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May. 5th, 2019 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msarachnidSo I'm learning that I'm really bad at blogging, specifically on dreamwidth. On other sites like tumblr and twitter I don't have to actually create any content, just reblog what other people have already done. Even on DA you can favorite things. Here, though, I have to create my own posts and wow I'm bad at that. I have nothing to say, I guess. Nothing good anyway, unless you want a constant string of complaints about my dread and insecurities, but I don't really...want to do that. Not all the time.
I'm rewatching 8x3 on my laptop with the brightness turned all the way up, and I kind of appreciate the total darkness now because it disguised all the weird cgi. The lighting and colors are fantastic though, I absolutely feel like its a cold and snowy winter night and I should crack open the window to let some cold air in. The visuals are amazing, with the fire lighting up all the Dothrakis' swords and then blinking out as they're overtaken. The lack of a lot of dialogue is also very good, everyone is too busy trying not to die to say anything about it. The whole setup was so tense, it felt like a horror movie in the best way. Everyone's fear was amazing. So was the music! That montage accompanied by soft piano music near the end was beautiful.
I am living for Clegane's anxiety attack at being surrounded by fire, and how Beric and Arya drag him out of it (knowingly or not). I also love how he just picks her up under one arm and runs away. They have such a fun tentative friendship.
It's so funny how Bran just like. Leaves in the middle of the battle to fly around. It's not even like he's gathering information on what the Night King is doing, he's just Gone. And when he was present he just sat there and did nothing, except reassure Theon a little. And Theon only brought one bucket of arrows, as if that was going to be enough? Theon was so cute and sad, he was only trying his best. Theon didn't have to charge the Night King like that, and the Night King didn't have to break his speak and stab him with the jagged end. That's just excessive evil.
Then Jon really though he could run up in the middle of that field and stab the king, despite having nowhere to hide and being surrounded by bodies waiting to reanimate. And, what was he trying to do when he screamed at that ice dragon? It was kind of cheesy how Jon and then Dany got saved at the last minute, but boy was it fun seeing Dany so scared in the middle of the field when suddenly she was a lone without a dragon. (I wonder what she'll do no, how she'll cope without Jorah. She did send him away once but he wasn't dead then.)
It's so great when little Lyanna Mormont takes out the biggest fucking wight, good for her. She stabs him and he just powers down. Too bad she's dead now.
Why were the dragons flying around in the clouds all fight. Why didn't they get lower to see where they were, and why did Jon also have to be on a dragon, couldn't Dany have just commanded the other one.
There are a lot of unanswered questions now actually. One of which is: why have the Starks buried their dead under their house for hundreds of years, when they know what happens to the dead in winter. I love the idea of a crypt and of having statues of your dead family going back centuries, but they still could have done that if they'd also burned the bodies and kept the ashes.
I'm not unhappy that so few characters died, but I am worried. This would have been a good place to die, and now maybe they won't get good deaths. It does seem pretty unlikely that so many survived, though. Of course i don't want any of them to die, not really, but it is only episode 3 and there are 3 more to go. I guess the story is saying the night king wasn't the big bad of the series? Death is unavoidable but a bad leader isn't.
The end just seemed so easy. I think that one bodyguard noticed something right before Arya did her big badass move but did nothing, lol.
It's going to be a massive cleanup.
You know I've never done a cut before, not even really on lj. I think I did one, ever. Then again, I made maybe three entries.
I'm rewatching 8x3 on my laptop with the brightness turned all the way up, and I kind of appreciate the total darkness now because it disguised all the weird cgi. The lighting and colors are fantastic though, I absolutely feel like its a cold and snowy winter night and I should crack open the window to let some cold air in. The visuals are amazing, with the fire lighting up all the Dothrakis' swords and then blinking out as they're overtaken. The lack of a lot of dialogue is also very good, everyone is too busy trying not to die to say anything about it. The whole setup was so tense, it felt like a horror movie in the best way. Everyone's fear was amazing. So was the music! That montage accompanied by soft piano music near the end was beautiful.
I am living for Clegane's anxiety attack at being surrounded by fire, and how Beric and Arya drag him out of it (knowingly or not). I also love how he just picks her up under one arm and runs away. They have such a fun tentative friendship.
It's so funny how Bran just like. Leaves in the middle of the battle to fly around. It's not even like he's gathering information on what the Night King is doing, he's just Gone. And when he was present he just sat there and did nothing, except reassure Theon a little. And Theon only brought one bucket of arrows, as if that was going to be enough? Theon was so cute and sad, he was only trying his best. Theon didn't have to charge the Night King like that, and the Night King didn't have to break his speak and stab him with the jagged end. That's just excessive evil.
Then Jon really though he could run up in the middle of that field and stab the king, despite having nowhere to hide and being surrounded by bodies waiting to reanimate. And, what was he trying to do when he screamed at that ice dragon? It was kind of cheesy how Jon and then Dany got saved at the last minute, but boy was it fun seeing Dany so scared in the middle of the field when suddenly she was a lone without a dragon. (I wonder what she'll do no, how she'll cope without Jorah. She did send him away once but he wasn't dead then.)
It's so great when little Lyanna Mormont takes out the biggest fucking wight, good for her. She stabs him and he just powers down. Too bad she's dead now.
Why were the dragons flying around in the clouds all fight. Why didn't they get lower to see where they were, and why did Jon also have to be on a dragon, couldn't Dany have just commanded the other one.
There are a lot of unanswered questions now actually. One of which is: why have the Starks buried their dead under their house for hundreds of years, when they know what happens to the dead in winter. I love the idea of a crypt and of having statues of your dead family going back centuries, but they still could have done that if they'd also burned the bodies and kept the ashes.
I'm not unhappy that so few characters died, but I am worried. This would have been a good place to die, and now maybe they won't get good deaths. It does seem pretty unlikely that so many survived, though. Of course i don't want any of them to die, not really, but it is only episode 3 and there are 3 more to go. I guess the story is saying the night king wasn't the big bad of the series? Death is unavoidable but a bad leader isn't.
The end just seemed so easy. I think that one bodyguard noticed something right before Arya did her big badass move but did nothing, lol.
It's going to be a massive cleanup.
You know I've never done a cut before, not even really on lj. I think I did one, ever. Then again, I made maybe three entries.
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Date: 2019-05-06 03:01 am (UTC)I also just rewatched this up (bootleg higher resolution file) and it was so much better being able to *see* what was going on, but yes, some of the tactics made very little sense. Why send the Dothraki out into the darkness when they could have just waited for the dead army to come to them when they could see what they were doing? What was Ghost doing for the whole episode? Are we going to find out what Bran was doing when he was seemingly just flying around doing nothing? (I want to believe that there was a point to some of this stuff.)
Agreed that any further deaths will feel wasted. To die defending humanity from the army of the dead is noble. To die over which queen sits on the Iron Throne feels kind of pointless. Like, I hate Cersei, but if I were Tormund or any of the other northern characters, I'd have no interest in risking my life to depose her.
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Date: 2019-05-06 05:36 am (UTC)