re: Re-Watch of Game of Thrones

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the last two seasons were lost when Jon & Co. went north of The Wall to kidnap a wight.

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I have never heard a reasonable explanation of why the wight army was any threat at all, if they could not cross the wall. Wasn’t that why the wall was built? Why was the nights watch even needed?

just stay behind the gotdam magic wall and occasionally flip them the bird. It’s just stupid

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I still pick up on things I missed earlier.

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When I watched for the 2nd time I was floored by all the stuff I missed the 1st time. I'm sure you would would pick up on many thinks on each rewatch no matter how many times.

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Well, until she didn’t.

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I just assume she just flew back to Essos and bought some more.

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The little "kidnap a wight" mission north of the wall was so ridiculous and pointless, especially when you consider that it was all designed to convince Cersei to be reasonable

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It was at that point the two bozos made it clear they cared much about style over substance. That’s why they assembled the “A-Team” of badasses together and had things like the zombie polar bear. It looks cool but it was utterly dumb.

I feel S8 was worse because they went through essentially one season’s worth of content in the last 3 episodes.

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any legitimate reason for Dany flipping and going full genocide after she won the war. Jon stops giving the dick and suddenly she's Hitler

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I have less of problem with this.
She was set up as Hitler from Season 2 forward:

1)She'd been told since birth that most of the nobles and all of the common people of Westeros loved her family and wanted them back. From S2 forward, she frequently loses her cool and rages about burning [group/people/cities/etc] to the ground.

2) It was a very clear and repetitive theme that genetic madness runs in her family

3) Her narcissism and messiah complex were fed by the Slaver Bay wars(It seems some fans bought into the same BS hype that the former slaves did)

3)The ONLY reason she holds back from burning down cities and committing genocide against the slave masters is because her advisors convince her to cool down.

4)Turns out that neither the Westerosi nobility nor the people want jack shite to do with her unless it involves something in their favor too

5)2 of her "children", whom she genuinely feels are her children, die within a short time frame. One of them is turned into a Wight dragon and fights against her. Without her dragons she is nothing, and she now knows that she is a lot more vulnerable than she believed before.

6)Her closest and most trusted advisors either die or betray her.

7)She learns that her lover is actually the true claimant to the Targaryeon throne and that he is Westerosi, is beloved and respected, and some of her former allies support him.

8) The Red Keep and King's Landing represent everything she's yearned for except she really doesnt give a shite about it and never has. It was always about her and being the Messiah, which she now knows is bullshite. Her snapping is the only thing that makes sense given all the factors.

That said, I fully agree that the follow through was rushed and poorly executed. The Bran thing wouldve worked a lot better with a bit more development too.

I absolutely love that none of the prophecies came true. It wouldve been interesting to see Sam/Tyrion/Bran re-shaping the narrative after the fact to make the prophecies fit what happened. Like how prophecies really work. Theyre always absolute bullshite and conveniently rebranded to fit the results. This theme of prophecies being baloney wouldve worked better if they showed the narratives being rewritten later.

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I'd need to forget the ending to re watch.

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Just watch seasons 1-4. They are some of the best TV to ever have been made. There is a slow decline in the quality of the show over seasons 5-6 but they are still decent. Forget 7-8 exist at all.

By the time seasons 7 and 8 came out D&D were just done. They had checked out to move on to other things and just wanted to wrap up the series to move on. They had no source material to work with so it's no surprise the magic just wasn't there.

I'm not sure what people expected out of them once the books ran out. They were great at bringing the source material to life. That's what they were hired for, not writing the source material itself. Martin takes years and years to come out with one book and you asked these dudes to do two books in two years when they, and likely most of the cast, were burnt out.

Benioff and Weiss just wanted to cater to soccer moms and football players so they had to dumb down the tv show. I've been saying since the beginning that these two douches were hacks and riding the coattails of the book series until they ran out of source material.

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The blame gets placed on them when it really should be placed on HBO and ourselves for demanding seasons when they just weren't ready. The realities of writing, production and the demand for it is what did in GoT and gave us the steaming pile of shite that was the end of the series.

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HBO gave them a blank check and would of for as many seasons as it took. b&b wanted to wrap it up.

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HBO gave them a blank check and would of for as many seasons as it took. b&b wanted to wrap it up.

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Correct. They couldn't produce the content though. Again, what they were good at was bringing the source material to life. Not writing it. Honestly the short shitty seasons was the best we could hope for. Would you rather have had an extra 2 seasons of slightly less smelly shite? It still would have been shite. Just more of it.