The show was also set in the ancient times as well? I've seen pictures and scenes before and it looks modern, but that picture looks like it wouldn't be out of place in Galdiator.
The show was also set in the ancient times as well? I've seen pictures and scenes before and it looks modern, but that picture looks like it wouldn't be out of place in Galdiator.
it's a massive spoiler to explain who that isThe show was also set in the ancient times as well? I've seen pictures and scenes before and it looks modern, but that picture looks like it wouldn't be out of place in Galdiator.
"One Direction sends their regards"TIL Sansa was dating a Jonas Bro
And they got shotgun married in Vegas last night.
Last time a Stark had a surprise, unplanned marriage it didn't go well
You know i'm highkey trying to think of notable villains in media where the writers literally made the story grind to a halt in order to explain detailed lore and superfluous information about the villain that wasn't very pertinent to the story. In fact, the only villain that comes to mind, (outside of anime at least), is:
and that was one of the most panned aspects of the show because it over-complicated a villain that had a simple goal.....
Oh. Well let's leave it at that then lol.
The show was also set in the ancient times as well? I've seen pictures and scenes before and it looks modern, but that picture looks like it wouldn't be out of place in Galdiator.
Heh, I agree with everything you said. Something happened to the show a few seasons back that seem to destroy my emotional investment. It went from Game of Thrones to Lord of the Rings TV. The first time I felt any type of emotion in a long time was when Brienne got knighted. That was done exceptionally well.
Tormund should have died already. He's only alive for twitter memes
Fuck the NK storyline, we need more talking about cocks and how Varys doesn't have any balls. That's great storytelling to fill in the episode minutes.
It's been four days and you're still having a meltdown. Dude, you gotta learn how to chill.Brienne will die in episode 6 by falling down the stairs after stepping on a peel of banana. Shocking, suprising and subversive for the sake of being subversive. D&D storytelling.
I mean you can absolutely have a story that has all of those things and not spend hours providing MORE exposition about them than we already have. The answers just turned out to be a lot more simple than many people thought.
one wight nearly killed Jon and Mormont, they have been portrayed as ruthless and hard to kill. It took five guys to kill one wight in the books. They aren't supposed to be fodder. They are supposed to be dangerous.Why ? Because he was outnumbered, facing insurmontable odds in a messy battle ? It has often been the case for many characters in many different shows. That's the point of the show choosing to tell the story of specific characters, they are not this random meat ball that dies randomly in the midst of a battle along with the extras (that do die in large numbers). Actually few important characters do die during a battle in the show.
Would it have been more believable to have the characters perfectly fine, skillfully keeping all threat meters away from them at all time ? The point was to show how desperate the situation was, but the wights are not trained to target specific people or vital organs, so we are supposed to believe these characters have managed to survive somehow.
Obviously if you want absolute realism it is difficult to swallow and maybe the episode could have spent more time on each fighter but there is nothing wrong with the outcome in itself.
Scene where the Hound is eating porridge out of a bowl
It's been four days and you're still having a meltdown. Dude, you gotta learn how to chill.
Yep. The moment you commit to a battle against against the White Walkers at Winterfell it becomes obvious it's either a complete victory or total failure, and I am certain the same people claiming a retreat of some kind could happen would be the same people drawing embarrassing diagrams showing how a retreat was impossible and patting each other on the back for once again showing that the GOT showrunners are lazy, talentless hacks.To be honest, the battle of Winterfell always felt to me like it was gonna be the ultimate Do or Die (unstoppable force meet unmovable obstacle) game.
The defenders were holed up in a castle in a very remote part of the world and if that castle were to fall, the few people who might be able to get away would have no immediate place to retreat to before the dead caught up with them. The amount of survivors would be limited to what could reasonably fit on two dragons, assuming they survived or weren't too injured to fly long distances.
The attackers consisted of a supernatural force of barely sentient reanimated corpses and a few dozen ice demons who never had to retreat before and met a problem they couldn't solve through the use of the "throw vast hordes of wights at it and cast mass resurrection for troops replenishment every once in a while" strategy. Which admittedly was dreadfully effective even in this episode and only failed because of a brief stretch of luck on the good guys' part. There was no indication the dead would have stopped before the last living were gone or they were all gone and it was made pretty clear their numbers advantage was so overwhelming that killing them one by one was ruled right out from the start.
