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Game of Thrones: The Bells (2019)
I think people are taking things too critically; I provided conversation with a friend
Here let me post my argument I had with my friend between his hatred of the episode, and my refutation:
Him:
First, I will acknowledge the good parts of the episode: Qyburn's death and the Cleganebowl were satisfying, and most of the symbolism (wildfire, cleganes' death, and the little wooden horse) while heavy-handed were neat.
Alright Alex here's how you're wrong and everything and you are smely
1. Tyrion was a dumba** this episode, seriously, in my what world does Jamie actually succeed in his bs?
2. All political dialogue in this episode was a sad attempt at recapturing the feel of the early seasons except every character has a mental disability.
3. I guess they throw away any character development for Jamie. Jesus Christ
4. The scorpion stuff this episode was laughable, from the terrible progression that was Danny's decent to Qyburn's psychic sense that they were destroyed
5. Everything about Euron and Jamie's fight was dumb
6. Alright, here's the worst offense: Danny's fall. It not that I'm butthurt about it, the idea that she becomes the mad queen isn't an inherently bad one, it's just executed terribly. The lead up to this was basically nothing. Yeah, she was kinda mean to Jon when she first met him, and yes she burned those fellas( oh no, she executed pows, not like we see a million good characters do that throughout the show. Guess Nedd Robb and Jon are mad kings too.) Maybe if we got more scenes where she showed how hurt she was that her dragons and her best friend were executed. But no, we can't have that, because it's so rushed. Whatever, fine, she turns evil or whatever. 1, sacking a city isn't really that bad in medieval times for gods sake. Remember when Aegon did the exact same thing 300 years ago and it led to hundred of years of peace? 2. Why did she burn the city first? why wouldn't she annihilate the red keep and then maybe sack the city. It's laughably terrible.
Me:
Alright time to show you why you're wrong, going down point by point:
1.) of course Tyrion went and freed Jaime, it was certain death if he hadn't, and Tyrion himself said that Jaime was the only one there for him because he was the only one that didn't treat him like a monster. His big brother was the the only thing that kept him alive and Tyrion probably would've killed himself in his youth; Jaime wasn't deceiving him, he was obviously going to go through with the plan of taking Cersei to Pentos. And you gotta remember, with all the hate towards Cersei, she is still his sister; Jaime is still his brother; he loves them, despite all the pain.
2.) The political dialogue wasn't bad due to the circumstances. The "stop your forces when the bells ring" was a completely valid thing that needed to be addressed. If they had followed Daenerys's plan from the beginning, they would've destroyed kings landing by the middle of season seven. It was her political advisors trying to keep her down and civil.
3.) No matter what way Jaime died, it would've been disappointing. He's such a good character, and again, he is in love with Cersei. He has been since he was a child. I guarantee you that if Cersei was not his sister, but rather his wife, you would feel better about it. They are in love. Cersei said it herself in season one to Ned "we were in the womb together, we came out together, we belong together". That implies that they die together. The Valoqar prophecy is fulfilled too due to the fact that you can look at it as Jaime led her down to her doom, or that Daenerys killed her, and Daenerys being the youngest sister, it fulfills it.
4.) I agree that the scorpions were not as good, but Dany did out-maneuver them using the fact that she went super fast on drogon, and turned rapidly and didn't stay in a place for too long. Any hunter will tell you that it's so much easier to hit a bird flying in a straight line than it is one that's flying around, and that's even with a shotgun. This is the equivalent of trying to hit one with a rifle. It makes sense how easily she destroyed the iron fleet and the ones on the walls. The only thing I will give up here is the fact that there were a couple of shots where they were not facing the dragon, and that's all that is stupid to me about the scorpions. Also, if you're saying Qyburn's phychic sense is laughable, you can hate on every other battle in any movie or tv show ever, including Game of Thrones. It was used so many times where a scene of "Ser we must retreat they have broken through the defenses". Take fault in all of those too and hail them terrible then as well.
