You mean grand maester. And yeah it's dumb, but maybe he can learn on the job. It's hard to think of what the grand maester could tell Bran that he couldn't just pop around through history to discover himself.
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Game of Thrones S8 |OT3| Best season evar. (FULL SPOILERS) (See Staff Post)
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You mean grand maester. And yeah it's dumb, but maybe he can learn on the job. It's hard to think of what the grand maester could tell Bran that he couldn't just pop around through history to discover himself.
Ask them in ten years if the joke was the right thing to do.
It's always kind of surreal when politicians talk about pop culture.
I thought this is what we were gunna get. The realization that one ruler over all or almost all isn't the way things should be.
And it makes the small council scene all the worse because you left the election with all these obvious points of tension, but we're all just going to joke around and give jobs to Bronn rather than try to stave off any of these looming crises. Like hey Davos, you've been good to us, so here's a retirement check because we need to give Yara the boat job because she's either building boats for us or against us. And someone find some jobs for Edmure and Lord Royce fast before they jump ship to Sansa.
I don't think that was purely a snicker line. I think it's 100% possible that Tyrion ending up as hero of the story written out of history has always been GRRM's plan there. ASoIaF has always been interested in the historiography of its world, and Tyrion getting written out because his story is inconvenient to the official narrative is fitting with that.
Obviously this'll never be answered, but my assumption is that his long life required being plugged into the tree and possibly some amount of work from this Children of the Forest as well. I'd think Bran has a normal lifespan without those things.
Goes to show you how far reaching the impact of this show really was. I think if HBO realized that, they might have taken more care of ending the series in a non-rushed manner and let someone else finish the show properly instead of just trusting D&D.
Firing the showrunners to prolong a show doesn't work. Like, ever. It is usually meet with a massive loss in quality.
Nah, I'm gunna go ahead and go a step further. What Djawadi did for GoT is what JW did for SW, straight up.
Just glad Sansa got some props. She was one of my least favorite characters and became one of the strongest. But the showrunners can gtfo with that little bird abuse builds character exchange with the Hound.
Overall, yes. The music is widely accepted as one of the best parts
I found this on freefolk, it's a fanmade script from Alice Shipwise written a year ago. Apparently an actual screenwriter. There are a lot of similarities with the actual script.
I only read through the first few episodes but holy fuck, the introduction in Winterfell is so much better it's not even funny. People actually talk to each other in a meaningful way. The dialogue is a little rough but I enjoyed reading it.
https://www.aliceshipwise.com/gameofthrones/archive
I liked how Jon makes an effort to get the northeners to accept Dany.
I only read through the first few episodes but holy fuck, the introduction in Winterfell is so much better it's not even funny. People actually talk to each other in a meaningful way. The dialogue is a little rough but I enjoyed reading it.
https://www.aliceshipwise.com/gameofthrones/archive
I liked how Jon makes an effort to get the northeners to accept Dany.
Yep. Consistent throughout the entire series, he deserves a lot of credit.
The stuff up to that wasn't too great either aside from the visuals.
Grey Worm teleporting to the top of the stairs, Jon needing to be convinced that he wouldn't have genocide-ed a city and that it served no purpose, Arya suddenly coming back into KL for no reason, Davos disappearing, the guards taking Jon's weapon away and letting him be in the cell alone unsupervised and no guards around Dany that saw fit to take his weapon away.
Agreed. He's a legend I hope he has a long career.
Miguel Sapochnik was great too.
AOC popping onto Hbonberguy's Donkey Kong 64 stream was even more surreal.
My instincts are to say "yikes" and "sounds very on-brand with those two"
Yeah that's some nonsense.
Although people do joke about the eagles all the time.
Lol
It was flawed, no doubt, and still suffered from some of the same issues later seasons did. But the main developments were still awesome, classic GoT and immediately iconic. I was 100% on board despite the flaws until the 2nd half.
No he's just referred to as Arch Maester, not Grand Maester during the Small Council scene.
Do people really think the 7/8 drop is as big as the quality drops in Dexter S5, West Wing S5, Supernatural S6, or Neo Scrubs?
Replacing the showrunner of a successful show doesn't work.
Considering what we got...well that's just your opinion, man.
Also prolonging the show implies artifically extending it past its natural conclusion instead of using the same tried and true pacing of the previous seasons to effectively end the series at the same exact point.
