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He should have been. That's why for me this show, while it may not have completely jumped the shark tonight, certainly doesn't have balls anymore.

My display is calibrated correctly, top of the line with the best Internet money can buy. No amount of calibration makes up for poor compression--or even decently streamed compression. People settle for substandard viewing when they convince themselves streaming is as good as true 1080 or true 4k.

Yeah last week's episode was the worst thing I ever saw streamed. And I've seen some shit. Yeah last week made me want to save $15 a month and cancel HBO and get GoT via other methods which I won't discuss here.

Poor compression was the main culprit. It multiplied everything else in its intrinsic direction, dark to darker and the reverse, in an unfortunate way. Poor compression is on HBO. The cinematographer agrees with me on that. Tonight's episode was just as poorly compressed as last week, but it...

I agree, but this is Cersei. And she has no honor, as she has proven time and again. She had a chance to kill the dragon queen, her mortal enemy. The Cersei I used to know would have taken that chance, honor be damned. But then again, the writers I used to know never would have put Dany in that...

I miss the days of the old GoT when Tyrion, having pushed his luck with Cersei one too many times, lies in the dust, his body riddled with arrows as tonight's episode ends. But this is GoT soft, apparently. I don't know how long it has been since this still very good show made me say "holy...

The next episode can't start soon enough. Hopefully it will be cast in daylight.

Anything is possible, but I think it's doubtful because he's at ground level, surrounded by all the dead bodies he's just killed, with the Night King and his protectors also obscuring his view. Plus it was too dark to for him or the audience to see anything half the time! :laugh: For me this...

I agree it was dumb. IMO this is a trap writers often fall into, convincing themselves to show growth and have a great arc, characters have to change from pole to pole, in other words Theon has to charge, something he never would have done when we first saw him. So they get stuck to an...

To me it would have made more sense to have the ice dragon wounded even more, to even the odds and make the battle between it and Jon plausible. Perhaps Jon is battling viciously with his sword, losing ground, is about to take one last swing, then the dragon shatters. The way it was written...

Good writers wouldn't describe it. They would reference it indirectly, which I attempted to do in my example. As a general rule, the best dialogue is indirect. Here's an example of direct dialogue, to show the difference. ARYA: Jon, someone said they saw you standing there screaming at that...

It's unlikely, yes, but my point is, it could be done in a mere dozen words, child's play for a professional screenwriter.

It could be explained indirectly with brief dialogue, something like: Jon, smiling at Ayra: "Bran told me about the knife move." Ayra to Jon: "Thanks for having my back." Dialogue like this could be delivered quickly, without stopping forward momentum.

If he's not trying to distract the dragon then what is he trying to do? Fight it? If so, then he would fight it. If there's a better explanation than him trying to distract the dragon, based on what I saw on the screen, I haven't heard it. And the idea he is immune to dragon fire doesn't work...

The writers are on record saying the most important thing was keeping Arya's attack a surprise. So that's not in question. Now I'm suppose to believe John Snow, former King in the North, true heir to the Iron Throne, decides to just throw in the towel? He either fights or he runs away to fight...

My take is that the writers were trying to balance the tension between keeping Ayra's attack on the Night King a surprise and the drama of Jon Snow's fighting to help her get there. Sometimes you can't do both as a writer. You have to make your choice about what the trade off is. And in this...

I might buy that from some other character, but not Jon Snow. The first time I saw it I was screaming at the TV, "Jon has lost his f*cking mind! What the hell is he doing?" He would attack Viserion with his bare hands and die that way before he would stand there doing nothing. I gotta believe...

But if it didn't happen why is Jon giving himself up like a beaten wimp? Why else would he try to get Viserion's attention over and over?

I watched it again too and I think the filmmakers intended Jon to be distracting Viserion, but they couldn't give that away or it would destroy the surprise in the climactic moment. Arya needs to be far from our consciousness at that moment, the last person we're thinking about, or the drama is...

The problem is not only visual, but auditory. If Jon was fighting Viserion anywhere near the vicinity of the Night King, the sound would carry to that location. Whether the mixer did a wash or went silent with only music when we switched to the Night King doesn't matter, because the ruckus would...

Me either. I was like, Why is Jon giving his life up standing in front of the dragon. I'm glad to know the reason, but the filmmakers dropped the ball on communicating that one, IMO.

I would agree if every show streamed got a disc release. But numbers continue to plummet. Talk about consequences.

Yes, actions have consequences. When shows are beautifully shot then delivered over streaming networks that simply don't support the requirements of the format, I'd call that a consequence. When the majority of people accept that this is how shows shot in HD are now delivered into their homes...

My system and Internet connection are top of the line, state of the art. I know how to calibrate. I stream a lot of action movies. None of them, compared to disc, look great on streaming. The dynamic range simply isn't there because the information isn't adequate for the format. Fine. That's the...

There's too much money on the table for book(s) not to happen. He''s no hack. He's going to take the time he needs. Often that means procrastinating. I watched the episode again. I've got dark VHS tapes that, on a whole, look better on my system than that stream of crap HBO threw up there tonight.

After getting a taste of the first part of the resolution, I'm wondering how different the outcomes in the forthcoming book(s) are gonna be compared to the TV series.

And don't forget Star Wars episode nine, finishing a saga started 40+ years ago.

I have top of the line stuff and the streaming quality was terrible. As for the episode....it was great. Give me an episode 6 like that and I couldn't ask for more.

Ain't love grand?

I thought it was symmetry for Jamie's line in episode one. If not for that, I'd agree, but I thought the symmetry was nice. The characters in this series are, all of them, people that interest me, people that I care about, and people I don't necessarily want to see die (with a few exceptions)...