Red Mosquito

Chris_H_2 wrote:i still feel cheated with no real white walker action and this 8-season-long threat disappearing so quickly and relatively easily.

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:i still feel cheated with no real white walker action and this 8-season-long threat disappearing so quickly and relatively easily.

Other than Winterfell and everything north of it being destroyed and thousands being killed...

But yeah, it felt unsatisfying in that way.

Bi_3 wrote:

Bammer wrote:The lighting up of the Dothraki swords was pretty cool. Right before I asked Mrs. Bam “are their swords made of dragon glass? I don’t think so. They’re gonna be worthless.”

Anyway WhyTF didn’t the two good dragons sweep over the zombie lines and burn ‘em all before either side charged?

Very convenient that nearly all our heroes survived...

Jon's plan was to hide the Dragons until the battle was underway and the night king was spotted.

Simple Torture wrote:

The Ringer wrote:Amid all this noise, one’s natural inclination is to search for the payoff that could make such excess, both financial and temporal, feel earned. Instead, the battle’s outcome felt strangely pre-determined by Thrones standards, with the emotional cost weighing in at a virtual steal. Given how early in the season the battle came, the White Walker threat was almost sure to be eliminated, the better for the show’s remaining humans to turn their attention toward Cersei and her allies in the South, not to mention that pesky “who has a better claim to the Iron Throne?” situation between our resident aunt-nephew lovers. Such a pivot bodes well for Thrones’ return to ethical gray areas over a flat, if titular, clash between ice and fire. But surely such a triumph would come at a steep, long-overdue price—a price which, disconcertingly, never materialized.

That Arya was the one to seal the deal is heartening, at least. It wasn’t Dany, with all her talk of saving the Seven Kingdoms from themselves, to dispatch their most formidable opponent. Nor was it Jon, who ended the battle near his breaking point and in a shouting match with a zombie dragon. Instead, it was the woman who learned to master death and, ultimately, reject it, wielding the very weapon that caused her family so much grief. And yet, by the time Arya leapt out of the shadows, I’d long since lost track of her or her trajectory within the castle. Like so much of Game of Thrones’ final seasons, the Battle of Winterfell worked backward from a dramatic conclusion, and undercut its satisfaction in the process.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

Bammer wrote:The lighting up of the Dothraki swords was pretty cool. Right before I asked Mrs. Bam “are their swords made of dragon glass? I don’t think so. They’re gonna be worthless.”

Anyway WhyTF didn’t the two good dragons sweep over the zombie lines and burn ‘em all before either side charged?

Very convenient that nearly all our heroes survived...

Jon's plan was to hide the Dragons until the battle was underway and the night king was spotted.

Also, the blizzard

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Revelator wrote:I've got the 75" Samsung Q9F model (supposedly their flagship 4K TV), thought I had mine calibrated nicely and never really had an issue until I saw last night's episode, felt like I was squinting and trying to figure out what I was watching for over half the episode. Glad to hear I wasn't the only one having this issue, it's all over the recap news feeds this morning....

Part of the episode was intentionally dark and confusing.

We're you watching on an app or via cable?

dimejinky99 wrote:Just thinking. It can’t really be Arya that takes out Cersei now, can it?

dimejinky99 wrote:Just thinking. It can’t really be Arya that takes out Cersei now, can it?

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Just thinking. It can’t really be Arya that takes out Cersei now, can it?

i said yesterday that the natural candidate is jaime

Simple Torture wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Also, this one's for Joey: if they wanted to do the most "TV" ending to this conflict of all time, it'll be Arya who strikes the killing blow to the Night King, and when he looks her in the eye as he begins to crumble into ice chips, she'll whisper, "...not today."

Motherfuckers, I was CLOSE

Chris_H_2 wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:Just thinking. It can’t really be Arya that takes out Cersei now, can it?

i said yesterday that the natural candidate is jaime

EJ wrote:Knowing that the actors despise each other in real life, it really should be Bronn that kills her.