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I would be fine with seasons 6-8 if it meant that fat fuck paid for it karmically by getting drunk and then gored by a boar.
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GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Melisandre was not syrio, she just knew about that, the same way she told Jon "you know nothing jon snow.
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So...
The Lord of Light really only had two functional priests that did anything : Thoros and Mellisandre. Wonder why the rest of them in Essos have their panties in a bunch? As extinction level events go this was a fizzle for most of the planet. Hell Valyria exploding was a bigger deal by far.
The Lord of Light really only had two functional priests that did anything : Thoros and Mellisandre. Wonder why the rest of them in Essos have their panties in a bunch? As extinction level events go this was a fizzle for most of the planet. Hell Valyria exploding was a bigger deal by far.
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I got the exact opposite vibe from the BTS bit, as if they knew they wanted to have Arya kill the NK for the last 3 years. I doubt whatever battle goes down in the books (lol at us ever finding out) is anything like this at all. They've known Gurrm's ending since this all started.
His end purpose wasn't just to be bait. Like I said, his most important contributions will be his knowledge, specifically being able to verify Jon's heritage and rightful claim to the throne. Not sure what use he is now though.
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I love the complaints and memes about how dark it was. I haven't added my complaint yet, but it surely was a head-scratcher and I felt like at any moment I was missing a key death somewhere. I don't know how they could have approved this.
Add the complete darkness to incredibly quick edits & shaky cam, and the majority of the episode was unwatchable.
And on top of that, they had to go and "bring winter" to the fight.
They should have allowed the dragonfire to illuminate more of the field, just have burning piles of wights everywhere so we could actually see. Or just up the brightness anyway, like LotR.
Battles are hard to do, granted, and while we now know the outcome of the war, I liked the 1st 2 episodes more than this. Slaying monsters for 70+ minutes is a yawn fest. I wanted something with substance and we got very little.
Add the complete darkness to incredibly quick edits & shaky cam, and the majority of the episode was unwatchable.
And on top of that, they had to go and "bring winter" to the fight.
They should have allowed the dragonfire to illuminate more of the field, just have burning piles of wights everywhere so we could actually see. Or just up the brightness anyway, like LotR.
Battles are hard to do, granted, and while we now know the outcome of the war, I liked the 1st 2 episodes more than this. Slaying monsters for 70+ minutes is a yawn fest. I wanted something with substance and we got very little.
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Feanor
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Some good non-autist criticisms in that post.
I'm sort of underwhelmed by the Night King getting ganked. Winterfell could have been a total bloodbath. That might sound cool and all but think about it. The white walkers going on to attack Cersei after every worthwhile character dies (all in the north not coincidentally) sounds boring as fuck. The only other option was having the Night King absent during the battle which might have been a badass twist and one I'm not averse to.
The show should pay off the white walkers/three eyed raven. If it doesn't, given everything from the start of the story, that would be some shitty fucking writing then. This post sums it up better than me.
But there's still three episodes left. We don't know yet what will happen. Also Jon and Dany barely did shit. You've got dragons, motherfuckers, use them.
Stark wights bursting through sarcophagi is a really good point. Guess brittle zombified bones are strong enough to break through stone, logic be damned. #Hollywood
I'm also unsure what to think of the episode. In a way it was much better than Hardhome. Time will tell.
Some complaints though occasionally sound like this
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Yup. He can bullshit the series away by suggesting the TV show. If you look at his work, he's been cranking out Wild Cards novels and alternate ASoIaF books, but every time he has to answer the Winds of Winter question, he just says that he's "working on it".
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My .02 cents
Thought the fighting and action sequences mostly worked and were well done. The Arya scenes in particular had a great vibe to them. Loved the opening sequence with the Dothraki, and the dragons above the cloud line was really impressive. Overall, that portion of the episode was very well done. I'm seeing a lot of complaints about the "darkness" and I think that was largely for effect - looked great on the OLED, but I started watching it on an edge lit LED and it looked very washed out in comparison so moved to the living room.
That said, "Winter is Coming" - that's the mantra this show has had from the very first chapter of the very first book... What a letdown. The great big bad guys from the jump in this series are the White Walkers, the Night King, etc and this episode felt very cheap (not budget cheap) and hamfisted. People absolutely love to rip GRRM for the later books in the series, but every season post A Dance with Dragons book content has been worse than the one before it on the show. We've reached peak Hollywood bullshit and I'm frankly kind of just over it. I don't believe GRRM will ever finish his series either, which makes this even worse.
Last night was fine for what it was, but as a book reader first (and fan) it wasn't satisfying at all. It felt rushed and cheap and that is NOT a great way to end the "Song of Fire & Ice". Now we have half a season to deal with Cersei bullshit, when the world was just saved.... Just, what??
Piece of shit hollywood writers
Thought the fighting and action sequences mostly worked and were well done. The Arya scenes in particular had a great vibe to them. Loved the opening sequence with the Dothraki, and the dragons above the cloud line was really impressive. Overall, that portion of the episode was very well done. I'm seeing a lot of complaints about the "darkness" and I think that was largely for effect - looked great on the OLED, but I started watching it on an edge lit LED and it looked very washed out in comparison so moved to the living room.
That said, "Winter is Coming" - that's the mantra this show has had from the very first chapter of the very first book... What a letdown. The great big bad guys from the jump in this series are the White Walkers, the Night King, etc and this episode felt very cheap (not budget cheap) and hamfisted. People absolutely love to rip GRRM for the later books in the series, but every season post A Dance with Dragons book content has been worse than the one before it on the show. We've reached peak Hollywood bullshit and I'm frankly kind of just over it. I don't believe GRRM will ever finish his series either, which makes this even worse.
Last night was fine for what it was, but as a book reader first (and fan) it wasn't satisfying at all. It felt rushed and cheap and that is NOT a great way to end the "Song of Fire & Ice". Now we have half a season to deal with Cersei bullshit, when the world was just saved.... Just, what??
Piece of shit hollywood writers
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Book has the Black Flame and the Central Church of light if you will who were all capable of foreseeing the future and some pyromancy tricks and shit. Lord of Light definitely is the only God who shows his power so openly.
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I would bet money that is why they did it. It still sucked though. The Walking Dead has a fraction of the budget this show has and still can convey a massive herd of zombies pretty effectively, and that's all they really needed to do was a couple far shots of that, then focus on just close ups of each major character and their fight.
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I kinda wonder why anyone bothers worshipping the Seven at this point. I suppose you could make an argument that the magic we have seen is not necessarily the result of a deity, but in cases where worshippers of a god have actual power I'd tend to think people would go with that.
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