If I were to compare this season of Game of Thrones to college football, I'd say the first 7 seasons were coached by Nick Saban and the 8th has been coached by Sean Kugler.
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they made everyone wait over 2 years for the final season, it's bound not to meet everyone's expectations.
People still bitch about The Sopranos ending 12 years later. No one is ever satisfied when a popular series comes to an end. From the leaks I've uncovered on the internet, if you're disappointed in how the final season of Game of Thrones is going, best you check out now. Just saying.Seems like no one is ever satisfied with the ending of shows. Also, they made everyone wait over 2 years for the final season, it's bound not to meet everyone's expectations.
Exactly. The first 2 episodes was just watching 2 hours of everyone riding into Winterfell and watching them prepare for the White Walkers. Season 8 has definitely been a snooze fest this season if you go by GOT Standards.It's like HBO has said enough to the 90 million budget and said just end this thing, we can't afford it anymore.
I haven’t seen GOT but that seems like a common problem with a lot of series. The last season of Boardwalk Empire felt like someone said “we need to end it now!” And they just wiped out everyone just to tie up loose ends and cram it into one season. Eastbound and Down felt like they went one season to many, and they made it about his stupid family.The writing has been unbelievably bad. I mean a guy (bron) rides into the middle of Winterfell, threatens the two brothers with a crossbow, then backs out and noone does anything about it? I'm supposed to believe that happened? It's like HBO has said enough to the 90 million budget and said just end this thing, we can't afford it anymore.
This is exactly right. I think this is what's happening with GOT but I would have never expected it to happen on a show that has been so popular and groundbreaking.I haven’t seen GOT but that seems like a common problem with a lot of showstopper. The last season of Boardwalk Empire felt like someone said “we need to end it now!” And they just wiped out everyone just to tie up loose ends and cram it into one season. Eastbound and Down felt like they went one season to many, and they made it about his stupid family.
I have a confession to make. I have not seen one episode of GOT. Dead serious.If I were to compare this season of Game of Thrones to college football, I'd say the first 7 seasons were coached by Nick Saban and the 8th has been coached by Sean Kugler.
I have one piece of advice for you. Take the books and the show completely independently. Don't try to associate the two if you ever decide to start watching and/or reading. Awesome storytelling by the book author, not so much with the HBO script writers.I have a confession to make. I have not seen one episode of GOT. Dead serious.
This is exactly right. I think this is what's happening with GOT but I would have never expected it to happen on a show that has been so popular and groundbreaking.
I don’t think Jamie will kill Cersei. Remember what the Red Witch told Aria about brown eyes, blue eyes, and green eyes.This, so much this! They overhyped the show, they attracted tons of new viewers and now everyone and their mother is analyzing every frame and calling out every, tiny or giant, plot hole/error/inconsistency.
I gave up on the show when it veered off from the books. I came back because I have come to terms that GRRM will never finish the book series and if I want any closure on it, this is as close at it will get. GRRM is too busy counting his mountains of gold and getting paid more doing lucrative side projects. He is not getting any younger and his 1500 page book has not been completed in eight years, with another 1500 page book after that. Not going to happen.
There are some very cool moments in the TV show, but it's not GRRM's story anymore. It's the directors', the screen writers', the critics' backlash, and the bean counters'. If Jamie doesn't kill Cersei I am going to be pissed.
I don’t think Jamie will kill Cersei. Remember what the Red Witch told Aria about brown eyes, blue eyes, and green eyes.
Truth be told, the series has been uneven ever since it went beyond GRRM's books. It had to, as we've been waiting for Winds of Winter forever, but the series has suffered for it. You have people zooming from one end of Westeros to another in impossible time, considering that the fastest means of transportation available to everyone not named Daenerys is horse or ship. You also have decisions made and actions performed by characters that make no sense given their personalities and desires. There have been some good episodes in the last couple of seasons, but their also have been some very poor ones. Sunday night's episode was a great example of the latter.
