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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
2) Speaking of Dorne: Was that the easiest coup d'etat ever? They literally had to kill one guard and then the leader. Was he that universally hated that every single one of his sworn guards were glad to be rid of him? He didn't seem despicable in any way, so it's hard to imagine that not one of them would have been upset at his dispatching by his own family to usurp power. Ok, sure, probably just needed to get him out of the way so the story could progress, but that was some of the laziest writing I've seen, and it was especially bad considering how good the writing on this show has been. That was painfully disappointing, as was the scene on the boat. The kid didn't have a single guard other than those two girls? Come on, there's usually a contingent of 10 guards for a person of royalty in direct line for a throne. Just ridiculous, and extremely clumsy.
I'll give it a pass because on the whole the episode was decent, but I hope they sharpened their writing skills for the rest of the season.
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The Sand Snakes make the episode almost unbearable. Oberyn was "butchered" in their words when he was really killed by his own overconfidence and stupidity. Elleria expects Doran to do what exactly? Immediately go to war against the crown? Murder Mycella in cold blood when Oberyn says that's exactly what people in Dorne wouldn't do? Apparently that's what the Sand Snakes want.
Aero Hotah gets killed in the back by fricking little girl with zero effort whatsoever after building him up to be such a badass last season... We also see sworn royal guardsmen are willing to just let Elleria kill the Prince because he didn't swear to kill the closest Lannister immediately in retaliation? Did we see any unrest in Dorne at all?
The whole scene is just so stupidly lazy. It's just so jarringly bad compared to the rest of the plot lines running right now.