Game of Thrones - New Episodes Discussion (SPOILERS)

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I think I'd prefer to watch the houses of healing LOTR ending three times over than ever watch that episode again.

[warhead]

Love(d) the show, but thank fuck is over. So, Dany is bad, but Bran can warg the dragon and he still let all the carnage happen. What a nice boy.

How do you know he can warg the dragon?

I was going to ask that myself.!! It was never broached in any of the seasons, I just assumed he was paralysed from the waist down 

I thought it seemed implied, at the end when they're talking about sightings of Drogon and Bran says "Perhaps I can find him..."

Yeah, that`s the way I got it..........
By the way, if we` will speculate, maybe Bran is not really innocent at all. He was not really objecting to the crown, was quite the opposite. Would be great if Bran was the biggest plotter of them all.
Good riddance, anyway it is........

[Pedrito]

The minute we've got to start explaining it outside of the confines of the show itself we're fucked. I'm all for a touch of mystery, but the show introduced these magical/mystical/deus ex machina elements and then tried its very best to avoid explaining them, or sweep them under the carpet. We followed Bran for ages and we're still none the wiser to what he was all about..thick. The Night King, can plummet from a dragon and survive, can throw a spear like a lightning bolt and change the weather and is taken out like a numpty.

Never thought I'd say it, but I'm glad it's over now so they can't ruin it any further.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yeah, glad it's over too. Finished like a farting balloon flying around the place at the end of an incredible fireworks show, but it's done.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Great.....

Close thread.........

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

It's true our combined efforts are needed elsewhere, like the jokes thread for example.

[Paul keohane]

Watched it from the start when it originally came on Sky Atlantic,seems a long time now.Overall a really great show, but yeah kinda glad its over now.

[Ollkiller]

Really like the last shot as it relates to the first shot in the first episode of a rider going beyond the wall.

This season ruined what could have be one of the greatest shows ever. Far too rushed. Needed another season and I won't even start on the dialogue.

The way Varys was dispatched with was unforgivable. To be honest I lost interest after that. Hopefully the final two books get released as I want a proper ending to it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yeah, if he ever finishes the series I'll read the whole thing when I retire. That gives you almost 30 years George!!

[blessed1]

Yeah, if he ever finishes the series I'll read the whole thing when I retire. That gives you almost 30 years George!!

The guys a walking heart attack so it's wishful thinking that he will even finish them lol

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Right lets close of this thread with a quick synopsis!

Drogon went East
Arya went West
Jon went North
The Show went South

[Pedrito]

In retrospect, and in line what I said earlier in the thread, I'm now quite glad Dany went mad and destroyed the city. Could it have been handled a little better? Yes. But, it mustn't have been easy to write a female character like that in the modern climate, and I'm really glad it didn't go down the appeasement line. There were great female parts throughout the story without the need to pander to the über-female trope we are seeing everywhere at the moment.

I watched it again, and I think once the dust has settled, the show will have been seen as a great success overall. It's also a good time to wrap it up and not drag the bollox out of it. Leaving so many open ended questions isn't necessarily a bad thing either. We can't always have a nice tidy reason for everything. Will miss it, but glad it's over as the last few seasons couldn't match the early ones. A distinct lack of boobies in the last season aswell was very disappointing.

Quote of the season: "I once brought a jackass and a honeycomb into a brothel..."

[John Kimble]

I watched it again, and I think once the dust has settled, the show will have been seen as a great success overall.

I'd have to disagree with this. If you look at other shows in comparison, let's say the Sopranos, the Wire, Breaking Bad even...shows with near universal critical acclaim, there may have been a few dips in quality over the seasons but none that garnered the level of backlash that the final season of GOT received. Like, there were a couple of poor Soprano episodes (the finale and Tony in a coma spring to mind), and some seasons of the Wire weren't as amazing as others (the dealing amnesty and the press). But GOT was building from the outset towards a definite conclusion, took its time initially to set a fairly compelling scene, then resolved everything in the most unsatisfactory manner. It was like the producers just stopped giving a shit, or got more lucrative incentives to wrap things up quickly. And while I would gladly watch The Sopranos and The Wire again, I genuinely think the last season of GOT has tainted the series overall. Although to be fair, had the final episode of the Sopranos aired only recently, I think it would have faced a comparable backlash on social media from its followers.

[Ollkiller]

When it went past the books obviously the dialogue suffered a bit. But it wasn't drastic. Scenes were properly fleshed out and the dialogue was still very good. The dialogue in Season 8 is horrendous.

Also you can't have a show with a certain pace for 7 seasons and then go super turbo speed to the finish. When I watched Sopranos or the wire or oz oy any of the great tv shows there was a certain rhythm to each show. Fuck with the pace and viewers rightly get annoyed. The makers should be ashamed of themselves for not properly finishing an amazing tv show.

[John Kimble]

I actually found the last book to be a complete chore of a read, although having read all the preceding novels back to back, maybe it was just fatigue setting in. With that in mind, perhaps the show just mirrored the dip in quality of the books. To be fair, I may just revisit the last one in case. I would love to fall back into the series, and witness Martin resolve everything in a fitting manner.