OPINIONISTA: At its most epic moment, ‘Game of Thrones’ falls back on its formula By Jonah Dylan
, was directed by Miguel Sapochnik — was stunning in the way it used silence. Sapochnik uses silence at the end oflongest episode to date. At this point, there are just too many characters to get to, too many stories to update in one night.just felt like the latest in a formulaic battle-episode template.established the formula in Season 2 with a magnificent episode that many people still regard as the series’ best, especially because the stakes were so high and the outcome was so up in the air.
We knew the Night King wasn’t going to win the war, and so maybe the episode was dragged down from the onset in that we knew what would happen. But as the dead were reanimated and Winterfell started to fall, it was only a matter of time before the side that was losing the battle by so much managed to win. I thought it would be Jon — who was useless for most of the episode and resorted to yelling at a dragon — to finally kill the Night King.
Arya went from a character who seemed to be operating independently of everyone else to the one who mattered most in the show’s biggest war. After the show devoted so much time to her in recent episodes, you got the sense that this one could be her last, all the way up to the end. But she becomes the show’s biggest hero, at least for now and maybe forever.had other issues. Because it was so dark, it was often almost impossible to tell what was going on, especially during the dragon sequences .
was really the calm before the storm. There’s one more battle coming, and this one actually has humans on both sides. There will be emotion and probably a few more twists and turns.left me missing simpler times, like Season 4 or Season 5. It feels weird because back then we would’ve given anything to see everyone together, fighting against an army of the dead complete with dragons and giants. Now, years later, it just feels forced.
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