16 Jun '19 11:14>
@ghost-of-a-duke saidI agree that the "bigger battles" and "spectacle not story" thing made episode 3 dull and interminable and seemed to have no 'story' to it [always an issue when it's basically like a zombie movie]. But I thought the sacking of King's Landing was spectacular and managed to carry multiple story points at the same time.
@FMF
This was a good review by Esquire:
In fact, it would take something like 25 Lord of the Rings-length movies to tell George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy saga...That's why Seasons Seven and Eight felt so ridiculously rushed. That's why people started teleporting, why once complex characters suddenly became flat, vanished altogether, or morphed into nothing but ...[text shortened]... of the narrative. Instead Benioff and Weiss wanted bigger battles! They wanted spectacle not story.