re: Am I the only one pulling for the Night King?

Yeah I was a big Robb fan, though I was actually on Khaleesi's bandwagon early on (before the eggs hatched).

Tormund is hilarious.

Brienne has been incredible to watch.

Lady Mormont was a little fricking badass.

Can't NOT love Greyworm.

I mean, frick.....too many characters I love(d) for very different reasons.

We're going to have to agree to disagree about this. In the show, her pigheadedness is just an excuse to tell us how incredible she is because "she's not a normal girl". It got her into trouble with the Faceless Men but come on, is it really trouble? The only way I can be assuaged by this is if they actually work with Cersei to stop her.

She has the least impactful character flaws and suffers the least problems because of them.

Cersei has to walk naked in front of all of the people she lords over while being humiliated.

Jaime loses his fricking hand.

Hound can barely withstand fire and panics when he sees it/loses his control.

Jon is fricking killed for being an inept leader.

Dany is worthless in battle and only supported because she has dragons.

I could go on for days how fleshed out the other characters are. Arya "gets a little bloodthirsty and it gets her into 'trouble'". Sorry, not gonna fly. Nothing she has done has brought consequences upon her other than being blinded for not listening -- but as I said, when bad things do happen to her, it's only used as plot armor to further increase her glory.

Kidnapped? Save a legendary assassin and become his mentor.

Don't listen? Be blinded, but only so you can be an expert fighter in the dark against a trained assassin with more experience than you.

Get concussed? Run around like you're playing a third person video game because you're definitely not looking at where your enemies are.

Literally one of the worst main characters of the show where the only bad consequence that happened to her (with actual impact) was her family getting butchered (not being one of the victims of the butchery which is decidedly worse).

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Similarly, when I say she's an expert at sex, I mean she's very casual and nonchalant in asking/demanding for something she's never had.

Because you know, that almost never ever fricking happens except in the wet dreams of neckbearded men where a girl does something like that.

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This is where you lose me. We are talking about what is possibly the end of the world as she knows it. Not a lot of time for courting. Lets just get to it. (jesus i just typed courting)

It's just another thing she's good at with no experience is all I'm saying. Of course there's no time to think about it. However: There's no timidity, no hesitation, she's just a stone cold blooded killer in everything she does.

When was the last time she was actually vulnerable and it wasn't just to highlight how amazing she was?

The problem is that that isn't Game of Thrones.

Actions have consequences. Being very bold gets your coconut cracked (like Oberyn Martell vs. Gregor Clegane). Trying to take on a guy who kills a dragon with ease is an example of being stupidly confident.

Defending an entire portion of a parapet alone (whereas battle hardened professional soldiers get overrun rather easily) is another example of stupid confidence.

Game of Thrones is ANTI-TROPE. That means ANTI-BADASSES doing WHATEVER THEY WANT. The show used to have consequences, but the writers are basically buttfricking Martin who admits that he doesn't have time to watch Game of Thrones.

It's a different show from what it set out to for, and that's the reason so many people are upset.

makes sense.

still dont care, duh haha

I do see what you are saying though

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Old Lady Tyrell

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honestly, I love Cersei

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She's diabolical and cast as the villain in the show, but I honestly see her as a very sympathetic character, too. She's suffered bereavement and loss, and in the context of her perspective, done what she felt she had to do to ensure her hold on what she believes is hers. Maybe she derives too much pleasure from it at times, but in this fricked up show universe, her most sordid actions aren't exactly without peer.

If this whole deal is about playing the game of thrones with the intention of winning, she's played her cards correctly.

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I'm incredibly perplexed at how mad this show makes you. Goodness

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He's written like 5 full essays in the last couple pages on how much he hates Arya

I like characters with actual development and whose intentions aren't there for fluff.

Cersei goes through, probably, the most of any living character at the moment.

Loveless marriage, taboo love that ends abruptly, watching her children picked off one by one, shamed in front of the entire population she's lord over. Friendless, no family (now) and always willing to do what's necessary to come out on top.

Tyrion has a rough story, so I'll give you that one -- and while it's super indulgent how the writers have made him a hero several times over I'm okay with him doing it despite his limitations. He's also had quite a long, arduous character arc which makes for good television.

Even Ramsay, whose mother dies at a young age and who must always try to gain his father's approval despite being the son of a mistress. Dreadfort, for all of its horror, is at least interesting.

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I'm incredibly perplexed at how mad this show makes you. Goodness.

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A lot of people have been waiting for a decade.

"Winter Is Coming". If this is the true end of the Night King and not a trick, then it's extremely anticlimactic and anti-Game of Thrones.

All of the fantasy tropes of good guys with plot armor were nonexistent for the majority of the series.

While I understand what you are saying, nevertheless, you're coming off as a guy who will never be happy.

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You sure Arya hasn't had development? You're complaining about her story enough... obviously she had development, just not the development that satisfied you. Dude she's been around since day 1. And she's developed into her own character.

"But how could she kill the Night King so easily!?!?!"

You keep claiming "that isn't GoT enough though"... when in reality it's exactly what Game of Thrones is.

You liked Lady Tyrell*? I bet her character would think fondly of Arya Stark... ya know, sneakily killing a king.