I am still wondering what did Bran do? I mean crows are cool and all, but where the fuck did he go?
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scruples (Short Spike)
Lazy writing?
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danmanjones (Old Spike)
the episode was a mess but the ending was cool
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MADMAN-_-zZ (Short Spike)
I agree, terrible episode, worst battle tactics i've ever seen, sending the Dothraki blind to their death, under utilizing the trebuchets, catapults and dragons, setting the fire line at the back and condeming anyone infront to death, not continuously shooting at the horde with arrows as they stood idle behind the fire line, and if they set the fire line infront of the whole army they could have continuously bombarded them with dragons, trebuchets and arrows until they trickled through and picked them off with the foot soldiers.
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danmanjones (Old Spike)
Totally. It's like the script writers had never even heard of battle tactics. Putting cavalry up front to die first was nuts. They had the artillery in front of everything too. It was all backwards & the dragons...ugh. Frustrating haha.
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theblackswordsman (Old Spike)
How did they forge thousands of dragonglass blades in a week?
How did they dig trenches in permafrost?
How did the heroes maintain the energy to swing their swords for a whole night in such forocious fighting.
How did jaime survive as long as he did with one hand?
Now even if ideal tactics were used, they still would have lost. There were too many of them. This was the best way to shoot the battle and make it exciting for an hour and a half.
And looking back on EVERYTHING holy shit Jon went through ALOT.
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Maxpower (Old Spike)
I was thinking they'd lose the battle, lose pretty much everyone (main characters included), and be forced to retreat to The Iron Islands, like Yara suggested. Then they'd have an episode of everyone licking their wounds, while the army of the undead spreads further south and begins creeping on The Red Keep.
I just hated that the biggest threat of the entire series, the thing they've been building up to for near a decade, is undone in one episode, and it's by someone whose arc had basically nothing to do with this conflict. It felt really underwhelming and way too convenient.
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puttefnask (Old Spike)
I think Bran warged into the crows because if he had stayed himself or had warged into the weirwoods the Night King would share his memories and have access to future shit. Just like in the cave when he suddenly popped up in Bran's vision and marked him the first time.
It was all about blinding the enemy, and by sending the crows up into the clouds on the dragon he wouldn't see shit through Bran's eyes nor know his plans. Just where he was. Bran gave that dagger to Arya, when they had just reunited, because he knew the whole time this was the only way it could work.
That's why the Night King looked like: "What, you're not going to do anything? Okay."
The properties of the dagger, being valyrian steel which broke the dragon glass dagger spell which created him, thus unmaking him.
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skeptoid (Old Spike)
Little girl getting crushed spurting blood stabbing undead giant in the eye was the highlight for me.
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(Old Spike)
I am still wondering what did Bran do? I mean crows are cool and all, but where the fuck did he go?
(Short Spike)
Lazy writing?
(Old Spike)
the episode was a mess but the ending was cool
(Short Spike)
I agree, terrible episode, worst battle tactics i've ever seen, sending the Dothraki blind to their death, under utilizing the trebuchets, catapults and dragons, setting the fire line at the back and condeming anyone infront to death, not continuously shooting at the horde with arrows as they stood idle behind the fire line, and if they set the fire line infront of the whole army they could have continuously bombarded them with dragons, trebuchets and arrows until they trickled through and picked them off with the foot soldiers.
(Old Spike)
Totally. It's like the script writers had never even heard of battle tactics. Putting cavalry up front to die first was nuts. They had the artillery in front of everything too. It was all backwards & the dragons...ugh. Frustrating haha.
(Old Spike)
How did they forge thousands of dragonglass blades in a week?
How did they dig trenches in permafrost?
How did the heroes maintain the energy to swing their swords for a whole night in such forocious fighting.
How did jaime survive as long as he did with one hand?
Now even if ideal tactics were used, they still would have lost. There were too many of them. This was the best way to shoot the battle and make it exciting for an hour and a half.
And looking back on EVERYTHING holy shit Jon went through ALOT.
(Old Spike)
I was thinking they'd lose the battle, lose pretty much everyone (main characters included), and be forced to retreat to The Iron Islands, like Yara suggested. Then they'd have an episode of everyone licking their wounds, while the army of the undead spreads further south and begins creeping on The Red Keep.
I just hated that the biggest threat of the entire series, the thing they've been building up to for near a decade, is undone in one episode, and it's by someone whose arc had basically nothing to do with this conflict. It felt really underwhelming and way too convenient.
(Old Spike)
I think Bran warged into the crows because if he had stayed himself or had warged into the weirwoods the Night King would share his memories and have access to future shit. Just like in the cave when he suddenly popped up in Bran's vision and marked him the first time.
It was all about blinding the enemy, and by sending the crows up into the clouds on the dragon he wouldn't see shit through Bran's eyes nor know his plans. Just where he was. Bran gave that dagger to Arya, when they had just reunited, because he knew the whole time this was the only way it could work.
That's why the Night King looked like: "What, you're not going to do anything? Okay."
The properties of the dagger, being valyrian steel which broke the dragon glass dagger spell which created him, thus unmaking him.
(Old Spike)
Little girl getting crushed spurting blood stabbing undead giant in the eye was the highlight for me.