OT- Game of Thrones EPISODE 9: The Watchers on the Wall
There is so much that needs to be wrapped up in next week's episode! My expectations are as high as ever. These are some of my favorite story lines in the books all culminating together.
I am worried that there won't be enough time. I would rather some things (King's Landing, anyone?) slip into next season than to have them rush through it in episode 10.
Given the theme of the previews for this season, I think Arya's story will move along for sure. They've also spent a good amount of time setting up the next part of Tyrion's story -- it would make sense to get through that now, in my view.
I suppose they could do both if they leave the battle in a cliffhanger. Even at the point it is right now... [EDIT: Scratch that, with the 66 minutes, they will certainly finish the battle -- LoTR has shown how quickly you can wrap up a battle after the tide has turned. So it will happen. I still think there's time to do the other two, and maybe also move Bran one step further long.]
I thought it was pretty good, but I haven't read that far into the books so I didn't have any preconceptions about it.
continuous action sequence we've had in the show by far. What springs to mind is the 360 single shot sequence. I actually really liked that. I guess it just feels that it didn't make it as far as even the most likely similarity (SE2E09). In that one, they were able to get all the way to what felt more like a resolution. But that was more of a short, intense battle. This seems to be playing out more like a longer siege, something that we haven't seen yet.
Too many wieners...not enough dragons.
Great episode. I loved it even if it took a bit to long to get here.
Grenn and the other brothers saying they're vows right before the Giant came at them might have been one of my favorite scenes so far in the show.
It's always nice to see a GoT episode stretch out a little bit -- with lot of characters, it is forced to have a lot of (sometimes very choppy) short scenes. Sometimes we get scenes that play out a little longer than most -- for instance, Joff's wedding this season.
But this one? Wow. Talk about stretching out. Yes, this was the annual " big budget" episode of GoT, and well worth it. I loved it.
Actually IIRC they said that the next episode will have the highest budget scene yet in the series. So that should be pretty awesome to watch.
I hadn't heard that. Good to know! I guess, yeah, the guys have a little more money to play with now than they did in previous seasons.
the next episode will have the highest "budget per second" cost the show has seen yet for one/more scenes. It should be awesome.
There be dragons.
Anyone have a link to the episode?
Did anyone else come away like I did feeling that was one of the dullest episodes in a long time? I mean, yeah; cool action. But without anything else it just got a little repetitive and boring for me at least.
Same.
40 minutes of non-stop action will never make for great viewing, it's simply not possible.
be very long indeed.
I must have said "what the hell happened to the giant?!" five times before they got around to showing it. I chuckled for a moment at the thought of the giant making it through and hiding for some sort of sneak attack.
As a book reader, I have to say that this has been the best season so far, but I can't see how they can possibly reach the end of book 3 with only one episode remaining and that just pisses me off.
Well you've known from the start what the big reveal will be at the end of this series (Hint: a major character DIES OH NO!)
And with all the night's watch politics removed already, the resolution at the wall shouldn't take too much screen time to wrap up (Spoiler: a major extinct mammal DIES OH NO!)
Aria is like one scene away from where she's left at the end of that book (Spoiler: a major plotline DIES OH NO!)
Sansa's storyline in this book is wrapped up already. So is Dany's. The reaction to Oberon's death won't be felt until next book/season.
And nobody cares about the Greyjoy-Bolton storyline.
What more do they need to cover?
This post is a little over the top / spoiler unfriendly to someone who HAS read the books and knows EXACTLY what you are talking about.
I agree with the other guy, too. Even if it's just the three things you mention above (and it's not, Bran's storyline progresses significantly TOO) - that's a lot that needs to happen in 50-55 minutes of action time.
That post by Seth was unnecessary, there were two pretty big spoilers on there (I actually thought the mammoth reference was funny). The strange thing is, the whole thread actually did a pretty decent job of keeping spoiler-free (not many do). Kind of weird that it was a mod/employee that did the most damage.
I do think that one or two of the events that we as bookreaders are expecting to happen will not happen until next season. One reason I think that is because I don't think they have enough time to do everything well enough in one episode. Another reason is that book 4 offers less action than the previous books, and they'll need to spread out certain events to keep the non-readers interested. They could very well end book 3 with the next episode, but in my mind that would be a travesty because everything will feel incredibly rushed.
Boooo.
If you are a Game of Thrones TV watcher and don't expect at least one major character to be killed off in a season finale...
Have you read the books then? I remember you trashing them pretty badly a year or two ago, when you said that you hadn't made it through the first book.
BTW, why the spoiler hints?
This guy might be sad to hear that nobody cares about that storyline:
That just brightened my evening!
/play on thenns
Everyone at the wall and wildlings could die aand I wouldn't be upset at all. While I liked the episode, I came into it really hoping to start to care about this whole storyline at the wall. Unfortunately, the episode, while having some seriously bad ass stuff happen, ultimately felt too anticlimactic and unemotional, and I still don't care about anyone at the wall. Sorry Jon Snow, you are a bore.
I actually enjoyed her character and was intrigued about how that would eventually play out with Snow, although it did feel a little anticlamictic last night. I think I would've preferred the book version of that part
I was in the Jon Snow *yawn* camp for a while, but I've enjoyed seeing the transformation into a leader. I really enjoyed it last night - I loved that he was a colossal dick to Sam and basically was like "fuck your feelings, my direwolf is more important than you".
While I'm behind in the books, I know that Jon Snow is important (obvs) and there's all the hints in the world that him (and his parentage) will be important not just now but down the line as well.
And that chain/anchor swinging across the wall? Epic. Genius.
I know there are comparisons to Helm's Deep - visually it felt like that - but I'm surprised some people are using that comparison as a negative reason for disliking it. That they pulled off something comprable to Helm's Deep on a TV budget is amazing.
Now I hope that prick Janos Slynt is gutted.
IMO, the show didn't do Jon Snow any justice. I always really enjoyed his chapters in the books, but his show scenes were always kind of dull and lacked something. It seemed like most of his scenes were "fillers" instead of showing what a real emotional rollercoaster he has ridden his entire life. I did like his last moment with Ygritte on the show, I'm glad they put that part in.
It's interesting to see the dichotomy from the books and show. In the book, I started off hating Jaime and then grew to really like and respect him during his journey with Brienne. I was behind in the books at that point and when I caught up I realized how much I really enjoyed his chapters. Then they showed him rape Cercei and I realized that the show will never do his character, or others, justice because they want ratings. It's like watching the same movie done by Quentin Tarantino and Jerry Bruckheimer separately. One will go for the huge ratings and big action scenes while the other will dazzle you with developing characters and taking his time to produce a quality film.