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Originally Posted by Chiefspants
At the end of the day, it's tough for me to look at this battle through a conventional medieval lens. They never would have been able to "beat" the WW in a conventional fashion, the plan, for better or worse, always had to be to kill the NK.
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The show still could land that point, but they have an awful lot to cover in the last 4 hours of screentime.
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A) Completely agree. Debating with a 'realistic lens' when you're dealing with dragons and zombies is folly and not something I'd have done but/for the efforts at defending the realism of what happened. It wasn't realistic. It doesn't necessarily need to be, but let's not act as though it was.
B) Absolutely. There is still 4 hours or so of screen time and you can do a LOT with that to blunt some of the criticisms we've seen to this point. There are still ways that they could finish this thing and all will be forgiven.
But as of this very second, I'm pretty disappointed. This was a really weak facsimile of the Battle of the Bastards and some of the other high points of the series thus far. When compared to season 6, almost all of what we've seen since has been pretty flat.