Game of Thrones

casualty count not counting redshirts: like 3?

lol

  On 4/29/2019 at 3:19 PM, azatoth said:

now it's back to some silly squabble about some chair.

In some sense I'm actually more curious about what happens next

I dunno, I guess I'm a basic bitch but I was satisfied with the episode, one could argue it was anti-climatic but I'm still personally processing the gravity of what just transpired in this fictional universe.

  On 4/29/2019 at 3:19 PM, azatoth said:

just lol...so the big scary existential threat over all these seasons got dealt within one episode in the most cheesiest way ever and now it's back to some silly squabble about some chair.

the political squabbling was always more interesting than the magic zombies.

They could have done this show without White Walkers/Night King, and it probably would have been better.  

Still room for the famous lynchian "it was all a dream, and f#ck it, lets introduce time travel/shift identities as well" plot twist, I see ;-)

  On 4/29/2019 at 3:19 PM, azatoth said:

just lol...so the big scary existential threat over all these seasons got dealt within one episode in the most cheesiest way ever and now it's back to some silly squabble about some chair.

FWIW it was a fun episode. I enjoyed it but there’s some holes. Anyway, this gif agrees with what a lot of people are complaining about.

https://gfycat.com/SentimentalGlamorousCollie

https://gfycat.com/SentimentalGlamorousCollie

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  On 4/29/2019 at 7:20 PM, goDel said:

Still room for the famous lynchian "it was all a dream, and f#ck it, lets introduce time travel/shift identities as well" plot twist, I see ;-)

or they never won the game of thrones and Dan actually died of heart attack

or more bluntly

  On 4/29/2019 at 7:53 PM, ignatius said:

 

  On 4/29/2019 at 3:19 PM, azatoth said:

just lol...so the big scary existential threat over all these seasons got dealt within one episode in the most cheesiest way ever and now it's back to some silly squabble about some chair.

FWIW it was a fun episode. I enjoyed it but there’s some holes. Anyway, this gif agrees with what a lot of people are complaining about.

 

https://gfycat.com/SentimentalGlamorousCollie

 

Now that's a funny ass gifmeme 

lol

aaargh

so much cringe this entire episode. most of the episode i was basically eating myself up because they should have known they'd only need a few kills. that was pretty much established the last season. what was their strategy? fight all the useless shit and ignore the few who'd actually be worthwhile to attack. 

well i liked it

it was awful. you just need to get over your stockholm syndrome to notice. ;p

You guys are just jaded :p

  On 4/29/2019 at 9:09 PM, auxien said:

 

  On 4/29/2019 at 7:53 PM, ignatius said:

 

  On 4/29/2019 at 3:19 PM, azatoth said:

just lol...so the big scary existential threat over all these seasons got dealt within one episode in the most cheesiest way ever and now it's back to some silly squabble about some chair.

FWIW it was a fun episode. I enjoyed it but there’s some holes. Anyway, this gif agrees with what a lot of people are complaining about.

 

https://gfycat.com/SentimentalGlamorousCollie

 

Now that's a funny ass gifmeme

for the first 20 minutes it was looking like it was going to transcend the two towers-like big battle™ presets and do something interesting and relatively new. the tension buildup before the battle was good, the way horsepeople got got was nice as well, and then the first  visible zombie assault that looked a tidal way of horror sweeping everything on its path was awesome. the sense of dread and hopelessness was real for a while. but then the tension gets farted away completely and we get into the checkbox checking mode with all the deaths of secondary characters, near deaths of main ones, useless video gamy stealth sequence, all kinds of acts of heroism and all of the boring and worn out shit that's way past diminishing returns. it's just so awfully mechanical, predictable and dull at this point. bleh.

genuinely irritated daenarys didnt die. the opportunity was perfect. 

i was actually enjoying it thoroughly right up the point where nothing was explained with the night king and bran, no-one died, and the entire army of the dead got wiped out in one hit.halfway through i thought daenerys dead, night king speaks to bran and turns out he actually had an alterior motive of not just being a pure arsehole, episode ends with an actual cliffhanger instead of just exactly the same as the last episode. 

I feel like I’m the only one who thinks the Night King was boring High Fantasy Evil bullshit, and the Army of the Dead was always better as a metaphor for everyone’s real existential threat rather than an incarnated existential threat.

I’m looking forward to Cersei actually slaughtering everyone you all care about, especially Snow, who is like the most mediocre hero ever to bumble into a position of esteem.

Death is still going to win yOu FuckInG NErdOs

  On 4/30/2019 at 4:03 AM, baph said:

 especially Snow, who is like the most mediocre hero ever to bumble into a position of esteem.

 

 

you forget Forest Gump. 

  On 4/30/2019 at 4:06 AM, ignatius said:

 

  On 4/30/2019 at 4:03 AM, baph said:

especially Snow, who is like the most mediocre hero ever to bumble into a position of esteem.

 

 

 

you forget Forest Gump.

Sadly, no, I accounted for Gump

teleports behind you

nothin' personnel, kid

Hey - we'll always have Seasons 1-4 to re-watch, right? 

lol it was fucking dark and hard too see...had to turn all the lights off, shut the curtains and bugger about with my picture settings to make it viewable

I streamed it from Sky Go live and it looked like shite, then downloaded a copy and rewatched last night and I could actually see what was going on.

I still quite liked it 2nd time around, battle wasn't as good as the battle to retake Winterfell, though I really liked the buildup, the sense of impending dread, the brief bit of hope with the Dothraki charge and subsequent pants shitting from everyone after that totally failed.

My main gripes were the walker generals and night king didn't get involved enough (ok, at least the night king flew around on his dragon a bit, but the others should have at least got involved in a sword fight with some of the major characters or something), and yeah the night king should have at least had a chat with Bran at the end, he just walked around with a stupid smirk on his face the whole time and got into a bit of stare off with a few people.

maybe he's not dead and will recombine T-1000 style when his remains melt.

Why would the night king have a chat with Bran? He's not there to negotiate, he's there to extinguish the entirety of human life. It's not really a complex situation. And din't they already know that killing the night king would fell his army?

The fight was good, up there (but probably not quite as good as) with the battle to reclaim winterfell. I think caze's analysis of it is about right: "battle wasn't as good as the battle to retake Winterfell, though I really liked the buildup, the sense of impending dread, the brief bit of hope with the Dothraki charge and subsequent pants shitting from everyone after that totally failed."

Anyway - really well done TV. Looking forward to Jamie killing Cersei as they fuck. Or vice-versa (more likely).