In a show with so many characters, one of the most emotional deaths was the guy with one word of dialogue. That's why Game of Thrones is so great.
What in the actual f*ck.
I'm a reasonable man, I realize I've been crapping on D&D even more than usual this season but I really do have to give them props for doing exactly what they set out to do. They hoped to subvert our expectations and they did just wonderfully in that regards.
We expected all of that buildup over the years to actually amount to something that at the very least passes for a presentable series finale but instead, we got an incoherent, steaming pile of shit. Expectations subverted!
We expected all of that character development to actually result in a beautiful pay-off that respects the journey of self-discovery each and every one of our beloved characters went through to get to where they are now but instead, we got a painful, disrespectful cycle of character regression. Expectations subverted!
We expected the final season of this show to keep us at the edge of our seats with thrilling writing that didn't subvert our expectations for the sake of subverting our expectations via low-quality shock value-seeking writing, but to introduce plot twists that make sense within the overall narrative of the story but instead, we got CW-level predictable, cringe material. Expectations subverted!
I get it. I really do. GRRM let them down by not getting the books ready in time and so they had to improvise away from his influence, but this? This? For a long while, Game of Thrones lived up to the slogan of its parent network, it wasn't just TV, it was something different, something unique and now to have to see it come to this... it's nothing short of disappointing.
On the bright side though, at least this episode didn't suck completely. The acting, score and cinematography were all on point, so I guess it's nice that I didn't walk out of it having appreciated absolutely nothing about it.
So why do I even bother anymore? I honestly could not tell you, though it's probably a mixture of masochism and a faint sliver of hope that they won't flush our collective investment into this series down the drain by the end of it, just one more episode dammit.
Should we pretend this season never happened?
Great episode, things are moving a nice pace. Wish they stop killing off the Direwovles though , that was hard to watch and especially to listen too.
"Send the dothraki first since they are barbarians"
"Dragons are our heavy artillery let's keep them flying in circles without doing NOTHING for say 2/3 of the battle. Even if they all stop before a flaming trench and sit there nearly aligned for tenths of minutes. We can not win the easy way this must be EPIC"
"It's a massive invasion of Savage, quick and merciless undead but we like to walk orderly and calmly in libraries"
"By the way, libraries are still dead silent while people are being ripped to shreds outside"
"Hey, look, Arya slipped past 4.000 undead and learned Rey's air saber trick"
"Every major character gets to live even after being surrounded by dead. (jorah and theon were already half dead - oh yeah, theon, seems Arya waited in the shadows while you were impalled too. Go team.".
An incredible technical achievement. Roger Deakins's cinematography elevates this decent war story to something that is one of a kind. There is hardly anytime to catch your breath. The score is fantastic. I need to see the making of documentary.
Seeing this again it is still very impressive. The story is fine but the way we are always with Schofield and Blake with almost no relief makes this super tense. The score really is great.
My name ia Hunter Zolomon and I am the highest Man Alive. When I was a child I saw my father shooting my mother. My father went to prison for her murder. Then I went to an orphanage because nobody wanted me. Then an accident made me the impossible. To the outside World I am an ordinary hero whose name is Jay Garrick, but in secret I kill time remnants to mentally confuse Others and find speedsters like me. One day, I'll find Barry Allen and I'll race him. I am Zoom
My name is Barry Allen, and I am the dumbest Man Alive. To the Earth-2 people I am an ordinary speedster, but secretly with the help of Dr Wells I gave my speed to Zoom and became a normal guy. I hunted down the man who killed Jay Garrick, but in doing so, he took Caitlin as a prisoner and my speed was gone. And I am the only one dumb Enough to do it. I am the Dumb
I guess they spent all the CGI budget for the season already. RIP Shiva, I cared more about your death then the 20 kingdom people that died too.
Those windows won't hurt anybody now. Seriously wtf were they shooting at?
This show turned into shit...and yet, I smile.
This is an absolute failure on all fronts and the fact it is so highly rated disturbs me. Easily the worst episode of this show, and this has singlehandedly destroyed any remaining faith I had for the rest of this series. What a disgrace.
I was ok with the poor character development when the TV series departed from the books. I used to like thinking it was a kind of alternate universe from the "real" one.
They struggled on TV to show daenerys as a spoiled and selfish girl instead of the woman who was learning to have patience and wielding power in a so goodhearted way it asked a high price from her in the books.
But nothing could justify her acts on this episode. After their utter and final SURRENDER she says "guess what I'm gonna burn them all". Not even aiming to Central tower. Just make an open air barbecue of the city. The breaker of chains, mother of the slaves, making all peasants BURN. There is no plot excuse. 7 years of character building thrown out the window.
This is not the only problem in this episode. Arya is useless but survives inferno and has a magical horse appearing. Cersei dies in the most disappointing way. Euron just happens to swim to the EXACT LOCATION Jamie is.
Frankly I would not be surprised if D&D choose to end it next week explaining that all of it was a westworld simulation experienced by androids. Because the Deus Ex Machina limit has been breached a long time ago, and they keep forcing it.
