Game Of Thrones: Season 8

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

But she didn't kill Cersei's hand and never had the chance to so couldn't take his face. I think that would have been a dreadful ending just repeating old tricks. Plus we wouldn't have had the quite funny Qyburn death given by The Mountain.

She could have killed her hand, it was just a suggestion, for me, the endings to major characters like Cersei and Arya was rather bland and not satisfying, and I think that's the whole beef millions of fans are having with the way things were done.

The satisfying ending for Arya was for her to avenge her father, her whole journey for 8 years was about that, she should have killed the last "Baddie" Lannisters in Cersei and Jamie.

Jon Snow brought back from the dead, turns out he's the rightful heir to the throne, then it's given to Bran in a 10 minute meeting out of nowhere, is another scratch your head moment.

The writers just made a mess of it.

 

[Neiler]

She could have killed her hand, it was just a suggestion, for me, the endings to major characters like Cersei and Arya was rather bland and not satisfying, and I think that's the whole beef millions of fans are having with the way things were done.

The satisfying ending for Arya was for her to avenge her father, her whole journey for 8 years was about that, she should have killed the last "Baddie" Lannisters in Cersei and Jamie.

Jon Snow brought back from the dead, turns out he's the rightful heir to the throne, then it's given to Bran in a 10 minute meeting out of nowhere, is another scratch your head moment.

The writers just made a mess of it.

Thats one lens or Arya's character development though, another is the death and rebirth of innocence. Ultimately she was a child who was subjected to trauma of murder, war, threat, homelessness and ongoing violence.

It makes logical sense she followed a dark path of violence and revenge. Her redemption begins with killing the night king and the following episodes her morality reverts when she is back with her family, she ultimately returns to innocence when the hound sacrifices himself and rescues her from facing Cersi and the mountain in the face of certain death. Her arc was to be at the tipping point of good and evil and eventually chose the good moral side of the road and character redemption. Her character ultimately finds a balance with the act of kindness from the hound and redeems her.

Im not sure she didn't get her vengeance, her kill list is quite impressive, Walder Frey, Little Finger, Meryn Trant, The Knight King, The Waif, she had a good go at the Hound as well - im not sure another character killed so many key characters and certainly ones that caused her wrong and arguably avenged her family in killing Little Finger and Frey who betrayed Ned and killed the rest of her family.

 

[Prevenger17]

Thats one lens or Arya's character development though, another is the death and rebirth of innocence. Ultimately she was a child who was subjected to trauma of murder, war, threat, homelessness and ongoing violence.

It makes logical sense she followed a dark path of violence and revenge. Her redemption came with killing the knight king and the following episodes her morality reverts when she is back with her family, she ultimately returns to innocence when the hound rescues her from facing Cersi and the mountain in the face of death. her arc was to be at the tipping point of good and evil and eventually chose the good moral side of the road and character redemption. her charicter ultimately finds a balance.

Im not sure she didn't get her vengeance, her kill list is quite impressive, Walder Frey, Little Finger, Meryn Trant, The Knight King, The Waif, she had a good go at the Hound as well - im not sure another character killed so many key characters and certainly ones that caused her wrong and arguably avenged her family in killing Little Finger and Frey who betrayed Ned and killed the rest of her family.

Aye, Arya was by far and away the top scorer for the last 8 seasons, fulfilling every wish on her list would have been complete overkill. Game of Thrones wouldn't be about the complexity and horror of war, it would be a Fantasy Taken with Arya Neeson kegging two whole continents for 8 seasons

 

[OnlyBlueWillDo]

Aye, Arya was by far and away the top scorer for the last 8 seasons, fulfilling every wish on her list would have been complete overkill. Game of Thrones wouldn't be about the complexity and horror of war, it would be a Fantasy Taken with Arya Neeson kegging two whole continents for 8 seasons

5 kills in 8 seasons, hardly Neeson is it, she said she was off to kill Cersei and that's exactly what should have happened, a nice bloody violent ending involving two massive characters, her work to avenge her dad complete.

Instead we got a limp final episode for both.

 

[Prevenger17]

5 kills in 8 seasons

She literally killed thousands of white walkers

 

[ClausThomsen]

5 kills in 8 seasons, hardly Neeson is it, she said she was off to kill Cersei and that's exactly what should have happened, a nice bloody violent ending involving two massive characters, her work to avenge her dad complete.

Instead we got a limp final episode for both.

She poisoned pretty much every single Frey male so her kill count is at least 50 if not more. Arya's storyline was a little more nuanced than vengeful violence-porn and even if it was there were plenty on the kill list who Arya didn't get.

 

[Walken]

5 kills in 8 seasons, hardly Neeson is it, she said she was off to kill Cersei and that's exactly what should have happened, a nice bloody violent ending involving two massive characters, her work to avenge her dad complete.

Instead we got a limp final episode for both.

the whole point of game of thrones before it went all micheal bay was the futility of war and how these quests of honour or vengeance between petty family squabbles cause nothing but utter devastation to the masses, you can't tie every characters storyline off with a nice little bow on top, its cheap to do so

 

[GOT11]

How did Sam came to know about Jon parents? Books ?

 

[Nymzee]

How did Sam came to know about Jon parents? Books ?

Yes.

 

[GOT11]

Yes.

Yes so that Meme joke about Sam stealing book doesn’t stand

 

[nsno-chris]

She had though, deliberately (Mirri Maz Duur in s1) and accidentally (the goatherd's daughter in s4 or s5). There are scenes from s2 where her state of mind is clearly revealed as well, none better than this:

I’m sorry but the odd “scene” doesn’t over come a character who was portrayed through the entire series has the breaker of chains, a hero for many. There was nobody who watched that at series 3 and thought “this chick is cuckoo and she’s going mental”

I have no concern with her going bat [Poor language removed] crazy, it’s something that I think Martin wants. But the story to bring her full psycho was very very poor. There was a scene after the battle were everyone was congratulating John and you got an inkling. Then Varys and Tyrion questioning her stability then it was just all out bedlam.

Like I’ve said, it’s someth that would have developed over the course of a series. Thankfully for us though D&D have a Star Wars empire to destroy

 

[Pilks]

Now come on, yes, there were issues, but that meme about Cersei and the writers 'forgetting' Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

In a medieval society? What next, should Jamie have popped into the Kings Landing Walk-In centre to have his hand looked at?

My mother almost went into labour in the pub, and that was only 1961!!

 

[ClausThomsen]

Yes so that Meme joke about Sam stealing book doesn’t stand

Nor the Arya meme, the Unsullied meme, The Night King symbols meme....they're all created by someone who paid no attention to details or even clearly spoken dialogue.

 

[GOT11]

Nor the Arya meme, the Unsullied meme, The Night King symbols meme....they're all created by someone who paid no attention to details or even clearly spoken dialogue.

Clearly but people sharing those meme also fall in the same category

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Well that.... was woeful.