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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Ok well the show runners don't write every episode. And they've done a fine job guiding the show for 6 previous seasons, much of which was not a direct book translation. Plus Martin has been involved and they are on record saying he provided guidance for the ending.
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Except they wrote this specific episode.
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Are some things still inaccurate? Sure, but who cares? It is artistic liberty for the purposes of moving the plot. It would serve no purpose, except to satisfy pedantic complaints.
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I hate this critique of other peoples' critiques. "Sure it's bad but just ignore it!"
It's bad. It draws away from the show and perverts the narrative with an anything can happen bent. It erodes at the structure that makes the story so great. Characters doing stupid things makes you question the stakes in the whole affair which then dulls the emotional appeal and the motivations of the characters.
Lets walk through this. Cersei knows Dany is on Dragonstone with 3 dragons and a huge army and wants to take back Westeros. So what does she do? She splits her forces up to take Highgarden while Dany splits her forces up to take a symbolic castle with no strategic gain.
Now maybe we can all explain this because Varys is feeding Cersei all the info on Dany's plans. Sure that's plausible. But there's no screen time to create the mystery or punctuate the motivations of the major characters and their actions. Instead we get a mess, a total mess that makes no sense from a strategic or motivational perspective.
So no, I can't just ignore it and it's not being pedantic. It's about good story telling vs. bad story telling. If you want to ignore it fine, that doesn't mean that someone like myself wouldn't have meaningful criticisms of how the show is unravelling.