Circus Freak Road Show

Published August 17, 2017 · Updated July 6, 2022

Good Evening Hosts,

I’ve been following your podcast since Westworld and as soon as I finished watching this weeks episode I thought to myself, “Big D is going to have a fit over this one.”

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Bottom line: Is the show becoming predictable due to poor writing or because it’s hard to keep obvious story points mysterious this late in the game? Also, is the show doing an adequate job portraying the passage of time.

As this season has gone on more and more often the “tin foil” theories have turned out to be correct. Be careful what you wish for because it seems like your traveling roadshow of freaks is coming true this season. On top of that as I predicted to my friends Gendry was magically found smithing along the way, and Jaime floated down the river to safety (without removing his armor), and Samwell finds proof of John’s parentage (though he annoyingly ignores it). Additionally, people travel from near Kings Landing, to Dragonstone, to Kings Landing, back to Dragonstone, and then all the way to the wall in one Episode. Just how much time passed?

The show seems to have lost any sense of pacing. From what I recall the reason we were getting less episode this season was because they didn’t have enough material for the full 10 episodes, but it feels like they’ve already cut out plenty of relevant material. Here’s hoping they still manage to give a satisfying ending (Looking at you Sopranos).