YMMV / Game Of Thrones S 5 E 6 Unbowed Unbent Unbroken

• Alternative Character Interpretation: King Tommen's hesitance to have the Kingsguard stop Margaery's arrest may not be actual pacifism. The Kingsguard has few representatives in the room at the time, and more importantly, even the knights who are there are (according to Ser Barristan) barely worthy of the name. Armored as they are, they would likely be able to free Margaery, but fighting through the Sept of Baelor far enough that Tommen and his royal entourage can reach the safety of the Red Keep? Maybe Tommen is not so much weak as he is wise.
• Fight Scene Failure:
  • Jaime and Bronn's fight with the Sand Snakes. Compared to Oberyn's graceful skill with the spear, Obara's twirling comes across as clumsy and slow◊. Nymeria's contribution to the fight seems to be whipping from a distance, which Jaime and Bronn treat as an annoyance at most, and Tyene just sort of flails her daggers◊. In the end, the Snakes didn't really put up any more of a fight than the mooks that Jaime and Bronn got their uniforms from, which begs the question of how they managed to actually survive against Jaime and Bronn.
  • In his DVD commentary, writer Bryan Cogman claims everything that could go wrong for the scene did. As scripted, the fight was supposed to be tightly shot in the corridors of the palace at night, but since the Alcazar is a major tourist site they were restricted to a very tight schedule that precluded filming at night or inside the palace, resulting in the fight being filmed in the open garden during the day...which didn't make much sense in-universe, and drastically affected their ability to use stunt doubles and editing to hide that the actresses (who'd only had a few days' co-ordinated practice) simply couldn't match the choreography. Of course, Cogman paints all this as beyond the producers' control, ignoring that they chose to press on despite the restrictions, apparently without realizing they weren't really capitalizing on their production coup of filming at a UNESCO World Heritage site if the scene itself turns out awful.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: Contrasting with all of the above, the Hall of Faces looks amazing, spooky and grand.