The whole Neegan thing is just not believable, and this episode made that more clear. The amount of people that would view him with pure hatred would be off the charts, and unlike other fictional bad guys who act like this, he keeps no security around him 95% of the time. The guy would have been dead 1000 times over in a faithfully realized TWD universe. Hell, I've hardly got off my couch for the last 7 years and I could have killed him at least 20 times in this episode alone, not even counting the obviously missed opportunity by a battle hardened and hate filled teen in the early minutes. Also the Neegan performance was even more one-note-wondery than usual tonight. This show is really losing me now, I'm sad to say.
I hope Darhk destroys the world so that I don't feel like I need to keep watching this show
Who is writing this crap? It's absolute hot garbage.
For example the garbage truck attack on the savior compound... Who were the snipers covering Daryl from? How were the walkers supposed to get in with the garbage truck still in the hole? Why was it gone from the hole when they are seen entering?
Or, when Rick had the garbage patch kids' leader. There was no threat there, the zombie was decapitated and Rick had no weapon on her. Why wouldn't one of the 20 people surrounding him with guns just kill him?
I'm surprised people are still confused about the ending of the episode.
Grisha says that Humanity has not perished and there are people outside of the walls living in luxury.
There is a whole modern world out there (1940 era) the people inside the walls don't know about technologies such as cameras, etc.
Subtle hints were given since the beginning of anime:
1. Black liquid drank by Reiner, Berthold and Zeke (coffee)
2. They call Ape titan as "Beast titan" because they don't know about apes or monkeys. Ymir says: "What's that monkey boi upto" to Reiner in around Season 2 and Eren gets confused about what were they talking about.
3. Ymir knows about the ancient language.
4. Grisha comes from the outside, at the end of Season 3 Part 1.
5. The baseball stance of Zeke in "Perfect Game" episode. People inside walls don't know about Baseball.
6. Erwin's father and Erwin questioning if people existed outside the walls.
7. Reiner and Bertholdt want to go back to their homeland.
and a lot more other things that I cannot recall at the moment.
Well Daenerys is nuts apparently, who would 've thought? From father to daughter, 7 seasons was trying to convince us otherwise..
sooo this was shit. The fact that everyone survived a battle no one should have is pure bullshit. and by everyone I mean the main characters.
"My first kill!"
Oh God, I never realized it's really Eren's first titan kill :'D
Another episode full of garbage writting and stupid choices. Worst last season ever.
What a shitty episode. They could have easily helped Shiva.
Shiva didn't have to die! Dafuq...
I really dont understand how people can still justify dumb teenagers just being dumb teenagers in a setting in which they would have died a long, long time ago. I mean cmon its been 5-7 years since the apocalypse and we're expected to believe that there are still people that would sneak out of their zombie hord proff camps during the night for some fun as if they were sneaking out of their houses to go to a party?
Talking Titans? Intelligent Titans? Creepy hidden Titans in the walls? I already knew this season was going to blow my mind,
I just did not expect it to make my whole body explode.
Ugh, young Bruce Wayne is a bloody moron.
Ugh, young Bruce Wayne is a bloody moron.
Barry was confused. So confused with Laurel's death that he forgot he lost his speed in The Flash's episode. It could also be due to the CW breaks. Barry is confused because of those breaks that I kinda get it
I guess he was not a fast thinker.
What a weird episode.
What a weird plan that apparently noone saw coming? How weird noone decided to just shoot Negan in the nogging? What a weird bunch of speeches and how weird people appeared to be riled up by something so lackluster? How weird that Negan thought bringing out that one guy from that one place would work? How weird some people all of a sudden don't seem to be so appetizing to a horde of zombies. How weird there was apparently only one side to this war? How weird to shoot at windows, to blow up just a courtyard? How weird all those cars could drive out of that area? Weird flashforwards or dreamsequences. Weird aging that only seems to affect Rick.
Weird that the writers of this dreck seem to keep getting away with all this contrived bullshit. There was almost no suspense, no ROAR moment... what a mess. I don't get how Fear the Walking Dead can be so drastically different and more realistic than this. I'm sure there will be good episodes this season but I'm getting a bit tired of the stupidity of the characters and events and the way these episodes play out. I'm so annoyed with this episode and I haven't even listed all it's flaws (including the unlogical nonsense I usually tend to ignore... You are holding an automatic rifle and all you can say is "what?" when your archnemesis tells you you're gonna shit your pants?" COME ON!!! At least let the magical priest lose his weapon on the way?)
Also weird "everyone" seems to love it btw.
The Felicity - Oliver Situation gets worse every Episode.
If the actress quit the show - why didn't you kill her off (The Character - not the Actress)?
I really liked Felicity- now she acts just like a spoiled fuckup teen which runs at the first sign of conflict... I hate when i start to hate my favorite characters!
Smallvilles Lana-Clark solution back in the day was way better - i nearly cried when Lana absorbed the cryptonite. THAT is how you let a good beloved character go - This is just teenage romance crap
I hope ?Thea's? funeral will at least bring them back together!
Objectively this show is not good. Bad writing, plotholes and such but I just love every second of it.
And now with that ending I very much look forward to next season.
