Game of thrones season 8 [contains spoilers]
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Cloo
Banana for scale
Now Arya's had her Crowning Moment of Awesome, I guess there's no way she's making it to the end, but you know what, now she's had the CMA, I can live with that.
I did wonder whether they might pull a surprise by not totally killing everyone as expected and something vaguely optimistic seeming happening... but both gsv and I are now wondering what the Three Eyed Raven's game is. Could it be that the Night's King was actually trying to get rid of an even bigger threat to everything?
I did wonder whether they might pull a surprise by not totally killing everyone as expected and something vaguely optimistic seeming happening... but both gsv and I are now wondering what the Three Eyed Raven's game is. Could it be that the Night's King was actually trying to get rid of an even bigger threat to everything?
souljacker
innit
I enjoyed that. Completely daft and some highly dubious tactics from the living but very entertaining.
binka
!!!!!!!!!
I'm also wondering if that's really the end of it with nearly 4 hours leftgsv and I are now wondering what the Three Eyed Raven's game is. Could it be that the Night's King was actually trying to get rid of an even bigger threat to everything?
T & P
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Enjoyed it but it wasn’t by any means vintage GoT imo. A few thoughts:
-As epic big budget battles go, I preferred the Battle of the Bastards. Less GGI and magic and a more organic feel.
- The only unpredictable thing for me was the relatively low big character death count. The crypt dead coming to life had been guessed by just about everyone. And as the climax approached and virtually every last character was hopelessly surrounded and about to be killed, it seemed obvious that all the undead were going to have to drop dead at the last moment, and likely triggered by the death of the Night King.
- You could also argue that whereas recently deceased undead fresh corpses armed to the teeth are a formidable opponent, long dead remains that consist (or should) of a pile of bones or a highly decayed body with no discernible muscle mass and no weapons would be fairly easy to fight off and defeat even by a child.
- And why not send the women and children away anyway? They had ample warning...
- On that note, the undead’s massive vulnerability feels a bit of a storyline cop out, and blatant carelessness by the Night King, who could at least have surrounded himself with a handful of bodyguards when on the ground to reduce the chance of what just happened.
I’ll stop now as I did like it and am generally happy to suspend disbelief as much as possible. I guess i’m too used to the very high standards of the series. But said upthread I enjoyed last week’s episode more. Fantastic further character development and human interest.
-As epic big budget battles go, I preferred the Battle of the Bastards. Less GGI and magic and a more organic feel.
- The only unpredictable thing for me was the relatively low big character death count. The crypt dead coming to life had been guessed by just about everyone. And as the climax approached and virtually every last character was hopelessly surrounded and about to be killed, it seemed obvious that all the undead were going to have to drop dead at the last moment, and likely triggered by the death of the Night King.
- You could also argue that whereas recently deceased undead fresh corpses armed to the teeth are a formidable opponent, long dead remains that consist (or should) of a pile of bones or a highly decayed body with no discernible muscle mass and no weapons would be fairly easy to fight off and defeat even by a child.
- And why not send the women and children away anyway? They had ample warning...
- On that note, the undead’s massive vulnerability feels a bit of a storyline cop out, and blatant carelessness by the Night King, who could at least have surrounded himself with a handful of bodyguards when on the ground to reduce the chance of what just happened.
I’ll stop now as I did like it and am generally happy to suspend disbelief as much as possible. I guess i’m too used to the very high standards of the series. But said upthread I enjoyed last week’s episode more. Fantastic further character development and human interest.
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
The sacrifice of the Dothraki and the Unsullied was a disaster - a self made pyrrhic victory certainly. Can the Three Eyed Raven bring them back? hard to see how the goodies win otherwise. The whole Three eyed raven thing has been odd throughout (still not sure how they got over the wall - did I miss something?) but it adds to the mysticism.
donkyboy
Crazy Cat/Fox man
yes, the crypt dead should have been easy for the undead to fight off. And just smash their heads while they are crawling out. Easy.
donkyboy
Crazy Cat/Fox man
cybershot
Well-Known Member
A lot of people complaining on twitter that the sky Atlantic HD showing was poor quality?
Downloaded it myself and thought it was perfectly fine considering it was quite dark, but then I’m the nerd that calibrates the TV so that blacks are as black as can be.
Was the sky version that bad or just a case of people with 4K tv’s leaving it on the default ultra bright and auto motion plus settings and ending up with a crap juddering experience?
