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I remember saying how in a couple of years Martin would give interviews distancing himself from the GoT ending. Well, I was wrong. It was a couple of days. https://www.polygon.com/game-of-thrones/2019/5/21/18633993/george-r-r-martin-game-of-thrones-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-books-ending

It's a testament to how bland that finale was that no one seems interested in discussing it.

lol

Grownups watch Netflix Witcher anyway.

They just sort of forgot about it.

I like how there was a time jump between the moment Jon shivved her to them electing Bran as King of the Steep Ramps. The writers literally didn't know how to handle the immediate aftermath with the Unsullied and the DothIraqis so they just want to say "whatever they handled it, don't think about that." At least they're doing gentry elections now, that's something of a step up. I like how D&D didn't do their after-credits explainer. I guess they're tired of people making fun of them. I hope they lose Star Wars over the forthcoming blowback. That would be the best plot twist of this season.

Game of Morts

Though it's kind of beautiful the way everyone has come together in hatred of GoT; the book readers and early show watchers are pissed because so much of the latter show has been Harry Potteresque fanservice, and the Twitter babies who have learned what the cost of warfare is from Avengers movies are now pissed because they're not being pandered to anymore now that George's actual plotting is fucking up their CGI spectacle aesthetic. The one point of agreement seems to be the whole thing is ending 2 years too early. Maybe D&D were the right men for the job after all.

It's so typical that the one story beat that I liked this season is the straw that's making the normies fill their diaps. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/angry-game-of-thrones-fans-petition-to-remake-season-8/

Never liked this show much. I don't hate it or anything, I just never saw what the big deal was about it. Edit: I do hate the fandom. Maybe the worst fandom in pop culture.

Star Trek Deep Space 9. The more I watch it it's becoming my favorite TV show, and I never get tired of the reruns. Everything and everyone just feels so real despite the LiteBrite computers and fake foreheads. Worf is actually a character in this show and not a punchline. Nog has probably the best character arc in any Star Trek show. Maybe any serialized piece of fiction. And Dukat is far and away the best villain the franchise has ever produced. Equal parts megalomaniacal General Patton and Dr. Lector.

For those interested this is a pretty good review and explains in a more articulate fashion than I can muster why I think the choice is appropriate and thematically right. Though I'm nowhere near as positive on the episode as a whole given the lack of appropriate narrative buildup. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/game-of-thrones-the-bells/ But a deeper problem is that we don’t want to admit that Daenerys is right, because we don’t want to admit what monarchy is. There are no good kings and queens, something Varys should have known (Jon Snow would be a good king, maybe, and his reign would be extremely short). Kings and queens are selfish people who will kill you when they need you to die; while Tyrion should have been reading Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Carl Schmitt, Daenerys was out learning, in the field, what exactly the throne is. She is open about it. She is honest. She had wanted everyone to love her, and tried to make it happen. But as the people who loved her kept dying—and as her “allies” turned against her and her enemies grew stronger—she correctly identified the failure of this strategy, and changed tactics. Just like she attacked the ships from the sun—ambushing them instead of letting them ambush her—she has abandoned a failing tactic, based on her knowledge of the field of play, and adopted a winning one. And she wins. She has an effectively unkillable dragon and her army is victorious; while Jon and Tyrion and Sansa and Arya were out there doing literally nothing, she ran the board. No one loves her, but is anyone going to fuck with her? Is anyone really going to fuck with her? After that? I guess we’ll find out next week. But if there’s any realism left in this show, they won’t. She might be wrong to imagine that her reign will be any different than those before her; she shows every sign of being the latest iteration of every king or queen ever. That kind of narcissism is the most normal thing in the world, so of course she thinks she’ll be an exceptional monarch (and, lest we forget, “she’s a girl who walked into a fire with three stones and walked out with three dragons. How could she not believe in destiny?”)

HBO wanted two more full seasons actually but dumb and dumber insisted upon truncated ones. Quite literally because they were tired of making it and didn't want to do it anymore. I think that's why this feels disjointed and not a piece with how the show has been over the last couple years. They basically had George's notes on the ending and that was it, so in the in between they reverse engineered a bunch of fanfiction that was thematically Hollywood audience pandering in a way that George's writing is not.

Actually, it's women running things that bothers me, but thankfully out of the many wrong turns the writers went down the last couple of years the stopped clock struck the right time twice and they put that nonsense to bed. They realistically depicted that either the characters ended up dead or insane and everyone else ended up dead. It did seem rushed of course but the turn makes sense, given her heritage and the hints that were sprinkled about in the years before this. The ramp up should have been more gradual with the events that lead to this spread out over the course of a couple seasons but that goes back to the production crew getting senioritis. But the thing she was most correct about was the whole pizza part. Whole pizza / Starbucks cup is the new Hound / Arya.

By the way I only learned yesterday that David Benioff's dad used to run Goldman Sachs, which is honestly the best plot revelation for this season or last.

Actually I was hating on the Burlington Bar type fans, which mostly consist of beta orbiters. But no I don't shut up about it because the categorical absolute worst fans of this show all stan Dany in a world of snipsnap giffys. My member throbs with veiny righteousness at the spectacle of their misery this glorious day.

Yea you saw hints of her predilection towards burning innocent people alive throughout the series but she only started getting the crazy eyes last episode. Like most problems with this show, it's a function of them being tired of it and trying to rush to a conclusion so they can do other things. Yea they killed Varys there because they didn't know how to end his story. Same with Qyburn. Honestly, I am more forgiving of this episode not because of the content of the episode itself but because of how much the worst GoT fans are loathing the narrative turn of their Slay Kween.

I liked a lot of the decisions made in this episode, even if the recent series has been far too rushed to get here. But man the normie fans are going to be pissed.

#StillWithHer

It would be nice if anything was written anymore with some goal in mind other than defying Reddit predictions, even in sacrifice of the story making sense.