Review of The Children

I know i know, if anyone has read the book and watches a TV adaption, the person will most likely bitch around. But in this case there are more than a few reasons for it. First of all it's disappointing to see, that because of a lot of unnecessary stuff in this seasons, the whole season finale was pressed together and very epic and deep scenes were just shown loveless done one after another That's how most of this seasons felt to me. It felt like the creators were just trying to somehow finish everything they had to finish, therefore we get a loveless deathscene of Tywin Lannister and Shae, while the story and therefore the mainreason Tyrion was finally able to let out his hatred towards his family was left behind, a very unexpected death of Jojen Reed (really unexpected, since he still lives in the books), poorly dialogues and quick decission without any explanations and so on. But the most disappointing thing in this whole episode was the Bran-Storyline. While the children of the forrest somehow manages to shoot fireballs like some freakin archmage (which is somehow okay, due to the fact that Coldhands was left out in the TV series. Bran needed someway out of the situation), we get some Miraculis-like looking Dude to be the three eyed raven...not only doesn't this seem right to me, it's just disappointing to see this old man, sitting in some weak branches, after bran searched for him 2 whole seasons.

I think this season finale shows exactly what was wrong with this whole season; it had surely some very good and dramatic scenes, which somehow lost their atmosphere and deepness, because the screen time they needed to do a better job was blocked by some unnecessary stuff like greywolf crush on the slave girl or the whole Sam/Ginnie storyline. The result is that in the season finale you'll get a lot of good and dramatic scenes pressed together.