
Not only did she rid Westeros of its one true existential threat, but she also succeeded where Dany failed. Heifetz: When the Red Woman lit the Dothraki swords on fire, my jaw dropped and I drooled on the person next to me so hard that you would’ve thought Arya had stabbed me in the face like she did that wight in the library.īereznak: Arya psyching out the Night King and stabbing him in his ice gut was an MVP move for the ages, and would’ve made Syrio Forel weep with pride.

So where does the show go from here? #TalkTheThrones: Breaking down the Battle of Winterfell and Episode 3 of the final season of #GameOfThrones.

The battle we waited nearly a decade for is over. But no other sequence combined the clarity, suspense, and stunning visuals of the doomed Dothraki attack.
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I didn’t share the common complaint that the battle scenes were too dark or chaotic-they were just dark enough to remind me that the night was full of terrors, and chaotic only when the characters they featured were supposed to be bewildered, which was partly a product of the White Walkers’ literal fog of war. Lindbergh: The moment we learned that the series will end with three Theon-less episodes was up there, but it can’t top the charge of the Dothraki light brigade. A compelling, coherent human moment in an episode heavy on nonsense spectacle. That last one feels a little deflating in hindsight, but it was awesome in the moment.
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Gruttadaro: Each and every moment involving Arya, from taking down wights with ease to the brief, high-tension horror movie scene to when she Air Jordan’ed and did the Rey knife drop from The Last Jedi and ended the Night King. Katie Baker : The great news is that climate change is a hoax!!! 2.

Disappointment is also a sort of surprise. Dragons Are A Waste of Time and Eat Too Much: My Column- alyssa bereznak April 29, 2019īen Lindbergh : We want Game of Thrones to surprise us, and on Sunday it did-just not always in welcome ways.
