Game of Thrones

I see cost sighted as the reason behind the shorter bed season/series. It’s may well be true, but it begs the question - why fill up so many episodes with pointless filler? Like episode 2 of this series was basically a series of poignant goodbyes, but then, they didn’t actually have to say goodbye at all because they all lived. The first half of episode 4 was basically a love story. * Gendry asking Arya to marry him was just comical.

For anyone wondering why Danny didn’t see the massive fleet of slow moving ships from her Fanta he point hundreds of feet in the air:



A legit quote. Not a meme. Dany, who was forewarned about Euron’s fleet the previous day, forgot to keep an eye out for them.

It’s not even bad writing by GoT standards, it’s awful writing by the standards of almost any modern day tv series. It says a lot when a Starbucks cup left on scene was the smallest * io of the episode.

 

Imagine at the end of season 6, after Hardhome, Hodor, the three eyed raven, the children of the forest, Craster's keep. After all the build up of the white walkers, the Night King, and the army of the undead. Imagine someone had said, "you know this whole storyline is going to fizzle out halfway through the last season, and the real bad guy is a chad pirate that looks like the singer from Kasabian".

The writers have basically wrote "game of thrones" on a jobby and they expect everyone to clap.

 

I just seen this about the cup and even the quote, but still, anyone says they were hiding behind cliffs etc..., they had enough space to hit the dragon and so she should have seen them, oh let's not forget as well. Dany is a * spear dodging magician now, they literally rained those scorpion spears at her after killing her other dragon with two/three shots. But she can escape a single barrage of about 20 and dodge them with ease? * come on now.

Even all the goodbyes in the episode GOT of old, unless they do a massive twist, wouldn't have allowed for a happy ending for Sam and the free folk who would have died originally, Big ginge now heading back north of the wall for his happy ever after, Sam is all loved up going home for his happy ever after, Ghost is going with Ginge to roam and be free. Would have been better if they just died in the episode 3. Gendry hooked on assassin poon and just sent home to become the head of his now legitimate father's House, was he literally brought back to bang Arya and do a little blacksmithing, couldn't anyone else have done the blacksmithing? In the end a pointless return.

Arya heading to King's Landing for what? To steal the show again and get to kill Cersi after already getting the NK, because they've made it near impossible now for Jon and Danny to overthrow her, so looks like Arya is going to have to save the day again.

It's just a normal show now, it's not yet as predictable as most TV you'll watch but for it's one of a kind high standards it's falling hard and fast.

 

Imagine "killing" Jon all because the walkers are steamrolling * North of the wall and he helps bring them south.

 

was just reading there , Danerys and the dragons were flying a few hundred feet above the armada … and didn't see the ships coming in from the side ? and why instead of that kamikaze flight at the ship did she not soar well above them , come down behind the ships just above the sea and barbecue them . makes a wee bit of sense .

 

That's * pathetic. Seriously. Building up the dragons and Dany for 8 years, only for one of them to be killed because Dany "forgot" about the people she's about to start a war against? Hahahaha.

This is starting to feel like The Hobbit. All the hard work and dedication that went into adapting the LotR trilogy. Then The Hobbit comes along a decade later and feels like fan fiction, cheap and a bastardisation of what came before.

 

Think it's very different in this case.

People are forming theories from information planted by GRRM in the books. Theories that are sort of being hinted at by the author himself. Yes the books and the show are different entities, but for so long they were fairly similar. Now the show has went beyond the books it's as if they are dropping all of the interesting legends, prophecies etc. and it's become fan fiction.

 

"Varys, is a skilled manipulator and commands a network of informants across two continents." Maybe/probably still has contacts in King's Landing.

 

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Aye but my point is, how has he got that info?

We saw Cersei let them into the Red Keep, then in the next scene (I'm sure), Varys is telling Dany about it. * knows how much time is meant to have passed between those scenes. Even if it's a day, which is horrible editing if true, I just don't see how Varys can get that info. Did someone send a raven? If so, how did they know Varys was on the ship? How did they know where the ship was? It just makes no sense.

It might sound nitpicky but it takes people out of the moment. Same with Euron killing the dragon at Dragonstone, then in the next scene being back at King's Landing. * are just teleporting and information is being gained, apparently telepathically.

 

Must have been via text message... You're right the timings for things are daft

 

The real "bad guy" is Cersei and has been for years I don't like Euron either but its not as if he's the last guy standing who they have to beat he's just a * sideshow.

 

This series hasn’t been great by their own standards imo.

 

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The end of the episode was comical as well.
Tyrion standing there with about 50 soldiers behind him telling Cersei to just give up the throne and surrender because she “always loved her kids”.
Couldn’t really see her going for that offer.
How the * they managed to kidnap Missandei with Grey Worm standing right next to her but him swimming ashore unharmed and not knowing is anybody’s guess

 

That really wasn’t the way the show was built up though. The Night King and the White Walkers were the real threat, indeed the only threat that mattered, and houses squabbling over who sat on a chair were missing the bigger picture. Of course that turned out to be nonsense and after 7 series of build up he was killed off and forgotten about within 90 minutes.

I think that move by itself * things up beyond repair

 

Disagree with the fact everything's *, for all the build up of white walkers they've always been in the background and rarely seen with the night king only appearing probably 4 or 5 times in the whole show and motivations really unclear, Cersei has been there from the start getting worse and worse and getting more and more power.

I didn't really like how fast they were beaten last week either but its been clear for years that Cersei would be the final battle, the show has always been about the throne whatever happened with the white walkers whether people liked it or not it would always come back to the fight for the throne.

I never thought it would be a case of all human characters come together to defeat the white walkers and then live peacefully afterwards, the shows always been about how terrible the people in it are and how their desires for power trump everything else with the most ruthless characters ascending to power and somewhat decent characters being corrupted by it or being killed off because they were too moral.

 

Agree to disagree.

For me, the consistent theme from pretty early onwards has been that the battle for the throne doesn’t matter, and that the ‘great war’ vs the undead (light vs dark; fire vs ice; life vs death) has been the only thing that matters. In fact the very first scene of the series was to do with the WW. Including the white walkers in the story as a side-issue would just seem bizarre to me.

I don’t think any ending that treated the throne and the undead as two separate issues would ever be very satisfying. They went down that route and got the order wrong imo.

 

They have made the or money I seriously think they don't give a * any more wonder what grrm thinks of this

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Fs I have been saying that fir ages that euron looks like the lead singer from kasabian

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They can have a giant squeeze a wee girl to death, and Dany and Jon touch and ride dragons. But having Jon say goodbye to Ghost is too much for them.

 

Thought exactly same thing - those harpoon thingies hard-bolted to the deck and all facing forward - wouldn't have been a rocket-scientist idea to come at them from the back and toast them - can't exactly turn a ship around quicker than a dragon

I do think they have made a lot of the story just 'convenient' - but still love it, I try not to get too hung up on how it 'might have been done'