Game of Thrones Thread

[Salt_Merchant]

arent they just gunna end up having another war of x kings in 40 years when bran dies with no heirs?

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

 

[StarkRavingMad]

 

[Stoneheart]

arent they just gunna end up having another war of x kings in 40 years when bran dies with no heirs?

yes, but not because of the HRE system they impleneted. the problem is the great familys are in total shambles.

 

[Lemmingwise]

arent they just gunna end up having another war of x kings in 40 years when bran dies with no heirs?

Hard to say. He's not really bran anymore, remember, he's the 3 eyed raven now.

That is Brynden Rivers. He was a bastard to one of the Targaryen kings. In his life he was master of whispers, hand of the king and later, night's watch commander and eventually left beyond the wall.

He was born 175 AC. Consider that Joffrey died at 300 AC, and he has extended his life pretty far in the past. So who knows if Bran will even die?

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Seeing how he turned out in the show after his growth spurt I think book Sansa would be fine with that.

Maisie's Twitter has some dank memes

 

[Lemmingwise]

Maisie's Twitter has some dank memes

I she going to share the meme where she's raped to death by paki's next?

 

[Marissa Moira]

GRRM made things worse.

He pulled a THE BOOKS WILL HAVE THE REAL ENDING HAHA! and the BTW IM WORKING WITH FROMSOFTWARE TO MAKE A GAME AND CANT FINISH MY BOOKS RIT NAO.

You know it really helps that all the rules of storytelling were established way back in Ancient Greece and that any grand deviation from such is usually met with failure. You have thousands of years of examples.

 

[frozenrunner]

Seasons 6 and 7 had great moments/scenes/lines but were disappointing. Season 8 was weak in similar ways (dialogue was never as good as the earlier seasons, characters were written wrong including most of the great female characters, things happened too quickly, and weird logical oversights in plot were not uncommon, to name a few), but the last two episodes were very solid IMO. Extremely ballsy of the showrunners to take YASSS QUEEN SLAYYYY and do what they did with her.

I don't know why the biggest show on TV couldn't have a full final season, but I guess the showrunners wanted to keep HBO happy in light of their upcoming alternate reality American Civil War series. Which I still won't watch a second of.

Martin will do a better job HAHAHAHAHA just kidding, he'll never finish the books.

 

[Stoneheart]

You know it really helps that all the rules of storytelling were established way back in Ancient Greece and that any grand deviation from such is usually met with failure. You have thousands of years of examples.

Jamie should have faced jon in a duel, hectore is the perfect blueprint for him.

 

[Well Intentioned]

Martin will do a better job HAHAHAHAHA just kidding, he'll never finish the books.

Reminder that the last published book ended with Dany shitting in a field.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Reminder that the last published book ended with Dany shitting in a field.

The field was a metaphor for the audience all along.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

The field was a metaphor for the audience all along.

The real ending was in us the whole time! (Specifically our colon.)

 

[Spatula]

You can tell she's being sarcastic with the 'geniuses' part.

 

[Marissa Moira]

Series ends by having a man penetrate a woman.

 

[Lemmingwise]

You can tell she's being sarcastic with the 'geniuses' part

For four years I had to endure people who didn't see dany's evil coming. It isn't just a writer's flaw. It's also an actor's flaw.

 

[Chester Rigby]

Anybody have a link to good breakdowns of what exactly happened to this show? I adore media trashfires like this one, but so far all of the criticism I've seen has been understandably insular. I'm an outsider looking in and I'm not about to dedicate my time to a very long series that goes down the shitter, so I'd love an explanation specific things beyond just 'they ran out of book to adapt' and 'HBO was willing to offer them however much time and resources they needed and they took six episodes'. I want to know the mechanics of this grand failure.

The latest Midnight's Edge video is a very good recap of what went wrong with this.

 

[Absolutego]

I don't know why the biggest show on TV couldn't have a full final season, but I guess the showrunners wanted to keep HBO happy in light of their upcoming alternate reality American Civil War series. Which I still won't watch a second of.

Martin will do a better job HAHAHAHAHA just kidding, he'll never finish the books.

HBO wanted 10 full seasons, and then more episodes for seasons 7 and 8, and the showrunners refused. They super wanted to be done with the show so they can go make Star Wars. The confederate show is dead in the water afaik.

 

[frozenrunner]

The confederate show is dead in the water afaik.

Thank fuck. With all the lame, out-of-place virtue signaling they forced into the show post-season 5, I'm sure they would have provided the most skin-deep take imaginable on the War Between the States. With some flaccid anti-Drumph commentary to boot.

 

[Mola Ram]

Thank fuck. With all the lame, out-of-place virtue signaling they forced into the show post-season 5, I'm sure they would have provided the most skin-deep take imaginable on the War Between the States. With some flaccid anti-Drumph commentary to boot.

It sounded like a dumbass version of Bring the Jubilee, which they likely would have liberally plagiarized since no one remembers it.