[Phylum]

I think my problem with the HS going is that Margaery went too. A big part of KL this season was devoted to them. The HS was reaching scary levels of power with his influence over Tommo, which climaxed at the banning of trials by combat. Margaery was playing the player, looking out for herself and her family and keeping her influence over Tommo while remaining inconspicuous (ish) in the eyes of The Faith. Then they both died.

I do like the circumstances and what it means for Cersei, but the show chose to focus on Margaery a lot more than the books and make her a PoV character, and we didn't even get to know what she was up to in this. To me it felt like a sudden letdown death similar to in A Feast For Crows with Brienne. I mean she shows up again. I figured she was some undead new body for LSH or something, but people seem to think she struck a deal to fight and kill Jamie while being hanged? Either way, that death just made me go "oh".

And I know other things happened this season, but it was definitely an uneven distribution. Let's review Tyrion this season. He made a deal with the slave masters of the entire bay (I guess?) and was smug about how they'd underestimate him. Then he had some awkward scenes with Grey Worm and Missandei. Then Meereen was attacked and Dany saved the day at the perfect time - but they still gave Tyrion his smug moment at the end with the slavers for some reason, even though his ass was roasted without Dany. It's a rock and a hard place, they don't want to have Tyrion do nothing all season but in spite of there being nothing to do they gave him screen time.

They were playing it around the last 2 super exciting episodes. Like Sam could have arrived at The Citadel any time this season, it really wouldn't have made any fucking difference, but they wanted to save it for a big moment in the finale. I can't say it would be better or worse restructured, it'd probably be worse honestly.