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Honestly, what do you think about Season 8? Mod warning post #1/#410

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭Mousewar


    Tony EH wrote: »
    LOLOLOOOL

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    Yes. A continuity flaw. Get over it.

    If it wrecks it for you, I don't care. ;)



    Oh for fuck sake. It's bleedin television show.

    Jesus wept.

    A continuity flaw is when a newspaper gets moved between scenes and some eagle eyes viewer spots it. It's inconsequential. Deliberately deciding to restructure the physical landscape of the land just so you can have a clear view of a battle is lazy and disrespectful sabotage.

    And it doesn't matter what medium a piece of culture is presented on. You wouldn't say the Mona Lisa is just a bleeding painting or Sgt Pepper is just an album. TV and film are the leading media of our day and through which a great deal of our art and culture gets broadcast. GoT had the potential to be a part of our cultural legacy - it was that good up to a point but they pissed all over it in the end. I'm upset the same way if be if Paul McCartney had started rapping at the end of Sgt Pepper.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Mousewar wrote: »
    It's inconsequential.

    Not all continuity flaws are "inconsequential".

    Again, if this scuppers the show for you. That's just tough. But you'll get over it don't worry. It's just a TV show.

    In addition, It's not a "desert". It's scrub.

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    Maybe Sersei had all the trees removed. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭Mousewar


    If it's just a TV show, why do you seem to care so much?

    Also interesting how you only focused on the two parts of my post you saw as easy hits instead of all the other stuff. You said earlier you're yet to read any arguments as to why the last two seasons were considered rubbish. Yet plenty of such arguments have been presented in this thread. It's apparent that you're either incapable or unwilling to read them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Mousewar wrote: »
    If it's just a TV show, why do you seem to care so much?

    It's a TV show I liked. That's all and I checked out a post Boards that asked "Honestly, what do you think about Season 8?"

    It's nothing to do with "caring".

    But I'm not going to lose my shit over it, if it has a few flaws here and there.
    Mousewar wrote: »
    Also interesting how you only focused on the two parts of my post you saw as easy hits instead of all the other stuff. You said earlier you're yet to read any arguments as to why the last two seasons were considered rubbish. Yet plenty of such arguments have been presented in this thread. It's apparent that you're either incapable or unwilling to read them.

    Any accusations of "it's crap" that I've seen on the web haven't been backed up by any solid argument. Certainly nothing that can't be countered. For instance, the Dany thing you mentioned, which I've already addressed. If you couldn't see the possibility of Daenerys going crazy in her singular pursuit of power and placing her arse on the Iron Throne then, frankly, you weren't paying attention.

    You don't like it, that's fine. You don't have to.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Any accusations of "it's crap" that I've seen on the web haven't been backed up by any solid argument. Certainly nothing that can't be countered.

    Fine, let's do that.

    #1: Bronn walks into a room in Winterfell with a crossbow and threatens the lives of Tyrion and Jaime unless he gets Highgarden. Bran Stark as King just gives it to him I guess and also makes him Master of Coin.

    Counter that absolute joke of a plot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Liam O


    Tony EH wrote: »
    It's a TV show I liked. That's all and I checked out a post Boards that asked "Honestly, what do you think about Season 8?"

    It's nothing to do with "caring".

    But I'm not going to lose my shit over it, if it has a few flaws here and there.

    Any accusations of "it's crap" that I've seen on the web haven't been backed up by any solid argument. Certainly nothing that can't be countered. For instance, the Dany thing you mentioned, which I've already addressed. If you couldn't see the possibility of Daenerys going crazy in her singular pursuit of power and placing her arse on the Iron Throne then, frankly, you weren't paying attention.

    You don't like it, that's fine. You don't have to.


    I made plenty above and you and your lackies didn't respond to anything I said. Nothing in the entire thing made any sense. What was the point of the Night King? What was the point of Aegon Targaryen? What was the payoff to the religion storylines littered through earlier seasons? Why did Varys turn on Dany after she'd literally just saved the world? Why couldn't Tyrion, Jaime, Jon, Brienne, Vale Knights, Dothraki, Unsullied come up with a coherent battle plan? Why didn't any of the main characters die in said battle? Why is it suddenly accepted that Sansa can rule the north without a male lord?

    There was just so much bull**** and that is without getting into the logistics of travel and 'kinda forgetting' things.

