THE PARTHENON

[demonsandpieohmy]

People: trample Arya

Dragon fire: burns Arya

Brick wall: falls on Arya

Arya:

[colorandsludge-deactivated20191]

[parthenonqueen]

I love

[teenagefriction]

Despite tonight’s events, Drogon is still my giant magical baby and he deserves to live and fly away into the sky and live a long dragon life

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

I’m resigned to the fact that they’ll kill Dany next week but if they kill Drogon too I will riot

[parthenonqueen]

I don’t want him to die either. I would rather he flies back to where he was when he first ran off on his own.

But, I can also see them having Jon kill him, since he’s a Targaryen he might be fireproof enough to survive an attack and hurt him. 

[copsarepigs]

I think a lot of people are mad this season because some plotlines were hella rushed and questionable. Dany went full blown mad in like 2 epsiodes, the Night King died too fast, Jaime’s character arc seemed pointless, Jon and Tyrion are mad dumb etc.

I’m not saying this would’ve solved everything, but if S7-8 had more episodes some things could have been explained better. Like Dany’s descent into madness and at least a bigger payoff with the Night King Saga.

I’m so sad people aren’t as happy with this season as compared to previous ones (me included).

[parthenonqueen]

I 110% feel like this is the real issue.

And it’s not just for this season. They should have had a season last year so things wouldn’t have to be so cramped.

Cause I get the feeling if things were spread out and story told differently that people would react differently.

Everything is jammed together and people are going through a massive emotional frenzy in a way is upsetting and causing distress.

Based on people’s predictions and their feelings towards what they thought was going to happen. I guarantee if things went how many people are saying they wanted, folks would still be up in arms.

The show is ending and everyone has their idea of what they want as well as a million possibilities of what “could have” happened. It’s causing some upstir.

Got is a tv series and with this short seasons, it’s a tv show following movie format and it’s causing problems.

Tv shows can develop characters and storylines better, movies require you to do a lot of fill in the blanks and make assumptions. Movies also tend to narrow things down to good and bad rather than super ambiguous characters, cause they don’t have time to display everything.

[sciencevsromance]

thermonuclear dinosaur

[mizgnomer]

The story of how Krysten Ritter knocked David Tennant out with a fire extinguisher during the filming of Jessica Jones, Season Two

as told at the ACE Comic Con, January 2019 

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Bonus:

[zalrb]

This show destroyed a great female character (Dany) to prop up a white man (Jon). You really should blame d&d for their shitty writing and not Dany.

Anon, no, this isn’t a destruction of Daenerys’ character, her trajectory for eight seasons was leading here, it’s just that in season 8, the show didn’t hide her behind a white saviour arc and that’s what you guys can’t handle. Up until now, the only characters that challenged Daenerys were slavers and so her burning them alive and refusing to negotiate with them and killing the nobility in Meereen was seen as her “breaking the wheel” and taken at face value particularly since D&D and co didn’t give the citizens any voices or any real agency to contest her, they simply followed her mindlessly, and you guys didn’t care that she didn’t try to learn about customs and cultures and traditions, you guys didn’t care that she didn’t talk to the people who actually lived in Meereen about how to rule the city, but now that she’s in the North/Westeros with characters who have agency and voices, with characters who challenge her, she’s doing what she’s always done, acting the way she always did, and suddenly you’re all like, her character is ruined. No, she’s just not framed as the benevolent white saviour anymore, that’s literally the only difference.

[parthenonqueen]

I like Dany and I enjoyed her character….and I still enjoy her character. But, I’m also a morbid person and my viewpoints of how I watch tv is often very different from the average person.

If dany died while taking out cersei in a noble heroic way and jon gets the throne…people would be pissed.

If she powered through and defeated her and got the throne…people would still be pissed.

They have her “going mad” with all she’s lost and very little gained. People are pissed.

You can’t please all the people all the time…it is what it is.

And, i agree dany has come across many people loving her and siding with her. Like she said this episode…she has NO LOVE there. 

Went she first went to King’s Landing to show Cersei proof of the NK she could have easily taken her out there with very little bloodshed, but she chose not to for Jon…As she told Sansa to fight his war.

And after helping him fight what has happened…she lost 2 Dragons, a large portion of her army, her bestie, and Jon’s romantic love for her, and Jorah.

She didn’t take out the NK Arya did, so she didn’t gain the respect from the Northerners in the way she’d hoped.

I think the main problem is that the writers didn’t show it obviously that Dany wasn’t a perfect superhero to those that saw her that way.

[dracox-serdriel]

I think the bigger problem here is that people are talking about Dany as “mad” because she sacked one city. She sacked one (1) city to take the Seven Kingdoms, and everyone is calling her “mad.”

That’s a ridiculously insane standard that’s never been applied to a single man on the show.

Tywin Lannister’s army sacked King’s Landing. Nobody calls him “the mad Lannister.” (Calling him “the mad hand” sounds just plain silly.) Tywin Lannister ordered The Mountain to attack random places and leave behind fish to implicate/punish Catelyn Tully for taking Tyrion.

