Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
Season 8, Episode 3
3/10
What has been seen cannot be unseen
8 May 2019
Unfortunately. If I still drank alcohol, I would now try to drink myself senseless in order to forget what I have just witnessed. There was some mercy in this episode. Much of the episode was as if I was watching a black screen. I could not make out what was happening, which was fine as I could do something else instead at the same time as I was "watching" this episode.

At 20 minutes to the episode, I had to pause it. It felt as if I had already wasted an hour of my life. All logic went down the toilet. It was as if someone had vomited their most depressing thoughts on this episode.

There were a couple of decent effects, a few scenes that might have been used in another setting instead of this episode. Music suited most scenes, but in a few I was expecting bombing run by Stukas on the basis of the sound effects.

The wasted potential here is screaming its heart out. This could have been so much better. They just needed to have a bunch of chimpanzees to write the script instead of these "writers" who ought to be given a dunce cap to wear and placed in the corner to shame. Actually, they should be stripped naked and made to walk the shame away. I wish every copy of this episode was placed in a single pit and burned with wildfire so that no-one else in the history of this humankind would be made to suffer the same as I have.

Granted, some acting might have been performed well. It was hard to tell because the director had opted for darkness and pyrotechnics. Unfortunately, I have seen better pyrotechnics at an average rock concert.

It might take a few weeks before I dare to look at the next episode. Might be that this anticlimax just ended the GoT for me and my family. There are just so many better shows available right now. Sadly, none of them are in the fantasy genre.

If I'd wanted to watch action sequence after another, I would have chosen a Chuck Norris / Steven Seagal / Van Damme film instead. They have better choreography in the fighting scenes and more believable story line than this.

1 point for the music. 1 point for the pyrotechnics. 1 point for zombies who acted better than the average actor in this episode.
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