It was always gonna be "everything or nothing". (especially since the alliance at Winterfell had the only means, dragons and a large amount of dragonglass weaponry, able to even resist the undead) And I quote "everything" because while the living won, their forces were decimated to the point where I question they can even call themselves an army at this point. So it wasn't "they all live or they all die". It was more like "the dead all died, but so did a lot of the living".
Until the Night King was gone, the status quo as it was was gonna remain: Jon's and Dany's forces grouped together in a somewhat uneasy Alliance with Cersei treated as a distraction. Stretching that out until the end of the season (and then ending as soon as the big bad was defeated) would probably not have resulted in something better than what we currently got.
Emilia Clarke hyped up episode 5 on Kimmel. "Find the biggest TV you can".
I suppose it's also another question of who in the cast are asking questions. The closest thing would be Tyrion and he has never shown interest in the subject and had no reason to. When it comes to exposition, it should be pertinent to the characters and their interests, weaved organically into conversations, (the NK's motive weaved into the convo where they come up with a plan to fight them), not just a character speaking to the audience's biggest lore geeks.
This was always going to be the end of the White Walkers story.
I still watch episode 10 of season 6 here and there just because it's such an incredible moment of television. And each and every time, even though I know what she's about to do to some characters I like, I still root for her in that episode because she earns I. Cersei is just so suave, badass, and deliciously evil. The scene where she's confessing to the Septon still gives me chills. I actually wouldn't mind a scenario where Cersei loses the Kingdom but somehow still survives and escapes from Westeros or something. Her level of evil seems well suited for Essos.Thought it was a great episode. I got incredibly emotional when the NK went down. Only issues is that way more people should have died. Sam living when he was just kind of sitting there was mad dumb.
Cersei being the final boss works for me cause she's already caused my fav moment in the series. Excited to see what they do with her.
Yep. The moment you commit to a battle against against the White Walkers at Winterfell it becomes obvious it's either a complete victory or total failure, and I am certain the same people claiming a retreat of some kind could happen would be the same people drawing embarrassing diagrams showing how a retreat was impossible and patting each other on the back for once again showing that the GOT showrunners are lazy, talentless hacks.
He's posting in a game of thrones about the show, lets not get overly dramaticIt's been four days and you're still having a meltdown. Dude, you gotta learn how to chill.
If this is what one episode of a TV show not going the way you want it to go does to you then I really don't wanna see how you deal with disappointment in real life.Im trying, but it's difficulty when my interest to watch the show got destroyed so fast.
So yea I'll reiterate, literally stopping the story to explain the villain in Lost was one of the worst things about the show's later seasons.The show was also set in the ancient times as well? I've seen pictures and scenes before and it looks modern, but that picture looks like it wouldn't be out of place in Galdiator.
It made a simple villain way more convoluted than he needed to be.Ab Aeterno already touched upon the motivations of Jacob/MIB in a brilliant way, and that was one of the most beloved episodes. And yes it showed way more than GoT ever did in regards to the White Walkers/Night King. Across the Sea definitely showed way too much, but the main reason it was panned was the introduction of the
If this is what one episode of a TV show not going the way you want it to go does to you then I really don't wanna see how you deal with disappointment in real life.
She definitely should, the look on her face when all the arakhs were going out kind of sealed it. Something has to be said about the Dothraki. This can't be the end of their legacy entirely. Lame as fuck.
Yes it did that, they all died so that the main characters and the viewer could experience an emotion. Watch this videoThe utter waste is part of what makes the episode for me. It was a stupid and arrogant ploy and full of hope. Tactically ridiculous but this is a show where Ramsay crippled a thousands strong army with 20 dudes. More importantly it highlighted how easily the hope of winning is dashed, and brings in the tone of the rest of the episode.
I did personally enjoy the episode as well. The thing is, I am glad that they dealt with the supernatural threat, before dealing with the final human threat, but the way it was done was not enough for me. Everything about the Others needed to be fleshed out before getting them out of the picture. If this is the last of the battle of ice and fire then I wanted to see more dragon burning zombie carnage, wanted to see some of Viserion accidentally incinerating the zombies (since blue fire is way hotter and more intense than yellow fire, that would've been an interesting twist) but the dragons overall had little impact and were out of commission for a good portion of this episode too.Can't really disagree here. The payoff doesn't quite feel worth it after all these years (even if I did personally still enjoy the episode), and the backstory for NK should've been shown rather than told to us as well, yeah. But really, I think the writers just rushed the hell out of this to get it out of the way, so they could get to the last three episodes. Hopefully, which each of them being extended as well, the payoff there feels well worth it.
