01 May 2019 15:43:19
I think it fair to start talking about the Game of Thrones episode, if you haven't seen it yet I suggest you stop reading.

THEY ALL DIE!!! (This didn't happen but count this as your warning if you are still reading and wanting to avoid spoilers!!).

So I re-watched this episode last night, with the brightness turned up! And it cast the episode in a whole new light. Overall the episode was enjoyable and I think it looked brilliant however there were some disappointments to say the least.
Starting with the dothraki, I personally have no issue with them being dealt with so easily. It showed the task the living had on their hands and also showed that this wasn’t going to come down to who fights the best. This was purely a numbers game now and the dead were ahead on that front.
The fire moat around winterfell annoyed me, I get that Dany couldn’t see the signal but Jon was just sat there. He had a massive fire starter and just thought nothing of it. However the dead sacrificing themselves to build a bridge was great.
Bran, what was he doing??? Literally in the biggest battle and just disappears into some crows. I couldn’t care about his character but he must be important to the overall story.
The deaths or lack of! Yes the ones that died were great characters but the night king was built as a huge threat yet conveniently the biggest characters all survived? It was like they didn’t dare pull the trigger. I am guessing it is more to do with the final three episodes, but why make a big deal of Jon’s parentage? They should have shown that tension on the battle field, i.e. Dany toying with the idea of leaving him for dead because he is now a threat. Sam should be dead, he is a terrible fighter yet made it out alive. It was all set for Brienne to die but refused to pull the trigger.
But my biggest disappointment wasn’t the tactics, this wasn’t a standard battle where you could outwit your opponent like a game of chess. It was the dragons, Jon and dany spent the episode re-enacting Aladdin! The wights biggest weakness is fire, so let’s just sit back with two dragons and fly around in circles waiting for the night king!
I hope the next three episodes show that the decisions made sense, and they don’t cop out with major character deaths. Would be interested to hear peoples thoughts on the episode and their theories for the final three episodes. One of mine is that Bran is the lord of light and he goes back to engineer certain circumstances for the story. I.e. ensuring that melisandre goes to winterfell.

{Ed001's Note - did you not think the bit in the crypt was the stupidest bit of writing ever? I mean everyone knows they were fighting the dead, so why would you hide with the dead?}

1.) 01 May 2019
01 May 2019 16:15:58
I think from the characters point of view they may have been unsure of the nights kings abilities and not sure where else they could have gone. but again one of them (big characters) in the crypt should of died, they had no fighters and no where to go!

Although that was a missed opportunity, could of had sansa having to kill a stark wight to save tyrion.

{Ed001's Note - surely characters like Jon Snow, having seen what happens, would know better? It just seemed like lazy writing to me, like the whole series.}

2.) 01 May 2019
01 May 2019 21:17:19
Given that the wight they caught last season couldn't even get out a wooden box perhaps they thought the stone tombs would be a bit too strong for them, but seriously it was very dumb

The episode was certainly epic with some great cinematography and the way the piano score came in and the sound was dulled while they built up to the night king walking to bran and the eventual demise of theon was brillant

However firstly battle tactics, its not a standard battle but really? Charge you cavalry of 20,000 into the dark against what you know is an army of 100,000s of thousands. Put your catapults in front of the trench, only have one trench, wait to light of it up. Seemed illogical to me.

Character deaths: a lot of characters I liked but yeah none of the biggies, I think arya should of died in the process of killing the night king, if it had to be her that took him out. I would of had him pull his sword out about to kill bran then arya jumps at him showing the dagger so he turns and skewers her with the sword, but behind her back she was hiding the spear she had made so as he turned to and stabbed her she had snuck the spear under his armour with the other hand.

I always thought that even though it was heavily foreshadowed arya would kill him it always felt like more of jons fight and his character arc, at the very least it woold of been good to see him take the night king one on one.

I suppose cersei is now the final 'villain' but I agree there is still a twist to come to see who will get the iron throne, ifeel like dany could take a dark turn before the end

At the start of the season my fan fiction idea was that the night king would be revealed as o me of our current characters like Jon somehow, then he would roll over everyone and the last shot would be kings landing in darkness and ice dragons over head then the night king on the iron throne,, hazed mist covering the floor the camera walks up to the throne pans up, low angle shot and the night king looks into the camera

However from a more realistic take I woudl of had jon take out the night king as he has always been about ghe fight against the dead , arya take out cersei as she got ned killed and is top of her kill list and Jamie take out dany as she loses the plot and comes full circle from king slayer of her father to queen slayer, stomping the second targeryan era