GDT: GOT Episode 3 The Battle of Winterfell

[Vex]

Regarding the lighting, fog of war, blizzard, etc., both times I watched the episode my entire house was pitch black, so I didn't really have a problem seeing what was happening. It was chaos, but I enjoyed that.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Ahh right, that's what that was. I saw one of them skidding down, but it wasn't obvious to me that it was because it was too hurt to fight. Seemed like it was just bracing itself from the collision or something.

I think the cue that Rhaegal was alive but hurt was that he didn’t come back as a second dragon zombie when the NK raised the dead.

Visarian breatging Fire with half is face torn off was pretty damn narly.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Regarding the lighting, fog of war, blizzard, etc., both times I watched the episode my entire house was pitch black, so I didn't really have a problem seeing what was happening. It was chaos, but I enjoyed that.

Same, but I do get where people are coming from with that. Without perfect conditions it’s hard to see.

 

[Vex]

Same, but I do get where people are coming from with that. Without perfect conditions it’s hard to see.

Saving the bigger deaths for the clear battlefield near King's Landing.

 

[Carlzner]

Would have been disappointed if I had any expectations of the plot being good after the last 2+ seasons.

Cool battle though.

 

[Emperoreddy]

Saving the bigger deaths for the clear battlefield near King's Landing.

Honestly I think characters survived tonight to lure us into a false sense of security. Well some of them.

The main bunch are legit safe and always were. Tyrion, Arya, Dany, etc were never ever going to die.

 

[syz]

The Night King is the GoT equivalent of the 2018-19 Tampa Bay Lightning

Tampa Bay showed more character while getting swept.

 

[Osprey]

I'm surprised you folks haven't brought up the television device where a character asks a question to another character, but then it cuts to a different scene.

That's what the nitpicking of tropes has come to, in my mind, complaining that the television show is doing television things.

That was literally my first post in this thread and a somewhat fair one, IMO, and you immediately mocked it and lumped me in with "you folks." Are you trying to make enemies of anyone who has a slightly less positive opinion than you?

 

[HanSolo]

Ahh right, that's what that was. I saw one of them skidding down, but it wasn't obvious to me that it was because it was too hurt to fight. Seemed like it was just bracing itself from the collision or something.

My take was that it was all the scratches to the stomach that left pretty big gashes. I'm not gonna lie, at first I wasn't sure which dragon that happened to. But given it was Rhaegal that crashed, I figured it must have been him.

 

[TheAngryHank]

So the night king is a Targarian.? He didn't burn and wanted a dragon so it seems so.

 

[Vex]

That was literally my first post in this thread and a somewhat fair one, IMO, and you immediately mocked it and lumped me in with "you folks." Are you trying to make enemies of anyone who has a slightly less positive opinion than you?

I'm seeing the same kinds of posts from others. I commented on it. Some of the complaints have been ridiculous to me.

Again, I don't care if anyone disliked it. It's a television show. We all have our opinions. No one is wrong. It's a forum. We are here to discuss.

 

[Amazing Kreiderman]

What annoys me is that they never addressed the meaning of the symbols the WW used

 

[Emperoreddy]

What annoys me is that they never addressed the meaning of the symbols the WW used

I think all it was was a recreation of the rock formation where the NK was created.

 

[The Hound]

I’ve never once complained about Jon not slaying the Night King?

I’m complaining about the NK turning out to be just a Generic Dark Lord replete with poor and/or vague motivations and a predictable hubris related downfall.

I’m also complaining that the show blew its true emotional and narrative climax in Episode Three, and clearly is not in touch with its own internal stakes.

I made a comment about the NK raising the dead vs Jon after showing off at Hardhome and it turned into basically me being triggered Jon didn’t slay the NK

I posted last week, or the week before that I thought for sure that Jaime would slay him protecting Bran, similar to Arya, but dying in the process. I couldn’t care less that Jon didn’t slay him, or it didn’t live up to my supposed ultimate fantasy, but my opinions must’ve conflicted with peoples inner feelings.

 

[heynowbababooey]

Soooo....is that really the end of the night king and white walkers?

 

[darko]

Regarding the lighting, fog of war, blizzard, etc., both times I watched the episode my entire house was pitch black, so I didn't really have a problem seeing what was happening. It was chaos, but I enjoyed that.

On a re-watch I got to see lot more too haha.

 

[darko]

Soooo....is that really the end of the night king and white walkers?

Yes.

 

[Corto]

And A Song of Ice and Fire originally became famous within the fantasy fiction community because it SUBVERTED those celebrated Tolkienian tropes. It was different. It was interesting and fresh. It didn’t have Generic Dark Lords and Human Maguffins and Cut the Head Off the Snake Plans.

Surely you can understand why a series famous for subverting fantasy tropes is now being criticized for falling back on said fantasy tropes, no?

No. And no.

GRRM used the humans as the political tool and it still is the endgame of the show.
And he used the NK as an overarching plot device. In the humans vs undead story, it was always "fantasy tropes", just the road there is/was different.

NK was always going to get defeated (though who kills him in the books might still differ).
Same as how Stannis, Euron etc. are all expendable pieces to move the plot for the "main" characters.

The show is "predictable" NOW because of:
a) character arcs are coming to a close
b) everyone and their mother reading up on every theory in the world

All these characters and stories are told for a reason, with purpose.
Every character's death came either at the end of their story arc (or there's no point in telling their story), or if their story puts bigger events in motion (like Ned or Robb).

 

[Emperoreddy]

HBO wants you all to buy 4K TVs.

 

[darko]

So the night king is a Targarian.? He didn't burn and wanted a dragon so it seems so.

Hopefully Bran explains more about NK. But yeah when he withstood dragon fire I assumed he was a Targaryan.

 

[darko]

HBO wants you all to buy 4K TVs.

 

[Vex]

Okay, I think it is time to finally close this.

 

[The Head Crusher]

So the night king is a Targarian.? He didn't burn and wanted a dragon so it seems so.

If I had to guess the reason he did not burn like the rest is because he is the source of the cold/blizzard. He is radiating such a cold presence that it protected him from the dragon fire. But that is only a guess.