Viewers Are Quitting 'Game Of Thrones' After That Controversial Scene

[Warren DeMontague]

143. No, the Dorne thing was weak, but it's kind of typical of what happens with the writers when they

stray too far off the GRReservation (man, I'm having fun making up words in this thread. I wonder why?) ... I was thinking about it, and realized it was pretty much exactly like what they did with Asha or Osha or Tycho or whatever they renamed Theon's sister as, when she gathered up a bunch of ironborn to go rescue Theon, thus making for an exciting cliffhanger "departure" scene at the end of one episode, only to have them show up at Chez Bolton, conveniently run into Ramsay, engage in some clumsily choreographed fighting, and then be scared off by the dogs and Reek, as if there is any difference at this point amirite?

They don't do so well, when they create things for the characters to do out of whole cloth.

But a crapfest? Hardly. It's still the most interesting thing on tv. Even with the sort of lame Jaime/Sand Snakes deal, the bit about "The Dwarf lives until we find a cock merchant" made the entire episode worthwhile.