Nonetheless, I will still be tuning into the last two episodes to find out who will ultimately sit on the iron throne. I'm also ready to give GRRM more of my hard earned money, if he ever finishes those last two damn books.
I don’t think Jamie will kill Cersei. Remember what the Red Witch told Aria about brown eyes, blue eyes, and green eyes.
You're assuming the HBO writers still care about prophecy or character development.The Maggie the frog told Cersei her valonqar (little brother...or sister) would squeeze the life out of her.
me too!Are you a writer jdubb66? I think they’re doing a great job.
Thank You for not playing spoiler. I don't get to see it until tonight my time as I am sleeping when the original airs.I thought tonight's episode was good. Hard to discuss it without giving anything away. My theory is they had this planned and everything else was just setting this up. Thus, the hurried feel of this season.
I thought tonight's episode was good. Hard to discuss it without giving anything away. My theory is they had this planned and everything else was just setting this up. Thus, the hurried feel of this season.
The Reddit leaks were 100% correct...People still bitch about The Sopranos ending 12 years later. No one is ever satisfied when a popular series comes to an end. From the leaks I've uncovered on the internet, if you're disappointed in how the final season of Game of Thrones is going, best you check out now. Just saying.
It's a little low too.It happened again!
First Cup Gate, now Hand Gate.
Amazing how these bloopers weren't caught in post production.
The show always hinted at Dany's prediposition towards cruelty. It was always tempered though by noble advisers or a state of powerlessness. Also, quite often her cruelty was directed at the right people, so we cheered.WARNING SPOILERS
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Personally, I didn't like this episode. While I realize that this season has been setting up the possibility of turning Dany into the Mad Queen, that's four episodes undoing seven seasons of character building. Not that Dany didn't have her weaknesses. Since the death of Viserys she felt that the iron throne was hers by birthright, she had an uncompromising sense of justice, and she expected fealty from everyone, with harsh consequences for those that refused to "bend the knee." But she also showed compassion for those that suffered at the hands of tyrants, spoke of releasing the people of Westeros from tyranny, and said that she was not there to be the queen of ashes.
Right before laying waste to Kings Landing she had everything she wanted. The Iron Fleet lay burning. The Golden Company was defeated. The Lannister Army had surrendered. The bell rang to signal surrender. She had won. If she still wanted Cersei, she didn't have to lay waste to an entire city. As she was willing to burn down the Red Keep, she could have flown directly towards it, and finished of Cersei immediately. There was nothing to be gained by killing hundreds of thousands of people, nothing but a blood lust that hadn't been apparent for the previous seven seasons. Four episodes were not enough to turn Daenerys Targaryen from an imperfect woman who wanted to rule with compassion into a complete and total monster.
Also, the whole Jaime and Cersei thing really sucked. While Jaime's journey from a man without honor to becoming an honorable man was much slower in the show than in the books, it still happened, only to be completely undone in one episode. And I think everyone was looking for a more dramatic end to Cersei than being buried under some rubble.
I was so looking forward to this season of GOT. Now I'm going to be left with a bad taste in my mouth. I hope that GRRM does finish his Song of Ice and Fire novels. At least there I will get an ending that will make sense, the final motivations of the characters being developed over time, rather than 180 degree turns in personality coming about almost instantaneously.
The show always hinted at Dany's prediposition towards cruelty. It was always tempered though by noble advisers or a state of powerlessness. Also, quite often her cruelty was directed at the right people, so we cheered.
I'll agree about Jamie and Cersei.
Also, Euron was just awful and not in a good television sense, but in a bad writing sense.
Nothing in the show ever suggested that she would be happy to mow down upwards of a million people, especially if doing so in no way aided her in achieving her goal.
I posted a similar take on an article comment section and some GOT dork said I obviously dont know the history of the Targaryen legacy. He went on to say that Dany murdering millions was too obvious.
The way to beat a bad guy with a dragon is a good guy with a dragon.