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Originally Posted by Heroball
Dragon pit scene had ~0 suspense/intrigue.
No one (important) is going to die.
No one is going to say or do anything surprising. Characters are all fully locked into their sides (good and bad).
What made this show interesting in the past was the ambiguity ("good" guys did bad things occasionally and vice versa). Now everyone is Cersei evil or Jon good.
Even the hound lost his balls this ep.
i mean if you think the only important event is somebody getting killed or switching sides, yeah, sure.
but there was plenty of dramatic tension in the scene. they did a great job conveying how far people had come (in terms of arc, not literal distance) and how weird and tangled some of the relationships were. and then when they bring the wight out, they did a really good job of conveying how ****ing crazy it was for the people who had never seen one (including some of the people on team dany who just weren't there for the battle). and then it seemed like cersei was really giving jon snow the classic Stark family choice, and he of course did his usual dumb Stark thing and blew it. (there were some plot holes after that, but within the scene itself there were lots of interesting moments.)
good drama doesn't literally just mean "someone could get killed at any time!"