10 Stupidest Game Of Thrones Moments
5. Jon Snow Charges At Ramsay's Army And Survives
Remember when the heroes in Game Of Thrones were punished for acting with their heart and not their head?
Apparently, the showrunners don’t as season six and seven were fantasy clichés with an entirely different tone to the series’ and George R.R Martin’s trademark for breaking genre conventions.
While Eddard Stark was punished for ineptitude and Robb was betrayed for falling in love and breaking his promise to the Freys, Jon Snow escaped his moment of idiocy in The Battle Of The Bastards like a common fantasy hero from another book.
The personification of him as a lone warrior certified him as an undefeatable God amongst men, robbing the battle of the unpredictability and tension that once made Game Of Thrones the must-see show.
True, the slow-motion image of him drawing his sword at Ramsay’s galloping army was admittedly badass, but the contrived way every charging horse avoided squashing him conflicted with the battle’s and show’s realism.
It was an over-the-top shot that would’ve been epic in any other medieval war movie or television show, but for Game Of Thrones it was a stupid, eye-rolling moment that embodied the show’s sudden reliance on Hollywood tropes.