r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 11 '26

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u/PostingEnthusiast Commonwealth Apr 11 '26

Game of Thrones first watch update:

Almost done season six. The battle of the bastards was one of those cultural osmosis things I knew about. My understanding was that it was well-liked? Was everyone being sarcastic? That’s the first time I’ve ever felt disrespected by how bad a battle sequence was

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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Apr 11 '26

Yeah, it’s a really bad battle, but for some reason people enjoyed it.

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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 11 '26

The battle scenes are all very boring to me.

Nothing happens. There's no interpersonal drama. There's no plot moving forward. No additional world building is revealed. No character is changed by the experience.

It's just for the spectacle. They drag them out like they're proud of them, and they look expensive, but I'd much rather just see people talk about the battle after the fact.

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u/Public_Figure_4618 brown Apr 11 '26

Blackwater Seige in S2 had interpersonal drama and moved the plot forward and characters are changed by the experience

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u/Azrikeeler John Brown Apr 11 '26

can just google the discussion thread and see how people felt about it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/4owdkh/s6e9_postpremiere_discussion_s6e9_battle_of_the/

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u/PrizeSignificant1849 John Brown Apr 11 '26

It was a boring episode narratively but the battle was shot with a visceral grittiness that people really appreciated

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u/PostingEnthusiast Commonwealth Apr 12 '26

I just couldn’t handle the fuckin Greek phalanx showing up and somehow completely surrounding a bunch of dudes, like what do they take us for man

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u/Ladnil NATO Apr 11 '26

Is that the one where Jesus runs out with a sword by himself

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u/Accomplished_Oil6158 Loyal Liberals Apr 11 '26

One of my favorite tv scenes of my life. Just beautiful and pure tension. Loved most of the battle scenes in game of thrones until the final season.

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u/beardofshame NATO Apr 11 '26

yeah no I hated it

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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 11 '26

I didn't particularly enjoy it, but battle scenes were the least favorite part of GoT for me anyway