A dragon having a more complex and moral understanding of their entire civilization could be such a gamechanging and meaningful development for the universe OR a scathing indictment of humanity for failing to see what an incredibly simple beast was able to even in his moment of greatest pain, buuuuttttt I think they just wanted to make a big fire and have cool shots of the throne going bye bye.
Tbf, the first couple times she used them, the music was pretty foreboding...you got that bass drop and then the jaws-like dun duns
I was struggling with how to put this. It certainly seemed like they were knowingly and actively playing up that part of her character in earlier seasons, and certainly didn't mind capitalizing on her immense popularity during that time. To now just be like "nope, she's bad. you're dumb for not seeing that right along" is a disservice to the character, the audience and kinda to Emilia Clarke too. I can sort of see where they would feel the need to be defiant and defensive with people circulating petitions like "Remake Episode 8 with Competent Writers" but I would also hope they would have slightly thicker skin.
Well, they ARE the people who said that Selmy’s actor calling and questioning his death or lack of importance to the story only made them want to kill him MORE.
Yeah it’s def not something this show would have explored even if they had more seasons, but I hope it gets addressed some day in the world
If to GRRM dragons are like nuclear weapons, then Drogon is what would happen if our Nukes were sentient. They'd be like GTFO with this shit i'm out of here.
I want this for you so much. A whole 1,000 page tome on the history of dragons written in the most dry way possible.
The way they had the dragon burn the throne is very reminiscent of a lot of this season to me - as a plot point it is what it is, and there was probably a way to do it that worked for the audience and made sense, but the way they did it was so odd and raised so many more questions. If he were just 'raging' and shooting fire around but had chose to miss Jon for whatever reason but happened to hit the chair in his tantrum and melt it, that would make a little more sense. The way they did it he was shooting flames, had stopped, and then it looked like he really chose to specifically shoot the chair and melt it.
Ok just give me like ten to twenty years. Still probably sooner than the next official book comes out. I’m so sorry.
If the way these episodes played out had to be how the story went, I think it would have been better if: Jaime died fighting at Winterfell Cersei did more than just stare out a window Arya took out the NK but died in the process Dany's “turn” happened in the heat of battle and was at least slightly conceivably necessary strategically, although still brutal and cold-blooded Jon killed her in battle, mid-atrocity Drogon killed Jon afterwards before flying away with her body The way they wrapped up the show just made it seem like Benioff & Weiss had 2 goals: Remind everyone that Dany is BAD, kill her, and rub our noses in how stupid we were for liking her Give everyone else a happy ending
I can only assume Dany built several barracks and stables to replenish the Unsullied and Dothraki forces like that.
that ending would have been awful. sheesh. for all the D&D complaints about writing (some fair, some not) a lot of people are showing their whole ass on the internet and how much worse of writers they would be.
lol just realized w all the talk of dany's utopia and breaking chains and "i know whats good" they were really trying to make her stalin lmao god damn that SUCKS
I would've loved it! Prob why they show ran one of the most successful shows in HBO history and I've never written anything that's gotten published or filmed in my life though.
Remembering Arya and the NK and how him touching her did nothing has me thinking, do the books go into walkers being created or are they more of a truly separate race instead of zombie things? I’m assuming there isn’t any lore about being touched to become one since the NK isn’t in the story, right?
my biggest takeaway is that I wasn't emotionally moved by the ending episodes and the character arc resolutions. Jamies arc with the Brienne stuff in the middle, felt off. To put it nicely. The night king, with no motive, besides death, felt safe. Cersei not having a strategy in the final battle, was surprising. Dany & Jon's relationship was hard to believe, and his relationship with Tyrion wasn't fleshed out. The counsel being formed, and coming to agreement in the end, was what I expected to happen but without seeing the machinations, or understanding more about what Bran is capable of, seemed hollow. Not seeing the fallout from Dany's death, after so much time building up her importance, was a bummer. Was incredibly entertaining, but the emotional pay off wasn't there for me.