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mk  ·  1793 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What did ya think of the GoT finale?

Garbage writing to wrap it up. The show was interesting in part because of the character development and dialog. They removed that from the last few episodes. Varys became flat, Jon became a waffle, Cersei was put on the bench, Grey Worm was castrated completely, and Brienne was made to blubber about Jamie. Tyrion lost his wit and became the great explainer. Daenerys was never a very strong character to begin with, which was probably the weakest aspect of the whole series, and yet, her transformation was too quick to be believable.

It was boring that Bran should be voted king, and hilarious that Sansa said no thanks and no one got to change their vote, however, it wasn't what actually happened that was the problem. The problem is that they betrayed the work that had been done and just got sloppy.

The dragons were so wild that they could barely be controlled by Daenerys, but then one became philosophical upon her death, and destroyed a metaphor. Sam presented the history of the war to Tyrion, and for the purposes of a joke, informed him that he wasn't in it, which would be impossible, seeing as Tyrion killed his father, the guy that sat in the Iron Throne. Not worth the shitty joke. Arya rode out of the ruins on a pale horse with a look of vengeance, then to walk out without purpose. Grey Worm teleported. The whole modern beverage easter egg thing was probably a symptom of shit going downhill.

The show did interesting things like the red wedding, Ned Stark's death, Cersei's shame walk, the fire bombing of the temple, and Hodor. The death of the night king and the ruin of King's Landing could have matched up if the writing wasn't shit.