    You haven't come up with one thing that actually redeems the season and are either trolling or just being ignorant to the points laid in front of you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Fine, let's do that.

    #1: Bronn walks into a room in Winterfell with a crossbow and threatens the lives of Tyrion and Jaime unless he gets Highgarden. Bran Stark as King just gives it to him I guess and also makes him Master of Coin.

    Counter that absolute joke of a plot.

    Granted, it's a bit silly and Bronn had declared a certain allegiance to Cersei too. But he's a mercenary, so he'll go where he's paid and he's a good man to have on your side.

    But, what's killing him going to do at that point? Or even just denying him Highgarden? Is it not better to have him on side in the new regime?

    Again though, if things like that are going to kill the show for you, then it's just tough. It's dead for you.

    Something like that is just not a show killer for me. It's the very definition of a tertiary concern.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Liam O wrote: »
    I made plenty above and you and your lackies didn't respond to anything I said.

    No you haven't. You made a few trite comments that were easily dismissed.
    Liam O wrote: »
    You haven't come up with one thing that actually redeems the season

    I'm not trying to "redeem" the season.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,358 CMod ✭✭✭✭Nody


    Mod:
    While feelings are high atm do remain civil and don't attack the poster. This is approaching the siege of Winterfell episode in emotions and I don't want to have to lock the thread.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Granted, it's a bit silly and Bronn had declared a certain allegiance to Cersei too. But he's a mercenary, so he'll go where he's paid and he's a good man to have on your side.

    But, what's killing him going to do at that point? Or even just denying him Highgarden? Is it not better to have him on side in the new regime?

    Again though, if things like that are going to kill the show for you, then it's just tough. It's dead for you.

    Something like that is just not a show killer for me. It's the very definition of a tertiary concern.

    A tertiary concern.. :rolleyes: It's the ending of the show and it doesn't make sense.

    #2: The Red Keep getting destroyed but a few months later, they're having a meeting in the same chamber. And the building collapsing on Jaime and Cersei but Tyrion finds them with a few bricks lying around meaning they would have survived if they had stood a couple of metres away.

    #3: The lords of the South accepting a Northerner they don't know as their king. Sansa somehow getting the North without Yara Greyjoy attempting the same for the Iron Islands, which was her deal with Cersei I believe. Everyone agreeing to a line of succession rule that will guarantee wars every single time. All this orchestrated by a prisoner.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Liam O


    Tony EH wrote: »
    No you haven't. You made a few trite comments that were easily dismissed.



    I'm not trying to "redeem" the season.

    You didn't respond to any of the questions I raised and instead cut them out of the quote. Good stuff.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    A tertiary concern.. :rolleyes: It's the ending of the show and it doesn't make sense.

    Having him on side does make sense. What would the alternative achieve at that point?
    #2: The Red Keep getting destroyed but a few months later, they're having a meeting in the same chamber. And the building collapsing on Jaime and Cersei but Tyrion finds them with a few bricks lying around meaning they would have survived if they had stood a couple of metres away.

    I don't remember the Red Keep getting "destroyed" before S8.

    The other sentence is just silly nitpicking.
    #3: The lords of the South accepting a Northerner they don't know as their king. Sansa somehow getting the North without Yara Greyjoy attempting the same for the Iron Islands, which was her deal with Cersei I believe. Everyone agreeing to a line of succession rule that will guarantee wars every single time. All this orchestrated by a prisoner.

    This is just more nitpicking.

    Again, I say to you, if this is the stuff that's going to kill the show for you, then it's done. You'll have to just move on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Liam O wrote: »
    You didn't respond to any of the questions I raised and instead cut them out of the quote. Good stuff.

    Your questions are silly and they're not an argument as to why GoT is "crap".

    What was the point of this, what was the point of that. Try to answer them yourself. I'm not here to answer ever single nitpick that some pissed off viewer has about a show that broke their heart.

    I mean, seriously, "what was the point of the Night King". What do you think the point was?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,500 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Granted, it's a bit silly and Bronn had declared a certain allegiance to Cersei too. But he's a mercenary, so he'll go where he's paid and he's a good man to have on your side.

    But, what's killing him going to do at that point? Or even just denying him Highgarden? Is it not better to have him on side in the new regime?

