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GOT has 3 more episodes and will get worse, plus there is a prequel series coming, allegedly with wokeness. Marvel will make more movies, will possibly also get worse and may also contain more wokeness. So yeah.
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GOT has 3 more episodes and will get worse, plus there is a prequel series coming, allegedly with wokeness. Marvel will make more movies, will possibly also get worse and may also contain more wokeness. So yeah.
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I loved this but it should have been the finale. I don’t want to watch three episodes of Cersie being a smug idiot after this. The White Walkers should have been the final curtain; resolve all the political drama before Arya saves everyone’s sorry asses.
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Well, that was something.
- As for the Night King... well that was a bullshit ending. I mean I suppose that perhaps they didn't have the budget for a full scale zombie invasion into King's Landing but... I guess the Night King really was just... that? No extra lore, no hidden secrets revealed, no... pay off really.
Well Cersei, I hope you bring your best Bitch Queen game.
- God damn that was some strong plot armor.
- Yeah, I know Arya got the kill shot, but Jorah gets the fucking MVP award, I don't give a shit.
- The scene with Jon versus (in the loosest sense of the term) Viserion, was just an HD remake of a Dark Souls boss battle, complete with roll dodging.
- As for the Night King... well that was a bullshit ending. I mean I suppose that perhaps they didn't have the budget for a full scale zombie invasion into King's Landing but... I guess the Night King really was just... that? No extra lore, no hidden secrets revealed, no... pay off really.
Well Cersei, I hope you bring your best Bitch Queen game.
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I love that pun regardless of whether you intended it.
also why were people expecting to learn more about the night king? We saw his origin, he was some rando guy that got turned into an ice monster meant to wipe out humanity. We’ve known this for years lmfao
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You guys have to remember: after the first handful of seasons, this show is basically trash. Its the equivalent of a soap opera with tits and blood.
Obviously, Jon should have been one to do it. Its the obvious choice because he's the most invested, been warning everyone about them, had basically the entire show invested in it. He should have been the choice because in story-telling, that's how you get payoff.
There are parallels to the scene in No Country for Old Men, where Josh Brolin is gunned down by Mexicans in a gun battle we never see. But that's not really blue-balling you. The entire movie's theme was random chance and the strangeness of it. So it was acceptable to the audience. Was it unexpected? Sure. Did it subvert your expectations? No, because the themes and dialogue and cinematography was built around this bleak darkness of randomness, chance and unstoppable forces.
The problem is that there's no such thing in Game of Thrones, Jon should confront the Night King. He should be the one to vanquish him, because that's basically his story. If you want Arya to do something, have her distract his lieutenants and start murking them, while Jon dukes it out one vs. one. Things get more and more desperate as Arya struggles not to get hit and you have Jon kill the Night King.
The problem with Game of Thrones has always been it that it has gone for shock value over any sort of real story-telling or substance. Narratives don't get any payoff not for thematic reasons, but because its shocking. Subverting expectations in story-telling can be done well. You can have this evil piece of shit fighting the good guys, but it turns out he was right all along. The thing is, thematically, tonally, you need to set this up. They never, ever do that.
Cersei's death or non-death would be hilarious. The amount of salt that would flow from her being the one to take the Iron Throne would make me laugh so fucking hard. My thing is, after about the fifth season, I've got literally no investment in any character. They fucked that season up so bad, there is no way I could ever see this as a dramatic show ever again. Its a garbage fire that I watch on Sunday, written, produced and directed by terrible fucking hacks.
There are parallels to the scene in No Country for Old Men, where Josh Brolin is gunned down by Mexicans in a gun battle we never see. But that's not really blue-balling you. The entire movie's theme was random chance and the strangeness of it. So it was acceptable to the audience. Was it unexpected? Sure. Did it subvert your expectations? No, because the themes and dialogue and cinematography was built around this bleak darkness of randomness, chance and unstoppable forces.
The problem is that there's no such thing in Game of Thrones, Jon should confront the Night King. He should be the one to vanquish him, because that's basically his story. If you want Arya to do something, have her distract his lieutenants and start murking them, while Jon dukes it out one vs. one. Things get more and more desperate as Arya struggles not to get hit and you have Jon kill the Night King.
The problem with Game of Thrones has always been it that it has gone for shock value over any sort of real story-telling or substance. Narratives don't get any payoff not for thematic reasons, but because its shocking. Subverting expectations in story-telling can be done well. You can have this evil piece of shit fighting the good guys, but it turns out he was right all along. The thing is, thematically, tonally, you need to set this up. They never, ever do that.
Cersei's death or non-death would be hilarious. The amount of salt that would flow from her being the one to take the Iron Throne would make me laugh so fucking hard. My thing is, after about the fifth season, I've got literally no investment in any character. They fucked that season up so bad, there is no way I could ever see this as a dramatic show ever again. Its a garbage fire that I watch on Sunday, written, produced and directed by terrible fucking hacks.
