LuckyNumber7
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Almost like they needed two more episodes, yeh?
Generally speaking in terms of S8, I actually wasn't one of the people who minded that they dispatched with the Night King so quickly. I mean I didn't love it, but ok, I always saw this as a story about the games/wars/politics of men (and women) and the Night King was a side story in that bigger arc. So kill him early and finish that plot line, maybe that could have worked with competent writers.
it's just not one of those "watch the first 4 or 5 seasons and then stop" things like say The West Wing or Lost or ER or whatever. You really want to and need to see what happens to the characters. Except in this case you don't.
Another thing they skimmed over was the conflict with Grey Worm. He goes from slaughtering people in the street to being cool with them choosing a Stark ruler and going on vacation?
I really don't know how they could have made it any better. If we're looking at the finale in isolation then maybe having Tyrion make a hard choice and order Jon Snow executed in the name of the bigger picture would have been somewhat more satisfying. Jon Snow was a joke this season anyway, the least consequential of all characters. Again, it wouldn't have fixed the 984 other problems, but could have possibly helped a bit. Generally speaking in terms of S8, I actually wasn't one of the people who minded that they dispatched with the Night King so quickly. I mean I didn't love it, but ok, I always saw this as a story about the games/wars/politics of men (and women) and the Night King was a side story in that bigger arc. So kill him early and finish that plot line, maybe that could have worked with competent writers. Not these two, though. It's as if they gave up and had no idea how to wrap up the show after that. In that sense it was a massive mistake what they did - they should have gone in reverse order, deal with Cersei and then the Night King afterwards. At least we could have ended on a super bloody note, with way fewer survivors, and all of Westeros pretty much reduced to ashes so they have to rebuild.
Anyway, even having said all of that, it wouldn't have made much of a difference since things had been going sideways for way longer than this last season. It's a bad taste to leave in the mouths of fans. And truthfully I would not recommend this show to somebody who hasn't seen it because it's just not one of those "watch the first 4 or 5 seasons and then stop" things like say The West Wing or Lost or ER or whatever. You really want to and need to see what happens to the characters. Except in this case you don't.
Fwiw, if I recall correctly, even with a spoiler tag what's in the text box show up unless they finally fixed that.I didn’t open the thread.
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The way you can avoid this is by either using a spoiler tag or just rambling for a sentence or two before mentioning something. A spoiler tag will generate the “[emoji85]” emoji as a preview to the post in the mobile app.
In general I agree, don’t open the topic if you haven’t seen the show. But also remember 9 PM EST is 2 AM GMT (I’m currently GMT right now or BST or whatever the heck it is here) etc. etc., so across the pond or out in Australia (god knows what time it is there), people haven’t seen prime time yet and won’t until their following prime time comes along. Well, Aussies might get daytime opportunity, I don’t know.