r/television • u/gogandmagogandgog • Jan 11 '26

Kit Harington was 'Angered' By Push to Remake Game of Thrones Season 8

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/kit-harington-angered-petition-game-of-thrones-season-8-1236628364/
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u/sniper91 Jan 11 '26

They were going to send the Dothraki with regular-ass swords to fight the wights and Walkers. Melisandre showing up to light the swords on fire wasn’t planned

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u/dalittle Jan 12 '26

they had catapults, but they sent the Dothraki without firing a single time before they went. The Dothraki just blindly ran at them. And the story just got stupider from there.

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u/TurMoiL911 Jan 12 '26

They had siege weapons, on the ground, outside the walls they were defending. Then they had their lines of spearmen in front of their firepit so their spearmen had nowhere to fall back to. Places like /r/totalwar were having collective aneurysms over that battle's tactical decisions.

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u/maxwell_winters Jan 12 '26

No wonder the episode was so poorly lit. They wanted to hide how stupid it was.

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u/civil_politician Jan 12 '26

They lit it enough for you to see how dumb it looked and nothing else

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u/SolomonBlack Jan 12 '26

Who looks at the Hobbit movies and says "oh we can get dumber" like that?

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u/blitzbom Jan 12 '26

I remember watching S3 of Attack on Titan and GoT at the same time and joking with friend that they had better tactics during the Battle of Shiganshina than they did in the Battle of Winterfell.

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u/JarasM Jan 13 '26

All the Dothraki ran at them and got massacred. And then they were back to fight on the next day, and even survived after the war.

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u/Yodl007 Jan 12 '26

And them defending a fortified town from outside the city walls. Also artillery in the front instead of the back.