The Children Of The Forest dissapointing

It's one of my favorite scenes of the entire series. All my Unsullied friends were going nuts. They loved it too.

I think all of us who read the books had different impressions on how the Children of the Forest would look from one another as well as how they chose to portray them on the show. It's a tough one because while George is very good at giving a lot of great detail about looks, sometimes the overall feel is still vague and somewhat mysterious which is likely intentional and that's how I always felt about the children. I sort of imagined elf-like almost dryad type fantasy based creatures who had a slightly youthful/childlike look, but not actual 'children' or even tiny. Maybe thin, and shorter but not little people!

I don't know how they would find actors who had just the right look. An "old soul" child is what they went with I think... one who could be mistaken for a child or a very small adult.

I wasn't as disappointed with the looks as I was the special effects they used for the fire balls and the wights/skeleton things. I thought those could have been done much better compared to some of the other great CGI they've done.

I almost never criticize the show--I don't care if its different than the books, I don't even equate the two. I'm so thrilled that they've brought the characters to life for me, I just love this show. That said, the Asha/Yara 'rescue' of Theon that ended with the hilarious rush to the boats was... ridiculous to me. Embarrassingly clunky and hokey. And the only other scene I felt like that about, was the Children with the fireballs flying around and pop-up skeletons and the fabled, storied Bloodraven being just some old dude sitting in a tree seat. I thought it was awful, all of it.

So, la-la-la-la, I just try not to think about it at all, it was so absurd to me.

The scene was fine for me except for the skeleton stabbing Jojen which ventured very closely to high comedy which I'm guessing was not the intention.

Yara's attack on the Dreadfort was dumb as fuck and editing had nothing to do with that. Finding Theon and getting so close to killing Ramsay only to get chased away by a bunch of dogs made Yara and the rest of the Ironborn look pathetic.

Just to be clear, as they've had to explain this multiple times, Yara wasn't scared of the dogs. She left because they were in a stalemate and she knew Theon was lost. That's what she says when she gets back to the boat.

I guess they could have done a better job demonstrating this but that's what was intended. So blame the execution (which directing and editing has a lot to do with) rather than the idea.

Agreed.

And I'm not even sure I buy it as a stalemate either. Yara and the Iron Born outnumbered Ramsay and his lackies, they could have taken him and dragged Theon kicking and screaming.

Ok, it was terrible, but I don't think the idea was bad. They should've ditched the dogs and make the arrival of reinforcements the thing that makes Yara run. I wouldn't mind if they kept Ramsay fighting shirtless, I actually liked that, but he should've had more backup.

They basically had to find a way for her to go on the raid but maintain the status quo by not succeeding but also by not dying and getting away unscathed. There were only so many options available to accomplish that. The main point of the entire endeavour was to have Yara realize that Theon was completely off the reservation and unsalvageable and that's what happened.