First season take weeks to go from Capital to Winterfell, now entire armys arrive in what? Hours? One day and half? For me the worst part of previous season was dragons and ravens turning into airplanes and cross entire continents in hours and now this? Common...
End this already!!! So awesome show ruined for the poor writing, that is a shame
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fast travel and time jumps have been a part of GoT since S1 Ep1.
But looks like any time was jumped, watching the episode you have the impression the entire thing take a couple of hours...
First season take weeks to go from Capital to Winterfell, now entire armys arrive in what? Hours? One day and half? For me the worst part of previous season was dragons and ravens turning into airplanes and cross entire continents in hours and now this? Common...
End this already!!! So awesome show ruined for the poor writing, that is a shame
.
fast travel and time jumps have been a part of GoT since S1 Ep1.
But looks like any time was jumped, watching the episode you have the impression the entire thing take a couple of hours...
S1 Ep 1 skips an entire month over a couple of scenes.
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I read the books first, then watched the series. The series is struggling for the same reason the books are struggling: It can't figure out whether it is The Game of Thrones, a drama where kings, queens and commoners battle for thrones, or High Fantasy, with magic, evil and undead monsters. The books and show would have been much better off just dropping the entire Night King plotline.
That being said:
The absolute lack of explaining any backstory of the Night King, who he was, how he came to be, what he wanted, etc. was a total failure in episode three. Listen, I get that that plot line was in the way of what made the show great, but spending 15 minutes in the episode to explain that character would have gone a looong way to tie up the second biggest plot line of the series. They had the time, we didn't need 15 more minutes of impossible-to-see battles.
Westeros is a world where every bad person has a shade of good, and every good person has a shade of bad. However, we get this one pure evil monarch who apparently was just bad, needed to be killed, but we don't know a thing about him. The show hinted at his story, and so do the books . And we had Bran who knows the history of *everything* (another total failure of GRRM: You don't want Gods in your books or else they become entirely uninteresting), yet offers no hint of who this Night King was. A 700 foot magical wall was created thousands of years ago to keep him out, entire armies protected it for those millenia, he has the ability raise the dead... and then Arya appears out of nowhere and stabs him, and that's that. OK, time to move on.... nothing to see here... what?!?
I didn't really like the Night King story line. In the books, it felt like GRRM trying to stick to High Fantasy "standard", even though he didn't really want to write about it. Who got this castle or who got that castle is insignificant when compared to this immortal undead army to the North, and he generally undermined any drama in the game of thrones. However, he *was* a major character for the entire series, and should have been addressed.
However, the total lack of any backstory or any understanding that we were given to the character in episode three basically caused the show to jump the shark for me. You have Bran, who *knows* the entire backstory, yet doesn't say a word about him. You could have had his death somewhat dramatic, but instead Arya disappears for 30 minutes, and just appears next to him and stabs him. It was the most anti-climactic, how-did-that-get-out-of-the-writer's-room moment in any quality show I've ever watched. I really lost interest the show after that.
wat? they showed how and why the night king was created a few seasons ago.
I read the books first, then watched the series. The series is struggling for the same reason the books are struggling: It can't figure out whether it is The Game of Thrones, a drama where kings, queens and commoners battle for thrones, or High Fantasy, with magic, evil and undead monsters. The books and show would have been much better off just dropping the entire Night King plotline.
That being said:
The absolute lack of explaining any backstory of the Night King, who he was, how he came to be, what he wanted, etc. was a total failure in episode three. Listen, I get that that plot line was in the way of what made the show great, but spending 15 minutes in the episode to explain that character would have gone a looong way to tie up the second biggest plot line of the series. They had the time, we didn't need 15 more minutes of impossible-to-see battles.
