Zorch -> RE: Game of Thrones (5/20/2019 6:41:59 PM)
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ORIGINAL: warspite1 Personally I have nothing against the ending (with perhaps one exception). The problem – as mentioned previously – is the pacing and thus the story telling. Sansa ending up Queen of t'North, an independent enclave on Westeros, check – Ned would be proud. Arya going off to contemplate her naval in the west? Check, she was never going to settle for being a Lady of some great estate or whateves. Mardy, “tha’ don’t know owt Jon Snow”, ending up with his whippet (well Direwolf) in t’north – t’ real north. Check. Tyrion survives – thank goodness for that, my favourite male character. Check. Lord Edmure being a total dipstick – top marks for that one. Also I did like Brienne’s scene and the epitath she gave to Ser Jaime – and she gets a job in the small council with Bronn – now master of coin…. Er really? Speaking of coin, so the whole Bank of Braavos red herring was just er a red herring. But the two main protagonists? For practically the entire run its been clear Daenerys and Jon Snow (ignoring the small matter of his murder of course) are going to be around till the end. As the show neared its climax, (and the MoD became increasingly unhinged) it became ever more apparent that these two would have to come together eventually – good (but a bit dull) vs evil (but more than a bit tasty). And sure enough they did… and Jon killed his lover, auntie, Queen etc. Dramatic huh? Er… no. That scene must have taken about 5 minutes…. Really?? It’s not a bloody afterthought – it’s the climax of the Game of Thrones!! They could have made it so much more dramatic. Jon, after his chat with Tyrion, knows what needs to be done and goes to confront her. But then the MoD waxes lyrical about a better world, breaking the wheel, shiny biceps for all etc, and Jon, the mopey bastard who knows nothing, succumbs to Daenerys ‘charms’. It looks like he will fall into line only for the MoD to say something inopportune about the north and/or Sansa. Only at that point does Jon wake up, smell the coffee, and plunge his sword in Daenerys (ohh er missus, cheeky!). The whole Jon/MoD scene – the culmination of the series for goodness sake - was just too rushed. Blink and you’d have missed it. BTW, does anyone know why Drogon melted the Iron Throne? Was that a spot of political satire from the fire breathing beast? And where he at? Last we heard he was conveniently still heading east out of the story – maybe he’ll meet Arya heading west if the world is indeed round. And as for what followed….. So Jon has killed someone who is effectively a goddess to the Dothraki and the saviour to the Unsullied , who are programmed to fight to the death for her. Oh and where the hell did all those Unsullied come from? Despite the Harpies, the Undead, and the Lannisters, there were more Unsullied at the end than when Daenerys freed them from that old weasel in Astaphor or wherever it was. But I digress, so after Jon has slain their Queen what happens? He’s locked up instead of being hung, drawn and quartered… of course. “Mr Snow?” “Aye, appen as maybe”. “I’m arresting you sunshine on suspicion of Regicide… you have the right to remain silent……”. But it gets worse. Tyrion – who betrayed the MoD remember - is brought before the gathering of familiar faces from previous episodes/series under armed guard led by Grey Worm. Who is Grey Worm taking orders from to do this? His Queen has been brutally slain in her hour of triumph but Grey Worm – apart from shouting a little bit at Tyrion and tells him he’s not here to speak – is then content to allow Tyrion to conduct proceedings….. This wasn’t just rushed, it was borderline farcical – Lord Edmure aside (although he could have brought Lady Roslin along with him, the selfish whatsit). And that just leaves Bran. As mentioned previously, even when GoT was hitting the heights spectacularly (essentially the entire seasons 1-6) the whole speccy 4-eyes raven thing was something of a fast forward moment. Why is he King? What about old whatisface? Maximillian Schell?* Why didn’t he get to be King when he was the previous 3-eyed raven? What did he get for his trouble and pain, just a rented room in Whalley Range – well by that I mean he sort of grew into tree type thing or something and lived underground like a Womble. Seems a bit unfair. So who chose Bran to be whatever he was? Did he know he was going to be King? Did he know MoD was a nutter? Being King should be fun for him though. If he wants to know what his subjects are doing he just needs to do the eye rolling malarchy and spy on them. It’s good to be King. But the whole Bran thing aside, I really wished they'd dug their heels in and said - either we make series 7 and 8 10 episodes or we don't make it. The story then stood a chance to have been told in a way that the series deserved - not to mention the millions of fans who invested so much time in it. *EDIT - no the other one it was Max von Sydow I agree. Did the Showrunners not know what to do without GRR Martin to guide them? Too many loose ends and rushed, improbable events. It reminds me of the end of the Lord of the Rings - 'and they all lived happily ever after' (excepting Sean Bean, of course). How could you possibly confuzzle Max and Maximilian? [image]local://upfiles/34241/6E3F0077234A423E8527CA42BF4B9AFE.jpg[/image] [image]local://upfiles/34241/E95CC465C93F4254A03DE10206352B67.jpg[/image] [image]local://upfiles/34241/8FAA70959C054C6D91A7DCCE10EFE91A.jpg[/image]
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