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Is Game of Thrones 'Season 6' a Bollywood Production?

Yeah, it's been a while. Let's start with GoT S06 E08. This whole season has been so disappointing and frustrating that given a suitable option, I would really like to hang on but let's go on for a while. Daenaris Targaryan gets kidnapped by her baby dragon and drops her off in Khal Dothrak. She comes back to Meeren after burning everything and with whole lot of Dothraki soldiers. Anything surprising???? Arya Stark decides to be a STARK again and makes her wishes known to Jaqen H'Ghar (It's really an exotic name). He decides to drop her off the hook instead via Waif. Waif is a lusty killer but she really can't kill Baby Arya. This is Bollywood stuff, really and It's Waif's face that gets hung on one of the pillars of 'House of Black and White'. But what's really is this 'House of Black and White' anyway? Surprises, not really!!!!

OK.....Who is this Breyndan 'The Blackfish' Tully? During Episode 5, Ser Davos Seaworth, former secretary of Stannis Baratheon and present secretary of John Snow (or Stark?), calls our Mr. Blackfish a Legend but in episodes to follow, we never really get to know what Blackfish had done to achieve his legendary status. Jamie Lannister prefers to call him a 'old goat' instead. Disappointing, yes. He, also gets killed during the not-so-fierce battle of Riverrun by some rookie soldier in one-on-one swordfight and producers don't even let us watch his death. We get to see a Lannister goodbye to his another sweetheart Brienne of Tarth in barter....What a shame!!!

And wait, where the hell are Dorne and Jorah Mormont in this shitstorm? Episode 9 is approaching and we are going to get Bolton Army slaying the hapless Wildings army of Snow but wait, Littlefinger is gonna turn up.....surprised, eh? With episode 10, this season shall come to a closure and then in season 7, we are going to get 7 episodes and in 8, only 6 and there are so many stories begging for a closure in GoT. But I would hope, for all my fondness for LOST, GoT is not going to bundle up in another LOST!!!!!
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