There seemed to be a lot of survivors as well? Last week gave the impression the Dothraki and Unsullied were completely wiped out, along with the regular troops, but they still have a large umber available. Tyrion seemed to teleport after the part with the ships as well, as if they'd skipped a scene. Still, I'm enjoying it.
Well at least it's begining to become clear why Cersai wasnt willing to interviene in the great war. She probably figured her plot armour could take the night kings once everyone else was dead.
Seriously her continued survival and success is absurd.
There seemed to be a lot of survivors as well? Last week gave the impression the Dothraki and Unsullied were completely wiped out, along with the regular troops, but they still have a large umber available.
Ugh, of course Arya is the big goddamn hero
How can Danaerys be so competent (give threats titles) yet so fucking stupid? You have medieval WMDs. USE THEM.
Loving the rushed 'Dany's pissed, Run MadKween.exe' plot too
Jon didn't pet Ghost good bye, he's scum.
When did the Starks become a fucking Mean Girls style clique?
Piss off did half the Dothraki survive!
Rhaegon survived so much, how come FINGAH IN DA BUM managed to take him down?
Why are fuck off huge crossbows now better than fucking explosives?
6 seasons of Jaime's character development down the drain. Wonderful(!)
When did Brienne become such a simpering bitch?
I did like the background gag of Pod running off with two wenches
And Bronn is still in character thankfully.
Down to one dragon now, convenient.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I know that was meant to be shocking and awful but Missandei's beheading was just hilarious. At least Grey Worm may get a character now
Ah my boy, memba when everyone was hyped about how Jamie was going to become the kingslayer again in the final episode and use Ned Starks sword to defeat the Night King and protect the boy he once tried to kill and thus earn both redemption and his place in kingsguard history?
Honestly I would have forgiven it had the scorpions just driven Rhaegon to fall down on the shore, at which point euron sails his ship at full speed towards its rear end and fatally impales it up the shitfunnel using the bowsprit that had been crafted into the shape of a giant middle finger, thus turning the cringiest line in the series into epin foreshadowing
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I know that was meant to be shocking and awful but Missandei's beheading was just hilarious. At least Grey Worm may get a character now
You'll have faggots clamring for Dany's return as some fusion of Arthas and Elsa and people are going to forget most of the over-complicated faggotry by then.
Just droppin back in to remind yall that Tolkien's Corpse has published more books in the past ten years than GRRM has in the past 20 years, and that the bearded manatee is probably going to just shrug and say "the shows ending is the books ending because I cant be bothered to write one" before the decade is over so what you see in the next few episodes is all the closure book fans will ever get
This episode had a lot of things that were missing from the previous three:
-characters had actual conversations where they discussed their world views, disagreed with one another and argued passionately for their positions. This is what I wanted in reunions and character meet-ups, not the sappy reminiscing we got in episode 2.
-you could actually see what was going on. Even Missandei in the distance and out of focus was more visible than 90% of the Battle of Winterfell.
-characters acted in their own self-interest. Specifically, the wildlings going home, the Hound just fucking off, Jaime (temporarily) staying up north, and Sam and Gilly heading to the Wall. No one joined Jon and Dany's army who shouldn't have, which is more than you can say about the Battle of Winterfell.
-characters were making intelligent observations and decisions. Cersei isn't a genius for putting archers on the wall of her keep because that's what you're supposed to do, but she also didn't not have archers there like that fucking moron Dany in the Battle of Winterfell (can you tell I'm still fucking salty about that episode?).
I understand Dany's frustrations and I can't blame her if she decides to just fry King's Landing. Every loss Dany has suffered she has suffered because she's taken half measures in her war against Cersei. Last season she could have sacked King's Landing relatively easily with her dragons because Cersei didn't have many ballistas, but she didn't on the advice of Tyrion and Varys. What happened as a result? She lost one dragon in the northern expedition to get the wight; did not get the assistance of Cersei's army in the Battle of Winterfell, costing her half her unsullied and all of her Dothraki; and gave Cersei the time she needed to build dozens of anti-dragon ballistas, costing Dany her second dragon. That's two dragons and 80% of her army lost because she showed restraint.
A few minor complaints:
-Bronn believing that Tyrion has the power to grant him Highgarden.
-the lampshading on the situation in Dorne. Who the fuck is the Prince of Dorne? Buehler?
