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I am sure the more seasons the more he gets paid. Why wouldn't he want it? Also, the writers now don't have original material and it shows they are not as good as we thought they were a few seasons ago.

I think B&W have done a great job. They ran into the same problem Martin has run into. You can't just have perpetual world building/table setting. Eventually the story needs to move towards a conclusion.

What has hurt B&W, if anything, is that there isn't a corresponding text to their story to fill in the blanks that they can't possibly fill in a TV show.
 

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But it's all a construct. Bronn travels across the continent, to the specific room where Jaime and Tyrion happen to be alone and extorts a massive kingdom for himself.

Slips by undetected with an easy to hide giant crossbow built by the Lannisters.....
 

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I think B&W have done a great job. They ran into the same problem Martin has run into. You can't just have perpetual world building/table setting. Eventually the story needs to move towards a conclusion.

What has hurt B&W, if anything, is that there isn't a corresponding text to their story to fill in the blanks that they can't possibly fill in a TV show.

They could have done things so differently and still gotten us to this point.

They are still table setting with the transformation of Dany, IMO. Killing off melisandre I think is what will make her flip her shit to being a bad guy. One that might cersei and Jon have to fight? Just ideas.
 

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And is able to reload a crossbow faster than someone can reload a shotgun.
Yeah that was pretty dumb. That's not how a crossbow works. Especially from a seated position.

Would have been better for him to stand up with a sword after that.
 

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They could have done things so differently and still gotten us to this point.

They are still table setting with the transformation of Dany, IMO. Killing off melisandre I think is what will make her flip her shit to being a bad guy. One that might cersei and Jon have to fight? Just ideas.

I could see Sansa using Dany to get rid of Cersei, then flip the script and use Tyrion to get rid of Dany. Sansa is the most complete character right now, ruthlessly efficient when needed, and not on tilt. She has an expert assassin at her disposal, the 3ER, and an easily controllable brother who the North love.

Given that's how I see it, she's probably dead next episode, killed by Ghost....
 

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Jaime fucking Brienne...gross
 

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I could see Sansa using Dany to get rid of Cersei, then flip the script and use Tyrion to get rid of Dany. Sansa is the most complete character right now, ruthlessly efficient when needed, and not on tilt. She has an expert assassin at her disposal, the 3ER, and an easily controllable brother who the North love.

Given that's how I see it, she's probably dead next episode....
I don't feel like she has Arya at her disposal...Arya does what she wants.
 
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They could have done things so differently and still gotten us to this point.

They are still table setting with the transformation of Dany, IMO. Killing off melisandre I think is what will make her flip her shit to being a bad guy. One that might cersei and Jon have to fight? Just ideas.

IMO, my biggest criticism of this season is that the show runners made it needlessly too short.

Realistically one of Dany or Jon are almost certainly dead. And there has to be more conflict between them, IMO. There are so many different ways for the show to unfold going forward. Jon may kill Dany because she's gone crazy. Dany may kill Jon. Cersei may kill either or both of them.

Ultimately the only outcome that would be unacceptable, IMO, would be Cersei winning. That would just be bad story telling. She has been about as evil as evil gets in the show.
 

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The trailer for episode 5 shows Euron Greyjoy looking up towards a cloud-shielded sun. We anticipate Daenerys riding Dragon to be dropping out of the sun to burn the fleet. The out-of-the-sun aspect is paean to aerial warfare tactics from WWI onward.

For one viewer, I would be pleased to see Euron roasted to death. However, the writers may save him so that he can be killed by his niece.
 
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