Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
04-29-19, 11:21 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
I’m amazed at some of these comments. This was fucking great. If you can’t appreciate getting something like this and Endgame in the same weekend, then you must be jaded as hell. No, it wasn’t perfect, but it’s clear we’re living in a golden age of cinema, and I for one am going to enjoy it as much as I can.
04-29-19, 11:24 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
This was me for most of the battle scenes:
04-29-19, 11:26 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
This show has become more Avengers than Game of Thrones. Spectacle and flash trump real drama. We've entered a consequence-free zone of plot armor, Deus ex Machina, cheap kung fu "this guy attack... now that guy attack" fight staging and super-powered heroes.
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed the episode. It was certainly fun to watch and effective in building dread. Still, my favorite parts of GoT are people sitting around talking, not spectacle. It depends what you want out of the show. I much preferred last week's episode, others probably preferred this week. So be it.
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed the episode. It was certainly fun to watch and effective in building dread. Still, my favorite parts of GoT are people sitting around talking, not spectacle. It depends what you want out of the show. I much preferred last week's episode, others probably preferred this week. So be it.
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04-29-19, 11:31 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
I thought this episode was absolutely garbage. Terribly filmed and zero sense to their battle strategy. Yay cool Arya got him. Apparently she gained the power of teleportation out of nowhere because it makes no sense how she got there, but at least it looked cool, unlike the rest of the foggy quick cut overly dark rest of the episode.
They foreshadowed her ability to sneak up on folks(john) an episode or so ago...She started heading to the Tree after the witch got her back on track. While she was moving to that position, we were shown other parts of the battle. It's not hard to see her making it to the tree like she did.
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04-29-19, 11:36 AM
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There's sneaking up on your unsuspecting brother than there's somehow being able to get through a ring of dozens (hundreds?) of zombies, slipping by a dozen of the NK's generals and somehow leaping up to kill at precisely the right moment. Looked great, makes absolutely no sense. Arya has apparently become a super hero.
04-29-19, 11:39 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
There's sneaking up on your unsuspecting brother than there's somehow being able to get through a ring of dozens (hundreds?) of zombies, slipping by a dozen of the NK's generals and somehow leaping up to kill at precisely the right moment. Looked great, makes absolutely no sense. Arya has apparently become a super hero.
So yeah...Super Arya
04-29-19, 11:40 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
Not a single main/named character has been killed since we moved past the books and Jon was brought back (I don't consider any of the deaths from the episode to be main, even Jorah). I don't care about Cersei; this was the fight the story has always been building up to and was spoken about as far back as the prologue in GoT. The tag line is Winter is Coming; not Crazy Queen Lanister is Coming. Not only should the battle with the NK been the final resolution to the story but the fight should have been devastating at a character level. Now they either have to end it with everyone alive, wrapped up with a nice bow or try to explain why/how a battle with people in much smaller numbers is more lethal than an un-winnable battle against 100k+ undead soldiers.
04-29-19, 11:43 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
Anyone have a GOOD reason why the White Walkers didn't simply use Bran for target practice with their ice spears? it's not he was going to get up and run away ...
04-29-19, 11:44 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
There's sneaking up on your unsuspecting brother than there's somehow being able to get through a ring of dozens (hundreds?) of zombies, slipping by a dozen of the NK's generals and somehow leaping up to kill at precisely the right moment. Looked great, makes absolutely no sense. Arya has apparently become a super hero.
04-29-19, 11:47 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
In an earlier scene we saw that the walkers were sensitive enough to hear blood dripping on the ground and ID where it was coming from. Then Arya off-screen somehow got to the Godswood and past the White Walker generals without being heard? She would have had to stand directly in front of all of them to jump at the NK the way she did.
04-29-19, 11:47 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
But seriously..
The last 3eyed Raven was killed the same way. He was in the vines and incapacitated and the Night King walked right up and slashed him. It was personal.
04-29-19, 11:47 AM
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Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed the episode. It was certainly fun to watch and effective in building dread. Still, my favorite parts of GoT are people sitting around talking, not spectacle. It depends what you want out of the show. I much preferred last week's episode, others probably preferred this week. So be it.
04-29-19, 11:49 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
I thought this episode was absolutely garbage. Terribly filmed and zero sense to their battle strategy. Yay cool Arya got him. Apparently she gained the power of teleportation out of nowhere because it makes no sense how she got there, but at least it looked cool, unlike the rest of the foggy quick cut overly dark rest of the episode.
It wasn't terribly filmed. It was meant for it to be difficult to see.
Of course their battle strategy sucked. Imagine that. Their plan didn't unfold right. Shocking.