Westeros is a world where every bad person has a shade of good, and every good person has a shade of bad. However, we get this one pure evil monarch who apparently was just bad, needed to be killed, but we don't know a thing about him. The show hinted at his story, and so do the books . And we had Bran who knows the history of *everything* (another total failure of GRRM: You don't want Gods in your books or else they become entirely uninteresting), yet offers no hint of who this Night King was. A 700 foot magical wall was created thousands of years ago to keep him out, entire armies protected it for those millenia, he has the ability raise the dead... and then Arya appears out of nowhere and stabs him, and that's that. OK, time to move on.... nothing to see here... what?!?
I didn't really like the Night King story line. In the books, it felt like GRRM trying to stick to High Fantasy "standard", even though he didn't really want to write about it. Who got this castle or who got that castle is insignificant when compared to this immortal undead army to the North, and he generally undermined any drama in the game of thrones. However, he *was* a major character for the entire series, and should have been addressed.
However, the total lack of any backstory or any understanding that we were given to the character in episode three basically caused the show to jump the shark for me. You have Bran, who *knows* the entire backstory, yet doesn't say a word about him. You could have had his death somewhat dramatic, but instead Arya disappears for 30 minutes, and just appears next to him and stabs him. It was the most anti-climactic, how-did-that-get-out-of-the-writer's-room moment in any quality show I've ever watched. I really lost interest the show after that.
wat? they showed how and why the night king was created a few seasons ago.
They showed how (in a very vague way) and why he was created by the children of the forest, but they never showed or told us anything about what HE and the other white walkers wanted. They just decided to make him evil for the sake of being evil, which is exactly the kind of villain George RR Martin wanted to avoid when he wrote a Song of Ice and Fire.
I read the books first, then watched the series. The series is struggling for the same reason the books are struggling: It can't figure out whether it is The Game of Thrones, a drama where kings, queens and commoners battle for thrones, or High Fantasy, with magic, evil and undead monsters. The books and show would have been much better off just dropping the entire Night King plotline.
That being said:
The absolute lack of explaining any backstory of the Night King, who he was, how he came to be, what he wanted, etc. was a total failure in episode three. Listen, I get that that plot line was in the way of what made the show great, but spending 15 minutes in the episode to explain that character would have gone a looong way to tie up the second biggest plot line of the series. They had the time, we didn't need 15 more minutes of impossible-to-see battles.
Westeros is a world where every bad person has a shade of good, and every good person has a shade of bad. However, we get this one pure evil monarch who apparently was just bad, needed to be killed, but we don't know a thing about him. The show hinted at his story, and so do the books . And we had Bran who knows the history of *everything* (another total failure of GRRM: You don't want Gods in your books or else they become entirely uninteresting), yet offers no hint of who this Night King was. A 700 foot magical wall was created thousands of years ago to keep him out, entire armies protected it for those millenia, he has the ability raise the dead... and then Arya appears out of nowhere and stabs him, and that's that. OK, time to move on.... nothing to see here... what?!?
I didn't really like the Night King story line. In the books, it felt like GRRM trying to stick to High Fantasy "standard", even though he didn't really want to write about it. Who got this castle or who got that castle is insignificant when compared to this immortal undead army to the North, and he generally undermined any drama in the game of thrones. However, he *was* a major character for the entire series, and should have been addressed.
However, the total lack of any backstory or any understanding that we were given to the character in episode three basically caused the show to jump the shark for me. You have Bran, who *knows* the entire backstory, yet doesn't say a word about him. You could have had his death somewhat dramatic, but instead Arya disappears for 30 minutes, and just appears next to him and stabs him. It was the most anti-climactic, how-did-that-get-out-of-the-writer's-room moment in any quality show I've ever watched. I really lost interest the show after that.
wat? they showed how and why the night king was created a few seasons ago.
They showed how (in a very vague way) and why he was created by the children of the forest, but they never showed or told us anything about what HE and the other white walkers wanted. They just decided to make him evil for the sake of being evil, which is exactly the kind of villain George RR Martin wanted to avoid when he wrote a Song of Ice and Fire.
I thought the idea was that he was created to defend the Children of the Forest from the invading First Men, but then turned on his creators as well. A literal living weapon, whose goal is the destruction of all life. Like when the AI created to defend the world decides humanity itself is a threat and tries to kill them, but with more zombies.
