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Game of Thrones S8 |OT2| Please do not post spoilers here - assume all episodes have been leaked - spoiler tag all future episode speculation
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No. It's not even happening in the books. The Mountain has no head and the Hound can't fight anymore as he's crippled for life
Stannis
Children burned: 1
Dany
Children burned: THOUSANDS
Is this your queen?
That's great, why are you mentioning the books then if it doesnt matter?
I just think it's inconsistent that they can't hit for shit when they have multiple ballistas tracking a dragon versus Euron 3 shoting a Dragon from a very far distance while it moving. Maybe it was all Euron and he got nerfed.
I'm not saying hitting a dragon is easy but after what Euron did I want too see some minor consistency.
Drogon taking some minor hits would also build some tension, which would build upon the latest ballista scenes but there was none of that.
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You are intentionally misrepresenting my comments and have been for some time now. I have told you idk how many times now that is not what I believed. I told you that her appearance was only a small fragment of why I believed that and that it's that combined with everything she had said and done leading up to that point. Not to mention the fact that she was actively behaving in a paranoid manner while talking g to Tyrion in that scene. So no it's not just that her hair wasn't done or that she wasn't wearing make up and yet you just keep repeating the lie anyway in order to try and dismiss what I have to say.
If you don't want to have a serious discussion and just want to be intentionally disingenuous then that's fine, but don't pretend that it's me that is being unreasonable in this situation.
I completely forgot about this and seems like the writers have as well. They're never gonna address this again are they?
That image is one giant false equivalence. Yeah, Dany's done her fair share of killing over the years, but nothing even remotely close to deep-frying an entire city of innocent civilians and soldiers who had literally just laid down their arms and surrendered.
Because I'm aware of their general plot threads and what they did better than the show?
Didn't they make a big deal that the north men were completely loyal to Jon instead of Dany?
I'll like mostly agree with this. I was thinking a lot of things were dumb in the moment in Episode 3, but the spectacle and tension was so good that I enjoyed most of it.
I was highlighting that my post you quoted was made in jest. I don't actually think anyone who legitimately criticizes aspects of the show needs to automatically be dismissed.
Just the people with the really obnoxious superiority complexes like the two I quoted. Those people are fuckin' nerds.
That is one hell of a shot.Missing only One Winged Angel or some epic anime battle theme !
So i guess the writers brought back Sandor because of the cleganebowl meme
My biggest takeaway is that for Dany to become the mad queen, they had to SACRIFICE Tyrions character to do it. If Tyrions character had stayed well.. in character from other seasons, none of this would happened.
Whats worse is they have the charcter himself admit to blunder after blunder to Dany.
Whats worse is they have the charcter himself admit to blunder after blunder to Dany.
Definitely not, and also the Night King is coming back.
(They're gone)
"Dany's arc was telegraphed!"
Hmm....
Tonight's episode, although a cool battle was SHIT as far as the writing and characters go. Jaime's character arc completely wasted, Arya suddenly turns heel because the Hound tells her she'll die (even though she didn't listen the past 5 times he said something similar), and of course Dany, just hand waving her straight into the realm of Anakin circa "I hate sand" era.
I don't get it, it's like the showrunners are RUSHING to finish it and don't give a shit about keeping the quality up.
I'd say if GRRM's book comes out I have $100 that the ending is going to be drastically different then this shit.
Hmm....
Tonight's episode, although a cool battle was SHIT as far as the writing and characters go. Jaime's character arc completely wasted, Arya suddenly turns heel because the Hound tells her she'll die (even though she didn't listen the past 5 times he said something similar), and of course Dany, just hand waving her straight into the realm of Anakin circa "I hate sand" era.
I don't get it, it's like the showrunners are RUSHING to finish it and don't give a shit about keeping the quality up.
I'd say if GRRM's book comes out I have $100 that the ending is going to be drastically different then this shit.
Jon literally told her she was his queen. Jon marched for her. Gonna have to try harder than that.
Yep. They made Tyrion dumb as a rock for 2 seasons just to have this.
The lords of the north, sure.
Your average footsoldier? Wouldn't bank on their loyalty for much.
for some reason this got a rise out of me. fuckin south park.
All the seasons of The Wire are critically acclaimed. Don't let those hot takes get to you.
I honestly cannot believe this needed to be stated. That irony of people defending shit storytelling with that tweet is too much for me.
It's better they don't. We don't need time travel stories on top of everything we have now.
