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In my opinion, season 5 is a bungled adaptation. I've never had a problem with plot changes being made for a new medium. Prior to season 5 I thought most of them were fine. But after a lot of thinking what it boils down to is this - the producers stopped trusting the complex, ambiguous, brutal story and started falling back on Hollywood clichés that I can only assume are supposed to be giving the audience what it wants (Which is bizarre since seasons 1-4 broke all the rules and were huge successes). You've got contrived heroism on the Wall, which started earlier and got steadily worse. Han Solo Bronn is shoehorned back in into a storyline that just makes no sense. The Sand Snakes have absolutely no depth.
If it were just the plot problems I might have managed to forgive it enough to watch the whole season, but the acting took a big dip (More Kit Harrington, Emilia Clarke and Aiden Gillen, less Peter Dinklage and no Charles Dance, alas) and the choreography with it. I think the final straw was the skirmish with the cavalry in Dorne, where they all miraculously act stupid just so Bronn can do the badass mercenary cliché again.
It's all such a shame, because there has been so much to like before now. I mean, even the most stupid moments were more annoying because they wasted valuable episode time - that scene with Podrick and the whores being a big offender. I never get tired of Jaime and Brienne's bath scene, or watching, well, anything to do with Tywin[/quote]
If it were just the plot problems I might have managed to forgive it enough to watch the whole season, but the acting took a big dip (More Kit Harrington, Emilia Clarke and Aiden Gillen, less Peter Dinklage and no Charles Dance, alas) and the choreography with it. I think the final straw was the skirmish with the cavalry in Dorne, where they all miraculously act stupid just so Bronn can do the badass mercenary cliché again.
It's all such a shame, because there has been so much to like before now. I mean, even the most stupid moments were more annoying because they wasted valuable episode time - that scene with Podrick and the whores being a big offender. I never get tired of Jaime and Brienne's bath scene, or watching, well, anything to do with Tywin[/quote]