'Game of Thrones' Season 8, Episode 3 review: 'The Long Night'
By Alyssa Rosenberg Alyssa Rosenberg Opinion writer covering culture Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 28 at 11:47 PM Note: I’m reviewing “Game of Thrones” from the perspective of someone who has read all of George R.R. Martin’s novels, while my colleague David Malitz, who hasn’t read the books, will be writing straight recaps. His write-up of Episode 3,"The Long Night,” will appear at The Post’s Style Blog.
It’s absolutely true that a battle sequence can be powerful if it’s filmed in a way that gives you a sense of how disorienting it must be for the participants. But, crucially, a great cinematic battle helps the viewer emotionally understand that chaos even as it gives those of us watching at home a clarity the characters lack. I get, for example, that Jon and Daenerys were lost in the clouds during the Night King and Viserion’s attack.
Perhaps it’s bloodthirsty of me to wish “Game of Thrones” still had the nerve it once possessed to communicate just how dangerous this world is by killing off its main characters. But that wasn’t the only way in which “The Long Night” felt decidedly conventional. Once, “Game of Thrones” was the kind of series where little Lady Lyanna Mormont would have gotten squashed as flat as Oberyn Martell when she met up with a maurading undead giant. On Sunday, it was the sort of show where she at least got her licks in, taking down an adversary many, many times her size on the way. The show used to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Now, the heroes actually get to die as heroes.
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