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Totally. I loved Dwight as the vague "cleaner" character. He was totally hot fixing things, but now that we have this silly conflict with the guard, blah blah, it totally makes me miss the Rev. I am seriously, seriously missing the Rev. Damn, even thinking about it, I would love a scene with long-hair not-a-cop Dwight "fixing" something and the Rev coming upon his with his flock and Dwight being all dismissive and intimidating.

As far as character development, Duke has had the clearest road. He's the smuggler with a heart, so much so that he becomes too much heart which overwhelms him and he runs. I actually would have liked it if they had given us more post-Evie Duke. I loved loved loved him infiltrating the Rev's group in order to find out what was going on. That was fabulous. I think one of the biggest mistakes the show made was having Audrey kill the Rev.

Nathan was at his best when the Chief was alive. He is at his worst when threatening someone to save Audrey.

I don't know if it was the change in creative control, the change in focus, the decline in acting from ER or what, but yeah, first three season were great. This was...the skin that develops on pudding that has been sitting for too long. Not horrible for you, but just icky and undesirable. Nathan does the same damn thing in every episode. Audrey's magical powers of talky-ness are just lame at this point. And maybe I missed it, but did the deaf guy actually die? I have to say, EB embodies the physical mannerisms of the character, and he's selling it in every scene, but they need to get him back to Haven, NOW. This show really needs to begin the finale buildup. And NO MORE WAVING GUNS IN FACES, NATHAN.

I'm on the pcta train here too. Nathan as awkward guy with crush on French-Canadian woman was fun. It really was. Nathan being aggressive in pursuing Jordan (understanding he was faking somewhat) was kind of hot. I'm thinking of their diner scene. Nathan mooning over Audrey and waving guns in people's faces while looking desperate is so fucking dull. ER's acting took a serious nosedive after S3. And with it, my affection for the Audrey character. It could be that instead of exploring Audrey finding herself v. the real Audrey personality and memories implanted on her, they dropped that. I would have found that so much more interesting. What of her was really her? Did Nathan love HavenAudrey or OriginalAudrey? Would Duke have bonded with OriginalAudrey or was there a pull from the Havenness of HavenAudrey that attracted him? Instead, OriginalAudrey lost her memory and dashed off with Brad and we still know nothing about her, why she was chosen, what her tie to have was and what has happened to her now. She was shuffled off fast. I want the RealLucy that HavenAudrey met to have her own purpose. Same with the RealSarah and so on. I hate that they are just ...nothings as far as the story is concerned right now. Would Nathan have banged them all if they looked like HavenAudrey? These were the important questions for me after S3 ended and the show just went in such a weird and unfulfilling direction. Then again, twu wuv often just bores on screen.

Oh yeah...I don't see Cersei as the main villain either, especially of the humans. The big human conflict comes when Dany invades Westeros and the battles that are happening in the North. If Cersei is still alive once Dany gets to KL, that's when she dies. If she's already dead, then come the Tyrells to negotiate and perhaps sacrifice Tommen. Then Winter comes and the human villains aren't going to matter.

Oh...ugh. Audrey as the pretty princess Sandman wants to marry. Of course, OF COURSE. The scenery was stunning and ER looked gorgeous, but if I never again see Nathan shove a gun in a person's face and threaten them in order to save Audrey, I'll be thrilled. I like Charlotte, but her romance with Dwight seems a bit shoe-horned in. Overall, it would have been a fine episode in S3, but as the buildup to the finale, it was so lacking.

Well, Sansa isn't Brienne's story. Brienne's story is the conflict between honor and oaths, not "Sansa's loyal sidekick." As far as Brienne knows, Sansa might be dead. I don't think Sansa is, but Brienne might. Or she might just be going south because she gets word of the Blackfish and thinks he might want to know his nieces are alive and where they were last scene. There are a fuck ton of reasons Brienne could go south, but the important part of her story is that she meets up with Jaime and faces more conflicting oaths.

I don't think they need an actual LSH to end on a cliffhanger. I mean, it's enough that Jaime leaves the Lannister troops to go off with Brienne. And I've never really bought that she was going to actually lead him to slaughter. I think it's always been that she was going to lead him away, store him somewhere safe, or that LSH was already dead by the time she got to Jaime. I want to know what happens to them after they leave Pennytree.

Well, Los Siete Reinos earlier confirmed Nikolaj Coster-Waldau had been filming in Corbet and now they are confirming that Brienne will be at Riverrun. http://lossietereinos.com/revelaciones-desde-belfast-y-la-recta-final-del-rodaje-en-almeria/ So...are their storylines not moving into Winds territory? Are we ending on that damn cliffhanger?

They have Duke wandering around outside of Haven in a plot that is specifically designed to force him to go back to Haven. Hopefully he has that epiphany moment next episode because boring girl of stupid plot outside Haven is annoying and needs to go. EB did some serious Frankenstein walk through a yard of shipping containers, which was in walking distance of a bank. *sigh* The Darkness trouble was boring and obvious. There was a trial of ridiculousness. There was mob mentality of "how stupid do you think the audience is" and really bad special effects. Oh...and now Audrey is in some deep slumber of MacGuffinry.

Oh fuck me. That "trial" was STUPID. Idiotic. STUPID. The whole "must fight nonsensical and stupid mob mentality with touching speech" trope pisses me off. Especially when the mob mentality was all things stupid. So freaking stupid. And that speech was horrid. Nathan is stupid. Audrey is useless. Dwight is hot. Charlotte is coy. Vince and Dave were charming. *sigh* As to Duke and stupid-girl-of-plot-movement-who-will-probably-die-soon, I thought the implication was he wanted her blood, not a desire to kill her. I mean, if she died, it wouldn't matter, but Duke wanted the blood for the heroin-style rush, not murdering cause murdery murder is fun. If Duke can bust open a fence like that but not get out of that freaking container, I might have to start screaming at the stupid. I'm starting to think Duke really just dumped an IQ-decreasing trouble on the writers, the crew, the production, the actors, ....

