[Phylum]

Killing the waif offscreen was fine. We saw everything we needed about that fight. Really not sure why people are complaining about that specific thing.

I'd probably agree that Bran is the most interesting character right now. Arya is in writing hell, the best bits of Dany's story have never come through in the show, Tyrion is doing nothing, Sansa and Jon don't have much going on character wise and Jon was fucking RESURRECTED. Theon's story for this season is literally "went home for a bit then ran away from my nuncle." Euron was fairly bland, and he didn't have a big crazy dragon horn at the Kingsmoot :c Jamie's story is kind of matching the book, and very self-focused right now. The Sandor hype was strong, seeing him with a bloodlust, but that was stamped out pretty strongly this episode.

King's Landing and Bran are the only things really interesting me right now. I guess I'm kind of excited to see where Dany goes with Meereen and what happens with the dragons, but that's only because I've read the books and I'm expecting some insane pile-on of shit.

e: Re your spoiler tags, the Mad King wasn't mad because he heard voices telling him to "burn them" or whatever, and I'm sick of seeing that theory thrown around. Aerys went mad over time. He was actually a pretty good king at first, and with Tywin Lannister as his hand the realm did well. Over time Aerys became kind of paranoid, especially after a string of infant deaths and the increasing popularity of Tywin. He became very jealous of Tywin, and that lead to him making a lot of bad decisions. One bad decision ended in Aerys being captured at Duskendale for like 6 months. After his capture he really went downhill. Even then I think there was a fair bit of crazy before the interest in fire really took hold.