Game of Thrones: High Sparrow (2015)
Season 5, Episode 3
5/10
Jumping the shark
19 June 2016
Warning: Spoilers
In retrospect, I think this is where the show jumped the shark. The decision to marry Ramsey in order to avenge her family was so illogical and meaningless that it could lead to nothing interesting at all. Indeed, so it was. Avenge how? And when? If you want to have revenge against someone that have betrayed and slaughtered almost your entire family, you usually don't decide to marry him, to live with him, to sleep with him, to make children with him (such are the things that married people use to do, Sansa should know it). A clear sign that bad writing was going to prevail more and more. When the episode first aired, one could pretend it was just a bit weird, thus thinking "let's wait and see". But then, later the downfall has become more and more massive. This episode is a sort of pivotal element for the dull story lines that will follow in seasons 5 & 6.
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