I really don't think the Ironborn and the dogs scene was anywhere near as bad as people make it out to be, honestly.
I saw a iffily-done scene with Yara abandoning Theon to his fate and disowning him while avoiding getting savaged, whereas everyone else seems to have seen some appalling wreck of a scene with the Ironborn screaming and weeping when confronted by some dogs. I genuinely don't see the big issue with the scene- I think it was badly done, but some of you have taken it as a grievous knock against the competence of the entire show, which I find totally baffling.
I liked the Karl Tanner bits last season too. He was a charismatic and enjoyably loathsome villain, and the plot at Craster's was a damn sight more interesting than anything else Jon would have been doing otherwise. People would have eaten that up with a spoon had it been in the books, and quibbled if D&D had changed some random inconsequential line.
While I'm knocking down some established truths, I like the addition of some personality and story for Grey Worm and Missandei. If we are to be spending a lot of time in Meereen, and I think we can take it as read that we are, I'd rather they spend a comparatively small amount of time building up personalities and plots for other members of Dany's party, instead of expecting us to be invested in the tribulations and schemes of Dasdfg bo Pqwert or whichever other unpronouncable non-entity features in any given chapter of ADWD
