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fletcher  ·  1773 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What did ya think of the GoT finale?

When you put it into that context it is a lot of time. And absolutely it could have been a snooze-fest after the Night King's demise. I'm not unhappy with the plot at all (other than what the hell was Bran doing warging in Winterfell? Was he just trying to get a better view of the battle? - actually, maybe I'm just super slow... Was he warging so the Night King would be able to find him?)

    The dental hygenist was mad because she doesn't know what

    the dragon is gonna do with the dead queen.

This made me chuckle a bit. I'm going back to work today after a week on holiday - it will be interesting to see what my colleagues made of the finale.

If I'm honest... I had a horrible premonition as Drogon flew off of some stupid dragon egg unhatching reveal a la Godzilla (1998). Very glad that wasn't the case.





kleinbl00  ·  1773 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Did you read the books? I don't say that to indicate "you are not a true fan if you didn't read the books" because fuckin' hell, the last book was a snoozer. But an early and often divergence between the books and the series is "warging". Arya makes one appearance in the entire fourth book - having gone blind in the third - and that's to "warg" around and kick the shit out of her master amongst the Faceless Men. Martin makes it crystal clear that what makes Arya such a ninja badass is her ability to "warg" into whatever random creatures are around long enough to get a good sense of the battleground and then "warg" back to open a can of whoopass.

I think the showrunners took a long, hard look at the source material and said "let's minimize this 'jumping into other bodies' bit as much as possible because it's confusing and off the spine." I also get the sense that they reduced the airtime of the wolves. They were a lot more important in the book. I don't think this was a bad decision - but I think it made the whole "warging" thing confusing and weird. Bran was drawing attention to himself, plain and simple. Which is a pretty weak use of the all-seeing, all-knowing eye but really, battles are often won by the stupidest shit.

fletcher  ·  1772 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I did read the books, but that was so long ago that I'm not confident enough in my memory of the source material to draw any real comparisons. (I completely forgot that Arya was even able to warg).

Having said that, I think you're right about the downplaying of the wolves. They seemed a much more integral part of the written material than the series.

I'll definitely have to go through the books again for a refresher.

kleinbl00  ·  1772 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Winds of Winter doesn't even have a release date. You won't hurt for waiting.