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was this the geekiest weekend or what?!
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Ok, work is a hurricane on fire—I had to tell a director to PLEASE let me get some caffeine before he ambushed me about statuses (statusi?)--so I know it's going to take me a bit to really write up my thoughts, but I've seen Endgame twice and watched GoT 8.03 with the House of Boys providing analysis so come talk to me!
That was a ride and a half and my brain is freaking hurting at the timey-wimey stuff. I have no idea how Steve’s life worked & I feel like that timeline with Loki snatching the Tesseract is now a hot mess. I'm going back and forth with Nat's death; I am totally Team!Sam!Cap (I love the concept of Bucky!Cap, too, but I think this Bucky needs a little more down-time); Rescue & Iron Man fighting back-to-back was excellent & I might have squee-ed audibly when Jarvis opened Howard’s car door.
There’s really a lot more, but oy, people & their status reports...
GoT – spoilers through 8.03
Very quickly: literally, right as the Night King locked eyes with Bran and started that slooooow reach for the sword, BabyBoy and #2 said, in unison, "Arya—we haven't had eyes on her in—YES!!"
Jaime and Brienne fighting back-to-back in silhouette was pretty epic.
Also, Lyanna Mormont is the sh*t. RIP.
Alsoalso, and this isn't anything new, but this episode did a really poor job of assigning status to anything but fighting. We'd had that tiiiiiiny bit of Sansa running the keep and making a point of that having value, but then this was ridiculous. Like, seriously, people did not go into the safe-keeping spaces and just sit there waiting to be slaughtered. Why was Sansa not directing a medical layout for when the wounded started to pour in? (Even if they all thought they were going to die, it would at least keep people busy during the wait. And hey, look, still alive—now what?) Did no one drag food and water down there? Who was in charge of managing that? What was the fallback strategy and who was in charge? (I know there are ways out of those crypts; if none of the other Stark kids knew them, Bran-the-Databank had to have known about them.) There can't have just been one single little girl who wanted to fight—so put them in charge of a security force. In the end, they could have gone after the Stark zombies instead of just hoping they'd blunder about and not notice the people in the shadows. Yes, zombies, aieee, but there were Free Folk down there, too, so they're used to weirdness.
And, etc.
I actually had a lot of fun with the ep; we managed to get the settings on the TV adjusted so it wasn't total darkness and we cheered Theon and Jorah and their heroics -- sorry for that long paragraph of dislike. It skews the perception to the Bad column.
Also, holy jeez, for as careful as everyone was abt Endgame spoilers, twitter & fb were real-time spoiler factories for GoT. I’m glad I decided to watch with the kids instead of keeping a decent bedtime.
Ok, work is a hurricane on fire—I had to tell a director to PLEASE let me get some caffeine before he ambushed me about statuses (statusi?)--so I know it's going to take me a bit to really write up my thoughts, but I've seen Endgame twice and watched GoT 8.03 with the House of Boys providing analysis so come talk to me!
That was a ride and a half and my brain is freaking hurting at the timey-wimey stuff. I have no idea how Steve’s life worked & I feel like that timeline with Loki snatching the Tesseract is now a hot mess. I'm going back and forth with Nat's death; I am totally Team!Sam!Cap (I love the concept of Bucky!Cap, too, but I think this Bucky needs a little more down-time); Rescue & Iron Man fighting back-to-back was excellent & I might have squee-ed audibly when Jarvis opened Howard’s car door.
There’s really a lot more, but oy, people & their status reports...
GoT – spoilers through 8.03
Very quickly: literally, right as the Night King locked eyes with Bran and started that slooooow reach for the sword, BabyBoy and #2 said, in unison, "Arya—we haven't had eyes on her in—YES!!"
Jaime and Brienne fighting back-to-back in silhouette was pretty epic.
Also, Lyanna Mormont is the sh*t. RIP.
