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

It's spectacular television - outstanding set pieces, incredible SFX, great directing, great music, great editing.

The writing is dreadful.

It was always going to be a little disappointment to a degree with the ending no one was going to be 100% happy, as everyone over two years has been writing their own stories with their friends.

But I personally am really enjoying it. I like where they have gone with Dani, was always going to happen.
A little rushed, but I am entertained and looking forward to each episode.

Looking forward to sitting down and watching season 8 in full flow with no episode breaks as it feels like its properly a constant film style narrative now.

It’s not that bad. It’s a bit disappointing in parts but to give up at the very end seems a bit silly imo.

It’s entertaining but quite different in pace to previous seasons. Storylines that have been carefully built up over several years / seasons are rushing to a conclusion, it all feels very hurried. They really could have done with one more season to wrap it up properly.

That said it is still one of my favourite shows ever and I will be sad to see it finish up next week. No doubt there will a plethora of prequels and spin offs but it’s doubtful that any will hold a candle to the original. It really has been eight seasons of absolutely spectacularly good television.

Well, there's the rushing and the teleporting and the lack of light and bad dialogue and absurd plotting (dragon/scorpions - twice ) and a whole rash of sudden personality reversals and previously important characters just standing looking at each other. That said I liked episode 2 for its tension!

brevity wrote: »

It’s very rushed.

Excellent complaint for someone with your user name :pac:

This used be a show you watched for the story telling. Now they're just going for spectacle.
they've gone from Breaking Bad to Transformers

bumders wrote: »

Awful just awful. The whole show was excellent except for this season.

Is Danerys on her period or something?

Cersis death was just crap, too many conincedences as well

Are you 12 or something?

Honestly, I'm gutted and incredibly pissed off at Benioff and Weiss. I've been invested in A Song of Ice and Fire for over a decade. I was one of the sad sacks that turned up to a midnight release of A Dance with Dragons and took holidays from work to read it the next day.

I was thrilled when HBO announced they were going to make it into a series and that GRRM was involved (he even wrote a few episodes in early seasons). I've probably watched the first season 5 or 6 times at this stage (doing re-watches before each season came out)

The quality of the writing has been on a downward curve since Season 5 and, at first, I accepted a lot of the short-cuts seeing them as the necessary evils required to bring a story written to be unfilmable to the screen (ASOIAF was, after all, literally born out of GRRM's frustration with show-runners telling him the budget couldn't stretch to the scale of his first drafts of episodes he was writing for their shows). The plummet in the quality of writing when the show is at it's most successful, and when HBO were only too happy to fund a few extra seasons is galling though.

Benioff & Weiss had the Star Wars trilogy dangled in front of them and abandoned the show that should have been their masterpiece. Instead of doing the decent thing and handing it over to new show-runners who would take the time to conclude it properly, they decided to give us the cliff notes version of the story's ending, forgot all sense of internal consistency and ruined it. They were perfectly capable of finishing this series well. They chose not to and I'll never forgive them for it.

Edit: I honestly feel sorriest for the Cast and Crew. They've done stirling work and the show looks amazing. It's become style over substance.

The story is winding down, there isn’t really anymore scheming that can be done (Varys’ betrayal could have been fleshed out a bit better though). Certain big things have to happen. It’s shocking that Dani burnt thousands of people but it’s not too unbelievable considering her history and what has happened. Jamie returning to Cersi is disappointing but not terribly surprising considering he loves her.
All this stuff has been built up over the seasons. Yes it’s rushed and perhaps executed poorly but it has to come to an end

I'm honestly not surprised that it is so badly written. I've felt in my gut for a while that D&D are just not interested in it taking up more or their time. Their writing isn't up to snuff and shame on HBO for not sacking them and bringing in better writers. I suppose they've made their money though so who cares, spin offs r us.

Everything else on the show is being let down by honestly god awful writing and continuity. It's a shame. I hope George doesn't leave us with this as the end to his story and I hope he has something ready to release.

That said, I left my expectations for this show to be good way way back in season 6. So I am watching the episodes purely for the spectacle now, and episode 5 did not disappoint. I was blown away by 99% of it. Dany flipping and the white horse aside it was unreal from start to finish.

I'm still mostly hugely enjoying it. There are definitely some valid complaints, and a few more episodes to make some of the decisions the characters are making would have helped them feel a lot more organic would have made a world of difference. But overall I think unless something completely stupid happens in the final episode, this season's dip in quality won't tarnish the show as a whole and will still be worth a rewatch in a few years.