Gotta say. I was pretty disappointed with a majority of the episode. Succumbed to a lot of the same issues they had in the last season. Reactive. Plotlines feel pasted together. Inexplicable decisions. A tonnnnn of deus ex machina. First episode was strong, the second was phenomenal. Just thought this was mid tier thrones.
So, the part right before the NK gets stabbed, and he and Bran are just staring at each other. Are they communicating? It seems like a long time to just stand there doing nothing. Maybe he was explaining some stuff to Bran. Hopefully that's talked about in the next episode.
Last week was "better" writing wise for sure, got a lot of great character moments and stuff, the type of character centered stuff that this show has done really well at times throughout its run. Hard to beat this weeks in terms of adrenaline/atmosphere/overall experience. My heart was racing lol
Yeah this is a legit (but small) complaint for me. I would have liked to have seen them come in and start jacking people up, maybe even have Brienne or Jaime or someone kill one.
The amount of people throwing shade at this episode and comparing it episode to The Last Jedi on Reddit is hysterical to me, like that's a bad thing.
Did I miss where a bunch of Dothraki died in previous episodes? I feel like their numbers were pretty small. It is a baffling tactical decision to go charging in to the night against the undead. But that's par for the course for fantasy military decisions. Helms Deep having a huge drain in the outer wall? Dumb. I thought it was pretty interesting that Grey Worm allowed his force to be used as just a way to slow down the undead to give them time to light the trench.
Huh that brings up an interesting thought. They made such a big deal about having everyone getting dragonglass weapons so they could fight WWs, and nothing really ever came of it lol. Unless the dragonglass is supposed to be special against the wights too? I might’ve missed that.
YEah watching him look at his fellow Unsullied realizing he was about to cut them off from the retreat and giving them certain death was tough.
Yeah the dragonglass kills the wights for good too...but damn it would have been cool if they had taken out a couple of White Walkers with them. I figured they would have put more white walkers there in general. It was assumed that there were roughly 90-95 of them.
What an episode. From a technical standpoint it's one of the most incredible things I've ever seen on-screen, television or movie. The battles in the later seasons makes me wish they could go back and do a larger budget re-shoot of Blackwater just to do it justice. The darkness made it a little hard to follow at times, but I think that was the point. They really captured the chaos and claustrophobia one would experience being there, and it was amazing. Narrative-wise, I was a little disappointed when they confirmed that the Night King was actually there, instead of headed to King's Landing. Though, judging from the way the battle went, I don't know that anyone would've survived to fight again without his being there to be killed. I loved Arya being the one to kill him, and how she did it using the dagger that started it all and the same move she used while sparring with Brienne last season. I assumed it might be Jon, or even Dany killing him (if they opted to kill him at all, that is), so that was a very nice twist. It also felt completely earned character-wise. There are also considerably more main characters left standing than I'd have guessed there would be, but that doesn't mean the battle was without impact. Dany's massive army is all but gone, and they still have to fight another battle against seemingly-impossible odds. Still, I didn't expect them to completely wipe the NK and his army from the board with three episodes left.
Seriously, why are you still watching this? Why bother? When I got done with the episode last night and came in here, you literally live blogged the episode in here with a negative post about some small nitpick every 10 minutes. It’s insane to live like that and is it just because the show is a big deal to so many that you think it’s cool or edgy to just beat this dead horse so long? We get it, you think the writing is beneath you. We get it, action doesn’t interest you nor do the typical hoops we jump through for this show. But if you’re just gonna do this right up until the end this’ll be the third thread I unsub from in 2 days.
Thought this was a pretty decent review on the episode https://www.avclub.com/game-of-thrones-descends-into-a-nightmare-from-which-it-1834369261
I mean, okay? I’m having fun watching the show and talking about the spectacle, which is the entire reason I started watching and commenting. Seeing different live reactions and who liked what and who didn’t like what is a good time. Is nitpicking only allowed if this is your favorite show of all time? I didn’t even say the most negative things in the thread or question most of the narrative decisions in this one. My main problem was that the visuals were too hard to make out and the editing too chaotic, and I’m clearly not alone in that. Not everything has to be bending over backwards in love to have value, and the memes are fun.
Yeah, I don't get comparing the two episodes. Yeah, it's the same show, but both episodes serves their purpose and are both done extremely well.
I really liked that one. Both AV club reviews are pretty much in agreement about it being fun to watch and good at setting a mood, but not particularly deep the more you get past what happened. It’s fun when those two match up because I feel like the newbies and the experts are often looking for very different things from episodes.
It wasn’t that you said the MOST negative things, but I’m pretty sure you saying something was fun on the last page was the first positive thing I’ve seen you say really in a long time in here. Up until that, it hasn’t seemed like you’ve enjoyed one single aspect of your run through with the series.
I thought it was an alright episode. Some high highs and some low lows. I am bummed the NK is dead already because the biggest draw to me was the overlying mystery of him and his buddies and whatever the hell Bran is, even if that isn't the "point" of the show. I'm sure we'll find out what he was doing when he warged to the raven, at least I hope we do.
I literally said something was amazing in the post you quoted?? I’m pretty sure you’re just looking for negativity for the sake of it. I’ve been very clear about who I care about and what I enjoy and giving it credit when they nail something.