I have done up tot he half way point at the current time; 803.
I rewatched 710 before jumping in. 801 and 802 were OK. Setting it up.
803 though... I can see perhaps where some of the recent ire and petitions started to come from. It was more like resident evil meets Assassins Creed than GoT. Despite all the action, I neither found it immersive or especially engaging. I can't quite pin 'it'. The battle of the b.....s was far more captivating.
I had to ramp the brightness up on the screen to maximum and still could hardly see anything. I get that they wanted to set-up for the Dothraki "light brigade" cavalry charge set piece and all, but they could have clouded over the moon for it and filmed something other than a black sheet.
They totally missed an opportunity to have some cameos. When the knight king raised the new army and the Stark crypt came to life they should have had Sean Bean running around with a crazed look in his eye.
I don't think that the main characters would have made the mistakes that they made here. Keeping the dragon on the ground as an open target. So willingly and wastefully providing a new army for the knight king. Not preparing for Drogon to come into the picture.
How could they!
I watched it. It was a bit... limp. I don't think that it quite knew what it was, let alone anyone in it. We, the viewer, are no better off understanding wise at the end of it vs. where we were 10 minutes before we started. We just sat through a rather sedate road trip (for an apocalypse thriller).
He looks very young!