The first half of the episode was flawed in the way seasons 7 and 8 have been consistently flawed. The second half was an all-new level of poorly thought out. Everything before that was rushing to conclusions that weren't really earned, but if you sat down and really thought through them you could piece together a story for it that made sense. The election scene is just irredeemable.
Some feminist analysis really would've went a long way for a lot of things lol
Yup completely agreed. That scene is the worst in GoT history, in terms of logic/sense. I don't normally pine over this kind of stuff but even for someone who is willing to brush over inconsistencies as long as the characters are working.. it is absolutely irredeemable.
When the remaining Starks stood on that pier and said their goodbyes, it hit home how rushed this season felt. All of those interactions should've been memorable moments that hit hard, but they did nothing for me. Even Jon saying goodbye to Arya, which should be an easy homerun, felt kinda hollow to me. There's so much development missing that these pivotal scenes come out of nowhere and do nothing. This truly is 'scene missing: the season'
Should have included the Felina scores to really drive the knife home.
Good luck, Star Wars fans!
I thought the last episode was fine and I was ok with how it wrapped up. My biggest issues are the 2 preceeding episodes. How dany's turn was handled and the night king dying so easily.
I assume that this will all be fleshed out and make more sense in the books but. I'm fine being done. I read the first 4 books well before the series started and just don't care anymore. I'll read book chapter synopsis or something.
I assume that this will all be fleshed out and make more sense in the books but. I'm fine being done. I read the first 4 books well before the series started and just don't care anymore. I'll read book chapter synopsis or something.
I knew nothing about her a few years ago. I had studied data presentation, it's part of my job, but I knew nothing about Nightingale's contributions in the field.
Meera being written out of the history of the war of the five kings makes sense. She is an unsung hero that no one will remember in history:
Same with people like Gilly, Podrick, and Tormund.
It would be egregious, but you could even see someone like Seleyse not being mentioned in a history of the war, if the historian focused on Stannis and his red priestess and didn't feel the need to name who his queen was.
But Tyrion is a CENTRAL figure to the entire war. You cannot tell the story - you literally can't describe the sequence of events - without once mentioning his name. It's impossible.
How do you even describe the start of the war without mentioning that Cat abducted the queens brother to charge him with murder which in turn caused the kingslayer to attack the hand of the king, murder his men, and cripple him for life?
How do they mention the death of Tywin Lannister without mentioning that he was killed by his son, the imp?
How do they talk about princess Myrcella being poisoned in Dorne without noting the hand of the king that sent her there.
How do they mention the death of the king at his own wedding without noting who was charged with the murder? How do they mention the Dornish prince being killed during a trial by combat without mentioning what the trial was even about?
How do you talk about Sansa Stark being married off without mentioning that she was first married to the Lannisters?
How do they mention the invading Danerys Targaryen without once noting who her hand was?
Tyrion is one of the most popular people in all of Westeros, even before he did anything notable. Arya was dying to see "the imp" in the first episode. Cat knew of his reputation before she had even met him. Oberyn described in season 4 that everyone was interested to see him when he was just a baby because he is perceived as this monstrosity. He is basically a Westerosi celebrity, infamous and hated.
But most important, he is directly tied to the story of the war.
Nothing about this "you aren't mentioned in a 5000 page book about this ten year period of war" makes a lick of sense. It was only put in there for a joke. There is nothing about it that rings true or acts as a parallel to history.
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the north is literally a garbage ass region half the time but the show runners want you to feel like they're the most noble kingdom. D&D wanted a another crowning scene where they start ho
team Sansa? gross.
Not gonna vote for warren now.
It seems like she was team Dany until she went nuts, so she switched up hoping Sansa would get the crown lol.
His heroic deeds or intentions being written out, sure. Him not being mentioned in the history books at all, even as the villain of the story, makes no sense.
At least people will realise tlj was good once these guys slide out another turd
It's basically just another example of the result not being the issue, but the way we got there. If he was brought there as a lord, they should've stated that better. The fack that Greyworm claims he has no right to speak kind of throws us off of that trail.
It is as if they should've stopped to ask themselves just what the hell the power Bran has is. I am still extremely disappointed, and, again, not that Bran was king, but the totally unjustified way he ends up being king.
Cross-posting some fanfic I outlined (Dany-centered, because I came from that thread):
I legit just came in here to ask if there'd been any interviews from D&D since the finale, so cheers.
edit: Oh, I though that was recent.