Agreed. The episode was a fantastic 80 minutes of television.
Seeing a very vocal minority screaming about the poor writing regarding Dany's decision to burn King's Landing has me scratching my head though. It's almost as if some people haven't watched the show and haven't picked up on the possibility that this was always a potential outcome. The show has laid it out pretty clearly. Especially considering with what's transpired in the previous episodes for the character.
I've only been invested in Arya for the past 2-3 seasons. This was a sloppy mess and completely out of character, but I gave up caring about Danny and Cersei and the Iron Throne a while back.
Does Danny have green eyes? Arya is going to kill her, right? Or will Jon do the deed?
Does Danny have green eyes? Arya is going to kill her, right? Or will Jon do the deed?
Bro, are you seriously?
Character saying "I won't do X, I won't succumb to that" and them succumbing to that is telegraphing 101. lol
Did you think the crypts not being safe wasn't telegraphed because we were told they were?
They've made it a point that northerners are Xenophobic as fuck
A fault someone told me the real reason behind the wildfire. It was a way of showing that Dany was doing what her dad wanted to do but couldn't with his wildfire; burn the city to the ground. It was a pretty smart way of using that image.
She had zero reaction to her brother getting his face melted. She constantly comes off as cold blooded when it comes to her view of justice. Typically that justice as been morally correct, but as the seasons went on it was often her advisors keeping her from doing more harm
Having a character's idealistic / naive / well-intentioned goals fall apart when shit hits the fan is not bad writing by any stretch.
I've already said they butchered the execution and rushed it. I am just saying it's not completely out of nowhere.
Just watching the episode and WHHHAAAAAAAAA?
Last episode the fleet had pinpoint 360 noscope accuracy and killed a dragon and a fleet.
Now Dany burned ALL THE SCORPIONS IN THE ENTIRE MOTHERFUCKING FLEET AND THE CITY, SAFE LIKE A FUCKING KITE IN THE BREEZE?! Are you shitting me??!!!
Last episode the fleet had pinpoint 360 noscope accuracy and killed a dragon and a fleet.
Now Dany burned ALL THE SCORPIONS IN THE ENTIRE MOTHERFUCKING FLEET AND THE CITY, SAFE LIKE A FUCKING KITE IN THE BREEZE?! Are you shitting me??!!!
Would have also eliminated the dumb as fuck parlay scene from last week.
They had to sacrifice Tyrion's character, make Euron a god-like shot for only one episode, make the Scorpions have stupidly huge effective range for only one episode, make Cersei not take advantage of Dany's weakness like she hasn't done that type of shit the ENTIRE show, make Jon idiotically tell Dany about being a targ, make Jon idiotically tell Sansa about being a Targ, and then, finally, in the after episode segment have the writers basically spell out that if Dany had gotten fucked by Jon in the same episode she goes genocidal, she would not have gone genocidal.
Oh, and have everyone forget about the time Dany's dragon got shot by a scorpion and the fact that the Iron Fleet would probably intercept them.
Both Tyrion and Varys became shells of themselves the moment they joined up with Dany. This shit "war" against Cersei could've been done Season 7 episode 1.
Euron lost his aim hack in this episode because the sun was shining a bit too much.
Better than being burned alive though. The symbolism is pretty clever however.
And a star wars trilogy. Truly the epitome of mediocre white men failing upwards. Before this one of them was a writer on xmen origins lol
They had to build up rage for Dany. Even then, go goes against everything Dany stands for to just nuke the place. What the hell is she going to be queen of at this point. It's just so shoe horned in. Would have been better if it was like, THE FINAL BATTLE, where you have the Night King in Kings Landing, all the fighting going on, etc.... and she just nukes the place.
But yeah, that whole night king storyline, that wasn't ever really worth anything anyway.
Seriously, the writing of Euron sucked major ass. Dude just loses his fleet after WRECKING the last dragon. Then he's like "well, we're fucked, we lost" lol
I get that Dany came down in an angle where the sun was in his eyes, but its really dumb that not a single shot hit after 4 perfect hits last episode. They really should've cut that out. One of the dragons should've died last week IMO, in the Night King battle.
Stannis fans I owe you lot the biggest of apologies. I enjoyed watching your loser King get dragged in the mud (it's still funny to me dammit...20 good men lol), but you guys have insisted that D&D butchered him in the show. I was wrong to laugh at your pain. I know how it feels now.
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