In Season 8, most of the action has been confined to Winterfell and the many, many characters who are stationed there. Since the Battle of Winterfell definitely showed that the Night King’s army of the dead is not Thrones’ endgame, Cersei’s partnership with Euron Greyjoy and the Golden Company emerged as the show’s final bosses — a position that should merit more screen time, not less. The lack of attention paid to Cersei’s machinations and Euron’s character had reduced both of them to one-dimensional villains whose jabs at Jon and Daenerys feel unearned and out of left field.
Something as simple as a small council meeting or a scene where Euron does literally anything besides talk about banging Cersei could have generated dramatic irony for viewers, who would have a better idea of the dangers waiting for Dany and Jon down south. Instead, Euron’s shot at Rhaegal comes as a complete surprise. While it was one of Episode 4’s better moments, the lack of buildup made the dragon’s sudden death a one-off shock instead of a carefully crafted plot twist.
Missandei’s death was treated similarly. It would have been fascinating to see Missandei and Cersei allude to Daenerys’ chain-breaking and city-burning tendencies, but in the end Missandei just disappears from the screen for a few minutes and reemerges in chains at the top of the city gates to die.
I like the points being made here: https://mashable.com/article/game-of-thrones-bad-plot-twists/
I think it does a good job of simply breaking down how the writing has been dumbed down.
I like the points being made here: https://mashable.com/article/game-of-thrones-bad-plot-twists/
I think it does a good job of simply breaking down how the writing has been dumbed down.
Too bad Missandei had to die. Her hotness will be missed.
At least the Varys and Tyrion talking about possible things involving what Jon told his family last night was interesting and almost a throwback to the political intrigue that made GoT so good in the earlier seasons.
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Yeap. The problem is they did the same scene with Varys and Tyrion twice in the same episode. That part i did not understand.
I wept at the loss of the best pair in all of Westeros.
(or wherever it is that she comes from, + Westeros...and all them other places)
Scoring repeated hits (including one through the neck) on targets a thousand feet up from a moving ship is nuts. AA gunners during WWII would have loved to have that kind of accuracy.
Valid criticism.Yeap. The problem is they did the same scene with Varys and Tyrion twice in the same episode. That part i did not understand.
Yeap. The problem is they did the same scene with Varys and Tyrion twice in the same episode. That part i did not understand.
Personally, I thought she had better assets.
Because the song of fire and ice, the final real battle, isn’t dragons vs ice walkers - it’s Danny Vs Jon, and they need to explain carefully - with diagrams and puppets - why we can’t just get them married happily ever after.
At least we got some decent fan service with the Hound and Arya on the road again and Bronn's scene with Tyrion and Jaime...
Two of the very few improvements that the show made on the books imho...
Yeah I'm just trying to look at the upsides of the show because atm that's really all we have past "A Dance with Dragons"
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