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Occasionally mesmerizing but mostly a blurry slog, it was easily the least ofthe shows specialty battle episodes.
It didnt help that the script of The Long Night, written by series co-creators David Benioff and D.B.
The refusal tokill off any major charactersreads as a loss of nerve.
Im starting to worry thatThroneshas gone soft.
Martins texts and then compressed, expanded, or rearranged for TV.
I suspect something similar happened with the visuals in The Long Night.
(I watched parts of it again on a laptop and it looked a lot less smudgy.)
Unfortunately, very few home TVs are calibrated for dark, cinematic imagery like this.
Unfortunately, the tight framing in certain key action scenes was a problem that even careful calibration couldnt solve.
(Its two, as previews of next weeks episode have confirmed.)
The ghouls even disintegrated like the finger-snap casualties inInfinity War.
There arent even any bones to clean up.
