Battle Extraordinaire

Notes on GoT- The Battle of the Bastards:

I thought this was well done and unique from other battle portrayals in GoT. It didn't feel like the Battle of Blackwater, and it didn't feel like the Battle of the White Walkers.

The scene where we follow John Snow through the battle is very cinematic-ally interesting, the next step, I think in the evolution from Braveheart's 1 second  clips.

They did something else very interesting. Over the course of the battle we see bodies piling up until they make mole-hills. Actual bodies don't do his. What's happening here, I think, is the writers decided to film the battle as it would one day be portrayed by the bards of Westeros, who would no doubt make a big deal of Ramsey's archers piling the bodies so high they became mountains. Some chroniclers of the famous 1415 Battle of Agincourt did exactly that.

Another Agincourt parallel, the Archers drop their bows and run into the fight.

Oh, and the forces of the Vail arriving at the end, why that's the Prussians at Waterloo.