Really reminds me of the shinanigans we have been putting up with for the past decade with WoW.
I guess the rule of cool is not as great as we thought.
Game of Thrones season 1 to season 8 could be a case study.
As I watch the episodes progress I keep getting the same feeling that I get when dealing with WoW.
Agreed. I feel like they started writing BfA at the height of GoTâs popularity hence big shocking moments like âSylvanas burns Teldrassil oh my what a shock.â Now we are learning that what makes those shocking moments meaningful is the careful, thoughtful lead into them. Otherwise itâs transparently manipulative.
Bold strategy Cotton, letâs see if it pays off.
Youâre not really explaining what that feeling is or what the shenanigans youâre talking about are.
They are trying to re-create the shock of the Red Wedding while not grasping why it was a big shock in the books.
GRRM is a hack anyway; book 4 wavers highly in quality, book 5 is trash. Very little of his work ought to be emulated or looked up to.
I⊠I like this seasonâŠ
Same. Ep 4 was my breaking point (and for probably everyone else) in terms of âthe writing has become absolute garbageâ, but itâs still entertaining. Thatâs all that really matters, I think.
Thankfully, at least the show will be over in a couple weeks. Just catering to a really low tier of fan (no offense to them, it could be worse). Whereas the sad state of Warcraft will likely slog on longer.
I really hate what D&D have been doing to Tyrionâs character. Itâs one thing to villain bat established characters like Blizzard often does, itâs another entirely to reduce their established intelligence down to a shadow of its former self because you need forced drama to get from Point A to the leaked ending.
I did feel a bit like I was bad at watching TV after Sundayâs episode. I remember that scene with the Starbucks cup and I didnt even notice it.
I remember thinking âawww poor Khaleesi. She lost much of her army protecting the thankless brats in the North, and now she is being side lined.â
I was watching that scene feeling all bad for her.
Then when I woke up, I saw all the hubbub about the Starbucks cup. I would have felt really perceptive had I noticed it as I watched it. Now I feel like I am not paying attention enough.
I kind of felt this was inevitable when I found out they would run out of book long before they ran out of seasons.
Ontop of that, they were always up against the numerical odds. You can probably name on one hand the number of shows that have improved as seasons progressed, instead of the opposite.
i donât really mind rule of cool in the fantasy worlds that i am interested. (like gandalfs charge directly into pikes with cavalry)
But holy crap 8x03 was just incredibly bad, it wasnât even good rule of cool.
The pointless suicidal doratkhi charge (also,their weapons were also dragonglass? meh) artillery only used once and UNPROTECTED.
unsullied infront of the trenchs FACING THE DEAD IN OPEN FIELD WHEN THEY HAVE A FREAKING CASTLE.
not having all their walls full of archersâŠ
Then we have the random arya jump.
i donât really care that it was arya, i care that we didnât have an epic climatic battle between jon (who was yelling to a dragon) and the NK who was stupid enough to expose himself instead of letting his army kill them all before showing up.
not even speaking of 8x04, all are turned into mindless idiots, dany ignores all her advisors and gets ambushed by a gigantic fleet that nobody saw for a reason (and really, not sending scouts?)
and like i say⊠i was incredibly disappointed in how they killed the NK, 8 years⊠for thisâŠ(and the NK was planning his invasion for 8 k yearsâŠ)
so i will just remember this EPIC scene.
RIP NK, killed by a random jump.
I honestly canât imagine why any of you would be upset. That small girl with little muscle or reach trained for more than 1 whole year to become the greatest swordswoman in westeros and able to wolverine healing factor from knife wounds. Not to forget all the magic we often forget she has.
Arya-chan is special, sheâs a protagonist, unbound by the same rules as the chumps who trained their whole lives, building muscle and technique.
I can understand the Unsullied being within the trenches infront of the walls. At least a little. I can understand Arya killing the Night King.
But the Dothraki charge seems totally insane. I would have used the Horses for food or kept them ready south of Winterfell for an evacuation. Or kept them for reserve against the Lannisters. It seemed a terrible waste to send them in like that.
It was purely for spectacle. And that made it a bit hollow. Which comes back to WoW. Rastakhan had so much build up and anticipation. Then when he is introduced, he is just a stupid leader of a failing kingdom to be killed off by the Alliance ⊠to stop Zandalar from joining the Horde? Or something?
He was always a leader of a failing kingdom, hence why he even allowed Zul to attack Pandaria. I also always expect he would end up as a boss, although I expect him to die as a penultimate boss for Zul.
Back on topic. I think GoT final season is fine, from what I have read of potential spoilers I think people will all end up crying at the end of all this.
Man⊠episode 4 broke me. Why would they not send scouts? Now everyone one is taking about how Dany is now mad, which is ridiculous better sheâs nothing like her father, if anything that Cersei (who I liked up until 804). The writers could have stretched this out because itâs all happening a bit to fast asmr theyâve made Tyrion a complete moron and Varys a snake (although I can seperate the writers from the on screen events if that makes sense) . It took at least 24 hours to get over that episode emotionally. I probably wonât be able to watch this season ever again once itâs over. Too many emotions.
The whole show sucks bro from season 1 onwards.
Me too dude, me tooâŠ
One thing I feel about the two that I consider very similar. Westeros and Azeroth seem more ⊠empty, (perhaps not so much in Azeroth as in Westeros thanks to the side quests), but in the matter of mainquest I feel exactly in the same place, an unseen spectator watching a novel of protagonists that only shows portions the world where they are and conveniently, to focus more and more on them.
For me they wanted to give tolkien level of epicness and Peter Jackson movie sensation, but all I got was⊠ââ who made this strategy? this cannot be so bad can it?ââ⊠and the dothraki are gone, a beautiful scene with flaming and araques( curved sword used by the dothraki) but its beauty pale in comparison to the ride of the rohirrim in both films specially minas tirithâs ride.
the trenches were to close to the walls, these could be a final line of defense but they should had another layer outwards to protect the first charge, alas the whole battle was a mess and only the dragon scenes were good.
Rhaegalâs death was a hit to my heart since dragons are my favorite mitological creature, but not because he died but how it was such anticlimactic. gross.