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  1. 5 hours ago, USC Traveler said:

    The best parts of the episode were the Arya/Hound/Beric/Red Witch sequence, Arya killing the NK, and the Little Bear going out like a boss vs the giant.  I'm with you there.

    What would have made me much, much happier, though, is if D+D didn't make all of the main characters look so stupid.  I've been letting the bad writing go over and over the last few years, but this last episode burned off whatever last vestige of patience I had.  D+D  talked repeatedly about using the siege at Helm's Deep as a model in their preseason interviews. 

    You know what the good guys didn't do at Helm's Deep ? They didn't put their entire fucking army OUTSIDE THE WALLS OF THE CASTLE!!! 

    D+D have the characters literally forget their life experiences in pursuit of false drama. 

    Ned Stark told his kids that 500 men could hold Winterfell against 10k. With a proper defensive strategy, that would have given them good odds vs the zombie horde, without even factoring in the dragons. 

    D+D literally have all the Starks ignore this. And why wouldn't Tyrion (who successfully defended KL in a siege), Jamie (who has taken castles by siege), Ed, Beric or anyone else with a brain speak up about the fact that the entire army was outside of the castle to start the battle ? 

    It was a complete joke that threw me out of the story, as it made every person in the planning room look like an idiot.

    The worst amongst them being Jon. He knows the NK and his army better than anyone, and he successfully defended Castle Black in the exact same circumstance when they were massively outnumbered vs the Wildling army. Why did Jon forget all of the lessons he learned that night ? Use the fortifications for protection to even the odds. Where were the barrels of oil to pour fire down on the dead from the walls of the castle ? Where were heaps of dragonglass shrapnel that could have been launched at the zombies ? 

    Why was anyone except the Dothraki outside of the castle at all ? 

    We saw in the Loot Train attack that the Dothraki can shoot arrows effectively while at full gallop. But we didn't see one Dothraki archer in this battle. So instead of using their bows to weaken the zombies from a distance and using their horses to stay out of reach of the zombies, we get the entire Dothraki making a headlong, unsupported charge against an unseen enemy that we know is endlessly deep and isn't going to break out of fear. AND THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE DRAGONGLASS WEAPONS ?  


    The answer to all of this stupidity is that D+D feel the need to create false drama. We saw it in BOtB, the Frozen Lake Battle and again with this episode. D+D put the good guys in a position where things are absolutely hopeless and then save them via Deus-ex Machina. But instead of making things great, it takes the reality and consequences out of the show.  


    All anyone has to do is watch Two Towers (or the defense of Jerusalem in Kingdom of Heaven) to know that you can have all the excitement and tension you ever wanted as the defenders use smart strategies and tactics to fight against overwhelming odds on a more even footing. You're worried about the heroes, but you're cheering for them because they're smart and valiant, and there is some hope of victory.  D+D think you have to eliminate any hope of victory to make it dramatic, but that's where these episodes become ridiculous cartoons, as none of the truly important characters die, despite hopeless odds fighting hand to hand and literally everyone around them dying as the zombie horde overruns the home team. 

    It's the difference between a heavyweight classic like Ali-Frazier or Ali-Foreman vs Mike Tyson steamrolling a patsy in the first round. One has great ebbs and flows and endless tension. The other is a joke. I can't believe these guys used Helm's Deep as a model and gave us the steaming turd of a battle that we got, where these guys have their main characters ignore/forget their had-earned life experiences.
     

    If you asked me after the end of S4, I'd have said GOT was the greatest tv show ever made. 

    Now ? No way. D+D are so out of their league that it's slowly killing the show. 

    Their need to create false drama has turned GOT into a parody of what it once was, as the characters we want to root for act utterly and completely stupid. In S1-S4, people doing stupid things die.  Now ?  They just move on to the next idiotic plan where all hope will be lost until  they're  miraculously saved.

     

    My expectations for the last few episodes are very low, so hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised.
     

    tl;dr

    j/k

     

    further upstream george parmesan (I think) theorized that they had to sacrifice nearly their entire army to draw out the night king.  

     

    here's a question I haven't seen posed:

    where did melisandre come from? she rode from the same direction the dothraki eventually went all leeroy jenkins towards, how did she part the wights? did she?

