My biggest problems with the episode were actually pretty small. I mainly was just upset at those battle sequences, because:
- Casterly Rock looked like a castle on a rock. It's a fucking massive mountain-like rock that's been carved and sculpted from the inside out, it really is a massive boulder, just with bits of castle poking out from the sides and top. That's 100% of the art I've seen for it, and they completely threw those considerations out the window. That's frustrating. I mean, come on:
- The Unsullied were supposed to, theoretically at least, scale that entire cliff face, recover formations (which were way too TW for me), and climb the ladders without any sort of ranged weaponry at all? They were expecting to go up against a fully manned castle and just winged it with a 100% spearman roster? That's kinda dumb lol.
- The Lannister formation was kinda nonsense. Even if they're planning to flatout assault Highgarden, wouldn't it be way easier to surround it, lay siege for a couple of days maybe, and wait until the defenders are getting a bit exhausted from shifts and preparations and a bit hungry from more regulated meals while the attackers get well rested after a massive march from the Westerlands to Highgarden? And no, "but they attacked before the defenders were prepared" is not a good excuse, because with an army that massive, how does no one spot it and messages don't make it to Highgarden? What, is there zero resistance along the way? The Osgreys aren't doing so great, it's not even that clear if they're not extinct (but please don't be ;~;), but surely some other Northmarch lords could at
least get the message to Highgarden. I'm not saying that the Highgarden defenders should have won, it would definitely make sense that they would lose, but the Lannisters attacked in the weirdest way possible. That army formation looked like something in Total War when a noob plays with a 40 unit army.
- Also, the Unsullied choreography was just retarded, so much of that fight looked so unreal, and it finished off with a spear chuck into a guy who, for some reason, hopped up into the air just before and was super glued to the door.
I also don't want to hear "it was a dramatization because it was being narrated from a character who wasn't there's POV" excuse, because it clearly wasn't. It broke the fourth wall, if it was. Tyrion had no way of knowing Euron would reach them and destroy their fleet.