Game of Thrones (S8)
- Thread starter CarltonTheBear
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I feel like I got a bit of zombie fatigue to be honest. I don't like Zombie movies in general so I thought part of the way in I'd rather be watching Army or Darkness lol. Lots of good like you said but just a lot of questionable things. Like is this the billionth fight where John essentially thought a really dumb strategy and got bailed out?Nik the Trik said:
The issue I have with the series in general, even though I still mostly enjoy it and have invested to heavily not to see it out, is once they ran out of source material the fan theories were better than a lot of the actual plot. Like Arya in Braavos was crap compared to some of the stuff I read out there, and the trusting Cersei gambit was just so hilariously bad.CarltonTheBear said:
herman
Well-known member
Game of Thrones cedes a lot of battle logic to budget/logistical constraints.
They did the Dothraki + Ghost dirty purely for visual effect and to save on night time horse wrangling/CGI. Melisandre lighting up the arakhs is a nice way to see their numbers from afar (how rousing), and then also demarcate where the dead were congregating (oh snap!). Their abrupt loss was cheap motivation to spur Dany into early and ineffective action. They could have accomplished a similar visual effect with the trebuchets and rolling stones of flame while being significantly more effective tactically, but then they'd have to corral and coordinate all their riders throughout the ensuing melee. I would also not be surprised if a lot of the Dothraki stunt extras were recycled as wights.
https://twitter.com/yardsperpass/status/1123022522713300992
but also:
https://twitter.com/aireadee/status/1122690564091273216
They did the Dothraki + Ghost dirty purely for visual effect and to save on night time horse wrangling/CGI. Melisandre lighting up the arakhs is a nice way to see their numbers from afar (how rousing), and then also demarcate where the dead were congregating (oh snap!). Their abrupt loss was cheap motivation to spur Dany into early and ineffective action. They could have accomplished a similar visual effect with the trebuchets and rolling stones of flame while being significantly more effective tactically, but then they'd have to corral and coordinate all their riders throughout the ensuing melee. I would also not be surprised if a lot of the Dothraki stunt extras were recycled as wights.
https://twitter.com/yardsperpass/status/1123022522713300992
but also:
https://twitter.com/aireadee/status/1122690564091273216
herman said:
https://twitter.com/notdred/status/1122842198700175360
cc Mike Babcock
Kin
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For all the dunking on the gameplan of the living, I'm still a little more confused by the actions of Team Dead. Leaving aside the fact that they seemed to switch between swarming brainless locust mode and Michael Myers in Halloween mode(Arya in the Library, the Giant deciding to pick up and get a good look at the Mormont girl) whenever convenient, the plan of overwhelming them with sheer numbers was going pretty well. So why did the Night King not figure that his guys could deal with Bran as well? Was he arrogant? Did he not know he was vulnerable?
I know Sam said something along the lines of wanting to erase men and Bran being a good place to start but if he knows where Bran is, then what difference does it make when he gets to him so long as his unstoppable rampaging army eats everyone in Winterfell first? Especially if he knows that killing him switches off the rest of his goons like it was Independence Day.
These are the sorts of questions that make me wish we'd learned more about what the deal was with the Night King or, if the explanation is that he was just a single-minded Terminator devoted to killing folk, that there was a better character in his place.
I know Sam said something along the lines of wanting to erase men and Bran being a good place to start but if he knows where Bran is, then what difference does it make when he gets to him so long as his unstoppable rampaging army eats everyone in Winterfell first? Especially if he knows that killing him switches off the rest of his goons like it was Independence Day.
These are the sorts of questions that make me wish we'd learned more about what the deal was with the Night King or, if the explanation is that he was just a single-minded Terminator devoted to killing folk, that there was a better character in his place.
Guru Tugginmypuddah
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I thought it was a pretty classic villain trope. The Night King doing his own silent monologue, staring at Bran with his smug "I got you now" look on his face, only to be defeated seconds later.
Phileas Fogg
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Caught up last night, a touch disappointed.
I'm unclear as to why all the investment/screen time was made in the Bran character arc all these seasons if all he really amounted to was bait. I was waiting for something cool to happen, and natch.
I'm unclear as to why all the investment/screen time was made in the Bran character arc all these seasons if all he really amounted to was bait. I was waiting for something cool to happen, and natch.
groundskeeper willie
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I think you'll still see something. The conversation between Tyrion and Bran will likely come up again (some have speculated Bran told him about Jon's true parentage) and where Bran went while warging during the battle has to play a role yet too.Frycer14 said:
The show can't just move from one battle against the White Walkers to the next against Cersei with no consequence between. It would be too jarring and everything in the show has always been connected in some way so far.
At least I hope. I don't have 100% faith in the writers after season 7, but I am giving them the benefit of the doubt.