I know I haven't finished my season 6 thoughts yet but I have to talk about about season 7 episode "Beyond the Wall" because I am absolutely furious right now.
What starts off as a fairly promising episode of many interesting characters getting together beyond the wall, might be the worst episode in all of GOT. The banter between the Hound and some others was good. That's about where the good ends.
They ambush a group of the dead and capture one. They wait until it's already screeched to cover its mouth. Stupid but whatever I can live with it.
Then the army of the dead comes and they get saved by the ice cracking and the dead not being able to swim. But wait, some can because they pop back up and attack them in the second battle there.
Gender runs back and gets word to Ser Davis who has their maester send word to Danny, who is about as far away on the continent as you could be from the North. And somehow the news gets there on time, she flies all the way up the continent, and saves them just in time. Braindead writing. Even if the dragon is as fast as a modern jet, the pigeon getting there would've taken days, if not weeks.
But wait, it gets even worse. To trigger the second battle accidentally, the hound throws a few stones at the dead and they realize the water is now frozen enough to cross. Why they weren't trying to cross before this is wild, especially when they have essentially infinite numbers.
So the dead attack again, and the Hound easily smashes through the ice. Why wouldn't they have done this beforehand to guarantee their safety longer? Not to mention, hundreds of bodies on the apparently weak ice would have fallen through if a simple hit from a hammer smashed through it like paper.
But wait, it gets worse still. Dany and the dragons, busy training with Goku in the hyperbolic time chamber, use instant transmission to get there and save the day (even though dragons wouldn't go beyond the wall previously). The white walkers are prepared for this though, and use a frozen spear weapon to take down one of her flying dragons, while she and the entire crew except John, sit on the dragon about to leave. Why he didn't use it on Drogon, the biggest, most powerful, and non flying dragon was honestly insulting to watch.
But hold on, John is going to continue to fight the dead even though they're all ready to leave. He gets dragged into the water while doing so. Somehow he swims back up and is saved by former character, long turned 100% plot device of the North, Benjen Stark. Why did the dead start to leave anyway? They're shown a few scenes later dragging the dragon out of the water to be turned. Somehow they made this one of the more relatively believable parts of the episode due to the sheer amount of idiotic writing.
This episode had to have more plot convenience and awful writing than the previous 6 seasons combined. Honestly it was insulting to watch. Especially when you consider all of the great characters who comprised this group and all they've been through. I understand they needed a way to get the army of the dead past the wall, but by god, the stupid theories of them walking on the frozen sea would've been better than this.
I don't know if I can keep watching this show after this episode. Might take a break for a while. I remembered it being bad but not quite this braindead.
What starts off as a fairly promising episode of many interesting characters getting together beyond the wall, might be the worst episode in all of GOT. The banter between the Hound and some others was good. That's about where the good ends.
They ambush a group of the dead and capture one. They wait until it's already screeched to cover its mouth. Stupid but whatever I can live with it.
Then the army of the dead comes and they get saved by the ice cracking and the dead not being able to swim. But wait, some can because they pop back up and attack them in the second battle there.
Gender runs back and gets word to Ser Davis who has their maester send word to Danny, who is about as far away on the continent as you could be from the North. And somehow the news gets there on time, she flies all the way up the continent, and saves them just in time. Braindead writing. Even if the dragon is as fast as a modern jet, the pigeon getting there would've taken days, if not weeks.
But wait, it gets even worse. To trigger the second battle accidentally, the hound throws a few stones at the dead and they realize the water is now frozen enough to cross. Why they weren't trying to cross before this is wild, especially when they have essentially infinite numbers.
So the dead attack again, and the Hound easily smashes through the ice. Why wouldn't they have done this beforehand to guarantee their safety longer? Not to mention, hundreds of bodies on the apparently weak ice would have fallen through if a simple hit from a hammer smashed through it like paper.
But wait, it gets worse still. Dany and the dragons, busy training with Goku in the hyperbolic time chamber, use instant transmission to get there and save the day (even though dragons wouldn't go beyond the wall previously). The white walkers are prepared for this though, and use a frozen spear weapon to take down one of her flying dragons, while she and the entire crew except John, sit on the dragon about to leave. Why he didn't use it on Drogon, the biggest, most powerful, and non flying dragon was honestly insulting to watch.
But hold on, John is going to continue to fight the dead even though they're all ready to leave. He gets dragged into the water while doing so. Somehow he swims back up and is saved by former character, long turned 100% plot device of the North, Benjen Stark. Why did the dead start to leave anyway? They're shown a few scenes later dragging the dragon out of the water to be turned. Somehow they made this one of the more relatively believable parts of the episode due to the sheer amount of idiotic writing.
This episode had to have more plot convenience and awful writing than the previous 6 seasons combined. Honestly it was insulting to watch. Especially when you consider all of the great characters who comprised this group and all they've been through. I understand they needed a way to get the army of the dead past the wall, but by god, the stupid theories of them walking on the frozen sea would've been better than this.
I don't know if I can keep watching this show after this episode. Might take a break for a while. I remembered it being bad but not quite this braindead.
