Game of Thrones

[Xamnam]

Apr 29, 2019 9:48:23 GMT -6 neader said:

Apr 29, 2019 9:42:10 GMT -6 Xamnam said:

If I just want an action fix without concern for things making sense, there are so many movies that happen in the daylight.

Like Battle of the Bastards!

CLOUDY DAY

and to your point, BotB is exactly when I couldn't ignore the idiocy anymore. That's what moved it from television conventions to active distraction. 

[Javo]

[Javo]

Also, what's the deal with Bran? I thought he was supposed to be some sort of powerful character or something like that, and he was like: i don't care, I'm going to my happy place while everyone dies around me trying to protect me

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well the director did an amazing job with tension and gorgeous visuals with the winds slowly taking over the battlefield (we had to move to the bedroom cause our projector wasnt bright enough for the dark scenes)


but D&D really need to be shot and publicly dragged through the streets. the writing on this shit is so bad and has undone so much of the setup.

again it's just popcorn fodder for me at this point so im not gonna over-analyze it. but seriously every character has gotten so dumb. and motivations and backstories and explaining literally anything is just taking a backseat to action sequences and blue flames.

[jimmyrecard]

I'm just repeating what's already been said, but I can't understand how Brienne, Tormund, Greyworm etc. are still alive. The first two scenes where the armies collide Brienne is front center surrounded by baddies. Everyone around her died except her. Kinda weak.

And while it seemed like Bran was being useless, I'm sure there's a reason he snapped into the Ravens. I imagine he was doing something that will be revealed in the next episode or something. Because otherwise that made absolutely 0 sense.

Ultimately though the only twist for me is that the white walkers are done by the end of episode 3. I didn't think the Night King was going to die this early, but I don't really hate it because I've always found the politics, backstabbing of Kings Landing more interesting anyway.

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Apr 29, 2019 12:04:48 GMT -6 jimmyrecard said:

And while it seemed like Bran was being useless, I'm sure there's a reason he snapped into the Ravens. I imagine he was doing something that will be revealed in the next episode or something. Because otherwise that made absolutely 0 sense.

im pretty sure that was just Bran telling the Night King where he was to bait him into the godswood 

[Xamnam]

Look

I'm just saying

[Pale Hose]

Apr 29, 2019 12:09:04 GMT -6 @wretched said:

Apr 29, 2019 12:04:48 GMT -6 jimmyrecard said:

And while it seemed like Bran was being useless, I'm sure there's a reason he snapped into the Ravens. I imagine he was doing something that will be revealed in the next episode or something. Because otherwise that made absolutely 0 sense.

im pretty sure that was just Bran telling the Night King where he was to bait him into the godswood 

This was my assumption as well, but I think they need to explain/show this at some point.

[Pale Hose]

Like Bran should make it clear he knew that if he baited TNK into the godswood Arya would swoop in and do her thing.

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either bran's whole purpose in the show was to be bait for the night king and we have no use for him anymore (except maybe to spoil some shit about Cersei' past)

or he's gonna have a whole episode this season devoted to exposition and explaining literally everything. which will likely be very clunky in delivery and end up causing even more plotholes

[jimmyrecard]

If he was baiting the Night King then I guess that's ok...but they should have made that way more clear. Because for those of us who struggle to read between the lines on this kind of thing, it made no sense to me.

[jimmyrecard]

Oh and I don't believe that Bran's only purpose was to bait the NK. I bet he's pretty useful in the last few episodes.

[postfontaine]

RIP to House Mormont.  Though it's unfortunate that Jorah and Lyanna both died in this episode, at least they didn't go out like punks, unlike Edd and Theon (and Beric to a lesser extent)

[alady]

I thought Tormund got killed? When TNK reawakened all the dead wasn't he one of them?

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oh god how about the absurdly on-the-nose Beric (obnoxious zealot who gets resurrected) taking 27 stabbings while standing like he's on a cross to protect the others


maybe their most heavy handed visual yet

[Xamnam]

Seriously.

