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No.
No, no, no.
With the latest episode of “Game of Thrones,” you’ll know that could apply to all manner of things in this episode, but before we get to that we’ll just say thing: Like we said last week, there are spoilers ahead, so don’t read on if you haven’t watched.
1) 2 Much 2 Fast: As the show tries to wrap up an incredible number of storylines, character arcs and, you know, this whole epic saga, there will be certain parts of the tale that get more attention, others less. This episode went light on dialogue between some fairly major characters in favor of seemingly endless destruction that was, of course, awful and completely senseless. Violence rained down upon extras and digitally composed characters, mostly innocent noncombatants, as King’s Landing burned in a needlessly long and horrific sequence that also burned up opportunities to deal with anything else. This left rushed conversations between characters that at times were hard to fathom, such as weird banalities like Qyburn telling Cersei it wasn’t safe where she was standing as pretty much everywhere else was on fire, or any of the too-brief discussions between Jon and Dany or Tyrion and Jaime or Jaime and Cersei and…you get the point.
2) 2 Twosomes 2 Many: Instead of making space for characters we’d like to see, or to get a little more buildup to some of the big events of the night, the episode spent precious time on two big punch-ups between 1) Jamie and Euron and 2) the Clegane siblings, the Hound against his brother The Mountain.
