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[Kenneth Haight]

Can’t even remember half the show now. How the fuck do you guys remember all these names after all this time. It was great the first 3/4 seasons and then fell off after that.

 

[bitbydeath]

Huh? When was that the premise?

Since book one, which is why they fight each other and keep claiming themselves as “the one true king”

 

[Madflavor]

Show is unwatchable now, despite how good Seasons 1-4 are. I'm surprised Littlefinger is the thing that upsets you, considering that Season 8 somehow managed to butcher every single character and plot point.

I wanted to remain hopeful, but the signs were clearly there in Season 7 that Game of Thrones was heading for a massive trainwreck. Even Season 6 had moments of pure retardation. Arya surviving a bunch of stab wounds to the gut, and getting better a few days later, Sansa not telling Jon she had 20k men she could summon, the red flags were there. The whole Long Night battle was fucking terrible. Seriously one of the most rage inducing display of military tactics I've ever seen. Arya killing the Night King was the moment the show died for me. The rest was just me indifferently watching the show collapse in on itself. Jon Snow went from having such a compelling and based character arc, to being an absolute simp. It's incredible how tainted the legacy of the show is now. Season 1-4 were the best television show ever produced. Really sad what happened after.

Despite how much I hate Weiss and Benoiff, they did a fantastic job adapting the show. You gotta give credit where it's due. You can't say the same about the idiots who made The Witcher and Wheel of Time series. A finished book series doesn't guarantee success. You have to have a showrunner that respects the material and is good at adapting it. Weiss and Benoiff were great at that, but were dogshit with coming up with their own material. So half of the blame absolutely does lies with that fat fuck GRRM, who gave them his word he would finish the book series so they'd have the material to finish the show. GoT first aired in 2011. It's now 2025 and still no release date for Winds of Winter. Grandpa was nothing but a disappointment.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Since book one, which is why they fight each other and keep claiming themselves as “the one true king”

I mean maybe I'M wrong, but I feel like the entire point went right over your head. The "one king" method was clearly failing the realm, and barely worked ever in it's history. It's not just Sansa's idea, it's clearly what all of the remaining Stark's believed in the end, in independence. That includes Bran, who looks on in approval at the end as Sansa declares independence.. Bran would have known that was going to happen.

 

[ntropy]

 

[bitbydeath]

I mean maybe I'M wrong, but I feel like the entire point went right over your head. The "one king" method was clearly failing the realm, and barely worked ever in it's history. It's not just Sansa's idea, it's clearly what all of the remaining Stark's believed in the end, in independence. That includes Bran, who looks on in approval at the end as Sansa declares independence.. Bran would have known that was going to happen.

The decision the houses were making at the end, where Tyrion makes that stupid statement about nobody having a better story than Bran the broken was about them agreeing on a single house to rule.

 

[SlimySnake]

Can’t even remember half the show now. How the fuck do you guys remember all these names after all this time. It was great the first 3/4 seasons and then fell off after that.

i still watch the clips on youtube from time to time.

Show is unwatchable now, despite how good Seasons 1-4 are. I'm surprised Littlefinger is the thing that upsets you, considering that Season 8 somehow managed to butcher every single character and plot point.

I wanted to remain hopeful, but the signs were clearly there in Season 7 that Game of Thrones was heading for a massive trainwreck. Even Season 6 had moments of pure retardation. Arya surviving a bunch of stab wounds to the gut, and getting better a few days later, Sansa not telling Jon she had 20k men she could summon, the red flags were there. The whole Long Night battle was fucking terrible. Seriously one of the most rage inducing display of military tactics I've ever seen. Arya killing the Night King was the moment the show died for me. The rest was just me indifferently watching the show collapse in on itself. Jon Snow went from having such a compelling and based character arc, to being an absolute simp. It's incredible how tainted the legacy of the show is now. Season 1-4 were the best television show ever produced. Really sad what happened after.

Despite how much I hate Weiss and Benoiff, they did a fantastic job adapting the show. You gotta give credit where it's due. You can't say the same about the idiots who made The Witcher and Wheel of Time series. A finished book series doesn't guarantee success. You have to have a showrunner that respects the material and is good at adapting it. Weiss and Benoiff were great at that, but were dogshit with coming up with their own material. So half of the blame absolutely does lies with that fat fuck GRRM, who gave them his word he would finish the book series so they'd have the material to finish the show. GoT first aired in 2011. It's now 2025 and still no release date for Winds of Winter. Grandpa was nothing but a disappointment.

I had issues with the battle of the bastards, the arya stabbing, and the end of the long night battle (i love that episode until the last five minutes which retroactively ruined the whole episode), but Littlefinger was just such a evil little shithead, I wanted him of all people to get his comeuppance. They got Joffrey right (George wrote the episode himself) but they ruined Stannis and LF's finales, two of my favorite characters in the show.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Glad game of thrones happened, you really see the evolution of tv shows with house of the dragon.

 

[taizuke]

In hindsight, i wonder if it was more about sending the message of women holding a man accountable for his "actions" than anything else. Seeing as GoT ended in 2019, the writers may have wanted to have their own "Me Too" scene. Littlefinger being accused left and right with no evidence to back it up other than a "vision" from Bran sounds like "believe all women".

 

[SatansReverence]

Shansha! Pweashe!

 

[Pegasus Actual]

Every time someone causes me the misfortune of thinking of the sad failure that is Game of Thrones I like to check the latest GRRM Not A Blog for a chuckle:

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS, for starts. It’s done. Ira and his team wrapped the first season months ago, and moved right on to post production. I’ve seen all six episodes now (the last two in rough cuts, admittedly), and I loved them. Dunk and Egg have always been favorites of mine, and the actors we found to portray them are just incredible. The rest of the cast are terrific as well. Wait until you guys meet the Laughing Storm. and Tanselle Too-Tall.

A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS is an adaptation of “The Hedge Knight,” the first of the novellas I wrote about them. It’s as faithful as adaptation as a reasonable man could hope for (and you all know how increedibly reasonable I am on that particular subject). Viewers who are looking for action, and more action, and only action… well, this one may not satisfy you. There’s a huge fight scene here, as exciting as anyone could ask for, but there are no dragons this time around, no huge battles, no white walkers… this is a character piece, and its focus is on duty and honor, on chivalry and all it means. “The Hedge Knight” was published between A GAME OF THRONES and A CLASH OF KINGS in Robert Silverberg’s epic anthology LEGENDS, and was so popular that it brought tens of thousands of new readers to Westeros. Sales of my novels were much higher after LEGENDS than before, and for that I credit Silverbob, and Anne Groell, and Dunk and Egg. This one ranks as one of the best stories I’ve ever written, and I am so so so pleased that Ira Parker, Ti Mikkel, Aziza Barnes (may they rest in peace), Owen Harris, and our astonishing cast and crew did right by them.

The series will make its debut late this year, I am now told. How late, I could not say. Maybe in the fall.

I hope you will love the show as much as I do.

Meanwhile, we’ll be moving on to “The Sworn Sword,” the second tale of Dunk & Egg. And once I finish THE WINDS OF WINTER, I will need to get hopping on “The Village Hero,” and all the other tales that await the lads. Don’t worry, I am sure you folks will remind me.

So... new HBO show if it goes anywhere will be once again cockblocked by this asshole not writing The Village Hero on time while he also continues to fail to deliver The Winds of Winter let alone A Dream of Spring. Good luck to anyone planning on watching!

 

[Madflavor]

I'm grateful Tywin died before all the shitty writing came into play. Can you imagine how Season 8 Tywin would've been written?