They said it last episode. The 3 Eyed Raven holds the memories of the world and the Night King wants to destroy everything.
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Game of Thrones S8, Apr 14-May 19 @9PM EDT |OT| Aunt-Man and the Frost
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They said it last episode. The 3 Eyed Raven holds the memories of the world and the Night King wants to destroy everything.
I think the problem is that they took too many book plot lines and mixed them with TV stuff
Yup. Most of the negative comments around this episode, End Game, and TLJ have to do with the plot not going the direction that people had already planned out in their head.
Biggest complaint I would have is to do with the lighting of the episode, but that may have just been crap compression from my cable provider too.
it played ok on hbo go but the first epsidoe must have melted all of hbo's servers it kept going back and forth to 480p.... It wont really look amazing until the bluray.
Pretending to talk about politics =/ "Complex politics"
Bro, during The Long Night all of humanity around the world banded together. This time a couple of mooks banded together at one place to fight one army in one fight, the first fight and the last fight.
Should I be rooting for Cersei for some reason? Who cares if she finally gets what's coming to her
I also had zero issues watching this on my TV. Like yes it was dark, but I could make out who was who for the most part. The lighting coming from the flames was gorgeous.
Oh god the Drake curse FUCK. He should've been supporting the Starks. Also the Dothraki got sandbagged hard as fuck. They are supposed to be the greatest horseback warriors ever...only to get clowned off screen.
It wasn't "easy". The First Men and the Children of The Forest barely won. And even then it wasn't a total victory. It's why they built the wall.
You're going to be one of those book purists who will be raging at the writer whose going to replace GRRIM to finish the books when he meets his fate.
The next episode is going to be Dany wondering how she is going to rule the seven kingdoms with no army and half a dragon.
Ps4 HBO now app. Has never looked good on my tv(s) or friends.
I watched on a professionally calibrated OLED and it looked like shit. Prime Video on an Apple TV 4K. Really, really bad quality.
I mean, after all the shit these characters have been through it's good for them to get such a big win
We have no idea what they know except that they have some form of an ending that Martin is striving towards. We do know that Martin can't finish his penultimate book and that the central antagonist of this series is an invention of the showrunners. The Night King does not exist in Martin's books. D&D made him up so they could end the White Walkers.
God damn some of you guys are impossible to please.
A show about many things, primarily a war between humans for the Iron Throne, is about to wrap up with a war between humans for the Iron Throne.
I don't know if people are just nihilists, but what did you expect to happen? The Night King wins? He was going to lose at some point. Did that point have to be the very last episode of the series? Not necessarily. I mean, sure, he could have, but they chose to do it mid season. So that the remaining three episodes can focus on the human war that got many people into this series in the first place. The fantasy and white walkers and dragons were always a part of the series, yes, but the human conflict is what sucked a lot of people in. I think it's fitting that the ending of show is focusing on the human conflict.
This episode was pretty good. I loved it. The tension was palpable, and that feeling of uncertainty and inevitability was really well done. There were many, many moments where I just had no idea where it was going. That feeling of the protagonists being in mortal peril was excellent. I didn't expect so many characters to live, but the deaths were still poignant and powerful. Especially Lyanna's. That got me right in the gut.
And Arya offing the Night King seems super fitting and appropriate for her character arc. I thought she was toast for a moment there, but I admit I cheered when she pulled off the clutch win. I'm excited to see how things wrap up. I wouldn't be surprised if the books have a similar outcome. Obviously it won't be exactly like the show, but I do think Martin told them how it was going to go down in some fashion.
A show about many things, primarily a war between humans for the Iron Throne, is about to wrap up with a war between humans for the Iron Throne.
I don't know if people are just nihilists, but what did you expect to happen? The Night King wins? He was going to lose at some point. Did that point have to be the very last episode of the series? Not necessarily. I mean, sure, he could have, but they chose to do it mid season. So that the remaining three episodes can focus on the human war that got many people into this series in the first place. The fantasy and white walkers and dragons were always a part of the series, yes, but the human conflict is what sucked a lot of people in. I think it's fitting that the ending of show is focusing on the human conflict.
