TV Game of Thrones - Season 8

Started by marshmallow, Nov 13, 2018, in Entertainment Add to Reading List

  1. GOLOVKING
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    May 21, 2019
    Nonsense. BCS S4 and Fargo S3 better than GoT S1-8.
     
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  2. Lil Squeed
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    May 21, 2019
    this is beautiful :'(
     
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  3. Antman
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    Antman No Cap

    May 21, 2019
    I’ll take got 1 - 6 over what this n----- saying. 7 ain’t even bad tho (it is, but isn’t)
     
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  4. JFK
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    May 21, 2019
    Game of Thrones is still a fantastic show but that finale was truly Dexter levels of awfulness.
     
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  5. joeyp363
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    May 21, 2019
    Dexter finale might have actually been better...

    GOT will never be considered a top tier show. Season 1-4 were great. It never reached the heights of
    The wire
    The leftovers
    Breaking Bad
    Fargo 1-2
    True detective 1
    Etc
     
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  6. Mothrfckr
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    May 21, 2019
    No wonder the Unsullied were twice as many as after the battle against the NK... unsullied.jpg
     
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  7. Johnny Guitar
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    May 22, 2019
    Wasn't there a conversation between Daenerys and Missandei about how the Unsullied lose their genitals. They were wondering if they only cut their balls off and leave the d-ck or if they cut the d-ck off, but leave the balls
     
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  8. Jakey
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    Jakey You Reckon

    May 22, 2019
    Season 7 finale. Bran: " He is the heir to the Iron Throne."

    Season 8 finale. Bran: "Why do think I came all this way?"
     
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  9. Boos
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    May 22, 2019
    they ruined this show and I'll never forgive those f---ers D&D
     
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  10. joeyp363
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    May 22, 2019
    I’m so happy this show failed. Most overrated show of all time
     
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  11. Pinhead
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    May 23, 2019
    Hurt from being fast tracked, but definitively better than seasons 4-7. Show got too big for its own good, this happens to every one of them.
     
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  12. JFK
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    May 23, 2019
    Nah
     
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  13. DKC
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    DKC hank trill

    May 23, 2019
    Best piece on the final season I've read (ignore clickbait title):
    The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones
    It's not just bad storytelling—it’s because the storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological
    https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...e-last-season-of-game-of-thrones/?redirect=1#
     
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  14. DKC
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    DKC hank trill

    May 23, 2019
    wat there's no way this trash is better than 4 or 6. Or even 5 or 7 honestly and those are other bottom-tier seasons
     
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  15. Pinhead
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    May 23, 2019
    There's no planet where this finale was Dexter level.

    After the early seasons, everything hinged on winter coming and they became a waiting game for that. Lots of great character stuff, but it felt like we were running in place for years.

    Again, this was wrapped up way too quickly and the Dany heel turn was too sudden, but there were genuine stakes and what we've been waiting for finally played out. The problem for me is it felt like a good season finale, not a series finale. It left me wanting more, very hard to reconcile it being over.
     
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  16. DKC
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    DKC hank trill

    May 23, 2019
    I guess I felt like the end of season 3/all of season 4 had a lot of huge turning points where things got worse and worse for all the characters, then season 6 kinda wrapped up everyone's storyline (lots of payoff) so they could deal with the supposed final threat that's been looming (season 5 was a dud other than a few good ones like hardhome cuz it was basically a filler waiting game where all the characters were trying to catch up to each other's storylines).

    I didn't think the final episode was good in any capacity. I like a lot of the key plot points that occurred in theory, but they were soooo poorly executed and rushed. It honestly smushes almost an entire season's worth of ideas into 80 minutes. The Bells woulda been a great penultimate ep to a season had the leadup not been so rushed and dumb. But having a full season that dealt more with the long night and showing dany's descent into madness and having jon k--- her in the the final episode knowing a season 9 was coming would have been a shocking twist because everyone thought her plot armor was strong enough to last til the final couple eps. Then season 9 could have dealt with so much like Tyrion and Jon's imprisonment, what the h--- people are supposed to do when there's no ruler or heir resulting in anarchy kept at bay by dany's remaining forces. Vary's birds he sent regarding jon's true parentage could have, like, mattered. There could have been arguments over that with the unsullied and dothraki and such, more bran behind the scenes, different houses aligning with or rejecting jon until they ultimately had that small council thing where they crown bran because jon rejects the throne and makes the decision to live freely north of the wall. Obvs I'm just spitballing and none of that's perfect but there just soooo much they could have done, even if the 9th season was a shortened one instead of 7-8 being short.
     
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    May 23, 2019
    Dexteros
     
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  18. Lucy
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    Lucy #1

    May 24, 2019
    "i need a direct and intricate line drawn from point A to point B. Using free-thought, imagination and creativity is impossible" - people who hate the last season/s. literally.

    like yal woulda loved this season if they showed arya walking in the snow for 30 mins sneaking past white walkers, had a 40 minute scene of dialogue per every time they travelled and if there was an entire season showing Dany's descent to madness. Don't get boringme started on tyrion's imprisonment and wanting to see how that happened - heres a wold f---ing guess, when Dany said "take him" the unsullied took and imprisoned him. wild, huh?
     
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  19. Pinhead
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    May 24, 2019
    If you're a fan invested in these characters, what we got was by no means a conclusive, satisfying finish. You're either upset like most people seem to be, or you're on my side of it. What we got could and should have been a full season with at least another full one to wrap it up.

    My thing is if this had to be done in 6, they did about as good of a job as they could have. The final four were balls to the wall, very tight, almost individual movies. Even if the payoffs were shaky, most of them worked. The response to the first three episodes was great, but the narrative completely shifted when Dany turned. My overall point in all of this is that people get so caught up in what they think should happen with their favorite characters that they immediately reject a dramatic shift like the one got. They could and probably should have gone with a safe finish where all the faces win and we're happy, but I was immediately drawn into that wrinkle. Swerves aren't good on principle, I just appreciated this one for defying my expectations.

    This is why Tyrion's discussion with Jon is so pivotal. We have to be under her spell and reject the thought of her tyranny just like he did. Then Tyrion breaks it down and we realize (theoretically) that she was on a similar path for a while and finally just cracked.
     
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