(05-01-2019, 12:19 PM)Skelas Wrote: Angry Joe has a pretty good rant on the episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5VnIGxAPts
I totally disagree with his rant.
1. He is confusing the books with the show which are not the same thing. The prophecy has only been mentioned with a single sentence in the entire show. If you are only a show watcher the prophecy isn't even known. Plus the prophecy in the books says nothing about who kills the Night King. Joe has put HIS OWN interpretation on the prophecy which GRRM has warned his readers to be careful of. Just because Joe thinks he knows what the prophecy means doesn't mean he actually does. Now he is mad he got it wrong.
2. He is bitching that the most bad ass mother fucker on the show is the one that killed the Night King? uh? He hates that the toughest mother fucker that is alive killed the toughest mother fucker that is dead? What?
3. Would he have felt better if this episode was episode 6? He is mad that this isn't the end? Have you not been paying attention?
4. He has totally lost perspective on the scope of this fight and the Walkers. Just so we are straight, the Walkers won at the Fist, they crushed everyone at Hardhome, they crushed the wall, they crushed the Last Harth, if you want to include the books they have won a few more battles as well. The largest army ever assembled fights them at Winterfell and they kick the shit out of that army as well. Winterfell is a route just like every other battle. Only this time the NK gets his hubris put in check.
THE ONLY OTHER OUTCOME possible for Joe is the Night King wins. IF you are disappointed in this episode then the only outcome that could make you happy is the dead win. No other outcome could make Joe happy based on his rant. The Army of the dead couldn't be beaten, you had to assassinate the Night King period. This was not a winnable battle. I believe Jon clearly laid it out that assassination was the only option. The battle itself was a diversion. The problem with Joe's rant is he doesn't come out and say he wanted the dead to win. He wants living to win but totally ignores that the battle itself wasn't relevant. Joe's stance makes no sense.
Ultimately this is the problem today with social media.
SOOO many people build up their theories on how they think the story should go that they end up taking a side on how the story should end before they even see the end of the story. When the story play's out this leads to nitpicking that makes no sense.
Hey, you don't like story? Fine, but if you presume how the story ends you can never be satisfied.
Joe is someone that would be pissed if Jon really wasn't the son of Lyanna and Rheagar. Why? Because it has been speculated so long that he is that if the story turned out he wasn't EVEN if the story was good Joe would still be disappointed.
People have serious problems keeping book and other media mediums separated. The story has been around so long that too many folks have built into their head there own story. When they watch something that didn't match what was in there head they can't enjoy the story any longer.