Roose and Ramsey Bolten committed plenty of horrors in the North, yet neither were dubbed as “mad Boltens.” The gods don’t even flip a coin when the Boltens are born – they’re all born straight up assholes.

The Greyjoys entire way of life is stealing, raping, and murdering. Yet, they’re not dubbed mad. Not even when they invaded the North and took over their strongholds.

Dany killed her enemies, and along the way, she burned a few things that didn’t need to burn. Why is she judged as “mad” when men who have done far worse never earned such a bullshit title?

Also, it would’ve made sense for Dany to burn the Red Keep. NOT the rest of the city… you know, where her own soldiers were still fighting.

[parthenonqueen]

Hence why I put “going mad” in quotes.

Her reaction, in my opinion, makes a lot of sense considering all she’s been through within a short period of time. Along with her character design. 

If you do stop for a moment and backtrack she did a lot of little things that showed her persona. 

I think people liked her because the writers didn’t entirely fixate on the issues that were caused by her along the way.

In shows, a person is hailed up as hero or villain depending on how much writers emphasize the effects of what they do. If they gloss over them, they are minimized.

I think people need to remember she’s not a Queen she’s a Khaleesi. Her man got killed because his men raped a woman...same woman she later killed by burning alive to create her dragons. Her man himself was also a rapist. Notice her Dothraki men aren’t bothered by what she’s doing compared to other characters on the show.

I could probably say a whole lot about this...but the more I think about it the more I’m not bothered.

I honestly was expecting worse and to be completely upset...which I’m probably going to be next week since this one here didn’t bother me. I’m sure people that are against her now are going to be praising whoever takes her out next week. It is what it is.

[cbk1000]

Ok, please chime in with GoT opinions because my dash is losing its mind, I’m nosy, and tbh I will probably never actually get around to watching this show. Feel free to answer in the form of anything from a single gif to a dissertation. 

[parthenonqueen]

Dany did bad things out of revenge and people are not happy about it.

People expected her to handle it with grace and just cut her loses and move on with life...But ya know, people that do massive amounts of good are often capable of massive amounts of bad.

She traveled from afar to claim the iron throne and along the way she made many friends and was hailed up and idolize as an overpowered superhero.

She came to Westeros all set to conquer the throne easily but got side tracked by Jon and the love she found for him.

So she decided to help him in his war (though it should have been humanity’s war) against the Night’s King and during this she lost a lot of all she have acquired over time and gained nothing.

-She lost 1 dragon to the NK that he resurrected and turned into his pet.

-She went to Jon’s home territory and people including jon’s sister obviously didn’t like her.

-That dragon came and attacked her other dragon during battle and injured and weakened him

-Her usually tactic of gaining people’s respect by being their savior didn’t work against the NK because NK was Dracarys proof. 

-She lost Jorah her love that she could rely on no matter how much friendzoning she gave him.

-She saw Jon’s little sister kill the NK, therefore, folks weren’t impressed with her and was fawning over Jon instead.

-While going to Dragonstone she got ambushed an dher poor tired dragon got surprisingly shot down and her best friend captured.

- She tried to get her back and instead saw her killed infront her eyes...the final words of her bestie was DRACARYS (which means Dragon Fire).

-She been listening to Tyrion who for a while has been trying to keep everyone and everything intact and peaceful.

-She finds out Jon is a Targaryen and she asked him not to tell anyone, but Jon got a big mouth and went and told his sisters, and got spread everywhere.

-She’s upset Jon betrayed her and he says she’s his queen as Jon has auntyzoned her.

-She mentioned to him she has no love there.

-Tyrion formulated a plan where he went behind dany’s back and freed his brother to go open the gates to get the people to surrender.

-She rode in on Drogon destroying all the super arrow that can kill dragons along with euron’s ships and the golden fleet...In a very boss like manor that SOME folks would have been praising if that was it and SOME would have been complaining about how OP her character is and how easy her win is and that the show isn’t taking risks, trying to fan service folks. 

-So, writers said FUCK IT!!!! This is Game of Thrones no happy endings here...

-She also saw that even with the surrender she’s still hurt from all she lost and took her pain out on King’s Landing folks. Ya know Hurt people hurt people and all.

-Her mentality was made known earlier in the episode...she said she has NO love there so fear it is instead. So, she probably just blames everyone and hates everything about King’s Landing and decided to burn it to the ground because in her mind she gave so much and lost so much for everyone, and people still weren’t following her on social media.

-Plus, her bestie told her Dracarys...so she went and dracarys’d everything in her honor.

-Jaime and cersei died cuddling each other, like the scared twin children they are.

-The Hound vs The Mountain was more shocking than Dany burning everything. The Mountain>>>>>Thanos...

-Arya has finally after all these years dropped her concentrated vengeance and has started looking at the people’s suffering, which is probably going to influence her behavior and outcome in the next episode.

[cbk1000]

Ok, please chime in with GoT opinions because my dash is losing its mind, I’m nosy, and tbh I will probably never actually get around to watching this show. Feel free to answer in the form of anything from a single gif to a dissertation. 

