Game of Thrones Season 8 (2019) (2 Viewers)

[Ashly Yeo]

Wow! And the music carried a lot of emotions in all the scenes.

 

[Tino]

Oh
My
God

That was absolutely spectacular. And the tensest 80 minutes of television I have ever seen.

Tremendous in every sense of the word.

Wow.

 

[Sam Posten]

I definitely thought

Spoiler

more main characters would die

 

[TonyD]

What the bleep was Bran doing the entire time though?

 

[Sam Posten]

Bait

 

[TonyD]

Yeh Sam I suppose all of us did but I’m ok with what happened n that line.

 

[TonyD]

Bait

Yeah for sure but where was he? Was he leading the King towards himthrough though telepathy

 

[Walter Kittel]

Random thoughts...

Wowsers! What an episode! I thought things might play out a bit differently, but in retrospect it probably makes sense to resolve some plot lines given that there are only three episodes left.

Great use of percussion in the soundtrack to really drive the pace of the scenes. Reminded me just a bit of some of Bear McCreary's work on BSG (2004).

A little hard to follow at times, but battles are supposed to be chaotic, so mission accomplished.

Did not foresee the 'Han Solo' moment at the conclusion of the battle. Pretty great though and a really well choreographed reaction in multiple shots. Given Bran's capabilities perhaps he knew the outcome already which would explain why he was cooler than the coolest cucumber ever known to man.

Some nice bonding between Sansa and Tyrion. Also a nice bit of dialog between Theon and Bran.

A buddy and I were predicting who would live and die in this episode and we both got some right and missed on others. (So many deaths to go around that you are bound to hit a few. Kind of agree with Sam, but no biggie.)

Probably my favorite shot of the episode was of the two dragons above the clouds in the distance under the moonlit sky. A very iconic fantasy image; somewhat reminiscent of what you might see from someone like Frank Frazetta. Loved that imagery.

Gonna have to watch this one a few more times.

- Walter.

 

[Wayne_j]

I called that

Spoiler

Arya would kill the Night King when she disappeared for 20 minutes in the middle of the episode.

Wonderful episode, I think I enjoyed it more than End Game which I liked quite a lot. And yes the streaming quality was terrible, the stream switched to SD in the middle of the episode.

 

[Tino]

I definitely thought

Spoiler

more main characters would die

Oh they will. Rest assured they will.

 

[Sam Posten]

Here's the body count:

Spoiler

Dolorous Edd

Lyanna Mormont

Beric Dondarrion

Theon Greyjoy

Ser Jorah Mormont

Melisandre

THE NIGHT KING

 

[MattBradley]

Watched it on cable and it wasn't any easier to tell what was going on.

So much for a friend's theory that Bran was the Night King. Free lunch coming for me! hahaha

 

[Tino]

So much to process.

So much to enjoy for years to come.

 

[Walter Kittel]

A buddy of mine told me over lunch last week that one of the internet theories was that Bran was the Night King.

'What the what?!' was my reaction.

- Walter.

 

[Carabimero]

I have top of the line stuff and the streaming quality was terrible. As for the episode....it was great. Give me an episode 6 like that and I couldn't ask for more.

 

[Tino]

Yeah. The dark scenes didn’t help with the compression artifacts. And this episode was DARK.

Hopefully the 4K release won’t have these issues.

 

[benbess]

Arya!

 

[BobO'Link]

My stream looked fine - dark, but no other issues. I also watched via browser on a laptop so that might have helped. No app.

Looks like I'm the odd man out. I thought it was overly long and quite boring, exactly like I anticipated. I must have checked the clock a dozen times before the first hour was over. It hit all the expected, and anticipated, notes and played out exactly like I was expecting, although I thought there'd be more character interaction following the battle. I'm somewhat sad it played as it did as I was really hoping they'd go against expectations and we'd see that end run to King's Landing that many guessed would occur.

While the body count isn't fully done, I did expect most of the deaths we saw. There are a couple more I anticipated that we've not yet seen and a couple I expected to die who survived. The final blow was delivered by one of the two I was expecting to get that honor and I'm glad it was who it was, although there was a moment I thought it might actually go against the expected and surprise us.

The absolutely best scenes involved Arya and the dragons with those in the crypt between Sansa and Tyrion coming in a close third.

I hope they do better on the last 3 episodes. I fully expect the "final battle" to be a better experience. At least I hope it is. Right now I'd give The Battle of the Bastards the "Best Battle" award.

 

[Tino]

I also watched via browser on a laptop

What what WHAT?

Shame
Shame
Shame

 

[benbess]

Ok, so what's the speculation about what's going to happen in the last three episodes.....?

Spoiler

Somehow I thought the Night King wasn't going to die until the last or second to last episode/movie. So now we still have the battle for the Iron Throne, of course. But are there additional possibilities of White Walkers? Or do we assume they are just all dead now?