I watched S1:E2 right before, and it was as excellent as ever. I really hate what they've done with this show. So far, this season is making the last season of Lost look brilliant. Anyway, maybe with Cersei coming back, the next episode will be better. I keep telling myself maybe the next episode will be better, but they keep getting worse. I'm certainly glad it's almost over at this point.
shareThis post is proof that a lot of people will just never be satisfied.
There was an hour long episode full of character building last week, and people whined.
This week, an epic amazingly filmed battle against the Army of the Dead...and you guessed it, people are whining.
The battle for the Iron Throne has always been the point of the show. I fully expected the war to be over in one episode, and the remaining episodes to be about the battle with Cersi, and what will the characters do to claim the throne.
I'm loving this season, and that episode was a true white knuckler. I'm excited to see where it goes from here.
I'm with you sut6432.
Ideally the episode would have been more ruthless and killed a few more characters, but I'm guessing most, if not all, of the spared characters, serve a purpose in upcoming episodes.
Yet, whilst the episode was playing, I was totally gripped. The last two episodes have been exemplary pieces of entertainment.
Except that it wasn't epic. At least a few of you are entertained with mediocre shite.
shareMy advice to all the whiners: if you don't like it, don't watch it.
shareStupid advise you need to watch it otherwise how else can you find out if you either like it or dislike it.
It was lazy writing all around and the whole battle was so dumb the tactics or lack of made no sense at all. (John and others already knew how Walkers are made even how they fight)
The clear ones was why wouldn't you have multi trenches just like they did in world wars and you fall back also use fire to cover retreat then you have two dragons yet they didn't do much the whole area could of been lit up by them yet they allow the walkers to stand around for ages.
What can I say about how they was defeated again stupid a better surprise would of been Bran standing up stabbing him which sort of freezes him then some oen else either stabs him through eye or beheads him or even have it that Theon stabs him in back weakening him (Theons death was so pointless)
I'm going to ride it out, however bad it gets, and I will feel no problem expressing my opinion. I hope they pull it out of the fire, but I doubt it. (I did really consider quitting at about the halfway point during this episode, but I guess I'm just another victim of sunk cost.)
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"Whiners". Some people want things to improve or stay at a high level, and being a ******* to corporations and gushing over every decision they make is the worst thing you could possibly do in terms of that. Criticism is crucial and is what keeps these companies (and humans in general) in check from mediocrity. You should be thanking those who are able to think critically.
If everyone was a blind ****** like yourself nothing would ever progress - all media would be an amorphous blob of the most lazy hackneyed production you could possibly imagine. I'm sure you'd still praise it, regardless... so this message is likely lost on you.
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OP is just stating the truth, but it is something we have all come to accept. Once the shows outpaced the books, the quality of the storytelling dropped off considerably. As an example, the Battle of the Blackwater was a great episode,that had a healthy mix of engagement between characters with some great lines (several from the Hound), brilliant military tactics, and some well done action sequences. Here, it just seemed like they brought a lot of arcs and storylines to a close (e.g. Jorah, Theon, the Night King) and did it in a very unsatisfactory way. Yes, the CGI and action sequences were good, but while we were awed by the tactical brilliance of the wildfire play in Blackwater, we were dumbfounded by the Dothraki charge into darkness to fight an opponent they couldn't see in this episode. In Blackwater, the Hound had several very quotable lines, and there was nothing like that here. Blackwater ended with a second display of tactics - using a hidden tunnel to attack Stannis from the rear. Here, they just turned Arya into a Deus es machina - basically had her appear out of thin air to stab the Night King with a Valyrian dagger.. Very unsatisfying (and they did something similar in the battle of the bastards with the knights of the vale appearing out of thin air to save the day).
GRRM takes an agonizingly long time to write his stories, but there is coherence and a brilliance to those stories. The show became significantly worse when it could no longer lean on that brilliance. Had season 5 (first season beyond GRRMs story) been the first season. It would have been cancelled before a second season could start.
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Not sure what the original poster is even complaining about. And you're right, it's proof...people will complain about anything. It has become almost cliché to see people come here and make such posts. This episode was epic television!
shareI'm complaining that the show, which began with great characters and stories for the first several seasons, has become utterly watered down in the last few seasons. The actors may be the same, but the characters are but cardboard cutouts of the ones before. There is NO character development happening (not in the three episodes), almost no plot, just plodding along. Of course, it's still visually stunning, but who cares!
(Apparently there are people who disagree. That's fine. I don't care for the insults, but children will be children.)
It's kind of weird to condemn insults while throwing them.
shareI don't consider "children will be children" to be an insult if that's what you're referring to.
shareHow is that not an insult? You're making underhanded insinuations in a weak, passive-aggressive way. That's the same as insulting, just a more cowardly approach to insulting someone, in attempt to avoid accountability for your statement. You're trying to avoid accountability like a child.
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Who knows? I don't have a problem with how people interpreted various scenes, I'm a big GoT reactions watcher, but sometimes I turn into an aggressive debate moderator.
shareAll right, I've got a question for you. If I'd said, "trolls will be trolls" instead of "children will be children" would that have seemed like an insult? Because that's really what it meant. "Children will be children" is a metaphor.
shareYou don't see how it's insulting to call people childish trolls?
shareIt certainly could be. But first of all, as I've explained, "children will be children" is a metaphor. Using the phrase doesn't mean you're calling anyone a child. (This is one of the places where our educational system is failing us. People don't understand metaphors.) So I'm not calling anyone a child to begin with. I am, however, calling a few people in this thread trolls. I don't mean it as an insult, but just as descriptive of their crappy behavior. I really don't have a kind way to describe what they've done though. Do you?
shareI mean, I tried to point it out to you and get you to admit the obvious. Oh well, narcissists will be narcissists.
shareThey need to be able to put something on the message boards that will get people talking otherwise they serve no purpose.
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Differing opinions is not bullying.
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Hahahaha. Seek help please.
Have a good day.
lol!!
shareOkay, you want me to seek help? Fine, I reported you to the moderators.
shareThe mods here play favorites - they give some members a pass and now overmoderate everything else. This site has totally gone to shit.
(This post will be removed, most likely, because you can no longer speak your mind here)
Are you in kindergarten?
Wow. You're telling on me?
That is truly hysterical.
So what do you tell them...that I have a differing opinion about a TV show and it hurt your feelings?
Man, you better get some thicker skin or the world is going to eat you alive.
Best of luck.
Really you consider that bullying, but telling me to Fuck Off and calling me an asshole isn't bullying. Perception is a two way street thanks
shareSaying a person serves no purpose is quite insulting. It's just about telling them to kill themselves. So yes, I consider that bullying. And it's quite ridiculous for you to complain when someone stands up to it. Of course it's not nice for me to call you an asshole or tell you to fuck off. But it's hardly bullying.
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I agree this episode was tedious. It was on par with the last Hobbit movie....
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