re: Game of Thrones S5:E10:"Mother's Mercy", HODORS ONLY(No Book Readers)

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Multiple times they will show a group traveling to given place, cut to another scene, then back and the group traveling has arrived at the destination it took them a month or two to arrive at. When they go back to the other setting, we've advanced a few hours or days.

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Yeah but that's nowhere near the same thing as completely ignoring an entire side of the continent in order to ignore the fact that Jon died and THEN going back the next season in time and showing that he was revived. They've never done anything like that and they wouldn't.

That's just speeding up time for a plots sake. That's not jumping around in time. They've never done that. They stick to a linear timeline. The only thing that's close to that is Bran and we haven't seem where they will pick off from there and we've already discussed how those are totally different situations from Jons

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agree, just saying they could probably stretch in a few episodes if they really pushed it.

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2 at the most.

Which would be useless since everyone would know Jon snow was back 8 months prior to those episodes

I think the only way they can get away with it is if he has a very small appearance toward the end of next season. I read what you wrote about how there's no logical way to keep him out of the show for too long and have it make sense. Honestly, I don't know enough about the show to have an opinion one way or the other. But I do think that the only way they can pull it off without the world knowing, is to film a very small amount of scenes for next season.

I think they could tell the north/white walker story from the perspective of Bran.

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I think they could tell the north/white walker story from the perspective of Bran.

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And what the hell do you do with the Wall storyline and Jon's body for an entire season?

Also no one gives a shite about Bran.

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Go for it

If you honestly thought Stannis was AA, or that he would come out on top in the end, i dunno what to tell you

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Not at all bro, but you don't write a character one way then in a matter of innuendo write off everything you wrote before.

4 seasons of GoT: Stannis is a great general and largest army assembled. He got turned back at King's Landing only because of 1. Tyrion and wildfire and 2. Tywin with the Tyrell alliance on the ground in KL. (Great effort to turn him away).

This past season of GoT: Stannis is a great general and largest army assembled. He rests his army at Castle Black for an assault on Winterfell. Then:
1. OMG storm comes, army not fed (thanks Napoleon and Hitler for that writing). 50% of army gone.
2. Ramsay tells papa, "give me 20 men", next thing you know Stannis camp has half the tents burning. LMAO! fricking terrible. Another half gone.
3. Stannis bonfires his child for Red Witch. Half the units leave - including mounted - another half gone.

Think what you want, but to me that's just terrible writing. Stannis' army got cut in half 3x on convenient and easy "this is the outcome we want" writing.

I don't care about Stannis. But it's silly to think he rested his army, lost 50% in a storm, another 50% to Ramsey's 20 men, then another 50% to desertion back to back to back.

If you don't agree with my take on Stannis' sloppy story writing, let's move into Daenerys' ridiculous storyline and then the retardedness that's happened in KL. Loras and Hot Tits are still in prison - unseen - while conveniently a religion of about 12 people rule the kingdom while the actual King gets no screen time, just innuendo that he's crying in the keep.

Then you have the obviousness of kissing Myrcella to poison her before ship sails.

I equate it to jump the shark Dexter.

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1. OMG storm comes, army not fed (thanks Napoleon and Hitler for that writing). 50% of army gone.

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They were Bravosy sell swords. They fight for money, not honor. They fled at the first sign of trouble because they aren't fighting for a cause

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3. Stannis bonfires his child for Red Witch. Half the units leave - including mounted - another half gone.

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A desperate, deluded man sacrifices everything because he feels like it's the right thing to do. Because he feels he's the savior. Because it's his only chance in his opinion

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I equate it to jump the shark Dexter.

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They are just lying, tbh. Trying to help out GRRM if I had to guess why and to stir up some offseason debate

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The "he's really dead" bit from D&D rings pretty hollow when news of Harrington's contract extension through 2017 has already leaked

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Kit tried covering that track by saying that was bogus, but he's a lying pos so