The wait for his videos even has me checking the channel of that redteamreview schmuck. Dark times.
The wait for his videos even has me checking the channel of that redteamreview schmuck. Dark times.
Got a decent got review recommendation on YouTube, half way through it and so far it pretty much hits the nail on the head for me. Its less obnoxious than the title suggests.
It must be so fucking boring being Bran. Seeing absolutely everything that was coming.
They should have shown Bran nodding off when the NK was approaching him. Maybe playing Gameboy as King's Landing melted.
I have long said that Game of Thrones is a Medieval Soap Opera and while that's actually awesome if done right, which it was for a long time, people would get butt hurt about it.You got that right.
Why did the Lord of Light revive Jon? It can't be to kill Daenerys, because as we've seen once one of his revived followers has achieved their purpose, they get got in a hurry. Is Jon just going to drop dead after he builds some houses for wildlings? Did the Lord of Light "just sort of forget" that he revived Jon?
How was Qyburn able to revive The Mountain, and why did he never revive anyone else? Why does literally no one in the entire world ask about this?
Why did the rest of the Faceless Men just fuck off and forget about everything? Was it always their plan for Arya to escape half-trained, kill the Night King, and then sail off to find Hawai'i?
God only knows.
I agree, all the longer runtimes amounted to was skewed pacing.Maybe they shouldn't have cut the Bran/Tyrion backstory scene (or the 10 other important ones this year) so that it doesn't feel rushed. Long episodes didn't mean shit when they spend gratuitous amounts of time walking around staring blankly. There's no way the scripts were significantly larger than ones in the past.
Free will is an illusion?So like, what's the message behind Bran becoming king? Humans suck so bad we need God to come down and rule us? I'll be honest I flat out don't like the very concept of some benevolent robot god coming down to rule. Only way I'll like it is if Bran pulled a Sheev Palpatine and played everyone for chumps.
So like, what's the message behind Bran becoming king? Humans suck so bad we need God to come down and rule us? I'll be honest I flat out don't like the very concept of some benevolent robot god coming down to rule. Only way I'll like it is if Bran pulled a Sheev Palpatine and played everyone for chumps.
Emilia Clarke and Ramin Djawadi carried this season. I haven't seen an actor/composer combo carry a nuclear trashfire script this hard since Ewan McGregor and John Williams in the Star Wars prequels.
Going forward from that, we had a single assassin who was able to save the world with one sneak attack and not one person suggested asking her to solve their Cersei problem. "Oh well, guess we gotta just storm the place even though our Hand knows a secret way in that he is sending his brother to because bad pussy rather than sending the proven single best 1v1 killing machine in Westeros."I'm still stunned that we had a bunch of white walkers and a bunch of people with Valyrian steel swords and we didn't get a single fight scene in the Battle of Winterfell.
Also the entire White Walker storyline boiling down to the "kill the boss and his army dies" climax that blockbuster films fall back on. Tragic bullshit.
ETA: Upon reflection of the entire season/series, Jaime should have died at Winterfell. Also Sam.
They cut all the parts where Bran could have talked and made an impression on the audience before the end. The tyrion conversation, the jon parentage reveal to the stark siblings... Did they do it to make it more of a twist reveal when he became king, or did they just have no idea what Bran would say, so they didn't write it?Maybe they shouldn't have cut the Bran/Tyrion backstory scene (or the 10 other important ones this year) so that it doesn't feel rushed. Long episodes didn't mean shit when they spend gratuitous amounts of time walking around staring blankly. There's no way the scripts were significantly larger than ones in the past.
So like, what's the message behind Bran becoming king? Humans suck so bad we need God to come down and rule us? I'll be honest I flat out don't like the very concept of some benevolent robot god coming down to rule. Only way I'll like it is if Bran pulled a Sheev Palpatine and played everyone for chumps.
So like, what's the message behind Bran becoming king? Humans suck so bad we need God to come down and rule us? I'll be honest I flat out don't like the very concept of some benevolent robot god coming down to rule. Only way I'll like it is if Bran pulled a Sheev Palpatine and played everyone for chumps.
You know, I honestly wouldn't have minded some weird twist in the ending revealing their world isn't real or something along the lines of that.
So like, what's the message behind Bran becoming king? Humans suck so bad we need God to come down and rule us? I'll be honest I flat out don't like the very concept of some benevolent robot god coming down to rule. Only way I'll like it is if Bran pulled a Sheev Palpatine and played everyone for chumps.
