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Last night's Game of Thrones episode is the lowest rated episode on iMDB in series history
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Arya has been training to kill people. The Night King has been portrayed as an unstoppable force of nature who got taken out at the first sign of resistance without any explanation. Additionally, Arya had NO WAY to sneak up on him like she did. Additionally, in pure storytelling terms, Arya killing the Night King lacks any narrative sense or catharsis. It would be as though Colin Creevey killed Bellatrix Lestrange in Harry Potter. Cool and unexpected? Sure. Satisfying? Absolutely not.
He learns of the news from Sansa and decides to ride south. I don't think he is going back to help the side that is winning and wants him dead.
So the all the stuff about Azor Ahai, Jon being resurrected, them getting dragons to fight the Walkers and Jon getting to ride one, Jon having multiple face offs against the White Walkers, him being the one to rally everyone against the Night King, his staredown with the Night King.... all of that was, what, misdirection? Sure, that's a polite word for it. I call it a waste of our time, in retrospect.
The way they're rushing this mad queen plot and having everyone betraying her for tenuous reasons is making me a Dany stan recently.
Just burn this shit to the ground, and then Varys can open an orphanage or something.
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I would love to really say something regarding this, but I'll end up getting banned for it. I'll I'm gonna say is don't get your hopes up.
I'm on my phone, kinda hard to type this all out but:
Jon, who doesn't want to be King, tells his sister, that has done shit behind his back, about his parentage. Dany had begged him not to since it would destroy them. Sansa breaks her promise and tells Tyrion which sets in motion what will happen next.
Dany forgetting about eurons fleet.
Dany meeting cersei out in the open when she literally could've killed her and her dragon in seconds.
Destroying Dany's character for heel turn shock value. Same goes for Jaime.
Turning brienne into the cliche " please don't leave me boyfriend!" Female.
It goes on and on. I'll write up more later.
Ahh interesting. Maybe they had a psychic connection that didn't require a physical goodbye?
Saying goodbye with your best friends? Fine. But goodbye with your dog? Heartbreaking.
I'm just assuming Hound threw her in my head. Makes it funnier.
If we could harness nerd rage into a form of energy, I think we'd be able wean ourselves off of fossil fuels almost immediately.
surprised the whole season isn't rated the lowest since it started. I really have not cared at all and last night was absolutely garbage
its amazing after all the character development and shit the leaders have no idea of any surprise attacks........like come the fuck on
its amazing after all the character development and shit the leaders have no idea of any surprise attacks........like come the fuck on
No one else is, so I'm saying it again
And you don't recuperate the score, after being bombed with 700 1star reviews, in just 16 hours.
And then have a Varys spinoff series where he is Kazuma Kiryu
its definitely trending to be the worst season of GoT based on the IMDB ratings. No episode this season has scored over 8.8.
GoT is totally in a Lost/Last Jedi zone right now where they're trying to continue/conclude a long-running complicated story and the audience has had years to speculate and come up with their own theories and have either gotten way too attached to their own theories or have built their expectations up way beyond what it's even possible for the story to deliver.
Doesn't help that, even without that context, GoT is whiffing it pretty bad.
Doesn't help that, even without that context, GoT is whiffing it pretty bad.
Every season has been worse than the last since 4 and onwards.
Star Wars grade would be able to tide us over for another 40 years.
Season 6 is a masterpiece. I agree with you on beyond the wall
That's because the plot leaked and footage did too. In fact the whole season leaked.
isn't that the time RR martin material ran out..........its like the writers that took over have no clue what they are doing
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The 1s are obviously brigading, but can I also question the people giving it a 10? lol
The 1s are obviously brigading, but can I also question the people giving it a 10? lol
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Yup. I made excuses to myself for the long night and I didn't even mind how the NK went out more the actual editing and execution of it but last night's episode was horrible. It is by far the worst episode of the series for me. Even amongst the trash of season 5 there would be strong character moments and occasionally witty writing. I'm not sure a single sentence last night felt in character or natural to me.
Season 6 is ridiculously better than Season 5. Season 7 is somewhat better than 5.
Yep, someone already showed how other forums brigading brought down the reviewer score of the third episode, wouldn't be surprised if its the same here.
I'm not sure how them saying that contradicts what I said. They're showing and telling you everything to this point , if there is a swerve coming, they're not telling you.
It definitely was not the best episode at all and probably the one I'm most disappointed with. It almost feels that there is no contingency with their planning which is a repeat of what happened before and people got slaughtered. Euron's magical fleet is amazing though...
Hmm, I wonder if that's because since season four D&D has had more creative freedom to veer away from the books? Although that's mostly because they had no other choice but to.
A really embarrassing episode. One idiotic choice after another just to push the plot. A focus on startling moments rather than sensible developments. Felt like I was watching a show on CW. I hated the short night episode too but the way things transpired in this one made that episode even worse. So much bad I wouldn't even know where to begin.
Most certainly.
I haven't even read the books but it became increasingly apparent as the show went on that there was a correlation between the quality and the available book material.
Actually I've been paying close attention to these imdb scores and that's not how it works. The score for pretty much every episode goes down over time after starting high immediately after the episode. The most favourable fans who just give it 10/10 regardless seem to jump in the fastest, then the score normalises. Last night's episode is down to 7.5 now after starting at 7.8 straight after the episode aired, and its only gonna keep falling. Just like how last week's episode is down to 8.5 and still slipping. Unless one of the final two episodes is worse, Last of the Starks will finish the lowest rated episode on imdb.
And tbh it kind of deserves it, episode was pure garbage tier writing even more so than normal with doing all important shit offscreen, unbowed unbent unbroken is the only episode I can think of which might actually be worse.
They wrote that dragon out like a chump. Mythical beasts and it gets taken out like that before it even did anything in the last battle.
I don't have a problem with cersei having ballistics and stuff, but having them on every ship and on every inch of kings landing is total overkill.
I don't have a problem with cersei having ballistics and stuff, but having them on every ship and on every inch of kings landing is total overkill.
Yeah, just a rough episode. Gotta ride this wing-tattered dragon to the end, though. At least next week will have some pretty orange fire.
Geee I wonder if maybe these guys aren't that good and shouldn't be allowed to create a story from scratch like their upcoming shows.
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Can we take a moment to appreciate that when last week's episode was criticized, people resorted to using IMDB ratings to demonstrate that the bulk of people liked it, but when IMDB ratings are no longer fitting the "everyone liked it" narrative, IMDB ratings are suddenly nerdrage fueled review bombs?
The only delineation that matters is the first half of the series, based off book material, and the second half which does not.
Not to say that I still haven't been enjoying the show, because even through missteps and bad plot lines, I have been.
But last night was the straw that broke the camel's back. There is no big 'payoff', there is no grand plan. It's just going to putter to the end.