Is that an interesting or original idea? Not really. But that's all the impression I got of him as a villain. Maybe coming from the advantage of not having read the books first made me not read into him as being more than that, or maybe I was just blind to some hints or foreshadowing I was supposed to get.
He was really well developed. Rich characterization with a well written backstory. And it's really saying something that he's the most quotable character on the show. He went out like a champion in one hell of a battle.
The general public and the huge amounts of money that comes with it, destroy's every big show/movie etc. Ofcourse you can't compare Naruto with GoT. But look how utterly trash the second season was. Now we got a "boruto"... Just shows that not only GRMM deserves the walk of shame.
Well, if anyone was on the fence about whether this show was falling apart, episode 5 should help them with that decision.
I honestly can't even fathom what they were trying to go for here. Totally and utterly inexplicable. And unfortunately has tainted the rest of the entire series.
They were teasing the possibility of the Mad Queen, but I wasn't totally sure if they would pull the trigger. This episode wholeheartedly answered that question, with great gusto.
I was very disappointed with Jamie's fate, but perhaps it was wrong of me to hope for something more positive. No Queen-slayer theory, no final act of redemption or return to Brienne, just...buried next to his wicked bitch of a sister. This "battle" honestly felt abridged, like The Long Night. Six episodes still feels too short.
...all well. One more week, then all the theories, nitpicking, and bitching can stop. It might be justified bitching at times, but it still grows tiresome. On some level we're all going to have to accept what we've been given and enjoy it to the best of our ability, because this is it. If GRRM ever gets around to finishng the books, then great. That just seems...highly unlikely at this point.
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I fucking loved this episode! Only thing I did not like was how it opened. We didn't see what happened after the end of Ep 4. Apparently Dany just got all depressed for a while? And Cercei let them all just walk away?
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Start off positive, I guess. It's not like there's much of it, better to get it done now.
The conclusion (please for the love of god let that be the conclusion) to Arya's arc was well-handled and really touching, with the Hound convincing her to live a better, more fulfilling life than him. The conclusion to his arc, too, was fantastic - I especially enjoyed Qyburn's splattering just before the long awaited fight.
I think Cersei's acting was incredible this episode, and I do think her characterisation was appropriate - she unravels in the face of her undoing, which in her arrogance she could never have anticipated. She clung to what she had left as her world shattered around her.
Now. The fucking rest of it.
The biggest death this episode, that of Jaime's entire characterisation, was possibly some of the most disappointing television I've ever seen. I'd liken his heel turn to another huge disappointment this year, the assassination of Steve Roger's character - completely out of left field at the last minute, for literally no reason and absolutely bug-fuck crazy to anyone who has paid even the slightest bit of attention to anything that's gone on in the last 8 years.
Varys gets to join the Dany's Disappointingly Dead Disciples club (DDDD, four more than he's used to), with a boring, but I guess entirely in-character death that merely serves to quickly get the audience caught up with the crazy train that is Dany's brain. We get it, she's lost it. Could've done with a season of build-up on that before a ninth season where we actually had the fight with Cersei (Season 8, of course, being the war against the Night King).
Cersei should've Tommen'd herself for a nice little resolution there instead of having a very uninteresting death with The-Character-Formerly-Known-As-Jaime. Hell, we could've done a whole thing with her hanging off the edge as he tries to save her or something, but no, buried alive like the last shreds of hope I had for a mildly satisfying resolution.
Oh yeah, I guess Dany became some sort of hivemind with her army or something at some point, because they all just got right in with the murder of innocents in her name. Grey Worm, sure, whatever, we can say he's lost it since the love of his life died, but for crying out loud, you had Northmen joining in the raping and pillaging for no goddamn reason.
