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Blighboy posted...

I think thematically a lot of the appeal of Game of Thrones is seeing a relatively grounded and realistic medieval society deal with external supernatural threats, and the politics associated with that. Almost like a kind of reverse Isekai for non weeabs.

When the medieval society in question just pulls out a magic ballista and 360 head shots the supernatural threat, it takes away from the appeal of the show. In a similar way the ending to episode 3 did. Because it implies the supernatural elements were never really a threat the whole time, and were just there for sex appeal to trick nerds into watching.

Thank you. It's like they basically just decided to use fly swatters on the dragons and they didn't matter at all. As I said above, why were dragons feared at all, if these ballista were already around in the past when dragons were actually part of the power base? Maybe due to the people who ruled having dragons, so no need to have anti-dragon weapons I guess (but there were other lands etc that didn't so shrug).

But yeah, those ballista not only invalidated dragons, but also all other navel fleets (in fact the entire iron islands navy could have easily been defeated by a few ships with those ballista for that matter, nullifying that power base as well. Also why not just take over the whole world with them since nothing on the water could stand up to them, and you could just obliterate any coastal cities as well (most of the big ones had ports), then move your troops safely on land and take em all over).

Then, you just move em around and ....oh a hoard of Darthraki? No big deal, we'll just roll up 20 super mega awesome ballista and blam, wipe em all out.

Seriously it's like they just brought nukes into GoT with as powerful as they made them.
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