^I knew if I waited long enough someone would chime in with a "I don't like it, see what a fart smeller... err smart feller I is". It's as impressive in its intellectual delinquency as the disrespectful sig and icon.
If there was any danger of Rickon making it to safety Ramsey would have just ordered a volley fired.
There's also something to be said that Ramsey was a seasoned hunter and marksman with the bow. Even if Rickon did do some zigs and zags, odds are Ramsey would have still hit him. I still say Rickon was in pure terror mode and his brain was shut off. It's easy to pretend from their couches that everyone would be brilliant, and do the perfect possible thing there is to do, but when the shit hits the fan and panic sets in, most people's higher thinking shuts off. Unless someone trained Rickon to dodge arrows being shot at him while running, there's little chance he'd do anything other than run straight to Jon.[/SPOILER]
This. End of story, the kid was going to die, one way or another. Stop trying to reason out fiction people....
With that said though, this episode was way too "happy go lucky" for the GoT we are used to. Everything was going to hell, then suddenly miracles all happened and everything was grand. Dany and her dragons suddenly stop the masters, and LF and his crew arrive literally just in time to save Jon and his army. Oh, and the big bad evil Ramsay meets a gruesome end.
Keep making excuses for writing so bad it makes me cringe.
1) Because then the fight would have gone differently and there would have been less fake peril and no chance for a last second escape.
2) Because then they would have waited and won and there would have been less fake peril and no chance for a last second escape.
4) Because then he would have gotten away easily and there would have been less fake peril for Jon and no chance for a tragic last second death.
Don't try to reason things out anymore, the show has completely abandoned even trying to have characters act intelligently. It's now 100% people doing things the dumbest way imaginable to create fake dangerous situations so that there can be a miracle right at the very last moment. Things have become such a tired old cliche that the old western standard of the heroes being seconds from death hoping for the cavalry to show up and save them from a hopeless situation has been stolen without even pretending to make it original. GOT heroes are seconds from death and a real honest to god cavalry shows up to save them from a hopeless situation.
It's freaking hilarious what this show does to create tension and get the heroes out of it now. It's like a Saturday morning cartoon, all that's missing is Dudley Dooright riding in to get Nell off the train tracks seconds before the train runs her over. Maybe the show is doing it on purpose to kill GRRM with frustration at watching what they're doing to his books so that someone else can take over the writing and finish the damn series.
This. End of story, the kid was going to die, one way or another. Stop trying to reason out fiction people....
Why do you even watch the show? You obviously hate every aspect of it.
If there was any danger of Rickon making it to safety Ramsey would have just ordered a volley fired.
To negate the marksmanship of the archer, all you have to do is change directions with greater frequency than the archer's rate of fire. Pretty easy.
... Stop trying to reason out fiction people....
It's amazing to me that we just saw probably one of the best battle scenes ever filmed, TV or movie, and yet some of you people STILL focus on a minor flaw which encompassed about 1 minute of the hour long episode. Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? Get a grip already.
Oh. Come. On.Prob the last thing I'll say on this matter.. but Rickon was 6 when he left Winterfell. Not sure when he had time to learn and practice the skill of arrow dodging. What in the series has Rickon done that makes anyone think he'd be someone that wouldn't just panic in pure terror? I've said it before, and I'll say it again, when terror hits people stop thinking. It's a thing that's been proven over and over again. That's why the military trains people to do the same thing over and over again as the odds are people will fall back to muscle memory. Rickon wouldn't ever have the chance to learn much in the ways of fighting let alone how to think clearly enough to start dodging vs running straight to the guy riding straight at him. Even then they showed in earlier seasons that Ramsey made a sport of hunting people with his bow and never once lost. Those people were in forests and other areas that had cover. How Rickon was supposed to be able to beat Ramsey in an OPEN field with NO cover would be odder than what happened.
You and I can sit in our chairs and declare it simple, but we're just playing armchair quarterback without a clue what it's like on field. Here is some kid that hasn't once seen much combat, let alone the size of the Battle of the Bastards, it'd be terrifying. I'm a little hazy on how much time has passed over the course of the show, but I'm betting it's not been long enough for a kid who was 6 when it started to have his balls drop, let alone be someone that doesn't panic under fire.
Oh. Come. On.
None of us were trained either. If you move erratically, it's more difficult to hit you. It's more difficult to hit an erratic animal than one that moves in a straight line (or stands still). Also, he's been with a wildling for a long time now. Apparently, most of them are AWESOME archers.
Heck, I was pissed off that a single wildling didn't step in and take out Ramsey while Ramsey was standing still in the open.