    Again though, if things like that are going to kill the show for you, then it's just tough. It's dead for you.

    Something like that is just not a show killer for me. It's the very definition of a tertiary concern.

    Even the way he just appeared though was nonsense. We didn't see him having to sneak furtively past sentries on war alert. It was like he had been there all along.

    My biggest issue with GOT Season 8 was that they effectively shortened it to get it wrapped up.
    It's like watching the Sunday Game extended highlights when to get a true picture you need to see the whole game.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Even the way he just appeared though was nonsense. We didn't see him having to sneak furtively past sentries on war alert. It was like he had been there all along.

    You don't have to see everything in a TV show. In fact, it would impossible to show everything in a TV show.

    Really, these complaints are ridiculous.
    My biggest issue with GOT Season 8 was that they effectively shortened it to get it wrapped up.

    It has roughly the same running time as other series in the show.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,008 ✭✭✭paulbok


    Even the way he just appeared though was nonsense. We didn't see him having to sneak furtively past sentries on war alert. It was like he had been there all along.

    My biggest issue with GOT Season 8 was that they effectively shortened it to get it wrapped up.
    It's like watching the Sunday Game extended highlights when to get a true picture you need to see the whole game.

    This.
    Instead of filming the story from the book, they filmed the synopsis at the end. You get the jist of it, but miss so much.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Six of the seven kingdoms gave the position of king to someone from the departing seventh kingdom. A Stark king in KL and a Stark queen in the North. In a show called "Game of Thrones", that is not nitpicking.

    #4: Jon, the last main character alive I guess, agrees to go North because of Grey Worm. Grey Worm and that army immediately leaves for Naath where they will all be killed by butterflies. Jon travels through his brother's Kingdom and into his sister's, and actually goes North, for absolutely no reason.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,500 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Tony EH wrote: »
    You don't have to see everything in a TV show. In fact, it would impossible to show everything in a TV show.

    What people are looking for is the same level of consistency as we saw in earlier seasons. The storyline depth was severly curtailed here.
    Really, these complaints are ridiculous.

    Hmm, just saying 'complaints are ridiculous' does not make it so. Particularly when your argument is pretty much limited to that statement.
    It has roughly the same running time as other series in the show.


    It had the same running time, but way more squashed in in terms of key events.
    The build up and actual battle with the night king could have been a season all on it's own, the entire aftermath, Danaerys about turn and the final sorting out could have also occupied a season without being excessively stretched.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    Even the way he just appeared though was nonsense. We didn't see him having to sneak furtively past sentries on war alert. It was like he had been there all along.

    My biggest issue with GOT Season 8 was that they effectively shortened it to get it wrapped up.
    It's like watching the Sunday Game extended highlights when to get a true picture you need to see the whole game.


    He’s been in both Jaimie and Tyrion’s company countless times. The guard would know him.

    Would have thought that was obvious.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Six of the seven kingdoms gave the position of king to someone from the departing seventh kingdom. A Stark king in KL and a Stark queen in the North. In a show called "Game of Thrones", that is not nitpicking.

    So what? The previous time has passed and has the way of doing things. Westeros is in a different state now after a war. As we leave the show, they're trying to get things back together. It doesn't mean that things will stay like that.

    We won't know though as we won't see any more of it.
    #4: Jon, the last main character alive I guess, agrees to go North because of Grey Worm. Grey Worm and that army immediately leaves for Naath where they will all be killed by butterflies. Jon travels through his brother's Kingdom and into his sister's, and actually goes North, for absolutely no reason.

    Again, so what?

    Things don't wrap up neatly in real life either. These complaints just tell me that you're just unhappy because you didn't get the ending you wrote yourself.

    Maybe Jon Snow at the end of it all just feels he's better off at the wall.

    Again. It doesn't mean he's going to stay there forever. But we'll never know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,500 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    He’s been in both Jaimie and Tyrion’s company countless times. The guard would know him.

    Would have thought that was obvious.

    It might have been, if Jamie and Tyrion didn't have cause to be suspicious as to where he was or what he was up to.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    It might have been, if Jamie and Tyrion didn't have cause to be suspicious as to where he was or what he was up to.

    They have no cause to be suspicious he’s come to both their aid and saved them a few times.

