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spronk said:
Only white walkers get dusted after being touched with Valy steel or dragon glass. Regular wights are just normal undead and you either have to cut them to fucking bits or burn them to stop their reanimation - we've seen arms cut off and still move (presentation to Cersei). Dragon glass does nothing crazy to them, and they have been hacked by valyrian steel by jon and its just normal cuts to them. At Hardhome it was only a white walker who got dusted when jon's sword swung through him.

but yeah I agree the writing was terrible with the white walkers last episode, they all just hang out in the back doing fuck all and then squad up as some sort of weird honor guard to the night king as he strolls into the gods wood, after doing his dumbass "lol fuck your dragon fire" move and really late reanimation in front of Jon. Its just all really terrible pacing wise, there were a million ways the same story beats could have been done in a far more interesting and better way with more white walker action and the Night King being a bit more protective of his ass, cuz you know, if he dies HIS ENTIRE ARMY DIES.

It would have been dumb as fuck but hilarious if arya stabs the night king and he just takes off his mask and its Syrio or Jaqen and he simply kills Arya as he says "What do we say to the God of Death?"
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Then why does Wun Wun crumble to little Mormont? Or the wraiths Jon tags in Hearthholm that dust to one swing? I'm not questioning your fact, I'm saying that they fuck it up time and again for screen purposes.
 
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spronk said:
Only white walkers get dusted after being touched with Valy steel or dragon glass. Regular wights are just normal undead and you either have to cut them to fucking bits or burn them to stop their reanimation - we've seen arms cut off and still move (presentation to Cersei). Dragon glass does nothing crazy to them, and they have been hacked by valyrian steel by jon and its just normal cuts to them. At Hardhome it was only a white walker who got dusted when jon's sword swung through him.

but yeah I agree the writing was terrible with the white walkers last episode, they all just hang out in the back doing fuck all and then squad up as some sort of weird honor guard to the night king as he strolls into the gods wood, after doing his dumbass "lol fuck your dragon fire" move and really late reanimation in front of Jon. Its just all really terrible pacing wise, there were a million ways the same story beats could have been done in a far more interesting and better way with more white walker action and the Night King being a bit more protective of his ass, cuz you know, if he dies HIS ENTIRE ARMY DIES.

It would have been dumb as fuck but hilarious if arya stabs the night king and he just takes off his mask and its Syrio or Jaqen and he simply kills Arya as he says "What do we say to the God of Death?"
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Doesn't dragonglass cause wights to stop moving? Thought they stuck the one in King's Landing with dragonglass to show you can kill them that way.
 
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OU Ariakas said:
Then why does Wun Wun crumble to little Mormont? Or the wraiths Jon tags in Hearthholm that dust to one swing? I'm not questioning your fact, I'm saying that they fuck it up time and again for screen purposes.
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Also budget purposes, I imagine. If you have 12,000 dusting/exploding wights, that's a lot of CGI.
 
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i just took it as it depended on the state of decay for each individual wight. so like, the one ayra stabs in the library looked pretty fresh so she just barf-died. but others that were more ancient crumbled once the magic holding it together was severed.
 
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Cybsled said:
The Melisandre prophecy said Arya would close brown, blue, and green eyes.

Walder Frey: Brown, NK: Blue....Cersei green?
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I don't remember the original meeting. but in this episode she said,
"Brown eyes, green eyes.... and blue eyes."
Implying the brown and green already happened, and blue was yet to come.
 
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j00t said:
i just took it as it depended on the state of decay for each individual wight. so like, the one ayra stabs in the library looked pretty fresh so she just barf-died. but others that were more ancient crumbled once the magic holding it together was severed.
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That's a good point as well. When Arya killed the NK, all the other WW exploded/dusted, but the wights(including Viserion) just fell or crumbled.
 
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Caliane said:
I don't remember the original meeting. but in this episode she said,
"Brown eyes, green eyes.... and blue eyes."
Implying the brown and green already happened, and blue was yet to come.
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yeah, she's killed MANY people at this point. pretty sure she met her eye color quota
 
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Soygen said:
Then you'd have the nerds in here complaining about the same effect over and over again.
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I mean, they blacked out the entire fight then whited it out on top of the black. It would be at least 3rd place in a list of complaints about the stupidity of the effects.
 
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OU Ariakas said:
Then why does Wun Wun crumble to little Mormont? Or the wraiths Jon tags in Hearthholm that dust to one swing? I'm not questioning your fact, I'm saying that they fuck it up time and again for screen purposes.
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It can't be Wun Wun, Wun Wun died at Winterfell when Ramsey killed him and presumably they burned his body. Its just a random giant, I just rewatched the scene and after Lady Mormont stabs it in the eye/brain it just sort of crumbles apart and you see the body hitting the ground and the skull roll off (the skull is too small so bad CGI). As j00t said I think its just older undead sorta disintegrate when White Walker magic stops coarsing through their bones, we saw similar things whenever really old "pretty much just skeletons" undead are killed.

It is extremely inconsistent and woulda been nice to take the time in season 8 to go through some of the Night King backstory, the mechanics of the white walker army, why he is such a dumbass and at the forefront of battles, why he doesn't surround himself with a massive spider and giant honor guard, why more of the WW's don't constantly rerez the dead so its not just him controlling everything, etc. Oh well, the writers are shitty and not much you can do except enjoy whatever crap gets shoveled in our faces for the next 3 weeks.

The show is definitely more clear on my PC monitor (no HDR) than on my LG OLED TV. I'll probably rewatch it on monitor, hoping for a better rip or something from HBOGo. Both HBO GO and amazon streams have TERRIBLE artifacting right now, I dunno what happened but someone fucked up.
 
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a_skeleton_02 said:
None of the Big 5 dying really threw a wet blanket on this series as a whole.

It's just normal fantasy now.
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Jamie charging headfirst into a dragons maw and a magically teleporting Bronn knocking him off a galloping horse threw a smallpox blanket on the series. What happened last night was just more of the same trash.
 
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People nitpicking too much. My only gripe was that it was so fucking dark. I got it that it was night out. But, jesus...I wanted to see!
 
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DethBreth said:
We grew up watching GI Joe, Thunder cats, and saved by the bell and ya'll motherfuckers bitching about this TV show that is on par with most block busters.
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“Let me see your tits my dear”

I’ll take ThunderCats.
 
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No, nitpicking too much would be complaining that NK took 5 minutes to slow walk 10 feet to Bran with music playing to create tension when it was very unnecessary. That's nitpicking. Pointing out that a multi year storyline was finished by a plot that a 6 year could come up with isnt.
 
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Yohn Royce was at Winterfell in episode 2 right? Or am I imagining that? Did they show him at all in this episode?
 
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Anyone got a freeze frame of the undead just as the Dothraki charged into them? My Apple TV isn't responsive enough, but there was about 6 or 7 frames of the undead finally coming out of the shadows and it looked fucking crazy
 
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I don't get the dark shit. I must have really good eyesight or you're all blind and really old.
 
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