War of the Sparks vs Endgame vs The Battle of Winterfell

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Posted on April 30, 2019, 6:25 a.m. by Eledain

Easy question: Which one of the three did you enjoy the most?

Caerwyn says... #2

First off, everyone be really, really careful not to post spoilers on this thread. Remember, not everyone has had time to see the film/episode of the TV show yet, and your posts will appear on the recent comments section of the homepage.

I have not seen the Battle of Winterfell, but I also do not expect to. The writing of Game of Thrones deteriorated rapidly once they started deviating from the source material, so I gave up on the show. I'm really hoping at least one of the upcoming high fantasy TV shows will live up to its promise, and not drop the ball like GoT did.

I have not read the book for War of the Spark yet, but got the gist of the story from the really cool way they used spoiler season to tell the tale. Unfortunately, I thought the set itself was rather dull--I found amass to be fairly boring to play with, and generally do not find planeswalkers particularly fun.

So, for me, Endgame wins by default. That said, without spoiling anything, I thought Endgame was a great way to capstone the first phase of Marvel's ambitious project, and was quite happy with how things turned out.

April 30, 2019 10:39 a.m.

Eledain says... #3

I expected more for all three of them especially Winterfell and Endgame, but for me it is:

The Battle for Winterfell > Endgame > War of the Sparks

Game of Thrones as a whole is still the best thing I ever saw entertainment wise.

Let´s see what the second half of season three for Attack on Titan will bring.

April was a real good month for fantasy fans. :-)

April 30, 2019 10:45 a.m.

Caerwyn says... #4

Eledain - If you asked me a couple years ago, I'd have agreed that GoT was one of the best pieces of entertainment on Television, but I think a lot of that is attributable to George R.R. Martin's writings. Every single time the screenwriters have deviated from the books I have been disappointed--I've found the screenwriters tend to focus on sensationalism, rather than the well-developed characters the series initially became famous for. The point where I gave up on the show was when one character made a decision that was completely out of character, to the point it became clear the writers did not really understand who they were working with.

Game of Thrones rant aside, I'm also super excited about season 3.5 of AoT. I have not had a chance to watch the first episode yet, but I have high hopes.

April 30, 2019 11:01 a.m.

Eledain says... #5

Could be a better if you read the books after the movies. Did it so with Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and will do it with Game of Thrones (if they ever will be finished, what they won't be, because of the Lord of the Rings series).

For AoT I will wait until season three is finished to watch it, it's way cheaper if you don't have to wait a week for every new episode.

War just felt bad somehow. Most franchises shy to kill important characters, even if it would be good for the story.

April 30, 2019 11:12 a.m.

ShutUpMokuba says... #6

I would say, in terms of entertainment: GOT > Avengers > WotS.

In terms of consistency with all the plot i would say: Avengers > WotS > GOT.

GOT episode has a lot of problem, according to me, with consistency BUT is was super entertaining. It lasted like 80 minutes and i've felt like it lasted 20 minutes. Avengers was ok. I liked way more infinity war. WotS had basically one moment relevant: Gideon sacrifices for liliana and she beats Bolas. I was very disappointed for what they did with Ugin, Karn and Niv that being the eldest/more experienced and also super powered characters. I expected them to be way more plot relevant.

About my criticsm on last episode of GOT. Since they book material has finished the consistency within GOT has fallen apart. SPOILERS on the episode: It's the fucking apocalypse but only Edd, Beric, lyanna, Jorah and fucking Theon die. Also what the fuck was Bran doing all the time? I'm pretty ok with the NK dying by Arya. My problem is this: The episode, at least for how it is directed, has as climax the moment in which the Night king is going to kill Bran. My problem is this: Why is so important that the NK himself kills Bran? He never exposed himself, so why risking everything to kill bran when a bunch of wighs could have killed him a couple of minutes before? And why is Bran is so important? Everyone is already going to die in a couple of minutes, so why the death of Bran should mean so much more rather than anyone else? I mean let's say the NK kills bran and Arya kills him only then.. how would that change the whole plot? And don't say please, because he's the memory of the world. Who cares, he's been useless till now.

April 30, 2019 4:23 p.m.

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