We have certainly never, ever - I mean ever saw Arya move stealthy and in ways that other characters can't.
04-29-19, 11:49 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
In an earlier scene we saw that the walkers were sensitive enough to hear blood dripping on the ground and ID where it was coming from. Then Arya off-screen somehow got to the Godswood and past the White Walker generals without being heard? She would have had to stand directly in front of all of them to jump at the NK the way she did.
SHE WAS HEARD. The one WW turned his head. I feel like the NK was so focused on Bran, she had to get really close to for him to feel her.
PLOT ARMOR ACTIVATE!!
Maybe the "alert but no fucks given about arya approaching given" WW was looking to move up and take the NK's position?
04-29-19, 11:51 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
Agreed. The darkness added greatly to the tension for me.
Of course their battle strategy sucked. Imagine that. Their plan didn't unfold right. Shocking.
04-29-19, 11:53 AM
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And yeah, every single character strapped on their best plot armor this week. Even fucking Sam who should have died 100x over during the episode. I'm now convinced that HBO had no fucking clue what made this book/story so compelling to the audience. Sadly, GRRM is probably just phoning it in for the checks at this point and letting them end it how they want.
04-29-19, 11:53 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
I gotta say, I'm pretty disappointed as well. First off; I'm fully eating my words about Arya after ep1 and I'm glad that's the case. The library scene had her like Solid Snake.
I see that I'm not alone about the picture quality. Even with all the lights out, this was a compressed mess. A show with this level of production value deserves 4k/HDR treatment. I agree with the poster who mentioned that it was like a FMV scene from an old PS1 game. Are we just getting spoiled?
For the show itself, I feel it was a complete cop-out. No one of importance died. In the scale of GoT battles, this was one of the tamest even though it was supposed to be the fight for Humanity. I'll tip a 40 for the Dothraki but that's about it. And that was no issue since there weren't any named characters in their group. We didn't get to see any war tactics at all. Pure mayhem from the get. Tyrion and Sansa were reduced to two people who were too useless to even fight? As cool as the Arya scene was, I really hope they somehow try to explain it all. IMO it could have been done other ways which showed off her training and would have been more enjoyable. The war which has been built up since literally the prologue of book 1, was neatly and quickly resolved in one episode.
I see that I'm not alone about the picture quality. Even with all the lights out, this was a compressed mess. A show with this level of production value deserves 4k/HDR treatment. I agree with the poster who mentioned that it was like a FMV scene from an old PS1 game. Are we just getting spoiled?
For the show itself, I feel it was a complete cop-out. No one of importance died. In the scale of GoT battles, this was one of the tamest even though it was supposed to be the fight for Humanity. I'll tip a 40 for the Dothraki but that's about it. And that was no issue since there weren't any named characters in their group. We didn't get to see any war tactics at all. Pure mayhem from the get. Tyrion and Sansa were reduced to two people who were too useless to even fight? As cool as the Arya scene was, I really hope they somehow try to explain it all. IMO it could have been done other ways which showed off her training and would have been more enjoyable. The war which has been built up since literally the prologue of book 1, was neatly and quickly resolved in one episode.
The tension builds until the battle breaks out, and after that it's a non-stop thrill-ride for a good half an hour, with director Miguel Sapochnik able to shimmy around budgetary constraints while delivering a visual feat.
Seriously? The night is full of... something... I dunno, it's hard to make out because we can't see shit, so let's add a blizzard to that "visual feat". So, the gut wrenching moments never came, and the few deaths of secondary characters just felt like "hey we have to at least kill a couple...". And this greatest of threat, built up for 7 seasons, is eradicated in one crappy episode, by a superhero girl appearing suspended in mid air who kills the Night King. Blah...
I shoudn't have rewatched ep 2 right before this, because I went from one of the greatest GOT episodes to arguably the worse. I'm sure that didn't help my mood.
04-29-19, 11:54 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
I agree,Blackwater is still my favorite battle episode because it was a nice balance between fighting and character moments, Cersei and Tyrion were especially great in that episode. Hardhome was amazing and unexpected, but that battle only happened in the last 20 minutes of the episode.
04-29-19, 11:55 AM
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Re: Game of Thrones (S8E03) -- 82 minute episode -- “The Long Night” -- 4/28/19
The anger and hand wringing over this ep is better than the ep.
04-29-19, 11:56 AM
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04-29-19, 11:56 AM
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04-29-19, 11:58 AM
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All I could think of during the battle was Howard Stern is going to be bitching about how dark the episode was and he couldn't see anything.
04-29-19, 12:02 PM
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04-29-19, 12:02 PM
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