Well then off you go tell us how would you have this episode end that didn't involve all heroes dying or the Night king biting it?Ah, imagined hypocrisy. The best kind of hypocrisy because it literally can't be proven wrong.
I suppose it's also another question of who in the cast are asking questions. The closest thing would be Tyrion and he has never shown interest in the subject and had no reason to. When it comes to exposition, it should be pertinent to the characters and their interests, weaved organically into conversations, (the NK's motive weaved into the convo where they come up with a plan to fight them), not just a character speaking to the audience's biggest lore geeks.
Well then off you go tell us how would you have this episode end that didn't involve all heroes dying or the Night king biting it?
THe 5th episode, i think.If the next episode is bigger, it's going to make the NK and his army look even more like jobbers.
They already showed the origin. The most important bit of it, something that would explain why the Night King indiscriminately wants to destroy everything. He was someone who was through magic forcefully turned into a monster. Literally the only time's he's sent a message was whenever his troops created the symbol that was there when he was forcefully turned.a more complex origin story for the others would have been shown through bran
Because you wanted more info that wasn't pertinent to the story?I don't mean that I want a big exposition dump, because I didn't want that either. It was the not pertinent to the story part that I was focusing on. Because that's ultimately what it feels like and is why some of us aren't thrilled.
I still watch episode 10 of season 6 here and there just because it's such an incredible moment of television. And each and every time, even though I know what she's about to do to some characters I like, I still root for her in that episode because she earns I. Cersei is just so suave, badass, and deliciously evil. The scene where she's confessing to the Septon still gives me chills. I actually wouldn't mind a scenario where Cersei loses the Kingdom but somehow still survives and escapes from Westeros or something. Her level of evil seems well suited for Essos.
https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/bjm9az/the_great_war_isnt_over_spoilers_extended/Like many fellow theorists, book readers, and tinfoil soothsayers, I was taken aback by the outcome of the Battle of Winterfell. Arya felling the Night King seemingly negates the entirety of the prophecy regarding Azor Ahai reborn and Lightbringer and seems to dash any semblance of the themes related to the war against the Great Other (personal sacrifice, etc). All that we've speculated. All that we've surmised and guessed and pondered meant nothing...
But my user tag isn't "Proud Knight of House Tinfoil" for nothing! I'm going to double-down, dig in, and do some late-game theorizing that, if true, would show that we've been double-duped by a false flag operation... committed by the true Great Other, the Three-Eyed Crow (or Raven, in the show). Follow me down the tinfoil rabbit hole!
one whight nearly killed Jon and Mormont, they have been portrayed as ruthless and hard to kill. It took five guys to kill one wight in the books.
Emilia clarke said in an interview that episode 5 will be even bigger in scope than episode 3, in terms of sheers numbers, 100k wights, all heres basically, 3 dragons, 10 white walkers and the king, all in one battle, how can it be bigger? The golden company is 20k men, and euron's fleet only works in the sea, I mean... really, how can anything they do moving forward be bigger in scope than episode 3? I dont see it.
I assume this has been posted, but if not -
https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/comments/bjm9az/the_great_war_isnt_over_spoilers_extended/
Interesting theory on where the show is going
The fact this show is now being equated with the walking dead's approach is a depressing reflection how bad it has gotten.I love the books but they have nothing to with this. As for the one whight, yeah one of them is enough to kill you, just like one zombie can kill your favorite Walking Dead character. Doesn't mean Daryl or Rick can't survive some 100 vs 1 situations, thank God. What kind of verisimilitude are we expecting here ?
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It'll be in the daytime, so they'll turn up the draw distance on the CGI.Emilia clarke said in an interview that episode 5 will be even bigger in scope than episode 3, in terms of sheers numbers, 100k wights, all heres basically, 3 dragons, 10 white walkers and the king, all in one battle, how can it be bigger? The golden company is 20k men, and euron's fleet only works in the sea, I mean... really, how can anything they do moving forward be bigger in scope than episode 3? I dont see it.