I mean... how did you guys not see this coming?
A new, mysterious, charismatic, awesome character comes into the show.. with justifiable motivation for revenge.. and we think he's going to win? Nah.. not in this universe
See...I always go into every episode of GoT with like a willful ignorance. That comic a few pages back of the Viper and the Mountain...I'm pretty sure that was already posted in this thread season 1 or 2. And I remember people naming awesome characters back then, and people saying...the Red Viper is that DUDE....too bad he don't last long.
Okay.
There's such a weird relationship the audience has with this show. I don't think it's fair to call anything predictable, when you can literally google just about every plot point for the next 30 episodes, right now. And it's callous the way bookreaders act like they're god's gift or gotta fix your mood, cuz you don't even know yet what's gonna happen around *insert episode #*....like it'll make your experience better.
After the first season, I read the first two books, then watched the second season and hated it. I hated knowing everything. Knowing that this scene shoulda been longer or they skipped that part or added weak stuff or blah blah blah was such a bigger deal in the book. Nah...it ruins the experience imo. Because most of these new bookreaders have every moment fresh in their mind, so it's all just checklist watching. I swear some dudes only check in every week to see ******* and remind themselves that they're better than the show. And then those dudes that live to spoil.
It doesn't make anyone smart, just because they read a book that anyone, with the 9 months notice this show gives you, could've read. And I ain't trying to let spoilers knock my experience. So for me, my way of enjoying this show is just a willful ignorance. South Park told me Joffrey was gonna get poisoned, and I just squeezed that **** as far back in my mind as possible and just enjoyed the show unfolding in front of me, with as little expectations as possible.
Cuz that's all it is at the end of the day. And I love that they're jumping way past what people expected them to be covering. I loved it when that whitewalker baby showed up and all the bookreaders lost their **** like "NO FAIR, THAT'S NOT IN THE BOOKS!" **** you.
It's a TV show. I just wanna think that they've got the freedom to live up to the spirit of the story, without followin the book to the letter. So when I see Sansa on the edge of the moon door, I let myself think...y'know this the kinda world where they
could really do this... They
could kill Gilly or have Jon find Bran or have Yara rescue Theon. They
could have Oberyn take his shot at Tywin and go down swinging at goldcloaks.
You find your own way to watch it and deal with the dry spoiling from ******** who skimmed through the audiobooks two years ago, or didn't even bother and just wiki'd it all the second they found out something exists and people care and you can know more than them.
Cuz I just do the opposite. I push that noise out and try take every episode like it's something brand new that's never happened before.