Game Of Thrones Season 6: 26 WTF Moments

26. The Dorne Murders

It's rare in TV that you ever get to see something effectively retconned right in front of you in a way that makes it VERY obvious that someone wasn't happy with the way a certain storyline was going. Game Of Thrones bucked that trend in an almighty fashion right from the off in episode one, excising the lame Dorne sub-plot because it served very little on-going purpose.

Hampered by having the snooze-fest Arya story, the misguided loose end of Dorne and the rising damp of Sam's trip to the library, something had to be done. They could have just wheeled Prince Doran off quietly into the Never, to join Gendry in the forgotten realms between the pages, but instead they murdered him, killed his supposedly superlative warrior guard (nice job, mate) and then stabbed his surviving son through the face.

They might as well have just had one of the writers break the fourth wall at that point and say "happy now?". Because we all were once the shock wore off.