Remember that whole thing with Bronn? Where he came and told the Brothers Dim that Cersei wanted them dead? And then Goldmember went and died with her anyway, while Mini Me facilitated the whole thing for a plan that not only didn't pan out at all, but was shown wouldn't have worked even if it had gone correctly? I 'member.
I've probably forgotten a whole slew of other dumb-as-shit things that happened this episode, just in the face of the sheer incompetence of it all. Thank god there's only one episode left to slog through - we know at least one death that's coming, and maybe they'll pick off some more stragglers for a laugh too, and then we can finally put this to rest and all commiserate with each other about how terrible it was when the Night King killed everyone and the series abruptly ended.
I can't even bring myself to care about anyone living anymore, because I'm just terrified they'll do something horrendously out-of-character in their final wrap-up that'll taint the whole thing - again, very much like Endgame, where the last two minutes or so of the film have been forcibly removed from my mind.
I'm sure in a year or so I'll look back on Game of Thrones fondly, remembering all the fantastic stuff that happened in every season - because there has been fantastic stuff in every season. Just as I can barely remember the slog that was the Dorne plot, I'm sure this too will fade from my mind.
After some crappy episodes,namely 2 and especially 3,we've finally got a good one... Hadn't it been for some plots that were overly rushed I would've given it 9/10 but as it stands I'd say it's still an 8/8.5,because you know,Dragon(s) are cool... Now onto the actual spoilers...
Rip Varys you were a great character and I've always admired the dedication with which you defended your way of thinking...
Cersei,someone needs to give an Oscar to this woman (Seriously I'll be pissed if Lena Headey doesn't win some kind of award for her GOT Performance)... She blew up the Sept of Baelor and like 10 members of the cast along thousands of people,tortured many other and the list of her despicable actions could go on for ages still she cares so fucking much about her children that I can't help but like her even though she's an asshole most of the time... The moment when she and Jaime were hugging and she kept saying she wanted her child to live had in me tears...
Jaime,his going back to his sister was probably a bit rushed,especially after all the happened with Brienne, and his fight against Euron didn't make sense at all,still I really like the way his character developed... Also I was sooooo glad that it wasn't Arya that killed Cersei...
Tyrion Hmm how long since he has done anything relevant? He freed Jaime and that's it... I miss the Tyrion from earlier seasons...
Euron,seriously? All he wanted to was to kill Jaime Lannister and have sex with Cersei? Wasted potential,the character in the book is much more interesting...
Jon: Is there anyone who likes him because I find him boring... He realized Dany has completely lost it and will probably kill her in the next episode but other than that he's so predictable... Hopefully the throne got destroyed so there's nothing for people to make him sit onto...
Arya: The moment she called the Hound by name had me almost in tears and I think I lost it when she said "Thank You"... I'm really glad she didn't kill Cersei and would really like if she added Dany's name to her list (even though she probably gave up revenge so that's not gonna happen)... Also,someone will need to explain to me the horse thingy because I didn't really get it...
Qyburn: I found his death poetic... Killed by his own creation...
Cleganebowl! : The fight itself was nothing impressive but I loved Sandor's character development,probably the best in the show... He went from killing a kid on his King's whim to saving Sansa to being an almost parental figure for Arya...
And last but not least the Mad Queen Daenerys Targaryen: Her plotline is the biggest reason I wouldn't give 9/10 to this episode... Her losing it and wrecking havoc makes perfect sense and Emila Clarke's acting was spot on (When she said "Let it be fear" it gave me chills) but I don't like the way they've done it... She destroyed the Iron Fleet doing the same thing she did last time (The very same fleet that last week had killed Rhaegal and forced to retreat) how exactly? Have the Ironborns,especially Euron,turned into morons all of sudden? Anyway,after getting rid of the ships she destroys the gates and then stops and sits atop a building all until the bells ring,after that she just loses it and goes apeshit on the civilians... I get that she was always unstable,that she felt like people didn't love her and she also had lost Jorah,Missandei and 2 of her children so Jon refusing her was the last straw but why did she lose it just when the bells rang? If she really wanted to kill everyone why did she stop instead of wrecking havoc from the start? Basically what did the sound of the bells trigger in her that those death's or Jon's betrayal didn't? This is my biggest gripe with this episode... I think the Mad Queen plotline is fine and has been foreshadowed enough throughout the series but I didn't like at all the way it was executed...
