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The pacing did take a very noticeable shift during Season 7, and the travel times got wacky, we saw some of that again in this episode but HBO wanted it wrapped up where Benioff and Weiss I believe wanted an extra season, so from that point of view they've had their hands tied a bit. We are missing the good old days of having a 'filler' scene for dialogue and character development that made a journey seem a bit longer. What we also need to factor in how the storylines have converged as well. Take season 3 where you had distinct plots in Kings Landing, Jaime and Brienne, Arya and the Hound, Jon with the wildlings, Bran and Rickon's travels and Robb Stark at Riverrun, there was loads more jumping around and more storylines to share the screen time. Now we basically have Winterfell and Kings Landing so when you get 30 minutes in each place in the episode instead of 10 minutes the plot will obviously move faster than it used to. That's not to excuse the whole thing though. Early days of season one they spent a whole episode on the journey from Winterfell to Kings Landing and they filled the time with good story telling.

Just watched Episode 4.

The walls of Winterfell weren't ice to be fair but that is pretty nit picky nonetheless. I know it's just a meme but others have made that a genuine complaint. At least those instances were in keeping with his character. He wasn't so much ignorant as Lord Commander, more that he failed to convince the rest of the Watch that what he did was absolutely necessary. The emotional charge at Ramsay is excusable, he did literally just see Rickon get murdered feet away from him after already had the discipline to stay at the Wall when Ned and Robb died, and when he knew Bran had gone Beyond the Wall. On that occasion I don't blame him for going fuck it, I'm done with this shit. His idiotic tactics in the latest episode were a symptom of the overall weird writing so should be treated as a separate entity in my opinion.

The closest Vettel ever came to costing Hamilton the title. @Tommy @Cannabis Discuss.

Unless they single handedly destroyed the army of the dead, all they can achieve by charging them is make a dent, get killed, and get raised by the Night King to join their army. They could have at least used them to flank the wights while the Unsullied had them sort of held still. Same result I'm sure but at least it helps the side they were fighting for rather than charging to guaranteed death in a way that doesn't even slow the enemy down.

I don't even care about who killed the Night King because what happened makes sense. Like that above video describes though, there was absolutely stupid decision making left right and centre that was deliberately done to allow main characters to get into hopelessly dangerous situations which they repeatedly got out of by cutting to a new shot and just letting the superhuman wight-repelling kill streak happen off screen. A couple of 'this character is covered by 7 wights' moments in an episode is forgivable but it happened a foolish amount and they were blatantly lazy about explaining it and just hoped the entire audience lack the critical capacity to go wait a minute how did that happen and instead just get overawed by the spectacle and the ooooooh aaaaaah moments. Game of Thrones is this popular in the first place because they spent years doing the exact opposite. Compare it to other major battles which have spent entire seasons building up to key battles with believable tactics. Tyrion's wildfire plot in season two for Battle of Blackwater and Varys providing him with the map of secret tunnels which they used to turn the battle, sending the group of wildlings over the wall to attack Castle Black from the South in Watchers on the Wall, Hardhome didn't have as much build up but was absolutely epic, terrifying as fuck at the start and the right mix of chaos but you know what's actually happening to key characters. You didn't see Jon Snow get surrounded by 6 wights at Hardhome for them to cut away to Tormund for a bit and then back to Jon who was suddenly inexplicably fine. At the Battle of the Bastards they obviously wanted to have that shot of Jon facing down the Bolton cavalry so they used Rickon to get him out there in believable fashion. They wanted the shot of Sansa and Littlefinger saving the day so they had Jon and his army get surrounded in believable fashion, using real battle tactics, so it was fine. This time we just get two seasons of everyone making a massive deal over getting all of the armies to combine so that they can send the Dothraki on an inexplicable suicide run into the black of night just for the spectacle of the lit up arakhs flying across the field and the chilling scene of the lights going out in the distance. Cool at the time but ultimately totally illogical from a tactical perspective, and then they sacrifice the entire Unsullied army so that they can retreat to the castle. So much for Dany spending 6 years building up her forces. People wouldn't mind as much if they'd gone to the effort to write a plot where the Dothraki charge and the sacrifice of the entire Unsullied army was somehow a sensible thing to do or forced upon the army of the living but they just couldn't be arsed because they think it's enough to give the audience a shot of the flaming Dothraki army flying across the field because "ooh shiny". The other battles had occasions of bullshit in them too, such as Tyrion sprinting at the front of his army when his legs are half the length of the men behind him in Blackwater, Jon conveniently getting left to mourn and not getting stabbed to fuck when Ygritte is dying in his arms, and when he somehow has the reflexes to block the arrows Ramsay Bolton fired at him from point blank range with a wooden shield but when you have small bits like that in an otherwise immense battle sequence, you can say, that's just TV. When it takes up half of the episode in what should have been the battle that topped the absolute lot, people aren't going to enjoy it. That said, I'm only trying to get people to see why others didn't think it was that good. I still enjoyed it, I'm not saying it was "terrible" or "embarrassing" or "ruined Game of Thrones" but when they've set the bar so high with previous battles and had this one built up as the biggest of the lot since the first episode of season one and it doesn't quite hit the heights, people are going to be disappointed. Some people have been reading these books since 23 years ago and this is the first climax they've seen, I it didn't live up to what they were hoping for, they have every right to express their disappointment.

