From what I read, the episode was never tested as a stream, and the compression algorithm messed it up and made the quality quite awful.
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It really needed a good 20mbit. NowTV gave it 5. Dunno what HBO streaming did.
The Scots are wild all right, wild...lings?The White Walkers are something,... Other.
Sure, but if they had shot in summer they'd have light from 4am to 10pm. The thing with Battle of the Bastards was that it was mostly man on man/woman. But Zombie army and dragons would need a lot more CG.
It seemed like a Pyrrhic victory to me, unless Jon and Daeny held lots of Dothraki and Unsullied in reserve and the two remaining dragons are magically quick to heal. There were plenty of examples of how not to deploy cavalry, artillery, and foot soldiers. This was poor writing -- seemingly to invoke emotional responses in the viewer. The editing of many of the fight scenes reminded me of the Transformers movies. I won't be watching this episode again.
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Daenerys has green eyes, doesn't she ?
Daeny kills Jon.
Arya kills Daeny (and dies)
Glegane Bowl
Jaime kills Cersei (and dies)
Sansa and Tyrion rule
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The Night King will return in the prequel series Better Call Littlefinger.
Sounds good to me!
I put that down to pure arrogance and ego. The Night King is a smirking S.O.B and seems to think he could get away with anything. He probably could of stay behind the wall or at least at the wall, while his army goes forward but it seems the guy needs to saviour in his foe's defeat or enjoys rubbing there faces in demonstrating his power.
Classic Villain Ego Trope IMO.
I was just rewatching the 2nd episode (of season 8), and during the scene where they are sitting by the fire contemplating their imminent deaths Tyrion says "I think we might live". And he was right. All the people there (Tyrion, Jaime, Brienne, Podrick, Davos, Tormund) survived.
Should’ve been violet, like all Targaryens.Daenerys has green eyes, doesn't she ?
So classy...
Apparently most of America's fault, as that's been a common complaint in almost 100% of reviews of this episode. The cinematographer also attempted to blame all of us for it, but came off pretty whiny. Yes, I certainly COULD have adjusted the brightness of my TV to maximum to better see the action, but since my tv is actually properly calibrated, and I watched on a 60" TV in a dark room at night, I'm thinking I'm not the problem. Especially since the TV seems to be calibrated for every other show on it, plus all of the scenes from THIS episode that were better lit. In fact, I was rooting for more dragons/fire, because those were much more visible! Of course, if I'd adjusted the brightness to see the dark scenes a little better, the regular scenes would have been crappy and washed out, so I'm not pausing every 30 seconds to decide on a new brightness level. I could see the scenes that were lit properly just fine!
Also, i streamed the episode via DirecTV Now (not a great service, but it's free due to my cell phone plan, so not paying $15/mo to cable company for a channel I already get). Not sure how much the streaming services were compressing the signal, but was definitely blocky/blotchy on top of the lack of light. I've got Gigabit fiber through FIOS, so seems like my connection speed probably can't be blamed either.
They just made some poor decisions shooting this one. Most expensive episode (if I recall) that they've ever shot, and then they lit it so people couldn't see what they spent all that money on. And when called on it, got defensive and blamed the viewers. Yeah, no dice
Actually, he didn't. Or at least he threw that out at the end. It was full of blame for the viewers up front. We didn't watch it correctly, people don't know how to tune their TVs properly, shouldn't watch on small screens, also it was intentionally dark and you aren't meant to see everything. He said "it wasn't too dark because HE shot it".
I don't even see the quote about streaming in the couple articles i just looked through, but recall seeing that in one yesterday that had the same interview, so know he mentioned it towards the end. Either way, shitty response to the complaint. And streaming is a fact of life, and probably the most popular way to watch his episodes, so they need to account for that when filming. Can't get pissy if you film a movie for IMAX, have everyone complain about getting sick/dizzy, and then yell at them for watching on too big a screen. it's an IMAX movie, dummy...
https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/gam...rapher-dark-battle-of-winterfell-episode.html
I don't even see the quote about streaming in the couple articles i just looked through, but recall seeing that in one yesterday that had the same interview, so know he mentioned it towards the end. Either way, shitty response to the complaint. And streaming is a fact of life, and probably the most popular way to watch his episodes, so they need to account for that when filming. Can't get pissy if you film a movie for IMAX, have everyone complain about getting sick/dizzy, and then yell at them for watching on too big a screen. it's an IMAX movie, dummy...
https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/gam...rapher-dark-battle-of-winterfell-episode.html
We deal with compression on bluerays (technically even analog is compressed thanks to interlacing)
Now TV was streaming 4.8mbit. Blueray is 35-40mbit.
Typical contribution bitrate for programs starts at 45mbit.
Emmission bitrates for HD is supposed to over 10mbit
It's an indictment on penny pinching of streaming services more than the artists.
Now TV was streaming 4.8mbit. Blueray is 35-40mbit.
Typical contribution bitrate for programs starts at 45mbit.
Emmission bitrates for HD is supposed to over 10mbit
It's an indictment on penny pinching of streaming services more than the artists.
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