re: I'm a weak man, I caved and re-watched Game of Thrones. Where it went off the rails...

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You saw this shite happen with Westworld, too; and honestly also with the Star Wars sequels. There was such an effort to do something that makes people say "ooh, I didn't see THAT coming".

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Westworld might be the most egregious example. Red herrings are one thing, but they seemed to actively lie to the audience to the point where it was hard to understand if anything was supposed to be real or where it all fit in. They just tangled themselves up into a nonsense web of plots

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I don't know when that became the cool, edgy thing to do, but it ruined a lot of shows and movies. It might be interesting at the time, but you don't want to rewatch any of them.

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Honestly I think boards like this one and the internet in general getting injected into the mainstream probably played a huge part here. The way we watch and interact with movies and TVs is such a different thing than it used to be