GoT - Is Over, Post Your Drogon Sightings
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when AVP2 came out, it flopped , it wasnt because it was an absolutely shit tier movie, (it was) but because it was so fucking dark that you werent even sure there was a a predator in it at all. to this day i dont know what in the name of fuck i was watching.
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I think he could only warg into Hordor because he was retarded.
But then he was only retarded because he warged into him.
Hm.
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Just got around to watching this.
I could read 30 more pages now before responding, but here it goes. They promised a battle bigger and better than Helm's Deep, right? Well, that was some pompous boasting, and certainly not backed up. So yes, I'm comparing this to blockbusters and not regular TV. At least in Helm's Deep the defenders were trying to win. Here they opened with pissing away their entire cavalry in a completely futile Charge of the Light Brigade into solid darkness. What outcome did they expect?
There's a reason the viewer wasn't allowed to watch their battle plan making. It would have been the worst dialogue in the history of the series.
Jon: So what is our first move in this defensive battle?
Dany: The Dothraki will charge right into their vanguard and all die, so Sansa has fewer soldiers to feed
Jon: That sounds like a great idea, and then?
Dany: now the Night Kings army has added a few thousand Dothraki corpses to their ranks, we'll do an open field battle in front of the fortifications. Once we lose most of my Unsullied soldiers, we retreat and I'll light the trenches, since I'll totally not be busy just staying alive as a prime target on my Dwagon.
Jon: And then Bran just wins the battle for us, right?
Bran: Yes.
Speaking of Bran, I love how they reset the wood fight scene three times. They get charged by a large number of undead, everyone fires one arrow and is now in melee combat. CUT! Episode moves to a different area. After a few minutes, we're back in the Wood fight. Again all the defenders are completely clear of enemies and use their bows. The undead charge, a melee is about to ensue, and CUT! Back to the castle. They did that shit three times. Unsullied ten lines deep just get overwhelmed, but one guy every 3 yards with a bow apparently can hold against the undead. As long as the camera goes away the moment they don't.
And yeah, I'm one of the "can't see shit captain" crowd, I got a regular 55 minute episode with 25 minutes of "London during heavy fog". I did like at least half of those 55 minutes, though.
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This is kind of dumb, Sansa has a true redemption arc because she goes from useless and clueless to being one of the more cogent/wise/perceptive/guiled characters while also being quite noble.
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Tuco
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This isn't a bad theory. Minor English point, elude: to escape, allude: suggest.
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You don't need to adjust your TV differently for every single TV lol. This is why calibration services exist - to make sure your TV replicates the reference palette used by film-makers
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That article is unimaginably retarded in 500 different ways, but Sansa is your point of contention?
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I turned to my wife when Sam was a beetle on his back, feebly stabbing at wights and said "he's so done for right there, he'll definitely survive."
This one here, 64 minutes in
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I did think it was awesome that heartsbane was this giant 2h sword that sam could barely lug around- and Jorah da explorer just 1h's it like a mad pro
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The cinematographer is either retarded or is a genius who got a % of the sales of the inevitable remastered edition included in his paycheck.It was explained in one of the "inside the episode" videos. Previously Winterfell stuff has taken place pre-Winter and been lit with natural light and prop candle-lights. They didn't want the same aesthetic or something
"Although there's no official word yet from HBO or the show's producers, it would seem this low-resolution presentation of the battle was an intentional choice. Robert McLachlan, a cinematographer on "Game of Thrones," seemed to back up that theory, telling the website Insider that in the later seasons the show's producers wanted to try "to be as naturalistic as possible" when it came to lighting the sets. " 'Game of Thrones' looked really dark on Sunday, and we don't just mean the plot
Edit: This article blames the darkness on people not having their sets calibrated. Mine has been professionally colour calibrated, so I know the colours of my set matches as much as possible what the film-makers intended. My biggest gripe was the compression/pixellation.
Game of Thrones Cinematographer Defends Dark Scenes, Says You’re the Problem
“People don’t know how to tune their TVs properly.”www.vulture.com
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