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Game of Thrones S8 |OT2| Please do not post spoilers here - assume all episodes have been leaked - spoiler tag all future episode speculation
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i guess some have seen the last two episodes...i loved this episode, thought it was perfect, i am glad that the night king ended now and quickly.
There are so many things wrong with this statement.
First of all it was not "half a year" lol
Fucking YIKES
Note this is the stuff of hearsay and legend. We don't know the full story.
Character shown training since episode 1, has several scenes throughout the series where she's learning how to fight and kill effectively, even stopping by the best assassin guild in the world for at least a year.
"It's only been half a year."
Sam learned to juxtapose soup and shit, soup and shit for months. He should be the three-eyed raven.
Feeling bummed out about NK's death, instead of being a powerful or intriguing moment like Hodor's death, it was just 'WTF where did Ayra come from' I really hope the last 3 episodes end the series on a high note.
To be honest, the motives for Dany at this point to still want the Iron Throne if she's badly outnumbered is kinda stupid anyway.
You just saved humanity, that was your purpose, it's far greater than sitting on some dumb throne.
It's like curing cancer but being down on yourself because you don't achieve your initial goal of being a stage actor or something, lol.
You just saved humanity, that was your purpose, it's far greater than sitting on some dumb throne.
It's like curing cancer but being down on yourself because you don't achieve your initial goal of being a stage actor or something, lol.
i jumped and cursed at the night king in a few different languages. a great moment, enjoyed it!
except posters on Era, whom thought it was painfully obvious Arya was going to do it, and that she trained for like a few days to be an assassin and now she is.
Going to be rewatching this episode a few times before episode 4.
Fantastic television deserves to be appreciated.
Still confused how people had trouble properly calibrating and adjusting their televisions. Episode was shot perfectly and the lighting (or lack there-of) was perfect for the setting and the battle.
I really didn't think it was possible to pull off such a long battle scene without it becoming monotonous or dragging on but the writers and Miguel really outdid themselves pacing it perfectly. The ebbs and flows just worked, the character moments worked and the sense of dread was always palpable. I wish other shows could pull off a fraction of the atmosphere Game of Thrones produces.
Now show me that Ghost survived his excursion with the Dothraki. He better not be dead. As an aside, I half expected Nymeria and her pack to show up during that battle to help out.
Fantastic television deserves to be appreciated.
Still confused how people had trouble properly calibrating and adjusting their televisions. Episode was shot perfectly and the lighting (or lack there-of) was perfect for the setting and the battle.
I really didn't think it was possible to pull off such a long battle scene without it becoming monotonous or dragging on but the writers and Miguel really outdid themselves pacing it perfectly. The ebbs and flows just worked, the character moments worked and the sense of dread was always palpable. I wish other shows could pull off a fraction of the atmosphere Game of Thrones produces.
Now show me that Ghost survived his excursion with the Dothraki. He better not be dead. As an aside, I half expected Nymeria and her pack to show up during that battle to help out.
I would say every major battle episode in the show was better from a storytelling perspective despite the fact that this episode destroyed them all in scale.
Yeah. I'm sure they've gotten close too in real life, so I'm sure that helped her acting.This promo photo from the ep just breaks my heart, they've been through so much.
Not besties, but friends. I know I cried when one of my coworkers quit, after working relatively close with him for another 10 years. Not a daily thing, but a few times a week.
Amazing gifs.
About the cavalry charge, although I have major reservations towards the battle plans as a whole, it's worth pointing out that films as a whole are a terrible rerence to how cavalry charges work. Cavalry would often engage in combat and then fall back behind the infantry to reform. The idea here could be of a first skirmish and then a retreat. The problem is that they thought they were charging against a wall of infantry, not a wave of death.
What this feels like is when the DM builds an entire personal plotline for your one of your pals, but then you (who are better at combat) steal the boss kill in the end.
How do they even manage to get a slash in when pinned against a wall with dozens of wights literally on them.
Clearly I do
We're all nerds here who care too much about nerd shit so don't single me out :P
I marked the fuck out when Arya stabbed that muh fucka (who had the best shit-eating grin lmao)
I'd have even preferred something like Theon pulling an arrow out his ass and stabbing NK with it after getting stabbed by him, than Arya teleporting into the scene, then running and screaming straight for NK. They could've made it work and showed Arya actually using her abilities to somehow get through the horde and then just had the death play out the same, but they didn't, there was nothing stealthy about how Arya killed him, really don't get why people are saying she trained to be a master assassin.
