As for missing a couple of seasons it’s always been about the journey though the destination promises to be a doozy too. I’m curious did you binge watch or watched as broadcast? I’ve watched it all as broadcast but started boxset watching again. Does take a different perspective I reckon
Broadcast apart from re-watching a few episodes as they're on Sky all the time :p
I think so far GoT has been one of the best things on TV and certainly don't wish it was shorter, it's just as the pace of the show has picked up and the story condensed as the characters come together it's now starting to feel rushed and what could have been much longer wrap-ups are being done in a couple of hours. Unless I'm wrong and ep 4 starts with Jon in the shower having dreamt ep 3 and the NK's actually still alive we're talking about a being that's existed for thousands of years (although it's not clear how many NK's there have been), with an undead dragon at his disposal (which he's probably not had in previous historic battles with the first men etc.) and he only lasts a couple of hours in the first major battle since coming south of the wall. If the NK was only ever a plot device to thin down the Northern forces before a final battle for the Iron throne then it all seems a bit meh building up the mystery and seeming importance of the character.
I'm hoping I'm proven wrong and there's more to it left in the series, if not I still think the NK going south to defeat Cersei whilst the WW + wights took on Winterfell would have been a better plot. We could have them thinking they'd almost defeated the undead army at Winterfell (killing WW's etc.) only for the NK to show up with the risen golden company for a big last battle with some proper main characters getting offed and Arya doing her thing just as all hope is lost.
Well, I honestly thought it was all a bit underwhelming.
he only lasts a couple of hours in the first major battle
Well that was his problem. In his first major battle he ponced in giving it the big I am, but crucially overlooked the fact that Team Living had about a gazillion fancy black dragonglass blades able to pop him with single poke. You don't go far in today's harsh economic climate with that kind of attitude. Night King? Seen one, seen em all.
The best thing about it was the score, and I’m surprised it’s not been mentioned yet, Ramin Djawadi is a genius.
Disagree, the score was way too loud and way too prevalent. The battle scenes would’ve been much more terrifying and tense with minimal score work.
I hate it when they attempt to add tension with music, it’s a lazy method.
NowTV will have presented your telly with 720p – they don’t broadcast in 1080.
They sent it to mine at 352x288 I reckon.
I thought my lad was playing minecraft.
Yes. The very first scene in ep1 was of WW so it's clearly pivotal to the whole plot. "Game of Thrones" is only the title of the first book and not the series as a whole - at this point most of the characters do not understand the full extent of the threat from the NK. The title of the series "A Song of Ice & Fire" alludes to Starks/Targaryens and/or The NK/dragons.I disagree, OK granted the show is called Game of Thrones and it’s really about who sits on the Iron throne which I don’t think the NK ever cared about but the NK was the aspect that could have stopped the usual merry-go-round of Westeros kings & queens. Apart from the NK being defeated nothing’s happened that hasn’t happened many times before with different characters.
IMO of course. Hopefully there'll be something more to come with the Bran storyline, would be disappointing if not!
Hopefully there’ll be something more to come with the Bran storyline, would be disappointing if not!
Yeah, cos he's been riveting to watch so far. At one point I thought their secret plan was to get Bran to drone on to the Night King that much that he killed himself.
I agree with :-
Cor, that was intense!
(chestrockwell)
That was utterly epic and I loved every second of it. The start was fantastic, with the waiting and the tension. My heart!
(howsyourdad1)
Epic 😀 One of the most intense things I’ve seen on telly or film, due to the fact I’m ridiculously emotionally invested in it after all these years of build-up
(zilog6128)
and last but not least:-
Bloody hell! There’s just no pleasing some people! Is there anything in your life that isn’t disappointing?
It was an epic piece of telly! I felt exhausted after watching it, it was so tense.
(Binners)
Roll on next week for the full body count. 🙂
The battle scenes would’ve been much more terrifying and tense with minimal score work.
Like the silence they used during the initial slaughter? Can't really blame Djawadi for the sound mixing, the music used as things seemed to be going from bad to worse pretty much nailed it imo (even if it did sound suspiciously like stuff he'd done for Westworld)
Really that ep just needed some sharks for the dragons to jump over and it would have been complete!
Really that ep just needed some sharks for the dragons to jump over and it would have been complete!
