History Narm / GameOfThrones

* Ramsay really goes overboard this season when he derails Stannis' ''entire'' war effort with just 20 men in an off-screen raid, somehow destroying the food, horse lines and siege engines of an army of thousands and setting fire to their tents and killing hundreds of horses, not just unresisted but ''unspotted''. This ninja attack is so outlandish and ridiculous that many can only view it as [[SurrealHumor surreal comedy]].
** The fact that Davos and Stannis were somehow able to glean that it was ''exactly'' twenty men was also distracting and ridiculous. No one saw them, but they somehow figured out their numbers to a man? Even their footprints would be impossible to sort out after all the chaos and continued snowfall. It just screams ForcedMeme.
* Daenerys' BadassBoast "I'm not going to stop the wheel, I'm going to ''break'' the wheel!" in regards to the millennia-old social structure of the ''continent'' of Westeros. While very in-character, it's laughably vague grandstanding to some, especially since the main focus of her story for most of the last two seasons has been her inability to establish and root out resistance to a totally new social structure within a ''[[EpicFail single city]]''.
** To elaborate, Tyrion just gave a detailed assessment of why the powerful lords of Westeros will never support Dany and how her current troubles in Meereen prove the common people (a power base it's "generous" to presume she has in Westeros) aren't enough. She responds by [[ChewbaccaDefense disregarding everything Tyrion just explained]] and dismissing the powerful as "just spokes on a wheel" she intends to "break" but the scene just ends there, relieving her from having to explain what she means or how she plans to achieve it, especially since she herself [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLd1ThISHSE disdains compromise]], an essential principle of non-tyrannical government.
** The fact that Dany includes her own House among the "spokes" of this "wheel" she intends to "break" is rather goofy. Either she [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality doesn't recognize]] the inherent [[{{Hypocrite}} hypocrisy]] in denouncing FeudingFamilies despite only ever taking special interest in Westeros because [[NotSoDifferent her family used to rule it]], or she's transcended her usual AwesomeEgo into full-on [[ItsAllAboutMe megalomaniacal]] DoubleThink by actually ''[[BelievingTheirOwnLies believing]]'' that she's still somehow breaking the cycle by [[StartXToStopX putting herself on top]] simply because she's [[IRejectYourReality arbitrarily decided]] [[InsaneTrollLogic she's unrelated to her ancestors]].
** This only becomes more HilariousInHindsight in Season 7 when she actually returns to Westeros not in alliance with the common people but with the great houses of Tyrell and (pseudo) Martell and with a Lannister NumberTwo, and begins demanding the support of other great houses and forcing those like [[spoiler: Randyll Tarly]] who oppose her to literally JoinOrDie because the throne is her birthright while simultaneously being praised by Missandei as the benevolent chosen ruler of her Essosi followers.
* Although the climactic battle at Hardhome was very well-received by most fans and critics, it does have one unintentionally goofy scene at the very end of the episode. After Jon and the others get to the last boat (which was somehow ignored by everyone who fled panic-stricken into the water) and cast off, we keep cutting to them and back to the Night King on the jetty as he does his thing and turns the dead into wights. Enough time passes that you'd expect the boat to have gotten ''far'' away from the shore, yet at the very end they're still just coasting gently about ''five'' meters away from the jetty at most.

** Dany's FaceDeathWithDignity moment was awkwardly staged to coincide precisely with Drogon's arrival, with the close-up on her closing her eyes seeming to many like we'd fallen into ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'' and she was summoning Drogon with ThePowerOfLove.

* Some people find the purple make-up for Gregor Clegane's undead face a bit over-the-top.

** The sheer degree of HollywoodHealing Arya manages throughout the sequence. Between episodes 7 and 8, she gets stabbed multiple times in the stomach, jumps into an undoubtedly polluted river, receives amateur treatment and one night of rest before engaging in a high-speed [[LeParkour parkour]] chase, takes several significant falls, rolls down a stone staircase, and reopens her hastily-bandaged wounds, and yet at the end of the episode she's somehow able to stride confidently out of the House of Black and White. It's hard to believe the Waif ever could have killed her, as apparently ''[[MadeOfIron nothing]]'' can. It's made even worse by the number of ApatheticCitizens during the whole pursuit, as if nobody cares about the two girls fighting, parkouring, and pushing stuff around.

** Jon rushing headlong out to save Rickon is dramatic (though Rickon's OneDimensionalThinking is rather comical) and even sensible since he almost succeeds without any damage done to his battle plan. But then rather than return to his troops and fight with renewed purpose, he pauses for a moment and opts to go full LeeroyJenkins.

