I take it to be that GRRRRRRRM has said that dragons are basically invulnerable in the air, and that the only one dragon in the whole of Westeros history was taken down by an arrow by Drone during Aegon's conquering, and that it was a one in a million shot as it went through the eye Show canon however has shown the dragons are basically made of paper and easy to kill
Sure, I can get how book canon says one thing and show canon says another. But this is the show, so I'll use that canon, know what I mean?
hadn't read the articles that were linked on the last page but it says basically that. has this ever been discussed on the show? I'm very over this show, and would love for that reddit leak list to be true to watch the fandom burn down. its slowly lost its way since they ran out of books.
The later part of that article where it talks about Euron’s failure in the story in general is much better than anything about the impossibility of killing a dragon or whatever.
I've been searching for this quote and I can't find it. The quote from GRRM really makes it sound like the shot that took one down was an insanely lucky shot and not the type of thing that can be repeated easily. Three times. From a ship. Sailing forward. Being buffeted by waves and wind. For me, the dragon getting killed by Euron in that way was a bunch of things that I think they are doing poorly slamming into each other. In my opinion, they are rushing too fast through the story. Euron is overpowered and too lucky without explanation. The dragons were much too weak, but I suppose the writers didn't think overpowered dragons lead to enough drama. Daenarys didn't need 3 dragons and 10,000 Dothraki - she just needed one Euron Greyjoy and a catapault bow thingy.
Reading that first article really made me much, much, much less happy about the way things are going on the show right now...
The theme of, “I’m not upset at this happening in theory, but incredibly disappointed in the execution,” really sums up everything about this season to me. Euron killing a dragon, Arya/Gendry, Jaime/Brienne, Jaime going back to kill Cersei, Dany seemingly getting burn happy, these are all things that I either was actually rooting for or at least could understand in the right context. But so far that has all fallen flat from the pacing and the writing, and it’s hard to get bogged down in arguments about the what when it’s really the how that is the problem.
kind of a bummer that this has become a very anti GoT space it's still a great show, decline in overall quality aside.
I always thought the show had a lot of problems, even though I enjoy watching it immensely, so seeing a lot of this criticism now makes me roll my eyes really fucking hard.
Yeah. I go days without reading this thread now because it almost feels bad to enjoy it in here. Second episode of this season is one of the best of the whole series for me, so this “dip” in quality really isn’t that noticeable for me.
I'm still entertained by it at every second that it's on, but yeah, I have to pull myself back from nitpicking nowadays when I used to effortlessly love it. Kind of sucks, but all I'm hoping for is that these last two episodes leave me not feeling 100% disappointed. That's about all I can ask lol
the decline isn’t even that much overall. there are a few scenes that are out of place and dumb. that’s been the case in every season of this show and every season of every prestige show ever haha. lots of hyperbole flying around.
I still think the show is great and like I said a few times I think it’s still highly entertaining. I do think the extreme sped up plot has made it easier for others to not like it. It’s def suffering from a combo of getting to the endgame, which is almost always a little lighter on plot building, AND a super sped up plot. It’s still in GOAT territory for me but I could def see myself downgrading it if the landing doesn’t feel like it’s been stuck. I still think the plot moved at a decent pace last season, and now tht we see what it looks like when it’s REALLY sped up, it kind of makes me laugh at those complaints about Season 7 lol.
It’s all anecdotal from our own experiences of course, but all the people I know in real life have been just as vocally annoyed as the majority of the internet. It’s not one monolithic opinion, but of all the weeks this seems to have the most common thread of unhappiness no matter where you stand. It’s still nowhere near UUU though, and it being the worst ever is absolutely an exaggeration.
Yeah, I feel the same way. It's just easier to notice when there are things you don't like because now we're at the point where there's only really ONE storyline per episode. Even as late as S5 or S6 you had tons of things going on simultaneously. If you hated one part or were bored, someone else's story could potentially redeem the episode for you. Now we're at the point where they've loaded up on THE story, THE ending and that's it. So much pressure and so many things to get right.
Every time I remember the HIMYM ending I get mad again. Dexter’s just makes me laugh that it’s real, I still can’t believe it. That final shot is just another level and it’s hysterical. The REAL crime of HIMYM was that slap episode in the final season though. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a show age so terribly so quickly and fall off of my personal favorites list so hard.