Just Saying | Lame of Thrones: this is how you ruin the world’s best TV show
- Yonden Lhatoo succumbs to nerd rage as the most-hyped episode of the hit TV show turns out to be too dark to see anything and an irreversible plot twist renders the entire build-up of the epic meaningless
Before we start, this Game of Thrones review of sorts is full of spoilers, so best not to read any further if you’re into the show but not up to date with the final season.
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned,” the old line from literature goes. Well, this applies to men, too, especially fans like me, feeling that kind of rage after watching episode three, season eight of what I used to think was the best television show in the world.
Characterise this as controlled nerd rage if you will, but I have to ask: did anyone see anything in the dark? “The Long Night”, this chapter was called, and that’s what it felt like for a full 40 minutes, trying to figure out what in seven hells was happening during the super-hyped “Battle of Winterfell”.
Seriously, it’s like they ran out of batteries for basic lighting for the 55-day shoot that produced this 80-minute epic event. It was billed as the biggest battle scene ever filmed in all of history, with amazing “sequences built within sequences within sequences”. Sure, but we could barely see any of it.
Nearly 18 million of us tuned in on the first day to watch the infinite army of the dead decimate the forces of good and storm the castle walls behind which all of our most beloved characters were making their last stand. We just didn’t know we would need night-vision goggles to make sense of it.