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Oh fuck, an innumerable army of the dead is out there in the darkness. Let's throw our light cavalry at it. Oh fuck. That didn't work? Better keep our elite troops outside the walls and let them get cut off by our own fire traps. Oh fuck, that didn't work? At least our dragons have just been flying around doing fuck all for most of this battle.
Fucking STRATEGY, man.
That battle was Walking Dead quality of writing.
Fucking STRATEGY, man.
That battle was Walking Dead quality of writing.
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I think Cersei, is going to get turned into an undead one way or the other. They have that hanging plot line of science monks turning the mountain into an undead and then maybe doing other things with it.
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To me, it was really anti-climactic. I mean, 7 seasons of build up and this? It was amazing, though, I just found the ending way, way too easy. They hint at some ultimate purpose through supernatural/fantasy elements and deliver something very mundane. I really wanted them to kill an essential character and not just regulars. I was really sad to see Melisandre's ending. I didn't expect her to commit suicide
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im pretty sure she used up her powers with that massive flamewall and the burning swords.
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i feel like I didn’t watch the same show as everyone else
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They're probably going to have to make a new Ice person and a new Fire person because the world can't exist without ice and fire yadda yadda yadda.
I'm kinda dissapointed that they didn't do anything much with the undead all these seasons. I would think with the undead fuckery that the lannisters did or the night king that Cersei would try to resurrect her kids because she's just that kind of creepy mother.
I'm kinda dissapointed that they didn't do anything much with the undead all these seasons. I would think with the undead fuckery that the lannisters did or the night king that Cersei would try to resurrect her kids because she's just that kind of creepy mother.
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/tv/ is decidedly unhappy:
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I was expecting something anticlimactic, and hoo boy was I not disappointed.
Does whacking the NK pull the plug on his whole army, or not?
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I think he warged before it happened. That's why Bran was like "meh" He's going to come back, or someone like him is going to come back. Maybe they try to create something to stop Cersei and it goes wrong, and it starts all over again, just like before.
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Yep, a bunch of people don’t understand a show they’ve been watching for years lol
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I liked the part where some muddy dark blurs did something I couldn't really see.
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I had to turn the brightness up on my TV, like holy hell Dark Souls is better lit than this episode.
The One Ring was a better MacGuffin than the Night King could ever hope to be, he served no purpose in the end other than disappointment.
Why would Cersei not bother helping? Why would she save her rented army of twenty thousand to wipe out the left overs of the winners? If the Night King wins, his army is barely decimated as its replaced by the dead of the army at Winterfell. Its probably at least ten times stronger. They should have had her make a deal with the Night King, he keeps the north, she gets the south and offers him tribute babies like Caster did, or even he turns her to be undead to be his queen. While she hopes to make a counter move against him some day, or just revels in the power she got to keep, and terrorize the populace that hates her because now she's taking their newborns away.
This episode could had been the Empire Strikes Back of the series, the one everyone talks about, the good guys lose, the one where the audience looks spends the whole week talking about "what the fuck? no one ever gets a happy ending in Westeros". There could had been a few survivors from Winterfell, Arya, Hound, Jamie, and they could had gone off to lick their wounds and plot a way to take out NK and Cersei, so the prophecy of Cersei getting strangled by her brother comes true when Jamie learns that she betrayed the living just to hold on to some power.
So much potential, wasted yet once again.
Why would Cersei not bother helping? Why would she save her rented army of twenty thousand to wipe out the left overs of the winners? If the Night King wins, his army is barely decimated as its replaced by the dead of the army at Winterfell. Its probably at least ten times stronger. They should have had her make a deal with the Night King, he keeps the north, she gets the south and offers him tribute babies like Caster did, or even he turns her to be undead to be his queen. While she hopes to make a counter move against him some day, or just revels in the power she got to keep, and terrorize the populace that hates her because now she's taking their newborns away.
This episode could had been the Empire Strikes Back of the series, the one everyone talks about, the good guys lose, the one where the audience looks spends the whole week talking about "what the fuck? no one ever gets a happy ending in Westeros". There could had been a few survivors from Winterfell, Arya, Hound, Jamie, and they could had gone off to lick their wounds and plot a way to take out NK and Cersei, so the prophecy of Cersei getting strangled by her brother comes true when Jamie learns that she betrayed the living just to hold on to some power.
So much potential, wasted yet once again.
los pepes
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Having literally everyone but the main cast die. Worth the billion dollars it cost to shoot. Good thing we got an entire episode last week of them all saying their goodbyes, fucking each other, and insisting they were all gonna be dead by morning. "Oops lol never mind right back to where we were 2 episodes ago"