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Who wouldn’t want a flock of dragons?

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Originally posted by liner:
Jon Snow makes Rick Grimes look like Erwin Rommel.

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Originally posted by pbslinger:
So dark there’s no reason to watch it again. Annoying how dark it is. Makes me wonder if that was their solution to crappy effects.

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Originally posted by Orguss:
I'm going to rewatch this later in the week. It was great in the initial viewing but I felt really burned out after having watched Avengers: Endgame and then this in the same weekend.

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Originally posted by pbslinger:
So dark there’s no reason to watch it again. Annoying how dark it is. Makes me wonder if that was their solution to crappy effects.

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Originally posted by HRK:

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Remember: Pixelation is the death knell of any sort of quality viewing experience.

- Cut down on external glare. Got the TV next to a lamp or a window? Then you're fighting against technology and the elements.
- Check your picture mode. Most TVs come with various types of picture modes. You'll likely want something that's more warm than cool.
- Max out that backlight. This will give you the brightest image possible (if not exactly the most beautiful image).
- If you can adjust black levels, do that, too, getting them as dark as possible.

Of course, last night's episode, "The Long Night," wanted a few scenes to be shrouded in darkness for scene setting and storytelling. But these tips will hopefully bring at least a little clarity to the chaos at Winterfell—and any other dark scenes that cross your path in the future.

I may mess with the setting on my Tee Vee and watch the episode again...

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I think they should have held off, used the fire catapults more

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Originally posted by bionic218:

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I think they should have held off, used the fire catapults more

Yep. Arty and air to soften the target, then go ground. It ain't that hard. Have Dany on the big guy running close support and to lure in the NK on blue flame, and then have Jon bounce him from high cap. Jeezus, what do you even do these days Dinklage? Supposed to be queen's hand, not the queen's dunce. Figured out how to stealth lock the harbor and drop Napalm on Davo's navy, but can't even figure out simple strategery on aerial warfare after a lifetime of near worship of dragons? C'mon maaaaannn!

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Originally posted by bobtheelf:
Why would Bran hold a grudge against Jaime, since it made it possible to defeat the NK?

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Originally posted by RHINOWSO:
The Dothraki charge was a mistake in hindsight, but considering it's really their only tactic and it usually works great, I guess I understand them wanting to roll with it. Cinematically it was awesome, but I think they should have held off, used the fire catapults more, then tried to bring the Dothraki in on the flanks.

Oh well, medieval tactics in a fantasy world aren't my strong suit, I'm sure the lead Dothraki thought the plan was great!

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As soon as last night’s episode ended, I felt absolutely disgusted and outraged by the lack of effort out of Bran Stark. I thought to myself that this little bastard doesn’t even deserve a championship ring for winning the Battle of Winterfell. You’ve got all these people out there dying, the Army of the Dead built up this massive lead, and buddy over here was just warging into ravens for seemingly no apparent reason. I get that he was telling the Night King to come find him and everything but he didn’t have to just be zonked out during the entire fight to do that. It just seemed like Bran Stark shelled up in one of the biggest game. He played 35 minutes and had 0 pts, 1 asst, and 0 rebounds. A truly horrific performance in the playoffs.

But then I got to thinking that maybe Bran Stark isn’t a player. Maybe he’s just the coach/GM of the North. Because the scouting report he had on the Night King was spot on. He knew that the Battle of Winterfell was going to be a game of runs. He knew that they were going to be trailing at some point during the game. And he also knew that the Night King would be coming for him. But maybe the most important thing of all? He knew that Arya needed that fucking dagger.

This is where it pays to know your opponent inside and out. Because Bran Stark knew that the Night King probably can’t be killed with dragonglass considering he was made by dragonglass in the first place by those little tree fuckers (obviously the Night King can’t be killed by dragon fire either). But all everybody kept focusing on as they were getting ready for the battle was dragonglass, dragonglass, dragonglass. Arya pretty much flooded her pants when she got that dragonglass spear made by Gendry. But that’s not going to work against the Night King. If Arya decided to try to dunk on the Night King with that dragonglass spear, she would have just gave him a little cut at best.

So Bran knew he needed to get some Valeryian Steel in her hands. Sure, it was used at first to kill Littlefinger but they could have just used anything for that. Instead, that was just creepy ass Bran doing a little scouting and game planning for last night. Way in advance, too.

That’s just incredible coaching and managerial skills out of Bran. The Night King came in thinking that just brute force was going to get the job done. That was his game plan from the very beginning and he didn’t make any sort of adjustments along the way. But Bran Stark took the time to learn his opponent. He realized what kind of changes his team needed to make schematically in order to get the win. He knew that they would probably lose a decent amount of people along the way, but it was his adjustments that made all the difference in that battle. The Night King got out coached, and now the White Walkers are playing golf while the final battle gets going in the South.

Sidenote: Game of Thrones really needs to rethink their playoff format. The Southern Conference playoffs were such a joke that Cersei basically just walked straight into the Finals. But the Northern Conference? That series went a full 7 games last night. It was an absolute gauntlet between the top 2 teams left in the tournament. Cersei is a 3-seed here and she just swept her way into the Finals. And now the North has to go into the Finals extremely banged up. They lost most of the Dothraki. They lost most of the Unsullied. At the very most it looks like they’re only bringing 2 very beat up dragons who will be on minute restrictions for this series. It just doesn’t seem right that Cersei basically got a bye to the Finals, but I guess we’ll see how the Rest vs Rust debate falls with her.

Sidenote #2: Samwell Tarly better be watching that final battle from a press box. Dude was a complete liability out there. Needs to be a healthy scratch.

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Originally posted by bionic218:

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I think they should have held off, used the fire catapults more

Yep. Arty and air to soften the target, then go ground. It ain't that hard. Have Dany on the big guy running close support and to lure in the NK on blue flame, and then have Jon bounce him from high cap. Jeezus, what do you even do these days Dinklage? Supposed to be queen's hand, not the queen's dunce. Figured out how to stealth lock the harbor and drop Napalm on Davo's navy, but can't even figure out simple strategery on aerial warfare after a lifetime of near worship of dragons? C'mon maaaaannn!