It's silly, far too over-the-top and makes one of the most badarse moments in the books almost comical. It reminded me a little of the 90s remix video someone posted earlier.



I don't want to spoil anything for anyone, but yeah it's definitely Ramsay. His scenes in that episode were an interesting addition as those events weren't directly described in the books.

Staring directly into the camera with an arrogant look on her face, dropping the whip like a complete bellend. It's hard to describe.

What was ridiculous about her dropping the whip?

As for staring into the camera with an arrogant look on her face that's something that a bajillion GoT characters have done throughout the show and this is where you complain?

And I find it interesting that you're laying this entirely on the actor.

Why shouldn't she look pleased with herself? She just completely outwitted the sneering masters.

Change of pace: I haven't read the books, but I know what happens generally (I don't mind spoilers), but I found it interesting that in the show, it looked like Sandor was legit scared when Beric said he would be the one who fights him. I know how it ends, but at this point, I didn't think that Clegane would be ascared of nobody.

The way she dropped the whip, not that she dropped the whip. Dropping the whip is a striking symbol. Tossing it aside flamboyantly robs it of some of it's inherent power.



You'll have to give me some examples where it not in keeping with the character. I don't actually recall a scene where a character is looking directly at the camera when there's no one being looked at in the edit.



I'm not. The way the end of that scene was composed was cheesy as balls. If anything I think it's likely the director that's most responsible.



I don't think she shouldn't looked pleased with the accomplishment, I think the way that pleasure was put across was cliche as fuck. Again, I hate to be the person that keeps comparing the show to the books, but it's one of my favourite scenes in the latter and one of my least favourite in the former. In fact Daenerys' scenes are fast becoming my least favourite generally and I want to know how you can fuck up some of the most interesting chapters, to the point where I'd rather be watching Bran or Sansa prat about than the Mother of fucking Dragons kicking arse. Where in the books she undergoes slow, subtle character growth, in the few episodes she's simply become an infallible, stone-hearted queen like someone's flicked a switch.

Now I'm sounding overly critical, which is not my intent. The show is excellent on the whole, with the essence of most characters and events well recreated in the visual medium, and differences being largely understandable. It might be I'm jumping the gun and that this is the result of time and budget constraints. Hopefully she'll return to being the fully rounded human being in forthcoming episodes. I might even be reflecting on her scenes with the benefit of hindsight and judging them negatively based on that. Nevertheless that great scene immediately appears to me to have been ruined by eye-rollingly trite acting/directorial choices, which is particularly painful when it happens to those scenes you most looked forward to being translated to a visual medium. I had a similar reaction to the Hound's breakdown during the siege of Kings Landing.

I think I know why they did that. If you don't mind spoilers I can give you my thoughts.

Nice contribution there man.

The way she dropped the whip, not that she dropped the whip. Dropping the whip is a striking symbol. Tossing it aside flamboyantly robs it of some of it's inherent power.



You'll have to give me some examples where it not in keeping with the character. I don't actually recall a scene where a character is looking directly at the camera when there's no one being looked at in the edit.



I'm not. The way the end of that scene was composed was cheesy as balls. If anything I think it's likely the director that's most responsible.



I don't think she shouldn't looked pleased with the accomplishment, I think the way that pleasure was put across was cliche as fuck. Again, I hate to be the person that keeps comparing the show to the books, but it's one of my favourite scenes in the latter and one of my least favourite in the former. In fact Daenerys' scenes are fast becoming my least favourite generally and I want to know how you can fuck up some of the most interesting chapters, to the point where I'd rather be watching Bran or Sansa prat about than the Mother of fucking Dragons kicking arse. Where in the books she undergoes slow, subtle character growth, in the few episodes she's simply become an infallible, stone-hearted queen like someone's flicked a switch.

Now I'm sounding overly critical, which is not my intent. The show is excellent on the whole, with the essence of most characters and events well recreated in the visual medium, and differences being largely understandable. It might be I'm jumping the gun and that this is the result of time and budget constraints. Hopefully she'll return to being the fully rounded human being in forthcoming episodes. I might even be reflecting on her scenes with the benefit of hindsight and judging them negatively based on that. Nevertheless that great scene immediately appears to me to have been ruined by eye-rollingly trite acting/directorial choices, which is particularly painful when it happens to those scenes you most looked forward to being translated to a visual medium. I had a similar reaction to the Hound's breakdown during the siege of Kings Landing.

Please do.

I really think the books are handcuffing you.

I mean the fact is Martin WROTE the Hound's breakdown in Blackwater. He wrote the whole episode.

Think of it this way in the books you get to be inside Dany's head the whole time. So you get to see all of the rounding points. Expecting the TV show to put you inside her head is ridiculous.

I think they've done a great job of establishing her humanity. They don't have to keep going back to it but they've done so on the walk of punishment and her scene with the little girl who turned out to be the assassin (which I will admit did rely on the cheesy gimmick).

Now as for the look. She's looking directly into the camera WHICH REPRESENTS HER LOOKING DIRECTLY INTO THE EYES OF THE SLAVER (if I'm thinking of the shot your talking about). I.e. this is what the slaver sees when he's looking at her. If she's looking directly at a person she has nothing but contempt for who she's just outwitted and triumphed over I would expect her to have swagger. The point of the shot and the scene is to establish her growing hard side IN ADDITION to her human side. All things can't be done at once when shooting a show.

I also read the whip drop as her throwing it aside with contempt. I'm looking at these purely on the shots themselves with no book knowledge jaundicing my view. I think you really need to consider the two things separately.

It was more useful than your nitpicky fanboy horseshit.