I’m not over it. I’m just not.
The Starks were finally all together again, but we got no quality time/bonding scenes between them.
We got 4, I’ll repeat, FOUR quality time/bonding scenes between Tyrion and Jaime IN SEASON 8 ALONE. Five if you count Tyrion finding their bodies. Six if you count the drinking game at the feast. We’ve had many others over the course of the series, too.
There was no discussion of Littlefinger’s execution. Not by Jon, or Tyrion, or Varys. Also, there was no fallout or ripple effect of this. For seven season he had shit in the works all over Westeros. His death didn’t impact anything?
Cersei had almost nothing to do, and no scenes with Arya, Sansa, Jon, Tyrion really, or anyone else aside from her death scene with Jaime. This was so blatantly odd that you have to wonder whether it was retaliatory for some reason. Especially knowing they FILMED a miscarriage scene.
Jon’s parentage amounted to nothing in the end, and we got to see EVERYONE’s reaction to it EXCEPT for Jon’s or his family’s. We saw Bran see it in the tree, then Bran and Sam discuss it, then Sam bring it up to Jon and give his opinion on it, then Dany’s reaction, then Tyrion and Varys had two separate but basically identical conversations about it. But a reaction from Sansa and Arya would have been overkill? It’s just bullshit.
No direwolves as far as I’m concerned. Jon petting Ghost didn’t cut it. I wanted packs, I wanted action, I wanted them to matter. Why bring Nymeria back last season? Also, we were assured by an earlier interview with the CGI guys that we would be getting more. What happened?
The issue of food supplies never came to anything. Not Dany burning the wagons, not Sansa’s diligence in building grain stores, not the dragons eating literal herds every day. None of it mattered.
Varys was sidelined for nearly 3 seasons only to have almost no purpose in the end, and we never found out what he heard in the flames. We never see the fallout of the ravens he sent off with Jon’s parentage either.
Jon didn’t get a single epic fight scene. Why? Why??? This was what we wanted most from him. We expected it. Years of training and epic moments leading up to his two biggest battles and we get him randomly swinging at a few soldiers and wights. He could have fought Greyworm. He could have fought White Walkers. He could have fought the Night King, even if he wasn’t the one to defeat him. He could have fought by Arya’s side in either battle. Does he even know what she can do?
They put Jon on a dragon for the battle that his entire life’s purpose was leading toward, for no reason. Jon didn’t need to be on that dragon. Dany has fought every other dragon battle with her on Drogon and the other dragons following her lead. He didn’t even end up with Rhaegal as his personal dragon or whatever. No reason.
Bran has the best story?? Leaving aside that this is no basis for a system of government, that ridiculous line could have been EASILY fixed by Tyrion saying stories matter and that Bran is the KEEPER of all their stories. Stupid.
Why was Bronn even a thing? He should have been killed by Drogon in the Loot Train attack. It would have been sad, but believable. It would have fixed the season 7 problem (and 8) of having epic battles with the expectation of some faves dying, only to have the audience actually be disappointed that there weren’t more meaningful deaths.
Bran and Jon (and everyone else on the wight hunt in s7) should have noticed that White Walkers are not impacted by fire. Jon saw it at Hardhome and on the Frozen Lake (and this was specifically dragon fire). Bran sees everything, and they walked through fire when they came for him at the tree in season 6.
I just really need to know why these things happened. The most frustrating part of the backlash against season 8 is that the majority of media attention is focusing on the wrong thing - meaning, Dany’s dark turn. The only thing that should be discussed with regard to that, in my opinion, is how MUCH of the last season was eaten up by it.
When I think about seasons 1-6, but especially 1-4, it is a completely different story about different people. Remember the days of Tywin, and shit going down in the Riverlands, and Cersei in the early seasons with her intrigue and schemes and tragedies and triumphs? God I miss that show.
Remember being so beaten down by all of the shit that the Starks went through? To the point that you just wanted the remaining ones to stay alive, but had given up hope of them ever being together again, much less at Winterfell? AND THEN THEY WERE!!! That’s a huge fucking deal. It was the first thing we rooted for as an audience. The Starks coming home.
Dany was always the storyline I cared the least about and when hers merged with the rest she just drowned them all out. If I had to watch just the Dany show from season 1, I never would have stuck with this show. I just still can’t believe it ended that way. What a mess.
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