You can opt out anytime. Well, not a loss , per se. Vinnie: HBO just set cask after cask of wildfire under my brain and lit the fuse.
And then for good measure a group of grubby homeless children stabbed it repeatedly with daggers. Game of Thrones blew up my brain and stabbed it with daggers, Ben. With daggers, Ben! Vinnie: βBay of Dragons behind like a shitty ex-boyfriend to be looked over by her actual shitty ex-boyfriendβ¦but first we need to discuss Cersei Lannister.
I genuinely think the 10 or so minutes of lead-up to the wildfire explosion is up there with some of my favorite Game of Thrones ever produced. Ben: I actually have a few gripes with this season finale but yes, that was phenomenal. Game of Thrones is usually such simple, linear show. You get big action sequences, yes, but dialogue-heavy interactions are usually so straightforward that they could take place on the stage.
No fancy editing, minimal music. But this was just⦠nerve-wracking! It was just such a departure for a show that usually runs through plot at Littlefinger stagecoach speed. It was like the mandate was for this not to feel like GOT for fifteen minutes and it worked. Those creepy little children will live on in my nightmares. Vinnie: Yes! That Phantom of the Opera -ass score was so un- Game of Thrones -like, and yet made it all feel more urgent than any battle between any bastards ever could.
Ben: And as we gruesomely learned this episode, that dude fucks. Silicon Valley reference. Vinnie: From that moment to the second the High Sparrow evolved into a green phoenix, everything had this awful, thrilling dream-like quality to it.
