Someone asked if this season can be saved, and while something as powerful as those moments would certainly help, I don't think, in light of those same powerful moments, that it can be.
The show just doesn't have the same gravitas that it used to.
Oddly, they've lost some of the best of the side characters--Luwin, Rodrick, Mormont, Hodor, Osha. Their acting helped us care about other characters.
Though we do still have Davos, thankfully. And please, please, please, let him live. Sam and Gilly are just no substitute.
Theon, though--Alfie's got it in him to really up a scene. Sophie's acting with him got markedly better. #KeepTheon.
It's dumb. And they still have a whole new season to force feed benevolent dragons to us, if this is the case.
Yes--after spending a fair amount of time making it clear that what Dany left in her wake was horror.
Trying to convince us the dragons are benevolent in any sense but wight-hunting--they've been pushing against that for a while: the dragons snapping at Dany. Eating a peasant child. Now Jaime's perspective and the killing of the Tarlys.
Not sure they are trying to sell us on benevolent dragons. . . . if so, they need new advertising.
That they would use her own sister for this purpose bothers me almost as much as the fact that they keep torturing her. I can't decide which is worse. Here's hoping they are done with that trope sooner than later. Jon still hasn't tortured Sansa. Dany still hasn't. Who knows what they have planned for Season 8.
Amen.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Oscar Wilde.
These guys can do some symbolism well when they try--but not sure the people who cut all but two of the wolves will engage with this idea.
I know it is a fool's hope. But if Lyanna is Jon's mom, and if Jon was born from a dying mother wolf, they should knit those two images together for viewers, because, it's like... the key to everything!
"I can see it. You have more of the north in you than your brothers."
But something stinks in the set up--where have they EVER trolled like this before a big reveal?
I have felt for a long time that this RLJ "trolling" is meant to be a huge distraction from the actual truth, which is far, far from RLJ, and it is setting up the audience, not so subtly, I might add, for a shockingly different reveal, or the show is simply NOT allowed to actually disclose RLJ, and so the show and D&D are actually trolling GRRM. I think that is less likely, but still possible. Actually, it's probably 50/50 at this point!
The show just doesn't have the same gravitas that it used to.
It absolutely does not, and I don't think they can get that back. The plot armor that each character seems to wear now, which deflects away from even the most alarming and dire of circumstances equating with death of said character has changed the show.
I cried when Ned died, when Luwin and Rodrik died, when Joer Mormont died, when Robb and Grey Wind died (no, I didn't cry over Catelyn although I felt devastated by her pain), but I sure as shit didn't cry over the death of a dragon that everyone seems to think is Viserion, nor did I actually cry over the Hodor and Summer scene. I think the show had lost something already that I don't think it is possible to regain that which is lost.
While an interesting read, I would think there are only very loose similarities between what happened in this episode and the Battle at Marathon, namely 1) someone ran to get help, and 2) some form of help arrived in time. But that is about it.
If they were going for the idea behind the Battle of Marathon, in would probably be addressed in the Inside the Episode or in any of the interviews I have seen from D&D or the director, Alan Taylor, and I haven't seen any such thing addressed. It would be nice if they did mention such a thing, even a casual drop, that could make us understand why they chose to write that the way they did, instead of just having had some raven's they could send back to Eastwatch for help, and maybe have Dany already on her way towards Eastwatch to help.
I did learn they were passionate about that "zombie polar bear" which included several f-bombs and God damns's, and I learned that the D with the sheared hair (DB Weiss, I think), can say "bag of severed faces" and "creepy" twice, when referring to Arya and barely maintain a straight face. Yikes!
I will say again, after watching the Anatomy of a Scene, the visual effects have been spot on this season. Maybe the plot wouldn't seem so questionable if it wasn't just completely over shadowed by the special effects?
Again, I could just be very jaded with the plot at this point.
Their father understood as well. "You want no pup for yourself, Jon?" he asked softly.
While an interesting read, I would think there are only very loose similarities between what happened in this episode and the Battle at Marathon, namely 1) someone ran to get help, and 2) some form of help arrived in time. But that is about it.
If they were going for the idea behind the Battle of Marathon, in would probably be addressed in the Inside the Episode or in any of the interviews I have seen from D&D or the director, Alan Taylor, and I haven't seen any such thing addressed. It would be nice if they did mention such a thing, even a casual drop, that could make us understand why they chose to write that the way they did, instead of just having had some raven's they could send back to Eastwatch for help, and maybe have Dany already on her way towards Eastwatch to help.
I did learn they were passionate about that "zombie polar bear" which included several f-bombs and God damns's, and I learned that the D with the sheared hair (DB Weiss, I think), can say "bag of severed faces" and "creepy" twice, when referring to Arya and barely maintain a straight face. Yikes!
I will say again, after watching the Anatomy of a Scene, the visual effects have been spot on this season. Maybe the plot wouldn't seem so questionable if it wasn't just completely over shadowed by the special effects?
Again, I could just be very jaded with the plot at this point.
This would have been a perfect episode for Ghost. Jon could have leaned down and given Ghost a note and told him to run back to Eastwatch. It would have been a great call back to Lassie!
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