Post by kevin on Mar 25, 2018 10:12:37 GMT
What are your thoughts on season 7 of Game of Thrones. Usually there's a lot of overhyped praise and over-exaggerated critisism of a tv show like Game of Thrones during the airing of the season. It's now been almost one year since season 7. After all this time, what do you think of season 7 of Game of Thrones?
I've just looked at the episodes and what happened during them and I think that besides the slight misstep at episode 6, this season is extremely good.
Episode 1, Dragonstone, is my 2nd favorite season premiere (after Two Swords). Episode 2, Stormborn, is even better with a perfect first meeting between Daenerys and Jon. And then episode 3, The Queen's Justice, is even better than episode 2. Maybe if this would've been a 10 episode season we could've gotten a seperate episode for the siege of Highgarden, but I also like the direction the took it in the actual episode a lot. Instead of giving us yet another castle siege/battle, which we've seen many times, we skip it to get to an even more epic scene: Jaime and Olenna. Probably one of my favorite scenes of the entire show and one of the most badass tv deaths I've ever seen.
Then we go to episode 4, The Spoils of War. Anything that could be said about it, has already been said. It's a masterpiece, one of the show's best episodes and one of the best battles in tv history. Matt Shakman was a perfect director pick and the long take at the start of the battle (just like in Battle of the Bastards) is unbelievable. After all of this craziness in the first 4 episodes, we finally have a bit of room to relax in episode 5, Eastwatch. That doesn't mean it's less good. Eastwatch has many great scenes, like Daenerys burning the soldiers alive and the theme of good vs. evil concerning Daenerys. The chemistry between Jon and Daenerys is as good as can be and the episode in general just flows so well. Probs to Matt Shakman again, who's proven to be one of the best directors Game of Thrones has had with just 2 episodes. Then we go to perhaps the only mistake of the season, episode 6: Beyond the Wall. A lot in this episode works and the final moments with the Night King and the dragons are fantastic, but some things don't work. The storyline is a bit far-fetched, but I think it could've worked really well with a director like Miguel Sapochnik. Alan Taylor unfortunately doesn't have the same gift as Sapochnik and struggles to connect some plot points together. The battle with the polar bear wasn't shot that well. In general I still think the episode works and it isn't one of the worst of the show imo (which some other people do think is the case), but it also definitely doesn't meet the bar set by the rest of the season.
After episode 6, we go to the final episode of the season: The Dragon and the Wolf. It may be an unpopular opinion in a season with The Spoils of War, but episode 7 is my favorite episode of the season. It has everything I want from a Game of Thrones episode. The dialogue is fantastic and the emotions are there. Finally Tyrion can show some genuine emotion again and reminds me why he's my favorite character. I hope we get more Cersei, Jaime en Tyrion dialogue before the show ends. The episode wasn't a shocker episode like The Rains of Castamere or The Winds of Winter. But still it was executed so well that I can't stop thinking about it. Littlefinger's death, the peace talks, the reunions, Jaime finally seeing who Cersei is, it all works. Even the sporadic comedy (for example by Bran) works. And then we get to the end. I think we can all agree that incest isn't a good thing, but the final part of the episode with Rhaegar's past, Jon & Daenerys and the Night King taking out the wall is one of the best sequences of the show.
So if I look back at the season I see a season that maybe could've improved by giving it one more episode to let the story breathe a bit and that could've been executed a bit better in episode 6. But besides that I love everything that happened. Now that some time has passed I think I can place season 7 at #3 or #4 of my favorite Game of Thrones season. It may have gotten a bit of critisism during its airing, but I think when people actually look at all the seasons and try to rank them, season 7 will rank pretty high on many people's lists. But enough about what I think, what do you think of season 7?
I've just looked at the episodes and what happened during them and I think that besides the slight misstep at episode 6, this season is extremely good.
Episode 1, Dragonstone, is my 2nd favorite season premiere (after Two Swords). Episode 2, Stormborn, is even better with a perfect first meeting between Daenerys and Jon. And then episode 3, The Queen's Justice, is even better than episode 2. Maybe if this would've been a 10 episode season we could've gotten a seperate episode for the siege of Highgarden, but I also like the direction the took it in the actual episode a lot. Instead of giving us yet another castle siege/battle, which we've seen many times, we skip it to get to an even more epic scene: Jaime and Olenna. Probably one of my favorite scenes of the entire show and one of the most badass tv deaths I've ever seen.
Then we go to episode 4, The Spoils of War. Anything that could be said about it, has already been said. It's a masterpiece, one of the show's best episodes and one of the best battles in tv history. Matt Shakman was a perfect director pick and the long take at the start of the battle (just like in Battle of the Bastards) is unbelievable. After all of this craziness in the first 4 episodes, we finally have a bit of room to relax in episode 5, Eastwatch. That doesn't mean it's less good. Eastwatch has many great scenes, like Daenerys burning the soldiers alive and the theme of good vs. evil concerning Daenerys. The chemistry between Jon and Daenerys is as good as can be and the episode in general just flows so well. Probs to Matt Shakman again, who's proven to be one of the best directors Game of Thrones has had with just 2 episodes. Then we go to perhaps the only mistake of the season, episode 6: Beyond the Wall. A lot in this episode works and the final moments with the Night King and the dragons are fantastic, but some things don't work. The storyline is a bit far-fetched, but I think it could've worked really well with a director like Miguel Sapochnik. Alan Taylor unfortunately doesn't have the same gift as Sapochnik and struggles to connect some plot points together. The battle with the polar bear wasn't shot that well. In general I still think the episode works and it isn't one of the worst of the show imo (which some other people do think is the case), but it also definitely doesn't meet the bar set by the rest of the season.
After episode 6, we go to the final episode of the season: The Dragon and the Wolf. It may be an unpopular opinion in a season with The Spoils of War, but episode 7 is my favorite episode of the season. It has everything I want from a Game of Thrones episode. The dialogue is fantastic and the emotions are there. Finally Tyrion can show some genuine emotion again and reminds me why he's my favorite character. I hope we get more Cersei, Jaime en Tyrion dialogue before the show ends. The episode wasn't a shocker episode like The Rains of Castamere or The Winds of Winter. But still it was executed so well that I can't stop thinking about it. Littlefinger's death, the peace talks, the reunions, Jaime finally seeing who Cersei is, it all works. Even the sporadic comedy (for example by Bran) works. And then we get to the end. I think we can all agree that incest isn't a good thing, but the final part of the episode with Rhaegar's past, Jon & Daenerys and the Night King taking out the wall is one of the best sequences of the show.
So if I look back at the season I see a season that maybe could've improved by giving it one more episode to let the story breathe a bit and that could've been executed a bit better in episode 6. But besides that I love everything that happened. Now that some time has passed I think I can place season 7 at #3 or #4 of my favorite Game of Thrones season. It may have gotten a bit of critisism during its airing, but I think when people actually look at all the seasons and try to rank them, season 7 will rank pretty high on many people's lists. But enough about what I think, what do you think of season 7?