Downloaded it myself and thought it was perfectly fine considering it was quite dark, but then I’m the nerd that calibrates the TV so that blacks are as black as can be.
Was the sky version that bad or just a case of people with 4K tv’s leaving it on the default ultra bright and auto motion plus settings and ending up with a crap juddering experience?
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
Fair point actually.the ethnics got killed off.
D'wards
IT'S YOUR DECISION DANIEL
Yeah, it wasn't the bloodbath (main character wise) I thought it was gonna be
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
I watched it twice once in the morning in low light with curtains closed, then after dark in a pitch black room. Difference was striking (on now tv)
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
There's a couple of episodes left, so they couldn't kill too many off.
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
Yeah, we watched in pitch darkness. Our telly is OK, but a bit reflective, The episode was too dark to have any reflected light (NowTV - this evening)
BristolEcho
Well-Known Member
It's interesting to read Reddit where everyone's panning it and the relatively positive posts here.
Personally thought it was okay, but not as good as it could have been. Feel that building up the biggest threat to humankind to have it all fall down in one episode is a bit poor. Would have been interesting if they had to withdraw and then Cesri be forced into a corner. We'll see though as there are 3 more episodes to go.
We had issues with the lighting too.
Personally thought it was okay, but not as good as it could have been. Feel that building up the biggest threat to humankind to have it all fall down in one episode is a bit poor. Would have been interesting if they had to withdraw and then Cesri be forced into a corner. We'll see though as there are 3 more episodes to go.
We had issues with the lighting too.
mojo pixy
...שלא נמצא בשמאל
Meera and Bran eventually rocked up at Castle Black after they escaped from the tree cave and Hodor! did his thing. I was disappointed that the Night King touching Bran in a vision seemed to have no bearing on the eventual outcome. It was just a random scary event, with no import beyond the atmos.
I was kind of hoping it would be the thing that let the NK and the AotD through the wall. I wouldn't be surprised if this is how it goes down in the eventual book of the film .. but I'd forgotten about the televisual need for epicness, undead dragons and collapsing walls of ice.
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
Yeah but, how did they get north of the wall in he first place? (this may be ignorance resulting from me not really paying attention)
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
through one of the abandoned forts - Sam and Gilly were coming the other way and tried to direct them to Castle Black, but them (and Jojen) went north anyway
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
Yeah, I remember those bits, just not the actual crossing. I expect you are right though.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Its a climactic battle between good and evil, the big piece and the elemental evil threat is destroyed by one supremely skilled/magic individual as foretold by the prophecy of a mysterious sorceress. Thats high fantasy for you, its always variations on this sort of thing.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
It certainly wasn't anywhere near as good as the last 82 minutes of Crystanbul was.
Come to think of it, theres something else that keeps coming back every few years threatening to blight the world of men.
mojo pixy
...שלא נמצא בשמאל
Indeed. Gollum aided by Frodo falls into the Crack of doom with the Ring and Sauron collapses and his armies run away.
EtA, Arya has some amazing faces now, right? Including Littlefinger's, I guess - I wonder if ''Littlefinger'' might appear to talk to Cersei next (I've been wondering for a while if that might happen, I now feel more certain it will)
oh yes, edit again for:
Arya visits Cersei dressed as Littlefinger, gets herself killed by the Mountain. Take that to the (iron) bank
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
I watched it on nowtv and it was shite quality. I believe that it depends on your internet connection to a great extent. We have trouble with Netflix as well.
I thought it was great but a bit generic zombie movie for me in the middle bit.
Arya Stark FTW. Made me shout out loud. I was really worried she was a goner at one point.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I've been trying to think of a large fantasy epic where the final battle was as satisfying as the journey (all 20 odd books of Wheel of Time, no...) and I am drawing nothing. There's an inevitability to the final showdown between light and dark. *spoilers* light always defeats dark against improbable odds, and the goodie who betrayed? he suffers then dies (or is mortally wounded but survives) at the end for redemption. Betrayal is only redeemable through sacrifice you see. No remission without the blood, brethren, no remission without the blood.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
As a student of the Sharpe books and now into the Flashman series I consider myself an authority on these matters and also found their tactics lacking.
The unsullied were completely wasted with their big stabby things that were best for use on cavalry. Fighting off hordes of infantry needs slashy big swords.
Sending the Dothraki off like that made great telly but fuck me, what the fuck? Charge of the on fire brigade. Oh.....
Also who builds a castle with 20ft walls?
/armchair general
