Hah! Right? The right wing in general tends to think (going back to Nixon) that “high crimes and misdemeanors” MUST include an actual crime, i.e. the violation of a statute in the Criminal Code. The Founders, however, wrote this shit up before the US had established a criminal code. So!! *bzzzzt* Thanks for playing,…

I’m so glad I’m not the only one who thinks he talks like a bad knockoff of 80's mobsters. It’s like this dipshit watched Goodfellas and thought that was how to criminal properly.

Yep.

It’s part and parcel of Trump’s standard strategy.

When a woman came forward to claim that Trump raped her at one of these parties when she was 13, Trump supporters hunted her down and sent death threats to her family. So she withdrew the complaint. We saw similar behaviour against Christine Blasey Ford for speaking out against Kavanaugh.

So you’re saying he kept a pedo file?

Sounds like you learned the word “trope” today and couldn’t wait to use it as much as possible. 

I kind of agree with what you’re saying, if not with how you’re saying it. I didn’t love this episode. When Jorah came back as a survivor from the initial charge, I was like, “Oh, that’s how this is going to be.”

Yeah, it was nothing but pure idiot ball and cliches (much like everything the last couple seasons).

I think you are forgetting that all the main characters are at least 15th level by now and have tons of XP, magic weapons (Valarian Steel) and enough Feats and high enough Saving Throws that they should be able to survive an attack of this magnitude by swarms of lower level monsters. It is the level 1 or 2 NPC’s that…

It is pretty cheesy that Joren Mormont lead the screaming, flaming sworded Dothraki horde into the wight army and he’s the only one who returned. snert. 

Everything you say is true and I would even argue that Arya is unsatisfying because the execution feels so Deus Ex Machina as do so many of the last minute saves in this episode.

This episode did suffer from a significant abundance of plot armor. 

Two minutes into the battle I says to myself, “Self, this whole thing is gonna be dark and obscured because that’s how they cut dollars out of the filming budget.” After that, I couldn’t find a lot of things to be upset about.

Old-school GoT would have had Lady Mormont getting squashed rather easily and quickly just to show that a battle is no place for a young girl.

You forgot the most annoying one.  Major character is about to be murdered by evil henchman, only for henchman to be killed at the last moment by major character’s ally.  This happened over, and over, and over in this episode.  That’s actually the only one that really bothered me.

I’m somewhat sympathetic to some of what you’re saying, but a few things:

Yup, pretty much all of this.

This battle has been teased since the show began in 2011, so it needed to be unbelievably epic—more epic than all the other epic battles the series has given us. This was a daunting task, and Game of Thrones succeeded...