OV9

McSwede wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 8:48 am

ZedLeg wrote: Wed May 01, 2019 9:15 am The last couple of days have reminded me that people do like to have a moan .

I thought it was incredible, not my favourite episode evar!!11!!!11 but definitely up there.

I thought it was tremendous. And yes, as discussed the plot may not be perfect but what an incredible 1hr20 of TV. And yes, it was too dark. My TV struggled at times TBH. Can't wait to see what's coming up as we head to the finalé.

Jimmy Choo wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 2:20 pm

McSwede wrote: Thu May 02, 2019 8:48 am

ZedLeg wrote: Wed May 01, 2019 9:15 am The last couple of days have reminded me that people do like to have a moan .

I thought it was incredible, not my favourite episode evar!!11!!!11 but definitely up there.

I thought it was tremendous. And yes, as discussed the plot may not be perfect but what an incredible 1hr20 of TV. And yes, it was too dark. My TV struggled at times TBH. Can't wait to see what's coming up as we head to the finalé.

I had heard that so turned the lights right down.

Rich B wrote: Wed May 01, 2019 6:33 am I probably agree with all of that, it was still great!

Jimmy Choo wrote: Fri May 03, 2019 11:04 am Last week was a shift from a political drama to an action show. I'm hoping it reverts too.

I guess that there's not that big an army left in Winterfell so the Golden Company could just waltz up and slaughter them all. That would only take one episode so I guess that's not going to happen.

Matty wrote: Wed May 01, 2019 12:43 am

RobYob wrote: Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:07 pm Gob well and truly smacked by the latest episode of GoT The Battle of Winterfell was incredible, no idea how they'll top it in the last three episodes to finish the saga.

I thought it was average, a 7/10 tops, and thats generous. Spoiler alert, but there were so many poor writing choices - not to mention the appalling lighting. Yes, it was for "atmosphere" but throw in dark scenes, loads of camera shake and quick cuts and it stops being atmospheric and just becomes unwatchable.

Not to mention:

Spoiler

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
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.
3. Have I mentioned how dark it was?
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!"
5. Guys, let me just do this OTT heroic act before dying. Jorah gets a pass because he's the fucking don.
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.
7. Ayra. Unable to get past 4 shamblers in the library, then gets past 500 walkers and various generals because convenience.
8. 8 seasons. Winters Coming, quick stab, and poof - it's all over. Massive anticlimax.
9. Ironside Bran. I hope they've got something magic planned because right now, he's just rolling exposition.

So yeah, that's what's wrong

unzippy wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 12:45 am They're still at it

Spoiler

Those big crossbows on the front of the ships were only on front, not rear. They can't cover the rear because of the masts. Shirley a dragon can swing round and roast the ships from the rear...
FFS.

RobYob wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 8:07 am

unzippy wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 12:45 am They're still at it

Spoiler

Those big crossbows on the front of the ships were only on front, not rear. They can't cover the rear because of the masts. Shirley a dragon can swing round and roast the ships from the rear...
FFS.

Yeah I'm not defending the indefensible Episode 4 was really disappointing for a whole bunch of reasons. I'm thinking I'd actually have preferred they went back to 50min running time to give some breathing space to the plot developments.

I'm starting to come round to the conspiracy theory that GRRM is letting the TV show plot run out of control so everyone will want the books for the "real" ending.

Hoping for significantly better pacing/logic/dialogue/plot next week...

tim wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 8:33 am Anyone watch Chernobyl? Gripping stuff.

ZedLeg wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 10:11 am

RobYob wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 8:07 am

unzippy wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 12:45 am They're still at it

Spoiler

Those big crossbows on the front of the ships were only on front, not rear. They can't cover the rear because of the masts. Shirley a dragon can swing round and roast the ships from the rear...
FFS.

Yeah I'm not defending the indefensible Episode 4 was really disappointing for a whole bunch of reasons. I'm thinking I'd actually have preferred they went back to 50min running time to give some breathing space to the plot developments.

I'm starting to come round to the conspiracy theory that GRRM is letting the TV show plot run out of control so everyone will want the books for the "real" ending.

Hoping for significantly better pacing/logic/dialogue/plot next week...

I think what they're trying to do with Deanerys is show how woefully equipped she is to actually be a queen but it's all been so rushed this season. I'm 100% sure that Jon Snow is going to be killed in some dumb way, should've gone north with the free folk.

Feels like GRRM and the show runners have already moved on to putting all their focus on the spin offs and are just trying to wrap this up asap.

JLv3.0 wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 10:18 am

tim wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 8:33 am Anyone watch Chernobyl? Gripping stuff.

Not yet but definitely will - I love all this horrendous catastrophe stuff, not sure why.

JLv3.0 wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 10:18 am

tim wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 8:33 am Anyone watch Chernobyl? Gripping stuff.

Not yet but definitely will - I love all this horrendous catastrophe stuff, not sure why.

JLv3.0 wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 10:18 am

tim wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 8:33 am Anyone watch Chernobyl? Gripping stuff.

Not yet but definitely will - I love all this horrendous catastrophe stuff, not sure why.

tim wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 2:01 pm

JLv3.0 wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 10:18 am

tim wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 8:33 am Anyone watch Chernobyl? Gripping stuff.

Not yet but definitely will - I love all this horrendous catastrophe stuff, not sure why.

It's a bit odd because none of the actors speak with a Russian accent, it's all regional UK, but it's pretty awful to see how badly it was handled.

tim wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 8:33 am Anyone watch Chernobyl? Gripping stuff.

Explosive Newt wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 5:41 pm

JLv3.0 wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 10:18 am

tim wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 8:33 am Anyone watch Chernobyl? Gripping stuff.

Not yet but definitely will - I love all this horrendous catastrophe stuff, not sure why.

It's been excellent, although I got the sense in the first ep that the big name actors (Harris, Skarsgard, etc) were just warming up. Always been glued to Chernobyl stuff and read Serhii Plokhy's superb book last year in about 24 hours straight.

On the disaster theme (although not as huge), Netflix's Fyre Festival documentary is good fun. As is the podcast about the whole Theranos debacle (The Dropout).

Simon wrote: Thu May 09, 2019 7:19 pm That Fyre Festival doc is both riveting and infuriating in equal measure. Shows just what vacuous turds a lot of 'influencers' are.