-Dany making Gendry the lord of the Stormlands despite him having no army and no clout. "Me am smart, too," she proudly declares, pissing off the rightful lords of the Stormlands, who have the armies, lands and resources she needs to win her war.
* Pandering to the Brienne x Jaime shippers while cucking the Arya x Gendry shippers, wow
I feel the romance between Brienne and Jaime seem kind of forced; not everybody needs to be paired up. Tormund thirsty for Brienne is funny and even I feel it would be ruined if they shacked up too
The ballista attack on the navy, are these guys for real?
I know the popular thing is to hate on Daenerys, I hated her too, but I think she tried her best trusting her advisors Tyrion and Varys, being welcoming to their ideas only to turn out they are absolute morons in the end.
Speaking of ruined character development, Tyrion is the second most useless person after Bran.
Part of the problem with the whole 'Mad Queen' angle is, just like a suggested retreat to the Iron Islands after Winterfell, there's no time for it. There's two episodes left. That's One for the conquering of King's Landing, One for the aftermath. Which means you're going to have to shove an entire turning on the new queen arc into a single episode, which it should probably be a season all of its own.
Whoever said this show was intended to be 10 seasons long was right. This season should have been Jon setting up Dany on the throne, to have strong ally as Lord of the Seven Kingdoms with which to fight the Others, next season should have been her madness alienating the people that put her there while the Others start to invade, leading to Jon asserting his claim to again unite the seven kingdoms, and the final season should have been the actual war against the Long Night. Then he can abdicate or whatever.
Bad writing is half the problem but this absolute rush job is just making it twice as bad.
Ya know the dumbass fucking scorpion/ballista schtick made me realise the show could have easily come up with a credible counter to the dragons and team dany while also tying up a fairly significant loose end.
Remember the pyromancers from season 2 and the background lore? Have them continue appearing in a seemingly minor capacity in season 3 and beyond by having a plot thread of how Joffrey has enlisted them to create a weapon that might kill Danys dragons given how he was shown to be worried about them in season 3 and is just impulsive enough to throw vast amounts of money and resources at the mad scientists who just blew up Stannis's fleet a few weeks ago.
Once Qyburn arrives he lends his knowledge to this secret unknown project which is when it shifts from wildfire to some other mysterious substance that is mentioned in passing as being surprisingly easy to acquire and create compared to wildfire, and after Joffrey dies, Tywin has the project continue due to his own growing concern over Dany's dragons, and once he dies Cersei gives them pretty much a blank cheque to do whatever they need/want, her knowledge of how utterly fucked she is if she doesnt get something good causing her to pour everything she has into this project, even enlisting Euron and co to help with getting shit together and setting shit up.
A few seasons pass and when the whole fake alliance thing happens Cersei has a far better reason to be so confident she can overcome not only team Dany but the undead horde too should they win, with nothing explicit shown about the mystery weapon yet other than the end results of its tests against buildings/people which show it to be something extremely powerful.
Come season 8 and when Dany leads her forces against Kings Landing, Cersei just smirks and says the word "fire"....
....and a hundred goddamn cannons turn half the unsullied and one of her dragons into fucking mulch
Boom. The traditional fantasy genre gets a subversion that actually makes sense in-universe and in a allegorical sense while adding a massive game-changer to the lore, and the whole fire schtick in the narrative gets a major new dimension, and best of all the whole "breaking the old system" motif becomes a whole lot more obvious and relevant if any petty warlord can take out massed knights and dragons just by spamming cannons
Most importantly, Cersei actually winds up halfway earning a place as end villain and also a credible threat to the heroes while also serving the narrative purpose of representing the true end of the traditional fantasy schtick of magic and dragons and noble warriors in shining armour given how irrelevant she just made them all, even if she loses.
I'm beginning to think they've tanked the show intentionally as a middle finger to... GRRM? HBO? GRRM has to be upset over this. This is the laziest stupidest shit.
Dunk & Egg could be a fun young adult-type series. Its cast is almost all white, so they'll taint it with diversity quota though. That would actually be an easy adaptation, its so light and straightforward.
Believe it or not "medieval villain invents gunpowder" is something of a fantasy trope. Famously, in Lord of the Rings, its suggested that Sauruman used explosives at the Battle of Helm's deep.
