Game Of Thrones: Season 8

[Zatara]

I just don’t see how they can wrap this all up in 5 more episodes.

A spaceship lands, the doors open and Mark Wahlberg with a chimpanzee get out...

 

[devogue]

I just don’t see how they can wrap this all up in 5 more episodes.

White Walkers are going to steamroll their way to King's Landing killing every character in the process. The end.

 

[Osamabindiesel]

Back in the OG days of GOT, my ladyfriend and I got in a debate about what would/should happen in GOT. She was a huge follower of the fan theories/fanfic crowd, and literally every detail she predicted about the series came to light (to her approval and my dismay I might add).

I wouldn’t be surprised if RR Martin deviated from his original ideas a bit and catered to the audience. I can’t imagine the motivation to be creative is the same after you hit it big like that. It’s probably why he will never actually finish GOT. The show writers were pretty much left to rot- I don’t blame them

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Spoiler

love the Robin Hood Men in Tights: reference there!lol

 

[Parker]

 

[gaino92]

Don’t know if it’s intentional but Bran’s acting does my head in. Like a monotone Professor X.

Bran is my least favourite character. Does my head in

 

[Zatara]

Bran is my least favourite character. Does my head in

Me too...every episode hes been in has been boring imo

Quite interested to see what happens next though after the ending of the 1st episode lol

 

[gaino92]

Me too...every episode hes been in has been boring imo

Quite interested to see what happens next though after the ending of the 1st episode lol

Spoiler

I hope it ends in Jamie just pushing him off a cliff the boring tit

 

[Zatara]

Spoiler

I hope it ends in Jamie just pushing him off a cliff the boring tit

Knowing what he knows...id have thought hed be much more talkative...but hes like a little girl with a secret all smug.

 

[DanEFC92]

Like Bran and his plot line overall but dislike this stoic weirdo they've turned him into.

 

[Nymzee]

To be fair, what’s Bran going to do, tell everyone Jamie pushed him? Everyone already hates him.

 

[gaino92]

I've never forgiven the tit for what he done to Hodor

 

[ClausThomsen]

Clearly, demonstrably and unarguably untrue.

The quality of writing took a nosedive shortly after the decision was made to veer off of the various narrative arcs GRRM had spent years planning and carefully revising. Seasons 5, 6, and 7 have had some excellent moments, but these have mainly been individually superb performances, rather than the cleverly-planned plot development for which the show achieved its initial acclaim. Go back to seasons one, two and three for some really well-written drama, and then compare that to the trope-filled, cliche-ridden, mindless hollywood set-piece that was the Battle of the Bastards - absolutely no question that there's been a sharp drop in quality.

That's not to say it's rubbish now. Far from it.

But a show that used to be a 10/10 is now no more than a 7/10. And the reason is that the people who should and could have decided to slow the pace down and NOT prune entire subplots instead got swallowed up by their own egos and decided they could write something better in a year than the source material that has taken more than a decade to craft. That's the same source material THEY loved so much in the first place that they paid for the rights to film it.

Enjoy the rest of the show, as I will. Then, after a few months, start reading the books. Weep for what could have been.

Why the books have many more sub-plots and characters there is something to be said for cutting some characters whose narrative purpose in the story can be ably done by other characters. Lady Stoneheart would have been good to see but the vengeance role has been shifted onto Arya pretty well much like Donal Noye has been spread around a character or three and Edric Storm / Gendry.

The book is more complex and layered but a direct copy to screen would have been ridiculously expensive and would have been far too cumbersome for one series.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Clearly, demonstrably and unarguably untrue.

The quality of writing took a nosedive shortly after the decision was made to veer off of the various narrative arcs GRRM had spent years planning and carefully revising. Seasons 5, 6, and 7 have had some excellent moments, but these have mainly been individually superb performances, rather than the cleverly-planned plot development for which the show achieved its initial acclaim. Go back to seasons one, two and three for some really well-written drama, and then compare that to the trope-filled, cliche-ridden, mindless hollywood set-piece that was the Battle of the Bastards - absolutely no question that there's been a sharp drop in quality.

That's not to say it's rubbish now. Far from it.

But a show that used to be a 10/10 is now no more than a 7/10. And the reason is that the people who should and could have decided to slow the pace down and NOT prune entire subplots instead got swallowed up by their own egos and decided they could write something better in a year than the source material that has taken more than a decade to craft. That's the same source material THEY loved so much in the first place that they paid for the rights to film it.

Enjoy the rest of the show, as I will. Then, after a few months, start reading the books. Weep for what could have been.

I binge read the books. Have done it 3 times. Usually it takes me about 4 monthslol.

The next time I do it is when he's close to bringing out book 6.

 

[Barnfred 55]

Why the books have many more sub-plots and characters there is something to be said for cutting some characters whose narrative purpose in the story can be ably done by other characters. Lady Stoneheart would have been good to see but the vengeance role has been shifted onto Arya pretty well much like Donal Noye has been spread around a character or three and Edric Storm / Gendry.

The book is more complex and layered but a direct copy to screen would have been ridiculously expensive and would have been far too cumbersome for one series.

I don't know mate. The first book what pretty true to form. It would have got a bit complicated when the story split into 2 but it could have been done.

We're about 3 seasons ahead of the books already though.