** The forces of the Vale coming out of nowhere to save the Stark alliance at ''exactly'' the moment things are at their most hopeless is so cliché you almost expect Aidan Gillen to chime in with some narration about "[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings looking to the east]]"… [[OohMeAccentsSlipping dodgy accent]] being optional.

** While Ramsay's PlotArmor finally runs out, his evilness ramps up exponentially until that point. He repeatedly [[WeHaveReserves fires on his own troops]] and [[BadBoss those of allied houses]], and yet they continue to fight for him to the bitter end. He does so in order to form a wall of corpses to trap them, which forms [[AtopAMountainOfCorpses far higher than is reasonable]], as if troops were climbing on existing piles to die there. And none of the Stark/Wilding troops, including Davos' archers who were the last to join the fray, manage to notice the approaching Bolton spears. Finally, the Umbers go over the corpse wall to be hemmed in with the Stark forces, even though that spells their own doom.
* Despite not being fed for seven days, [[spoiler:Ramsay]]'s hounds are patient enough to wait several hours for him to regain consciousness and for Sansa to come down and start telling him off before they conveniently and dramatically reveal themselves, as opposed to simply devouring him as soon as he was thrown in the kennels with them.
** The intended IronicEcho of Sansa noting that the hounds haven't been fed in seven days is also undermined by the FridgeLogic that Sansa left the parlay ''before'' that threat was made and no-one had any particular reason to tell her about it since it was just a petty jab at Jon.
** In keeping with the show's tradition concerning scenes involving dogs, the lead-up to [[spoiler:Ramsay's death]] is hilarious to anyone familiar with dog expressions: the supposed "beast" gives off ''tremendous'' PuppyDogEyes that are clearly full of love, not bloodlust.
* Dany freeing her other two dragons is played as a brilliant piece of TakeAThirdOption despite being the blindingly obvious solution, which is compounded by the Masters reacting to it as if they somehow forgot dragons existed despite specifically demanding that they be slaughtered as one of the terms of Dany's surrender.
** The MookChivalry of the rest of the Masters' massive fleet just watching Dany destroy one ship without even trying to interfere is especially silly since a Season 5 "Histories & Lore" featurette talks about how this is ''exactly'' how her distant ancestor Prince Jacaerys was killed during the Dance of the Dragons.
** Even before that, the fleet ''somehow'' [[FailedASpotCheck catches Meereen's defenders entirely unaware]] even though it dwarfs the one Stannis led to the Blackwater, which the defenders of King's Landing knew about days, if not weeks, in advance. And then this fleet just bombards the city without landing any troops to actually take it, which prompts the question of what they planned to do if Meereen didn't immediately surrender.

* The final scene of Book 5, in which Varys has his "little birds" murder Kevan Lannister, is changed to Qyburn killing Pycelle. Fair enough, except for some reason the writers just copy-pasted Varys' lines about how he [[ApologeticAttacker regrets having to do it]] to further his plans because the victim [[NothingPersonal doesn't really deserve it]], which don't fit [[AdaptationalContextChange the new situation or characters]] well at all since sidetracking Pycelle from the upcoming bombing of the Great Sept and then killing him anyway makes it seem [[ItsPersonal very personal]].
** Qyburn also says "before we can usher in the new, the old must be put to rest", but this is long before Tommen's surprise suicide and Cersei's been a fixture of the DeadlyDecadentCourt for 20 years, far longer than the Sparrows and Tyrells who're the main target of ThePurge, so what "new" is Qyburn even talking about except maybe on a ''personal'' level between himself and Pycelle?

** Even worse is that several years before, ''Series/TheITCrowd'' featured a suicide [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEpKcBkkVMY that was shot and acted in an almost identical way]], and entirely PlayedForLaughs. Cue jokes that the police wanted to ask Tommen about "irregularities in the pension fund".

* The show presents the start of winter by showing snow falling during Jon and Sansa’s conversation at Winterfell, with the pair of them joking about their house words and Ned’s catchphrase “Winter is coming” as the snow starts to fall just to drive it home, which is just plain laughable given that it's well-established that it snows in the North even in summer and autumn (e.g. snowbound Stannis), and the rest of Westeros looks the same as it always has. Indeed, snow doesn’t fall anywhere else on the continent until the end of the next season, so the snow here really doesn't indicate anything beyond a forced MemeAcknowledgement.

** Viewers felt vindicated when "The Spoils of War" showed Qyburn's weapon failing [[IKnewIt exactly as predicted]]. The fact that the bolt hit or affected Drogon at all is entirely down to Bronn's skill since he had to load it without a support crew, the reload time is just awful as is its ergonomics, and that the bolt didn't penetrate Drogon's very thick and sharp hide enough for him to drop Dany nor injured him enough to make him crash, nor hinder his maneuverability on the ground, with the dragon shredding the weapon very quickly.