[parthenonqueen]

What the show it’s an emotional ride is what it’s all about. Many have yet to realize that. Emotions aren’t one thing they are many things.

[3holmes]

 What was Arya’s faceless man ability for? She could have gone and silently killed Cersei… no useless carnage, no Missandei death, Dany wouldn’t have snapped, and most likely NO SANDOR DEATH! Because no fire.  What a waste of a season. 

[otp-obsessions]

Legit was expecting Qyburn to stab Cersei and then pull off his face and be Arya and then Sandor come in behind the mountain like surprise mother fucker. 

[parthenonqueen]

Did you all expect a perfect show where Arya killed cersei and no one died and all was well and good? 

People would be PISSED as they are now if they did that after she got NK kill. 

Everyone is having an emotional reaction...and that's fine...but I guarantee if that happened folks would hate it. Emotions are high for this show and it just wouldn’t be perfect for everyone. It is what it is.

I saw people preparing to hate it and was predicting that would happen and was already ranting in other places. Arya still might use her faceless man abilities, the show isn’t over.

[zalrb]

This show destroyed a great female character (Dany) to prop up a white man (Jon). You really should blame d&d for their shitty writing and not Dany.

Anon, no, this isn’t a destruction of Daenerys’ character, her trajectory for eight seasons was leading here, it’s just that in season 8, the show didn’t hide her behind a white saviour arc and that’s what you guys can’t handle. Up until now, the only characters that challenged Daenerys were slavers and so her burning them alive and refusing to negotiate with them and killing the nobility in Meereen was seen as her “breaking the wheel” and taken at face value particularly since D&D and co didn’t give the citizens any voices or any real agency to contest her, they simply followed her mindlessly, and you guys didn’t care that she didn’t try to learn about customs and cultures and traditions, you guys didn’t care that she didn’t talk to the people who actually lived in Meereen about how to rule the city, but now that she’s in the North/Westeros with characters who have agency and voices, with characters who challenge her, she’s doing what she’s always done, acting the way she always did, and suddenly you’re all like, her character is ruined. No, she’s just not framed as the benevolent white saviour anymore, that’s literally the only difference.

[parthenonqueen]

I like Dany and I enjoyed her character....and I still enjoy her character. But, I’m also a morbid person and my viewpoints of how I watch tv is often very different from the average person.

If dany died while taking out cersei in a noble heroic way and jon gets the throne...people would be pissed.

If she powered through and defeated her and got the throne...people would still be pissed.

They have her “going mad” with all she’s lost and very little gained. People are pissed.

You can’t please all the people all the time...it is what it is.

And, i agree dany has come across many people loving her and siding with her. Like she said this episode...she has NO LOVE there. 

Went she first went to King’s Landing to show Cersei proof of the NK she could have easily taken her out there with very little bloodshed, but she chose not to for Jon...As she told Sansa to fight his war.

And after helping him fight what has happened...she lost 2 Dragons, a large portion of her army, her bestie, and Jon’s romantic love for her, and Jorah.

She didn’t take out the NK Arya did, so she didn’t gain the respect from the Northerners in the way she’d hoped.

I think the main problem is that the writers didn’t show it obviously that Dany wasn’t a perfect superhero to those that saw her that way.

[parthenonqueen]

Well damn Game of Thrones

I can feel the masses pissed as hell.

To be honest imo. No matter what they did people would hate it. 

I’ve seen multiple theories and people mentioning if they do X it’s predictable and boring. And people were filling in all sorts of theories for what they thought would happen.

The show is in it’s final leg and the season is very short. Many people have died and the characters have become OP. If they went the logical and sensible route that has been laid out folks would still hate it.

I remember having seen many folks criticize her character for being white savior or for being superhero-esque. And, feeling as though if it all works out for her in the end, the show would suck.

i think Varys coin flip comment was pretty much how they decided to go with her character.

I remember when people were complaining after the NK episode that no massive fan fav./major character died in the way previous seasons took out Robb, Ned, Tywin, Joffrey, etc. 

They took out many here along with the innocents. Let’s keep in mind that the whole point of GOT is to not have happy endings. If they’d done it in a way folks agreed to that would defeat the purpose.

They’ve changed the game on television with how they laid out storylines and character arcs. As far as I’m concerned this is just one of the things they’re doing differently.

Super strong perfect female characters are now reigning throughout the world of fiction. I feel like they wanted to flip things on its head. They weren’t looking to satisfy fans, because they know no matter what they’d fail, plus this is their last season. 

I personally was expecting worse. And, I guess I’m alone in that. I’m actually less stressed by what has happened. Rhaegal dying the previous episode bothered me more than anything that happened here. I still don’t want Drogon to die even if they take her out next week. Set him free and on his way. I don’t blame him for all the chaos, he still one of my favs. 

I do think they could have gone somewhere else with her storyline but eh...

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Cersei: “They will defend their queen to the very end”

Cersei’s soldiers:

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