Idiot Cinematographer Fabian Wagner tells Fans to... "...adjust your lifestyles"

He's right. It was beautifully shot and very fitting for what it was supposed to represent.

What an arrogant attitude! I guess it's no surprise that it turned out the way it did with that guy in charge.

What a moron, and his work shows. Yes it's the fault of the Tv's when everything else looks fine.

30 seconds in the wife and I were like, “Ooh, this is dark. Turn off the lights.” We did and didn’t have any problem watching.

It’s a middle-of-the-night battle, in the middle of winter, at Winterfell. What did people expect? Stadium lighting?

As the guy mentioned, it could just be the method of compression HBO used for the episode that caused too much darkness. He does admit that it was a stylistic choice, though.

I think we can all agree that the episode is very difficult to watch via streaming / pirated / on a tablet / laptop / anything less than a good-sized 4K TV in a dark room.

For HBO not to take that into consideration, in the final season of their highest rated TV series ever, is kind of mind-boggling.

By saying that people needed to adjust their TVs, he's admitting that he filmed it too dark especially when all other shows look fine.

I think the cinematographer is selfish. Some people have eyesight issues , not everybody have 100% eyesight. My TV is a brand new 4k TV and even in the brightest setting there are scene I could only see darkness and fog , at times I couldn't even make out who was fighting who. I think we have a case of the cinematographer caring more about the sort of realism he personally like rather than a cinematographer who thinks about the actual viewers and how to make the episode watchable to everyone. He said he had issue with the way the battles looked in the early season because the lighting did not look natural enough! Only that bloody idiot was bothered by this, I never eared any one complaining about the early battle scenes, in fact they always were the highest rated episodes but because he is "an artist" and wanted his way he decided to make the lighting more realistic and tons of people could barely see nothing as a result. What a pretentious turd!

I never had any issue seeing every detail of what was happening before this episode. So obviously he messed up, “I made it darker so you guys would have to make it brighter you fools, understand your TV.” That’s what I took away from what he said. Maybe if I’ve ever had an issue before with being unable to see anything besides black forms appearing to bump into each other then maybe I would consider what he was saying to be possibly true. But it’s not like this was slightly too dark, it was way too dark. I wanted to see people’s fighting techniques and styles, individual strikes and DETAILS, not “Oh I think the guy on the left is a normal person and the right is a rotting corpse, ehh maybe not, oh wait it cut to another scene.” And also, whenever people got surrounded by zombies it would cut to something different, then when it cut back suddenly there were a manageable number of zombies and the favorite characters survived it. I wanted to like this episode a lot, but it was a let down in many ways. It didn’t seem like a real Game of Thromes episode, but a stupid rip off meant to try to appeal to the most people as possible. Almost no one of consequence died during this most dangerous battle of the series. I’m very disappointed that no one had the balls to step up and tell the “artists” who began ruining this episode that they were screwing everything up.