WhatIfGodWasALeaf
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Episode 4 leaked online.
Game of Thrones (S7)
- Thread starter CarltonTheBear
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WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
Hacking is bad guys. But there's no way in hell I'm not watching this when I get home.
No spoilers until it legit airs, but uh yeah this was a good one.
bustaheims
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Very satisfying episode. Very satisfying, indeed.
Guru Tugginmypuddah
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FIRE!
I even watched it again since the leaked copy was in crappy quality. Such a great episode.
Kin
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Obviously this show going forward, with very few episodes left to go, is going to have a tricky balancing act trying to cram in all of the promised spectacle that some people seem to really enjoy with meaningful conclusions to the personal and larger storylines. This week I think they very much delivered on the former, sort of underwhelmed on the latter. The Stark stuff up north was nice although a bit repetitive(Bran's a weirdo now, people sure do change after 10 years, etc) and I liked Tyrion finally getting dinged up for being the Randy Carlyle of Westeros the last few weeks.
As for the big battle, like I said, obviously the budget HBO is giving them is getting well used and there was a lot of neat visual stuff but both for dopey plot reasons(the gold is already at King's Landing? So the most valuable and heaviest stuff they captured they decided not to protect with the army?) and for string-pulling reasons I feel like they gave us half a development. It used to be on the show they would just tell us how the battles went and we'd cut to the consequences. Now they're replacing that with 10 minutes or so of Red Shirts(literally in this case) getting set on fire while faking out the death of anyone remotely noteworthy to the plot.
Again, great from a spectacle sense and fun to watch but this felt, in a way, as much an episode of moving chess pieces as the ones with all the walking.
As for the big battle, like I said, obviously the budget HBO is giving them is getting well used and there was a lot of neat visual stuff but both for dopey plot reasons(the gold is already at King's Landing? So the most valuable and heaviest stuff they captured they decided not to protect with the army?) and for string-pulling reasons I feel like they gave us half a development. It used to be on the show they would just tell us how the battles went and we'd cut to the consequences. Now they're replacing that with 10 minutes or so of Red Shirts(literally in this case) getting set on fire while faking out the death of anyone remotely noteworthy to the plot.
Again, great from a spectacle sense and fun to watch but this felt, in a way, as much an episode of moving chess pieces as the ones with all the walking.
Since it was (right-fully) criticized in the last episode, I wanted to point out that I felt Jon and Dany's chemistry (or whatever you'd like to call it) in this one was much better than their first meeting. Maybe the fact that it was just the two of them talking alone instead of being in a throne room with all the expectations that surround them helped them relax a little bit.
herman said:
It was nice to see her character having fun and smiling again (even if it was while sparing with an incredibly dangerous warrior).
herman
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CarltonTheBear said:
Kit talked about the reason the first meeting of elevated expectations appearing super awkward was that he was playing it low-key aroused.
As a teenager in the midst of the brothers of the Night's Watch, his fleeting first flame, Jon Snow basically knows next to nothing about dealing with women who aren't his sisters. So when he shows up in front of a fabled dragoness and sees someone of an age with him and unusually gorgeous, he struggled to remain unflappable, which Davos alludes to this episode.
Danny and Missandei's conversation about Grey Worm being framed as intro to Jon escorting Danny on a cave date (his specialty!) is also layering on the wink-winks and nudge-nudges.