Rewatching Game of Thrones (Spoilers!)

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Why the fuck was everyone surprised when Khaleesi burned Kings Landing? Literally every fucking person she meets in Essos she either burns, crucifies, or threatens to burn.
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yeah, you can see it coming a while away, they hint at it from the very beginning. None of that was surprising.

the real problem was the way the writers handled all of it lol. But the more time goes by, the more Ive stopped letting the ending ruin the show for me. There are too many amazing tv episodes for me to write off the whole series
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papercup posted...
Why the fuck was everyone surprised when Khaleesi burned Kings Landing? Literally every fucking person she meets in Essos she either burns, crucifies, or threatens to burn.
The show whitewashed her until the last couple seasons (does the same with Tyrion). So it feels like a u turn.

The books imply from pretty much the get go that Dany is unhinged. Falling in love with her violent rapist husband is an early tell.
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Why did Ser Arthur Dayne discard Dawn and fight with two swords that arent Dawn? Is he stupid?
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papercup posted...
Why did Ser Arthur Dayne discard Dawn and fight with two swords that arent Dawn? Is he stupid?

He was just trying to be like Anakin

https://youtu.be/4CTJEZXtr94?si=aa1UrSJk8vD9d_Ct
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FrozenBananas posted...
He was just trying to be like Anakin

https://youtu.be/4CTJEZXtr94?si=aa1UrSJk8vD9d_Ct
lol yeah that entire scene felt ripped straight out of Star Wars. Thats like the exact moment the show stopped being good.
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papercup posted...
lol yeah that entire scene felt ripped straight out of Star Wars. Thats like the exact moment the show stopped being good.

for me its right after that seasons finale. Those last 2 episodes of season 6 were the last true good ones of the show (and they might have been the best of the whole show)
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papercup posted...
Why did Ser Arthur Dayne discard Dawn and fight with two swords that arent Dawn? Is he stupid?
I really disliked that scene. And I really hate the awful trend in the later seasons of "character stabbed in the back from off camera".
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Yeah the last couple episodes of season 6 are pretty great.

However, its really weird how Sansa is all Jon, you were always my favorite brother ;-; considering she never said a word to him until season 6.
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papercup posted...
Yeah the last couple episodes of season 6 are pretty great.

However, its really weird how Sansa is all Jon, you were always my favorite brother ;-; considering she never said a word to him until season 6.
Sansa explicitly disliked Jon in the books IIRC so that is a wild line

Absolute Rob erasure
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Blightzkrieg posted...
Sansa explicitly disliked Jon in the books IIRC so that is a wild line

Was going to say this.



papercup posted...
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I've often wondered if the reason the last two books are taking so long is that GRRM saw how badly the end of the series was received and decided to redo the books ending.

Like, I couldn't stand the culmination of Jamie & Dany's story arcs. Jamie, for nearly three books, has been coming to the realization that his family doesn't care about him the way he cares about them, and beginning to focus on what will give him a chance at having a purpose.

And for Dany to go 'mad queen' would just be cliched, because it's such a big worry for her. Martin is all about subverting or twisting fantasy concepts, so IMO it would make more sense that she doesn't go nuts.
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papercup posted...
Why the fuck was everyone surprised when Khaleesi burned Kings Landing? Literally every fucking person she meets in Essos she either burns, crucifies, or threatens to burn.

And she's the heroine .... because reasons.

Blightzkrieg posted...
Sansa explicitly disliked Jon in the books IIRC so that is a wild line

To be fair, he was a real bastard.

DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...
I've often wondered if the reason the last two books are taking so long is that GRRM saw how badly the end of the series was received and decided to redo the books ending.

Like, I couldn't stand the culmination of Jamie & Dany's story arcs. Jamie, for nearly three books, has been coming to the realization that his family doesn't care about him the way he cares about them, and beginning to focus on what will give him a chance at having a purpose.

And for Dany to go 'mad queen' would just be cliched, because it's such a big worry for her. Martin is all about subverting or twisting fantasy concepts, so IMO it would make more sense that she doesn't go nuts.

I feel like you give him too much credit. He described his writing style as gardening, so he's probably waiting for the books to come into season.
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ASoIaF was originally conceived as a trilogy and the series as it currently exists isn't even on the second book of that trilogy (Dany invading Westeros).

