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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Except they wrote this specific episode.
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.
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Why didn't Japan attack Pearl Harbour when the carriers were there. Just terrible story telling.
Also how is this any different than Rob defeating the Lannister army. How did Ramsey not see the army from the Vale coming. The show has had the type of "flaw" that you are complaining about the whole time.