(April 25, 2016 at 6:16 am)pocaracas Wrote: [...]
Brienne rescuing Sansa was a nice touch... and Podrick did better than most squires would!
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Yeah - that was not very believable, in my opinion. All of a sudden Podrick - who's not a swordsman and a pretty feeble rider - is able fence on horseback against trained soldiers? Not to mention that the way they were fighting (banging sword against sword) was pretty lame, even by TV standards.
Also - what the f*ck happened to the hounds, the moment Brienne showed up? I imagine they'd put up quite a fight - in fact, if they were released they'd probably have torn Sansa and Theon to pieces, considering the way Ramsey "trained" them. But they just disappeared about halfway through. What happened? Did the guy holding them just go home, or something? Or is it that the producers thought the viewers couldn't handle the dogs being killed?
Seriously - if a fight against dogs was too difficult to stage - which it might have been - then why have them there in the first place (especially that they looked like they really wanted to lick Sophie Turner's face - and who can blame them)? Just have Brienne show up a bit later, once the group split up - one or 2 soldiers could walk home with the hounds, while the rest escorted the prisoners on horseback - problem solved....
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