Game of Thrones Thread

Also, I'm glad I torrent these because I cranked up the contrast and gamma in VideoLAN player after the first couple minutes and it looked fine. Watching on something harder to adjust the video on would have been a miserable experience.
 
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You're fighting an enemy who can raise the dead, which includes those killed on the battlefield. After consulting with your advisors, you decide that your first move should be to give your enemy thousands of free kills within the first five minutes of the battle.

Jon is the worst battle commander in history.

I rolled my eyes when Ed rescued Sam, thinking to myself "here it comes." Ed, like many brave side characters before him, made the fatal mistake of rescuing a main character during a battle scene. RIP

The wights did the bridge of bodies thing last season. Why was anybody surprised they'd do it again this episode?

Bran's big contribution to the fight was warging some ravens.. for fun?

Brienne gets the award for best plot armor. She got her asshole tongued by the dead a dozen times and walked away without a scratch.

So Melisandre fucked off to Essos and then back because.............?

The Good:
Sansa and Tyrion's scene in the crypts.

The Bad:
Its too dark to see what was happening. Who lived? Who died? Who knows!
Expecting the show to be clever, and then having your expectations crushed by the bland and cliche writing.
 
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CWCissey said:
ARYA? FUCKING ARYA KILLED THE NIGHT KING WITH ONE SHOT? PISS OFF! SEVEN SEASONS OF SETTING UP THE NIGHT KING AS JON'S NEMESIS AND YOU HAVE FUCKING ARYA YEET HIM AT THE LAST MINUTE OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE? THE WRITERS ARE HACKS. CON-FUCKING-FIRMED.
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See, this show defies your expectations. For example it defied mine by sinking lower than I ever thought it could.
 
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I know the show has stopped being good 3 seasons ago but holy shit I wasn't expecting it to become that bad. It's worse than fanfiction.

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I actually get what they're going for, but that's mostly because seasons 6 and 7 were so poorly written it's almost impossible for the show not to impress me by the mere act of not failing so hard.

...what intrigues me is that Cersei out-piece-of-shitting her enemies has rewarded her with everything. Sure, the path she took to get there was mostly nonsensical, but I'm actually interested in what they'll do about her now that Jon and Dany have (stupidly) exhausted their military power on the undead (seriously, what was the point of wasting so many lives on what even a below-average intelligence officer could tell should've been a stealth operation?*).

*Aside from "Benioff and Weiss wanted an epic battle episode". Just 'cause that's why it happened doesn't make it a reason.

I'll save my full thoughts for three weeks from now, just in case I'm being too charitable.

Benioff and Weiss are like Lindelof and Cuse in reverse. Those guys took JJ Abrams' mystery-box bullshittery and crafted a genuinely moving character piece. These guys took the best fantasy series in the History of North America and turned it into a JJ Abrams Joint.
 
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Slightly offtopic but does anyone else wish Dany kept the whole dothraki cultural schtick and khaleesi identity instead of immediately dressing and acting like a generic princess the moment she got a bit of cash in season 2?
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Pretty sure the OG targaryan princesses were warriors and given the fact people try to assassinate her every season and she is surrounded by some of the best fighters in the world who would probably be eager to teach her basic self defence it doesnt really make sense that she was just a complete wuss until she randomly became an adept swordsman in the last five minutes of this episode.

Besides which since the show and probably books are trying to play upon the whole "she is a foreign barbarian queen" reaction from westeros it would probably be better if she looked and acted the part.
 
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Judge Holden said:
Slightly offtopic but does anyone else wish Dany kept the whole dothraki cultural schtick and khaleesi identity instead of immediately dressing and acting like a generic princess the moment she got a bit of cash in season 2?
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Pretty sure the OG targaryan princesses were warriors and given the fact people try to assassinate her every season and she is surrounded by some of the best fighters in the world who would probably be eager to teach her basic self defence it doesnt really make sense that she was just a complete wuss until she randomly became an adept swordsman in the last five minutes of this episode.

