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Thomas Eshuis wrote:Episode 6
Wtf were the white walkers waiting for?
That entire fight was a such a big breach of suspension of disbelief.

The fanwanking on Reddit says that the Night King saw into the future and was laying a trap. Or, as I prefer to say, the Night King saw into the plot, and realised this was the best way to create drama. Similarly, Berick Dondarion stared into the plot, and realised he had to go behind the wall, for tension.

This is why we're about the level of LOTR in terms of plotting. This is not George R R Martin calibre. It's just standard high fantasy entertainment. Which is fine, I guess. But the reason I first got excited about Game of Thrones was because I thought the network that brought us Deadwood and the Wire would be capable of recreating the complexity of A Song of Ice and Fire. I think that ship sailed off the map three seasons ago.

I agree. Or they thought, and succeeded in, getting a bigger audience who mainly wanted to see graphic killing and lots of bare boobies, i.e. bring in more money and the chance of lots of awards, was more important that stretching out a very complex story, ad infinitum. Wouldn't it have been wonderful to see a tv series that went on for 24 episodes, and for 15 seasons, but that followed the books in detail. Instead, idiotic shows like NCIS just don't die, even though the cast is now approaching retirement age, and Ducky is as old as Aemon Targaryen, and they can't get anyone except has-been hacks to sign up to work on it. Criminal Minds is another one, on and on and on, with people in their 50s and 60s trying to look 35.

If they can do the avoiding ageing thing with those shows, they could've done it with the book series and it would've forced GRRM to finish the last book.

Animavore wrote:Lighting can be altered, I'm sure. The light's coming from roughly the same side.