History Narm / GameOfThrones

** [[spoiler:Ygritte]]'s death scene is somewhat undercut by her FamousLastWords being her CatchPhrase due to the amount of MemeticMutation it's undergone, not to mention the rare use of slow motion as the battle rages on that makes them look stuck in their own [[TalkingIsAFreeAction narrative bubble]]. Being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4oQzTGTc_g soundtracked to Bon Jovi]] doesn't help either.

* Tyrion nominating Bran as King on the grounds that he has the best story, which everyone present just accepts. This is especially jarring as a lot of Bran's storyline was cut out. Tyrion refers to Bran as Bran the Broken and everyone is just going along with this, which comes across more as a mean joke than an actual epithet.

* Ellaria and Tyene Sand desperately struggling in their chains to try to reach each other while making animalistic sounds looks a lot like two dogs who met on a walk while on leashes.

* The Council scene in the last episode. Bronn somehow becoming Master of Coin feels especially ridiculous and makes it look like it was just there so he had something to do in the last episode. Earlier in the series, Bronn asks what a loan is, and then suddenly he becomes an equivalent of finance minister.

* Jon's true name is revealed to be Aegon Targaryen... a dramatic moment were it not for the fact that Rhaegar Targaryen's first son was ''also'' named Aegon, meaning that Rhaegar (or someone else) gave his two sons ''[[NamesTheSame the exact same name.]]''

--->-- '''Tyene Sand'''[[note]] Cue Bronn giving a "What the fuck?" face, which is what everyone's reaction to the scene was.[[/note]]

* Sansa's "what do dragons ''eat'' anyway?" comes across as immaturely petty, as if her SkewedPriorities are more concerned with a dragon's diet than the fact that an unstoppable army is heading their way.

* When [[spoiler: Jaime]]'s hand gets sliced off at the end of "Walk of Punishment", he screams in terror and pain, and the scene [[MoodWhiplash abruptly cuts]] to the credits… with an upbeat and completely out of place [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgiTB2NFvAM rock song]], to the raucous laughter of everyone watching.

* By the time viewers get to Dany's third or fourth epic speech in High Valyrian in "Breaker of Chains", it starts to get tiresome and grating rather than the intended [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesome]]; not only does it start to look StrictlyFormula, but Emilia Clarke's delivery is stilted and unnatural to ChewingTheScenery degrees of ham, making it seem like she has a tenuous grasp on the ConLang and that it being Dany's "mother tongue" is an InformedAbility.

** One piece of dialogue bears a quite unfortunate resemblance to a certain scene in ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'':
---> '''Gilly:''' Promise me you won't die.\\
'''Sam:''' I promise I won't die.

* ''Any'' time the scene cuts awkwardly away from the action to show [[ChekhovsGunman Olly's reaction]] to Jon doing something. Foreshadowing is ''[[{{Anvilicious}} not]]'' subtle in this season.

* 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]]''. 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]].

** The Sons of the Harpy suddenly appear all around the stadium as if from BehindTheBlack, with none of the other spectators or guards noticing anything as they all put on those huge masks until after one of them has [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy nearly killed the Queen]], who's only saved by a ''contestant'' (Jorah) on the sand below for the sake of a cheap StabTheScorpion moment.
** Their appearance is also accompanied by an [[OminousLatinChanting absurdly unholy chanting music]] that brings to mind the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv5NI54QlvI sacrifice song]] from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', as if we needed further proof that these MalevolentMaskedMen massacring the populace [[ObviouslyEvil are evil]].

