So my dad and I started a list of hilarious plot holes this season: Season 8 Edition
They made it too easy this year, didn’t they? I almost feel bad compiling this all together because it’s all so blatantly obvious it’s almost unnecessary, but this is a promise I won’t go back on. So, to quote the dragon queen herself, “Shall we begin?”
The North being randomly xenophobic to just Missandei and Grey Worm despite the Mad King’s daughter showing up with two dragons and their king who knelt
Most of the dialogue being callbacks to previous seasons instead of conversations that actually propel the plot forward
One of Cersei’s greatest ambitions being a desire for elephants
A screaming wight child? On a wall somewhere for no reason?!
Bran being underutilized throughout the entire season during the war council and not giving any further info about the Night King or how to defeat the White Walkers in the War for the Dawn despite having access to all knowledge in the history of humanity
Bronn still existing showing up inside Winterfell with a crossbow to deliver the message that Cersei wants to kill Tyrion and Jaime
Melisandre emerging the fuck out of nowhere for the Long Night
80% of the Long Night being a black screen
Human armies not using the walls of Winterfell for protection during the battle
The Dothraki getting annihilated in five minutes
The plot armor for all the main characters throughout the episode, honorable mention for Jon charging the NK moments before the dude is clearly gonna raise the dead all around them; Arya basically being in a zombie video game; Sansa and Tyrion not being harmed in the crypts; Jaime, Brienne, Gendry, and Grey Worm fighting everyone without injury
The most hyped battle on television, the Long Night, beginning and ending in one episode
Sansa and Tyrion hiding in the crypts in a war where the enemy can raise the dead
No references to any of the multiple Starks who have died and been entombed in the crypts in living memory
8000-year-old piles of dust and decades-old bones breaking out of said tombs to attack people in the crypts
Arya stabbing the Night King despite Dany and Jon’s arcs leading up to them vanquishing the White Walkers
Bran warging out during the Long Night to… watch Endgame? To a universe where this show was written by someone competent?
Theon deciding to walk into the Night King’s knife instead of just standing still and not getting stabbed or maybe sacrificing himself if/when the Night King tried to stab Bran
Wight Viserion’s fire not being hot enough to melt that tiny ass rock Jon hid behind despite burning down a huge chunk of the Wall last season
Arya parkouring through the White Walkers to stab the Night King with the same move that Rey used in The Last Jedi
Mel taking off her necklace for reasons and then immediately turning into dust despite having taken off the necklace on screen before without dying and/or morphing into a senior citizen
Jon leaving Ghost with Tormund for plot convenience
Winter ending and no more reference to army provisions after the Long Night I guess
Characters again blatantly defying the time-space continuum (ie getting from Winterfell to King’s Landing in one day or at the very least the first weeks/months of Cersei’s invisible pregnancy)
Daenerys being sad and lonely at Winterfell
S T A R B U C K S C U P G A T E (and later hand gate and Aquafina gate)
No one knowing the lord of Storm’s End, leading to the appointment of a random inexperienced and likely illiterate bastard blacksmith as lord
Smash cut to Rhaegal getting shot out of the sky because Dany didn’t see the Iron Fleet behind a rock (nor did she armor or saddle her dragons like she should have years ago)
Missandei getting kidnapped off screen and then killed for Daenerys’s downward spiral
Jaime leaving Winterfell immediately after choosing to be with Brienne
Daenerys waiting to attack King’s Landing only after her forces have been completely decimated despite this time last season having three dragons, Yara’s Iron Fleet, Dorne, and the Tyrells
Daenerys’s motivation to attack KL being that she has no friends
Arya surviving being roasted alive and buried in rubble with barely a scratch and then finding a white horse in the ruin of King’s Landing
Cersei politely yeeting out of Cleganebowl
Jaime growing his hand back to hug Cersei
Daenerys’s army rebirthing itself in vast number after being 90% killed three episodes ago
Jon and Tyrion suddenly understanding Valyrian as Daenerys preaches to the Unsullied about liberating Westeros
Drogon melting down the Iron Throne for reasons then scooping up Daenerys and flying into the distance never to be heard of or cared about again by a kingdom whose capital city has been burned twice now and has heard of dragons scorching and eating children alive
A new Dornish prince spawning out of nowhere; in fact, the Ironborn and Dornish being non-entities all season
Democracy being a novel idea in a universe where the Salt Moot and other forms of voted leadership exist
Bran randomly being elected king
The North being the one independent kingdom out of all seven
The Wall is in ship shape as Jon leaves to rejoin the Night’s Watch which has no reason to exist anymore
With the train wreck that was this season, I’m sure I missed a thousand more, so as always, anyone is welcome to add more!
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