  2. 2 hours ago, Saint Tacky said:

    I recall that when it was first discovered and contemplated in the defense of King's Landing from Stannis Baratheon, part of the discussion was how long it had been there and how volatile it was.  They didn't have the recipe in Winterfell and Roy Scheider couldn't drive it there.

    I remember that scene as well.  I went back and rewatched it and near the end tyrion tells the alchemist, "you won't be making wildfire for my sister any longer, you'll be making it for me."

    so at one point before the battle of blackwater tyrion was the nino brown of wildfire.  now he gets to winterfell to defend against the attack of a stronger opponent while everyone is harping about needing every man and sword they can muster, and completely forgets all about it.  

  3. 4 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    Did they have wildfire at Winterfell?  I thought all of that was stored at King's Landing.

    no.  they could have launched it at the wights after the dothraki charge and caused major casualties without exposing the dragons.

    it is stored at king's landing, but the secret recipe is something tyrion could have bought on his visit to king's landing during the wight exhibition or varys could have acquired through his little birds.

  4. it just occurred to me that during the entire time fortifying winterfell for the long night, 3 of the highest advisors -- tyrion, ser davos and varys -- were veterans of the battle of blackwater, and none of them thought to incorporate wildfire against an enemy who's biggest known weakness is fire.  tyrion's head is deeper up his ass than I thought.

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  5. 23 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

    While there were some thrilling sequences, how it got resolved wasnt all that interesting. Arya going all Ninja was, just OK. What the fuck was Bran doing? Like Derka said, the NK going all slow was typical.

    the night king is a hundred and seventy-two years old! he probably has bad knees.

    during the episode I thought the scene of arya being stuck and sneaking around the horde of zombies in the library was pretty useless.  now I wonder if she somehow picked up on something there that allowed her to get past the white walkers undetected in the godswood.

     

  6. overall enjoyed season 2 a bit less than season 1.  the guy playing chubbs cracked my shit up, I hope he sticks around for next season to fill the role of the random fat cobra kai guy at the all-valley tournament.  fuck yeah on the ending cliff hanger, although how is that supposed to advance with johnny seemingly ditching smart phones for good?

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  7. 6 minutes ago, wood said:

    Yeah I used the word 'drop' two different ways in that post. My bad. I thought he'd get it. You guys get it. Oh well.

    yeah, bit of dumbassery on my part.  totally ignored that you had started talking about tanker dumps.  I misunderstood water drop as in droplets.  

    apologies for the derail.  this is fucking tragic.

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  8. 46 minutes ago, Foosters said:

    What happens if you drop a few hundred feet into a body of water? Now imagine instead, that large body of water being dropped on you.

    I get that part.  I understood it was if water drops reacted differently during a blaze that would turn them into bullets or something that would pierce clothing and skin.

  9. 29 minutes ago, wood said:

    The water doesn't all break up into small drops as it falls. The drops are usually made from low altitude, so the water isn't falling a very long way, and it's moving fast. The force of the water can injure or kill people in the way, or it can break trees, etc, which can fall on people below. 

    I still don't follow.  if the force of a rain drop that forms high up in the clouds is not able to punch a hole in my head during a rain shower, how is a water drop originating from a leaf/tree branch/arching off a fire hose able to be accelerated so much that it would cause injury?

  10. On 2/27/2019 at 10:19 AM, Chili dog said:

    Charles was a big prankster, too. All the DBs used to jack with the linemen. Charles and these other kids named: takashi, gilbert, and booger used to put liquid heat in the fat guys’ jock straps. They put it in one of our DT’s boxers that he had to wear to school. It was hilarious watching their faces change as their nuts started to burn. 

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  11. 9 minutes ago, Bobby_Batronic said:

    Entering or exiting the core of a strong jet stream is usually pretty turbulent. 

    700mph ground speed is really nothing special. In fact it’s pretty typical of West to East wintertime winds over the US. Given a TAS of 450 kts, or roughly .78M, and a 150 kt tailwind you’d be doing 700mph over the ground all day. 

    However, exit a large area of fairly steady state winds and you’ll find rough air with the change in wind velocity and direction. Like leaving the jet stream. 

    I realized that while typing my reply I had deleted the note I made on my phone at the time with the exact speed, I was being conservative.  it must have been an impressive number, the crew mentioned they had never experienced that in all their years of experience.

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