Fluther: [Spoilers] Game of Thrones is finally over, what do you think?

[Spoilers] Game of Thrones is finally over, what do you think?

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) May 20th, 2019
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We just had the series finale, what are your thoughts on the episode? the show across all seasons overall? Do you have unanswered questions you want to discuss? Do you have a favorite moment from the entire series? or a most hated moment? There’s a spoiler tag, so feel free to not hold back.

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For a very intense and dramatic series, the finale was kind of anticlimactic.

Everything was too nicely tied-up for my personal liking.

It felt like the ending for a different series. Or the writers keeled over and had to have someone else write the finale.

raum (13206

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It wasn’t the ending I wanted, but it was the ending the series needed.
My daughter bought me the first season dvds about 4 years ago, and told me “this show is really all about the Stark kids”. She nailed it.

filmfann (52229

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I have yet to see a single episode. I’m looking forward to the big binge in the future.

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I’m following. I have yet to see the final episode. The series stressed me out. Too much violence. Too much near misses where maybe peace could have been found. I find it ridiculous they couldn’t live in peace once getting rid of the walking dead people.

JLeslie (65419

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The main problem I have with the last episode is the result of the main problem I have with episode 5 (though there are other practical issues I have with 5), which is that I don’t think they really did a convincing job of developing and portraying Daenerys’ character transformation, or her or Jon’s / Varys’ / Tyrion’s actions.

I don’t believe Varys would have been so convinced that he would have taken the action he did that soon.

I don’t believe Daenerys would have chosen to burn 99% of King’s Landing after the bells rang. They showed it happen in a very wrong way, just to justify to the audience the others turning on her. Lazy ass weak writing strikes again, as it did to the tactical details in episodes 3, and 4 (and some aspects of 5).

I don’t believe how Tyrion or Jon turned on Daenerys in those ways, even given her actions.

And that’s about all there is to talk about of much interest.

I’m glad those writers are done half-assing the show, because clearly they ran out of interest or ability to develop it a few years ago, and were running on empty in Season 8, as far as being able to do more than make it pretty and provide an ending.

The world was a detailed, complex, interesting place worth exploring when GRRM wrote about it, and the TV authors left it mostly empty.

Zaku (30355

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I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think the people complaining never saw the finale of Dexter. Now that was shit.

Stache (4934

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@Stache Can confirm – I never saw Dexter.

Zaku (30355

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Glad it’s over so people will stop posting memes, and talking about characters I’ve never heard of. I never watched the show. I have no interest in that genre.

Kardamom (33292

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I’ve never watched GoT & will be happy once gone as I’m tired of hearing all about it & not knowing about what people were speaking. None of anything I’ve heard made me want to watch it nor made me feel like I was missing something great!!! The only thing I’m sure of is that a lot of characters died during filming yet no one was harmed in the making of the show.

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I think my favorite moment of the finale was when Drogon burned the throne. He knew that was what really caused Dany’s death.

Someone posted a screenshot of Tyrion picking up the bricks that buried his brother and sister. There were no bricks just a few feet from the pile. If they had only moved a few feet they would have survived. ha!

Stache (4934

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Yeah, the room where Jaime met Cersei also seemed to have near-zero additional brickfall after they left, the throne had no rocks on it but also no walls or roof over it somehow, and in general they just moved right in and started using the castle after it had been shown as a disintegrating deathtrap all the way down to the sub-basements that no one was expected to survive in the previous episode.

Zaku (30355

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I’ve not watched it and I’m not too interested in that type of show, so I may not ever watch it, but today on the radio they were saying that so many viewers were disappointed with the last episode and are going to cancel their HBO subscriptions in protest.

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