    I think that also goes some way to bran knowing he’s a good guy at heart. Or the writers didn’t Wanna kill him off cos he’s such a fan Favorite


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,500 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Tony EH wrote: »
    So what? That time has passed. Westeros is in a different state now after a war. As we leave the show, they're trying to get things back together. It doesn't mean that things will stay like that.

    We won't know though as we won't see any more of it.



    Again, so what?

    Things don't wrap up neatly in real life either. These complaints just tell me that you're just unhappy because you didn't get the ending you wrote yourself.

    Maybe Jon Snow at the end of it all just feels he's better off at the wall.

    Again. It doesn't mean he's going to stay there forever. But we'll never know.

    This is a thread specifically asking what people thought about GOT Season 8. The reason it got it's own thread, is because it generated a vast amount of commentary and not least from those involved in the show who expressed at minimum disappointment, if not outright disgust at how it played out.

    Nobody expects everything to be neat and perfect, nobody is suggesting a show about Dragons and 700ft ice walls and night kings raising people from the death to fight in their army should be more real in terms of mirroring real life but we were used to a show performing in a certain way and it changed dramatically.


    Say you went to the same place every year on holiday. Loved it for 5 years, food, weather, locals, other tourists etc. Then you went and all the restaurants had changed to fast food outlets, all other tourists were stag parties from Essex and the locals were all hawking tack all day.

    Would you say that not every holiday could be perfect, or be disappointed at the range and strength of the change?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,500 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    They have no cause to be suspicious he’s come to both their aid and saved them a few times.

    I think that also goes some way to bran knowing he’s a good guy at heart. Or the writers didn’t Wanna kill him off cos he’s such a fan Favorite

    His behaviour at the fight for Tyrion at the vale would counter that he is a good guy at heart. He said so himself.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tony EH wrote: »
    So what? The previous time has passed and has the way of doing things. Westeros is in a different state now after a war. As we leave the show, they're trying to get things back together. It doesn't mean that things will stay like that.

    We won't know though as we won't see any more of it.



    Again, so what?

    Things don't wrap up neatly in real life either. These complaints just tell me that you're just unhappy because you didn't get the ending you wrote yourself.

    Maybe Jon Snow at the end of it all just feels he's better off at the wall.

    Again. It doesn't mean he's going to stay there forever. But we'll never know.

    I'm getting strong vibes here that you do not care one bit about the characters or the plot. And you're happy to dismiss valid criticism as nitpicking after declaring there wasn't any valid criticism that couldn't be countered.

    #5: The North's defensive formation was actually set up as if they were going to siege Winterfell. The trench was behind the army. The cavalry out front. The siege weapons out front. If every soldier and horse did a 180, it would look like a siege formation.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    This is a thread specifically asking what people thought about GOT Season 8. The reason it got it's own thread, is because it generated a vast amount of commentary and not least from those involved in the show who expressed at minimum disappointment, if not outright disgust at how it played out.

    Nobody expects everything to be neat and perfect, nobody is suggesting a show about Dragons and 700ft ice walls and night kings raising people from the death to fight in their army should be more real in terms of mirroring real life but we were used to a show performing in a certain way and it changed dramatically.

    Say you went to the same place every year on holiday. Loved it for 5 years, food, weather, locals, other tourists etc. Then you went and all the restaurants had changed to fast food outlets, all other tourists were stag parties from Essex and the locals were all hawking tack all day.

    would you say that not every holiday could be perfect, or be disappointed at the range and strength of the change.

    Fine. Be disappointed.

    But I see nothing that's so bad in S8 that it warrants the ridiculous meltdown that's occurred. It's been downright pathetic, to be perfectly honest.

    Are there legitimate flaws, yes. Just as there is in every TV show and film.

    But even in the last few pages, most of the complaints are silly nitpicking, and simple whining because the ending didn't turn out the way some people wanted.

    Complaining about Jon Snow going back to the wall is silly.

    Complaining about Daenerys going all Vietnam is silly.

    Complaining about Jaime Lannister going back to Cersei is silly.

    Now, people can dislike those outcomes and that's fair enough. But losing the head over them is absurd.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,741 ✭✭✭Mousewar


    It's possible to offer explanations for all the plotholes in S7 and S8 as indeed I imagine the writers did as they came up with this nonsense. But the real question is whether any of the explanations offered here by Tony EH are credible. They're clearly not but to each his own I guess.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    I'm getting strong vibes here that you do not care one bit about the characters or the plot.

