Oh, that sequence was soooo disgusting, especially when one's eating: all those diarrhoetic shitters Samwell had to clean up, then he has to eat food that looks just like shit, and then the next day, the same shit, day in, day out. Poor Samwell deserves a reward just for doing that for weeks!
I could do without that scene. And it was so long, or it just felt that way because it was too disgusting to watch. But still I think they easily could have shortened it.
shareThis. I could have done without it also. Not because it wasn't amusing (it was), but because it doesn't really make sense in the way Sam's character has been developed. Remember that, before leaving Castle Black, Sam was the steward to Maester Aemon, who was old and feeble and blind. MOST LIKELY, especially in the later seasons after he returned to Castle Black with Gilly, Sam had to attend to some of the *ahem* more personal duties for Maester Aemon. So a long montage of him being grossed out by cleaning up everyone else's stuff at the Citadel doesn't really ring true with me.
Yeah, it's still gross, but you would think Sam would have been used to it by now.
Some of us sit down for a grand evening of supper/dinner and A Game of Thrones, instead that night the episode aired we were treated to literal shit on TV, making the meal something less to be desired.
Reminds me of the first Hobbit movie and then the Troll sneezes into the soup, so disgusting. I always lose my appetite thinking of that scene.
I actually found that to be the second most humorous scene in the entire series. Only the Dwarf Jousting at the Purple Wedding made me laugh harder.
shareI think they put that scene in there to give Sam a reason to not become a Maester after all.
His whole life people have been saying "You're smart but you're useless and no woman will ever be interested in you... why don't you become a maester!" So he's obviously going to become a hero and reclaim his birthright and marry Gilly, and nobody's going to say "Why's he going back to the people who treated him like dirt back then, he'd be happier as a maester".
Your view is completely reasonable. However, I viewed this as one of the key hints that "we don't have a book to follow anymore".
D&D did an amazing job of translating GRRM's books to the screen. Their efforts in translating his "outlines" to the screen have been considerably less impressive.
I remain hopeful for the final season, especially since there is no reason to believe that we will ever see another SOIAF novel.
I do agree with you, especially that we'll never see another SOIAF novel... not while GRRM is accepting so much money to let other writers finish his story for him.
I'm pretty sure it was always Martin's intent to make Sam a hero and return him to his birthright, he's at least a bit of a self-insert character.
Become a hero?! He’s killed a White Walker! He IS a hero. If what you meant was “be recognized as a hero,” then I agree. I think, and hope, that Sam has a promising future waiting for him.
shareI think he's going to become a the-world-couldn't-have-been-saved-without-him hero, not just the hero of one episode. GRRM and the writers seem to have an inexplicable fondness for him, or maybe he assumes that the most nerdy fans identify with him.
So IMHO he's the one character guaranteed a happy ending, him and Gilly.
I think you’re right.
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