Continue reading Game of Thrones Recap/Review: Season 6, Episode 9 “The Battle of the Bastards” → Battle of the Bastards Game of Thrones GoT S6 In short, “Battle of the Bastards” is an episode that looks good and was enjoyable to watch with a bottle of wine in hand, but it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny as a real quality episode of television.Īs always, spoilers under the cut. And that’s not even touching on the patronizing disrespect with which the show still treats its female characters, even as so-called critics continue to fawn over how “different” the show is this year. Unfortunately, once you really think about what’s underneath the spectacle, there’s still a remarkable amount of stuff going on that doesn’t make sense, a lot of obvious contrivance, and a heavy helping of the same contempt for the show’s source material and audience that has characterized the show since at least season four. The titular conflict in particular is well done in its grim, dark, ugly bloodbath fashion, while in Meereen we finally get some dragon action. With only two settings to worry about this week, it’s a relatively well-constructed episode, and it seems obvious where all the show’s budget went this year-the battle scenes are truly spectacular. This is the first episode of season six that I’ve found more enjoyable than not, and there’s really quite a lot to like about “Battle of the Bastards” from an artistic standpoint. Continue reading Game of Thrones Recap/Review: Season 6, Episode 10 “The Winds of Winter” → Game of Thrones GoT S6 The Winds of Winter Still, most of my reaction is just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. In short, it’s Game of Thrones at its best and worst, and I loved watching it. Unhyperbolically, it’s seriously some of the worst garbage I’ve ever seen masquerading as prestige television, and it’s absolutely clear that the show’s writers do not give a fuck anymore about the source material, audience expectations, or anything else but wrapping up this monstrosity they’ve wrought for the last six years as soon as possible. Add in some blatant fan service, loads of Benioff and Weiss’s peculiarly misogynistic brand of “feminism,” and an absurd amount of teleportation, and things only get worse. This episode, however is a complete mess of weird pacing, unintentional hilarity, bizarre self-importance, and complete disrespect for the source material-we’re talking just absolutely ridiculous adaptational decisions here, folks. I rather liked last week’s episode because-taken in isolation, at least-it was actually a good hour of television. Not good, mind you, and (like the vast majority of season six) mostly nonsensical if you think about it even a little bit, but still a wild ride from start to finish. “The Winds of Winter” was fucking wild, you guys.
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