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I think the people defending Dany's turn are kind of missing the point of the detractors' real complaints about the turn of events in this episode. Nobody's denying that her turn to villainy wasn't foreshadowed or telegraphed seasons back (hell I pretty much called it at the beginning of the season when discussing the show with a friend). It's the execution that's completely lacking. She literally goes from slightly rattled to committing genocide in the span of 2 days. Even her father took years for his mental health to degrade to the point where he became the Mad King. Her seeing one of her dragons die and her advisor be decapitated isn't really convincing enough for me to buy her going full Hitler for something that had nothing to do with the people of King's Landing in the first place. Not to mention she suffered much greater personal tragedy in the past when she lost Drogo and her son, and still didn't really go completely ape shit.

To the people that say she has always been ruthless and burned anyone who got in her way, nearly all of those were either enemies that refused to yield or complete pieces of shit (such as the slave masters that crucified all those children). She's never committed full on genocide on a city just for the sake of it. In fact, seasons back, where she was presented with the burnt corpse of a child that one of her dragons casually murdered, she was so horrified, that she locked her dragons in a cave to prevent anything like that happening again. She was ruthless, but only when the situation called for it. Her just deciding to go psycho in the last second when pretty much the entire city had unanimously surrendered felt like very contrived set piece writing that was there simply to get the story from point A to point B. Dany going full on Griffith is fine on paper, but we need much more than half a season to effectively communicate that, let alone a single fucking episode.

Arya being shoved into the fray also felt very contrived as well. It felt like a dumb plot device the writers cooked up in the last second to give her enough motivation to kill Danerys. Cleganebowl was fine. Jaime going out with Cersei was fine. I really don't understand people's shock at that scene-it felt pretty consistent with what we've seen of Jaime's character throughout the show. Overall, this was simultaneously both the DUMBEST and the most entertaining episode of the season so far. The cinematography and visuals were gorgeous-much better than the battle of Winterfell. At times it felt like you were watching a moving painting and at least it didn't feel like a struggle to sit through the way ep 1, 2 and 4 felt.

Story/Writing: 4/10

Production Value/Spectacle: 9/10

Now that I got that off my chest, here are some memes:

Well Mob Season 2 was just fantastic wasn't it? I no longer have anything to look forward to on Mondays :(

@sethmode: DMC5 you can beat in 9-10 hours (but it has a lot of replay value with its harder difficulties) whereas this apparently takes 50 hours to beat. I haven't played Sekiro yet, but I absolutely loved DMC5. It's up to you on figuring out what helps you get more bang for your buck.

@yesiamaduck Only video you need to watch ;) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o1ieehttdA

@animasta: There are quite a few female stand users not only in this arc but in subsequent ones as well. Part 6 has Jolyne and I'd argue she's one of the most strong willed protagonists in the series. Not to mention that a large chunk of part 6 is female stand users just going ape shit savage at each other. Sorry, but you seem to be ignorant of later arcs in Jojo. Parts 1-3 came out in the late 80's/early 90's which was the peak of the whole macho Fist of the North Star era of shounen, which is why these parts mainly have these types of characters.

@brunothethird:Your comment mostly mirrors mine on my final thoughts of this game. It's very much the MGS4 of the series in the sense that it's so focused on tying up every loose end from all the years of bullshit Nomura has added to this series that it kind of collapses on itself at the end. However I still rate the story a 6/10 mainly because I thought the actual Disney level plotlines were relatively well done (ironically enough) in how they integrate Sora into them (especially the new original storylines that take place after the films' events). Big Hero 6 in particular felt the most natural and Sora's shounen hero personality easily fits with those cast of characters.

Ultimately I'm torn whether this or KH2 is my favourite game in the series. On one hand, the worlds, level design, graphics and overall core game experience is easily the best in the series. On the other hand, the combat is so mind numbingly easy on proud mode and lacks the large variety of extremely difficult side bosses that KH2 and previous entries had. I hope in the future they release a critical difficulty and some DLC bosses, because once you beat the core story there's really not much else to do besides collecting all the leftover hidden mickeys/treasures.