Board Thread:TV Show Discussion/@comment-1600847-20150615133347/@comment-15030876-20150617095459

The Dragon Demands wrote:

The Dorne subplot...again, I insist that sending Jaime to Dorne wasn't a bad idea on paper, but who wrote such dialogue throughout the season? Who directed the shoddy camerawork? I'm tired now, this is a weak and sighed resignation to it but---

again, I wasn't even depressed about the North storyline GOING INTO the episode -- cutting out so many other characters was annoying, but it was working on its own. Doing the battle like this was just bizarre. I really hope Q&A asks why they treated it so anti-climactic.

The book fan in me is annoyed at changing Ellaria so much, but on the other hand they need TV mechanics to be different. The logic of doing this while Trystane is on ship is kind of odd though.

They hyped Dorne so much going into Season 5 and yet it barely appeared at all. It wasn't even a single writing decision but just limited time to film it left it VERY rough around the edges. I was willing to forgive and forget in terms of the shoddy elements of the Dorne storyline if episode 10 climaxed with Doran doing his Fire and Blood & Viper in the Grass speeches mixed into one. That was cut entirely. I'm flabbergasted. What is the POINT of the Dornish storyline without that? Isn't that the whole point? Aren't AFFC & ADWD's Dornish storline but a setup for the Dornish alliance to the Targaryens? I was just stunned when that didn't happen. I mean, it still HAS to happen, so I guess it was pushed back to Season 6 and I'm sure it will be great in Season 6, but Season 5 suffered because of it.