This episode was pretty good. I loved it. The tension was palpable, and that feeling of uncertainty and inevitability was really well done. There were many, many moments where I just had no idea where it was going. That feeling of the protagonists being in mortal peril was excellent. I didn't expect so many characters to live, but the deaths were still poignant and powerful. Especially Lyanna's. That got me right in the gut.
And Arya offing the Night King seems super fitting and appropriate for her character arc. I thought she was toast for a moment there, but I admit I cheered when she pulled off the clutch win. I'm excited to see how things wrap up. I wouldn't be surprised if the books have a similar outcome. Obviously it won't be exactly like the show, but I do think Martin told them how it was going to go down in some fashion.
After this episode anything can happen. If you told anyone that NK is killed by Arya you would be laughed on.
Also given how Dany was treating Jon this episode i'm willing to believe she will go full Mad Targaryen mode in these final episodes.
The strategy presented in the show was always, "Kill the Night King, and the rest of his army will fall." What exactly did you expect? Were some just hoping for an epic fight between the Night King and Jon Snow, or just for everyone to die because everyone seems to associate Game of Thrones with a weird nihilism after the Red Wedding?
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I will say the second above in the clouds with the dragons looked absolutely beautiful and so did the riders heading toward the night army
You know who did live up to the hype? Lady Fucking Mormont
He's had his moments but did a lot of things right. S7 since has been another level though.
Several with this style move. But Far Cry 3 I believe it's the first! And the most similar actually!
Y'all need to leave that poor man alone, IT WAS A BAD SHOT!
Lmfaoooooooooooooo
No it's Night King Slay....*remembers last episode*
Ohhhhh I see what you did there
well that was interesting, i kinda had a sense it was going to be arya, because jon was always too obvious, but i thought it would be more of a fight after all the build up of the NK.
That said, this whole episode was one long red wedding, i was starting to feel sick 10 minutes in because it was looking hopeless and i thought they were going to kill like half of the characters and then retreat. insane episode, and definitely stands up there with one of the great battle sequences, no way they can top this shit with cersei, so itll be interesting to see how they end it all.
That said, this whole episode was one long red wedding, i was starting to feel sick 10 minutes in because it was looking hopeless and i thought they were going to kill like half of the characters and then retreat. insane episode, and definitely stands up there with one of the great battle sequences, no way they can top this shit with cersei, so itll be interesting to see how they end it all.
I mean the show is dumb what do you want from me
they can't stray from the book ending tho and you know the white walkers will be gone by the end of book 6 (because they're a side show)
everyones always like "enough of all this other stuff get back to the white walkers they're the important part" for 8 years because they cant take a hint
Calvary's gonna be largely ineffective against an enemy whose main method of attack is dogpiling. What're ya gonna do, break their ranks?
I prefer the show giants to book giants (exept when sun sun forgot weapons in the bftb)
I like the children of the forest fire balls
There are plenty of TV show plot lines from Bran that have seemingly been dropped and left aside for this conclusion to The Night King.
I haven't even read the books, and I feel completely robbed of the mystery and set up of the 3ER and the fact Bran has the capacity to not only time travel and view the past directly, but interact with the past and cause bootstrap paradoxes
This has never been used or mentioned since Hordor
Because it is bs lmao. You're telling me, someone can train as a Faceless Person for 1 or 2 years, then go and kill this godly entity that has been around for 8000 years or whatever.
Nah.
So was this episode untenably dark, muddy, and incomprehensible for everyone else as well? I feel like you could have skipped the first 45 minutes and missed nothing. Maybe it was the TV or atmosphere where I watched it, but damn the whole thing is a major disappointment after how sublime Battle of the Bastards was.
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