Whining nerds on Twitter who are pissed that they didn't get the ending they had manufactured in their minds prior to the airing isn't exactly an overwhelming opinion, just a loud minority.
Game of Thrones Season 8
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Whining nerds on Twitter who are pissed that they didn't get the ending they had manufactured in their minds prior to the airing isn't exactly an overwhelming opinion, just a loud minority.
I mean you can look back on real human history and see savage murderous armies that looted and raped and committed atrocities, it's our "modern" view that's shocked. Dragons aside, plenty of historical leaders wouldn't be shocked by this. I mean really, Jon never saw an army go bloodlust? I guess he did miss the trashing of the riverlands.
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That's one of the most interesting parts of Clash of Kings and Storm of Swords. The fighting in the riverlands shows that nobody is "good" when it comes to war. There's only people with power and those without it. Of course the soldiers started raping and looting, because that's exactly what the series has shown us that they do.
History shows us that too doesn't it?
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It's only shocking because there was little precedent for Dany and her army doing anything like that. The character development to reach that point has been poor and totally unearned. They went from a 4 to a 10 on the brutality scale with little story development. Its rushed and lazy story telling plain and simple.
So who kills Dany? Jon or Arya?
Arya was spared several times for a reason. Does Dany have green eyes?
I think Jon does it with Arya backing him up - fighting off unsullied, etc. Maybe he does it to save Tyrion’s life - I assume she will charge him with treason?
Arya was spared several times for a reason. Does Dany have green eyes?
I think Jon does it with Arya backing him up - fighting off unsullied, etc. Maybe he does it to save Tyrion’s life - I assume she will charge him with treason?
I don't disagree on the Dany part, but the soldiers on the ground I'd totally buy doing as they did.
I think what made this episode so gripping is how we saw through Arya and Jon's eyes the reality of what war is.
I give props to them for not giving us the face to face confrontation of sides, but if anything feel somewhat cheated by Cersei getting to go out comforted in the arms of her love, but that is how GOT rolls and what makes it so good.
I give props to them for not giving us the face to face confrontation of sides, but if anything feel somewhat cheated by Cersei getting to go out comforted in the arms of her love, but that is how GOT rolls and what makes it so good.
I'm sad Tyrion is so stupid now. He used to be one of my favorite characters
I care because it’s the last episode. I’ve invested a lot of my time watching the last 8 seasons and I want to see how it plays out, especially, for all we know, this might very well be the only final resolution we get on the books as well.
That being said, I don’t know how they fix the WTF that was created in this last episode, or if they even intend to.
It's fitting that Benioff and Weiss are making a new Star Wars trilogy, because they totally "Last Jedi"-d this season of GOT. This series was built on strong female characters and that has gone out the window in recent weeks:
Cersei - wallowing in Jaime's arms
Dany - snapping as she hears the cries of thousands ("Meesa!")
Arya - giving up on killing Cersei because The Hound tells her to
Brienne - sobbing when Jaime leaves for Cersei, despite having been left/broken multiple times in her life
It's becoming apparent that Benioff & Weiss relied more on GRRM's books to gain insight into these women and adapt them to the screen. Without the books, they are defaulting to negative/weak stereotypes of women that do not fit these characters. Go watch a series like Killing Eve - those writers are portraying women far better than GOT S8 has.
Cersei - wallowing in Jaime's arms
Dany - snapping as she hears the cries of thousands ("Meesa!")
Arya - giving up on killing Cersei because The Hound tells her to
Brienne - sobbing when Jaime leaves for Cersei, despite having been left/broken multiple times in her life
It's becoming apparent that Benioff & Weiss relied more on GRRM's books to gain insight into these women and adapt them to the screen. Without the books, they are defaulting to negative/weak stereotypes of women that do not fit these characters. Go watch a series like Killing Eve - those writers are portraying women far better than GOT S8 has.
I people obviously have story issues but the cinematography was incredible. Seeing Arya powerless to save people was a pretty powerful sequence.
GRRM irony. The whole turn of the wheel began with Rhaegar stepping out on his wife and loving Lyanna, now it will be up to their child to end it.
