Duo I am with you on the plot armor. Theon gets his nice little redemptive arc and the spellsword guy who already died a bunch actually dies but otherwise like nobody else died. There were about 4 times where I though Jamie, Sam, and Briene died but then they kept fighting. Jon, too. The only death with any weight was Jora. Is this the same show with the red wedding? After 7 seasons of building up to this, there weren't any real deaths... like I'm glad there weren't but it feels cheap.
Meanwhile every Dothraki gets wiped out in about 20 seconds? That is some disproportionate dying... thousands of nobodies but not one main character. Scene was powerful but it really points out the plot armor. Not to mention the trope where the brown people get killed in the first act. Like literally all of them.
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