Game of Thrones final season [spoilers]

[Amarok]

I really enjoyed the episode.  Granted, I'm a show fan not a book fan (I've tried, I just can't) so I haven't been steeped in the theorizing and whatnot.

What I liked:

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I loved some of the lighting and the way they used it to tell the story of the battle.  I loved how you just saw the flickering out of the Dothraki swords as they're swallowed by the army of the dead, the way the charge just hit that black wall across the field as Dany and Jon watched from above, how the dragon fire lit up the storm clouds as Sansa was watching from the ramparts - excellent and beautiful.

I loved seeing Arya in her battle element, but also how she was knocked down a peg after she hit her head so that you felt like she was in jeopardy more than she otherwise would have been.  There were people that I figured were safe from death (Dany, Jon, Sansa, Arya, Tyrion, Bran) but I wouldn't have put it past the show runners to seriously injure them.

Loved Sansa's interaction with Tyrion and when she said that he was the best of them. lol

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What I didn't like:

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I had a moment at the end after Arya stabs the Night King like... is that it? I thought that moment, while I was screaming and cheering and losing my shit with glee, was ultimately anti-climactic.  I figured, at least, that they would be able to stave off the army of the dead and retreat further south rather than literally stop the army of the dead at Winterfell.  At most I was expecting several lieutenants to die but the Night King suffer a temporary defeat of some kind and ultimately give chase as the Northerners fled to Moat Cailin or the Twins.  I didn't think the battle to go further south then the Twin, but not even past Winterfell?

The whole episode was too dark.  I understand that keeping the battle dark played into probably keeping CGI costs lower and in some cases the darkness really served to add to the ambiance of the battle (the initial Dothraki charge) but mostly I found it frustrating because I couldn't see who was who and what was happening.

The initial Dothraki charge.  Really?  Jon was at Hardhome and had a major hand in planning this battle and he thought that would work?

I watched the After the Thrones interviews and David and Dan were both saying things like how everyone would expect the Dothraki charge to be more effective or would forget that Arya just ran off after her encounter with Melisandra... nope. I even said, outloud, during Arya's scene in the library "what do we say to the god of death?" only for Melisandra to say it in the episode 5 minutes later.  There was a lot of predictability in this episode.

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1. Why ? Why should this battle have dragged on rather then do it in one shot ? Why should it have gone further ? 

2.Hardhome  wasn't an open plain the kind of terrain the Dothraki are built to fight on 

3 . The darkness is symbolic 

4. And that's bad because .......

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It's an hour-long battle involving tens of thousands. If they were to let us see it well, this one episode would cost as much as the Avengers movie.

Plus the darkness is symbolic

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With only three episodes left, I doubt there's going to be another battle. If it was me, I'd make Arya sneak in and kill Cercei.

I think it will be Sansa that kills Cercei

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I think the dragon fight is going to be the toughest part to watch, because it's going to be an undead sibling against live siblings.

Yeah but theyre CGI monsters with no personality so I don't care.

I had low expectations going into the final season, since it's really sucked pretty badly since Season 5 (with a few episodes serving as wonderful exceptions). But I've been pretty pleased so far. The last episode was great.

Really what about the Scene with Tyrion

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It's an hour-long battle involving tens of thousands. If they were to let us see it well, this one episode would cost as much as the Avengers movie.

I do think they could have turned up the lights just a bit. There were parts that I couldn't just not see well. I couldn't see at all.

Really I thought lighting was alright

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That was ... pretty poorly written lol. Magnificent acting, but... I mean, come on. That was painful to watch.

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Worst military strategy ever. Some teenager in his basement playing Total War could've came up with a better one.

Arya sneaking behind undead white walkers and the Night King? Outta nowhere? You gotta understand that, since 1999, book fans have had endless theories about the Others (i.e., their motivation), the prophecy of Azor Ahai, Jon's role as a Targaryen, and Arya just stabs the NK in the stomach and that's it? All nicely and cleanly resolved in one episode? This show is just like any other now (correction: it has been since S5). A mindless evil zombie bent on destroying humanity, nothing more nuanced than that. And Arya just up and stabs the guy. Seriously anticlimactic.

I also can't believe Cersei and fucking Euron are the biggest baddies at the end of the day. "Winter is Coming," now it just came and went and we're done? We good? What?

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That being said, the acting was great, and I sincerely felt for all the characters. It was a brutal battle, and I liked it a lot. Yeah, it was a little dark. Just turn up your brightness

1. Really their plan wasn't perfect but it wasn't completely dumb

2. The NK isn't suppose to have an understable  motivation  that's what makes him scary. As for the prophecy guess what even in fantasy setting legends and prophecy's can be bullshit . It's fans fault for trying to read to much into things . Why should it be nuanced ?  And Arya was always going to be the one to kill the Night King there was nothing anti climatic about it . Why should the NK [/color]be hard to kill nobody else in this show is . Yup winter came and it was defeated and that's an issue why . As for Cersei of course she's going to be the final antagonist she's a bigger monster then the Night King .