** At the start of the scene, Missandei gives a full rendition of Dany's titles and it's a strangely long time before we actually get a clear shot of her in the room, giving the impression that it's coming from some kind of loudspeaker.
** Daenerys invokes King Torrhen's oath of fealty to Aegon the Conqueror in perpetuity, despite Aerys pretty much voiding it on his end, and when confronted with tries to make peace with a mere apology before reasserting her demands, not to mention that the writers obviously felt they had to ''[[ViewersAreMorons spell out]]'' what "in perpetuity" meant.

* Theon's fistfight with the Ironborn captain is a pivotal moment in his character arc... but it's dampered by the fact that we don't even know the captain's ''name'', and one cannot help but be reminded of a scene from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBz-Ld6SuOo Johnny English.]]
** In addition, after rallying the Ironborn, Theon sets sail to go save his sister... except [[HilariousInHindsight a later scene]] reveals he's [[EpicFail sailing in the wrong direction!]]
* The Hound threatening his brother was this for some who see it as a blatant shout-out to Cleganebowl fans that their pet theory ''is'' coming sometime in the next six episodes... but one that's just confusing for those who don't know the Cleganebowl theory[[labelnote:From the books]]The theory posits that the undead Gregor and the not-quite-dead Sandor are destined to duel, often with the assumption they'll square off in Cersei's TrialByCombat as champions for Cersei and the Faith respectively.[[/labelnote]] and thus didn't know who the Hound was referring to when he said, "You've known whose coming for you. You've always known."
** The Mountain also looks surprisingly underwhelming and short when the Hound talks to him, which is especially odd since the show is usually able to make the Mountain seem much larger and dangerous than his real life actors, either through creative camera angles or shocking violence. The fact that Gregor's makeup looks slightly silly through his helmet, and that he does almost nothing of note this season makes the inevitable fight seem much less exciting than it was before.
** Also, Gregor doesn't respond at all to the Hound talking to him; he just walks up to him, listens to his speech, and returns to his station without making a move or even glaring at him, which just cements that Franken-Gregor is merely a SoullessShell whose destruction now means little to their relationship, so why even bother with the hype?
* Cersei later reveals she arranged for Euron to walk out of the truce meeting to cover up his trip to hire the Golden Company, but it sure was convenient that the protagonists brought an actual wight to sell his reaction. One wonders how they planned to explained that away [[GambitRoulette before they learned wights were actually real]].
** The FridgeLogic that Cersei does nothing to explain why a PrivateMilitaryContractor like the Golden Company would agree to join her at this point. What's in it for them? Cersei has money, of course, but so do lots of other people, and Jaime's point that eventually Cersei will still be faced with either all of Westeros united against her or an unstoppable army of ice demons still stands. Euron might still be motivated by a desire to marry her, but Cersei can't marry all 20,000 men of the Golden Company and their horses and elephants, too. And just like the ballista above, RealityEnsues when the next episode reveals the Company didn't even bring a single elephant, supposedly because they can't be transported well on wooden ships.
* True to the books it may be, but Rhaegar looking so similar to his brother Viserys really kills the mood of his and Lyanna's wedding even if you don't catch on to the UnintentionallyUnsympathetic stuff that's been noted about him, with us expected to care about this guy who reminds us so much of one of the show's most despicable early characters.

* Littlefinger gives possibly his most inane monologue yet, saying that Sansa should fight in all directions and that everything is happening at the same time and other MeaninglessMeaningfulWords. The fact that Sansa seems ''horrified'' by his words for some reason simply makes it funnier.

* Ramsay's grief for Myranda almost makes you feel sorry for his loss, if mourner and mournee weren't such despicable characters. What happens next can only be summarized as "OK, that's enough humanizing for today, back to business!" when Ramsay orders her body to be butchered for meat.
* It's hard to take Khal Moro seriously as a new antagonist when his first attempt to be intimidating turns into a Creator/MontyPython sketch.

* Given how her usual magic required burning people or making shadow-babies, Melisandre's attempt to resurrect [[spoiler: Jon Snow]] is downright anti-climatic since it amounts to giving him a light shave, shampoo, and haircut. It looks less like a resurrection and more like she's his barber, and one can't help but think she's cutting the corpse's hair, caressing his abs, and mumbling some nonsense just to get Davos off her case. Also, it's uncannily like all those Arya the Mortician scenes in Season 5, making it seem like if Arya had just inadvertently mumbled some Valyrian about not being dead, the same thing might have happened.
** The scene is also hard to take seriously due to its similarity to the ending of ''Film/{{Crank}} 2: High Voltage'', with Melisandre being seemingly unsuccessful and Davos leading her away, only for [[spoiler:Jon]] to revive just before the credits roll.

