Review of The Long Night

This was one of the worst constructed battle scenes, I have seen. The war strategy was toddler level: have a battle on open territory when there is a thick walled castle that is easier to defend against enormous numbers? Charge head on with cavalry when totally outnumbered? Preparations? It made me wonder what they were doing in Winterfell before the battle. No oil/tar and no dragon glass defense ready on the walls? No soldiers behind the wall of fire ... or just ready on the wall? Are the writers at all familiar with ancient war fair tactics? Instead of enjoying the spectacular visual effects, the battle annoyed me. Additionally, I missed interesting sub-story lines and plots (and there were several elements that could have been elaborated to exciting twists). These multi story lines are for me the core of GoTh. It felt odd that some of the cast suddenly changed their base characteristics without good reason. However, the weakest link was the music. It was especially at the end badly chosen, did not improve the scene and put me in a wrong atmosphere. There were only 3 things I liked: Ayla's fighting technique, (girl) lady Mormont and the Dragon fight. After episode 2, I thought this would be brilliant instead it was disappointing, at best.