    The characters and plot were fine for the most part. But I was just watching a story and allowed it to take me where it went.

    Not where I wanted it to go. ;)
    And you're happy to dismiss valid criticism as nitpicking after declaring there wasn't any valid criticism that couldn't be countered.

    The vast majority of what I've seen has JUST been nitpicking and people not getting the story they wanted to write themselves.
    #5: The North's defensive formation was actually set up as if they were going to siege Winterfell. The trench was behind the army. The cavalry out front. The siege weapons out front. If every soldier and horse did a 180, it would look like a siege formation.

    I've already said the show isn't renowned for its battle tactics. But, no fantasy is.

    Again, if that's going to kill it for you, it should have done it well before S8.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Mousewar wrote: »
    It's possible to offer explanations for all the plotholes in S7 and S8 as indeed I imagine the writers did as they came up with this nonsense. But the real question is whether any of the explanations offered here by Tony EH are credible. They're clearly not but to each his own I guess.

    Again, this is JUST A STATEMENT with no backup.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Look, sod this. You lot don't like it.

    And that's fine.

    I can acknowledge the flaws throughout the entire show. But nothing I've seen in S8 that should equal the ridiculous states some people have gotten themselves in over it.

    When GRRM gets around to finishing off his books, you may all be disappointed again.


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  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tony EH wrote: »
    The characters and plot were fine for the most part. But I was just watching a story and allowed it to take me where it went.

    Not where I wanted it to go. ;)



    The vast majority of what I've seen has JUST been nitpicking and people not getting the story they wanted to write themselves.



    I've already said the show isn't renowned for its battle tactics. But, no fantasy is.

    Again, if that's going to kill it for you, it should have done it well before S8.

    The battle formation was done like that so we could see the Dothraki swords go out in the dark. You might think that's worth it but most don't. We've had the Dothraki for eight seasons and they're wasted on a light show. Oh but wait, they're not. They're still alive. Woo.

    When you say you were just interested in the story, I guess that means the dragons and White Walkers. Not the actual characters and their arcs, or the politics.

    #6: The Night King getting killed because Arya somehow trampolined over all the other White Walkers.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    Would 7&8 stop you from watching it again?

    Question for the room


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Would 7&8 stop you from watching it again?

    Question for the room

    Yes, absolutely. I would never recommend the show to anyone.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    The battle formation was done like that so we could see the Dothraki swords go out in the dark. You might think that's worth it but most don't. We've had the Dothraki for eight seasons and they're wasted on a light show. Oh but wait, they're not. They're still alive. Woo.

    When you say you were just interested in the story, I guess that means the dragons and White Walkers. Not the actual characters and their arcs, or the politics.

    #6: The Night King getting killed because Arya somehow trampolined over all the other White Walkers.

    Again, just more nitpicking.

    BTW, formations have been wasted in battle in real life. ;)

    And the show has LITERALLY been setting Arya up as a stealthy assassin.

    Did you even watch the show?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,500 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Again, this is JUST A STATEMENT with no backup.

    You're light on backup yourself other than just saying 'get over it'.

    Irrespective of individual views, any show which ends with the main characters as browned off about the manner of it (not that it ended per say) aas happened here would be backup to support the view that it took a nosedive.

    Here, we have numerous examples and a ticked off cast. It was entertaining. But it knocked at least one grade off the entire series for me. A+ gone to A- in my view, maybe even A flat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,500 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Would 7&8 stop you from watching it again?

    Question for the room

    Good question.
    No. But I might not watch season 8 as readily. Had binged watch all proceeeding seasons every christmas for the last couple of years.

    Nor would I not recommend people don't watch it. But I would definitely expect them to be equally disappointed. And if they asked me my view on season 8 before they committed to watching, I'd tell them to expect to be disappointed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    You're light on backup yourself other than just saying 'get over it'.

    I'm not the one making the complaints.
    It was entertaining. But it knocked at least one grade off the entire series for me. A+ gone to A- in my view, maybe even A flat.

    An A rated show can hardly be considered "crap".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Would 7&8 stop you from watching it again?

    Question for the room

    I would tell people to watch it an make up their own minds. Pretty much like I've been telling people to do so since it started and most folk thought it was just Game of Tits for lonely Tolkien nerds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,500 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Again, just more nitpicking.

