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Game Of Thrones Television series *may contain spoilers*
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I actually like that idea. Perhaps afterwards defects from the Crown and joins the north and brienne?
Is it cool to say that game of thrones is crap now or something ? Labelling the rest of the season as dross is just utterly daft.
if anyone thinks this isn't easily the best series they've ever done they're just talking nonsense and trying to be edgy.
tsubaki
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It is an entirely valid criticism of this season, and the one before it. GOT used to be genuinely great and yet over the last two years we have only seen flickers of it - Hardhome last season, and this most recent episode in this season.
I respectfully disagree with you sir
And yet you stay up till 3am to watch it like the good little fanboy that you are
only 1 episode left of the season
What planet are you on?
Battle of the bastards played out in utterly predictable fashion. Go back a week in this thread and people were calling it almost scene for scene. It was the Battle of Helm's Deep without the Orcs and Elves.
Ramsay had a golden chance to take out Jon after the battle reached the courtyard in Winterfell but didn't, and instead fired an arrow at someone who was already dying? Ridiculous. On top of that, there were the moronic mistakes Jon made at every step of the battle. No way he, Tormund or Wun Wun survive that battlefield in the first place.
It was enjoyable to watch, don't get me wrong. But George Martin is an unpredictable writer and the show writers are not - they should have slowed down and stuck to the source material instead of butchering the two biggest books to date in order to race ahead of the author. All we are getting now is standard Hollywood-style battles and gratuitous boobies (more Missandei please), with sporadic murders of supporting characters because the writers haven't the first clue how to advance story arcs.
Ramsay had a golden chance to take out Jon after the battle reached the courtyard in Winterfell but didn't, and instead fired an arrow at someone who was already dying? Ridiculous. On top of that, there were the moronic mistakes Jon made at every step of the battle. No way he, Tormund or Wun Wun survive that battlefield in the first place.
It was enjoyable to watch, don't get me wrong. But George Martin is an unpredictable writer and the show writers are not - they should have slowed down and stuck to the source material instead of butchering the two biggest books to date in order to race ahead of the author. All we are getting now is standard Hollywood-style battles and gratuitous boobies (more Missandei please), with sporadic murders of supporting characters because the writers haven't the first clue how to advance story arcs.
The battle as a whole I thought was decent as it depicted a horrible, desperate scene - as it should be. The pike men were very cool as was the realistic placement of men. The cavalry maelstrom was also full on.
I did have a few issues with it but on the whole I can let them slide:
Literally concentrated mounds of dead? A bit ridiculous.
Ramsay not just having Jon shot full of arrows. Either when he was trying to save Rickon or when he was in Winterfell.
Ramsay throwing away his cavalry in a frontal charge.
Sansa not telling anyone about the Vale Knights. They might have formulated a rather different battle plan of they had known. It's quite the disincentive to charging straight at a superior enemy if you know reinforcements are 20 minutes away.
The lack of variety in Boltons army. Where are the Manderleys? Where are the Umbers? (SmallJon aside).
Ramsay shooting arrows in to his own men when he has to retain the fragile allegiance of the northern houses.
I did have a few issues with it but on the whole I can let them slide:
Literally concentrated mounds of dead? A bit ridiculous.
Ramsay not just having Jon shot full of arrows. Either when he was trying to save Rickon or when he was in Winterfell.
Ramsay throwing away his cavalry in a frontal charge.
Sansa not telling anyone about the Vale Knights. They might have formulated a rather different battle plan of they had known. It's quite the disincentive to charging straight at a superior enemy if you know reinforcements are 20 minutes away.
The lack of variety in Boltons army. Where are the Manderleys? Where are the Umbers? (SmallJon aside).
Ramsay shooting arrows in to his own men when he has to retain the fragile allegiance of the northern houses.
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TheAlmightyFloater
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The cinematography & directing for the battle scene was just outstanding. If that doesn't win some sort of award, I'd be shocked.
The way it perfectly captured the utter chaos of medieval warfare and thrust the viewer right into the middle of the action...
A+
The way it perfectly captured the utter chaos of medieval warfare and thrust the viewer right into the middle of the action...
A+
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