Overall I think this was a good episode but I think it could've been the best in the whole series if they had taken the time to polish it more... I feel like if this season had 10 episodes instead of 6 it would've been the best in the show by a mile... Plotlines like Dany/Jaime's wouldn't have felt rushed and the whole WW thing would have been way better if it took 2/3 episodes instead of 1 (I mean it's called "The Long Night" for a reason) but unfortunately D&D don't share my opinion...
Now I don't know what to expect from the finale but I have a feeling we've seen the best of the season today... Hopefully I'm wrong because it would be a shame if such a great show had a poor ending...
P.s. Props to Drogon for being a good boi that didn't get itself killed and for using up all HBO's CGI budget for the next 10 years...
If you love the show, don't watch this episode. I'm so disgusted by it that right now I feel physically ill. I mean, last two episodes were suggesting that things won't go well, so it wasn't a complete surprise, but I never thought it will be this bad. I'll never watch the last episode because I couldn't care less about what happens next. What a terrible ending to what used to be the best TV show ever.
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But looks like any time was jumped, watching the episode you have the impression the entire thing take a couple of hours...
S1 Ep 1 skips an entire month over a couple of scenes.
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wat? they showed how and why the night king was created a few seasons ago.
They showed how (in a very vague way) and why he was created by the children of the forest, but they never showed or told us anything about what HE and the other white walkers wanted. They just decided to make him evil for the sake of being evil, which is exactly the kind of villain George RR Martin wanted to avoid when he wrote a Song of Ice and Fire.
I thought the idea was that he was created to defend the Children of the Forest from the invading First Men, but then turned on his creators as well. A literal living weapon, whose goal is the destruction of all life. Like when the AI created to defend the world decides humanity itself is a threat and tries to kill them, but with more zombies.
Is that an interesting or original idea? Not really. But that's all the impression I got of him as a villain. Maybe coming from the advantage of not having read the books first made me not read into him as being more than that, or maybe I was just blind to some hints or foreshadowing I was supposed to get.
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Haha I've already seen that, such a great video.
Wow...this episode was even worse than the 3rd.
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I even started to understand why our lord and savior Sherman loves ramsay so much. He would need only 20 good men to beat both night king and cersei.
I really liked the Night King.
He was really well developed. Rich characterization with a well written backstory. And it's really saying something that he's the most quotable character on the show. He went out like a champion in one hell of a battle.
The general public and the huge amounts of money that comes with it, destroy's every big show/movie etc. Ofcourse you can't compare Naruto with GoT. But look how utterly trash the second season was. Now we got a "boruto"... Just shows that not only GRMM deserves the walk of shame.
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This meme (calling it a scene would be too much) is basically the synthesis of the quality of last season(s) so far.
A whole giant micdrop that warps content and narration around it in order to drop the mic as loudly as possible...
Well, if anyone was on the fence about whether this show was falling apart, episode 5 should help them with that decision.
I honestly can't even fathom what they were trying to go for here. Totally and utterly inexplicable. And unfortunately has tainted the rest of the entire series.
They were teasing the possibility of the Mad Queen, but I wasn't totally sure if they would pull the trigger. This episode wholeheartedly answered that question, with great gusto.
I was very disappointed with Jamie's fate, but perhaps it was wrong of me to hope for something more positive. No Queen-slayer theory, no final act of redemption or return to Brienne, just...buried next to his wicked bitch of a sister. This "battle" honestly felt abridged, like The Long Night. Six episodes still feels too short.
...all well. One more week, then all the theories, nitpicking, and bitching can stop. It might be justified bitching at times, but it still grows tiresome. On some level we're all going to have to accept what we've been given and enjoy it to the best of our ability, because this is it. If GRRM ever gets around to finishng the books, then great. That just seems...highly unlikely at this point.