* When Jaime reveals to Myrcella that [[LukeIAmYourFather he is her father]], one can't help but roll their eyes at Myrcella's declaration (complete with fuzzy, sincere music) that she's ''glad'' to be a bastard born of incest against all the laws of gods and men whose very existence is proof her family has usurped the Iron Throne, a revelation that would have most sane people reaching for the BrainBleach.
** Then she dies, which is an "Oh, for the love of ''God''!" moment all on its own, as it reveals the scene to be a clumsy attempt to [[TearJerker yank at the heartstrings]], especially since her being TooHappyToLive by having a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage and accepting her true father made it [[IKnewIt laughably easy]] to predict her death.
** It also doesn't help the gravity of the scene that Ellaria and the Sand Snakes act all {{smug|Snake}} afterwards as if they got away with something clever, even though their involvement is hair-pullingly obvious and the ship is ''still in sight'' and could return for medical attention or revenge so it's ridiculous that they believe they could get away with it for more than a day (yet they somehow ultimately do).

* "Mother's Mercy" can also be regarded as very silly for the sheer number of {{Dashed Plot Line}}s and {{Cliffhanger}}s piled one after the other, to the point that momentous events like [[spoiler:Stannis' defeat, Sansa's escape, Myrcella's poisoning and Jon's stabbing]] register with DullSurprise by the end.

* The rather insane case of PlayingGertrude with the actor playing Euron Greyjoy, who's ''forty years'' younger than the actor playing his brother Balon and actually a year younger than the actress playing his niece Yara. Between his on-screen brothers, Euron looks more like their grandson.
* Jaime confesses more sins to the High Sparrow's face than all his other victims combined (heck, Margaery was seized for ''perjury'' and remanded for "not being without sin"), prompting the High Sparrow to launch a monologue about gods-fearing and overthrowing empires as armed Sparrows ominously converge around them… but then he just leaves without actually taking any action against Jaime.
* Bran is upset about being pulled away from his PensieveFlashback before learning the secret of the Tower of Joy, even demanding to know the answer, which is understandable, as perhaps is his mentor's refusal… if said mentor didn't end the scene by proclaiming "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis You. must. learn.]] […] everything!" Except what's in that tower, apparently…
* Dany's final confrontation with the ''khals'' in "Book of the Stranger" is spoken entirely in Dothraki, which dilutes the last couple lines a bit when the fire behind the subtitles makes them almost illegible.
* 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).

** The fact that Euron openly admits to murdering his brother King Balon and his first act as king is to ask "Where are my niece and nephew? Let's go murder them!". Aren't kin-slaying and king-slaying meant to be taboo in Westeros?

* You'd think that the people of King's Landing, who still have the Tywin's Sack and the Battle of Blackwater in living memory, should be a bit nervous when ''unauthorized'' armed-to-the-teeth soldiers march at their doorstep. Instead, [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight they just wait for the troops to pass as if waiting for the traffic light]] and remain at their place even when Jaime outright threatens to purge all the Sparrows.
* Daenerys gets yet another rousing speech in "Blood of My Blood", but while it is visually impressive, it barely makes any sense for it to exist. Aside from the glaring AssPull that is Drogon's sudden appearance and taming, it comes at a time when she's marching with a totally loyal army with no apparent morale problems, making it feel like she got bored more than anything else.

* [[spoiler:The Hound]] remarking that he survived by ThePowerOfHate. Apparently ThePowerOfHate is strong enough to prevent infection and set bones properly enough to prevent a bad limp.

* The House of Black and White’s employment policy is just baffling. Last season Arya ignored a contract, stole a face and killed someone she wasn’t meant to; for that, she got blinded and kicked out into the street. This season she gets a second chance, and promptly botches it again, telling the mark that she’s been targeted. The Waif promptly goes to kill her, and winds up dead instead. So now Arya has botched ''two'' hits and ''killed one of the House’s agents'', yet when she shows up in the crypts to tell Jaqen that the Waif is dead and she will not be indoctrinated and will return to Westeros instead, he just... grins and lets her go? And the Faceless Men just never bother her again! Maybe Arya got a great union rep?

* 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.
* 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.0
* Masters' 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.
* In the season finale, Varys puts any of Littlefinger's [[TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot infamous teleportations]] to shame as he goes to Dorne to meet Olenna, then zips all the way ''back'' across most of Essos in time to join Dany's fleet as it sets sail for Westeros.

