OFFICIAL Game of Holmes Season 8 Thread - A Dream of Flat Tops 4/14/19

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Her entire arc centered around getting back to her family and her actions in season 8 have been all about protecting their pack so when she said that I was like

Low key, Arya’s actions haven’t made sense all season. For all this talk of family she barely talks to them nikkas. Now she’s bouncing again. Smh

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Did Jon let Mance Ryder burn alive? Stannis and the mad king are the only people who did that shyt and it lead to the end of them both. Idk why yaw keep acting like the shyt is the same, when we know damn well that shyt is considered inhumane.

Couldn’t he have jailed the nights watch traitors? Couldn’t he give a young boy, who saw his parents killed, and was probably a pawn these older guys influenced... couldn’t he have been given some time to think about it?
Wasn’t Robert murdering babies and kids? Didn’t he try to get Danny killed and she was like 13? What house wasn’t doing fukk shyt on this show?


So burning is the only issue? Any other death and she’d be completely sane? So a whopping 3 people. One who volunteered. What about the 20 times she saved people and showed restraint?

shyt is dumb

 

[HarlemUSA]

is that not the same shyt her father got killed to prevent?

What? Her father was killed for numerous of political mishaps. Plus he was crazy. He had this fool Varys in his ear adding on to the paranoia.


Dany is angry/hurt not crazy. Dany has lost family members/friends to enemies but she ain’t going out her way to kill people because they disrespected her.

 

[daemonova]

 

[goatmane]

Dany going 'mad' feels rushed and out of character from previous seasons ... shes always been very righteous and for the the people & greater good of the realm

has she had to make tough decisions and exert power when needed? sure, just like any other person in a position of power

yall remember this old interview from 2016 with the writers?

But even though Dany might end up in a showdown against some of the people we have come to love in Westeros, the showrunners of Game of Thrones continue to view her as one of the good guys. In this week's Inside the Episode segment, they seem to be standing by her actions.


"I think Dany's been becoming a Targaryen ever since the beginning of Season 1," said David Benioff, with D.B. Weiss adding, "She's not her father and she's not insane and she's not a sadist, but there's a Targaryen ruthlessness that comes with even the good Targaryens."

 

[Birnin Zana]

Dany should’ve listened to Olenna

 

[Citi Trends]

Dudes trying to make Dany crazy for burning people when 95% of the people watching this shyt said burn everything down after last weeks episode.

I think after 8 seasons we all realize we can root for something and still point out why it’s not necessarily a good thing in this show

 

[TheAlbionist]

I was hooping all through my childhood but I didn't but because of that I didn't go NBA. Her chasing cats and failing at it means absolutely nothing.

Your life isn't a fictional account of a major character in an epic saga, fam. It doesn't need to, and doesn't, have a meaning.

Train someone as a multi-discipline killer for 8 seasons and there's no way they're not a candidate for the #1 killer position.

Jon was always who you were supposed to be thinking, of course he was. Just like you were supposed to be thinking Ned was going to be the hero in book one. Jon's arc has been much more about learning how to lead than how to kill. He doesn't even like killing, he just knows he's good at it. Arya loves that shyt.

For better or worse, this story's always been about the swerve. Don't get worked into a shoot.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Too many in demand actors with other projects to have a delay like that. Worked with Spartacus because it was a smaller cast of b/c level people. At the end of the day this is GRRM' s fault. Shouldn't have signed off on this until WOW was done.

what are these projects? sansa has x men which is infinitely delayed, i thought arya was supposed to be in some x men tv show, other than that, unless these dudes are doing art/indie folms/tv or theater, i don't be seeing these "stars" in anything else

edit: except dinklage, he's been in a gang of stuff...and a terminator flop for emilia

 

[Robbie3000]

Y'all keep trying to spin this from what it is: Executing prisoners of war who had laid down their weapons after the battle ceased.