Are you saying that after 70 episodes, GoT has peaked and will only decline now for the final 3?
Or do you just not understand what 'jumping the shark' means and you didn't enjoy it as much as you hoped?
I will only accept the aforementioned sharks if they are zombies.
As long as there's no more Sheeran I'm not all that bothered what type of shark. (The shark jumpy thing has been said by others earlier on this thread. I'd note that it's generally towards the end of a good run that series tend to do this.)
Also, acting notes: Jamie Lanister trying to project past that fringe - the hair's still a take on Disney prince I'll grant you. But he couldn't quite do it. Sansa Stark: that accent has never gone far north of the King's Road, never mind King's Landing. When she pulled out that dagger I swore for a sec it was a mobile.
It was ace.
but...
Didn't like the NK's smirk at finding himself dragon-breath-proof
Didn't like how smudged the near-black was
Too many people lived - probably - depends how good their deaths are later 🙂
Didn’t like the NK’s smirk at finding himself dragon-breath-proof
You'd be smirking too after all that fire. (Ashington joke)
If I was being picky....I did wonder how both the Dothraki hoardes and also Grey Worms mob( can’t think what are called) we’re wiped out pretty quickly by dead people who mostly had no weapons. Especially when they’re weapons were all prepared for them.
It’s a numbers game...
we’re wiped out pretty quickly by dead people who mostly had no weapons
Did you notice they were looking up and the camera upward too? Plus there were thousands of them.
It’s a numbers game…
But it also the same illogical principle that takes 5 police officers to immobile 1 drunkard intent on punching someone - now add to that a manic primeval desire to kill you by whatever means necessary with zero inhibitions including their own injury or death x many thousand.
I did think the unsullied were pretty cool under that pressure, it’s convinced me not having sex ever again might be a great idea for pre race nerves.
it’s convinced me not having sex ever again might be a great idea for pre race nerve
Thinking of getting married then?
Right then, what's you predictions for the end?
Mine are:
Sansa & Tyrion end up married.
Dani ends up on the Iron throne.
John ends up as 'king in the north'
Sam is hand of the king in the north.
Bron kills Jamie - Brianne kills Bron.
Arya takes Jamie's face and kills Cersei.
Yara kills Captain Camp & takes the Iron Islands.
Hound kills Mountain.
Arya and Gendry will be the marriage of Stark & Baratheon that was talked about at the beginning.
After Jamie's demise Brianne and Tormund will live happily ever after and have giant babies.....
No idea where Bran fits in.....
Dani gets killed the dragon kills everyone.
I don’t think either John or Daenerys will end up on the throne. Cersei will die. Gendry for king.
Sansa gets burned by Dani for plotting against her.
No idea where Bran fits in…..
I think his usefulness (or uselessness) has come to an end. That part of the story is over.
I’d say the most unexpected thing about the series for me so far is that the Night King thing ended before the whole ‘who’s king / Queen’ thing, I thought it would be the other way around.
No idea where Bran fits in…..
In the roots of a heart tree.
My moneys on Aragorn being the king !
now add to that a manic primeval desire to kill you by whatever means necessary with zero inhibitions including their own injury or death x many thousand.
Super zombie-strength too. At least they did in the books; don't recall if this was ever demonstrated in the show.
Arya has a bastard child who turns out to be the Prince that was Promised.
Well, that last episode was epic! Watched it yesterday evening having avoided anything GoT on the internet since Monday and I was blown away by everything about it - the cinematography, direction, production and the score.
It was like some of the finest moments of depression: bleak, desolate and full of hopeless despair and when the flamed NK raised his hands, I really thought that that was it, despite knowing there’s another three episodes left.
To the usual naysayers on here, I really do wonder what would make you happy? In fact, are you happy with your lives? Probably not.
As for the darkness, well it’s the Night King, he brings the night, hence its dark and stormy and everything that a dark and stormy winter night brings with it. Honestly, it’s not difficult. Clues in the name, get over it.
As for the end scene, I wasn’t expecting Arya to be the one, trick move too.
If I were to take a punt as to what happens next, I reckon the Lannister/Greyell armies are parked up just south of Winterfell, waiting to take on whoever came out on top, possibly with that highly explosive green stuff that Cersei used to blow up the Brotherhood with.
