Game of Thrones

[surreality]

@Arkandel But but but but but but also...

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***But...***

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...Bran should be silently looking on in the council chamber, as that horse.

[Sparks]

@Arkandel said in Game of Thrones:

@Roz said in Game of Thrones:

If anyone even LOOKS at Sansa the wrong way I will get my murder on.

If it makes you feel any better the chances of that are nil. She's gone through too much to harm her any further but also... there really isn't that much time left to shift the narrative so that twist would make sense.

To use the Tumblr meme, "bold of you to assume 'makes sense' is a requirement."

[Rinel]

@Rinel said in Game of Thrones:

I have heard that the ending of the season has been leaked. I have been exposed, unintentionally, to what an anonymous rando on the internet claimed to be the ending based on those leaks.

Said ending was so absurd that I do not think the anonymous rando was correct. But if the anonymous rando was correct?

HOO BOY

The anonyous rando was correct. Lol. What a complete disaster of a final season.

[Lisse24]

@Rinel It would have been good if:

A. They'd shown us that sort of crazy from Dany before this episode (I'm really bummed about this, because that's where I wanted her story to go all along)
B. Bran had done something - ANYTHING to be not-useless this season.
C. They explained wtf was up with Bronn.

[surreality]

Welp, that just happened.

I can think of nothing more to say.

[Roz]

@Roz said in Game of Thrones:

If anyone even LOOKS at Sansa the wrong way I will get my murder on.

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I GOT THIS I will be happy with that, at least.

[Snackness]

Y'all called it.

[surreality]

La la la, here is random useless text, it's useless text, la la la. Spoiler tag ahoy!

***I can't even with the spoiler tags but here we are.***

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...I would watch The Further Adventures of Arya Playing Sinbad, though, for real.

[Rinel]

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/may/19/game-thrones-bad-writing-season-eight-nick-cohen nailed it.

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"For as long as it had George RR Martin’s novels to follow, the series triumphed. The farther it ran ahead of its creator, the worse it became. Its defenders dismiss hundreds of thousands of disappointed viewers as entitled snowflakes.

Can’t they see that the seeds of Daenerys’s genocidal character were sown over several seasons? Don’t they accept that the battle scenes were brilliant, and that the sack of King’s Landing brought the war crimes of the medieval world to life? Like teachers giving a reading list, they refer you to old episodes to prove the rightness of their strictures. They reveal nothing more than their ignorance of fiction. It is not right or wrong but true or false, and if a story feels false to a large enough section of the audience, the artistic project collapses."

[Dreampipe]

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HE PET THE DOG

[Aria]

@Dreampipe IT WAS THE ONLY GOOD THING.

[insomniac7809]

hey nonny nonny spoilers A bear there was, a bear, a bear!
All black and brown, and covered with hair.
The bear! The bear!

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There were some things I really liked. Like Edmire trying to nominate himself King and Sansa being like "sweetie, no." Brienne and Pod as Knights of the King's Guard.

And you know, I was trying to like it. I was one of those people who kept trying to point out that Dany's solution to every problem is torturing people to death. But going full-on wackadoo crazybitch like this... ugh.

Yeah. That was an ending.

[Arkandel]

Well, it's over.

That's what I'm equipped to say right now.

[SG]

GHOST GOT HIS SCRITCHES, BITCHES!

[ZombieGenesis]

For me all I'm gonna say is this; I've lived/suffered through the final seasons and finales of several shows I've adored that included Dexter, True Blood, Heroes, Lost, How I Met Your Mother, The X-Files, and Star Trek Enterprise(final season was fine here but the finale was awful) and I think GoT could have ended in a far worse state than it did. I'm not sure I'm quite ready to put GoT up with the shows I've mentioned above in terms of disappointing me in the final moments. In the end, once the credits rolled, I was okay with where we were storywise. I just kind of wish they had done a better job, over the last 2 years or so, of telling the story of how they got to that point

[Selira]

I liked it. Seventeen years and I'm satisfied. Wasn't perfect, but I'll take it, and anyone who wants to tell me how wrong I am for that:

[Roz]

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[Snackness]

@Dreampipe about fucking time he patted the bestest boy

[Sparks]

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER DIS-COURSE DIS-COURSE

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So. I expected a complete garbage fire, and I feel like I got something that was... not good, lord knows, but not as outrage-inducing as I expected? I feel like it managed to land on "acceptably mediocre".

(Though admittedly, it may also be that I'm willing to settle at this point because I'm exhausted. Still, Sansa—the one actual competent leader left—gets to be Queen in the North, and Jon actually petted the doggo this time. I'll take what I can get.)

I am, however, still incandescent with rage over how they basically ignored 7 and a half seasons of character arc for Jaime last episode. I think that's the thing I'm angriest about this season, because there was no payoff in that narrative. At all.

Anyway. One general observation on the entire storyline which I have to make: if this really is the ending that GRRM has had planned from when he first started the series, then he would've conceived this endpoint in 1995 when writing the first book, when the world was a in very different place.

Back then, the world felt somewhat less bleak, and huge epic fantasy that seemed to follow expected narrative paths was quite prevalent; you didn't get many where the hero fell to darkness, where the quest went horribly horribly wrong and never got back on track, and so on. If the character arcs had been properly built to this ending—so that it didn't feel so forced and abrupt—an ending like this could have been a potentially-interesting subversion of the general fantasy milieu of the time.

But now, even if the arcs hadn't been forced, the world is in a different place. I've seen a lot more really cynical (or borderline nihilist) fantasy come out in recent years; the subversion isn't new and interesting any longer. Plus, the world around us feels like a subversion of the tropes of reality in many ways.

And I think right now in some ways people really need stories where things wrap up tidily. Where the people you've been rooting for win (instead of turning out to be lunatic tyrants in the making), the quests succeed, and you feel like the people who've set out to make a difference actually succeed in doing so.

So—leaving aside the ham-handed way that the show's narrative was forced to this point—I think the ending may have been one better suited for the time the books were conceived, not for right now.

[Ghost]

I think it was a satisfying ending...

...especially when you consider that nailing the ending in some universally approved way would be about as simple as curing HIV while performing a 3 1/2 somersault Greg Louganis dive that lands through the head of a needle onto a skateboard that is performing a 900 while cooking a risoto that Gordon Ramsay would approve of.