Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla View Post
I loved this episode. I don't understand how 09 comes close to compare. Yes it fell into the usual trappings of driving the story at the cost of on-screen awesome but the on-screen awesome of 09 weighs so little compared to the story driven by 10.

The only thing I felt disappointing is how much of the story followed the groundwork already laid. Jon Snow, Harrenhall, everything in King's Landing, the wedding, the dragons overpowering the Qarth magicians. It seemed to me only Theon and the young lords didn't follow a, in hindsight, capable expectation.
It's possible this is what I didn't like about the episode. It wasn't bad, I just got a feeling, but I can't really explain

So my guess would be

- I'm upset that we got more King's Landing material. They set everything up perfectly for e09 to be the KL finale. This would have allowed for more much needed air time to present the finales of all the other plots. I'm also upset over the Tyrion story, not that it's happening this way, but that they decided to show what they did for the finale instead of just making that the first ep of the next season. I think what they did with Tyrion is an example of a bad thing to use for a season ending cliffhanger. And my hatred for Shae seems to be unmitigated. I can't actually appreciate what she does for Tyrion because I dislike her so much

- Dany and the dragons story was not what it could have been. I've thought for a while that the King of Qarth and Doppleganger storyline was just going to turn out to be nothing, and I was right. I wasn't at all enthralled by the idea that Dany could somehow suffer much in that plot because it just didn't seem like it could happen. For a brief moment, when she was chained up, I was thinking "WTF are they actually going to go really dark here", and I didn't have time to reflect on that idea actually coming to fruition before she got out of it.

- Sansa not leaving KL with Hound straight pisses me off. That could have been such an awesome story, and Hound is a truly awesome character. Now I hope that Littlefinger gets Sansa to marry him or some shit

- Stannis was pretty underwhelming. The Lord of Light is in him WTF? He sees something in the fire WTF? This is stuff you end an episode with, not a season

- The burning of Winterfell really doesn't make sense

- I seriously hated A Man's face change. Half of his greatness as a character really is the actor and the aesthetics he presents. He just looks and acts the part perfectly. I also am not interested in him not getting regular screen time. How his story has changed is actually good, but I still don't like it. For all we know, Arya won't summon A Man for another two seasons or some shit