** "I choose you". Did anyone else think Cersei was talking about ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''?

* Sansa's [[InformedAttribute supposedly]] brilliant idea of winterizing plate armour by covering it with leather can't possibly be taken seriously by anyone who knows anything about actual armour. If you don't, just Google "gambeson" to learn why.
** It's made worse by her lecture being directed toward Lord Yohn Royce, a seasoned general who lives in the mountains of the Vale with climate not entirely unlike the North. Even if her point was right, it was being directed toward someone who really should know better. The combined effect is that Sansa comes off as a KnowNothingKnowItAll surrounded by the narrative equivalent of jobbers whose only purpose is to make her look smarter by comparison.

* During the scene where the Riverlands citizens tell Ned about the raids on their lands, Littlefinger is constantly leaning to Ned to whisper to him. "Fish. The sigil of House Tully. Isn't that your wife's house?" "That sounds like a man we know. The Mountain." "Can you think of any reason the Lannisters would be angry with your wife?" It's blatant that Baelish has been designated the CaptainObvious MrExposition, just to [[ViewersAreMorons connect the dots]] for viewers. The whole thing is embarrassingly awkward writing, because while someone whispering minutiae into a high level ruler's ear is plausible, this is [[AsYouKnow all surface-level material that is intimately familiar to Ned]].

* The writers gave themselves six episodes to turn Danerys from an essentially righteous and good-hearted woman into a Mad Targaryan who burns down a city full of innocent people. How to solve this problem? By putting her through a TraumaCongaLine that's so relentless and over-the-top that it quickly gets ridiculous. She's treated with thinly-veiled hostility by Sansa and the North, even though she's arrived with all her forces to defend their home from the Army of the Dead. Her most loyal supporter dies in her arms, her best friend is beheaded and one of her dragons is shot down in front of her. Her boyfriend starts avoiding her when he finds out they're related, two of her trusted advisers start plotting behind her back, and she grows paranoid that people might love Jon more than her (guess she kinda forgot about Dorne and the Iron Islands). Perhaps the Narmiest example of this is in the aftermath of battle, when Tormund starts shouting about how amazing Jon is for having ridden a dragon - when Dany is not only the one who provided Jon with a dragon in the first place (that she's been riding for YEARS) but who is sitting RIGHT THERE when Tormund starts going off. For heaven's sake, why not have Ghost pee on her leg while we're at it?

* The writers gave themselves six episodes to turn Danerys from an essentially righteous and good-hearted woman into a Mad Targaryan who burns down a city full of innocent people. How to solve this problem? By putting her through a TraumaCongaLine that's so relentless and over-the-top that it quickly gets ridiculous. She's treated with thinly-veiled hostility by Sansa and the North, even though she's arrived with all her forces to defend their home from the Army of the Dead. Her most loyal supporter dies in her arms, her best friend is beheaded and one of her dragons is shot down in front of her. Her boyfriend starts avoiding her when he finds out they're related, two of her trusted advisers start plotting behind her back, and she grows paranoid that people might love Jon more than her (guess she kinda forgot about Dorne and the Iron Islands). Perhaps the Narmiest example of this is in the aftermath of battle, when Tormund starts shouting about how amazing Jon is for having ridden a dragon - when Dany is not only the one who provided Jon with a dragon in the first place (that she's been riding for YEARS) but who is sitting RIGHT THERE when Tormund starts going off. I mean honestly, why not have Ghost pee on her leg while we're at it?

* The writers gave themselves six episodes to turn Danerys from an essentially righteous and good-hearted woman into a Mad Targaryan who burns down a city full of innocent people. How to solve this problem? By putting her through a TraumaCongoLine that's so relentless and over-the-top that it gets ridiculous. She's treated with thinly-veiled hostility by Sansa and the North, even though she's arrived with all her forces to defend their home from the Army of the Dead. Her most loyal supporter dies in her arms, her best friend is beheaded and one of her dragons is shot down in front of her. Her boyfriend starts avoiding her when he finds out they're related, two of her trusted advisers start plotting behind her back, and she grows paranoid that people love the other contender to the throne more than her (guess she kinda forgot about Dorne and the Iron Islands). Perhaps the Narmiest example of this is in the aftermath of battle, when Tormund starts shouting about how amazing Jon is for having ridden a dragon - when Dany is not only the one who provided Jon with a dragon in the first place (that she's been riding for YEARS) but who is sitting RIGHT THERE when Tormund starts going off. I mean honestly, why not have Ghost pee on her leg while we're at it?

