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Originally Posted by djsFlames
simply cause there isn't enough screen time to convey how and why everything unfolded for every character every step of the way, which they were practically doing earlier on with the 10 episode seasons.
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I think that could explain the quick Night King death and stuff, certainly time constraints are an issue now. But that doesn't really excuse the Bronn stuff.
He just casually travels 3000 miles to Winterfell, in enemy territory during winter, and conveniently finds the two people he needs to kill alone. This is a day or so after a world-defining war, and right before they leave to Cersei themselves. And then he just sort of makes a threat until he is offered Highgarden, which of course Tyrion has no say of. And then he casually strolls back, I guess? Where there will be major questions as to why Tyrion and Jaime are alive?
At least Cersei's offer made some sense, she had the ability to make the offer and the reasons to do so based on her character. Now Daenerys is just going to give him like the second most important castle because he threatened her hand? None of that makes sense and was on par with the "bad #####" dialogue a couple seasons ago.
It didn't advance the plot, it didn't show any type of growth and I think it even went against character traits. All for some faux-suspense and weird reunion. Honestly feels like they are reading memes of what fans want, in this case Bronn getting a kickass castle, and trying to appease fans that way (same with Arya being bad ass world-saving hero). It's no longer subverting expectations, but leaning into them comically in my opinion.
Still a lot of time, maybe they are just building us up for some unexpected twist in the next episodes, but the Bronn stuff fell flat like much of this season has for me.