I want to be clear that my point these fights should not be subject to Youtuber Experts analysis to determine whether they are entertaining. Whether it ends up being entertaining or not has nothing to do with how real it is to real life Medieval combat standards. It's not fair to imply any film fight sequence is bad because of how a youtuber happened to break down how unrealistic the fight is, because even good fight scenes in movies/film are usually unrealistic. You're right that entertainment should be entertaining, and that's a different subject altogether.
Recently, a friend of mine was complaining about that exact fight scene, he was pissed that the fucking numenorians were training in a fucking alley, and it was a dogshit fight, so he shows me a scene with young need stark and a guy with two swords, from GoT, obviously, pure fantasy, no real-world physics, but it was enjoyable, it was cool and well done for a fantasy setting.
While not a Shad video, Skallagrim is in a similar vein for realistic medieval combat analysis
And if you watch the video, you'll see how this entire Game of Thrones sequence that you enjoyed so much is still considered highly unrealistic. It's entertaining because it's well executed. Realism shouldn't be part of the argument at all, considering even entertaining fights like this are highly unrealistic. It's just not as overdramatized as Pro Wrestling.
People bringing up Shadiversity isn't relevant why RoP's fight scenes are sub-par. You'd be right to say other things like it being attributed to poor choreography or lack of verisimilitude, but by no means is it down to whether or not these fight scenes are realistic to medieval combat standards. That was always my point here.
Like I said, Rings of Power has Xena level combat. And I'd argue that anyone who liked Xena's combat sequences back then and have grown to have higher expectations for medieval combat might not appreciate that same material now. It works for more casual audiences really. And I'd even go as far as saying House of the Dragon does things better but it's also focused much more on a mature audience, and overall has less viewership than Rings of Power as a result. Right now, Rings of Power is the more accessible show, and it has a higher viewership. So even if they aren't doing the combat or dialogue right, they're still doing other things that are, enough to gather a wide casual audience to say the least.
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