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Ep5, except Hound/Arya, Hound/Mountain scenes:
LF and Varys gone like that.
I fucking loved this episode! Only thing I did not like was how it opened. We didn't see what happened after the end of Ep 4. Apparently Dany just got all depressed for a while? And Cercei let them all just walk away?
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Well...
Start off positive, I guess. It's not like there's much of it, better to get it done now.
The conclusion (please for the love of god let that be the conclusion) to Arya's arc was well-handled and really touching, with the Hound convincing her to live a better, more fulfilling life than him. The conclusion to his arc, too, was fantastic - I especially enjoyed Qyburn's splattering just before the long awaited fight.
I think Cersei's acting was incredible this episode, and I do think her characterisation was appropriate - she unravels in the face of her undoing, which in her arrogance she could never have anticipated. She clung to what she had left as her world shattered around her.
Now. The fucking rest of it.
The biggest death this episode, that of Jaime's entire characterisation, was possibly some of the most disappointing television I've ever seen. I'd liken his heel turn to another huge disappointment this year, the assassination of Steve Roger's character - completely out of left field at the last minute, for literally no reason and absolutely bug-fuck crazy to anyone who has paid even the slightest bit of attention to anything that's gone on in the last 8 years.
Varys gets to join the Dany's Disappointingly Dead Disciples club (DDDD, four more than he's used to), with a boring, but I guess entirely in-character death that merely serves to quickly get the audience caught up with the crazy train that is Dany's brain. We get it, she's lost it. Could've done with a season of build-up on that before a ninth season where we actually had the fight with Cersei (Season 8, of course, being the war against the Night King).
Cersei should've Tommen'd herself for a nice little resolution there instead of having a very uninteresting death with The-Character-Formerly-Known-As-Jaime. Hell, we could've done a whole thing with her hanging off the edge as he tries to save her or something, but no, buried alive like the last shreds of hope I had for a mildly satisfying resolution.
Oh yeah, I guess Dany became some sort of hivemind with her army or something at some point, because they all just got right in with the murder of innocents in her name. Grey Worm, sure, whatever, we can say he's lost it since the love of his life died, but for crying out loud, you had Northmen joining in the raping and pillaging for no goddamn reason.
Remember that whole thing with Bronn? Where he came and told the Brothers Dim that Cersei wanted them dead? And then Goldmember went and died with her anyway, while Mini Me facilitated the whole thing for a plan that not only didn't pan out at all, but was shown wouldn't have worked even if it had gone correctly? I 'member.
I've probably forgotten a whole slew of other dumb-as-shit things that happened this episode, just in the face of the sheer incompetence of it all. Thank god there's only one episode left to slog through - we know at least one death that's coming, and maybe they'll pick off some more stragglers for a laugh too, and then we can finally put this to rest and all commiserate with each other about how terrible it was when the Night King killed everyone and the series abruptly ended.
I can't even bring myself to care about anyone living anymore, because I'm just terrified they'll do something horrendously out-of-character in their final wrap-up that'll taint the whole thing - again, very much like Endgame, where the last two minutes or so of the film have been forcibly removed from my mind.
I'm sure in a year or so I'll look back on Game of Thrones fondly, remembering all the fantastic stuff that happened in every season - because there has been fantastic stuff in every season. Just as I can barely remember the slog that was the Dorne plot, I'm sure this too will fade from my mind.
Onwards, to the end!
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After some crappy episodes,namely 2 and especially 3,we've finally got a good one... Hadn't it been for some plots that were overly rushed I would've given it 9/10 but as it stands I'd say it's still an 8/8.5,because you know,Dragon(s) are cool... Now onto the actual spoilers...
Rip Varys you were a great character and I've always admired the dedication with which you defended your way of thinking...
