Wtf Jojen dies. Brynden looked a little too alive for my liking, if you know what i'm getting at. And where da fuk is coldhands? I guess lady stoneheart will be saved for later, which wont necessarily be bad. I thought it was actually nice to end with Arya setting off to Braavos.
Also, ding dong, the whore is dead, praise the gods!
Okay considering that Tysha has hardly been mentioned since that one season 1 scene, it makes sense that she wasn't mentioned in Tyrions scenes.
I feel that they aren't ruining characters, they are removing all the filler background bollocks that only a minority care about. I've read the books and I prefer the show and the way the show portrays the characters.
All the Jon Snow, Arya and Dany scenes I thought were actually really good. The Tywin/Cersei scene was brilliant. However the Jaime/Cersei scene was retarded and the Bran skeleton scene was a bit crazy. Other than that I thought it was a good finale.
The thing about Tysha being left out is that she is (as far as I remember) the reason he kills Tywin. He decided to kill him after Jaime told him that she was not a whore, not just because he was in the mood to do some killin. Also, killing Shae in self defense was a no no.
He might as well have killed Cersei for all the motivation he had in the episode (i.e. you treated me badly and want me dead). In the books, he had a special reason to kill Tywin, as Indo has said.
This isn’t the first time the author was forced to cut back because of the upcoming book. In July Martin revealed to Entertainment Weekly he'd be taking a break from “Game of Thrones” to work on the sixth novel. Martin wrote episodes for the first four seasons, but decided to skip Season 5 of the HBO show to work on the book.