While this criticism is obviously done over the top for effect, a lot of the points people didn't enjoy it as much are clearly covered here. Don't need to watch the full video obviously. I still enjoyed it but agree with most of what this guy says as well. This show became so great because the plot and character development was so good that you didn't need OMFG moments every episode or fake deaths to get an emotional reaction from the audience. Still think many parts of this battle could have been done a lot better.

Being 15 and being 21 is a world apart when it comes to knowing what is and isn't okay. Alright stuff like racist remarks you'll know it's not acceptable but when it comes to considering the consequences of your words or actions on yourself and others, being 15 and being 21 are like I say, a world apart.

The bigger problem is that Twitter and Instagram etc provide a platform for people to put on to the world wide web whatever they like with impunity and stuff like this, and much much worse stuff, is getting fired out onto the internet every second of every day, and it only gets noticed if you're famous enough for someone to trawl back through your posting history. Really you should have to put some sort of legal identification when you open a social media account that only gets seen even by the website administrators themselves if something you post gets reported or triggers some sort of alert. There has to be some way to hold people accountable for what they post online if it's illegal or out of order because it's not acceptable to have a society where people can anonymously make racist comments or even preach hateful religious extremism whilst hiding behind a screen. As for this particular incident though, another non story. People do and say stupid stuff when they're young and the misfortune of Twitter and the internet is that it makes it permanent. It's absolutely crazy though that any Premier League club doesn't have someone monitoring all past social media activity on official accounts of their players the second they turn professional. Choudhury could easily have had this flagged up by a club official a long time ago and gone and removed it before too many people saw it.

Not arsed about that. The only Spanish Grands Prix that have been memorable since I've been watching were 2010 due to Hamilton's late crash and the crowd going mad for Alonso being promoted to 2nd and 2012 due to the sheer randomness of Maldonado winning. Other moments, Kovalainen twatting the tyre wall in 2008, Hamilton and Rosberg twatting each other in 2014(?), Trulli twatting everyone in 2009 and finally, Grosjean twatting everyone and his own career in 2018. So yeah, Catalunya is pretty much watch the first corner crashes and have a nap until it's over. Won't be missed.

I've always read off my Kindle for the last few years. I do get what people are saying about having a real book but since I went to university I've always had a room and maybe a small section of storage space to live in which doesn't lend itself to storing a lot of books.

Davies has signed the contract. He's apparently been reassured about his path going forwards. People criticise him a lot, and a lot of our fans write him off, but we need to bear in mind he hasn't even reached 21 years old yet. Classic case of Everton player hitting the headlines at 18 (goal against City) and everyone thinking he's instantly Rooney come again. The lad's achieved a lot for anyone who hasn't made it to 21 yet, it's just unusual and perhaps a bit underwhelming that he achieved as much at 18 as he has at 20 which makes people think he isn't developing. Even if he doesn't, getting him on a longer contract is a good move from us because he's clearly good enough for lower Premier League or upper Championship and we don't want to be letting our academy products leave for nothing if we can get a fee for them. Obviously prefer to see him become a solid player for us. As an aside, with Kenny and Davies both left off the bench against Crystal Palace, that's the end of our 1000+ game streak of having an academy player in the matchday squad, which is a shame.

Another example of a United player wasting his time on stupid nonsense because he thinks that he's made it just by getting to a big club. Focus on football ffs.

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Just like you claiming "we're going to proper embarrass these" before the Goodison derby only for you to draw and allow City to take the lead in the title fight will never get old if you lose the title by one point .

I did find it uncomfortable because she's younger in the novels and seems younger than she actually is in real life, but in reality even the character is old enough now for it not to be weird, only our perception makes it weird.

Widely considered the best driver never to win the championship (apparently). 66 starts, 24 podiums including 16 wins. If you translate that into the modern day calendar, that's the equivalent of getting 8 or 9 podiums in a twenty race season including 5 wins or so. You'd be surprised if a modern day driver maintained that record for 6-7 years and never got a championship from it.

While the stats look good, I agree that goalkeepers shouldn't be judged on clean sheets. In those four clean sheets, Liverpool only mustered up a couple of meaningful shots on goal, Chelsea not much after the first ten minutes, Arsenal next to nothing and United only managed one shot on target. More of a positive reflection on our defensive unit. Penalty saves can be huge though, I'd dispute that one. If you start to develop a good penalty saving record it can put doubt in the heads of the penalty taker. Obviously I'd rather he wasn't called upon to do it very often.

There's such little hope that United can help Liverpool win the league that they've already given up hoping and just getting on with kicking them while they're down .

Weird what's gone on with Lukaku. He was an absolute physical beast when he played for us yet he bulked up even more and now he's just a Michelin man. Even last season he had a good goalscoring record but right now he looks finished. United's defensive record shouldn't surprise many people. If you look at it objectively, Young, Smalling, Jones, Lindelof would struggle to get into most mid table sides. Shaw is the only defender they have who's half decent. De Gea's form has to be a concern as he's made far too many uncharacteristic errors over a pretty extensive period of time.

Dramatic street races in affluent countries (bonus points for night races) > traditional races on purpose built race tracks.

They've often had a European Grand Prix to milk peak interest in F1 from a country, often that has a successful driver at the time. Most notably in Germany during Schumacher's peak years then in Valencia during Alonso's peak years. All about cash. Having a second one in China seems mad though.

I think he's keen to sign with us but hasn't had anything else stuck under his nose as of yet. Think the club want it done early before the likes of Spurs can get their ducks in a row and potentially tempt him away.