Cersei,someone needs to give an Oscar to this woman (Seriously I'll be pissed if Lena Headey doesn't win some kind of award for her GOT Performance)... She blew up the Sept of Baelor and like 10 members of the cast along thousands of people,tortured many other and the list of her despicable actions could go on for ages still she cares so fucking much about her children that I can't help but like her even though she's an asshole most of the time... The moment when she and Jaime were hugging and she kept saying she wanted her child to live had in me tears...
Jaime,his going back to his sister was probably a bit rushed,especially after all the happened with Brienne, and his fight against Euron didn't make sense at all,still I really like the way his character developed... Also I was sooooo glad that it wasn't Arya that killed Cersei...
Tyrion Hmm how long since he has done anything relevant? He freed Jaime and that's it... I miss the Tyrion from earlier seasons...
Euron,seriously? All he wanted to was to kill Jaime Lannister and have sex with Cersei? Wasted potential,the character in the book is much more interesting...
Jon: Is there anyone who likes him because I find him boring... He realized Dany has completely lost it and will probably kill her in the next episode but other than that he's so predictable... Hopefully the throne got destroyed so there's nothing for people to make him sit onto...
Arya: The moment she called the Hound by name had me almost in tears and I think I lost it when she said "Thank You"... I'm really glad she didn't kill Cersei and would really like if she added Dany's name to her list (even though she probably gave up revenge so that's not gonna happen)... Also,someone will need to explain to me the horse thingy because I didn't really get it...
Qyburn: I found his death poetic... Killed by his own creation...
Cleganebowl! : The fight itself was nothing impressive but I loved Sandor's character development,probably the best in the show... He went from killing a kid on his King's whim to saving Sansa to being an almost parental figure for Arya...
And last but not least the Mad Queen Daenerys Targaryen: Her plotline is the biggest reason I wouldn't give 9/10 to this episode... Her losing it and wrecking havoc makes perfect sense and Emila Clarke's acting was spot on (When she said "Let it be fear" it gave me chills) but I don't like the way they've done it... She destroyed the Iron Fleet doing the same thing she did last time (The very same fleet that last week had killed Rhaegal and forced to retreat) how exactly? Have the Ironborns,especially Euron,turned into morons all of sudden? Anyway,after getting rid of the ships she destroys the gates and then stops and sits atop a building all until the bells ring,after that she just loses it and goes apeshit on the civilians... I get that she was always unstable,that she felt like people didn't love her and she also had lost Jorah,Missandei and 2 of her children so Jon refusing her was the last straw but why did she lose it just when the bells rang? If she really wanted to kill everyone why did she stop instead of wrecking havoc from the start? Basically what did the sound of the bells trigger in her that those death's or Jon's betrayal didn't? This is my biggest gripe with this episode... I think the Mad Queen plotline is fine and has been foreshadowed enough throughout the series but I didn't like at all the way it was executed...
Overall I think this was a good episode but I think it could've been the best in the whole series if they had taken the time to polish it more... I feel like if this season had 10 episodes instead of 6 it would've been the best in the show by a mile... Plotlines like Dany/Jaime's wouldn't have felt rushed and the whole WW thing would have been way better if it took 2/3 episodes instead of 1 (I mean it's called "The Long Night" for a reason) but unfortunately D&D don't share my opinion...
Now I don't know what to expect from the finale but I have a feeling we've seen the best of the season today... Hopefully I'm wrong because it would be a shame if such a great show had a poor ending...
P.s. Props to Drogon for being a good boi that didn't get itself killed and for using up all HBO's CGI budget for the next 10 years...
"この 先は 暗い 夜道 だけが も 知らない それでも信じて 進むんだ 星が その道 を 少し でも 照らしてくをるのを"
If you love the show, don't watch this episode. I'm so disgusted by it that right now I feel physically ill. I mean, last two episodes were suggesting that things won't go well, so it wasn't a complete surprise, but I never thought it will be this bad. I'll never watch the last episode because I couldn't care less about what happens next. What a terrible ending to what used to be the best TV show ever.
In death, I exact my revenge!