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

[Pem123]

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.

Yeah, the show kinda took for granted people know about bran power.

But my choice will still be Edmure, he actually can lead man to war and he already has an heir.

and people need to remember how religious this people are, it is important for the ruler of westeros to be named under the light of the seven, this was the problem when the targ become ruler, the religious element of Westeros is not very happy with their custom.

 

[Plutoburn]

the books are better and not all of them have even been written yet

GRRM has more developing/side project than Disney. And has gone on record to say he rather not finish ASOIF than finish it poorly.

 

[HHJ]

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

Those poor fuckers. Did the Unsullied put them down?

 

[Pem123]

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

they are proven can crusher, one Starks army is worth 90000000 Dorthraki.

 

[God_Emperor_Of_Mankind]

That scene with Tyrion and the council was some Disney Shit.

These fuvkers really love Tyrion.

He can do no wrong,always comes out on top.

 

[Da Speeit]

I just truly don’t know what you guys were expecting.

 

[HHJ]

And they never will be.

Who was/will be more upset???

Jon after Dany's death (which she brought on herself,clearly)

or us when GRRM dies with the books unfinished

 

[Da Speeit]

That scene with Tyrion and the council was some Disney Shit.

These fuvkers really love Tyrion.

You mean GRRM?
You guys know this is how he chose it to end right?

 

[HHJ]

the books are better

DEBATABLE

until they are finished we cant say that. The books have issues of their own.

 

[Ethan Hawke]

I just truly don’t know what you guys were expecting.

You were expecting the series to plummet off a cliff this season?

 

[HHJ]

That scene with Tyrion and the council was some Disney Shit.

These fuvkers really love Tyrion.

He can do no wrong,always comes out on top.

WHAT THE FUCK

US tyrion lovers have been starved of any good stuff from him for a long fuckin time. It took him to the final episode for him to get his balls back.

Damn right he needs to go out like the savage we all grew to know him as.

 

[Deleted member 110072]

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.

The two stories are similar in theme in the end but whether planned or not I think the execution needed to be different. In Stannis's case you clearly get the "MacBeth" vibe from him right from the start, he's intended to be someone the audience knows has a strong potential to be corrupted. In Dany's case I think if she'd been shown in that fashion all along the climax would not have had the impact it did, he get enough that it doesn't come from nowhere but not shown in the fashion to make it too obvious and lacking in drama when the shift happens.

Again I think a lot of this comes down to different people wanting different things out of the story, some seemed to want a purely heroic ending, others seemed to want a political one providing a cautionary tale. In the end I think we got a bit of both and honestly I think the choice to finish the Night King plot earlier was ultimately justified by the stronger drama of the last couple of episodes. I think the show runners managed to "do right" by most of the characters as well without just giving them happy/heroic endings, little that happened felt like they were acting badly out of character to me.

 

[Bloody Pulp]

Well, that was a pile of meh

 

[HHJ]

Well, that was a pile of meh

A stack of phat cinematic awesomeness

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

That scene with Tyrion and the council was some Disney Shit.

These fuvkers really love Tyrion.

He can do no wrong,always comes out on top.

That scene was so fucking cringeworthy. Listening to Davos, Bronn, Sam and Tyrion arguing about financing the reconstruction of King’s Landing’s brothels?
For Christ’s sake listening to them it’s as though a million people weren’t just massacred two weeks earlier.

 

[Doughbelly]

Wikileaks says Chekhov's gun is a principle, not a device.
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@Doughbelly @TheWorm

When I want Russian interference in my arguments, I’ll ask for it.

 

[HHJ]

That scene was so fucking cringeworthy. Listening to Davos, Bronn, Sam and Tyrion arguing about financing the reconstruction of King’s Landing’s brothels?
For Christ’s sake listening to them it’s as though a million people weren’t just massacred two weeks earlier.

Yeah but it was KL

I mean...

fuck em amirite?

 

[Da Speeit]

You were expecting the series to plummet off a cliff this season?

It only “plummeted” for people who thought Daenerys wasnt an evil tyrant idealist, or that Jon Snow was going to be king.

 

[Da Speeit]

That scene was so fucking cringeworthy. Listening to Davos, Bronn, Sam and Tyrion arguing about financing the reconstruction of King’s Landing’s brothels?
For Christ’s sake listening to them it’s as though a million people weren’t just massacred two weeks earlier.

Uh they quite clearly jumped a few months in time. Possibly longer

That’s the point of the scene anyway; human nature lends itself to government. There will always be a center hub.

 

[Doughbelly]

..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.

Westeros already has democratically elected leadership. They elect the King in the North (when it’s convenient to them).