    BTW, formations have been wasted in battle in real life. ;)

    And the show has LITERALLY been setting Arya up as a stealthy assassin.

    Did you even watch the show?

    Thank you for a perfect example of how it fell apart.

    See the way they handled her killing Ser Meryn Trant, or Walder Frey. There was depth to the plot, intrigue, subtlety.

    The night king was just a moment of improvisation after trying to ambush him from behind. It was as much in line with the ethos of the faceless men of Braavos as a helicopter flying in and taking him out.

    If she had died, been subsumed in to his army, and then assassinated him, it would have been more entertaining, if still a bit off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,500 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Tony EH wrote: »
    An A rated show can hardly be considered "crap".

    Definitely not. But that is the whole series. The final season gets a low c in my view.


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  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Again, just more nitpicking.

    BTW, formations have been wasted in battle in real life. ;)

    And the show has LITERALLY been setting Arya up as a stealthy assassin.

    Did you even watch the show?

    It's nitpicking to question how the death of the White Walkers played out? Are trolling or what? The show did not set up Arya's character to be able to catapult herself over a bunch of White Walkers like that. The behind the scenes picture show that she had to jump of a big table and get carried through the air with a cable.

    The showmakers admit making that decision a couple of years ago simply because it would be a big surprise. It didn't work well because it was never meant to.


    #7: Dragon fire bursting through walls in King's Landing, but Jon being able to hide behind a little rock with Viseryon a metre away blazing fire at him.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Liam O


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Again, this is JUST A STATEMENT with no backup.

    I provided multiple points and videos, one of which goes into great detail on episode 3. If you are not willing to engage in the discussion then there's no point in continuing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,892 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Thank you for a perfect example of how it fell apart.

    See the way they handled her killing Ser Meryn Trant, or Walder Frey. There was depth to the plot, intrigue, subtlety.

    The night kink was just a moment of improvisation after trying to ambush him from behind. It was as much in line with the ethos of the faceless men of Braavos as a helicopter flying in and taking him out.

    Arya killed the Night King. You'll just have to get over it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Liam O


    It's nitpicking to question how the death of the White Walkers played out? Are trolling or what? The show did not set up Arya's character to be able to catapult herself over a bunch of White Walkers like that. The behind the scenes picture show that she had to jump of a big table and get carried through the air with a cable.

    The showmakers admit making that decision a couple of years ago simply because it would be a big surprise. It didn't work well because it was never meant to.


    #7: Dragon fire bursting through walls in King's Landing, but Jon being able to hide behind a little rock with Viseryon a metre away blazing fire at him.

    They kinda forgot about Arya's training with the faceless men after she murdered an entire house seemingly.

    Don't become like me the Hound says to her after :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Homelander


    Would 7&8 stop you from watching it again?

    Question for the room


    S7, no. It was there massive cracks started to appear when they suddenly started wrapping it up super quickly and went full blown brainless blockbuster with it, but it was still reasonably good with some great moments. S8 is seriously crap from episodes 3 to 6 and I would never watch the show again, for me it's up there with infamous things like Lost and Dexter, great shows whose last seasons were mind bogglingly bad. I can't believe some people think it's all nitpicking with GOT S8 either. The season didn't just sully my opinion of GOT, it destroyed it entirely. And it's nothing to do with storylines and everything to do with how they went about it.


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]




    I'm pissed off again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,241 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    No time left to explain how you got there who you are or why we are going to kill you but let's spend more than half of each episode on how pretty each of you are oh and let's turn the inspirational pivotal heroine into a bitch let's turn the evil Queen into a victim and let's **** up the biggest single combat most anticipated battle of the entire ****ing series let's make it an upstairs climbing lightsaber battle without the lightsaber our new master the mouse will sue if we use those.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Clegane bowl should never of happened.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Stop moaning ffs


    Clegane bowl should never of happened.

    If it hadn’t I think you just found a whole new layer of what people would have been furious about :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,377 ✭✭✭nc6000


    So they rush the ending to go off and make Star Wars but then that falls through.......

    https://deadline.com/2019/10/star-wars-setback-game-of-thrones-duo-david-benioff-d-b-weiss-exit-trilogy-1202771184/


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