Quote Originally Posted by jackvance View Post
You're still trying to go the way of canned cheap thrills. This show is different. It's an epos.
Am I? I'm trying to avoid cheap thrills

Reignite this thread if in s6 we find out Brienne didn't kill Stannis and instead hit the tree. Talk about the cheapest of thrills.

And how about a battle in the middle of a field where one side has only foot soldiers and is outnumbered by cavalry in pincer formation. Then a huge chunk of the cavalry dies, the leader of the losing side magically showed up in the woods, and the winning side is leaving without killing him. The cheapest thrill of them all. So cheap that it couldn't afford any thrill other than saying "omg all this big stuff happened and the plot has moved forward finally even though none of it makes a lick of sense".

How about the surprise death of a character nobody cares about: Myrcella. Cheap thrill.

How about the person who killed her waiting until she was bleeding on the dock before she took the antidote. Cheap thrill.

How about the worst dialogue the show has yet seen: "bad pussy". Cheap thrill.

How about Varys showing up out of nowhere. Cheap thrill.

How about Myranda about to "shoot" Sansa even though she was never ever ever ever ever going to do that. Cheap thrill.

There's no need to continue. I think this finale was full of nutlow writing and the writers had very easy opportunities to not do so. I think they are bad and the amount of good found in the writing is because the source material gives it to them.