6/10 on the first ep. Pretty meh. A few scenes I enjoyed.
Sansa has always been pretty helpless being stuck in situations her character had no control over. She did save winterfell getting the knights of the vale to ride over.
She got her brother killed, almost got Jon killed (only survived by luck (and plot armor)), got thousands of men on Jon's side killed. All because she didn't tell Jon about the knights of the Vale. So no, the knights of the Vale thing is not to her credit, it's the ultimate proof of what a retarded character she is. Especially since Sansa was, as always, childishly whining about Jon's plan before the battle, and whining that nobody ever listens to her, and then Jon literally asks her for a better alternative, because he can't see any, and Sansa just pouts and says nothing.
Overall the episode was decent enough as the first one, the main problem with it is that the pacing was too slow considering we just watched 1/6th of the last season.
But Sansa's stupidity during the battle has triggered me before, so I searched and:
I've been slowly going through the above video and it paints D&D in a worse and worse light
"Why doesn't Sansa tell Jon Snow about the Vale army?"
"Many post-ep reviews openly baffled at this. The moderator at their subsequent SDCC 2016 panel even directly asked. D&D stayed silent, & Sophie openly said she didn't know, & just guessed it was to be "Dramatically Satisfying".
Which is hilarious, Sophie doesn't even know why her character is doing something, how is she supposed to act properly?
I didn't even remember this. Jesus fucking Christ. DRAMATICALLY SATISFYING? Nobody fucking knows why she was silent about it?! Awesome writing.
And you, James, thought she was supposed to come off as not knowing what she's doing. But no, she's the most intelligent person in Westeros.
