No tap-dancing and zero Judi Dench, but Idris is still committed to delivering a gift to you this Christmas. It’s a skirmish between White Walkers and the Unsullied. The Smashing Pumpkins front man on his new double LP. Streaming has completely shaken up how we consume content, but dark scenes hang over the convenience that streaming offers like the Sword of Damocles - and it all comes down to data and compression. Maybe it’s … all good guys? When you watch this sequence in the episode, there’s enough motion that you can see what’s happening: White Walkers have taken someone out and tipped them over the battlements into the waiting horde of wights below. Let's start with something called narrative. Slide on below for a brightened view of some key scenes from “The Long Night.” (And for those who can make out things just fine in the original images — congratulations on your A+ monitor calibration skills!). You can even see the terror on this poor person’s face! Maybe it’s an empty field? If you've never changed a single setting on your TV then some tuning is something to be considered, but it's not as simple as turning the brightness up or down. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. This is less about plot awareness and more about frustration with truly lovely cinematography that’s just not calibrated for a typical viewing experience. Streaming has always been about convenience over absolute quality and in this episode, it's quality that you need. But daggers are important on this show, so … which dagger was it? (Pocket-lint) - Game of Thrones threw down its most ambitious episode in season 8 episode 3, as the Night King finally brings his army to the walls of Winterfell. I mean, if you edit the images to bring out the colours, then yes. Gomez received a kidney transplant in 2017. The Darkest Battle Scene From GAME OF THRONES' "The Long Night" Episode Gets a Brightened Side-By-Side Comparison Videos TV Games of Thrones HBO Image Safe about a year ago by Joey Paur. But I’m definitely missing at least a third of the people in the blackness, and it’s also hard to see how carefully they’ve been arranged so that the groupings reinforce the arc shape of the crypt’s ceilings. It's the old digital problem - not enough data to complete the picture. Artistically, it puts the viewer in the position of the defenders we're supporting, drawing you into the narrative, to great effect. Which reminded people of some other terrible ideas Eric Clapton has thrown his weight behind. … and it’s not even filming in Floribama! Turns out there’s a shot where you can see him riding back to the castle! As any Game of Thrones viewer knows by now, Sunday’s episode, “The Long Night,” was too dark. Whatever the case, much of the long-awaited Battle of Winterfell was, for many viewers, too dang hard to see. Thanks to the Unsullied’s helmets, the only faces you see belong to the White Walkers. In the US, Amazon's version is better than HBO, but all fall down: streaming services aren't providing the data that people need to watch this episode. That's something that Game of Throne's creators discuss in the behind the scenes above - it's supposed to be really dark, rather than just slightly dark. Your dried-out turkey might leave a bad taste in your mouth, but Jennifer never will. The distinct array of troops below her would seem to be the whole point of this shot, but it’s hard to see each separate grouping in the original. What happens when it drops the quality? © 2020 Vox Media, LLC. The light of the face has plenty of preserved data so has lots of detail, but in the darkness, you just get irregularities. Yes, I can tell that this is an image of the groups beneath the crypts in the original lighting. What could you see in the battle that maybe you otherwise missed? Wired spoke to the cinematographer behind the episode, Fabian Wagner, who defended the episode's presentation: "Another look would have been wrong," he says.