Couple of problems i had with the finale and the build up to it:
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He is always great, just got more screen time and delivered so I wasn't surprised, but definitely happy about it. That story line is packed with great dialogue, and the tone is so powerful at times without forcing it down our throats like Daenarys.Allstar wrote:Lets all give a hand to Cunningham for his terrific and heartfelt performance tonight.
Allstar wrote:Lets all give a hand to Cunningham for his terrific and heartfelt performance tonight.
he really did a great job. And viral114 please learn to use spoiler tags. It would be great if you could edit that post and slap some tags on it. And don't say silly shit like "fuck Gendry" ever again.
I don't get it, I don't understand the hate. It was a solid as fuck finale with a lot of emotion and incredible performances.
I loved the episode. It was one of my favorite all season.Cilogy wrote:I don't get it, I don't understand the hate. It was a solid as fuck finale with a lot of emotion and incredible performances.
TBH, it was a great finale. I loved it, all the scenes were great, Arya, Davos, Tywin, Tyrion, Sansa, Mel, Stannis, Jon, Ygritte, Sam, Theon & Walder Frey being just a few of the numerous standouts of the episode.
Loved the Rat Cook story - it emphasised how heinous it is to kill a guest in your home.
And loved seeing Castle Black after a long time - and familiar faces like Pip and Maester Aemon.
Even the Mhysa scene was great - it was shot magnificently and the awe and adoration of the slaves was deeply touching, eventhough I'm not much of a Dany fan.
But it wasn't an awesome finale. Which it could easily have been if they had included BOOK SPOILERS. Every finale has had some sort of WTF? moment in the climax. The first one had the birth of the dragons, the second one had the reveal of the hordes of White Walkers and the wights. The perfect ending for the third season finale would have been BOOK SPOILERS Have to say I'm a bit disappointed that they didn't use it as the climax.
Loved the Rat Cook story - it emphasised how heinous it is to kill a guest in your home.
And loved seeing Castle Black after a long time - and familiar faces like Pip and Maester Aemon.
Even the Mhysa scene was great - it was shot magnificently and the awe and adoration of the slaves was deeply touching, eventhough I'm not much of a Dany fan.
But it wasn't an awesome finale. Which it could easily have been if they had included BOOK SPOILERS
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Reading ''Mhysa! Mhysa!'' part of ASOS was one of the most emotional experiences I've had with ASOIAF. I can describe you precisely where it occurred, how I felt... Every little detail of my memory. Here is the perfect explanation of why I feel HBO series doesn't quite pull it in all directions - I felt nothing at all. 
Inb4 series fanatics, but it's my honest opinion.
After talking with lots of different POVs on the matter I think it goes like this...
a) If you never knew about ASOIAF prior to HBO series, you're perfectly happy with everything and you don't need to read the books
b) If you never knew about ASOIAF prior to HBO series, you're perfectly happy with everything but you still want to read the books and it's a great mashup of mediums for you
c) If you knew about ASOIAF prior to HBO series, loved it to death... you can't really be immersed in this down scaled version of events from thousands of pages of brilliance (30 unsullied in a courtyard as opposed to legions of unsullied, sums it up)
Ideal scenario, for me, would be someone like Ridley Scott with a budget of 200 mil.$, doing a series... Yeah, utopia.
Positive aspect - people are reading the books afterwards
Negative aspect - who the fuck cares what I think if it's successful, so it's my problem anyways
Inb4 series fanatics, but it's my honest opinion.
After talking with lots of different POVs on the matter I think it goes like this...
a) If you never knew about ASOIAF prior to HBO series, you're perfectly happy with everything and you don't need to read the books
b) If you never knew about ASOIAF prior to HBO series, you're perfectly happy with everything but you still want to read the books and it's a great mashup of mediums for you
c) If you knew about ASOIAF prior to HBO series, loved it to death... you can't really be immersed in this down scaled version of events from thousands of pages of brilliance (30 unsullied in a courtyard as opposed to legions of unsullied, sums it up)
Ideal scenario, for me, would be someone like Ridley Scott with a budget of 200 mil.$, doing a series... Yeah, utopia.
Positive aspect - people are reading the books afterwards
Negative aspect - who the fuck cares what I think if it's successful, so it's my problem anyways
Work in the morning, can't make actual thing, so bullet pointed thoughts:
tl;dr - I loved it, bizarre editing and writing choices, sad have to wait.
-Vader
-Vader
nice review vader.
Upon second viewing:
I also value the writers skill in giving Hodor great character development.
Upon second viewing:
Very nice finale, should have lasted longer, regarding the observations on the top of the page, I thought about reading the books at some point but each book being at least 900 pages, it just turned me off right away.
I like not knowing, and not having any expectations for this, did the same thing with Harry Potter, LOTR (although I did read The Hobbit, but reading the books AFTER seeing it strikes me as a bad idea, you already have the visual representation that exists). That way, I don't whine when there are missing chunks of the story or anything.
One thing that I notice since the first season is that I couldn't care less about Daenerys and her whole storyline, ever since the beginning, everytime the show cuts to her, it kind of takes me out of the show, I don't like the character, Emilia Clarke is decent, but not great, I did like the dragon BBQ though, that was exciting. If anything, I just hope her and her troops get slaughtered once she gets where she is supposed to go (is she supposed to go through the North or directly in King's Landing?)
The White Walkers is exciting me, I like this bit of heroic fantasy, this underlying threat, I hope there's a huge battle with them at some point.
I like not knowing, and not having any expectations for this, did the same thing with Harry Potter, LOTR (although I did read The Hobbit, but reading the books AFTER seeing it strikes me as a bad idea, you already have the visual representation that exists). That way, I don't whine when there are missing chunks of the story or anything.
One thing that I notice since the first season is that I couldn't care less about Daenerys and her whole storyline, ever since the beginning, everytime the show cuts to her, it kind of takes me out of the show, I don't like the character, Emilia Clarke is decent, but not great, I did like the dragon BBQ though, that was exciting. If anything, I just hope her and her troops get slaughtered once she gets where she is supposed to go (is she supposed to go through the North or directly in King's Landing?)
The White Walkers is exciting me, I like this bit of heroic fantasy, this underlying threat, I hope there's a huge battle with them at some point.
