"There were countless reports on social media of people running the episode back and freeze-framing it as if it were the Zapruder film, to confirm whether a particular character lived or died, or if they were confusing them with another character."https://www.vulture.com/2019/04/game-of-thrones-the-long-night-too-dark.html …
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I completely agree with almost all of this — and the approach he discusses also led me to feel weirdly detached even from characters I care about. I’m shocked to see people tweeting about the number of times they cried. Never got anywhere close to that (and I’m a crier).
I've never been super great at keeping track of the characters on this show. This season I'm finding myself looking forward to a second watch on Monday or Tuesday nights to actually understand it all, after I've read a dozen essays
