Game of Thrones Season 8

[Kurosaki]

Pretty sure night king was Just some dude of no importance

Children of the forest just picked someone

 

[KWeezyXB12]

i kept thinking no way! theyre gonna kill off all these people and the white walkers are gonna rule the world! in a way i was hoping that would happen too. it was definitely intense when the battle started and the dothraki were slaughtered. do you think we will see the night king replaced and the cycle starting all over? i mean what about the babies they took? i dont think we can count them out yet. still salty about the death of the night king. way too much of a bad ass to go out like that

 

[Melissa]

I enjoyed the episode completely. Not one bone of disappointment did I have.

 

[Buloong]

Why send an attack at all when you can't even see what you're attacking?

 

[KWeezyXB12]

i like how the catapults were in the front and they ceased fire lol

 

[mean dad]

 

[SFMCjohn]

enjoyed this review of E3, and the reader comments:

The night was dark and — from what we could see of it — full of terrors ...

“Game of Thrones” is a series that speaks visually as much as it does through dialogue. After last week’s outstanding “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” — almost entirely a series of conversations — “The Long Night” did its talking through image. Too often, what it had to say was mumblemurmurmumble.

But there were also images that absolutely sang. And those were scenes that used the darkness to a purpose — not as a shroud, but as a physical presence ...

Was ‘Game of Thrones’ Too Dark on Sunday? Yes and No

may need to try private/incognito to view ...

 

[sprorchid]

Cheap as in lazy writing. He manages to catch her during a sneak attack but can't stop her from dropping the blade and stabbing him. Listen, I can overlook all the other fan service like how most of the heroes had their backs to a wall buried in undead and yet somehow survive, but I'm still pretty pissed how this scene played out. Arya the night king slayer while Jon was playing hide and seek with a dead dragon. GTFO here!

What would have satisfied you for the Night King final fight sequence?

Or did you want the Night King to live, to kill Cersei later?

 

[Bay Arean]

Can one of you more Thrones-educated tell me about her necklace and why she shriveled up and died without it? And is she from one of the major families in the story or whut? Or direct me somewhere to find out?

 

[SuperMike]

Can one of you more Thrones-educated tell me about her necklace and why she shriveled up and died without it? And is she from one of the major families in the story or whut? Or direct me somewhere to find out?

Last season (or was it the season before?) it was revealed that Mel is actually a decrepit old hag and that the necklace she wears keeps her appearance up. We find this out via a somewhat unsatisfying nude scene.

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[Cyclesuzy]

Can one of you more Thrones-educated tell me about her necklace and why she shriveled up and died without it? And is she from one of the major families in the story or whut? Or direct me somewhere to find out?

In S6(?) she takes off the necklace for the night and turns into a crone. It's the source of her power, whether from the Lord of Light or otherwise. Without it she's weak and apparently (like looking at Dorian Grey's portrait) dies.

 

[weasel]

Except for...Maybe she was um, hiding it

 

[Hooli]

Except for...Maybe she was um, hiding it

Don’t want to think just where she was hiding her necklace...

 

[Bay Arean]

Don’t want to think just where she was hiding her necklace...

You guys are the best.

But just like me, I guess she withered later from bein in the bath too long according to previous post...

 

[Cali]

Last season (or was it the season before?) it was revealed that Mel is actually a decrepit old hag and that the necklace she wears keeps her appearance up. We find this out via a somewhat unsatisfying nude scene.

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Yeah, one of the wimmenz watching in our group had to shout out, "Get a good look boys"

Not an impressive scene

 

[Bowling4Bikes]

after Mel left winterfell a season or so ago, she looked exasperated and worn out. As if she'd been wanting to die for a very long time but the LoL compels her to continue.

I felt that she was relieved to take that amulet off and be done with her flesh.

one side note: she probably had the power that Thoros did. So when Beric walked in to the room Mel was in all messed up from the fight, I think she could have at least tried to chant the same thing Thoros did to see if it worked. She was apparently too busy waiting for Arya to arrive so she could say a few lines to her, lol.

 

[SuperMike]

 

[NorCalAthlete]

 

[SFMCjohn]

But the Night King.

Man.

For years it has been implied that his presence looming over Game of Thrones was about so much more than court intrigue: that we were going to be made to feel and understand the depths of that original trauma from all those thousands of years ago when the Children of the Forest drove a dagger into the heart of a First Man—to fight off the First Men who were cutting down their sacred trees.

Their decision to create a superweapon, the way it backfired, the tragic story of how that metastasized into a principle of natural revenge that would wipe out whole landscapes and delete humanity, or at least its memory—all this cast into relief just how petty and small the show’s plots over who’s in charge had always been.

The Night King didn’t seem like a traditional villain or even a Lucifer figure, someone mad he didn’t get the power he wanted and fell.

He seemed like an argument about history—long history, epic history, natural history—mattering.

Small Thrills, Big Disappointments
"How Game of Thrones botched the Night King."
LILI LOOFBOUROW, for Slate, 4/30/19

 

[CABilly]

Small Thrills, Big Disappointments
"How Game of Thrones botched the Night King."
LILI LOOFBOUROW, for Slate, 4/30/19

Will read later but I get the sentiment and agree.

I wonder if it will be like two completely different stories when the books are finally written. So much already doesn’t line up with the prophecies and all that maybe they’re leaving GRRM enough room to write his own story they way he wants and GoT is just doing what it can to wrap up the series in a somewhat satisfying way.

Because as cool as the scene was the lack of shit being fleshed out and filled in and resolved with the night king and Bran is pretty anticlimactic.