lose and what consequences? He'd get some twitter posts. JK Rowling was similarly "cancelled" and Hogwarts Legacy was still very popular, and she's involved with the new TV show lol. Similarly, the publisher wouldn't give a shit if GRRM wrote some politically incorrect stuff, controversies can easily even help sales.
This stuff is not the reason why he's being slow with writing. This stuff isn't real.

>>211545655

>>211535191
brienne managed to slay rorge before biter overwhelms her and bites her cheek off and almost rapes her, it's gendry, not podrick, who saves her in the nick of time and then captures alongside the remaining BWB who take her to lady stoneheart

>>211545744
JK Rowling was willing to deal with the drama and he probably isn't. Also what has she wrote since then? Is it actually good? Also she's a billionaire. He isn't. He's rich but she has fuck you money. Also his style of writing is WAY more prone to trigger the pozzed alphabet crowd. People are getting shot for wrongthink these days. He's fucking super old and doesn't want or need the hassle. It doesn't even matter what the trigger is that some new writing would be. It's the simple fact that it's there at all. When it literally wasn't the case before. That's probably enough to kill the creative boner right there.

>>211546789
He's rich as fuck dude

>>211536051

>>211546993
>$120 million < $1+ billion

She's literally ten times richer than he is.

>>211532577
>rule of cool
>cool
>arya
>cool
Fucking lamest character there was im the later seasons. Started out ok but become so fucking lame and cringe.

>>211537813
>just turned 18
>I've got just the role for you...

>>211547142
You're saying $120 million is not fuck you money? Man you're a braindead /pol/tard.

polcels are so retarded, he's not released any more books because he doesn't know how to pull all the threads together in a satisfactory way, especially after seeing the backlash to the ending, it's not because he's afraid of upsetting the woke mob, lmao.

>>211547361
You are way out of your league in this conversation.

>>211547457
> Fifty percent of one, one half of the other. It is an undeniable fact that he does not have the creative freedom he had 15-20 years ago. He's literally nerfed creatively from what once was by the state of the Earth itself. A weaker version of himself by definition cannot match what he was before and he knows it.

>>211547457 #
Fifty percent of one, one half of the other. It is an undeniable fact that he does not have the creative freedom he had 15-20 years ago. He's literally nerfed creatively from what once was by the state of the Earth itself. A weaker version of himself by definition cannot match what he was before and he knows it.

>>211532705

>Bran's magic shenanigans will definitely be important in dealing with the Others

What did he do in the show that made him important at all in dealing with the Others? He sat in his wheelchair and did all of jack and shit, just being bait. He didn't warg into any dragons and do some cool shit that way. Didn't go back in time and do some Back to the Future stuff to make the fight easier. He did nothing except lie, make Meera cry and take all the glory

>I can't be lord of anything
>Why do you think I came all this way?

Bran is by far, the most disappointing character in the show, possibly all of television, with all the buildup he had which amounted to absolutely fucking nothing

>>211548674
All goes back to the problems with the source material. Brans chapters were written 25 years ago; people need to realize the show was built on a bad foundation.

>>211547457

>it's not because he's afraid of upsetting the woke mob, lmao.

Faggot please, he absolutely is afraid of them. In the book, Blood and Cheese threaten to rape a little toddler in front of her mom if she doesn't pick a son to kill. He pretends he never wrote this though when talking about it and instead says on his blog that they threatened to kill both her sons. Luckily for him, woke retards don't read, let alone read his books, so they'd never be the wiser to him lying

>>211543765
In the book her and her brother were probably killed and turned into Weirwood Paste then fed to Brann.
In the show they just say she went home or something. Guess the Crannogmen were convinced they could be safe hiding in their swamp from ice demons.

>>211549985
M-meera, n-no... ;_;

>>211532206 (OP)

>>211532415
>The show sucked 50 episodes before that, but, yeah.
>but I kept watching

>>211551859
nta, honestly, I thought 1-4 were fantastic; 5-6 were decent and 7-8 were trash.

>>211551859
It was something fun to shitpost with anons over how terrible it was.