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nluckett
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Game of Thrones: Restored, Restructured, Rewatchable (Released)
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Date created
9-Apr-2021, 3:54 PM

Wow, great work! I finished the season and felt very satisfied, unlike the original. I tried to forget most of the original last two seasons, so I went in pretty fresh. Felt like a near seamless experience.

I have not watched almightycutie’s version, but will check that out. The major restructuring of moving the Red Keep all together and earlier and having the Night King battle top it off really works better. What you have here totally works and is well edited. I will be pestering some friends to watch it.

Curious to see almightycuties Bran as the Night King version, but your edit totally makes sense and wraps everything nicely.

Minor comments:
Episode 5

  • I did not feel the absence of the wight capture because the caves set it up well enough for Dani to have a change of heart, so I thought all that worked for me.
  • Cersei’s plan comes a little out of left field, but with that kind of being the point, it works. Was a little hard to understand why Dani and crew were crying at the wall, but it’s passable.
  • When Cersei then comes back to the wall to agree to a fake alliance, that scene could have used some color correction to make it seem like them and Dani where at the same time of day
  • A few instances in this episode the music cutting abruptly between scenes felt unnatural. Not huge but I remember noticing a few times, but not bad enough to note when haha.

Episode 7

  • I thought you could cut out Jon saying they have to burn the priests body. That way when you see the few random shots of the wight tied up, we could assume that it’s actually the priests body and they dont want to leave it behind to get zombiefied.

Episode 8

  • Tyrion has a line talking to Jamie about dying up north and denying Cersei the satisfaction. He already knows she’s dead at this point I believe, so I would cut that line short.

Episode 9 & 10

  • would be great to get a higher res version of these episodes. The darkness is really compressed.

Episode 10

  • Brienne on fire pit could use some darkening
  • Was hard to hear what Danis VO said when she touched the iron throne. Wasnt even sure you needed that moment.
  • When Dani burns the throne and her and Jon kiss, I would fade to black after that, so we have the idea of a little passage of time. That way when they are riding the dragons we could think it was later and they changed clothes.
  • Jon riding the dragon in that scene seems a little terrified even though he was riding in the battle. Not a huge deal, but could cut a couple Jon reaction shots.
  • At the very end when Jon is riding North we cut to Dani, would be nice to color correct her footage to match the more gray blue tones.

Overall, great stuff! I was left wondering what exactly Dani had decided to do (maybe go rule the south?) and thought maybe Jon had rejoined the Nights Watch, but it was fun, rather than annoying, to have those questions. Love Arya heading out to sea with Grey Worm and Miss on board to further adventures. I could see just leaving that out and having Arya go off with the Hound and that being very poetic, but I think you’re right, the visual of her and Sansa walking and becoming their own women was great.