Game of Thrones S6E8

Oh Game of Thrones, how you irk me.  You are, at least for the time being, the only must-see appointment TV that I would consider recapping.  And arguably, you are the best show currently on TV – or at least the most buzz-worthy, and the only show I discuss extensively with work colleagues at the water cooler.  But yesterday’s episode was a snooze-fest.  Apart from a chase scene and a few gratuitously violent murders by The Hound and The Mountain, again this episode was conspicuously lacking in significant action.  Even the deaths of a couple of featured characters (the Waif and Blackfish) were inexplicably off-screen.  The siege at Riverrun was, like the confrontation at King’s Landing last week, a massive anticlimax. However I do think Jaime is one of the more interesting characters – a much more layered villain (or antihero?) than the cartoonishly sadistic Ramsay Bolton.  The resolution of the Arya story line was sadly predictable, essentially making her detour to the House of Black and White a massive waste of time with no discernible payoff.  And I’m just not invested enough in the events at Meereen to care about the massive fleet of ships suddenly bombarding the city.  So instead, I look forward to lots of action in the “Battle of the Bastards” in next week’s episode, then some juicy reveals and developments in the final episode.  Hopefully this will be enough to redeem the slightly plodding nature of the last few episodes.