I finally watched The Last Watch too. I liked it! maybe it was not gripping all of the time, but it's a nice tribute to all the people working behind the scenes.
Some highlights:
- The lady who was away from her daughter, aww. They brought her in to have a cameo, well deserved!
- Emilia is so lovely and cute and huggable. Sure, the cameras are rolling so she won't act like a cranky bitch even if she felt like it, but still, she was so heartwarming and genuine when discussing stuff with her stylist and the one putting her wig on.
- Dave Nutter seems like a cool guy and a quite efficient director.
- Vladimir Furnik was also adorable. This stuntman who loves more than anything to work to coordinate the fight scenes and be helpful for the actors gets to have a chance in the spotlight and he's unsure of where he should stand, with the crew or with the actors. His broken english makes him also seem even more humble. Loved when he went to check out the fans, asking "do you know who I am?", and got cheered and acclaimed like any other of the protagonists, a symbolic "win" for all the people working behind the scenes.
- The table read.... everyone cheering for Arya (loved "Sandor" pumping his fists for her girl), and Conleth Hill just couldn't be bothered to hide his disappointment at it all, with a zero fucks given somber face. And he threw away his script during Varys' death reading, without even waiting for Emilia Clarke to finish her line.
- Same as this, but in a more lightheartned manner, Vladimir Furnik at a certain point says "so a little girl kills me... how is that possible?" .... yeah, Vlad, we feel you, bro, we feel you. *shakes head and watches Chernobyl for consolation*
- The extra guy, the bearded warrior... wasn't the one made famous by a meme since he was an extra in all the seasons? he was so proud and happy to just be a part of it, at the end he choked up with emotions.
- Also the last scenes for the actors (they showed Vladimir, Emilia, Keeeeet and by extension Davos and Greyworm's characters)... oh, the feels! very emotional for all of them.
Going more on a tangent now, but I wonder how actors don't feel disconnected in shooting scenes out of order, I know they all read the scripts and know what's gonna happen, but to jump from a scene to another without the proper story order.... for example, do you know what Pedro Pascal's first scene as Oberyn was? the wonderful dialogue in the cell with Tyrion when Oberyn offers to be his champion! he comes in on set, and he has to pretend he's lived through it all already! I don't know how actors can do it without the performance suffering, I know it's apples and oranges but it's like, dunno, asking Iron Maiden to start the show with Fear of the Dark and Iron Maiden and pretend it's the climax, or asking DT to perform SFAM, but starting with Home through Finally Free, and then starting again from Regression. And leave Through Her Eyes and The Spirit Carries On for last because the female guest vocalist isn't avalaible until a certain moment.
Anyway, all the people working behind the scenes deserves big applauses for the insane hard job they pulled. I hope they don't take personally all the criticisms of the last season 'cause it's aimed just at the story and not at their wonderful work.