Really liked that one. Good to see they're not afraid to propel things forward. The battle was grand. Not amazing but did the job.

I enjoyed the first two and mixed about this. The battle was a bit cringe and music didn't work. Some of the best GoT battles had no music or slow motion. The whole boar thing was pointless too.

The hunt was a bit dragged but it was okay, the stag part was cool too. Time line was the episode was grand but we're moving along fast.

Quote from: CorkonianHunger on September 06, 2022, 09:29:50 AMI enjoyed the first two and mixed about this. The battle was a bit cringe and music didn't work. Some of the best GoT battles had no music or slow motion.

Battle would have been way better without any of that horrible music score. Amateur hour.

Have to be honest I didn't notice the music at all I just wanted to see the crab guy getting his doing

Quote from: astfgyl on September 06, 2022, 01:15:58 PMI just wanted to see the crab guy getting his doing

But... why even? I mean, who the fuck was he? Some lad in a broken mask living in a cave on a beach, whose exploits we knew nothing about, no idea how he got his power, why people followed him, what kind of mad things he might have gotten up to inside those caves, zero back story, nothing. Fairly fitting they didn't even bother showing him being killed tbh. Apart from the unrealistic sense of tactical timing to the combat, that was probably the main problem with the battle: I just didn't give a shit who won.

Ya, there was fuckall developed with the crab fellas to be fair.

Sure didn't they explain who he was and what he was doing. I didn't know I wanted to see him get his doing until I didn't see it but did we really want to know his whole story for a few seasons and then he gets killed anyway? I didn't.

Actually it being GoT I was thinking that it might end with Matt Smith being eaten by crabs which might have been fun too.

Was that not a setup for him to be back in the king's favour anyway, which is what it looks like to me

For the first proper battle I didn't think there was enough of a lead in to it. I think they should have delved deeper into that part of the world as that wasn't explored in GoT.

That was a better episode. Or maybe I'm just more responsive to a bit of ridin' than I am to a bit of battlin'!  :abbath:

Nice bit of treachery on the cards from here on in it looks like. I've liked every episode so far. Tis grand to have this on the Monday and the LOTR on the Friday

I must be in the minority. I thought it was a bit of a filler ep but ya, probably leading to some nice treachery.

I think it's from the next episode on that there's another time jump?

I hope they don't do too many of those time jumps as it could give me the latter seasons of GoT vibes where everything was a hurry to the sickeningly bad finish line.

There's to be 4 or 5 seasons, covering the guts of 200 years. I'd imagine time jumps and rushing of events will be the norm.

Found this episode terminally dull after the last one, where something actually happened. Again, all very predictable.

Yeah, you were saying about it being predictable already in the first two eps, which I thought showed hope of some intricate intrigues brewing in the background. But, so far that hasn't borne much fruit, except in predictable, or at the very least not at all surprising, ways. There's too much telling followed by the actual doing of the thing told (i.e. in last night's ep... SPOILER Rhaenyra tells her father to do his duty re The Hand; next scene he does it, and a couple of places in earlier episodes where more information than necessary is given earlier than it needs to be, removing surprise that otherwise would have been there). It's like if prior to the Red Wedding, we'd seen loads of dialogues that made it clear something, even if we didn't know exactly what, was going to happen when everyone arrived for the marriage.