Agreed really. I think someone else mentioned a scenario in which a few houses/groups actually desert as a great way to make it "real".
cbr said:
For ****s sake. A *******ed actor under stress.
That sum***** trades my last 3 years with me - he'd be ****ing dead and I'd be one happy ass camper.
Zombie Jon Snow said:cbr said:
For ****s sake. A *******ed actor under stress.
That sum***** trades my last 3 years with me - he'd be ****ing dead and I'd be one happy ass camper.
I don't know finding out you banged your aunt can be stressful. And he previously had to watch his first love die in his arms after she tried to kill him. Then he died and came back to life. And he had to battle both dragons and the undead. Lots of family issues too.
JCRiley09 said:
Unless the books finally come out and prove otherwise, I'm going to believe the 3ER (not Bran, as repeatedly stated this year) usurped the throne from mortals and will be king for centuries. D&D just did a pathetic job of portraying this.
Brian Earl Spilner said:
ja86 said:
Alt-x is taking a break, not shutting down.
Welcome to the partyDeputy Travis Junior said:
Finally watched the last episode yesterday, more out of a sense of duty than desire. What a pile of crap that continued the Hollywood cliche model the show sank into mid season 7. Just a few things that stood out (I'm sure they've all been beaten to death over the last 100 pages):
-King's Landing is completely F'in wrecked, but Tyrion easily finds Jaime's body in a half hour.
-Dany and Grey Worm clearly no longer trust Jon, but her guards disappear, so Jon just walks up and stabs her.
-Drogon, after discovering that Jon has killed Dany, decides to... melt the Iron Throne!? (biggest WTF in a season full of them)
-Whatever that Bran election was. "Stories have power!" as justification for making somebody king was the worst monologue I've ever seen in TV or film.
-Bronn is somehow one of Bran's advisor's?
Just terrible.
Through the first 6 seasons, GoT felt like medieval House of Cards (the British one, not the awful American one): a lot of smart, complicated, ruthless characters were competing for power, and if a character slipped up, he/she paid for it dearly. Also, the writing didn't ask the viewers to accept complete BS on a weekly basis. That all went out the window mid season 7. The characters morphed into cliches, and the "logical consequences of actions" element disappeared. Jon can run into a horde of 10k zombies and be saved by his Uncle because he has to live. Cersei's fleet can easily kill a dragon from a mile away, sink a hundred ships, find Missandei in the mass of wreckage, and teleport her across the continent for execution because the writers need to justify Dany's descent into madness. The next week, the same scorpions are utterly incapable of killing another dragon because Dany has to trash the city. And so, so many more.
Writing a show with the plot complexity and character depth of the first 6 seasons is really, really hard, so I'm not surprised that there was some drop-off after they moved well past GRRM's books, but damn. I didn't expect it to face plant THAT hard.
That is by far the worst episode in the entire gotFightinTexasAg15 said:
http://collider.com/game-of-thrones-emmys-2019-writing-directing/
The season finale was the only episode of season 8 to be submitted for the "best writing" Emmy
You can't make up this level of delusion. Submit A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms or something but the last one? Come on.
I think you would appreciate this article:Deputy Travis Junior said:
Finally watched the last episode yesterday, more out of a sense of duty than desire. What a pile of crap that continued the Hollywood cliche model the show sank into mid season 7. Just a few things that stood out (I'm sure they've all been beaten to death over the last 100 pages):
-King's Landing is completely F'in wrecked, but Tyrion easily finds Jaime's body in a half hour.
-Dany and Grey Worm clearly no longer trust Jon, but her guards disappear, so Jon just walks up and stabs her.
-Drogon, after discovering that Jon has killed Dany, decides to... melt the Iron Throne!? (biggest WTF in a season full of them)
-Whatever that Bran election was. "Stories have power!" as justification for making somebody king was the worst monologue I've ever seen in TV or film.
-Bronn is somehow one of Bran's advisor's?
Just terrible.
Through the first 6 seasons, GoT felt like medieval House of Cards (the British one, not the awful American one): a lot of smart, complicated, ruthless characters were competing for power, and if a character slipped up, he/she paid for it dearly. Also, the writing didn't ask the viewers to accept complete BS on a weekly basis. That all went out the window mid season 7. The characters morphed into cliches, and the "logical consequences of actions" element disappeared. Jon can run into a horde of 10k zombies and be saved by his Uncle because he has to live. Cersei's fleet can easily kill a dragon from a mile away, sink a hundred ships, find Missandei in the mass of wreckage, and teleport her across the continent for execution because the writers need to justify Dany's descent into madness. The next week, the same scorpions are utterly incapable of killing another dragon because Dany has to trash the city. And so, so many more.
Writing a show with the plot complexity and character depth of the first 6 seasons is really, really hard, so I'm not surprised that there was some drop-off after they moved well past GRRM's books, but damn. I didn't expect it to face plant THAT hard.
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I can write a cool ending with nearly anyone 'winning' or anyone 'dying'
What cant be reconciled is turning one of the most complex interesting characters in tv history into a two bit cheap simpleton villain at the very end, while completely throwing out the entire theme of the show to do so.
They should have just glued a hitler stache on danarys for 8-6.
That and throwing logic oit the window in 4 and 6. Or i guess 5 too. 5 made perfect sense in the theme of the show, but they ditched the theme completely for 6, so wtf.