Yeah I assumed the show was gonna just ignore that since they didn’t get into the magic sword thing at all. I also don’t even know if that has to happen in the book honestly. Jon may be the Prince who was Promised but the stories of Azor Ahai are just legends at this point, no idea if he actually forged Lightbringer by stabbing his lover and etc
I had 3 friends complain to me things were too dark. Maybe my eyes are better. What do you think you couldn’t see? Like I don’t get the critique for a night war scene lit by only flame.
I know he doesn’t speak, but him just lazily walking up and taking his sweeeeeet time staring at Bran and looking cool and sloooooowly taking out his sword was 100% out of the “bad guy caught monologuing which leads to his demise” handbook.
was fine on my TV -- definitely on the darker side but could see everything just fine. but maybe some other tvs treat colors differently idk?
it's almost as if it was a battle at night in a goddamn magic ice storm before electricity was invented
So much of this episode was so dark and foggy and the camera was jumping around so much that I was having a hard time following everything. Once it got more focused in the second half, I really enjoyed it tho!
There were a couple of scenes that were dark but otherwise I think it was just an unrelenting army of the dead swarming over everything that made it hard at times to keep track of who was fighting who. Which is fine with me, I figured it’d be like that, pure chaos and such
Alright. Fantastic episode, and I have some thoughts..... Jorah almost made me weep. He loved Dany, and died showing it. Lady Moromont fucking went out KILLING. A. Fucking. Giant. Wight. THIS EPISODE WAS SOOOO GOOD, BUT THE LIGHTING WAS REALLLLLLY BAD I WAS SO UPSET 60% OF THE TIME BECAUSE I COULDNT SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING. My main fear was they were gonna play it safe with who dies, and I was kinda right. Honestly I didn’t expect them to show Lady M dying, and Mel coming back....then how she died was poetic af. Though all the usual suspects had plot armor. Theon, Berric, and Jorah :((((( Also Bran I thought for sure was gonna warg into a Dragon. Again my fav part of the whole ep was Mel showing up, and contributing the way she did. Doesn’t excuse child murder.
I have a lot of questions now, mostly around Bran. Like does he become a little more normal now that the NK is dead? And what was he actually up to leading up to the end sequence?
The only person who survived that I was expecting to die was Brienne. Don’t know who else anyone should have really thought was going to die tonight. Pretty much everyone else still has stuff to do.
Battle of Winterfell MVP’s: 1) Arya 2) Mel 3) Lady M 4) Theon 5) Jorah Very surprised how Brienne was just there....esp aster last episode. Again THE LIGHTING WAS SO BAD SHE PROBABLY DID MORE THAT I DIDNT SEE!
Yeah, some of it was just literally too dark to make out what was happening but most of it came from the chaos mixing with the lighting. There were tons of scenes where I couldn’t tell if it was people or wights who were dying or if important characters were getting got or just random red shirts. Hardhome was kind of the same way, though that was a different color issue obviously.