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

[xxxfrankb]

My last one for Tonight Boys, Need to hit the Hay, Have Good Night. Until tomorrow to Continue the Ranting

 

[HARRISON_3]

I've heard nothing but great things about the GOT season finale.

 

[ImNotSurpisedDonks!]

Because Jon had Targ blood, he refused to fuck Dany in episode 4, which caused her to reveal her true plan for ruling Westeros.

What's funny is all the leaks (at least fake ones) all had Jon and Dany having a baby. Everyone was counting on something different than Jon killing Dany more than frickin' BRAN becoming king. Why did they waste all that time on Dany saying "I can't have a baby" and Jon saying "you never know", their courtship and massive accomplishments, then having them bone as we find out Jon is the rightful heir? And, wtf happened to that Azor Ahai prophecy? What a giant let down. The rightful heir is basically a bum in Alaska, came back from the dead, united the free folk, battled the knight king, rode on dragons, killed the love of his life and his queen.

Something tells me this played out differently in GRRM's head. That's what happens when you draw horses by committees; they turn in to camels quickly.

 

[Scheme]

 

[ImNotSurpisedDonks!]

Just thought about this

The fact that they houses that vote are still going to be in royal bloodlines means that the "wheel" isn't broken. It's still ruled by houses - they now just vote on THEIR leader.

Wouldn't the other kingdoms be afraid that their people would want to start electing leaders?

Call it the super delegate system.

 

[Michaelangelo]

wishing the Night King won right about now

 

[fractal]

People are drama queens and it was obviously gonna get the a million "worst ending ever" responses regardless of what happened.

It wrapped up a story that was too massive to wrap up in the time they had.

Not the best but there is no one in the world who could honestly put this up there with something like Heroes which was pure and utter anticlimactic garbage.

A GoT analogy of the Heroes ending would be like if the series ended after Jaime killed Euron and ran off into that cave. No resolution between conflicting characters, no resolution to the actual long running character arcs in the show. Just fade to black with a panning shot of Euron dying on the rock... The End.... That would be the GoT ending if it was like Heroes
Honestly S8 wasn't even the worst season on GoT, season 5 was. IMO the seasons from best to worst go:

S4
S1
S6
S3
S2
S7
S8
S5

Well Heroes was cut short and wasn't given a series finale. I actually liked it when they did the thing with time travel. I think that could've really arced the story and drawn up a great ending.

What I don't understand with GOT is why they rushed the last 2 seasons? It's not like it was losing following. They still could've banked with 4 seasons instead of 2 short ones. Maybe the casual fanbase was losing interest in season 6 due it's slowness. I remember a lot of people complaining about there being too much dialogue and enough happening lol.

 

[Philo-Publius]

i thought it was garbage... if you hadnt guessed that already

Agree. Complete shit ending. Ned Stark protected "John Snow's" real identity his entire life, so that one day he could set the succession right. They designate the throne to

Spoiler

an ineligible cripple

instead? And then they

Spoiler

banish

the true hero of the story? That was a complete shitshow.

 

[Midnighter]

So the walkers and the Night King are just mindless killing machines, thats all their point? Now that I regain some composure I see more plot lines are not properly explained. Bran the king but also the Three Eyed Raven, how would that even work? The Dorththraki where they go? The Red God and what purpose he served or the point of all the prophecies?

Just gotta be happy that the dumpster fire burned itself out at this point.

 

[JabToucher]

 

[TUFNewb]

We all have different opinions.... But this whole season was objectively bad that the Creator of the show, and many of it's actors INCLUDING Kit Harrington, who played Jon Snow, Emilia Clark who played Danny, and Peter Dinklage who played Tyrion voiced there displeasure with how their Characters were treated and how the show ended .

It's okay if you don't think the ending was bad, that's cool, but it and this whole season was objectively Bad.

You can have your opinion and like it, but The Creators, and the Actors on the show themselves say otherwise.

Eh it was fine. I can see how they might not been perfectly happy how it ended tho. Felt a bit rushed I suppose. Not uncommon for actors to want the characters they are so attached to end up differently. They are just actors tho.

All in all I feel satisfied with the last season and the finale, but most importantly the series as a whole.

People were going to complain no matter what happened.

 

[fractal]

Game of Thrones is so much better than Vikings. Like miles better.

They are very different though. Vikings is based on history, at least the larger storyline. Yes there are many exaggerated characters, but it's a very very good show. GOT was a great show till they decided they had to squeeze everything into 2 short seasons and fucking ruin every character in their.

 

[MusterX]

Jon May have been heir but he didn’t act on it. Jon’s best ending is what happened. He never wanted to be king and now gets to be free.

The real question is why he was resurrected from the dead. That seems to have been a completely botched plot angle.

Its pretty obvious why he was resurrected.

 

[Stargazer Rex]

Bran knew what the hell he was doing from the very beginning. He’s always wanted the throne

 

[ImNotSurpisedDonks!]

The Night King winning and destroying all life, as they were too busy bickering over stupid fish, would've been way better than this.

 

[Gamer007]

The episode itself wasn't terrible, but this season was trash. Seriously can someone explain where all these Unsullied and Dothraki spawned from? Horrific writing, even a half interested person would notice all the glaring inconsistencies.

 

[Bald1]

I can't watch the last episode until tomorrow. Where can I read a summary? I can't wait to be dissapointed, spoilers be damned.

 

[ImNotSurpisedDonks!]

One of the worst last seasons and finales from a great TV show ever.

The only HBO series that rivaled this in scope and popularity was Sopranos, and they screwed the pooch hard on that one too.

 

[Makani]

Did I miss something ? Did that really happen? Walked away from the show a couple of times.

Master of Coin, Lord Paramount of the Reach, which is actually kind of ironic, cause what a reach. Remember when they told the Unsullied they could go live in the Reach, because "No one lives there anymore." I member. The most prosperous, populated region of Westeros. Empty. It feels like there are like 200 people left in Westeros sometimes.

On that note, I think Dany had more Unsullied in this episode than she's ever had before, after losing "half" of them at Winterfell. Get fucked writers.

 

[Hogey]

Bran knew what the hell he was doing from the very beginning. He’s always wanted the throne

Yup that’s what I got I got out of it he was just setting everyone up