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I was stuck between 2 and 3 here, went 2 in the end, but I still liked it on the whole. It was very clearly rushed and two of the episodes - 7x05 and 8x04 - were fucking ridiculous in the way characters were just thrown around the board. With that in mind, I have to question the wisdom behind 8x02 especially. It had really good character stuff but fundamentally spun its wheels. During 7x07 when some of the characters reunited and walked towards the Dragonpit, I commented that the show should have been a little more brutal and edited out some of the conversations to make it tighter - even if they served the fans the episode would have been less bloated without one or two of them. 8x02 was like that in episode form, and given that they only had 6 episodes to play with it's hard to understand the logic behind that decision. In a 10-episode season it would be better but given how chaotic 8x04 was, it's harder to understand.

But I was never less than entertained even as it became more about spectacle and fanservice (like Davos' "rowing" line) than the richer character stuff.

I liked the finale mostly - everything up to and including Jon killing Dany was some really compelling TV, particularly the Jon/Tyrion scene which I thought was fantastic. It was good to see Harrington more or less matching Dinklage (whereas when they shared scenes back in the first season Harrington was really not that great, and largely outclassed). Everything after that was a little bit too neat, but could have been worse and I liked the conclusions for a lot of the characters. I liked the way they used Jon's lineage not to give Jon the throne - which would have been unsatisfactory to me - but to further Dany's breakdown.

Johnbobb posted...

At its absolute worst, Game of Thrones is still better than 90% of TV. At its best, it's unbeatable.

This btw. By the end I was invested enough in the world and the characters that I found its missteps mostly forgivable. It traded a lot on its former glories - I lost count of how much of the dialogue was a callback or a reference - but I'm OK with the show cashing in its chips like that.

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