Alsoalso, and this isn't anything new, but this episode did a really poor job of assigning status to anything but fighting. We'd had that tiiiiiiny bit of Sansa running the keep and making a point of that having value, but then this was ridiculous. Like, seriously, people did not go into the safe-keeping spaces and just sit there waiting to be slaughtered. Why was Sansa not directing a medical layout for when the wounded started to pour in? (Even if they all thought they were going to die, it would at least keep people busy during the wait. And hey, look, still alive—now what?) Did no one drag food and water down there? Who was in charge of managing that? What was the fallback strategy and who was in charge? (I know there are ways out of those crypts; if none of the other Stark kids knew them, Bran-the-Databank had to have known about them.) There can't have just been one single little girl who wanted to fight—so put them in charge of a security force. In the end, they could have gone after the Stark zombies instead of just hoping they'd blunder about and not notice the people in the shadows. Yes, zombies, aieee, but there were Free Folk down there, too, so they're used to weirdness.
And, etc.
I actually had a lot of fun with the ep; we managed to get the settings on the TV adjusted so it wasn't total darkness and we cheered Theon and Jorah and their heroics -- sorry for that long paragraph of dislike. It skews the perception to the Bad column.
Also, holy jeez, for as careful as everyone was abt Endgame spoilers, twitter & fb were real-time spoiler factories for GoT. I’m glad I decided to watch with the kids instead of keeping a decent bedtime.
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Excuse me, I just finished watching and am a bit overwhelmed. (EDD! I WILL MISS EDD!)
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And Theon, :(. We were braced for him to go down but they let him redeem himself well.
Arya did the Stark name proud—I’m so glad she was the one who got to Bran rather than Jon.
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LOL - at calling the Ayra moment. That happened with us as well. :)
I kind of thought the same thing about the people in the crypts. I expected Sansa to organize something if nothing else than to keep people busy. We might not have had the moments with Tyrion then though - and I enjoyed their scenes.
Lady Mormont is such a sad loss. She was a BAMF and died well taking out a giant like that. I was surprised because I thought she might survive being a child but I guess these show runners went for it. Poor house Mormont which has collapsed now I suppose. :(
There was a lot less bloodshed than I feared there would be (meaning characters, not overall - because that was a bloody episode). The battle scenes went on a bit longer than I needed, but I suppose those were for other fans who more enjoy that sort of thing. Some of the scenes inside the castle certainly had a horror film sort of quality that I kinda liked - particularly the ones with Arya.
Overall I'm happy that so many of the main characters and secondary characters survived this episode. I honestly thought about half of them would be dead now.
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Same! The hint of it with her eyes opening blue was enough.
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Also the dragons. Through 7.3 seasons and five fat books, I've been told the dragons are the most deadly and destructive thing going, but when the NK called the mist, they were completely neutralized. Disappointing, and Dany acted very out of her everyone-bend-the-KNEE character by bailing out of the plan to ambush the NK as soon as the Dothraki died. I think the dragons deserved better. They've become marginalized in the show, like the dire wolves and Tyrion.
I'd trade Dolorous Edd for Tormund in a heartbeat.
And Bran, flying off as the three-eyed raven during the battle --- why? Was he gathering intelligence on the armies? If so, I missed him conveying any said intelligence. It seemed so strange to me.
WRT the Cambridges, I hear the latest is that Harry and Wills made up ten weeks ago over "indiscretion." What do you think?
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As for the Royals dramas, 10 (now 11, sorry for the belated response) weeks ago would have been before the press really started making a big deal out of it... I don’t know—it was nice to see Harry with Kate @ the Anzac service & my goodness, wasn’t he adorable in making the birth announcement?! Possibly, they did reconcile & everyone relaxed a bit & the kid came off the No Comment pot? Or they finally had a flaming row & cleared the air & made up after instead of everyone tip-toeing around & trying not to upset everyone else? (I really need an icon for this sort of post/comment!)