One of the things that bugged me was the establishing scene of the Mountain which was so hilariously cheesy instead of badass. They're kind of paying for not developing the Mountain a bit better in the first three seasons. You didn't need to go into a ton of character development for the Mountain but a couple scenes showing that he was an accomplished and ruthless battlefield commander and that he was Tywin's go-to weapon for fear and terror would make the payoff battle much better.
Instead we're given some grindhouse scene of the mountain killing, what are those? Slaves? Convicts? To establish his badassery? Ridiculously cheesy and transparent. That scene would have been much better used to go into Oberyn a bit more and how awesome he is.
Anyway, slight annoyance.
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