Television Game of Thrones (TV) • The watch has ended
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
I'd prefer Pizza king, and it could have been settled in an eating contest, giants not allowed.
I genuinely don't though - for a start, i'm not sure where I've been overly feminist?
I have literally zero problem with the Dothraki and Unsulllied dying - they are literally the best armies they have, it makes perfect sense for them to be your main lines of defense. The fact that it's the brown folks dying for the white folks is amusing to me personally - but I don't think its problematic in any way shape or form - nor have I stated it to be such.
The only time I have ever had a slight issue with that sort of thing in this show was when Danerys was being held a loft by either the Dothraki/Unsullied (can't remember which) a few seasons ago... but yeah, thats it.
Totally my thoughts as well. "What the hell is this fecking shit show? Snow already botched the battle of the bastards like a total noob, is there no military strategist in his ranks?"
You have a huge army and an elite array of soldiers with shields and spears. How do you not use the unsullied to block the charge of the undead, like they did with the retreat and then use the Dothraki to flank them? I guess the dramatic effect in this show out-rules any military strategic sense.
Cool.
Clips with Brienne, Jamie and others were a bit.. Strange. Whits just pushing them around and them dying for 10 minutes and in the end not dying. Less I speak about Sam scenes the better.
I took the advice of some people who said, just turn up the brightness. Well I did, which makes it still weirdly dark, but also very low quality.
They needed to cut a bit of FX I get it, but telling people to get a better monitor is silly. As you can see if you look on the General's history, I bought a rather high tech TV a while ago and it was still dark as feck.
They needed to cut a bit of FX I get it, but telling people to get a better monitor is silly. As you can see if you look on the General's history, I bought a rather high tech TV a while ago and it was still dark as feck.
Ah I've had this problem before. Did you switch it on?
I’m not sure why you’re apologising. I thought the brown people comments were funny. Did Grey Worm (think that’s his name?) survive anyway? If not, that’s just one brown person left standing. But she’s very very fit, so that’s ok.
No, I never do, it's bad for the environment.
Wow, you should become a screenwriter. Excellent ideas.
I just found all the "Arya is a Mary Sue and this is feminist propaganda" threads on reddit.
God I love the internet.
God I love the internet.
Nobody is apologising for anything since there's nothing to apologise for.
Not only did he clearly apologise but you responded to his apology in a fairly shitty way.
Which is a pity. This place needs more people willing to apologise. Even if there’s no need to.
I was really hoping Jon would survive the undead dragon blast, something something being born of ice and fire. Give him a heroic moment slaying the dragon instead of it just dropping dead.
I'm sorry you feel that way.
Actually Jon being Jon has basically gotten two of Dany's dragons killed now. If I were her I'd be wondering why she's helping such an idiot.
Totally agree.
It would have made the episode so much better if the defenders hat and resemblance of military strategy employed and still lost the fight because the Nigh King employed some of his elite soldiers and his dragon in a better way. The way it went non of them actually did anything because the defenders where unable to even hold the foot soldiers at bay because Daeny or Jon decided it was a great way to waste their cavalry in the first 30 seconds of the fight. Overall the battle scenes in this show really are starting to annoy me. How is it that non of the writers can even bother to put some thought into how a smart battle scene could be played out and still be engaging, nail biter material?
What did he apologise for exactly? I certainly didn't see any need, I'm not sure why you think he should even without one. That seems counter productive.
And no, what this place needs is fair discussion. Which is exactly why there's no point or resolution in this particular one.
But what do I know.
The Manchester traffic sign person is at it again...
The Manchester traffic sign person is at it again...
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I was thinking whilst watching it, why didn’t they bombard the dead whilst they were stopped in a line at the fire?
Why no burning barrels etc pushed down towards them?
I was thinking whilst watching it, why didn’t they bombard the dead whilst they were stopped in a line at the fire?
Why no burning barrels etc pushed down towards them?
I wanted Ser Jorah to survive and stab Jon in the face. I think yours would have been more likely to happen though.
Maybe that's why I'm quite satisfied with this episode; Jorah was my favourite character and Theon was in my top 5 as well.
Very frustrating. Who builds trebuchet and puts them in front of your foot troops?
Thank you for kind words.
If only Sam would’ve died. I will cheer when someone lops his head off.
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Sam is the storyteller though, he can’t die
Now if you could only convince your son to swap Ajax for United
Theon went down like a champ. I would have preferred Jorah to have gone down fighting a WW though and having a big finale showing his skills, but he died a good death.
Which on reflection is still my biggest problem with this episode. Why did we not get the best living fighters fighting the actual Walkers? Surely seeing Brienne, Jaime, Mormant or anyone else having a real fight showcasing just how great they are would only have added to it and even taken some of the cost away!
It's genuinely astonishing. This is a character with literally hours of development and training, so much so that people were complaining about the amount of time we had to watch her get hit with sticks and be blind and sell cockles and so on, who is utterly established as a magic super assassin and she's still a Mary Sue.
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I actually found turning my brightness down made it look a lot better. I have an oled tv though so it can handle contrast and dark images really well.
Does look a pretty good match too be fair. Could be him.Some are saying this guy was Maester Luwin.
But he's not a Stark so would he have been put to rest in the crypts?
I read that OLED tellies are by far the best for watching something like this. Better blacks, apparently.
I have an OLED telly and yes, the blacks are really black, you see almost nothing.
My issue is not with the episode, it was generally quite well done. It's with the overall series arc now with Cersei as the big bad. She's a compelling character but honestly it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to have as her the overall big bad of the series given we have been talking about Winter is Coming for ages now.
Had they shown her making her way towards him, people would be moaning about her not dying in the attempt or whatever.
They also telegraphed it in Arya's conversation with Melisandre, about how Beric had served his purpose to the Lord of Light by saving Arya, and the bit about shutting eyes forever. When Melisandre says "and blue eyes", Arya gets a look of determination/realisation, and runs off shortly after.
Mary Sue doesn't actually mean a woman who just got given major powers, it more means a woman who was made more powerful to fill a role. There is a male equivalent too.
Which of course is what she is, but not in the way these morons mean it, and certainly not how they've misinterpreted it
Despite wanting the killing to be better, anyone who gives a feck that it was any gender/skin colour role than ended up killing the NK seriously needs a look in the mirror. I for one am glad it was the badass ninja assassin, and not the lucky do gooder or the pretty queen who can't fight for shit.
Which is a complaint I understand.
I think the fact it's called Game of Thrones on tv plays a part vs the book saga name. I expect that to be reversed if it ever finishes.