Television Game of Thrones S08E06 Discussion Thread: Burn them all! (the writing staff) | Our Watch has ended

[Slick_36]

Which I think is why the show was always destined to piss off a lot of people, what stands out to me is that you have so many different reading of where people thought the story was going or what its intended purpose was, especially when it comes to the books.

Personally though what I think the show was most heavily focused on was the misrule of aristocracy. I'v said before that I felt that Stannis provided a lot of the heart of the show from seasons 2-5 pushing the idea of a man who seemed to have the "greater good" in mind being corrupted by power. Rather than basically saying "ok lesson learned our heroes aren't going to do that" we saw it more as a preview of what was to come.

Problem is Stannis' story was more interesting, which sucks because Dany's origin was truly epic and deserved so much more. It wasn't a peak, it was a superior narrative.

 

[Ethan Hawke]

booooooo what a load of tripe that was

almost an entire season of garbage

 

[HHJ]

King’s Landing gets burned to the ground, and yet the King’s Guard book survives?

It was worth it,that scene was fire


ahem

ice and fire

 

[blaseblah]

Im not suggesting westeros to become a democracy or some short, im just saying the most experience great lord, who already has an heir should be a much better choice than bran.

He's the Three-Eyed Raven. He has more experience than any of them. Though the show didn't do a good job of letting the rest of Westeros know about his powers.

 

[Slick_36]

Im not suggesting westeros to become a democracy or some short, im just saying the most experience great lord, who already has an heir should be a much better choice than bran.

Even worse they played that moment for comedic relief. We were finally getting the big conclusion of who won the game of thrones and they decided to make that the moment for lighthearted goofiness.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Im not suggesting westeros to become a democracy or some short, im just saying the most experience great lord, who already has an heir should be a much better choice than bran.

..and I'm saying doing that would provide very little closure to arguely the central theme of the show in the weakness of hereditary rule.

What we got was I think a more realistic push towards democracy that could potentially exist in such a society and we got someone chosen who would be viewed as well suited to ruling within that fashion and having abilities to rule well.

 

[HHJ]

Lets all stop fucking crying for a second to give all glory honor props to Kit Harrington,who had to kill himself literally for 8 yrs to earn the love and respect of the world,INCLUDING growing this stache so he wont be recognized by the unwashed

 

[armbarforhire]

Daenarys never sitting in the throne made me laugh and feel trolled.

 

[zapataxiv]

Lets all stop fucking crying for a second to give all glory honor props to Kit Harrington,who had to kill himself literally for 8 yrs to earn the love and respect of the world,INCLUDING growing this stache so he wont be recognized by the unwashed

Sign him up for the super Mario bros prequel show “ a brick of coins and mushrooms”

 

[HHJ]

Daenarys never sitting in the throne made me laugh and feel trolled.

She got to touch it though.
Not bad.

 

[Doughbelly]

What’s the difference?

Literary devices are techniques used to construct a story. Literary devices can be subverted and often are. Literary principles such as cause happening before effect are fundamental to the nature of the storytelling and cannot be subverted without the subversion itself becoming the driver of the narrative.

Take Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning and wielder of Dawn. The single greatest warrior of his generation who also wields a magical sword forged from a fallen star, yadda yadda yadda. In any other story, he would be the hero or at least involved in the apocalyptic final battles in some way. Instead, Dawn stays at Starfall and has nothing to do with the rest of the story. That's a subversion of Chekhov's Gun. It turns out that he's just window dressing.

On the other hand, you don't see effect not following cause or the story being constructed with the events out of order without a framing device such as a time travel or flashback. The Night's King doesn't attack Winterfell, then causes the Wall to fall. That wouldn't make any sense. A literary principle is that things have to make sense, at least at some level.

 

[Ethan Hawke]

btw who inherited the Dothraki?

 

[God_Emperor_Of_Mankind]

Looks like the writers are paying attention to this thread,
Ghost got petted,no one sat on the iron throne,etc.

 

[HHJ]

btw who inherited the Dothraki?

That is something they really should have addressed. Its not like they can get themselves home.

 

[HHJ]

Looks like the writers are paying attention to this thread,
Ghost got petted,no one sat on the iron throne,etc.

Oh they played us like a fiddle with Ghost,they knew exactly how to fuck with us there.

 

[Da Speeit]

That's the one thing that wasn't screwed up. In this story, Jon ending, as the hidden, "secret" heir always was exile or death.

And the only man who could unite the world and truly save it

 

[Ethan Hawke]

Oh they played us like a fiddle with Ghost,they knew exactly how to fuck with us there.

They were giving fanservice before fans even knew to ask for it, have to laugh at them

 

[HHJ]

Jon Snow's destiny is to be cold,miserable,alone and to put down any of armageddons attempts to destroy humanity,by uniting the people to help him slug death right in the fuckin cock.

 

[Thrawn33]

Book reader
Was spoiled but hoped for the best...

Underwhelmed is how I describe finale

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

btw who inherited the Dothraki?

You’d think that without Dany to lead them they would just rape and pillage the Seven Kingdoms.