* The dragonglass deposit on Dragonstone is treated as some great, dramatic reveal even though it's been well established that dragonglass exists there since the Season 2 Histories & Lore. Even Sam himself sheepishly admits Stannis mentioned it in Season 5 but says he didn't believe it without explaining why. The fact that it's there solely because showrunners believe ViewersAreGoldfish is patently obvious.

* Olenna's boast about getting where she is by ignoring all those supposedly wise men who'd tried to advise her rings jarringly hollow from a bitter woman who just admitted she's got nothing worth living for except revenge, brought down by someone who, incidentally, ''was'' making use of a wise man at their side.

* 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 becomes HilariousInHindsight when she actually returns to Westeros not in alliance with the common people as she had implied 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 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.
* The long-awaited meeting between Jon and Daenerys is at the height of underwhelming. Their encounter mostly consists in each person's CharacterTics undergoing extreme {{Flanderization}} with Dany giving long, pompous speeches boasting of her family pride while dismissing her father's reign and the uprising against him as a minor detail, while Jon more or less broods taciturnly and spouts on about the North and family honour, while Tyrion and Davos articulate more coherent arguments mostly for the purpose of giving them something to do and say. The result plays less like a grand epic meeting of prophecy and more like a [=SNL=] skit parodying such a CoolVersusAwesome moment.

* The heavy use of KarmicDeath, which was epic when Arya did it (because [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it fit with her character arc, motif and]] ''[[Administrivia/TropesAreTools modus operandi]]''), gets ridiculous when the Sand Snakes get killed in ''exactly'' the identical manner of their crimes. And likewise, Cersei not unleashing the Mountain on Ellaria and Tyene (which she did do so on Unella) feels out-of-character with the actual fate seeming both very mild and almost a MercyKill, and yet the show treats it as a FateWorseThanDeath, which rings hollow compared to what happened to other characters on the show.

* The idea of winterizing plate armour by covering it with leather is accepted as brilliant in-universe but can't be taken seriously by anyone who [[ArtisticLicense knows anything about actual armour]] since real armour inherently solved this problem with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambeson gambeson]], the padded linen or wool undercoat used to absorb blunt force and according to ThatOtherWiki "doubled as a winter coat", and which is worn as such in-universe by Sam Tarly.
* Gendry and Jon become fast friends because they're both bastards (though not in Jon's case) and their fathers (or in Jon's case, his uncle) were best friends. It's like [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]] and [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce]] becoming allies all because [[Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice their mothers have the same first name]].

* Cersei 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.

** The overall lighting is so dark that the viewers wonder how the characters are seeing anything at all to be terrified, turning the entire battlefield into the equivalent of a low-grade haunted house.
** The dead overwhelming the armies of the living would be a terrifying sight to behold if it wasn't for the fact that when cutting to named characters like Jon Snow they simply shamble slow enough to allow him to get away, making the whole scene reek of PlotArmour.
** Dragon fire was shown to go through stone with ease, then in one scene Jon takes cover in some rubble from Viserion's breath ''with the fire washing over his head by a few centimetres''. [[ConvectionSchmonvection Even if the stone in question was somehow able to hold, the heat alone should still have burnt him anyway.]] Instead, he is completely unscathed. PlotArmour still going strong!

* At the end of his RousingSpeech, Theon Greyjoy makes a war face as he screams to battle. Unfortunately, it looks like [[http://unaffiliatedcritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Theon-Alfie-Allen.jpg this]]. Of course, given that he was knocked out immediately after he was finished speaking, it's likely this was an IntendedAudienceReaction.
--> [[Film/FullMetalJacket Bullshit, you didn't convince me, let me see your real war face!]]

* As the 'Cleganebowl' starts happening, Cersei is still there and she awkwardly shuffles down the stairs to get out of the way that makes it look unintentionally like a comedy bit.

