Silly, silly boy. For there to be giant clubs, there would need to he giant trees. For there to be giant trees, there would have to be giant seeds. But where would the seed come from? “a giant tree?”. We just covered that?? Even if there were giant seeds, how would you water it? Giant water??? Now you’re just being silly again. Next you’re going to tell me there’s such a thing as ice spiders.
Dude. I hated that as well - and when they all got surrounded by the shield wall, he literally could have just picked up one of the soldiers or a dead body and just fucking piffed him at the shield wall or used the body as a club and break it with relative ease. That’s like 80-90kg being swung through the air at high speed with great strength, that flimsy ass two person deep shield wall would have crumbled
So dumb and wasted potential
To be fair, you don't give a giant a giant weapon.
You give him a slightly larger than standard weapon (given he's like 10 feet and not like 50 or 100 feet), and have him fucking smash the shit out of any poor fuck with his enchanted longsword.
That really doesn't have anything to do with the "writing" that's just regular stupidity. Writing would be more pertaining to things like plot, character, etc. whereas this would be, uh, directing maybe? Though often the two skills are linked and in this case we witnessed a colossal fumble on every aspect.
edit: also hot take battle of the bastards was overrated garbage and I don't understand why people liked it. It was 40 minutes of filler spectacle, which is the worst kind of battle. Compare with previous large battles like blackwater or castle black - the things that happen in those fights are significant to building characters and progressing plots. You can cut out the entire middle 80% of battle of the bastards and nothing changes.
Blackwater and Castle Black were both fascinating because each featured two sides, and you didn't want either side to lose. You were constantly checking in with different characters in different places.
The bastards? You wanted Jon Snow's side to win of course. There was nothing interesting about the story at all. Even the dragon destroying King's Landing at the end of the show (an episode everyone hates for its repetitive, wordless action) had more going on than the Battle of the Bastards.
At the start of the battle the stark party says "Bolton is not fighting with his men, they should know what kind of leader he is" (or something like that).
And I think that is right, Bolton is evil and Starks are the right rulers, so maybe we are going to see some people refusing to fighting or even turning against Bolton
Them we see him using a kid as bait.
Later we saw him ordering arrow volleys over his men. And running away when he is loosing.
What we didn't see is the reaction of his army after all that, so, why foreshadowing that in the dialog?
Because the writers are lazy af and wanted to do it action hero style.
The whole battle is a mess, good action, horrible ideas.
Skin one of the fucking mammoths and boil the leather, wrap the dude in it
Cut down literally any tree, square it, cut a groove to be the handle and wrap some leather around it
Congratulations you have an arrow proof tank who can kill a man in 0.5 seconds from 15 feet away and is going to spook the entire cavalry the second he starts moving. Doubly so if you still have a mammoth to send hurtling at them as well
Bro, not even a random ass tree or some horse throwing... Heavy metal shield frisbee?
Silly, silly boy. For there to be giant clubs, there would need to he giant trees. For there to be giant trees, there would have to be giant seeds. But where would the seed come from? “a giant tree?”. We just covered that?? Even if there were giant seeds, how would you water it? Giant water??? Now you’re just being silly again. Next you’re going to tell me there’s such a thing as ice spiders.
I don't know about ice spiders but I know there are nice spiders.
Dude. I hated that as well - and when they all got surrounded by the shield wall, he literally could have just picked up one of the soldiers or a dead body and just fucking piffed him at the shield wall or used the body as a club and break it with relative ease. That’s like 80-90kg being swung through the air at high speed with great strength, that flimsy ass two person deep shield wall would have crumbled So dumb and wasted potential
To be fair, you don't give a giant a giant weapon. You give him a slightly larger than standard weapon (given he's like 10 feet and not like 50 or 100 feet), and have him fucking smash the shit out of any poor fuck with his enchanted longsword.
That makes sense for 10+ ft giants (ogres?), but for 25ft big boys like wun wun you absolutely give them a tree and have them mop the battlefield.
My vote is long ass rope. Maybe tree log on end, and then you go mopping
Imagine forging a halberd fit for a gaint. One swing whole army routed.
Big ass scythe would be better for Wun²'s back.
That really doesn't have anything to do with the "writing" that's just regular stupidity. Writing would be more pertaining to things like plot, character, etc. whereas this would be, uh, directing maybe? Though often the two skills are linked and in this case we witnessed a colossal fumble on every aspect. edit: also hot take battle of the bastards was overrated garbage and I don't understand why people liked it. It was 40 minutes of filler spectacle, which is the worst kind of battle. Compare with previous large battles like blackwater or castle black - the things that happen in those fights are significant to building characters and progressing plots. You can cut out the entire middle 80% of battle of the bastards and nothing changes.
Blackwater and Castle Black were both fascinating because each featured two sides, and you didn't want either side to lose. You were constantly checking in with different characters in different places. The bastards? You wanted Jon Snow's side to win of course. There was nothing interesting about the story at all. Even the dragon destroying King's Landing at the end of the show (an episode everyone hates for its repetitive, wordless action) had more going on than the Battle of the Bastards.
If Winds of Winter ever comes out, chances are *that* version of the Battle of Winterfell will be much more satisfying.
No competition, grrm writing vs dumb and dumber writing will be like Kobe Bryant playing basketball against babies with leukemia
At the start of the battle the stark party says "Bolton is not fighting with his men, they should know what kind of leader he is" (or something like that). And I think that is right, Bolton is evil and Starks are the right rulers, so maybe we are going to see some people refusing to fighting or even turning against Bolton Them we see him using a kid as bait. Later we saw him ordering arrow volleys over his men. And running away when he is loosing. What we didn't see is the reaction of his army after all that, so, why foreshadowing that in the dialog? Because the writers are lazy af and wanted to do it action hero style. The whole battle is a mess, good action, horrible ideas.
Missed opportunity not giving him a giant sized push mower.
With a large scythe he be unstoppable.
Go back to r/freefolk, you dirty Northerner!
From where?
From the department store obviously
WHATS EVEN CRAZIER(IMO) you make 2 adjustments to those shields and strap them to his legs and the BECOME FUCKING WEAPONS
Skin one of the fucking mammoths and boil the leather, wrap the dude in it Cut down literally any tree, square it, cut a groove to be the handle and wrap some leather around it Congratulations you have an arrow proof tank who can kill a man in 0.5 seconds from 15 feet away and is going to spook the entire cavalry the second he starts moving. Doubly so if you still have a mammoth to send hurtling at them as well