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Malenko:
Sansa is one of the worst parts of the show. They pointed out how useless she was when she said she didnt know how to use a dagger. It doesnt help that Sophie Turner isnt a good actress either.

Howard_Casto:
Everything in the episode, including the confusion, the darkness and the inconsistencies were part of the artistic vision. If you paid attention everything paid off and everything made sense. If you didn't get it that's on you.

I can certainly understand people getting miffed about not being able to see anything in the beginning, but that was to heighten the viewers anxiety and judging by comments on the net of people complaining about it, it did just that. And hour and a half of just a battle would be boring as hell if everything was shot with perfect clarity and everything was framed just so. They used old spook house tricks to keep you invested in what would have otherwise been a boring slog. There was no way to come even close to the 8 year buildup for this battle in a traditional narrative form, so they messed around with the audience's head to get a better emotional response for the end. While I can certainly understand why some people wouldn't like that, it was well done. Also Aria's actions make perfect sense if you were paying attention. Check out hbo's episode recap on youtube and they walk you through it.

Sophie Turner sucks and Sansa is kinda "meh" but that line about the dagger was a callback joke I believe.

Ginsu Victim:
We saw what we needed to see. Everything else was confusing on purpose.

Between Endgame and GoT this weekend, I'm exhausted!

10/10

opt2not:
No, I get the "artistic" direction, it just needed to be better engineered. And I'm not buying Aria's actions making perfect sense. It was discontinuous with her character, and leading up from her actions in the episode. Cop-outs are cop-out.

I paid attention, down to the micro detailed level...it just wasn't executed as well as it could have been. I left that episode feeling cheaped out, and like I said, the other battles in the show were so much better than this (blackwater, battle of the ---daisies---...etc.), which is unfortunate given that those battles were all supposed to be a set-up to this mega battle we just saw.

Its quite clear where they ran out of book material and have been winging it ever since. What was once a story that subverted the fairy tales, and had characters that acted realistically, has become a story about playing it safe and playing for audience reactions. Undead giant stops his rampage to lift up little girl soldier to his eye? Main characters at the front line getting absolutely overwhelmed in one scene, and then show up in a later scene running back to Winterfell. But the biggest wasted moment for me is going out of your way to place every known Valyrian Steel Sword in Westeros into the hands of major characters, and not having any of them have a clash with a white walker.
..and for as long as Jaime, Pod, and Brienne were held up against that wall (being tickled?) - they somehow all survived - along with Sam who was still sobbing - not dead - just stabbing and sobbing...

Just bad, pedestrian writing, clearly made for the Micheal Bay action fans that the show has turned into now.

If you felt satisfied with the ending of this 8 year build-up, then good for you. I personally thought they handled this battle very poorly, and it in no way "dethrones" LOTR as having the best cinematic battles ever filmed.

Howard_Casto:
Well no. I hate Michael Bay stuff with a passion and I loved it, so your theory is debunked.

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