* The battle of Winterfell has it's moments that make it unintentionally comical:

** The dead overwhelming the armies of the living is a terrifying sight to behold if it wasn't the fact that when cutting to named characters like Jon Snow they simply shamble slow enough to allow him to get away, making the whole scene reek of PlotArmour.
** Dragon fire was shown to be go through stone with ease, then in one scene Jon takes cover in some rubble from Viserion's breath ''with the fire washing over his head by a few centimetres''. [[ConvectionSchmonvection Even if the stone in question was somehow able to hold, the heat alone should still have burnt him anyway.]] Instead, he is completely unscathed. PlotArmour still going strong!

* Tyrion nominating Bran as King on the grounds that he has the best story, which everyone present just accepts. This is especially jarring as a lot of Bran's storyline was cut out. Tyrion refers to Bran as Bran the Broken and everyone is just going along with this, which comes across more as a mean joke then an actual epithet.

* The heavy use of KarmicDeath, which was epic when Arya did it (because [[TropesAreNotBad it fit with her character arc, motif and]] ''[[TropesAreNotBad modus operandi]]''), gets ridiculous when the Sand Snakes get killed in ''exactly'' the identical manner of their crimes. And likewise, Cersei not unleashing the Mountain on Ellaria and Tyene (which she did do so on Unella) feels out-of-character with the actual fate seeming both very mild and almost a MercyKill, and yet the show treats it as a FateWorseThanDeath, which rings hollow compared to what happened to other characters on the show.

* Tyrion nominating Bran as King on the grounds that he has the best story, which everyone present just accepts. This is especially jarring as a lot of Bran's storyline was cut out.
** Also him referring to Bran as Bran the Broken and everyone going along with this, which comes across more as a mean joke then an actual epithet.
* The Council scene in the last episode. Bronn somehow becoming Master of Coin feels especially ridiculous and makes it look like it was just there so he had something to do in the last episode.

* 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?

** Dragon fire was shown to be go through stone with ease, then in one scene Jon takes cover in some rubble from Viserion's breath ''with the fire washing over his head by a few centimetres''. [[ConvectionSchmonvection Even if the stone is question somehow was able to hold, the heat alone should had burnt him anyway.]] Instead, he is completely unscathed. PlotArmour still going strong!

* When the Night King finally dies, all his wights immediately drop to the ground. Several plop down from parapets and other high places in an almost cartoony fashion, and Viserion in particular collapses downward so suddenly and heavily that it's like a gravity well appeared underfoot.

* The battle of Winterfell. The overuse of HollywoodTactics and discredited horror tropes over common sense and actual battle strategy has the majority of viewers groaning at the ''sheer'' amount of idiocy displayed instead of being horrified as intended, making it blatantly clear that it's a spectacle for the sake of spectacle. Especially the initial Dothraki cavalry charge, which ends up being more remembered for stupid it was rather than the supposed sense of dread from seeing their lit fires slowly dying off into the darkness and the total silence for the following several seconds, which can no longer be taken seriously due to how forced it was in hindsight.

* The idea of winterizing plate armour by covering it with leather is accepted as brilliant in-universe but can't possibly be taken seriously by anyone who [[ArtisticLicense knows anything about actual armour]]. If you don't, just Google "gambeson" to learn why.

* It's hard to take Septa Unella's threatening demeanor seriously. "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!''

* Jon knocking on Daenerys' door and the two [[spoiler:wordlessly agree to finally resolve the UnresolvedSexualTension that's been bubbling between them the whole season. The held gazes, the seemingly silent agreement the two come to about consumating their relationship, and Dany shutting the door on the camera, are all straight out of a cheesy romantic movie. It doesn't help that, between how ''obvious'' their attraction has been (which other characters have discussed), how powerful a marriage alliance between them would be (which has also been discussed), and how much the writers have been pushing them together, their RelationshipUpgrade is much less a dramatic expression of passion and love and more of a CaptainObvious reveal that viewers all saw coming to the point it was pretty obvious it would happen now in the season finale.]]