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Game of Thrones: The Red Woman (2016)
The Red Woman
Most of the reviews you will read on here right now are biased reviews of people who read the novels before watching the show. Before the novel readers click away, take time to read this because it might be interesting to hear other people's opinions. When game of thrones started to stray away from the books in season 5 a group of people emerged on the internet that criticized and insulted the show for every little change of detail. These people take to their computers right after every episode and go on every website and give ratings unrealistically low because they are upset the show didn't happen exactly like the books. Unfortunately the books are very big and contain a lot of content so the TV show naturally can't include everything because of the lack of time. If everything was included it would take away from the important scenes in the show because they would have to be shortened to fit in all the little details and minor characters that have been cut out. And now unfortunately the show has caught up to the books and is surpassing them so when the TV show has no source material things are going to be fresh, new and slightly changed from the books because they have to start making things up on their own. So it is sad when Game of thrones is putting up higher quality television then most other shows out there but gets slammed and criticized by the novel readers just because the show was a little different and not what they expected. Seeing something unexpected is also the whole theme of game of thrones. Those people should be happy that they can watch an alternate story that is shocking and intriguing but will still end the same as the books instead of always knowing everything that is about to happen.
To move on to the episode. No doubt it is different then the books but that is now a thing of the past because it has to be different. I read multiple negative reviews saying that nothing happened or too much build up or too much set up. I was shocked when I read those. So much happened in the episode, from the nights watch being divided over the murder of Jon snow, Sansa and Theon on the run to be saved by Brienne and Podrick with a good fight scene, Cersei and Jaime mourning their daughter talking about their past and their revenge filled future, foreshadowing with Margaery and the high sparrow, Tyrion and Varys talking strategy and then witnessing the burning of Daenerys' fleet, Daenerys meeting Khal Moro(I believe that was his name), Jorah and Daario finding their first clue, Arya reduced to begging on the streets and then gets abused by the waif, the shocking plot twist of the Sandsnakes and Ellaria killing Doran and Tristaine, and lastly, the episode ends with Melisandre revealing her true form which makes her an even more interesting and mysterious character. That is a lot of things that happened, each story line was compelling to watch and either had a twist, foreshadowing, action, or introduction to the problems a character will have to face this season. So I don't think you can say nothing happened. And for the people who said too much build up you must be expecting a red wedding every episode. It's the first episode of the season. There has to be build up and set up for the rest of the season. They can't just come out first episode and have Jon brought back to life, 3 main characters die, an insane battle, crazy fight scenes, and a shocking reveal. That would make the rest of the episodes in the season look really bad in comparison.
I wrote this long review because I was dumbfounded with all the bad reviews and the reasons for them. People were getting mad and criticizing the show because what they wanted to happen didn't happen or the episode didn't have enough action or Jon snow didn't come back to life so they hated this episode. But that is how game of thrones has always been, not everything you want to happen happens which makes the show one of the most intriguing shows ever made. The show should not receive bad reviews for doing something that makes it good.
Overall, this episode was the best premier yet. It had the perfect amount of action, twists, and set up (which is required in a premier) to get viewers interested and back into the show and excited for what comes next. So with all of that factored in and with being the first episode of the season, I give this episode a 10.