I love the show. But all those stares into the camera, and long scenes of nothing are just getting overused...
Oh jeez, the series was great but they really should have toned it down a bit with the cringy fairytale ending.
By the end eeeverybody has to take their turn and declare their unconditional adoration for the Mary-Sue of the series:
- Townes (despite years of no contact and overall lack of relevancy at this point in the story?)
- the grizzled russian chess veteran (despite playing her only once?)
- Billy (despite him rightfully telling her to fuck off previously)
- Beltik (despite her previously refusing his help and him being some random Kentucky store manager and a washed up ex-regional champion way over his head at this point)
- the twins, for some reason - what are they even doing in Billy's basement offering advice in a game way above their level? (do they even know any of the other people in that room? Who invited them? Why does the US chess champion have to rely on phoned in advice from some random friends while playing for the world title in the first place?)
- Borgov (who is inexplicably happy for her despite the fact that his loss is a huge upset not just for him, but the entire cold-war era soviet bloc)
- throw in some random old men on the street in Moscow beacuse why not
By the end I was surprised her adoptive father didn't chip in and call her in Russia to admit teary eyed that he was wrong and Beth is "the greatest person that ever lived" or something.
I can buy into a mushroom zombie epidemic but if you think for one second I'm going to buy into the structural integrity of the glass display cases at the Spirit Halloween to withstand dancing teenagers...
This episode could have been written by the Legends of Tomorrow team...
It's almost as if they originally intended for Tyrion to be captured by Euron. Then the scene with the mast hitting Tyrion would make sense since it would explain how he found himself being Cersei captive - floating helplessly in the water while others swam to shore and would also explain why we didn't get any scene explaining how and why they captured Missandei.
Also, decapitating her own brother and Deanerises hand would be much stronger statement than killing fairly inconsequential Missandei. Why did they even think Missandei was important in the first place?
Death to the grandmother :clap:
