Game of Thrones: Season 8 - Page 15

Ep 5 and 6 are decent, but then again my expectations were as low as they can get. A decent ending, definitely quite lower than the standards the show has previously set. Arya going West of Westeros doesn't make much sense whatsoever for a lot of reasons but w/e. I really liked the Jon Snow ending, it was very subtle but point on, considering how they developed his character in the last episode.

I gotta say the acting of Emilia Clarke has improved tremendously. She was the worst actor on the show in the previous seasons imo, but is probably the best now.... considering she had two brain aneurysms that is just insane. Hope she gets an Emmy.

Easily can rate cinematography, music, acting etc etc etc. 10/10 and writing 4/10 for the entire season. Ramin Djawadi has kept many scenes alive through his music, which otherwise would be dull as fuck.

I am very positivly surprised !

This was by far the best Episode in Season 8
The only thing i have to complain is the unsullied not instantly killing Jon !

Besides that this Episode made a ton of sense.

1.) Danys actions of Episode 5 made a lot more sense in retroperspective now that we have seen the first 20 minutes of Epsiode 6
The only People who truly loved her were the Unsullied and the Dothraki.
Both born to fight and kill.
Fighting and Killing is what they love and what makes them feel alive.

So the complete annihilation of Kings Landing was a gift to the people who truly love her.
you could clearly see that Unsullied and Dothraki loved the way it felt like complete victory.

So Dany dindt snap into insanity but rather made a choice to go with the loyal people and shit on the rest.

2.) Overall Jons Ending was quite good. The story Arc over all the Seasons came to quite a nice end. He had hell of a journey and made it to becoming King of the North but lost everything in the end and got back to where he started.
The overall story of Jon Snow is brilliant imo


3.) Omg the pictures , camera work and graphics ! 11/10 stunningly epic and impressive

4.) Bran becoming King is a choice that at first seems completely stupid but then after some rethinking makes a ton of sense.
basically bran is the king but will do nothing and therefore the true rulers of the 6+1 Kingdoms are his council and the lords of the 7 kingdoms
Its the start of something that will go more into the direction of democracy.
A king that only has a representative title but does not use his power .
pretty cool idea afterall.
Tyrion suggested this not because he wanted bran to become king but he wanted the best choice for freedom.
And a King that will not rule himself is the best choice.

5.) Arya going West is also pretty cool since it fits her character
She is not interested in a normal life and will always be an adventurer


So all in all for me this Episode was by far the best of the season and i only have this very minor nitpick with Jon not being insta killed by the unsullied.
Besides that -> 9/10 Episode

On May 20 2019 08:37 Spitfiree wrote: Ep 5 and 6 are decent, but then again my expectations were as low as they can get. A decent ending, definitely quite lower than the standards the show has previously set. Arya going West of Westeros doesn't make much sense whatsoever for a lot of reasons but w/e. I really liked the Jon Snow ending, it was very subtle but point on, considering how they developed his character in the last episode. I gotta say the acting of Emilia Clarke has improved tremendously. She was the worst actor on the show in the previous seasons imo, but is probably the best now.... considering she had two brain aneurysms that is just insane. Hope she gets an Emmy. Easily can rate cinematography, music, acting etc etc etc. 10/10 and writing 4/10 for the entire season. Ramin Djawadi has kept many scenes alive through his music, which otherwise would be dull as fuck.

Why didn't arya sailing west make sense? Seems to me she could do a lot of things in the end, no point in remaining a serial killer after all her enemies are gone. Her sailing west signal'd a possible move towards a renaissance type era; this was exactly the kind of ending i was hoping for tbh. Anything else would have made the series completely pointless to me.

my only gripe with the episode was that the north got to be independent while..the others didn't. Was expecting all kingdoms to become independent in the end. There was no objection to this.

The a la Royo setting was epic - cinematographically the best scene in the entire series.

Overall pretty good season and ending. Symbolism was on high level too. Some details could have been altered, but they messed up a lot of things in the previous season and had to build from there. More episodes could have included Littlefinger in the plot and expanded the Varys importance, but I am happy with what we GoT.

On May 20 2019 14:02 Expiate wrote: The a la Royo setting was epic - cinematographically the best scene in the entire series. Overall pretty good season and ending. ..........

really ?


I felt like overall it was pretty dissapointing.

I liked Episode 1
I thought episode 2 was a waste of time
Episode 3 had some pretty good and some incredibly dumb moments so i have mixed feelings
Episode 4 had some good momnets and some dumb moments so mixed feelings
Episode 5 was bullshit
Episode 6 was good....

So overall id give a 6.5/10 maybe 7/10 since the incredible visuals saved some of it.

I don't see what other ending could make sense for Arya. She was already talking about exploring "west of Westeros" in season 6. She has become a solitary person and would not be adapted to any other kind of life. It's pretty clear that she did love Gendry but that this type of life would be suffocating for her. It's also clear that she basically woke up from a bad dream in her final conversation with the Hound: being a killer for hire wouldn't be a desirable path forward. Someone who has had the kind of peak experiences that she has had could never feel fulfilled without going on extraordinary journeys and she arguably picked the most extraordinary of them all.

I'm satisfied overall. It was a nice saga with ups and downs, better earlier seasons but there is really no point of complaining anymore.
There was a really nice arc for most of the characters.

And hopefully GRRM will finish the books in the next few years now that the pressure is lighter

Meh, i thought the symbolism was too overstated. The dragon wings-high camera angles leading up steps. Also cersei's darth vader costume for the last 2 seasons; far too overstated. I read a news article about fans complaining that cersei was 'humanized' last episode. Quite funny, considering she is a human being. These fans share a similar mentality to dany in that they like to paint their enemies as monsters. The music was fantastic this season though, i really liked it.

On May 20 2019 06:40 Daut wrote: Only big nitpick I have is the likelihood Jon survives, I think Greyworm and the Unsullied just instantly waste him after they find out what he did to Dany. I think the rest of it is a reasonable conclusion to the story, and probably what GRRM had in mind to wrap it up.

This, Grey Worm has always been quite blood thirsty even before missandei, he would have killed Jon.

I think it would have been a perfect ending if Drogon kills Jon, it would have been shocking and it wouldn't leave that hole about the unsullied not killing Jon.

I mean I'm pretty sure Euron and others have already tried going "west of Westeros"

Also, pretty sure dragons do not kill Targaryens so Jon was pretty safe there.

Those are all nitpicking though, in reality nobody would've known Daenerys is really dead since Drogon just took her, Jon could've just gone out of the city. Or Greyworm could've noticed and captured him right after the throne scene, but kept him as a prisoner cause he'd see the sacrifice he's made, thus relating to him in a way and sparing him. Or 10 other realistic ways this could've gone. I would've preferred Jon dead and the wheel reset with a bigger tyrant than before, one that truly believes in her madness and don't think books have anything close to the happy ending we had in the show(that is if he ever finishes them), but we'll see.

Next stop Westworld Season 3

On May 21 2019 05:59 Spitfiree wrote: Also, pretty sure dragons do not kill Targaryens so Jon was pretty safe there.

Dragons killed Targeryans (and other dragons) in the Dance of the dragons

I am not familiar with books, but if dragons are not smart enough Jon should always die there (his look also told he expected to die). Burning the throne however shows this particular dragon as extremely smart, understanding Daenerys' (and also his) mistake of burning the already conquered city and Jon's actions completely. We saw that the dragon has an emotional link with Daenerys and he could have felt that she regrets her actions too thus justifying Jon. This could have been illustrated better with more proper direction.

On May 21 2019 07:42 Baalim wrote: Show nested quote + On May 21 2019 05:59 Spitfiree wrote: Also, pretty sure dragons do not kill Targaryens so Jon was pretty safe there. Dragons killed Targeryans (and other dragons) in the Dance of the dragons

Right, I kinda forgot about that

I think series cant end if unsullied wastes Jon because Sansa and Arya wont allow it too

That's the shitty part about the ending. Series like GoT do not end with a closer, they end with an open end... you can circle back to any great series like Madmen, The Sopranos etc. ... there s way too many things and people involved to have closure, this is not the story of Breaking Bad where you can give the viewers a well-rounded finale with a lot of messages or at least it shouldn't be

lol what a shit story, full of blatant plot wholes and inconsistencies episode 3 to 6 got more of it than the rest of the show
im not even going to start to argue but this goes down in history as the biggest failed finale of a show, this beats even dexter and lost in terms of quality degradation
there is only one episode this season that had anything to do with what GoT was in earlier seasons and it was episode 2

I strongly disagree !

Dexter was worse !
The last Season of Dexter was so insanely bad that i couldnt even watch it till the end since the pain hurt watching that bs was too much to handle for me

I think dexter was never so big and good as GoT, so in terms of degradation percentage, to me GoT achieved bigger swing for sure.

On May 23 2019 11:08 PplusAD wrote: I strongly disagree ! Dexter was worse ! The last Season of Dexter was so insanely bad that i couldnt even watch it till the end since the pain hurt watching that bs was too much to handle for me

yeah Dexter was mediocre, nothing remotely close to the Quality of GoT regardless of any ending or final season.

Lost final season was possibly a bigger dropoff. Hard to say because GoT broke the wheel on show ratings from seasons 1-4 (was probably more like a 12/10), but Lost seasons 1-5 was probably a 9.0 level show and the final season was a 3.0.