Game of Thrones
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Am I angry? No. The show has been rolling downhill too long for me to be angry at this point. I was angry last season. I'm just sad that two showrunners with more ambition than ability rushed the ending to a story that I cared about. It's not the destination that matters. It's how you get there. I feel like I just read a six part book series where the sixth book got skipped.
Because that's exactly what just happened.
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Honestly it wasnt as bad as I thought it was gonna be!
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Yeah in the end I was mostly fine with it. I'd prepared myself to be viscerally angry (the last two episodes had done that) and nothing in it was all that bad. It was WEIRD in places but it was a kind of weirdness that seemed to come with scrambling to follow certain bullet points it does feel to me like they probably got from Martin, but without the connective tissue that might've made them more resonant/coherent. It makes me more interested in certain plotlines from the books than I previously was, but those books will probably never exist. So it goes. It was an often-glorious ride with a sorta-fulfilling and also sorta-strange ending that was probably inevitable given that its source material is unfinished and will likely remain so.
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Satire article, presented without further comment: https://thehardtimes.net/harddrive/campaign-finishes-three-year-run-without-dm/
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The best way I think I've heard this season described is like you're watching a Wikipedia plot synopsis of the show.
The bullet points for the plot are all there, but the journey from A to B that makes it a story aren't. It's a shame, especially knowing that HBO was willing to go extra seasons and extra episodes to fill out those gaps.
Granted, I'm not sure it would've helped given the quality of what we got. But I certainly don't think it could've been worse to have more time to develop stuff.
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It could've been worse. All the remaining Stark children could've gone off to become lumberjacks.
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It's a real shame that the producers weren't able to finance the budget for an eighth season, but I'm glad the show ended on a high note with the season seven finale.
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@Kestrel They did.
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/05/13/how-long-game-of-thrones-final-episode-lengthHBO offered them a full season of episodes and the writers said no.
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@cocopuffs said in Game of Thrones:
@Kestrel They did.
https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2019/05/13/how-long-game-of-thrones-final-episode-lengthHBO offered them a full season of episodes and the writers said no.
I think that was a round-about way of her saying she's pretending Season 8 never existed.
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When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.
Uhm, about that.
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@Arkandel said in Game of Thrones:
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.
Uhm, about that.
Robb = Lone Wolf.
It's a stretch, but that's literally where they went with it.
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@Aria gdi I completely misread their post. I get it now. I'm off to snort my caffeine.
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@Coin There was the youngest sib, too, whose actual name I forget off the top of my head, Mad Dash Pincushion Stark.
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@surreality said in Game of Thrones:
@Coin There was the youngest sib, too, whose actual name I forget off the top of my head, Mad Dash Pincushion Stark.
Rickon, iirc.
And yeah.
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There is one thing I liked about the finale.
My favourite character survived.
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