{"id":10001,"date":"2019-04-30T11:36:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T16:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=10001"},"modified":"2019-11-14T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:55:32","slug":"a-battle-of-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/10001","title":{"rendered":"A Battle of the Ages?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Abby Koch–<\/strong>After all the buildup over the years, Game of Thrones fans\nhave finally gotten the battle that we have been waiting for. A lot of major\ncharacters were in jeopardy due to how the odds were stacked against the\nliving. The battle itself is the biggest one that has ever been on television and\ndefinitely had audiences nervous at some points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The entire episode revolves around defending Winterfell,\nwhere the journey began. Audiences bounce around the twenty something\ncharacters to see how they are doing against the hordes of undead. The bouncing\naround can be a little bit jarring and I lost track of what characters were\ndoing occasionally. But I also think that is the point of being so shaky with\ntracking characters due to how uncertain it would be if they would survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The biggest problem with the episode is that it is extremely\ndark and hard to see the action. Whenever dragons spit some fire or when\nMelisandre does her fire magic to the Dothraki blades, I cheered for the fact I\ncould actually see what the heck was going on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other big complaint is that I feel like the writers\nweren\u2019t as risky with killing off fan favorite characters in this episode.\nThere were quite few characters I feel like could have been killed off in this\nbattle, like Tormund or Greyworm, that would not have hindered the story with\ntheir death, but rather progressed it. Of course the hesitation to kill off fan\nfavorites may be because the writers of the show have run out of material from\nGeorge R.R. Martin to actually be shocking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know a lot of fans were devastated with the heroic death\nof Lady Mormont, but Jorah\u2019s death had more impact for me. Jorah is a character\nthat we have watched since season one and him going out by protecting Daenerys\nwas most appropriate. Plus, Jorah has been a favorite for me since the\nbeginning and I was bawling my eyes out when he died. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The battle itself was intense from the beginning and always\nhad a slight feeling of dread throughout the entire episode. Audiences were\nlead throughout Winterfell to intense spots of fighting and cued in to the fear\nof not seeing tomorrow. There were moments that audiences could get their hopes\nup for a victory but the Night King\u2019s army would retaliate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those big moments of dread was the Night King\nreviving every single dead person on the battle field and within Winterfell.\nThis a good moment of intense dread due to how many living troops are left to\nfight the dead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to how dark the episode was, audiences could lose that\nfeeling of dread. The biggest example of this was any scene that involved the\ndragons going up against the undead dragon. It lost any tension it had with me\nbecause I could not tell who was attacking who.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The episode does have its fair share of unexplained events\nor actions by characters. This left me and many audiences with more questions\nthan answers. It was almost frustrating that there wasn\u2019t any explanation about\nwhat happened or what a character was doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Battle of Winterfell has its memorable moments but it\ndoes have flaws story wise and how the episode was set up. There were times\nthat it was predictable who would survive, which is a contrast to past seasons.\nThe battle will be remembered for a long time but it is not as memorable as\nsome other battles in TV or movies. I give this episode 7.5\/10 Valyrian steel\nknives.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Abby Koch–After all the buildup over the years, Game of Thrones fans have finally gotten the battle that we have been waiting for. A lot of major characters were in jeopardy due to how the odds were stacked against the living. The battle itself is the biggest one that has ever been on television…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":10002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[53909,53910,53906,53907],"class_list":["post-10001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","tag-arya","tag-battleofwinterfell","tag-got","tag-nightking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10003,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001\/revisions\/10003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}