Yeah, I am not liking the jaime arc.
Call me an elitist snob, but i am not liking the current season's quality. It feels kinda, meh. People are starting to do stupid fantasy trope type stuff and I always felt that this show/book was supposed to NOT be that.
- Why is Jaime going back to cersi? I get that he still cares, but he is basically going back to Season 1 on this shit.
- Khaleesi needs to die in a fucking fire. It was cool when she came back though, but I am sick of her being a one woman god lord.
- Blackfish choosing to stay and die vs going to help his niece. The child of his dead sister who he loved and was murdered? FUCK THAT!
- The masters are back to wage war? I don't even care at this point. Just waiting for Yara to come get some.
It doesn't feel real anymore. I am not talking about dragon's and non burning women and greenseeing. I am talking about the way people think and how they act. They are moving from being real living people to generic fantasy personalities. It's fucking dull and they can do better.
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And another thing. Tommen suddenly fucking his mom over like that? I get that he likes the vajayjay, but I don't see how a momma's boy like that would straight up betray her so hard.
And that Arya arc was good, but the Waif turning into the T600 was ficking dumb. Holy shit that was dumb. So so dumb. I wanted to just skip that altogether. I cannot emphasize how dumb that was.
Clegane was the only person i felt was actually a human and not some trope. And they took Cleganebowl from us.
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To be fair, she could have accomplished this without Braavos. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate her arc, just playing devi's advocate.
She had training from Syrio. He gave her the basics of seeing with her eyes and using her senses and all that water dancing stuff. She wouldn't be an assassin, perse, but she'd be lethal enough to contend with one. Think of Samurai vs ninja. Imagine a Faceless man coming after Syrio, he'd be a hard kill and you wouldn't be sure who would win.
So I am saying she could have took those basics and learned from her experiences after, and learn some stuff from Sandor. She could easily have kept a false identity and focused on her own training or whatever. Probably would not have been as good (depending on how it's fleshed out) but where she is now is basically where she was years ago.
The only real change is now she can wear people's faces and knows of poisoning and shit. And she lost her list.