* Arya saying, "I know a killer when I see one," regarding Dany might've been good foreshadowing and a display of keen insight on Arya's part earlier in the season. Coming on the heels of watching Dany immolate an entire city it's more tempting to shout, "No shit, Sherlock!" It was so obviously scripted to be a cool one-liner that it was hilarious, especially since her being a killer isn't up for debate. It's an out-of-place line meant to sound cool that comes off as hilarious.

* During the scene where the Riverlands citizens tell Ned about the raids on their lands, Littlefinger is constantly leaning to Ned to whisper to him. "Fish. The sigil of House Tully. Isn't that your wife's house?" "That sounds like a man we know. The Mountain." "Can you think of any reason the Lannisters would be angry with your wife?" It's blatant that Baelish has been designated the CaptainObvious MrExposition, just to [[ViewersAreMorons connect the dots]] for viewers. The whole thing is embarrassingly awkward writing.

* During the scene where the Riverlands citizens tells Ned about the raids on their lands, Littlefinger is constantly leaning to Ned to whisper to him. "Fish. The sigil of House Tully. Isn't that your wife's house?" "That sounds like a man we know. The Mountain." "Can you think of any reason the Lannisters would be angry with your wife?" It's blatant that Baelish has been designated the CaptainObvious MrExposition, just to [[ViewersAreMorons connect the dots]] for viewers. The whole thing is embarrassingly awkward writing.

* Littlefinger has a character-defining monologue that goes into great detail about his backstory and motivations… which is completely undercut by the GirlOnGirlIsHot going on in front of him, which is distracting enough ''before'' being edited to actively compete with the dialogue in both screen-time and ''volume''. It also doesn't help that Ros' faux [[TheImmodestOrgasm immodest orgasm]] (which Littlefinger is ostensibly correcting) doesn't actually get any ''less'' "ridiculous", and let's not forget the infamous "Play with her arse," command delivered in exactly the same detached tone as the rest of the monologue.

* Tommen's suicide is less disturbing and sad and more [[SuicideAsComedy hilarious]] with how abruptly the kid just steps out the window and how still the camera is during all of it; not to mention Tommen's calm and rather bored demeanor humorously turns the scene from "DrivenToSuicide after losing everything I love" to "[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Fuck this, I'm out]]". As if to give evidence to this, he takes the time to actually ''take off his crown and leave it on a table before jumping''. The AccidentalPun it created (King's Landing) also [[MemeticMutation did not escape the audience's notice]].

* Tommen's suicide is less disturbing and sad and more [[SuicideAsComedy hilarious]] with how abruptly the kid just steps out the window and how still the camera is during all of it; not to mention Tommen's calm and rather bored demeanor humorously turns the scene from "DrivenToSuicide after losing everything I love" to "[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Fuck this, I'm out]]". As if to give evidence to this, he takes the time to actually ''take off his crown and leave it on a table before jumping''. The AccidentalPun it created also [[MemeticMutation did not escape the audience's notice]].

** Shortly afterward, Bronn suffers a {{nosebleed}}. While it's a symptom of the poison kicking in, as well as {{foreshadowing}} for what later happens to Myrcella, this becomes unintentionally hilarious if you're familiar with the Japanese old wives' tale that you get a nosebleed if you stare at a pretty girl, and anime shows featuring perverted characters getting nosebleeds, making it seem as though Bronn's lusting after Tyene.

* An otherwise chilling and well-acted scene where Viserys begs and bellows insanely just before his death can cause some chuckles when you realize his insistence that "I am the dragon!" is awfully reminiscent of the memetic phrase "Fuck you! I'm a dragon!"

* Daenerys softly weeping whilst Drogo smashes repeatedly and enthusiastically into her quivering arse whilst doing her doggy-style was definitely a mildly amusing "Oh, for God's sake…" moment.

* In a {{Fanservice}} scene where Theon has sex with Ros, Alfie Allen puts a ''lot'' of effort into his GruntingOrgasm… but the way he jerks around looks more like he's getting 1200 volts put through him, which when combined with his little beard and how he bites his lip makes him look like an electrocuted rat. Also, since Alfie isn't at all shy about MaleFrontalNudity, we get to see Theon's penis ''instantly'' deflated once he was done. WTF?