Probably seeing clues that aren't really there, but after last night's episode I'm convinced it's going to be Sansa who does the deed.
Seem like your positioning yourself for disappointment. The ballista was largely useless. Euron is fickle as fuck and ready to betray st a moments notice and the golden company is on foreign soil. Enron's fleet will be nuked to high hell and the top 5 nights in Westeros plus history's greatest assassin are all on danys side.
I'm looking forward to you crying bullshit when they win tho
do we consider the wight hunt a major battle
because this episode was about 100x better than that piece of crap. this episode was stupid at times but nowhere near as stupid as that episode
I was wondering a few weeks ago what Dany would do with the Dothraki if she took the throne. Would they get lands, or titles, or castles (or just lands if they dont want castles) I mean if they aren't slaves and she isn't paying them, then they have to get something right?
But now that they're dead then we don't have to worry about that anymore. Very convenient.
Seriously, people assumed she would kill the Night King when she got the dagger last year. After the first episode this season, people pointed out how her stealthily sneaking up on Jon could be how she defeats the White Walkers. I just wish we could have seen how she did it. It looked like the lieutenants formed a formidable ring around the Night King. Suspense is one thing but the story still has to make some sense. That's why there's a teleporting Arya meme.
the end of hardhome, jon being at the nights watch, jon being resurrected, the red witch's interest in him, that had nothing to do with the night king? it was just about the iron throne?
come on dude
Enjoyed it. I saw it coming but still thought she may have not managed. The hopelessness was something else, great stuff. Sure you can knock it for how long some characters were going in certain circumstances but other than that thought it was great.
Now to read thread and find the opposite :p
Now to read thread and find the opposite :p
Really it should just take breaking the skin.
I was hoping that zombie Viserion would get killed by being stabbed in the pinky toe or something.
Wasn't it Rhaegal that had Viserion in his jaws? Or did Drogon as well after he and Dany saved Rhaegal from getting speared to death by the Night King?
I thought the undead dragon was Rhaegal for a second too because he kind of just disappeared after that battle. We only see him again in the preview for the next episode with his wings full of holes.
Another issue with the battle if we're being honest is that all the hero moments come from named characters.
If there were moments where the army were slaughtering the dead for a bit, you'd get some hopes up. They went too hard for a massacre without massacring the important people.
If there were moments where the army were slaughtering the dead for a bit, you'd get some hopes up. They went too hard for a massacre without massacring the important people.
Episode 2 is a top 5 episode in the series to me. Episode 3 is a top 15 episode.
A centuries-old threat, which prompted the construction of a 700-foot high, magically reinforced, continent-spanning wall, required to be manned by thousands of people sworn to defend it for life, has broken through said wall and is now, supposedly, a threat to all life on the continent, if not the planet. There are prophecies about the coming conflict, and religions based on it. It's such a tremendous threat that everyone who faces it assumes they will die. It's even called "death" several times.
A week later: never mind, we took care of it in an hour. Let's all bicker about who's the king. You know, the very thing that supposedly was going to make us so divided that we'd never be able to deal with this planetary-scale threat.
Yeah you're right that episode made absolutely no sense. I was only thing of the loot train battle from last season.
Sure. Like I said here I saw it coming leagues away, but yes I still cheered. It was a "fucking finally hahah" moment for me.
did y'all catch how arya was literally moving at the speed of wind
It's that shit that bothers me so much lol
Every second he spent distracting the Night King and uniting the people who mattered to face this threat mattered. Now he has no plot armor technically.
At least they actually killed them instead of just killing their named representative and that being enough to end their House.
It terms of battle strategy, the writing is completely lazy. No subtleties, no surprises, no cleverness.
The episode was a bit disappointing because of that.
I also expected Arya to take Bran's face at the end and kill the NK in a surprise move.
Jaime and Cersei came into the world together, and they'll leave it together.
From day -1, the heroes of ASoIaF/GoT have been Jon, Arya, Bran, Dany, and Tyrion. Only two of those characters have any combat ability to speak of.
Even if D&D weren't decided between Jon and Arya for the task in S1-5, they had to make sure both were plausible. With the story beats of the episode and the status of the series, Arya was the better choice to end the NK in the end.
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