Killing off characters should be memorable but in this season opening -- among the worst I've seen in recent years -- it feels trivial. Maybe it's due to being away from these characters for months or really not enjoying the previous season, but I honestly didn't care when these characters died. They stopped feeling real, and thus dead, long ago when they started making uncharacteristic jokes the writers came up with. That the entire episode revels in this hollow gorey mess for its entirety and introduces a villain that is boring -- what is more generic than a sadistic violence-loving brute in an apocalypse? -- makes it excruciating for all the wrong reasons. Game of Thrones makes character deaths so memorable and epic, but I feel like I'm already forgetting about this one.
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Killing off characters should be memorable but in this season opening -- among the worst I've seen in recent years -- it feels trivial. Maybe it's due to being away from these characters for months or really not enjoying the previous season, but I honestly didn't care when these characters died. They stopped feeling real, and thus dead, long ago when they started making uncharacteristic jokes the writers came up with. That the entire episode revels in this hollow gorey mess for its entirety and introduces a villain that is boring -- what is more generic than a sadistic violence-loving brute in an apocalypse? -- makes it excruciating for all the wrong reasons. Game of Thrones makes character deaths so memorable and epic, but I feel like I'm already forgetting about this one.