shinnickneth
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Post by shinnickneth on May 14, 2019 1:07:58 GMT
I think I heard somebody speculate that it was the leader of the Golden Company's horse. That's why I was curious if there was some sort of book significance to it. It could be Harry Strickland's horse. It goes down when Dany blows up the main entrance but we don't know if it actually died. 
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Post by shinnickneth on May 14, 2019 1:09:33 GMT
Marv was right, I just checked, the horse she left Winterfell on was black. You must be thinking of the one she acquired from Polliver's crew back in season four, that was white. I don't know if they wanted up to believe it was the same horse, though perhaps the production used the same one. Yes, I misremembered things.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on May 14, 2019 1:58:55 GMT
 Another great shot. It looks like a painting. I'm calling it. Best looking episode ever. I can't find the Drogon one in the dark in good enough quality yet, but I loved it too. If they had enhanced the darkness the way they did in that scene for the Winterfell battle, it would have gotten far less criticism
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Post by shadyvsesham on May 14, 2019 4:44:27 GMT
This is rushed AF. Ill give you an example. When Snow decides to tell his family who he is, we don't see the conversation, they cut it out. If this was season 3, we would have heard and seen the entire convo. That's one example of many. I never asked for a happy ending, who did, I wanted actually to see more mfers go out in the NK battle, but we basically got a lot of boo-boos. I read them late and thought,"this is too fn dumb," and ka-boom. This entire season is rushed dude, if you can't see it I apologize. Watch season 3 and watch season 8, if you can't see the difference...well.... — they don’t have characters repeat a story or information on-screen, and leave the reactions or even the entire conversation off-screen. I don’t know why they do that. I suspect it has something to do with not wanting to repeat the same thing over and over, and there may be other reasons, but I’ve seen a lot of shows deprive viewers of reaction scenes on juicy reveals. See, you imo lost this argument. You know why we love(d) game of thrones? It wasnt like "every other show." Theyre now cutting imo key pieces of dialogue. When I saw that scene with Snow, I told a friend who didnt watch it yet. When I told them they cut it off, to see how Sansa/Arya would take that info, he looked at me like,"no, bull$hit." That's the thing. This was supposed to be a different show. Now it seems boring, cliche, and rushed. Im glad you like it, but this seems all insanely dumb af to me.
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on May 14, 2019 6:10:28 GMT
Jaime's arc was that of a man who poses, wavers then finds and accepts himself. He resisted the ideology of sheep and died a lion. I'm happy with that. I never had anything but contempt for those who wanted to "redeem" Jaime. While not the way I'd word it, I've slept on it and come to terms with it. Jaime was a complicated man in a toxic relationship he could never fully free himself from. I was always more invested in Theon's redemption, anyway. Theon had done the most despicable things and he had known it while doing them. It made sense to show him struggle with it. He started right in the finale of S2. Jaime's relationship with Cersei remains a bit of a mystery to me. He was the driver of it, this I can deduct from a few scenes but the motive was never explained. "We don't choose whom we love" is an excuse, not an explanation why he loved his twin sister more than anything else in the world. Nerd Soup has come up with narcissism for it. Maybe. I cannot argue against it. I feel the same but the reasons are different. I am satisfied with the way it ended, not happy but well…
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on May 14, 2019 6:27:05 GMT
Trying to squeeze in to six episodes what needed to be in two seasons has led to some of the most ludicrously condensed character 'developments'. Foreshadowing is one thing, but you've got to actually earn the pay off. They might as well have had Dany find a couple of hairs with split ends as she approached King's Landing and decided 'bugger it, kill them all'. The Mad Queen was a great direction to take her character in. Shame it was so poorly handled. I want to agree with this. It made sense but was done too abruptly. The Tyrant was announced and showed growing, this may not have been a surprise to anyone. The mad tyrant, however, recklessly killing on an impulse which is not even clearly identifiable was a steep turn that happened in one single episode (unless I missed something - I haven't watched the season nor the previous one). Missandei's execution might have been the trigger but she told Tyrion about "the people", not the soldiers, knowing why "the sky falls down on them" before that, so it seems she was loaded with those fire bombs and the intent to drop them on that target anyway. Yes, she has made such threats before but big outbursts destined to intimidate have not the same weight as serious thoughts expressed in private.
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Post by Winter_King on May 14, 2019 8:55:00 GMT
Pretty much every TV show does that — they don’t have characters repeat a story or information on-screen, and leave the reactions or even the entire conversation off-screen. I don’t know why they do that. I suspect it has something to do with not wanting to repeat the same thing over and over, and there may be other reasons, but I’ve seen a lot of shows deprive viewers of reaction scenes on juicy reveals. See, you imo lost this argument. You know why we love(d) game of thrones? It wasnt like "every other show." T heyre now cutting imo key pieces of dialogue. When I saw that scene with Snow, I told a friend who didnt watch it yet. When I told them they cut it off, to see how Sansa/Arya would take that info, he looked at me like,"no, bull$hit." That's the thing. This was supposed to be a different show. Now it seems boring, cliche, and rushed. Im glad you like it, but this seems all insanely dumb af to me. I wouldn't call it cutting key pieces of dialogue. The only cut was Sansa and Arya's reaction. We weren't going to receive new information there. Just information that we already knew because it had been told us twice. And quite frankly they showed the reaction of the characters that we needed to see receive that information: Dany and Jon.
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Post by Winter_King on May 14, 2019 9:10:54 GMT
HAHAHA, I told you all the leaks were true, and everything the leaks said happen in episode 5. This show is gonna end insanely dumb. Be prepared folks, be prepared for a stupid fn ending....and youre all gonna hate it. I rate this episode a 3, rushed, bad writing and Dany just went mad queen too predictably. This show has fallen folks.... Be prepared for a bad finale, because I know what happens and it's fn dumb.... A lot of people think she went mad rather unexpectedly. That's why they seem to be pissed off.
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Post by xystophoros on May 15, 2019 3:03:27 GMT
Go ahead and tell us what “good writing” is. Sure. As a general rule, anything you post could be considered an example of bad writing. Using your own work as a basis, you should be able to gauge the quality of others. If you’re having trouble just let me know. I just wanna help. BURN. I feel like a common King’s Landing whore roasted to a crisp by dragonfire after that diss. You ever think about ghostwriting for comedy roasts or battle rappers?
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