Emotionally distant incels that live on the internet are the best rulersSo like, what's the message behind Bran becoming king? Humans suck so bad we need God to come down and rule us?
that the writers gave up and just let the internet write the show.
Bran is a metaphor for the internet. Also, apparently, history. Remember, aliens build the wall. And there were Jedi in [DATA NOT FOUND]
They knew George's ending plot points back in Season 3. They had plenty of time, and no I doubt they could have which is really saying something when you realize how shit the past few seasons have been.D&D should have come up with their own end points rather than trying to fit in George's plans at the 11th hour. It ends up not satisfying both audiences.
I'm sure they could have come up with a cliche ending that was more satisfactory than this.
Lmao
Legit would have turned this season around for me. No wonder Tyrion keeps trying to fuck over Dany by trying to appeal to Cersei's humanity. It's a side bet they've got going on to see how long they can string along Dany Bot in letting him get away with making the same idiotic plea again and again.
That's surely a way to spin all of this.
You just can't say "they all went through a lot of things so the ending is bittersweet".
Sure the Journey might be, but the ending is not. Its a Happy ending.
It's like saying LOTR is not a happy ending because Frodo went through a lot and does not live in Hobbiton but travels to the undying lands.
You have to separate endings from journeys.
Maybe they shouldn't have cut the Bran/Tyrion backstory scene (or the 10 other important ones this year) so that it doesn't feel rushed. Long episodes didn't mean shit when they spend gratuitous amounts of time walking around staring blankly. There's no way the scripts were significantly larger than ones in the past.
They cut away when Tyrion talks to Bran in either Episode 1 or 2 when he asks him to explain his story, and how he ended up being the Three Eyed Raven. Similar to how they cut away when he tells Sansa and Arya of Jon's lineage.
Themes are for 8th grade book reports.There probably isn't a deliberate message to any of this, it just feels random.
I guess with Dany they were trying to say that righteous judgement is a slippery slope when you believe you're the sole arbiter of good? But Dany just jumped off a cliff. The writers don't seem to understand the value of tension over surprise.
Tension comes from the slide, not the fall.
Not sure if it was cut or not but the scene in Episode 2 where Tyrion goes up to Bran and he's like "so tell me your story big guy" and bran just... doesn't.
Sure seemed like it didn't it
Trying to find consistent themes in a show where the head writers don't "believe" in themes as if themes suddenly just disappear from writing if the creator wills hard enough.
Of course the Khal isn't pleased with what happened to Dany.
Benioff, pray he doesn't smash your hand again like he did when you two played the slap hand game 😆
D&D should have come up with their own end points rather than trying to fit in George's plans at the 11th hour. It ends up not satisfying both audiences.
I'm sure they could have come up with a cliche ending that was more satisfactory than this.
Could be in the books but the show didn't even come close to hinting at that.So has it been agreed upon that Bran/3ER is evil as fuck and has basically been the puppet master the entire time to reclaim his position as ruler of Westeros?
Wirewood trees used to be everywhere in Westeros until the Andals invaded and started cutting them down.
After The Long Night, the Andals invaded Westeros and basically drove The Children of the Forrest to extinction. "The Pact" between TCotF and The First Men still exists, but that happened thousands of years before the Andals came to Westeros.
3ER/Old Gods finally found their window to take back Westeros from the Andals.
I honestly would've been fine with the finale if the last two seasons were full 10-episode seasons with D&D taking their time to flesh out character arcs.
Basically this.
Could be in the books but the show didn't even come close to hinting at that.
So that Essos legend of the God on Earth, Lion of the Night, Maiden Made of Light, 5 Forts, Amethyst Empress, her conniving evil brother the Bloodstone Emperor, etc. Do they ever mention what happened to the Bloodstone Emperor? Could that dude be the LoL/3ER and this is all a long con for his spirit or entity to take power again? Also, again with the whole female heir about to take power only to be fucked over shtick. Why does this keep happening?
My friend pointed out that bad bran could have been GRRM's intention but subtly and D and D just never figured it out lolThe only thing it hinted is the fact Bran's/3ER actions set forth the motion of events that made Danny extremely paranoid via exposing Jon's true lineage. Bran actually set forth a good portion of events, spewing his mouth off and telling people shit he knew would cause trouble. Bran going to Kings Landing and saying "Why do you think I'm here" kinda gives away he had been plotting for this moment for some time.
While I don't think they handled it in any good or proper fashion, I think there may be "some" hints to the concept that Bran/3ER is not exactly going to be this great leader that he is presented as on the surface.
Of course, this could just be thinking way more than the writers actually plotted out...