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Game of Thrones: The Last of the Starks (2019)
Preparation Episode
The episode is loading the climax for the final confrontation. It seems that Jamie is preparing to extend his kingslayer alias to the queenslayer. Daenerys is preparing to be the king's wife instead of the queen herself.
The episode is the continuation of the beautiful The Long Night episode, that has inverted the villains falling destiny: the night king first, the lannister queen second.
Technically, the last episodes are lasting longer than before and that is probably a minus. A different choice of making more and shorter episodes could have be done. But probably the willing to have a pace violent change dictated the fewer longer episodes size. The additional 20 minutes were indeed brutally different from the first hour. I would have preferred 6 last episodes of 55 minutes instead of 4 last episodes of 80 minutes, thus making the season 8 standard episodes long.
Let's prepare to the grand finale, and let's enjoy it as far as it lasts... sadly in two weeks it will be all over.
Star Trek: Discovery: Saints of Imperfection (2019)
Stepping away from what Star Trek represents
When I was a child, there was only the original series. As soon as TNG was aired, it took me some time, but at last I agreed with Gene Roddenberry that TNG was even better than the orginal series. Then a bunch of new series came around, all more or less good, with a peak, for me, given by Deep Space Nine.
15 years have passed, and now we have a new opportunity: Discovery. I'm sadly coming to the conclusion that this series is a failure, and I can't see, at the moment, any reason to be optimistic for its future.
This episode was probably the rock bottom of the series and things will be going better later, but I can't undervalue, so far, the fact that continuous resurrections, all the mycelium subject, the debased Section 31 are big hits to the Star Trek credibility.
Is this getting a fantasy rather than a sci-fi series? This is ok, but it's not what Star Trek has been representing for decades, and it's not what I like.
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
Everything is getting to its place
This was a movie. It was not only an episode of a series, it was a real movie, 90 minutes long full of action, meanings, and surprises.
Yes, you are supposed to have been watching all the previous 69 episodes and understood well all the dynamics, but, if you did, everything seems to smoothly take its place.
We had a genocide. The Dhotraki are gone. All, and all together, within seconds. Nobody probably expected that, but they died with honor, fighting, as their fate would dictate.
Jorah gave his life for his queen, and saved her. It was in his fate, but it was all but certain it would have happened against the Night King army.
The Night King is gone. And Arya killed him. She had been training a long time for that, she had beed given the knife by her brother, who trapped the Night King gently, waiting for the fate to be done. Many were thinking that Jon would have done it, but they were wrong, Jon role is probably against Cersei, Arya is simply a better choice, and came gracefully and unexpected.
The red woman achieved the victory of the light against the night. And her fate was done, she could leave her necklace and die by age.
Many of the other characters are alive, because there is still a war to be fought. But they are decimated, they have no dragons (with a question mark here) anymore and the next fight will be much more even than predicted.
I can't wait for the next "movies" (not episodes) that will complete a memorable TV series. I'm curious about the reorganization of the Targaryen army against the Cersei one. I expect much from the ironborn, I'm curious about the Essos forces and I expect the second sons to come back to the middle.
That is Game of Thrones. That is a great form of art of our century. That will probably join other masterpieces in history books.
Game of Thrones: The Spoils of War (2017)
No words to describe this masterpiece
Game of Thrones has accustomed us over the years to find the best adjectives, the superlatives or to go looking for completely new words to describe some of the most captivating episodes.
With "The Spoils o War", with 9 episodes to go, I think we are over in the game. It's simply too reductive to look for words. You have to see it to get what are my feelings about the episode.
I have just finished watching it. And I'm going to watch it again... right now.
10.0/10
Enterprise: Azati Prime (2004)
Turning point
One of the best star trek episodes ever produced. The pathos the episode is capable to transmit is at very high level, making it very close to episodes like "the best of both worlds" in TNG or "Angels' Sacrifice" in DS9. The episode is a turning point of the whole season, things will happen differently and faster after it. Emotions, honor and battle are the main topics of the episode, and some stress-driven decisions will hit the spectators for the lack of humanity, a concept often shown during season three of Enterprise. 40 minutes of pure star trek style that are likely to be the most remembered of the series. One certain thing is that you won't be able to wait for the following episodes after seeing at this one.