Game of Thrones S8 (Here be spoilers)
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if they didn't we are talking 15 seasons !
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Episode 3:
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Regarding the darkness, I was watching in a dark room on an ipad with brightness turned up to full and I still couldn't see what was going on half the time.
Also I probably need new retinas now.
Also I probably need new retinas now.
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I would say just don't bother trying to watch the episode during daylight hours unless you have proper blackout curtains. In the ten years I've owned my current TV, never before have I had to go looking for the brightness control because I genuinely couldn't see what was happening.
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Although the series has a huge budget overall, I do wonder sometimes whether on a scene-by-scene basis they're too rushed to spend enough time lighting their night-time sets properly. At least I hope that was the case; if it was intentionally unwatchable for some 'artistic' reason or something that's pretty stupid.
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I think it's less to do with spending money on lighting as much as not spending enough money on sets (perhaps understandable given the scale of this series). Poor lighting hides a multitude of sins.
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Well that was annoying.
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How much of a say does RR have in these? Is he in on the writing, did he just give them a framework or are they just winging it?A man who could tell more truth and eat fewer pies.
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https://apple.news/AgJBdxJOjT1Oc9XlusCU04AMaturin wrote: βMon Apr 29, 2019 5:37 pmAlthough the series has a huge budget overall, I do wonder sometimes whether on a scene-by-scene basis they're too rushed to spend enough time lighting their night-time sets properly. At least I hope that was the case; if it was intentionally unwatchable for some 'artistic' reason or something that's pretty stupid.
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Thank fuck, I thought there was something wrong with my screen. Helm's Deep had a nighttime battle in the pissing rain but you could see everything
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Pretty much exactly as I expected, utterly underwhelming.
Pity, because it started so well with the sense of horror watching shadows of the wights plough into the Dothraki and then simply envelop their infantry lines. (Though as others already mentioned, charging all of your cavalry into the pitch black against a swarm of the living dead was probably the single stupidest tactic they used in this battle). Best part of the episode though in terms of atmosphere.
9 years of building up to the biggest threat mankind has ever faced and it turns out that they didn't even need Cersei's help anyway, not when you've got a dream team of Jaime, Pod, Brienne, Grey Worm and Tormund; who I'm pretty sure were repeatedly shown to pretty much be the only people left alive at several points towards the end. When you see the huge wave of undead rush the front line at the start of the battle, realistically you'd have expected all of those characters to bite the bucket because they were all slap bang on the front. Instead we get the usual montage of hack and slash, followed by every major character yelling "Fall back!". Zero sense of danger or tension after about three minutes of the battle starting.
I hope to gods this isn't how GRRM planned on ending the books, because that was a pure schlocky piece of piss of all style and no substance. They should have beat a hasty retreat south and been faced with a showdown with Cersei with the undead hot on their tales.
Lyanna Mormont being a bad ass fan fiction character and somehow being allowed to stab a giant in the face was pure dross. And Jorah dying defending Dany was a nice finale for his character, but why the hell did both dragons just randomly disappear after she fell off? It makes no sense that they both just left her outside the walls. Rhaegal completely vanished for seemingly no reason after Jon fell off. Ran out of CGI budget? Poor story plotting? Could be the former, since they wrote Ghost off at the beginning of the episode by having him be a part of the cavalry charge for some reason.
I can't believe we literally only get a single episode where the undead threat finally becomes reality and hardly a single significant character died. We didn't even get to see any of those bloody Walkers themselves cutting people down.
This show fell off the wagon big time when it ran out of source material and the writers let pleasing the audience become their main priority. You used to have to use your brain a little bit to watch this show, now you can safely just switch off entirely.
Pity, because it started so well with the sense of horror watching shadows of the wights plough into the Dothraki and then simply envelop their infantry lines. (Though as others already mentioned, charging all of your cavalry into the pitch black against a swarm of the living dead was probably the single stupidest tactic they used in this battle). Best part of the episode though in terms of atmosphere.
9 years of building up to the biggest threat mankind has ever faced and it turns out that they didn't even need Cersei's help anyway, not when you've got a dream team of Jaime, Pod, Brienne, Grey Worm and Tormund; who I'm pretty sure were repeatedly shown to pretty much be the only people left alive at several points towards the end. When you see the huge wave of undead rush the front line at the start of the battle, realistically you'd have expected all of those characters to bite the bucket because they were all slap bang on the front. Instead we get the usual montage of hack and slash, followed by every major character yelling "Fall back!". Zero sense of danger or tension after about three minutes of the battle starting.
I hope to gods this isn't how GRRM planned on ending the books, because that was a pure schlocky piece of piss of all style and no substance. They should have beat a hasty retreat south and been faced with a showdown with Cersei with the undead hot on their tales.
Lyanna Mormont being a bad ass fan fiction character and somehow being allowed to stab a giant in the face was pure dross. And Jorah dying defending Dany was a nice finale for his character, but why the hell did both dragons just randomly disappear after she fell off? It makes no sense that they both just left her outside the walls. Rhaegal completely vanished for seemingly no reason after Jon fell off. Ran out of CGI budget? Poor story plotting? Could be the former, since they wrote Ghost off at the beginning of the episode by having him be a part of the cavalry charge for some reason.
I can't believe we literally only get a single episode where the undead threat finally becomes reality and hardly a single significant character died. We didn't even get to see any of those bloody Walkers themselves cutting people down.
This show fell off the wagon big time when it ran out of source material and the writers let pleasing the audience become their main priority. You used to have to use your brain a little bit to watch this show, now you can safely just switch off entirely.
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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Game of Thrones. The plot is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of historical knowledge most of the story will go over a typical viewer's head.
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Not exactly saying that though am I, quote me alongside some random internet neckbeard to try and diminish my point all you like. Since around about season 5 it has just been ridiculous situation after ridiculous situation with plenty of fan service and pointless throwbacks chucked in for good measure. The show now demonstrates just about all the nuance of a Marvel cinematic universe movie.
It's not that I don't enjoy this show anymore. It's simply that I am consistently gutted at how far it has fallen short of its potential.
It's not that I don't enjoy this show anymore. It's simply that I am consistently gutted at how far it has fallen short of its potential.