Fanedit: Game of Thrones - Film VIII - The Retribution of Queens
Original: Game of Thrones: Seasons 6-7
Author: Anjohan
Released: 2023
Spoilers ahead.
This film mostly focusses on the first half of Season 7, but also covers the end of Season 6 and the Hound’s storyline from Season 6. Here are some comments I wrote whilst watching:
Undead army marching being turned into a Bran vision was well done
Good editing during the scene where Jon decides not to strip the umbers and karstarks of their castles
43:55 noticable audio shift
Anjohan has remixed Melisandre’s theme during the scene of her leaving the House of the Undying. Although this thematically doesn’t make sense, it’s still a very good addition
Very good rescore when Euron makes his alliance proposal to Cersei, it sets a dark mood
Sam finds out about the dragonglass about a few minutes after arriving at Oldtown. I think that Sam’s arrival and him finding the book on Dragonglass should be separated
Cut Dany touching the sand on Dragonstone - I thought that was a good scene.
Transition between Dany’s arrival in the map room on Dragonstone to the sudden appearance of all her Westerosi allies is jarring
Bitrate drops a lot from 1:15:50 onwards
Audio glitch at 1:18:17
Good little cuts to dialogue throughout
Some audio transitions were noticeable, eg at 1:24:18, 1:29:22
Great rescores throughout, eg when Jon announces to the Northern lords he is going to Dragonstone, Jon and Petyr talking in the crypts, Jaime charging Daenerys’ dragon
Cuts Sansa’s antagonism to Jon in several cases, which makes her character less unlikeable
Good job cutting Jon assaulting Littlefinger, that was always a dumb moment, intended to satisfy the audience it seems. However, Littlefinger touching his neck shortly afterwards due to being strangled is left in.
Pace/flow of conversation at 1:38:41 is too quick
Good modification to have Daenerys herself to decide to fly to the Reach
Cut out the entire pointless Sansa/Arya drama plotline. Great change. Littlefinger’s death is still pretty dumb though (unfixable)
Bronn’s death is a very creative and well executed change. I also like having Jaime die here. These two deaths bring more weight to the attack. But the editing for Jaime’s death is clunky and not as well done as Bronn’s
I would suggest the following (personal preference):
Less of cringy Lyanna Mormont would be good
Varys monologuing about his true intentions to Daenerys seems quite out of character, I would’ve cut it
Ed Sheeran is in it for five seconds, not sure why leave him in at all
Ironborn bullying Theon is pretty illogical
I would’ve dropped Tyrion being at Daenerys’ attack on the cabin train, as it’s hard to believe and was put in to artificially bring more emotional weight to the scene