sne Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Probably a bit less light pollution in northern Westeros than what we are used to here in Europe and the US Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 30, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2019 11 hours ago, Brumerican said: “He wants to erase this world, and I am its memory.” Yeah I get that. But you could probably get that done after you've won the actual battle. You know, make sure everyone is dead first and then kill the crippled guy who can't do anything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 30, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2019 The darkness stuff. It was annoying at first. Any sort of glare on the screen made it impossible. I actually waited half an hour until it was nearly dark and then tried again and it was far far better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 9 hours ago, Demitri_C said: Best part for me Hide contents When the little girl was getting crushed and she stabbed dead giant in the eye Quality scene Considering she was only ever meant to have a minor part in one scene, a couple of seasons back, what a way to go! General discussion...Do we really need to all use spoiler tags in a topic that's almost exclusively about spoilers? If you're daft enough to come in to the topic without being up to date, you get what you deserve. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Zen Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Well, that was intense. Part of me really enjoyed the sheer intensity of it all, part of me was left wanting more actual dramatic content. I shan’t be too picky, so overall I thought it was good television. (But, yeah, turn up the light next time, pretty please.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 4 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: Yeah I get that. But you could probably get that done after you've won the actual battle. You know, make sure everyone is dead first and then kill the crippled guy who can't do anything. I guess you could attribute it to overconfidence. I mean, he'd just stood in an inferno with a smirk on his face. They'd established him as this almost omnipotent being.As soon as you realise that all the northern defenders had done was make his army bigger, it was GG. There was never going to be a way to end that fight that didn't feel incredibly cheap. I found Arya's part in the episode to all be a bit silly even without that. I know she's had all of the training and she's meant to be a bad-ass assassin, but doing acrobatics over the dead, and the whole "she's so bad ass, she has to design her own weapons because there aren't any good enough for her" thing? Eugh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 30, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2019 The only Arya bit I didn't like was when she was suddenly in that library bit sneaking around after she'd been outside slaying them in their hundreds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ml1dch Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 1 minute ago, Stevo985 said: The only Arya bit I didn't like was when she was suddenly in that library bit sneaking around after she'd been outside slaying them in their hundreds. I thought the set piece itself was great. But I did think I'd accidentally skipped ten minutes with the sudden jump from thousands of bodies piling in everywhere and chaos to half a dozen shuffling, stalking figures around a somehow silent room. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 5 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: The only Arya bit I didn't like was when she was suddenly in that library bit sneaking around after she'd been outside slaying them in their hundreds. I presume that was meant to highlight how easily she could sneak around and avoid detection when the wights could even hear tiny drops of blood to try to make her sneaking up for the final attack a little less implausible. Which was then slightly undermined by her roar when she leaps to attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Turns out The Night King might not be dead after all. Spoiler Was spotted in Russia last night watching football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Another slightly amusing point, Ghost clearly being edited in during post, being a variety of shapes and sizes, and no characters acknowledging his existence in any way 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 23 minutes ago, Davkaus said: I guess you could attribute it to overconfidence. I mean, he'd just stood in an inferno with a smirk on his face. They'd established him as this almost omnipotent being.As soon as you realise that all the northern defenders had done was make his army bigger, it was GG. There was never going to be a way to end that fight that didn't feel incredibly cheap. I found Arya's part in the episode to all be a bit silly even without that. I know she's had all of the training and she's meant to be a bad-ass assassin, but doing acrobatics over the dead, and the whole "she's so bad ass, she has to design her own weapons because there aren't any good enough for her" thing? Eugh. It's obvious that arya must have changed her face to be a night walker as that's the only way any of them to could get close to the night king as when snow tried to get close he just awoke more dead warriors. I would have loved to have seen arya and Jon snow battling the night king together that would have been brilliant to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 34 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: It's obvious that arya must have changed her face to be a night walker Surely they'd show that if it was meant to be the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Chindie Posted April 30, 2019 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2019 As said yesterday, the writing in this episode was legitimately bad. The spectacle (when you could see it...) was near unprecedented in TV, but the writing was shite. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan_of_oz Posted April 30, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2019 Really, really didn't like virtually the whole episode bar a few random scenes. I realise I'm in the minority but I thought it was difficult to watch, and the night king's death scene was lame.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 Have watched it again, and yep, load of old shite. Dreadful, dreadful writing that almost seemed to ruin all of the great storylines in all of the previous series. Putting aside the fact that it was physically almost unwatchable, there were so many holes it was laughable. Just because a series is based on fantasy and magic, doesn't mean it should completely suspend logic altogether. The only potential redeeming feature is that I hope the human politicking and bitching gets ramped up again, because the whole "Winter is Coming" narrative was massively botched last night. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 5 minutes ago, Villan_of_oz said: Really, really didn't like virtually the whole episode bar a few random scenes. I realise I'm in the minority but I thought it was difficult to watch, and the night king's death scene was lame.... I'm with you completely. Such a massive let down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted April 30, 2019 VT Supporter Share Posted April 30, 2019 11 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Hide contents I completely agree with all the criticisms about 'plot armour' and how ridiculous it was that major characters (Brienne! Samwell!) who were completely surrounded were just somehow okay. Spoiler It's the one thing that I do find slightly annoying and they seem to do it so often. A character is screwed, like proper screwed, in a situation they couldn't possibly get out of. But you never actually see them die. Ten minutes later, right as rain. I don't let it get in the way of my enjoyment though. It's proper good telly and although there are things you can find to criticise it, I'm hugely enjoying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted April 30, 2019 Share Posted April 30, 2019 John Snow being a case in point. Completely surrounded by newly risen dead, then somehow makes it away unscathed (and unexplained) to pop up somewhere else ten minutes later. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted April 30, 2019 Moderator Share Posted April 30, 2019 22 hours ago, sne said: Hide contents So is it "Summer is Coming" now? Sound a bit too much like a porno... Spoiler I've seen the sequel. Summer is coming twice. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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