Season 7 was great but it was just rushed season 8 was also rushedTwo Birds, One Throne
People hate season 7. I loved it. One of my favorite seasons
season 8 was fine until the last few episodes which was terrible.
A bad season is not going to undo all the years i've loved the show.
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Daniel.
BK to NJ, but always a New York Knicka
Which characters?
I'd actually encourage anyone that hated the ending to rewatch. There were several cookie crumbs throughout the seasons that made the endings inevitable (Bran is the only one I'd say I think is complete bullshyt and was a copout) from where I sit, but you really do have to rewatch it to appreciate it from a story telling standpoint versus an expectations standpoint.
That's not to say it was satisfying - only that the vast majority of the endings really do make sense in the world they created.
KevCo
Bond's gun spoke once....
On its original run i think that episode aired on fathers day
On its original run i think that episode aired on fathers day
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The axe murderer
For I am death and I ride on a pale horse
Breh was treating Cersei like Future would've
Imagine him approaching Jamie talking bout how he fukked his sis in some Greyjoy tube socks
He would make her relive that shame walk
Bran, Bronn, Arya, Sansa & especially Varys, Jon, Tyrion & Jaime
the first 4 I mentioned didn’t necessarily go nowhere, they just didn’t fit or be consistent with everything up to that point, but the last 4 had total character assassination, I’m not sure how you can say Brans was the only total bullshyt ending to an arc but not those, they were written to act completely out of character no matter how much it didn’t make sense to their characters or intelligence just to wrap it up in the 6 episodes they had, literally the definition of forcing square pegs into circles
eurons ending was some garbage too
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daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
There was no Victorian (even though yara became femalesVictorian) no fake aegon who would had blackfyre, ( I still believe meera has darksyster but she was missing from the final season hurt Bran's POV), no real threat in dorne, no real threat in storms end (with Lora's Tyrrell being useless after Blackwater) ruined the arcs of the characters you mentioned.
In spite of that, I won't fault the show runners as much as other ppl, making live action doesn't have an unlimited budget, Lena headley got paid 3 million to stare out a window for chrissake.
daemonova
hit it, & I didn't go Erykah Badu crazy, #yallmad
Shows need to have a planned six year run, no matter how popular. If there are other stories to be told, that's why there are spinoffs, with fresh faces and fresher budgets
They DID have an unlimited budget tho, they just refused it and wanted to rush it out lol, agree with everything else you said tho
Yeah HBO would love NOTHING more than to have Game of Thrones season 9 premering this spring on HBO Max. HBO would have funded anything to keep GoT going.
100%
HBO wanted 10 seasons, George wanted 12...D&D said nope, HBO asked for 10 eps each in Seasons 7 & 8...D&D said nope
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
This is how I feel. Like they completely ruined pretty much every story arc, even down to petty shyt like Jamie and Brienne hooking up finally just for him to dump her.
Seasons 7/8 truly undid the fanatic love I had for that show. It’s still a great show in seasons 1-6, but it’s the difference between a mutual breakup and getting dumped.
KevCo
Bond's gun spoke once....
Also alot of people waited years between season 7 and 8, you may enjoy them slightly more on a binge. I know i put a few people on to it who liked it alot more than the general public on a binge.
edit: just realized thread is months old u prob already seen it lol
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Daniel.
BK to NJ, but always a New York Knicka
Bronn, Varys and Tyrion were shells of themselves by the end writing wise and for damn near 3 seasons as it is, but there was nothing in their respective endings that stood out as particularly off or inconsistent to me. Bronn was always loyal to Tyrion, Varys remained loyal to the realm and Tyrion was the loveable fukk up that was in too deep and couldn't talk his way out of the fukkery he was in.
Arya traveling the world after the shyt she saw made sense to me, especially with the parallels they drew between her and Nimeria - it was inconsistent given how vocal she was about the pack keeping together, I'll say that, though. Sansa being Queen and protecting the North was more than fitting to me, but
That leaves Jaime and Jon.
Jaime's end honestly pissed me off, but the last thing you can say is that it was inconsistent with his character. No matter what, he was always about Cersei, no matter how evil he knew she was. He was devoted to her. Their story was the ultimate love story of the show. He was completely devoted to her to his downfall. His end is maddening given the development his character had, but always going back to Cersei was his nature. It was annoying, but very fitting.
As for Jon, his end pissed me off the most in real time because I wanted him to be on he throne, or at bare minimum to stop he Night King, so his storyline is who I paid attention to the most throughout my rewatches to at least make sense of the decision. He was built as the hero, he was supposed to be the hero, and honestly should have been the one to kill the Night King, but beyond that, his story was laid out damn near from jump. "Love is the absence of duty" "Do you know who I could have been if I just said the words?", being killed by his men for trying to do right, seeing his father get killed for doing the right thing, all of that shyt from his early beginnings helped lead him to just want to be free of all the bullshyt. Even in being made King in the North, be accepted it out of duty for his people, but never WANTED to rule. They alluded to Jon's end and actions several times throughout the series and him going Maester Aemons route, in retrospect, wasn't the dope ending, but was very much the right ending for his character and brought a lot of shyt full circle to me on rewatch.