* Creator/MichelleFairley has a tendency to put odd, unfitting emphasis on her lines at times when she's trying to be emphatic, making her sound petulant and awkward during moments that are supposed to be serious:
--->'''Catelyn''': ''(when being asked to deal with household matters while Bran is in a coma)'' I don't CARE about [[AccentOnTheWrongSyllable apPOINTments!]]

** On this note, a DeletedScene shows Doreah strangling Irri to death while reciting "[[FetishRetardant sexy]]" dialogue about erotic asphyxiation. The logic seems to be that because she's an ex-courtesan, she has to do ''everything'' sexily, including cold-blooded murder. It's worth a few eye-rolls. Indeed, before the Blu-ray came out this was the most anticipated deleted scene but afterward everyone agreed it was the worst and it was a great decision to leave it out. Most people point to the absurdity of the monologue, Roxanne [=McKee=]'s poor delivery, and the fact that Doreah's motives to betray Dany are even ''[[UpToEleven less]]'' evident than before.

** The scene was already ruined the moment someone started shouting "Mhysa". [[Film/ThePhantomMenace Meesa am bombad Khaleesi!]]

* It's hard to take Septa Unella's threatening demeanor seriously when she sounds like a clerical [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Sheldon Cooper]].
** "Shame!… Shame!… Shame!… Shame!… Shame!… Shame!…" She's saying that because it's a walk of ''[[CaptainObvious shame]]'', you see.
** Cersei has committed grievous sins, and [[Series/SaturdayNightLive the only prescription is more cowbell]]! ''Dingalingaling!''

** The battle of Winterfell is too ridiculous to be taken seriously. There's been an entire season of build-up to this very moment, the Bolton army approaches, Stannis' theme comes up as he draws his sword, the armies clash… and five seconds later we see Stannis' army decimated and Ramsay once again completely unscathed and basically saying "Okay boys, we're done here. I gotta get back to raping my wife".
** This culminates in Brienne killing Stannis in the name of the "rightful" King Renly, a statement that (though likely in-character) is just too solemnly untruthful for many to take [[https://scontent-mad1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t31.0-8/s720x720/10485940_697412917071887_1640100858989780483_o.jpg seriously]] since Renly was many things but never the rightful king by any law of the Seven Kingdoms (as he himself acknowledged), which can ironically make Brienne come across as a massive {{hypocrite}} for invoking the title of "rightful king" in killing a man whose claim was unambiguously stronger than Renly's.
** What really cements the hilarity of all this is Stannis' utter ''bemusement'', since he [[UnknownRival barely knows]] who Brienne even ''is'', much less what he could've done to earn her hatred. It's only once she launches into her melodramatic MotiveRant that he understands and stoically resigns himself to it, as if this is just the cherry on top of the shit-cake his life turned into.

* In the season premiere, the entire Night's Watch outside TheConspiracy is exactly as outraged by their actions as you'd expect… until ''everyone'' is completely talked around on it by Thorne's brisk MotiveRant, as if he somehow had a previously-unmentioned CompellingVoice. Not helping the scene is how it keeps cutting to Olly despite him contributing nothing but the same smug expression of righteousness (despite being tearful during the act), like we might otherwise forget he exists.
** The fact that Jon's loyalists consist of Davos, Edd… and a few random extras. You can just imagine the writers' MassOhCrap on realizing that maybe they shouldn't have killed off Pyp and Grenn when they did.
** Also, Thorne besieges and intends to murder all of Jon's surviving friends as well, which not only contradicts the NothingPersonal IDidWhatIHadToDo justification he just used on the rest of the Watch (which nobody seems to notice), but is apparently motivated by Jon's friends merely skipping breakfast to observe DueToTheDead since if ThePurge had been part Thorne's original plan, [[DidntThinkThisThrough you'd think he'd have planned it better]].

* The messages scrawled on the walls of Meereen that say "KILL THE MASTERS" and "MHYSA IS A MASTER" not only look like terribly out-of-place graffiti penned by a modern hand, but FridgeLogic makes them even more nonsensical. They're written in Westerosi (i.e. English) in a place where the dominant language is Valyrian and the majority of the population is illiterate. Plus, Varys has to spell out what "Mhysa" means [[ViewersAreGoldfish in case anyone forgot]].
** He also gets it wrong ("Mhysa" is "Mother" in Ghiscari (the common language of Essos), it's "Muño" in Valyrian), for the painfully obvious reason that "Mhysa" was an iconic moment, and "Muño" was only briefly mentioned, but [[ViewersAreMorons Valyrian is the language people associate with Dany]].

* Young Ned's supposedly grim expression in "Oathbreaker" is really angsty. His eyebrows don't help either, making him look like he's related to Daenerys.

