You guys are right, and I'm just going through the process of getting that episode out of my mind. This show is nothing like I've witnessed before. It's hard to watch a piece of fiction and not get attached to the characters in some way, and naturally you gravitate to the guys that seem to be the nicest. Even characters like Jamie who straddle the line between decent guy and incredible asshole, are worth rooting for due to there being a sense they don't fully exist morally in a black or white zone. That there exists a tangible element of nobility in them. The brutal way this show deals with absolutely ripping apart everything you've ever thought made sense in scripted television, just knocks the wind clean out of your lungs and leaves your mind reeling trying to make sense of it all.
I've never cried before while watching a TV show until this episode. Stuff like Ned's execution, and the Red Wedding pissed me off, but I never found myself tearing up as the scenes played on the television. But with Oberyn, I sat there with my hands visibly shaking and my eyes watering as this fictional character was dispatched in the cruelest death scene I have witnessed in my life. There was no time to prepare myself like I was during the Stark deaths; it came on instantly and like an anvil to the head, I had no time brace myself. Ellara Sand's reaction mirrored my own, and for a moment I just sat there stunned. I think this is what makes this show so incredible. That although it abuses the living hell out of you by watching characters you like get torn to pieces, it can elicit such incredible emotions from its viewers.
Time to reassess how to view this show going forward. Probably just stick to supporting just 2 or 3 characters, and just letting everything else play out the way it's intended. Arya/Dany/Tyrion. Let's hope we don't go 0/2 this season cause I would seriously lose my mind lol
Oh and, so much for #theNorthRemembers. Am I to believe that all the other Stark bannermen have now sworn fealty to Lord Roose Bolton?
