I've heard a lot of complaints about the lighting of GoT Ep3 after I saw it. Fortunately I watched it on a TV left in Dynamic picture mode which meant everything was far brighter and saturated, the downside being occasionally some ugly artifacts and colour banding. I set the TV to standard and watched part of it again and yes I'd been pretty disappointed as well.
As to the plot, well I'd read some excellent speculation on what might happen and had a few cool ideas myself, when I'm a writer for a mega budget fantasy series I'll put them on screen.
Battle of the bastards was good but for me nothing has yet topped the battle of Hardhome.
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Not to mention. + My comments. MAybe restart the old GoT thread for the next 3 weeks?
1. The Dothraki charging off into the darkness. I believe it was mentioned in the post-episode discussion that they were overly cocky and ran off to their deaths and couldn't wait - but for the love of god write that in, because as it stood it just looked like shitty orders
+They're crazyarse charge n die fighters who've had their not-swords set ablaze in an epic moment of epicness, of course they're gonna charge! IT WAS AWESOME!
2. Talking of shitty orders, who the fuck planned that defence? Wasted cavalry, pointless ununsed trebuchets, dragons barely used until it was too late. At least the older battles had some semblance of basic tactics.
+The positioning of the artillery did look useless, but then again they're not much use against a moving hoard of mindless enemy. The dragons were actually in the battle within the first 10min although their planned goal was to kill the NK's zombie dragon, which they did and survived. Two dragons is going to count for a lot versus conventional armies to come.
3. Have I mentioned how dark it was?
+agreed, dynamic or movie TV picture modes help as does dark room.
4. Killing the giant. "Hey, let me pick you up and look at you up close with my good eye.....*poke* Argh! My good eye!"
+mindless enemy, I thought it was going to bite her head off, it was awesome!
5. Guys, let me just do this OTT heroic act before dying. Jorah gets a pass because he's the fucking don.
+see almost every other TV series ever, but partially agree, the Bericade was kinda funny though.
6. Plot armour. Jesus fucking christ, let some people die. I don't care how good you are, you're not getting a 500-pile-on-Whitewalker wave and living. Jamie only has one hand, FFS. Neither Jamie, nor Brienne or Sam Tarly should have lived past about 30 minutes, but hey, plot armour.
+I was surprised that none of the A-team got killed, but see what happens.
7. Ayra. Unable to get past 4 shamblers in the library, then gets past 500 walkers and various generals because convenience.
+Errrr she did get past the hyper alert zombies in the silent library, what's your problem? The generals were useless but if you'd have had as cushy a job as them for the last ten millennia youd've probably lost your edge too.
8. 8 seasons. Winters Coming, quick stab, and poof - it's all over. Massive anticlimax.
+slight anti-climax, although the Dothraki, the Unsullied and the Northern armies are all basically gone now. will wait to see what happens. If they arse pull some huge reinforcements from somewhere next week I'll be annoyed.
9. Ironside Bran. I hope they've got something magic planned because right now, he's just rolling exposition.
+times a million, maybe he was orchestrating the battle/assassination via the warged ravens, maybe he was on netflix.
