I'll go against the grain a bit. I'm still entertained by the show but I think it's really lowered in storytelling quality. Everything this season is so rushed and ridiculous, even given that it's a fantasy show.
We will see what happens Sunday. Hopefully it will prove me wrong.
I'll go against the grain a bit. I'm still entertained by the show but I think it's really lowered in storytelling quality. Everything this season is so rushed and ridiculous, even given that it's a fantasy show.
We will see what happens Sunday. Hopefully it will prove me wrong.
This split season is ridiculous. This one should have been it been it not another short one after it.
I have mixed feelings about this season. I think that the writing has slipped a bit. "Let's go beyond the wall and capture someone from the army of the dead and bring him to Castle Landing." Yeah, right! Like that was going to work out. A wight dragon is pretty cool, though. So even with some warts, GOT is still better than most of the crap on TV.
IMO the split season is an HBO money grab.
-Dave
I thought there must be a GoT thread on here somewhere, and here it is ! I'm a huge fan, been with it all the way and now embarking upon reading the books - it's great to be able to read them and put faces to names etc.
The finale was great, very enjoyable and I'm glad that there weren't too many ridiculous cliff hangers. We saw some things we expected to see, a few we didn't, and some very solid acting from all the main cast.
Ending with the dragon breaching the wall and the Knight king and his armies pouring in (I still expect that's how Ep 7 will end).
I'm watching a medieval political drama, and it turns into a zombie flick. I enjoy it, but would have liked it just as well without the creature feature.
If I'm willing to suspend belief to accept dragons and magic to raise the dead then I have to allow for a legion of walking corpses that fight like rabid dogs too.
My theory...
the creepy brother in the wheel chair...IS the Night King!
That being said, when Melissandre revealed in the show that she is actually very old, I built up a small bit of a headcanon that she and the (original) Three Eyed Crow were a former couple with great magical power who ultimately could not agree on where to set the thermostat, thus the long winters and summers that Westeros experiences.