* The exclamation "Hodor!" has undergone such MemeticMutation that the OriginStory scene where his younger self shouts "Hold the Door! Hold Door! Hodor!" over and over plays out exactly like the TropeNamer "[[Series/SixFeetUnder Numb arm! Numb arm! Narm!]]" only about ten times more drawn out, and a few found TheReveal itself to be trite and melodramatic, especially the aggressive cross-cutting for a rather obvious setup.
** For many non-English speakers, translation (for both subtitled and dubbed versions) also led to some of this since "Hold the door" sounds ''very'' different in other languages. [[https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/4ko0ad/s6e5_i_feel_so_sorry_for_everyone_watching_that/ Some are creative, while some don't even try]]. In Italian, for instance, the line was changed to "Trova un modo!" ("Find a way!"), while the French and Portuguese struggled comically to gradually turn "Pas-au dehors!" and "Segure a porta!" into "Hodor". Germanic languages had an easier time of it since the words have very common roots: for instance, "Halt das Tor" (German) and "Håll dörren" (Swedish).

* Arya's AesopAmnesia of implying that the Freys' big mistake was failing to KillEmAll... [[{{Hypocrite}} in the midst of poisoning]] ''[[{{Hypocrite}} only]]'' [[{{Hypocrite}} the]] ''[[{{Hypocrite}} adult men]]'' [[{{Hypocrite}} of House Frey]]. Yes, the [[FemalesAreMoreInnocent women weren't directly responsible]] for the Red Wedding, but that isn't the argument Arya was making and it doesn't preclude some young Frey boy or girl from continuing the CycleOfRevenge, especially since killing a villainous patriarch doesn't necessarily make things better for his family (e.g. the deaths of Tywin and Craster).
** An entire room full of people collapsing from being poisoned ''[[OneDoseFitsAll all at the same time]]'' and ''[[RuleOfDrama on dramatic cue]]'' is [[BlackComedy as funny as it is horrific]]. One thinks of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''.

** The fact he sings the line, "O'er the winds and the steps and the cobbles" like he's talking about air currents rather than twisty paths is also humorously ignorant.

* The {{squick}}y montage of Sam's soup/shit duties in Oldtown comes across so broad and sloppily edited that it might as well have come from a Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg flick. All that's missing is some apropos montage music...

** There's also Ellaria's flirting with Yara where she slowly gropes her, calling it [[DoubleEntendre "a foreign invasion"]]. With all the potential sexual puns she could have used, is this really the best that Ellaria could pull out? It's hardly hyperbole to say the whole scene sounds like something out of a ''really'' cheesy porno.
** And earlier, Ellaria blaming Tyrion for Oberyn's death comes across as surreal for its absurdity and inanity. Especially when you take into account that if there was anyone who avenged Oberyn's death, it was ''Tyrion;'' after all, he murdered his father, who was in turn responsible for Gregor Clegane's career and his atrocities towards Elia and Oberyn.

* Sam curing Jorah's greyscale by excising the infected skin--squicky though it is--is much less "Emmy-awarded HBO series" than ''[[Film/TheFortyYearOldVirgin The 40-Year Old Friendzoner]]''... Iain Glen's bizarre reactions and grunts must be seen to be believed. The scene also focuses on it a bit longer than necessary and ends with another weird cut to a close-up of food, repeating the already-old gag of Sam's soup-shit duties from the previous episode.
** The forbidden, known-only-to-maesters cure for the death sentence that is greyscale turns out to be... the most obvious of {{Mundane Solution}}s. It's "[[https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/7/25/16026386/game-of-thrones-greyscale-cure-jorah-mormont hilariously simple]]".

** Also, his ludicrously over-the-top entrance to the battle, which looks like something out of ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' or ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'', as not only does a huge carved gangplank drop down on Yara's ship, but Euron is standing at the very end of it as it drops and crushes a Mook, [[LargeHam roaring and brandishing a huge axe]]. The scene may qualify as NarmCharm given how cartoonish it is, particularly when scored to the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' theme song, Wrestling/BrockLesnar's entrance theme or the [=E1M1=] music from ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.

* The conversation on the boat where Jon refers to Daenerys as "Dany" out of nowhere. While there are characters with nicknames, those are used by everyone and Dany herself points out no one has called her "Dany" except Viserys, and Jon isn't TheNicknamer. That he's doing it solely to set up a segue into swearing fealty to her as his queen only makes it more awkward.
** Some fans joked that Jon was actually pulling another "Hold the Door" from being commanded to bend the knee so much: "Bend the knee. Ben da knee. Dany."
* The fact that the White Walkers somehow conjured up ''gigantic chains'' seemingly out of nowhere to pull Viserion's corpse out of the frozen lake in the name of plot convenience.
** The unfortunate VisualPun of him literally getting turned into [[Anime/YuGiOH a Blue-Eyes White Dragon]] didn't escape audience notice either.