Her burning a Warlock who literally had her in chains is not comparable. Her burning a Slavemaster as a part of a scheme to liberate a whole city is not the same. Her burning enemies during an active battle in Mereen is not the same.

nikkas tryna act like this is something Ned would do, but y'all pulling that out of your assess. We've seen how the Starks treat POWs with Theon, Osha, through Robb's battles and with Jon Snow and the Wildlings.

If you went back to the 1800s, you wouldn't execute every slave owner you

Your life isn't a fictional account of a major character in an epic saga, fam. It doesn't need to, and doesn't, have a meaning.

Train someone as a multi-discipline killer for 8 seasons and there's no way they're not a candidate for the #1 killer position.

Jon was always who you were supposed to be thinking, of course he was. Just like you were supposed to be thinking Ned was going to be the hero in book one. Jon's arc has been much more about learning how to lead than how to kill. He doesn't even like killing, he just knows he's good at it. Arya loves that shyt.

For better or worse, this story's always been about the swerve. Don't get worked into a shoot.

The writers literally said they decided on Arya solely for the swerve. There is no larger plan or arc, just shock value. It's fukking lazy and should not be acceptable for a show of this caliber.

 

[SchoolboyC]

Like someone else said a few days ago, at this point I’ve accepted that these last two seasons have put spectacle above substance. While watching the episodes I am invested and entertained, but once I start to really unpack what I saw, there’s a lot of stuff that just doesn’t add up.

So I see both sides. I don’t think the people who are disappointed and want to voice their frustrations are wrong, and I don’t think the people who just want to take the show at face value are wrong. It is what it is

In a perfect world, HBO would've replaced D&D once they checked out and wanted to move on to white supremacist pipedream shows, but I know that's a lot easier said than and done for a show this far in and of this magnitude.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

If you went back to the 1800s, you wouldn't execute every slave owner you

What are you even trying to say here?

 

[Tasha And]

Low key, Arya’s actions haven’t made sense all season. For all this talk of family she barely talks to them nikkas. Now she’s bouncing again. Smh

I think it feels off because everything is happening so fast. Like Jaime smashed Brienne and left the same episode. Presumably weeks might have passed but since there weren't a bunch of scenes of them together in between the smashing and the bouncing, it feels like he just hit it and quit it

Same applies with Arya returning home and then leaving with no intention to return. Feels like there should be a bunch of scenes in the middle where she interacted more with Jon, Sansa, Bran, etc and in the mean time we discovered a reason for her to want to leave.

Maybe she has a quiet scene with Jon or Gendry where she tells them that she enjoys being out and about exploring the world, and traveling with the hound was when she felt most alive and free. Or maybe Bran tells her that its okay if she wants to leave because this Winterfell isnt the Winterfell she grew up loving, and she isn't obligated to stay when there is a whole world out there for her. Idk, something that prompts Arya to say some shyt like she is leaving with no intention to return...

But with only 6 episodes, they have to speed rush everything and it just feels underdeveloped and rushed.

Edit: I just remembered that we had all of the Starks together, and we didn't get a scene where they acknowledged that all of the Freys are dead so the Red Wedding was avenged. Arya wouldn't even have to take credit for it, but it would have been cool for there to be a scene where they at least brought it up

 

[Chris Cool]

What? Her father was killed for numerous of political mishaps. Plus he was crazy. He had this fool Varys in his ear adding on to the paranoia.


Dany is angry/hurt not crazy. Dany has lost family members/friends to enemies but she ain’t going out her way to kill people because they disrespected her.

Mad King got the sword when he instructed the pyromancer to burn the city down.

Dany is power crazy and she's always been.

 

[QuintessentialMan]

Too many in demand actors with other projects to have a delay like that. Worked with Spartacus because it was a smaller cast of b/c level people. At the end of the day this is GRRM' s fault. Shouldn't have signed off on this until WOW was done.

Recast the actors as their younger selves if you have to. Dosent have to be Sean Bean and the original gang,they old af now anyway. Im prey sure audiences wouldn't mind.