8x05 - "The Bells" - Episode Discussion (May 12th)
 

i don't wanna watch that....:(

Never been so anxious and this time in a negative way.

prayer circle :group_hug:

Same

Let's see....

i'll be online live tonight. i know i can't sleep good anyways.

Can't wait!

i'm officially really done with this show.

seriously these are not the characters i've been watching grow for the last 7 seasons, i don't even know who they are. so far every character has managed to go against the development their character arcs for the entire previous 7 seasons. in two episodes, no less. impressive.

Congrats D&D! We now know that women cannot handle extreme distress in leadership positions. They absolutely can't control their emotions. They can and will go crazy if someone is not there to hold them back. Westeros will never know a good and just female ruler. It just is not possible.

so in the course of 74 episodes, Dany didn't kill a single innocent while under extreme pressure only to kill almost a million of them in one fell swoop because few bells rang.

i can't even find the right words right now.

7 years for nothing.

All this episode proved was how TRASH episode 4 was and the writers have been this season. For Dany to do all that with one Dragon.

And I don't feel bad about any of what she did. they all deserve it. The writers ruined Dany for this lame SL:rolleyes:

They just literally character assassinated Dany and Jaime in one episode.

I feel so ****ing defeated.

AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe it. The leaks were true.

The show runners ruined everything. They turned Daeneyrs into the "Mad Queen". Cersei's forces had surrendered. Bells were ringing. There was no need to kill all those people. There was no need to turn Daenerys into a ruler who was just bad as her father the "Mad King" Aerys II.

There was also no need to have Grey Worm kill without honor. The enemy had surrendered. They had laid down their arms. There was no need for Grey Worm to lead his men to slaughter the soldiers who had surrendered.

I am furious with this turn in the plot.

I am angry with the show runners.

I am angry with George R. R. Martin if this was the plot that he outlined for the show runners.

This wasn't necessary.

Dany had many positive traits. She had a sense of justice and great compassion for the oppressed. There was no need to turn her into a monster. And I'm angry that Drogon, who had fought so many battles to help free and protect so many people was used BY HIS MOTHER as an actual monster to burn innocents.

So I'm horrified because the rumors I've heard about the finale are probably true.

Because there is no way the ending will be "bittersweet."

It is clearly set up to be just bitter.

Congrats D&D or even GRRM; you ruined it and you are just leaving a bitter taste proving that women are not fit to rule or go mad, that the man in the shining white armor are always right and that you are destined to do what your father before you did.

Ah yes, the crazy foreign woman and the hyper violent brown savages decide to massacre poor innocent (mostly white) people when peaceful surrender was all but assured because they're just "like that" and it's definitely not the fault of the misogyny and racism of the white male writers we've been drowning in emmys for a decade for all their other sexist and racist and hackneyed bull****.

This show isn't just bad writing, it's problematic as hell.

Almost feel ashamed calling myself a GOT fan. This is not the show I was watching for the past years.