Either way, there’s to be at least one more skirmish to take out a few more major players. Remember kids, don’t get attached to anyone in GoT! 😁
As for the end scene, I wasn’t expecting Arya to be the one, trick move too.
I currently can't transfer an item from one hand to the other without doing the Arya drop. Ok with a toothbrush but the phone's in some jeopardy.
I am quite a sad individual, aren't I?
Remember kids, don’t get attached to anyone in GoT!
Everyone talks about this 'in true GOT fashion' but there have hardly been any unexpected deaths really. can only think of 3 shockers; Nedders, Joff and Viperman? oh and the red wedding too i suppose 😀
all the other mainstays have survived far too long...
Also, didnt Cersei use all her supplies of wild fire to light up the sept? she has however got a big dockoff dragon gun!!
Everyone talks about this ‘in true GOT fashion’ but there have hardly been any unexpected deaths really. can only think of 3 shockers; Nedders, Joff and Viperman? oh and the red wedding too i suppose
Tommen?
Princess Shireen?
Everyone talks about this ‘in true GOT fashion’ but there have hardly been any unexpected deaths really
Of the top of my head, Renly, Stannis' daughter, a dragon, everyone in Baelors sept, Tommen, Walder Frey, all came as a surprise.
Rickon?
Roose Bolton?
Shae?
Lysa?
Viserys Targaeryan (less so, he had it coming...)
etc etc
Pfft you can't just list every death, otherwise what about soldier #155 in the Battle of the Bastards?
Personally I think only Ned Stark, the Red Wedding and Vis the dragon came as a "woah" surprise (as in both unexpected and an interesting twist, although even then it was fairly obvious at least one dragon would die by the end of the show, it was more the resurrection part in that case).
Sure lots of characters with fairly big roles have been killed off but you can hardly think it was a surprise when, for example, Joffrey was bumped off when he was. OK I didn't see Shireen's death coming but hardly an important character. None of that makes GoT special for killing off big characters - part of it is GoT has so many big characters it can afford to/needs to kill some off
otherwise what about soldier #155 in the Battle of the Bastards?
That was a nasty one. No-one expects to go like that. 🙂
Thing is, you expect people to die horribly and/or suddenly in GoT - which is why it's described as in 'true GoT fashion'. Characters are just having a lovely chat, and suddenly they're knifed to death by the bastard son they've just promoted, or chucked out of the sky door with little warning.
I mean, Stannis' daughter...you kept thinking, nah, this isn't going to happen, even someone like Stannis can't burn a charming child character at the stake...
Even if they don't kill people, true GoT fashion can include cutting off the Disney Prince's hand out of the blue.
Tommen defo shocked me at the time! Yes, when you look at them in retrospect, lots of the deaths are “obvious” as they fit in with the narrative, but when they happen so quickly before you have time to process what’s going on plenty have left me feeling “whoa”!
Arya takes Jamie’s face and kills Cersei.
Good shout.
Thing is, Cersei's got it in for Jamie now, so might not be the helpful disguise it has been for the other six series.
I thought it were bloody great!
It was good as I had hoped it would even without any shock deaths
I can't think of any missteps really, everything plausible and canonical in the GOT, possibly aside from the night kings smirk
I like the fact that Jon snow wasnt decisive really and just got pinned down by the ice dragon, like it was his first go at an end of level boss in a computer game and he just needed to hit restart, although he got away with doing that when he was resurrected I spose
Maybe Cersei will keep on the iron throne. Would not be a bad ending; she HAS worked the hardest to get there 😀 I don’t really hold with all this “birthright” or true king/Queen crap.
Have you seen that there is to be a Jane Goldman written spin-off to GoT?
https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/tv/game-of-thrones/58318/game-of-thrones-spin-off-prequel-news
I'm just disappointed that nobody has yet realized that Jon Snow is the worst military leader since Sir William Elphinstone and stuck a knife in him before he tries any more silly charges across open ground. Every military force he has led has been wiped out. Now that the Red Witch is gone, a quick shiv to the kidneys and he'd be gone for good. He's a crap actor too.
Arya and Gendry will be the marriage of Stark & Baratheon that was talked about at the beginning.
Nah, Arya will die.
