Game Of Thrones: Season 8

[N.S.N.O.]

Well... not necessarily

The Hound's story will end against his brother. It was always gonna be that way, you'd think.

Davos and Sam I actually understand living more than the others.

Breanne/Jamie/Bran - it feels like if one or two of those would have gone (even though I actually consider Breanne and Bran more supporting characters than anything else) then it would have hit home a bit more.

Or... and this is genuinely when I felt more peril for the characters than at any other point (and tbf that's saying something) was down in the crypts with that scene between Sansa and Tyrian. I actually thought they were going to kill each other at one point - like a final pact thing.

I just think old GoT would have pushed it that much further. That much more into despair. It doesn't mean they couldn't have had a similar ending, but I think ending they did have would have been felt more.

There was so much danger and death and peril in the episode, it just feels lacking because that peril somehow didn't effect the main players as much as it should have done, really.

As it is, it's basically like everyone really important (and the ones in the main mostly important to them) survived. The exceptions Theon and Jorah but both of those characters had gone full circle really and there wasn't particularly anywhere to go with them.

It's why I was also predicting Breanne would go, as I felt in the last episode that they basically had her story sewn up by making her a knight.

Yeah thought Brienne would go.... Thought the Night King should have killed her and a few others before he got to Bran... A One on One sword fight the NK and Brienne, with Brienne dieing would have added alot to the episode... I guess Brienne has a significant part to play with how The Cersei/Jaime story plays out...

 

[USABlue]

Well... not necessarily

The Hound's story will end against his brother. It was always gonna be that way, you'd think.

Davos and Sam I actually understand living more than the others.

Breanne/Jamie/Bran - it feels like if one or two of those would have gone (even though I actually consider Breanne and Bran more supporting characters than anything else) then it would have hit home a bit more.

Or... and this is genuinely when I felt more peril for the characters than at any other point (and tbf that's saying something) was down in the crypts with that scene between Sansa and Tyrian. I actually thought they were going to kill each other at one point - like a final pact thing.

I just think old GoT would have pushed it that much further. That much more into despair. It doesn't mean they couldn't have had a similar ending, but I think ending they did have would have been felt more.

There was so much danger and death and peril in the episode, it just feels lacking because that peril somehow didn't effect the main players as much as it should have done, really.

As it is, it's basically like everyone really important (and the ones in the main mostly important to them) survived. The exceptions Theon and Jorah but both of those characters had gone full circle really and there wasn't particularly anywhere to go with them.

It's why I was also predicting Breanne would go, as I felt in the last episode that they basically had her story sewn up by making her a knight.

I thought Brienne was going to die saving Jamie and maybe Pod alongside trying to help. Didn't expect any of the Starks to die yet. I thought brienne, pod, and grey worm would die and would've made sense in the story. With Sansa and Tyrion I thought for a second about them offing each other/themselves too but it wouldnt have served any plot purpose besides being a shocking death for the sake of it. I'm glad they arent just killing people off randomly pruely for shock value but a few more could've made sense through the course of the battle. Hound still needs to fight his brother. Jamie and Tyrion need to confront Ceresi, Sam's basically GRRM and will probably write all this down LOTR style

 

[tsubaki]

He did... He shouldn't have, and it's getting annoying how many times they've teased his death... He can't fight, no way he should have survived... Same with Davos..... Same with the Hound when he froze again....

All the main characters in the front line should have died too...

Apologies if this has been posted before, but that is at least three times the dead have ignored Sam when they could easily have killed him (the first time was on the Fist of the First Men, the second was when one tried to take Gilly's baby, and now at Winterfell).

 

[N.S.N.O.]

Apologies if this has been posted before, but that is at least three times the dead have ignored Sam when they could easily have killed him (the first time was on the Fist of the First Men, the second was when one tried to take Gilly's baby, and now at Winterfell).

Hmmmm, True enough...

