re: got season h8
lowkey i feel like if i engage as critically with GoT as i am capable of doing i’m just gonna stop enjoying it completely. like there has been so much character assassination, so many plot holes, so much conflict contrivance that i’ve given up on everything ever making logical sense anymore. i’m literally just here for the ride at this point and trying to focus on the small pieces of GOOD storytelling that make it worthwhile.
episode four was one where i felt like the good parts were really good and the bad parts were heinously bad. jaime leaving brienne in a single sentence, rhaegal dying stupidly, missandei dying at all, jon not thinking for 0.2 seconds about the costs of his honour AGAIN and essentially dooming them all to a war of succession (the one thing he DIDNT WANT and the one thing ned was trying to protect him from his whole damn life) were all, imo, bad writing decisions. but there were other parts that i liked?? tyrion and varys scheming and tyrion defending dany, jaime and brienne finally sleeping together, the first 30 mins as a whole, dany and jon makeouts and, tbh, their whole conversation, angsty as it was. i am also VERY pumped to see dany fuck shit up next ep. i’ve been wanting her to burn that shit down since season 6 when she sailed to westeros, and it’s honestly baffling to me that it’s taken this long to get to it.
so yeah idk. i still wanna keep watching. i used to hate the show and love the books, and stopped watching at multiple points because i was so aggravated by d&d’s portrayal of these characters that meant so much to me. but i’ve accepted now that the show has completely deviated and is its own entity, and i can either take it or leave it. people who are choosing to leave it are so valid and i respect that. but i still kinda wanna see how it all ends.
