#got negativity

[rhaenyrastormborn]

If they really planned for Dany to go mad from s3 like D&D claim, somebody probably should’ve told Emilia Clarke

[jesterkoops]

The thing is, having gone through Game of Thrones truly is a trauma for life, not only because of how everything was wrapped up but because we used to have FAKE LEAKERS that seemed real. So I’m literally sitting here reading consistent reviews suggesting I’m going to love the season finale and wanting to rock in a corner chanting “I don’t believe you! You are not going to do this to me again!! LIAR! LIAAAR!!”

[maryasmorevna]

still baffled that one popular anti-dany argument pre s8 was that since she was wearing black she leaning toward the Dark Side™...... as if in the same series another unambigously heroic protagonist didn't enlist into the night's guard where everyone must wear black, and the series' author wasn't explicitly against this kind of stereotypical tropes lmao

[oberynmartell]

god i wish that was me

[hell-heron]

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GRRM makes the choice not to show us book Theon's POV before Bran and Rickon's escape, only through Bran's eyes. Thats a cool literary device and so heartbreaking, we are left to wonder oh Theon did it feel good at least while it was happening did you have time to feel any joy and vindication before it all went bad?

This left so much room for D&D to play with a contrast of before and after, lots of room for creative portrayal of this downfall arc, but they... Didn't really? Like obviously there was a downfall in a certain sense but Theon is absolutely in Theon VI mode from the very beginning. We have a scene of him bungling an execution and publicly breaking down, it's moved to before the escape. We have a scene of him being confronted by Ser Rodrik on his hostage/loyalty issues and just plainly admitting how traumatized he is because he's just that broken down and raw etc. And thats also moved before the escape. These are his first actions in Winterfell, in fact. I know time costraints etc but just... How the fuck do you read the Beth parley scene and not find it something so cinematic you absolutely must render, what's wrong with you, couldn't they just merge Beth and Jeyne if that was the issue?

We just get Theon being so sensitive and embarrassing and publicly spiraling from the start and everything that happens is a natural consequence of his own specific brand of patheticness present there from the start, downfall arc routed in the inherent impossibility of ruling mercifully in a conquest situation and cruelty of war etc what is that. Just as with Ramsay we'll helpfully be treated to many good reasons about how the Reek treatment Is tailored on Theon's specific oh so pathetic and sensitive individuality, alienating results of torture and Ramsay are an escapable force of evil what are those.

[mother-of-felines]

If you want something done right, do write it yourself - fanfiction summed up perfectly

[adreamofspring-archive]

when your favorite characters are in the hands of writers who don’t really understand them and can do literally anything they want including ruin their whole arcs and personality for drama and theatrics

[him-e]

Gotta say I agree with your tags, the prequel seems a bit pointless when the Targaryen line was made extinct. Not to mention how are they gonna frame the Targaryen's with their incest and dragons who do a lot of shady stuff with far less motivations behind it than Daenerys and make it seem like they are who we should root for? I'll probably wait until it's finished before watching it so I don't get too involved than crushed at a shitty ending if they deviate from the books like all shows and trilogies have being doing lately unfortunately. I wonder what the audience will be like, obviously purely dragon lovers will like it, maybe Lannister fans but not sure about Stark or Targaryen fans with the incest and Daenerys ending.

I think the show has excellent potential actually, I mean it's a big fucked up family with incestuous relationships, dragons, murders, politics and high fashion, what's there not to love? I'm just not sure how it's going to benefit from being a Game of Thrones prequel, and specifically a Targaryen prequel, given the way the main show completely deflated Dany's role in the war for the dawn. The biggest selling point of a Targaryen prequel should have been "let's explore the dynasty that eventually generated the Chosen One", but the Chosen One turned out to be a little more than a red herring who lost 2/3 of her dragons in a pretty ridiculous way, went mad and reached the climax of her arc not with something heroic but by destroying an entire city.

Dany aside, the quality of season 8 aside, it's inevitably going to suffer from being a prequel to an already completed story. There's going to be no joy in seeing little details and theorizing about what they could mean in the bigger picture, endgame wise - the main story is over, so anything that happens in House of the Dragon is virtually irrelevant.

This show should have aired with a debut season in 2018 during the GoT hiatus when the general audience was thirsting for content and the speculation re: endgame was as its peak. It would have been a blast. Now it's going to be "remember when you loved dragons? please, here's some more, come baaack"