Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-5014364-20161218050632/@comment-5014364-20161231185156

Oh....well, philosophically, I vehemently oppose "death of the author".

Basically it's saying "Benioff and Weiss didn't do their job, but let's pretend this was better written than it actually is".

It is impossible to judge purely by what's on screen.

Case in point, "Why didn't Sansa tell Jon about the Vale army?" - SDCC, Sophie Turner bluntly said no one ever told her why, there was no reason, it was purely to build dramatic tension.

In which case....

Linda Antonsson: "You're basically pretending that you're just watching it from week to week, and you don't go back, you don't look at character arcs or anything - it just gets hollow...the idea of just shoving characters into positions because we want them to do this, we want them to do it now, without asking 'how are we going to get them there'?"

Elio Garcia: "And they think, 'forget it, people won't notice. Leave that work to the viewers to defend us by coming up with complicated, ridiculous ideas for how to explain the psychology of a character, and why it is subtly different enough to explain why they are acting differently."