Episode 5x09 Discussion

Loved this episode soooooooo much!

Parts that were meh:

Jon's scenes and Dorne
Mace

Parts I loved:

Arya's scenes. Which shocked me as I am normally not a fan of hers and hated Braavos storyline.
Loved the Shireen scene. It was heartbreaking and shocking. loved Selyse in it.
Daznak was amazing! Obviously there are a few things I wish were different but I will discuss it in a Daznak thread.

This time, luckily, specific-sector-of-the-fandom outrage didn't align itself with the reaction of the social-justice-through-social-media crowd. The latter crowd is likely saving their anger for the Walk of Shame.

Shireen burning was always going to be a horrifying moment, i cried actual tears and because of the fabulous kerri ingram the scene was everything it should have been, and it was well done. However I don't think the setting was right, its just too weak of Stannis to give in like that after the supplies have burnt. They have horses to eat still right?? And would've rather it happen as its going to in the books, with Mel and Selyse at CB. Sending Davos away like that was a piss-poor excuse and Davos is smarter than that i was half hoping he would abduct Shireen. I don't think he thought Stannis would actually do it (neither did we Davos, neither did we). I wasn't surprised to see Selyse defend Shireen in the end. She always loved her daughter despite her words, her actions spoke louder. In season 4 she was told by Melisandre the lord of light would have need of Shireen. In season 5 we hear Shireen saying her mother didn't want her to come. Not many people picked up on this but I did, because Tara is a fantastic subtle actor.

The Arya in Braavos stuff was...okay and quite well acted and set up and definitely suspenseful to my unsullied. i wasn't very impressed with Arya though. Even Meryn fucking Trant knew she was following them and recognised her from the harbour. She also could have easily poisoned the thin man and then followed Meryn. Pretty sure Arya is going to be picked to be Meryn's next victim. and she'll kill him. Jaquen knows she is lying but since she didn't actually act on killing Meryn yet he doesn't tell her off and is probably just seeing what she'll do. I really hope her punishment is going blind. LOL at Tycho Nestoris looking at disbelief at the stupidity of Mace Tyrell.

Dorne. Not even worth the rant but it was pretty weak. I just hope they have another scene because that was the most anticlimactic bunch of scenes ever.

Daznak was pretty good. But god darn it why did they have to do that right after the Shireen burning. Could literally hear her screams echoing in my head and they were already moving on. Disgusting really. Anyway my main concern with Daznaks is just that it didn't live up to my hopes the way Hardhome did. The fighting in the pits was slow and then the harpies just attack...why? it makes no sense unless their objective is to kill Dany in which that could've been achieved without slaughtering the citizens of Mereen in the stands! This means the Harpy is who? is it No one in particular or is it really the green whore? If its that green prostitute totally called it LOL the writing is getting predictable, not really impressed they just offed Hizdahr. I'll have to watch the scene again but when Drogon came in i was cheering but by the time Dany flew off on him i was just a little let down? i can't quite explain why maybe my expectations were high after Hardhome. I thought Drogon would do more damage, i thought emilia would get her dress ripped, be more physical and badass. The one good thing about Drogon flying off with Dany is it finally shut Daario up.

In the books GRRM kind 'shadows' this without ever being explicit. It's still hazy here, but does seem Dany is able to call on Drogon's powers of teleportation to get to the scene!

(In the book Drogon shows up (seems to) ... cause there is grub on the 'table' and Dany just happens to be there.)

So, do you think that it might be some kind of foreshadowing that the man Daario was rooting for in the first match (because he was like him) got his head chopped off. Because I personally wouldn't mind that, at all.

Or at least have him killed for being a giant douchebag. I would take anything at this moment to be rid of him, more so in the books than in the show.

Hizdahr is still kind of around on the page, tho I don't know why.
Curious to see what happens to him in Winds.
The show took care that problem!

Show Daario #2 is alright, although his political advice is shit
Show Daario #1 was lameeeeee, no wonder he was recast

Glad we were spared having to see Dany marry actually marry him.

I'm pretty excited about the idea of seeing Dany in Westeros next season.