They really spent all their budget on that last episode. This clip from next weeks show (there's no spoliers, don't worry) confirms they do have a finite special effects warchest...
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
I dunno, I agree with WaS.
A Wight was hit with a rock and kinda shrugged. When the second one fell on the ice and showed it was actually ice and not sludgy water, it looekd down, then looked up and started moving. Not sure why a WW would control it to look down to realise it was frozen now.
Cept... you know... what he did to Cersei after Joffrey died (though I still think that was bad direction rather than intended rape)
Bran wargs the living, the Night King wargs the dead.
The acting from Arya when she's talking about shooting arrows was fecking atrocious.
And how did that uncle Ben G keep popping up everywhere
And how did that uncle Ben G keep popping up everywhere
The acting from Arya when she's talking about shooting arrows was fecking atrocious.
And how did that uncle Ben G keep popping up everywhere
That stupid fecking smirk she does still gets me.
The acting from Arya when she's talking about shooting arrows was fecking atrocious.
And how did that uncle Ben G keep popping up everywhere
In season six he tells Bran he serves the Three Eyed Raven, and now Bran is the Three Eyed Raven. So either Bran sends him, but we're haven't being shown that, or he follows/tracks the army of the dead, which does make sense but I'm not sure if that's explicitly stated in season six. I think it is.
Ahywho, I rewatched it in 1080p and much better audio (skipping the Winterfell scenes as I get it, Arya threatens Sansa blah blah blah) and I enjoyed it more second time round.
On first viewing I thought the Gendry running, raven being sent, Dany arriving sequence was ridic, but not so much second time round. When Gendry leaves the group it's day time, he arrives at Eastwatch during the night, raven gets sent, back to Jon and crew, then the Fellowship arise from their slumber (morning?), Dany leaves Dragonstone, it's day time, goes back to Winterfell, then back to the group where it's starting to get dark(ish) again, fight, then Dany arrives.
Or something like that.
Either way it's not as far fetched on second viewing, imo.
Seriously, what's up with the pacing?! I've boiled it down to one(or more) of these reasons:
1. Legal/contract issues that we don't know about.
2. Money issues that we don't know about, possibly tied to point above.
3. The creators are scared that someone important dies IRL before the show ends and thus compromising the overall quality of the show.
4. The writers have gotten lazy.
5. The writers have changed/lost their touch.
6. The current pacing was the plan to begin with(
). The creators legitimately think that this is what the fans want. They try to blast us in the face with constant action and a plot moving at a riduclously high pace as some sort of "reward" for having dealt with a story with lots of plot and character development up until now. What they fail to realize, is that this is exactly what the fans loved about the show to begin with.
Game of Thrones is still my favorite TV show, but I have to admit that this season has started to annoy me. In terms of story-telling, dialogue, character development and pacing, this has been the worst season up until now. No amount of impressive CGI and expensive battles can change that. And it sucks, because the story itself is not that bad. It can be a bit predictable, sure, but some of the decisions the creators make with it are just rookie mistakes. The last 6 episodes should have been spread over 9 episodes, imo. That in itself would have done absolute wonders for the season.
The last episode better be fecking spectacular now.
/rant
1. Legal/contract issues that we don't know about.
2. Money issues that we don't know about, possibly tied to point above.
3. The creators are scared that someone important dies IRL before the show ends and thus compromising the overall quality of the show.
4. The writers have gotten lazy.
5. The writers have changed/lost their touch.
6. The current pacing was the plan to begin with(
). The creators legitimately think that this is what the fans want. They try to blast us in the face with constant action and a plot moving at a riduclously high pace as some sort of "reward" for having dealt with a story with lots of plot and character development up until now. What they fail to realize, is that this is exactly what the fans loved about the show to begin with.Game of Thrones is still my favorite TV show, but I have to admit that this season has started to annoy me. In terms of story-telling, dialogue, character development and pacing, this has been the worst season up until now. No amount of impressive CGI and expensive battles can change that. And it sucks, because the story itself is not that bad. It can be a bit predictable, sure, but some of the decisions the creators make with it are just rookie mistakes. The last 6 episodes should have been spread over 9 episodes, imo. That in itself would have done absolute wonders for the season.
The last episode better be fecking spectacular now.
/rant
not sure if its been mentioned, but when jon snow climbs out the water the wolf on his sword opens its eye. people think bran warged into the sword and was somehow able to alert benjen that jon was in trouble.
I am REALLY hoping that there is at least one episode in season 8 dedicated entirely to the whitewalkers and their history.
People need to stop overthinking shit like this.
Edit: Atleast this explains all the memes i am seeing on reddit.
How can he warg into things?
I think Littlefinger...
Is already dead
Care to expand?
Why, how and by who?
It's a twist I could see being included but it clearly shows him spying on Arya, Plus he's so hated I can't see his death happening off screen. Unless he's Jaquen or someone its going to be hard to see how they'll pull it off. Also if thats the case Arya really is banana's.
I dunno the shot where he was talking to Sansa was odd. They filmed it as if as they were going to reveal Arya as the camera came around. No real reasoning other than that.
The whole Winterfell part is a mess right now. They've half ruined Arya for me with all the nonsense.
The acting from Arya when she's talking about shooting arrows was fecking atrocious.
And how did that uncle Ben G keep popping up everywhere
Glad it wasn't just me! Said the exact same thing to the wife when we were watching it... neither her or Sansa are very strong actors, but usually they're with people who are good actors, so it's ok... but yeah, together it's pretty bad.
Also, why did Uncle Benjen not get on the feckin' horse with Jon? Why was there "no time"?
Yeah that made no sense at all. Terrible scene really.
I think Williams is a good actor, she did a thing on Channel 4 called Cyberbully which was a one woman show, she was very good. That GoT scene was a fail though, she's been hit and miss this season. That said the dialogue throughout the whole season has been poor and undermines the actors. Literally every conversation Jon's party had whilst trekking beyond the wall failed to land.
Yeah that's a fair point actually.
Same reason Jon decided he'd rather charge into a few stray wights than get on the dragon.
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There wasn't enough room on the door for both of them.
Wait that's something else.
Why doesn't Bran warg into the NK and start a progressive political alliance with Dany to advance positive liberal policies in Westeros?
Why doesn't Bran warg into Missandei and run around naked all day long?
So many possibilities.
I would watch this spin off.
Whilst I agree it was daft - I guess the implication is that Benjen needed to delay the whitewalkers so Jon could get away fine - the horse would be slower with the 2 of them.
I'd say why doesn't he do similar with Melisandre, but she's probably already running around naked wherever she is.
What does uncle Benjen's horse subsist on? Does it eat snow and ice?
Likewise the dragons. How many kcal do they require for their long-haul flights each and every day? And there's three of the bastards!
Well if they like a nice roast,I'm sure the battle near Dorne must be quite a fill!!
Good twist at the end with the Dragon. Going to be interesting to see how the White Walkers can be defeated now they have a dragon, the big giant guy and the gold medal javelin throwers.
I think it was just done poorly. Him saying "theres no time" was not needed. It could have easily been something else like
my time is up
or similar. Oh well.
Anyone know where I can find Seasons 1-6? I saw somewhere that nowTV had it but they only have the newest episodes. I'm trying to get my wife to watch an episode (the only bit she's ever seen was the Red Wedding completely out of context).
Or it could have been "Sorry for molesting you repeatedly on those long cold nights at Winterfell. It's not your fault" followed by Good Will Hunting type of embrace and Jon weeping on his uncle's shoulder.
Rather unorthodox but quite powerful dramatically, I think.