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GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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Does this mean Arya is the prince that was promised? Completely negating all prophecy and work until now?
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Jozu
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Arya getting the final blow on raid boss kind of made the most sense. Think of HOW MUCH FUCKING SCREEN TIME they gave her character. From the suffering, to the training, traveling, her list, cockles, faceless assassin, many faced God shit, purpose for Melisandre, I mean that culmination basically built itself.
Most disappointing thing for me was Bran doing FUCK ALL. Theon out there like a boss, was on like a 47 kill streak, all so Bran could....warg some birds and look at the NK....wtf?
Also, another obvious plot device was the total loss of the dothraki and loss of a dragon, evening up the final army sizes at the end. Targaryens and 1 dragon, night king slayer, some unsullied, Jaime the rest of whoever is left, vs Cersei and Euron.
Most disappointing thing for me was Bran doing FUCK ALL. Theon out there like a boss, was on like a 47 kill streak, all so Bran could....warg some birds and look at the NK....wtf?
Also, another obvious plot device was the total loss of the dothraki and loss of a dragon, evening up the final army sizes at the end. Targaryens and 1 dragon, night king slayer, some unsullied, Jaime the rest of whoever is left, vs Cersei and Euron.
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I'm not sure if that other dragon is actually dead. I wondered about that myself. Is that dragon dead or just seriously wounded?
a 2nd dragon didn't pop up with Necromonger did his mass rez. With continuity being what it is that doesn't mean much of anything. There's a high probability that they just FORGOT or decided that a 2nd dracolich wasn't important enough to spend the CGI budget on.
If we're taking cues from what was on the screen though it would indicate that dragon did not die.
a 2nd dragon didn't pop up with Necromonger did his mass rez. With continuity being what it is that doesn't mean much of anything. There's a high probability that they just FORGOT or decided that a 2nd dracolich wasn't important enough to spend the CGI budget on.
If we're taking cues from what was on the screen though it would indicate that dragon did not die.
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I think a lot of it was fanfic, but I don't think Arya killing the NK was fanfic. In the BTS afterwards, the producers said they knew Arya was going to do it for 3 years, which leads me to believe it was a GRRM plot point that they wrote around.
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It feels like the writers merged the Lord of Light and the Many-Faced God. I don't know the books--could they be the same God, or are they working together against a common enemy?
Yeah it was pretty great. It's the sort of ingenious thing that comes from stage art and budget.
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he'll be the next lord of light priest and +100fire to sword that sam gives him!
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This helps. I still want one of the characters to start shaking Bran and demand to know what's going on.
When Bran tells Theon that everything he did got him here, I think Bran is playing some huge Chaos Theory game. When Bran tells Theon that he's a good man, it's like Bran is some arbiter of morality, too. Maybe there's just no great way of dealing with these things in a show format.
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Jozu
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i thought Jons dragon died.
Well, that evens things up a bit more. Makes the NK's death even more lame honestly.
His entire thousand year quest culminated in him scoring a melee kill on Theon before getting 1 shotted by a stealth rogue assassin in the godswood. So, he took out a lot of unsullied, the Dothraki, House Mormont, Edd, 3 eyed Raven, Theon and a dragon.
Lol.
Well, that evens things up a bit more. Makes the NK's death even more lame honestly.
His entire thousand year quest culminated in him scoring a melee kill on Theon before getting 1 shotted by a stealth rogue assassin in the godswood. So, he took out a lot of unsullied, the Dothraki, House Mormont, Edd, 3 eyed Raven, Theon and a dragon.
Lol.
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no, bran just lacks all humanity, he did the same w/ meera, she's like "jogen died for you, hodor died for you!!! don't you feel!!!"
brans like, "cool"
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Battle itself was epic as hell. However, the meat of the situation was a pretty big let down. Again, par for the course on this show. They absolutely seek out ways to make endings flat as fuck, and this one took the cake. I don't particularly have a problem with Arya landing the killing blow. But the out of nowhere nature of it while the Night King had the upper hand the entire time just made it weak to me. Like legit no shit, we have spent the better part of 6 seasons watching this build up between Jon and the Night King only to have Jon not have one second of direct fight time with the Night King? And then really, the Night King did fuck all directly. All they had to do was have Jon and NK face off for a bit, NK land a injuring blow that incapacitated Jon, and Jon watches helplessly as the NK makes his way to the god tree, and then play it out just like they did. Not only that due to the dark as fuck filming, it was hard to see what the hell was going on at times, and frankly not enough people died. Yeah Ser Friendzone and Theon were both very well done, the rest were side characters. I really think a Tormund or Brienne or anyone else in that tier of characters needed to die in the same fashion. Oh well I didn't hate it, but it really could have been so much better if their only focus was trying to only keep things unexpected just for being unexpected's sake.
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Pemulis
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I think it's cute that people expect GRRM to actually finish this series. He's literally going to live the Robert Baratheon life until he chokes on a pork chop.
My biggest gripe with this episode is the huge disparity in "density" of the attacking undead between the larger battle scenes (where they literally came through as a tidal wave of skeletal limbs mowing down everything in their path) to the smaller scenes where the main characters are literally picking them off one by one and never really overwhelmed. Even when the horde initially storms into the godswood, Theon and company calmly plinks them one at a time with their bows.
So we're basically left with an episode of prep for the showdown at KL, that battle, and the wrap up as the three final episodes.
My biggest gripe with this episode is the huge disparity in "density" of the attacking undead between the larger battle scenes (where they literally came through as a tidal wave of skeletal limbs mowing down everything in their path) to the smaller scenes where the main characters are literally picking them off one by one and never really overwhelmed. Even when the horde initially storms into the godswood, Theon and company calmly plinks them one at a time with their bows.
So we're basically left with an episode of prep for the showdown at KL, that battle, and the wrap up as the three final episodes.
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Cybsled
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Are you really surprised? Stealth rogues are fucking OP in PVP combat.
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