Review of Stormborn

Game of Thrones: Stormborn (2017)
Season 7, Episode 2
3/10
Why are you heading this direction GOT?
26 July 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I love Game of Thrones. I love it because of the immersion, the feeling I am experiencing this conflict with my very own eyes but they're losing it. They're losing the tension in every scene because they're completely fighting the unpredictable world of Game of Thrones and it's become boring.

I don't know who this director is or why he's directing the show but he's directed my least favourite GOT episodes. He thinks tension comes from making main characters superheroes. Please, for the love of God, we're not 12 year olds watching superhero movies. We can think logically, and what you've made is far from it. We don't want to see stupid predictable fight scenes which favour main characters.

Before this person directed Aya getting stabbed lethally and being completely fine in the next day, jumping off buildings, killing a superior assassin who slowly chased he,r like the overused cliché and then for plot convenience only, Jaq'uen now regarded her as one of their own. That's not a story. That's ridiculous. SPOILERS Then you have the last scene in this episode. Honestly I liked the rest of this episode. And then, oh boy. There was no doubting Euron was going to win that battle, I'm surprised he did with this director on board. What I thought would be more likely is that he'd rather make Yara momentarily turn into a dragon to fend off Euron's fleet and then everyone returns safely because from my experience, he's that type of director, but he came close. You have none of the crew members noticing the incoming fleet. However I'll let that go since Euron is exceptional on the sea, even if that means something.

Then Euron fills the role of a mortal kombat character. Performing fatalities on the sand snakes. Is this entertaining? I know he's supposed to be a crazy character but this is stupid. I also didn't know he was invincible. Sand Snakes, famous for their poisons have no effect on him, they also all become exceptionally s*** fighters for plot conveniences. The same women that fought and matched Jaime and his bodyguard now cannot 2v1 Euron. And I don't see why he killed the two sands in such stupid manner in the first place while showing mercy to the other 2 and then Yara.

I'm sorry, I'm not watching Game of Thrones anymore. I'm watching mainstream TV shows and movies where they'll go to great lengths to save characters for plot convenience and keep incrimemting the difficulty to unreasonable levels. It's predictable. The reason I hate all other TV shows. No tension is created in the scenes. And it becomes repetitive and boring. Something this director is going to great lengths to try and achieve.

For God's sake. If main characters are crucial to the plot, don't put them in impossible situations, and then unrealistically save them in the last second by a mysterious stranger , or turn them into superheroes. It's not interesting, you're not creative for doing this, you're not making the scene better, I'm not hooked to the screen after seeing it for the umpteenth time.

This show is now overrated, it's as highly rated as the first 3 seasons but comes nowhere close in quality. I don't understand what show these other people are watching because what I'm watching now is not GoT, it's a circus act. This makes me extremely sad because season 6 was horrendous, mostly because of the episode 'No one' but I decided to give it another shot this season and it was going fine until this last scene. This is the type of show you want it to be now? I really just hope the show changes course, and I blame this director who is incompetent and brain dead and gets picked up straight from main stream Hollywood films and makes my favourite show bad. And I don't see them changing anytime soon. RIP to another good TV show ruined by repetitive predictability. There is no excuse for this, not episode constraints because a kid could have directed a better scene than this pompous director. Any true GoT fans who is fascinate by the lore, theories, predictions, characters, history, could direct this better. This is embarrassing to watch now.

For the casual viewer, some scenes are quite surprising, like Jon being a Targaryen. They probably don't even understand the significance of that, or how it happened. They'll probably be shocked when Jaime kills Cersei, along with this director who'll completely misrepresent the characters and their intentions. However for the GoT nerds like me, who have multiple theories, no suspense is created at all. They seem to pick the most popular and easy and obvious theories or plot, and just roll it out. And I fully expect the rest of the show to carry on like this. Basically meaning that the show is obvious, something GoT never should've been and is an embarrassment to George RR Martin.

I no longer am immersed by GoT. The show was very special to me because of the alternate world it posed for me and the alternate universe I was perceiving but now it's just like all other TV shows. I hate reading, like extremely, and with the high quality of GoT, I never read the books but seeing what this show has become, I'll gladly read the books.
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