It's not just a matter of "people didn't like the ending I had", though I'm sure that's part of it. He has completely lost control of the story and given up. We were waiting on Winds before the tv show even came out.
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Im debating if I want to rewatch seasons 7 and 8. I want more GoT but I dont want that GoT
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Blightzkrieg posted...
ASoIaF was originally conceived as a trilogy and the series as it currently exists isn't even on the second book of that trilogy (Dany invading Westeros).

It's not just a matter of "people didn't like the ending I had", though I'm sure that's part of it. He has completely lost control of the story and given up. We were waiting on Winds before the tv show even came out.


Yeah Dance was a frustrating read. Theres all this build up with all these plot lines, and theres pretty much no payoff to anything. I truly believe he fucked up by not rewriting part of Dance to remove the fluff and push some of these stories along faster. At the end of the book theres no fewer than FOUR battles happening or about to happen. And theres so many other plot lines he introduced in Feast and Dance, I dont know how he can possibly fit it all into Winds. I think he needs to consider splitting Winds into two books.
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Feast didn't need to exist. It was a mistake not to have a timeskip like he originally planned.
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Yeah I was angrier with Feast than I was with Dance. Being inside the mind of Cersei for the first time literally gave me headaches lol. She is absolutely mental

although, I had my problems with Dance as well. GRRM definitely just abandoned main characters in the middle of the book and just never went back to them..imagine writing a book over a 1000 pages and just ignoring your characters for more than half of it
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FrozenBananas posted...
although, I had my problems with Dance as well. GRRM definitely just abandoned main characters in the middle of the book and just never went back to them..imagine writing a book over a 1000 pages and just ignoring your characters for more than half of it

That might be one of the consequences of having to split Feast in half and move half the POVs to Dance. It probably ruined a lot of his planning.
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Am I the only finding season 2 of House of the Dragon boring? Paddy Considine carried season 1.
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Martin should just use ChatGPT to write the rest of the series at this point.
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papercup posted...
Am I the only finding season 2 of House of the Dragon boring? Paddy Considine carried season 1.
They have the same conversations every fucking episode and the writers are terrified of having characters take initiative.

Criston Cole is a bad guy but at least he fucking does something.
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are you gonna skip the last episodes like i do when i rewatch x-files?
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There are probably fan edits that might make it better.
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GanonsSpirit posted...
There are probably fan edits that might make it better.
"Dany died on her way back to Westeros"
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Dany sort of forgot about the Iron Fleet
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papercup posted...
Dany sort of forgot about the Iron Fleet
Have you seen that "Meleys was a beloved dragon" quote going around

Season 2 is pretending the dragon pit scene never happened
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Blightzkrieg posted...
Have you seen that "Meleys was a beloved dragon" quote going around

Season 2 is pretending the dragon pit scene never happened
What is up with Westeros and dumb showrunners.

Like in GoT, they really dont touch on the weirwoods at all despite the fact theyre one of the most interesting and important bits of lore in ASoIaF. Theyre literally corrupted man-eating demon trees, and D&D just sort of forgot about them.
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Well Max is asking me login to YouTube TV (dont know what this means). So Im watching The Boys now!
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Making Alicent one of the two leads was a huge mistake omg
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There are people that watch this show and think Homelander is a good guy? Uh.
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and they really wanna make america great again.
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Jesus Christ the plane scene O_O
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Eww that one scene with the Deep. You know the one. Gross :(
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papercup posted...
Eww that one scene with the Deep. You know the one. Gross :(
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GanonsSpirit posted...
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my same thought, lol.

the grossest one Im thinking of doesnt come until a while later though
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When he shows the girl his gills.

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papercup posted...
When he shows the girl his gills.

oh yeah hes such a gross character
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The scene where everyones heads explode at the congressional hearing D:
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Of course Deep fucks an octopus.
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I got caught up on Invincible. Its really good! Its like anime but not trash!
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I still need to watch S2
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Metalsonic66 posted...
I still need to watch S2

same, but I think I liked season 1 way more than The Boys. And it sounds like theres enough source material to make Invincible go at least 7-8 seasons. I wouldnt mind getting into a long running series like this
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FrozenBananas posted...
And it sounds like theres enough source material to make Invincible go at least 7-8 seasons
This is true, but as someone reading the source material, the quality drops off hard after what I estimate will be adapted in either season 4 or 5.

But seasons 3 and 4 will be incredible.
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