** Even disregarding the late king's character, their sheer facial similarity makes for a very confusing and random scene of "Viserys" suddenly marrying some girl nobody would honestly recognise.

* Drogon's reaction to Jon killing Daenerys is to spew fire around the throne room, and specifically at the Iron Throne before grabbing her body and flying off. Drogon burning the throne over attacking Jon is unintentionally funny because it begs the question why a dragon would have any care about a chair and destroy it over killing the person it saw as responsible for killing its "mother". It comes across less as a dragon freaking out and being upset at its "mother's" death, and more a way to very blatantly hammer home that yes, the Iron Throne isn't what's truly important.
* The Great Council to determine the new executive of Westeros near the end of the finale beggars belief. Tyrion, who has been in a dungeon awaiting execution, is alternately berated over his treasonous acts while also being given the time to unilaterally convince all the lords present that Bran should be king. There is zero squabbling over this choice, other than Sansa abstaining from the vote and seceding on the North's behalf with one sentence...once again, with zero squabbling; one wonders why the other kingdoms, especially the equally culturally unique Iron Islands and Dorne, don't take this opportunity to do the same. Jon's fate is treated as a potential war-starter, so he ends up being sent to the Wall. If you're paying close enough attention, you'll notice that the Starks now basically rule ''the whole continent'' between their nominal sovereignty over the now-Six Kingdoms and the North and Jon's significant soft power among the Night's Watch and wildlings beyond the Wall. None of the other lords have a problem with that? While it's reasonable to assume significant upheavals following Daenerys's failed campaign, these changes to the status quo happen in one sitting without any of these lords arguing their own interests. The scene presents a bizarre, sterile harmony so uncharacteristic of the country's political culture and the show's established tone that the scene is unintentionally hilarious.
** Made worse by the fact this scene not only packs the aforementioned narm on top of actual attempted humor, but it comes off ''right on the heels'' of Daenerys getting assassinated. There is no pause nor dealing with the aftermath between that and this scene, which causes enough MoodWhiplash to break a man's neck.
* Tyrion dubbing Bran "King Bran the Broken". It sounds less like an [[TheMagnificent impressive title]] and more like Tyrion mocking the kid in the wheelchair.

* The Great Council to determine the new executive of Westeros near the end of the finale beggars belief. Tyrion, who has been in a dungeon awaiting execution, is alternately berated over his treasonous acts while also being given the time to unilaterally convince all the lords present that Bran should be king. There is zero squabbling over this choice, other than Sansa abstaining from the vote and seceding on the North's behalf with one sentence...once again, with zero squabbling; one wonders why the other kingdoms, especially the equally culturally unique Iron Islands and Dorne, don't take this opportunity to do the same. Jon's fate is treated as a potential war-starter, so he ends up being sent to the Wall. If you're paying close enough attention, you'll notice that the Starks now basically rule ''the whole continent'' between their nominal sovereignty over the now-Six Kingdoms and the North and Jon's strong influence among the Night's Watch and wildlings beyond the Wall. None of the other lords have a problem with that? While it's reasonable to assume significant upheavals following Daenerys's failed campaign, these changes to the status quo happen in one sitting without any of these lords arguing their own interests. The scene presents a bizarre, sterile harmony so uncharacteristic of the country's political culture and the show's established tone that the scene is unintentionally hilarious.

* Tyrion somehow unilaterally manages to convince the noble houses of Westeros to adopt an entirely new system of choosing a ruler at a trial he was expected to be sentenced to death at.

* Euron's last words that he killed Jaime. The fact that tying in a fight with a one-handed cripple is what he's most proud of as he dies instead of killing a dragon, his own brother, becoming King of the Iron Islands, or any of his other numerous atrocities is laughable. Making it worse is that he [[AsideComment says it directly into the camera, as if to gleefully spite the viewer]].

* Drogon's reaction to Jon killing Daenerys is to spew fire around the throne room, and specifically at the Iron Throne before grabbing her body and flying off. Drogon burning the throne over attacking Jon is untentionally funny because it begs the question why a Dragon would have any care about a chair and destory it over killing the person it saw as responsible for killing its "mother". It comes across less as a Dragon freaking out and being upset at its "mothers" death, and more a way to very blatantly hammer home that yes, the Iron Throne isn't whats truly important.