10 Stupidest Game Of Thrones Moments
8. Theon Gets Kicked In The Groin And Feels Nothing
It’s scenes like this that make you wonder in annoyance why Theon is still alive. Suffice to say, it was not a worthy follow-up to the compelling pep-talk from Jon Snow about Theon being both Stark and Ironborn.
The cinematography was atrocious with the constant cuts and the camera being controlled by a bobblehead, and the fight choreography was poor and embarrassing.
Theon may no longer have balls, but three knees to the groin would still hurt – he doesn’t have a metal plate down there, and he would still have a likely infected wound.
If you wanted to leap to the defence of the showrunners, you could argue that him not feeling any pain was symbolic of him becoming a man again and moving past that horrific part of his life.
But, even if that feeble rebuttal were true, it was still an eye-rolling scene that should not have been in Game Of Thrones.
It’s another example of why the Ironborn cannot be taken seriously in the show, and – if it’s symbolic of anything – it’s a personification of the show’s writers struggling without George R.R Martin.