 

[BlueToff]

I thought Brienne was going to die saving Jamie and maybe Pod alongside trying to help. Didn't expect any of the Starks to die yet. I thought brienne, pod, and grey worm would die and would've made sense in the story. With Sansa and Tyrion I thought for a second about them offing each other/themselves too but it wouldnt have served any plot purpose besides being a shocking death for the sake of it. I'm glad they arent just killing people off randomly pruely for shock value but a few more could've made sense through the course of the battle. Hound still needs to fight his brother. Jamie and Tyrion need to confront Ceresi, Sam's basically GRRM and will probably write all this down LOTR style

Yeh, this really.

I think the way the Walkers eventually went would have been easier to swallow if they'd have done more damage to the main characters.

Like, the actual dead army are imo done really well and exactly as they should be.

Had one or two more of the main characters gone, I think it would have pushed home just how much the battle took out, without just being deaths for the sake of it.

Even if we'd have seen it offscreen kind of - like initially when Jorah went in with the cavalry I thought he'd gone. If he'd have never returned, it would have been such a brave way for the show to make him go imo (even though I know he had to have his hero's death).

 

[Death]

Season has been el crapo

 

[BlueToff]

Season has been el crapo

I honestly don't know how anyone could have watched yesterday and not have been impressed by it as a standalone episode of TV, though? I mean, it was incredible.

It's dampened - for me - by some plot holes that just shouldn't be in a show that was so tight for the first five seasons, even though I half expected them to be there.

 

[Death]

I honestly don't know how anyone could have watched yesterday and not have been impressed by it as a standalone episode of TV, though? I mean, it was incredible.

It's dampened - for me - by some plot holes that just shouldn't be in a show that was so tight for the first five seasons, even though I half expected them to be there.

I like it for its intense wity dialogue and it's not getting into it for me. Kinda get it though. It's really a reunion and having the big stand-off. But still. And yeah it's epic and production was impressive for a TV episode. In terms of dialogue the willing talking about being breast fed by a giant was as good as it got so far. Quite funny.

 

[Moomin]

When Bronn and Jaime did that Benny Hill scene with the sandsnakes was the start of the downfall.

Still enjoyed last nights episode and better than the Avengers movie.

 

[LostLegend]

 

[N.S.N.O.]

I just think old GoT would have pushed it that much further. That much more into despair. It doesn't mean they couldn't have had a similar ending, but I think ending they did have would have been felt more.

Yep agree... The ending would also have meant more if we had lost a few main characters during the battle.

Like it started well, when I thought Jorah had died at the start, set a good marker for things to come... Then thought Greyworm, Thormund, Jaime & brienne were fkd....

Instead they all kept resurfacing.... Result was the episode lost the tension and suspense it worked so hard to set up... It became an Avengers movie...

 

[neil999]

reckon it will end with them realising the iron throne is helping cause the misery, dragon melts it down, democracy is born

 

[BlueToff]

Yep agree... The ending would also have meant more if we had lost a few main characters during the battle.

Like it started well, when I thought Jorah had died at the start, set a good marker for things to come... Then thought Greyworm, Thormund, Jaime & brienne were fkd....

Instead they all kept resurfacing.... Result was the episode lost the tension and suspense it worked so hard to set up... It became an Avengers movie...

Yep. I have no idea about Avengers because i've never watched it and tbh probably never will. This is as 'fantasy' as my viewing will go, really.

Yeh, I thought Jorah was a gonner too and even though I was glad he came back at the start, a braver show (the show that this used to be) would have just left it. Killing off a character like that - literally just snuffing them out - would have given them more leeway imo.

 

[Yarrgh]

reckon it will end with them realising the iron throne is helping cause the misery, dragon melts it down, democracy is born

New families form to replace the obliterated ones. The iron throne remains. The saga of intrigues, politics and violence to obtain the throne will never end. No one learns anything. Somewhere in the north a new Night King is seen. End credits.

 

[neil999]

New families form to replace the obliterated ones. The iron throne remains. The saga of intrigues, politics and violence to obtain the throne will never end. No one learns anything. Somewhere in the north a new Night King is seen. End credits.

nice...