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Apr 29, 2019 12:45:48 GMT -6 alady said:

I thought Tormund got killed? When TNK reawakened all the dead wasn't he one of them?

nah think that was a different ginger. 

we cant have people's favorites die anymore because 

[alady]

Oh.

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i think they're seriously gonna make us deal with the love triangle of tormund/brienne/jaime up until the point that jaime and cersei have their moment in episode 6


because that's really a thing we need to consider as more than comic relief at this point

[Xamnam]

Hey, don't tell me a four-way between those parties wouldn't make for some electric water cooler talk.

[wanny]

For everyone talking about Bran being bait...didn't they say the episode before that was the exact plan?

[wanny]

Apr 29, 2019 9:25:31 GMT -6 borracho said:

speaking of the crypt, i thought for a moment that sansa and tyrion were going to do some thelma and louise suicide thing when they got knives out and just looked at each other.

Same

[neader]

Apr 29, 2019 13:48:13 GMT -6 wanny said:

For everyone talking about Bran being bait...didn't they say the episode before that was the exact plan?

Yeah but not just this episode the story. Essentially right now his path towards becoming the 3ER only resulted in Jon's heritage being known and him being bait for the NK. That's the only way it has affected the story. Oh and Littlefinger. 

I think a lot of this is just a result of the show writers realizing they don't have enough time to flesh out the magic aspect of this show in great detail so they're just glossing over it.

[falcozappa]

Great episode; the tension at the beginning was immense. The good thing about watching a day later (excruciating though the wait is) is that I’d heard that the darkness had been an issue for some folk so pretinkered with my TV settings.
My main issue with the episode was when Arya was creeping around the crypt avoiding the dead. It felt to me that a software developer for an upcoming GoT computer game had been hired as a creative consultant to ensure the game could use that scene. Mind you, it’s not uncommon for me to feel that way about a bunch of movies too; maybe I’ve just played too many video games.

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Apr 22, 2019 11:21:12 GMT -6 scoots said:

I was thinking while watching this that putting a bunch of people in the crypts while the armies go off and fight a dude who can raise the dead isn't the best idea.

Called it.

What a weird and chaotic episode. Once it got beyond the first main battle it got better.

Arya for some reason replicating the raptor scene from Jurassic Park was weird.

[llamaoftime]

My problem with the plot armor isn't so much that I think characters need to die, it's that they put multiple characters in impossible situations and then they miracously lived. It completely ruins the tension of an episode that besides that does a great job of making the situation seem hopeless

If you don't want to kill off certain characters, don't put them in impossible situations. Don't put main characters on the front lines where literally every other front line person dies. Don't put Dany in the middle of what should be hundreds of white walkers and have her live by a combo of Jorah going fucking super Saiyan and the white walkers deciding to only attack a few at a time instead of swarming despite them being pretty much the only two outside the castle walls. Don't put multiple characters in a crypt full of zombies with literally no weapons to protect themselves and then have every major character in the crypt live.

If the writers want those characters to live, stop putting them in impossible situations just to create a little extra drama. It cheapens everything

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“A lot of the problem is that a lot of people don’t know how to tune their TVs properly,” he continued. “A lot of people also, unfortunately, watch it on small iPads, which in no way can do justice to a show like that anyway.”

“Personally, I don’t have to always see what’s going on because it’s more about the emotional impact … Game of Thrones is a cinematic show, and therefore, you have to watch it like you’re at a cinema in a darkened room,” he said. “If you watch a night scene in a brightly lit room then that won’t help you see the image properly.”

[llamaoftime]

It might be because HBO Go's compression algorithm sucks but I was in a very dark room and it didn't help.

No one is watching this in a theater. It's still a TV show

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FUCK YOU ANDY

[ultravisitor]

Tonight's episode leaked, so be careful of spoilers.