Besides which since the show and probably books are trying to play upon the whole "she is a foreign barbarian queen" reaction from westeros it would probably be better if she looked and acted the part.
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I wish she kept the midriff
 
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Judge Holden said:
Slightly offtopic but does anyone else wish Dany kept the whole dothraki cultural schtick and khaleesi identity instead of immediately dressing and acting like a generic princess the moment she got a bit of cash in season 2?
Dothraki-Dany_Character.png


Pretty sure the OG targaryan princesses were warriors and given the fact people try to assassinate her every season and she is surrounded by some of the best fighters in the world who would probably be eager to teach her basic self defence it doesnt really make sense that she was just a complete wuss until she randomly became an adept swordsman in the last five minutes of this episode.

Besides which since the show and probably books are trying to play upon the whole "she is a foreign barbarian queen" reaction from westeros it would probably be better if she looked and acted the part.
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I'm still trying to figure out where she got the long fur coat in brilliant Targaryen white.
 
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I'm still trying to figure out where she got the long fur coat in brilliant Targaryen white.
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For a show that has been increasingly desperate to look woke, having Dany perpetually dressed like an overpaid and overdressed runway model and act like a wet blanket who only draws power from her pet monsters is just straight up confusing.
 
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HBO should have seized the rights to Dragon Riders of Pern, real lost opportunity. Especially since they can properly show dragons for TV shows now. Years ago WB had so many issues trying to depict a dragon on a budget for the Pern series and it never made it past a pilot.
 
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For a show that has been increasingly desperate to look woke, having Dany perpetually dressed like an overpaid and overdressed runway model and act like a wet blanket who only draws power from her pet monsters is just straight up confusing.
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I think the point is to appeal to female viewers and the princess fantasy. Now that Sansa and Cersei have gone full metal bondage, Dany is the last pretty character for boring women to identify as. The dragons simply enable Dany to be a badass quipster while still dressing pretty.

As for her crazy white fur, I just assumed she raided a Mereenese zoo before she left for Westeros.
 
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a bit difficult when the midriff is more like a midsize suv
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So it's kinda like why Gandolfini stopped doing shirtless scenes after the second or third season of The Sopranos. Every time they showed that guy wearing a wife beater while having sex it made me acutely aware of how fat he'd gotten. HBO tradition!
 
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Also here is a thought. Maybe have Cersei actually show a shred of cunning and uphold her bargain with team dany by marching off the worst and least loyal soldiers she has at her disposal in order to both keep up appearances and also to conserve her own strength while removing possible enemies further down the line, backed by a core of loyal and experienced soldiers led by Gregor Clegane who have secretly been ordered to murder Dany and her closest allies in the heat of battle like she did Tyrion in the battle of Blackwater, while secretly hiring the Golden company to shadow the battle and trap the surviving team dany soldiers forces them and Gregors men in order to wipe them out.

This sets the stage for the plan to fall apart when Gregor gets taken over by the Night King just as him and his men try to wipe out dany and her leadership inside the defences and her rabble of shitty soldiers wind up making the army of the dead a whole lot stronger, causing the battle to be lost and the vengeful survivors forced to flee south and set up the final battle in Kings Landing where all the plot threads wrap up neatly
 
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Judge Holden said:
Also here is a thought. Maybe have Cersei actually show a shred of cunning and uphold her bargain with team dany by marching off the worst and least loyal soldiers she has at her disposal in order to both keep up appearances and also to conserve her own strength while removing possible enemies further down the line, backed by a core of loyal and experienced soldiers led by Gregor Clegane who have secretly been ordered to murder Dany and her closest allies in the heat of battle like she did Tyrion in the battle of Blackwater, while secretly hiring the Golden company to shadow the battle and trap the surviving team dany soldiers forces them and Gregors men in order to wipe them out.

This sets the stage for the plan to fall apart when Gregor gets taken over by the Night King just as him and his men try to wipe out dany and her leadership inside the defences and her horde of shitty soldiers wind up making the army of the dead a whole lot stronger, causing the battle to be lost and the vengeful survivors forced to flee south and set up the final battle in Kings Landing where all the plot threads wrap up neatly
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"How Game of Thrones Could Have Been Fixed" will be a cottage industry for years, especially if the last three episodes turn out as anticlimactic as I expect. When the preview went to Cersei's smirk (which is practically a parody of itself by now), all I could think was "who gives a shit about this?"
 
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People have done good analysis stuff above,

The story can be best summed up with

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It just won't stop crashing!

The season has sucked so bad, and i have no idea why i still watch it. everytime they could have a plot come full circle, they start catapulting some niggas.
 
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