re: Thoughts on Game of Thrones:

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As someone who read the books long before HBO announced the series, I found the ending disappointing but I think the herd mentality of "worst ending ever" is overblown. Don't let everyone else sway you before you've watched the show and formed your own opinion. Just watch with an open mind and make your own conclusions. Great books, very good show.

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Every story like this with such a well built world, background, and history has this problem.

Because of the detail, fans know the world and the characters, so if you go beyond what has been written, fans have a pretty good understanding of what should happen.

So movie and tv writers have a problem, because typically, they’re not as big of fans of the story as the fans, so there is no way they can write something that checks all the boxes.

Imagine trying to add a book to the Bible and make a show about it. There’s no way you could write one that is consistent with and connects with all of the strings throughout the whole Bible. Same thing here, but obviously on a smaller scale.

Fans know that and will be happy if it looks like you at least tried. It’s been pointed out for a decade now that it doesn’t seem like they tried very hard in the last few seasons of game of thrones.

You mean aside from 5 or 6 cutaways that save characters from hoards of zombies? Danny landing Drogon in the middle of a hoard of zombies for no reason just so Jorah can die? The Red Woman who can now manifest as much fire as she needs to wasting it on torches for the Calvary who’s out front lol. We’ve been told countless times that 100 men could hold Winterfell against 10,000 but they decide to have their entire army outside the caste to start the fight when the Red Woman or the Dragons could’ve just lit a moat of fire so no whites could get near the castle turning the battle into the entire army of the living vs just the Walkers and a 2 on 1 battle with the Dragons. How about putting Bran out in the open so the NK could easily get to him or hiding the women and children in the crypt trapping them with undead Stark zombies or Rhaegal disappearing just because. Don’t get me wrong I’m still missing some things but what I’ve listed alone makes the battle pure stupidity.

Sansa just kind of forgot about the dead Starks in the crypt.

Sansa Stark - “Smartest person I’ve ever met”


Arya Stark