Heh. Just because you keep repeating something over and over, doesn't mean that you're right, you get that, correct?
She didn't sneak past 'magically,' she trained for a whole arc of a season to sneak. She trained from Season fucking 1 in how to be silent.
THAT'S WHY it's not magical or...
It's almost meta in the book the way that Tyrion and other characters reference how prophesies are written purposefully vague. I mean take Melisandre hereself. She mis-read the prophesy GIVEN TO HER PERSONALLY, that told her that Stannis was the Prince who was promised. She was obviously 100%...
But what does a crane have to do with whether something is ex machina or not? You realize that the reason they use the phrase 'coming down' was that it was an easy out that playwrights used as far back as the Greeks, where a God or Goddess would come down from 'on high,' to save the day...
I've played a couple of computer games (Deus Ex, Dead Space?) where they had a tool to set up your monitor black levels before starting the game. Because so much of the game was going to be played in dimly lit scenes.
No way to do that with a TV show.
No it's not. Ex Machina would be the Lord of Light coming down from above in a pillar of light, and dissolving the Night King. Ex Machina would be Melisandre time traveling back to convince the People of the Forest to not create the NK in the first place.
A motivated character with the...
No, it really wasn't. Because they'd been setting it up with little clues and scenes for multiple seasons of the show. Maybe you need to watch the Bravos Faceless men episodes over again?
Was Arya killing the NK a surprise? Sure, because everyone thought that Dany or Jon was going to do it...
You know what would have made that suspenseful, 'didn't see that coming.' moment better? Seeing it coming!
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I didn't say it wasn't an issue, I said I could see it just fine. And then mentioned some fixes. Oh noes!!
It Was Impossible to See Anything on 'Game of Thrones' & People Had Jokes About It
Some of these made me laugh, particularly the ones by people who actually TRIED to adjust their TV or...
Anyone who disagrees with me is a fanboy or a rube. Or stupidz, or something.
Who's emotionally invested?
I managed to view the episode just fine. So did plenty of other people.
If your TV doesn't do low light well, there's some options you have. <shrug>
There are also millions of people who aren't bitching and moaning about it like someone pissed in their cornflakes, and who call it things like 'the best TV episode ever.'
Like a rube. Heh.
Clearly they should have been thinking of your TV.
I can point you to about 100 youtube videos on the pros/cons of what kind of TV to buy if you have a high light room.
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Anything else you need assistance with?
I know that this post made some logical sense in your own brain when you typed it. I'm not grokking it.
I'm going to assume that the DOP knows how to read a vectorscope.