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AproXii
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Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
Episode 3, Season 8
Disappointing is not the proper word, more like some kind of strange void :(
29 April 2019 - 1 out of 1 users found this review helpful.
First of all, I usually don't write reviews, precisely, this is my first on imdb.
But I kinda felt i have to write something about this episode.
I'm just highlighting in a random order:
- the brightness was terrible. I had to adjust my laptop and my TV. I had no clue what was going on in the start. Thanks to Melisandre and the dragons for at least a bit of vision on the battlefield.
- the Dothraki sacrifice: Yeah, lets waste our cavalry and send them into pure darkness. Just to get slaughtered and instantly resurrected by a powerful necromancer.
- the lack of strategy and military intelligence: the trebuchets were behind the cavalry and in front of the infantry, just firing some random shots to assist the dothraki in the start. Also there was no commander or general on the battlefield! Tyrion (maybe the most intelligent man in winterfell) was send to the crypt, Jon was busy getting anything done because he and Daenerys were absolutely countered by the Nightkings Blizzard / weather manipulation, Jaime had no reputation at all and was in the front line anyways, Ser Davos was giving his best --> at least they were able to set the fence on fire.
- lady Melisandre's prophecies: she was wrong and wrong again over season and season (for example upon her advice burning Shireen Barathon), but she knew from the start that Arya will close some "blue eyes" as well. Ye well, also a broken clock gives the right time twice a day.
- game of dagger-trading: Bran gives the dagger of valyrian steel to arya, she gives a dagger to sansa, I was really wondering why'd you add some extra confusion for no reason
- how did Jon, Sam (multiple times!!!), Jorah, Jaime, Brienne survive / almost survive surrounded by dozens of foes?
- the end / Arya's assasination of the night king: this was really disturbing and made no sense at all to me. I was expecting some masquerade (maybe Arya wearing the face of Bran), some magic (Bran overtaking one Dragon or one White Walker or at least a spiritual/energetic duell between Bran and the Night King. Or at least some sneaky stealth. Not an assault from behind and a simple backstab into the frozen kidney of the archfoe.
- and why in the heck was Jon shouting at the dragon in the end? What did he wanted to accomplish there?
Overall all these mistakes and plotholes are making me almost speechless. Yes I know, its TV, not a movie ... but still, this is really untypical and out-of-the-scale in comparison to many other episodes and I would love to know what GRRM thinks about this episode.
2* to the cgi, 1* to the atmospheric deathes of Jorah and Theon, 1* for Lyanna Mormont and her kamikaze attempt against the undead giant, 2*for the soundtrack / Ramin Djawadi which was extraordinary and absolutely awesome.
I think I need to wait for my friends to discuss this episode, maybe I'm just missing something completely. Whatsoever, valar morghulis.
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