5.) Euron obviously wanted to kill Jaime since he arrived. He wanted to kill the kingslayer and have relations the queen (said so himself in season six just more profane). It was a good and brutal fight.
Now onto your biggest offense:
Dany has been showing her side of being the mad queen since prior to season six. The way she brutally killed the masters in Meereen by crucifixion. You can say that that was poetic justice, but the same thing can be said about her sacking the city when the Lannister's backstabbed them and sacked kings landing in Robert's Rebellion. When she burned the sons of the masters and POTENTIAL son of the harpy members, and those who wanted the fighting pits back open, she unleashed her chained dragons on them. The way she burned the Tarly's as well, and there was a point, I'll yield that, but she destroyed a major house, against the advice of Tyrion. Robb and Ned did not execute prisoners, with Ned, he cut off all ties with Robert due to the fact that he was okay with the execution of innocents until he came up at s1e1, and he would rather resign as hand than go through with a plot to kill an innocent Targaryen halfway across the world. Robb, had a serious problem with prisoners; remember all the shortages they had on cells available? When he wanted to throw his mom in prison, he was refuted with "there are no more cells left, your grace" and he replied back "then build more". Jon never executed prisoners of war, he executed the men who killed him, completely warranted. They broke the law; they didn't commit war crimes with execution of POW. On your second point, we did see her and how she was taking Missandei and her dragon's deaths. The very first thing we heard this episode was "she's not eating my lord". At the end of last episode as well, we got to see her expression change from shock, to grief, to fury. It was the last shot. This episode, her fact that her hair and makeup weren't done show how much Missandei did for her and how she is grieving. Also the fact that she wasn't wearing an extravagant dress also proves this. Also by the fact that she was planning to bring fire and blood to King's Landing shows how she was furious about it as well, and Tyrion talked her down, and so we thought, until she did start to destroy the city. To your third point of sacking the city, yes, it is not a big deal, but in most cases, the people do not voluntarily surrender the city. Also, she has said since season seven, and Tyrion holds her to this, that she wants to break the wheel. You can't do that if you take the approach of Aerys II or Aegon. She originally wanted peace without bloodshed, and that's what led to her meeting with Cersei at the end of last episode. She sought peace without bloodshed. To your fourth point, she burned the city to show how Cersei brought it about, when she really didn't.
Assassin's Creed III (2012)
Jeez this is a good game
I've played AC:III through three times, almost all the characters are great, and I liked the size and missions on the homestead as well as on the frontier. Living through Connor during the revolution is such a fun experience, and you have so much fun doing it too. New ways to kill enemies are fun and creative; against unpopular opinion, I liked rope darts because I just thought they were fun to use, especially if you were perched in a tree and assassinated an enemy below with it, it would hang the enemy so I thought that was new and cool. The only reason this isn't getting a 10/10 is because the main character Connor is a stale piece of paper. The amount of times you hear him say "what would you have me do?" gets very annoying but the game and atmosphere makes up for it.
Five Feet Apart (2019)
Great acting, rushed story, questionable actions
The movie as it stands alone is cute. Both leads portray their characters well, and the movie can be related to The Fault in Our Stars in many respects. However, the movie was terribly rushed but was drawn out. The first hour of the movie had very little character development and instead of developing the characters and letting you make opinions on them, it stated facts and rushed into the characters. For example, when Poe died in the movie, I felt very little because he had not been developed at all.
My other complaint is how picky they are with what they can and cannot do. There were times throughout the movie where you said to yourself "this is not a safe thing for someone with CF to do" but they do it anyway. For example, they dedicated a scene of where Stella vigorously washed her hands and clothes after going in and touching things in Will's room, or when Will wouldn't blow out his candle for fear of contaminating the dessert, but five minutes earlier, Poe is seen cooking with his face in the food that everyone is going to eat. Just didn't make much sense.