While Lena was great, is anyone really denying that Uzo Aduba deserved it? I don't watch OITNB, but I've heard she is absolutely amazing.

Kira? So bland I forgot her already. Honestly, Nathan doesn't need to needlessly let people die to suck. He sucks enough without it. Kira alive and hiding, Kira dead. *yawn* Doesn't change my opinion of Nathan, and he's the one who is supposed to matter. I am intrigued by Charlotte, just because she obviously knows more than she is saying. I generally adore Dwight, but they stuck him in the stupid plot of people acting stupid for PLOT which I found endlessly frustrating. Just a quick...hmmm...when people died before, their troubles died with them. I mean, the dude who was convinced of the alien attack who climbed into the spaceship? When he did that, the trouble stopped happening. When the chief was cracking earth and he died, earth cracking stopped. So why does cloud bubble guy's death leave cloud bubble happening? Or did I miss something? I might have missed something, I was pretty ambivalent.

Ugh. I could not get over the mob-mentality stupidity of the Haven PD for reasons of PLOT. It was just so completely stupid. Utterly stupid. Stupidly stupid. At least Nathan's characterization remained the same, single-minded near stalker boyfriend from whom Audrey should run the fuck away. Nathan just sucks in so so so many ways. I can only hope he gets the martyr death soon. This episode made me miss Jordan of all people. I fucking hated Jordan.

No word of Nikolaj filming in Croatia at all though, and he's usually spotted. According to his twitter, he'll be in Northern Ireland next week. (He tweeted the gym he frequents there.)

Eh. GRRM is very fond of her. I can see them using her as a flashback for Tyrion or maybe a guilt vision.

We have three dead Lannisters (Myrcella in the show/Kevan in the books so if Myrcella dies early in Winds, we are at four Lannisters*) and three dead Starks (not including Jon). I think Tommen is not long for this world. I also expect Cersei to go up in flames. The only Lannisters making it out alive are Tyrion and maybe, maybe Jaime. I have Jaime picked to live because he is the Lannister that the Houses of Westeros most want dead. I think either Sansa or Arya dies before the end. *This count does not include the boys killed in Robb's camp and Ser Cleos (book only). The Lannisters really have taken a beating already.

Actually, the more I have seen about Margaery's story line really makes me convinced that Sansa is in no way set up as a nemesis for Cersei. So, what does that leave for Sansa? Show only thoughts here, but if KL is under the control of the Tyrells/Sparrows when Dany finally arrives and Cersei is stripped of her power, what does that leave for Sansa as a political story? Uniting the North, right? But uniting the North against what? The Boltons? The Others? The incoming Targaryens? Against the Boltons would be short term story only, because it's really the threat from the North or the threat from the South that's the big deal. If R+L=J, then uniting against the Targs becomes unimportant. I also think it's going to be Jon who unites the North against the others. Okay...so what does that leave as overall endgame story for Sansa? I think it's set up so she could be a tragic death right now because her function in the overall story is small.

And...? Don't leave us hanging. The Gwendoline Christie/Captain Phasma hype is really amazing. The Captain Phasma dolls were selling out all over and she looks like such a badass in the armor. I'm so happy for her.

As you prove your own point. Look, not sure I see the purpose of floating around a forum, being a little black rain cloud, trying to spoil everyone's enjoyment while adding nothing to the conversation, certainly nothing to spark additional thought. if you want to disagree, tell me what specifically you didn't like. And "anything, everything and stuff" aren't real answers. Their conversation killers and conversations avoiders. I'm happy to engage, but you have to actually engage. Or backhandedly call me an asshole. Because that's always fun.

The thing about the Bad Pussy line is that it appears intended to be a terrible line spoken by a childish girl with little concept of politics whose reactions seem to always be "Fight or Tits." So it seemed an appropriate thing for Tyene, as characterized, to say. If you have Olenna saying it, or Brienne, or Sansa, then the dialogue is actually ridiculous. Was it the finest line of the episode? FUCK NO. Did it fit with Tyene as portrayed, as an oversexed twit? Yes. Was the rest of the episode absolutely and completely amazing? FUCK YES. They don't give awards based on one line and they don't deny awards based on one clunker. It's silly to keep repeating "they gave the award to Bad Pussy." Hell, they deserved the award for the scene between Cersei and the High Sparrow alone, not to mention the amazingness of the Sansa, Myranda and Theon scene and the heart break of everything that happened with Stannis. That was some amazing writing. It's time to step away from the obsession with one weak line and view the whole, which was absolutely fantastic.

Add me to the chorus of people thrilled about all the wins. While I think NCW deserved a nomination for S3 and I think (shockingly) KH deserved a nomination for S5, I'm not totally appalled that Dinklage won. I think Headey using a body double for the Walk of Shame mattered when it came to the voters. Not that she wasn't great, but that it wasn't just her, it wasn't her performance alone. As to the writing win, well-deserved. Just because GoT isn't always the show that we (book readers) want it to be, doesn't mean it's not the most amazing fucking show on television. It is the best drama on tv. TYPOS FIXED

Trystane could very well have gotten off the ship before Myrcella died. He might have been aware of the plan to kill her all along.

I totally agree with this nksarmi.