What Game Of Thrones Kinda Forgot

Princess Bride, not Princess Diaries. Fun fact: In real life, I've mixed these two up every time I've ever mentioned them, so no surprise I slipped up here.

To quote Jenny Nicolson, the worst thing an ending can do is make you feel stupid for caring in the first place.

GRRM might have killed your favorite character, but D&D killed your favorite show

"Who has a better story than Bran The Broken...." Everyone else.

I find it hilarious that they rushed the end of Game of Thrones so they could move on to Star Wars, only to get dropped from the Star Wars project because they tanked Game of Thrones. Lesson learned: Never rush a project because you think you're going to do something "better" after. Your lack of respect for your current project WILL be noticed.

Morale of the story is to seriously consider replacing your writers when they begin to eyeball other jobs/work.

"George R.R. Martin was on board for as many as 13 seasons" Sly old dog, tryin' to buy himself more time to finish them tomes

I love how Bran's actor thought the writers were pranking him when they showed him the script

Honestly I didn’t like Ayra’s ending. She spent so long trying to get back to her family to then trying to be Nobody to realising that she will always be a Stark. And then her ending is leaving her family for a life on the sea (cause there’s no guarantee there’s land to the west) and like she’s never even given any indication she likes sea life aka fascination with the iron born way of living. Really it would have made more sense for me at least for Ayra becoming the master of whispers since you know she can disguise herself to be anyone meaning all secrets are attainable to her and it actually uses her skill set.

"I can never be lord of winterfell, I can never be lord of anything, i'm the 3 eyed raven" - bran :) also bran "what do you think I came all along the way here for?"

"You can't trust the meaning of the images you're looking at." This is such an important point and I'm glad someone put the lingering feeling I couldn't pin down into words.

D&D really lost my respect. If they were sick of GoT, they should've passed it on to a successor, not sprint to the end and ruin it.

The iron throne is gone. It's only fair Bran should be king since he brought his own seat 🙄

my new favourite activity is watching youtube vids of people ripping apart got s8

The story really feels like a couple of writers that stopped caring.

"She (Daenerys) executed people who didn't obey her. So does everyone in this universe." THANK U! That's what I said!

I remember reading somewhere that George R. R. Martin found writing the Red Wedding in the books emotionally devastating. He literally skipped it, wrote the rest of the book, and then went back drafted that chapter because it pained him so much to write such a gruesome and painful moment for characters he had built up. But he felt that the Red Wedding needed to happen because the story was taking the shape of "Ned Stark's son rises to glory, avenges his father's death and becomes king." He knew that this ran thematically in the opposite direction of his books, which were meant to subvert that familiar story and follow less heroic narratives. I think that says a lot - Robb's death is neither tragic nor pitiful, but the logical outcome of his actions. And it pained Martin to do so, but he knew what subversion and commitment to the story's themes actually meant. D&D on the other hand had an almost sick glee with their subversions, as though they were meant to be entertaining above all else. Story twists stank of being pleased with themselves, at how "subversive" they were. Born out of cheap thrills, combined with disinterest in the characters or the themes their stories explored. Dany is the big example, but I feel like Arya is more emblematic. Arya's journey (for Martin) is a look at how death affects young, naive children. At the start of it, she wants to learn to sword-fight and go beyond the simplistic expectations people have of her as a girl. And when she's forced to put those skills in the real world, she's good at them, but the pain and isolation stunt her and shut her off from humanity. This gets taken to the extreme with the faceless men; committing yourself to a life fueled by grief and refusing to mourn to escape pain, turns you into something that's not human. Arya learns to survive, but becomes a shell of a person. But by S7, all these themes are thrown out the window and the show is just like "she's a cool badass assassin who can take down anyone! All the skills of the faceless men but no tragic side effects!" Goes from a play on many different tropes and nuanced character development to something shallow but COOL

The part I hated most about Danaerys’ arc is that through the entire show the writers were showing the theme was “Your past does not define you” then in the matter of less than two episodes, they flip flopped and made her arc mean “You can’t escape your past.” Truly awful of Benioff and Weiss to put aside the good writing of the early show just because they’ve gotten tired and want to move on

Not many seem to talk about it, but Cersei's character really was left on the side. We've never seen her actually ruling or making any decision, attending a council meeting, we've never seen her dealing with the lords and ladies of the court. The show makes it seem like she runs the seven kingdoms by sipping wine with just Qyburn and the Mountain forming the whole government apparatus.

HA! Im glad someones caught that too: why show the burning of the throne, clearly a thematic scene.... and have a new king 2 weeks later?