Top 10 WTF moments

What’s the haps hapless gorms. Since it’ll be a year I’ve ed the amino faster than Varys can swim, I thought I might as well indulge in the Thronesfest challenge. My first attempt will tackle the top 10 WTF moments the show has served up so far, and much like the Frey pies did to Walder, not all of them were very welcome to the palate but all left me bamboozled, flabbergasted, gobsmacked, bonkerblasted and well in general surprised. Picking out this list is of course a path to self loathing as individual scenes don’t count, so defining moments was a very ardous process. Anywho this cart is off the rails already, so here goes.

10) It's Kraken not Kra-cant

When Theon turned those boys to crisp, it absolutely took me by surprise, cause he was the character I most identified with, having harrowingly similar facial structures. The fact he would lose his way so hard was rather depressing, and definitely hollowed me out as I was dreading his heel turn for a while.

9) Definitely not a hot pie.

The show okie doked me. After burying any credibility left in Arya’s arc, they turned around and gave us this totally boss ass moment. I had given up on her, but to then turn around and deliver this, its mostly a WTF moment from the writers than it is for Arya or Frey.

8) The King Who Cared.

This is kinda the anti thesis of the last one. All s5, I held out hope that they knew what they were doing with Stannis. Surely, they had a plan. Surely he would survive. Surely they would give the most complex character a smidge more respect. Surely, if they are to kill him, they will give him a death scene worthy of a king, the one rightful king. Surely, all of the other 4 kings got memorable on screen deaths, even that frog Renly and the fart Balon. Surely Surely Surely. Well Brienne drove a sword through that surely.

7) No, obviously kinslaying is a-ok.

Viserys’ death was just pure awesomeness, it was fitting, it was heavy handed, yet it was subtle. It was the kinda death that actually made me pause and think about the moralities of ambition and the futility of long laid plans. It was utter brilliance,

6) Triplets.

Ok I know I crap on Essos, but so does Dany on her trek across the shitland for most of Dance so it's fine. But I will concede, the first dragon moment was crazy spectacular. Its crazy when you expect it fully, but it still manages to blow you away. This really stands out.

5) O Commander, my Commander.

Ed. Scythe. Wall. Dead fuckers. Nuff said.

4) So how’s all that not fighting in tourneys working out.

The Ned Jaime fight was the moment I was hooked. I was trapped harder than a hooker in the presence of Pycelle. Utter helplessness, this was the moment that I knew it was and would always be the best tv show I would watch, for a long long time at least(lets see how s7 does before making grandiose declarations).

3) A Clash of Kings and Queens.

This was the show at its finest for me, true scheming, characters having well defined and logical motivations, and culminating a season’s worth of build up to one single nerve wrecking moment. It had everything, kings clashing, queens scheming, and then the finale. Stannis being dragged away, I could feel the palpable dread flow through me at that point. Tywin walking through the door, Loras taking off his helm. Cersei dropping the poison, giving us that one genuine smile, and kissing her son. What a ruddy brilliant show this is. And btw, take a hint Petyr and Sansa, this how you do an end battle sweep , not project it from 7 episodes beforehand and have no twist at all.

2) The Boy who cried wolf.

Truly my favorite scene in the series, when that Stark music hit, and he came galloping in like freakin Prince Charming, and he dropped the traitorous kingslayer, I still it. My mouth was gaping, and that moment more than any even the next, warranted a true WTF.

1) Mayhaps this marriage was a mistake.

Ok lets be real here, if this isn’t your top moment while making this list, you need to send in your application to Roose Bolton immediately cause you’re either a scumbag liar, or have no soul. I looked at the wall for a solid 7 minutes after that episode ended, and honestly it made me despise the story a little bit. That’s how they wound you up, they made you care about all these characters, and then wham. I cant even revisit that, its too painful.

Anyway that’s my list, and I’ll make another one of the challenges soon. And thanks to all the content s and challenge creators and all the people in charge for keeping this community going. This is a special place, and thanks to all of you for giving us the chance to reaffirm that we are not the only crazy ones out there. I don’t have a cool outro.

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