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I’ve had this discussion enough times to know that this is a minority opinion, but the battle of winterfell is a masterpiece. The darkness in that scene does so
by Godel_unicode 4y ago
I’ve had this discussion enough times to know that this is a minority opinion, but the battle of winterfell is a masterpiece. The darkness in that scene does so much to add to the tension that it’s essentially another character.
Watch it on a good screen in a dark room, and come away wishing other nighttime shots were done that way.
Edit: darkness is like a good score. It adds a ton but it doesn’t degrade well and people with potato setups won’t be able to see/hear.
- kyleyeats 4y agoGoT had several nighttime battle scenes with great lighting. I think that was the problem. They had to go darker than the fights they already showed.
- Godel_unicode 4y agoI don’t understand the reasoning here, are you saying that GoT was a tech demo? To me it made sense that as the show got further along and the situation grew more dire that it would be visibly darker as a metaphor.
- kyleyeats 4y agoSure, it's a tech demo. If you set the brightness on the demo to 7 early on and say "This is dark," you can then turn it down to 5 later and that will seem even darker. The idea is to start at 7, not at 5, because when you have to turn it down to 3 you can't see anything. The Craster's fight and the wall fight were both at night and looked great. But maybe they should have been a bit brighter so there was more room for the narrative dimming and actually seeing things. This all feels like betting into an empty pot, though, because the darkness of episode 3 isn't even a top-10 season 8 complaint for me.
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- lmm 4y agoThe problem is that if you've already done a battle scene that's as dark as reasonable, you have a problem when you then want to "go darker".