History YMMV / GameOfThronesS6E7TheBrokenMan

* EpilepticTrees: Arya's WhatAnIdiot behavior coupled with some noted odd tics (tossing the coin with her right hand despite being left-handed and her odd manner of walking) have led to tons of theories as to there being a twist behind her plot in this episode. A common theory is that it was really Jaquen pretending to be her due to some thinking the walk mirrored hers, but there are other theories as well.

** Sansa's backbiting against Davos to Jon also got this reaction from fans, especially since she mocks Stannis' achievements and Davos sticking with the Starks despite not being a Northerner and a man of the Night's Watch (which Jon points out to her). Some find this especially harsh because Stannis died trying to liberate Winterfell and restore the Starks, which should at the very least earn her polite respect, especially as it was his fighting the Boltons that enabled her to escape Ramsay. Her parroting Brienne's complaints about Stannis killing Renly, which invited this reaction from fans in the previous episodes, now results in Sansa getting the same reaction.
* WhatAnIdiot: After being told in no uncertain terms that killing the actress she'd been hired for was her last chance to avoid a fast death, Arya isn't suspicious at all when a strange old woman approaches her while she's all alone.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The fact that Yara's ToughLove treatment of Theon works, rather than backfiring as it probably would in real life. When explaining their reasons, the producers said that a medieval society wouldn't have had much understanding of psychology and therapy. While true, if that wouldn't work today, why would it work for Theon? What if Theon actually attempted suicide? Imagine how much this would have changed Yara and Theon's relationship. Yara could have had an MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, while also making the point that recovering from severe traa and abuse takes ''time'', not an "inspirational" speech.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The fact that Yara's ToughLove treatment of Theon works, rather than backfiring as it probably would in real life. When explaining their reasons, the producers said that a medieval society wouldn't have had much understanding of psychology and therapy. While true, if that wouldn't work today, why would it work for Theon? What if Theon actually attempted suicide? Imagine how much this would have changed Yara and Theon's relationship. Yara could have had an OhMyGodWhatHaveIDone moment, while also making the point that recovering from severe traa and abuse takes ''time'', not an "inspirational" speech.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Brother Ray, the stand-in for Septon Meribald and the Elder Brother [[spoiler:who are both still alive in the books]]. The fact that the show didn't fully adapt his famous Broken Men speech or minister to veterans at a hospital or interact with Brienne (considered even by detractors to be the high points of ''Literature/AFeastForCrows''), and that he's only introduced to awkwardly give Sandor angst with a simplistic PacifismBackfire has made many lament the missed potential of the character, especially since [=McShane=] is excellently cast.

* HarsherInHindsight: "The North Remembers." Season 5 turned this into [[MemeticMutation a rallying cry]] where the viewers assumed that the other Houses would rise up against the Boltons. Turns out the North ''also'' remembers Robb Stark breaking his vows and getting most of their Lords killed. Most of the Northern Houses outright refuse aid to Jon and Sansa.

* TakeThatScrappy: Retroactively. Talisa is referred to as a "foreign whore" and blamed for the reason the North is the way it is.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The Brotherhood members who massacre the Septon and the villagers. Were they really from the Brotherhood Without Banners, or pretenders? Or maybe they ''were'' from the brotherhood, and are actually rogues. We get an answer in the next episode.

* HilariousInHindsight: Brother Ray dies by hanging. Between being cast in this episode and it airing, Ian [=McShane=] was cast as Mr. Wednesday, an incarnation of the Norse god Odin in the TV series version of Literature/AmericanGods. Odin famously was hanged for knowledge.

** Yara's treatment of Theon and her speech to Theon on being an Ironborn was intended by the showrunners to be a legitimate DareToBeBadass moment, but instead it comes of as highly mean-spirited and insensitive. Some also point out the AesopAmnesia of Theon trying to be Ironborn again since it was his attempt to be that which caused problems for him. The fact that Theon is the only one who seems to care that he is a child murderer and has to remind Yara only makes her feel like a typical Greyjoy JerkAss. Also the implication that people with PTSD should kill themselves was not received well.

* MagnificentBastard: Margaery earns this in full, acting so well she needs to give Olenna a clue that it really is an act. The Queen of Thorns herself was fooled!

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Brother Ray, the stand-in for Septon Meribald and the Elder Brother [[spoiler:who are both still alive in the books]]. The fact that the show didn't fully adapt his famous Broken Men speech or minister to veterans at a hospital or interact with Brienne (considered even by detractors to be the high points of ''Literature/AFeastForCrows''), and that he's only introduced to awkwardly give Sandor angst with a simplistic PacifismBackfire has made many lament the missed potential of the character, especially since [=McShane=] is excellently cast. This may have something to do with [=McShane's=] utter contempt for the show, which he almost walked out on after discovering his old friends Charles Dance and Stephen Dillane had already been killed off.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: The Brotherhood members who massacre the Septon and the villagers. Were they really from the Brotherhood Without Banners, or pretenders? Or maybe they ''were'' from the brotherhood, and are actually rogues.
** Yara after her little "therapy" session with Theon in Volantis. Is she a JerkWithAHeartOfJerk who's advice basically amounted to telling a castrated torture survivor in a ''whorehouse'' to "suck it up or fuck off and die", or is she honestly trying to help Theon in the one way that she knows how to because of how out of touch Ironborn society is with the rest of Westeros, especially considering this is a setting where ThereAreNoTherapists?

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Brother Ray, the stand-in for Septon Meribald and the Elder Brother [[spoiler:who are both still alive in the books]]. The fact that the show didn't fully adapt his famous Broken Men speech or minister to veterans at a hospital or interact with Brienne (considered even by detractors to be the high points of ''Literature/AFeastForCrows''), and that he's only introduced to awkwardly give Sandor angst with a simplistic PacifismBackfire has made many lament the missed potential of the character, especially since [=McShane=] is excellently cast. This may have something to do with [=McShane's=] utter contempt for the show, which he almost walked out on after discovering his old friends Charles Dance and Stephen Dillane had already been killed off.
** The AdaptationalVillainy of the Brotherhood into total hypocrites and a mafia has disappointed many fans of the popular EnsembleDarkhorse, especially since the novels emphasize that they are LaResistance who are beloved and sheltered by the people of the Riverlands precisely because they ''don't'' exploit them. Some also argue that it's ComicallyMissingThePoint of the WarIsHell aesop by making them villains instead of KnightTemplar.