I liked the final battle at Winterfell. Not sure if this Sub absolutely hates season 8 and everything in it but I like the battle. It had more than a fair share of poor and braindead moments but I still really enjoyed it.
Episode 3, I loved the beginning of the battle it's honestly one of my favorite moments in the show. The hundred thousand dothraki riders with flaming swords running out to fight was badass, the uneasy feeling and sense of inevitable doom was nailed perfectly. I was in complete shock when Edd got gutted when he saved Sam, but I thought most of the fights scenes were handled well. When they set the trench on fire that's when shit was unbelievably dumb, not only do they stop using the catapults super early in but while the fire is going on the undead stand still. Yes, the undead don't move a fucking muscle, and not once did anyone do anything of use I mean they just fucking sat there and stared at them. They weren't moving at all there was no reason for them not to just unload arrows into this unmissable undead wall, I mean you would have killed hundreds by the time the fire was put out. Maybe I'm forgetting something but idk why they didn't do this.
And what made it worse is when they get to the wall and are climbing up the wall they just wait. They don't have spears to stab them or rocks or even tar to cover the walls or pour on them and light them on fire. I mean if you covered them in tar or something and lit them on fire you would have a giant mound of fire against your wall which would kill the undead on exposure. But instead they let them pile up then they start to attack. Maybe I'm looking at it in a stupid way or I just don't understand anything but I feel like they could have made so many different defences that would have worked better than what they had. I understand they were put on a time frame but I feel like they still could have done more.
Throughout the entire thing I absolutely loved it, I thought the fights were absolutely amazing seeing Arya just fuck them up with that dual spear was cool af. Watching Tormund Jorah and Greyworm just pile up body's was awesome. Maybe I'm completely wrong about the defense but that's the only part that really ruined the battle for me. Honestly my favorite part and one of the best parts in the entire show was when little Lyanna Mormont charged the Giant with her axe and got picked up, even when she was getting crushed and literally getting her chest caved in she pulled out a knife and killed the giant.
Now something I just couldn't stand was the crypts. Like holy fucking shit man that is the dumbest shit ever. Literally no one thought to put 5-10 guards down there? Not even because of the coffins but just in case some undead got in. But Instead they leave it undefended and that resulted in half the people in there being killed. If there were guards then I definitely missed them. Another issue I had was when Dany sweps in to save Jon when the Night king rose the undead. "oH Let Me JusT Sit HeRe wHilE HunDreDS oF UnDEad STaB aNd CuT My DRagOn" like that was honestly one of the most brain dead moments in the episode, you're literally on the ground and you let hundreds of undead get up and stab and skin your dragon as you keep it on the ground. She didn't try to fly away she fell off and then the dragon was able to fly away and shake them off. This ended up killed the main man Jorah Mormont.
Then we get to Theon and his Ironborn defense. To protect one of the most important people in all of Westoros you give his defense to Theon and like 13 Ironborn? They put in alot of work but like the Zombies are on top of them and they still use their Bows no swords or nothing. Theon clears them all out only to be surrounded by like 500 more and every white walker and then he just charges at the most powerful being in the castle. Like what the fuck, why would you charge him at all? Why would you literally run to into the center of the enemy's forces? As much as I loved Arya her killing the Night king felt lame, there was no big battle with him no clash of swords or near death moment's just a quick hand switch and stab to the stomach. She could have killed him but not like that.
They killed my favorite character Jorah so I'm absolutely devastated but he went out like a Boss. So did Beric I think he went out fucking awesome, saved Arya killed undead and bought them some time to get a gap in between them.
But overall as negative as this post seems and I know I mentioned it twice but I actually really loved the battle. It has it's fair share of braindead moments but it was probably one of the coolest battles in the entire show. They killed a lot of my favorites some went out badass some were shocking and some felt lame. But besides the defense and brain dead moments I did enjoy it and as crazy as this is to say if the books ever have a invasion I would want it to be similar to this in terms of army size and battles. I really liked it but it's so fucking rushed it's insane. I just know that the last episodes are gonna have to be really bad in order to fit anything involving a battle for the iron throne in.
Submitted July 29, 2022 at 11:51PM by KingDennis2 https://ift.tt/LOEcbDi
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