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Got some disagreements for you about how things are set up.
*Lady Stoneheart doesn't appear until the end of the book. In my opinion, I think revealing her to the TV viewers so soon after the Red Wedding would be premature I'm fine with agreeing to disagree with this, but I don't think where it appears in the books should really be relevant. Like I said, we think she's dead in the books and then find out all this stuff we didn't know at the time, way after the fact. I think that works fine on a page, but 1) the show clearly doesn't like to do flashbacks; and 2) they clearly don't mind drastically changing the order of when things happen in the book vs. the show (No Coldhands, the Reeds, every single thing involving Theon, Jaime arriving before the Purple Wedding...so I don't think the show should necessarily be stringently tied to the books.
*Dany's victory at Yunkai is set up basically the same was as it had been in the book. She gets two relatively easy victories at the smaller two slave cities and so she is riding high, seeming to be invincible. I like how they ended her season that way since it gives the TV viewers the impression that she cannot be stopped. Of course we know that her new slave population becomes dead, useless weight as her first real test as Queen comes to Meereen but foreshadowing that would've taken too much time. The Meereen campaign deserves its own season since so much happens. This is fair, I just really feel like Dany is set up to make viewers hate her. Unless the D&D have great plans for spicing up her story, they set up this invincibility of hers and give it almost too much credence with it being the season finale. I know that in the books she was riding high at this point, but I've heard more than one person already say that they're ready for Dany to march on Westeros. Good luck with that! haha I like the scene in the book, I just felt it was a weak way to end the season, with so many more things to tell/set up
*The absence of Coldhands is where we agree. It almost makes me think that he might be omitted from the show, as I would've expected to see him when we saw all of those crows flying around Sam and Gilly after he killed the Other. Or, since Bran's story doesn't really have a ton of events, they could just be saving him for next season in order to stretch that arc's screen time.
*They didn't talk about how Lady Stark was thrown into the river until much later than the Red Wedding as far as I can remember from the book. It was like, everyone died and then you found out details from other sources later. The fact that she was in the water for like 2 weeks or something and washed far downstream lends to the TV guys making the right call on not revealing Lady Stoneheart yet. She's going to look fucked up as hell - it wasn't like the Brotherhood was in attendance of the Wedding.
*If I had it my way, episode 10 would've been longer and the teasers would've included any or all of: (1) a peek over the Wall from Castle Black at Mance Rayder's army amassing on the opposite side or at least spotted in the distance, (2) Coldhands - totally with you there, (3) Balon Greyjoy dying, or (4) some kind of foreshadowing in regards to Joffrey's Wedding mixed in with the clear view that the Lannisters have won the War of the Five Kings. 100% on board with you here. I'd sacrifice wanting Stoneheart's reveal for literally ANY of those things -- also, am I the only one that was really thinking Yara was going to kill Balon in that scene when she defied him? That's a storyline that is obviously SO different from the books, I really have no clue where they are going with it.
In all, I liked that this last episode was at least a break in the blood, gore, and shock that we all suffered in Episode 9.
*Lady Stoneheart doesn't appear until the end of the book. In my opinion, I think revealing her to the TV viewers so soon after the Red Wedding would be premature I'm fine with agreeing to disagree with this, but I don't think where it appears in the books should really be relevant. Like I said, we think she's dead in the books and then find out all this stuff we didn't know at the time, way after the fact. I think that works fine on a page, but 1) the show clearly doesn't like to do flashbacks; and 2) they clearly don't mind drastically changing the order of when things happen in the book vs. the show (No Coldhands, the Reeds, every single thing involving Theon, Jaime arriving before the Purple Wedding...so I don't think the show should necessarily be stringently tied to the books.
*Dany's victory at Yunkai is set up basically the same was as it had been in the book. She gets two relatively easy victories at the smaller two slave cities and so she is riding high, seeming to be invincible. I like how they ended her season that way since it gives the TV viewers the impression that she cannot be stopped. Of course we know that her new slave population becomes dead, useless weight as her first real test as Queen comes to Meereen but foreshadowing that would've taken too much time. The Meereen campaign deserves its own season since so much happens. This is fair, I just really feel like Dany is set up to make viewers hate her. Unless the D&D have great plans for spicing up her story, they set up this invincibility of hers and give it almost too much credence with it being the season finale. I know that in the books she was riding high at this point, but I've heard more than one person already say that they're ready for Dany to march on Westeros. Good luck with that! haha I like the scene in the book, I just felt it was a weak way to end the season, with so many more things to tell/set up
*The absence of Coldhands is where we agree. It almost makes me think that he might be omitted from the show, as I would've expected to see him when we saw all of those crows flying around Sam and Gilly after he killed the Other. Or, since Bran's story doesn't really have a ton of events, they could just be saving him for next season in order to stretch that arc's screen time.
*They didn't talk about how Lady Stark was thrown into the river until much later than the Red Wedding as far as I can remember from the book. It was like, everyone died and then you found out details from other sources later. The fact that she was in the water for like 2 weeks or something and washed far downstream lends to the TV guys making the right call on not revealing Lady Stoneheart yet. She's going to look fucked up as hell - it wasn't like the Brotherhood was in attendance of the Wedding.
*If I had it my way, episode 10 would've been longer and the teasers would've included any or all of: (1) a peek over the Wall from Castle Black at Mance Rayder's army amassing on the opposite side or at least spotted in the distance, (2) Coldhands - totally with you there, (3) Balon Greyjoy dying, or (4) some kind of foreshadowing in regards to Joffrey's Wedding mixed in with the clear view that the Lannisters have won the War of the Five Kings. 100% on board with you here. I'd sacrifice wanting Stoneheart's reveal for literally ANY of those things -- also, am I the only one that was really thinking Yara was going to kill Balon in that scene when she defied him? That's a storyline that is obviously SO different from the books, I really have no clue where they are going with it.
In all, I liked that this last episode was at least a break in the blood, gore, and shock that we all suffered in Episode 9.
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