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You seem to be confused by the difference between spending money and making money. My wife has the same problem.
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I haven’t really followed GoT closely, but this captures what is wrong with so much of movies and television today. In the interest of doing something unexpected, the writers do something that doesn’t make sense. It’s a catch 22: if something makes sense, it’s a least a little bit expected.
Other examples of this failure include Lost, Star Wars, and some of what has been done in the Marvel universe.
I’m sorry, what? lol Marvel universe is about as paint by numbers as you get. It’s the same Ironman 1 formula applied to every single movie they put out.
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yeah x3 with they are going to bottle it/got Disneyfied and only like one more major character will die, leaving it open for a bunch of franchise sequels/offshoots/prequels/reloads …blah blah
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I was kind of hoping for a buddy movie spin off with Arya and the Hound, but I guess that’s out.
I’ll settle for Arya killing the mad queen, Jon getting killed by his own wolf he ditched, and that blacksmith sitting on the throne.
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I think this season was created by brainstorming really cool scenes they wanted to shoot, and then coming up with whatever writing is necessary to facilitate them. Piss on any complexity, consistency, and plot/character development from the last 7 seasons (not like the last couple didn’t have their own issues though). So many cool scenes, but so much shit that just doesn’t make any sense.
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This is exactly my thought. Dany killing innocents is so out of character it throws away so many good moments from her earlier.
Also, the whole Jaime redemption arc was apparently nothing.
I’m just not sure about the writing for the season. The show is known for it’s depth, and there were SO MANY crazy fan theories trying to figure out the story using that depth. Instead, they went super simple and ignored significant character development.
I will give them credit though, it’s very entertaining in a cinematic sense. I’m entertained, until I start thinking about the story line, then I get annoyed. I guess this is what happens when you don’t have the books as source material.
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I’m confused here. a lot of this seemed foreshadowed to me, clearly this is how Martin wanted the main characters to end, now how they got there is up for debate, and I think the main issue here is that the last two seasons are so short, so they’re speeding to this ending.
but the ending is for sure Martins. At least I think so. I don’t see any inconsistency issues for the most part.
We’ve seen her crucify an entire class of people without trials and we’ve seen her execute POWs who don’t kneel. Also she burnt people she’d just made a deal with, because they were rude.
It fits her character arc and the theme of the show pretty well.
She’s not exactly lily-white innocent.
While it looked super disturbing on screen, sacking a city and slaughtering its inhabitants was common practice for much of history IRL. They had to do it manually without the benefit of dragons too.
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I had this exact conversation with a co-worker this morning … it’s not out of character for her to channel her inner Aerys (her pops)
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Ever go out of your way to a place to do something, but when you get there something comes up and you have to leave without doing it? And then like it rains and you get stuck there thinking why the fuck did I even come here today?
Arya’s episode arc but like with a dragon and people dying.
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After reading all the books and generally being a big fan of the HBO show, I’m feeling a bit let down. The episodes are all entertaining enough, it’s just ending really fast and not how you expect.
It would be like getting on a roller coaster that’s awesome. Big, fast unpredictable and exciting. Lots of track too one of the longest, best coasters that you’ve ever been on.
But instead of winding down a few smaller hills at the end and gliding to a stop, some mulleted carny with a sleeveless Slayer T-shirt and a cigarette dangling from his mouth pulls a lever, you screech to a halt in the middle of a hill and the carny blows smoke in your face and tells you to get the hell off the ride.
“Is something wrong?” you ask.
“No, that’s how this ride ends,” the carny informs you.
“Well I guess it was still a pretty good roller coaster.”
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I’m not saying she’s innocent. To me the story just didn’t feel thorough, she just flipped randomly. There was no moment that caused her to react in such a crazy way. My problem is not what she did, but the fact there didn’t seem to be a “why” around her turning in such a way. It seemed to simple and easy.
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Will agree with you there. Not the gradual decent into isolation, power lust and madness we’d like to watch. They just ripped away her mentor, best friend, dragon, lover and trusted advisor in 2 episodes.
I could see someone going crazy losing that much in a short time. I just think HBO needed to close the loop on the story too fast.
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Lol at the way they setup John’s refusal scene. He takes that step back and she looks so hurt. It should be a simple “bitch I can’t keep sleeping with my aunt!”
If it is John who kills Dany I’m calling that she’s carrying his incest baby.
She reminds me of the psycho bitch hill-billy wife of the opium poppy grower in Ozarks.
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Na man, it’s scorched earth there, barren fields thanks to the witch lady back in the beginning. I think if we did have the books, Martin would have gone into that more. Like you mentioned about the isolation, knowing she has nothing else to live for, and cannot ever be a mother again has to push her mental state further into the deep end that sitting on the pointy chair is the only thing she has to live for now.
She has nothing left but a sole dragon and dickless soldier in her corner now.
That would actually be a really good ending. I was wondering what they were trying to accomplish by bringing Ghost back into the story, despite the show completely abandoning Jon’s Warg arch.
Edit - didnt feel like making another post. Unrelated but I do not find Emilia Clark to be attractive at all… They should have had Sophie Turner play Dany instead. She’s a natural blonde, and could have thrown some purple contacts on her.
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The random CGI cameos sure hinted at something bigger at play, all to just have Jon kick his wolf to the curb.