Renault on 22/5/2019 at 13:45
There's nothing worse than when people whine about the "whiners." Should everyone just nod their heads in unison and say "great show, brilliant!," no matter what?
demagogue on 22/5/2019 at 14:06
The whining isn't about the outcomes anyway. It's that the writing turned into schlock and events were rushed so fast that there wasn't any build up to make the pay off feel satisfying.
The actual outcomes for everything were more or less fine. I was okay with them at least.
It was their handling that's getting panned... in significant contrast to Ned's death & the Red Wedding, and other things like that in the early seasons which, while shocking, were all masterfully written and handled.
Oh also, I don't know where you're getting "masturbatory build up" either. I'm not a fan of pointless filler either, which actually this seasons had quite a bit of even with cutting so much out.
But they pretty much put to bed 2 plot arcs built up over the last 7 seasons in 2 episodes with hardly a breath in between, and then introduced an entirely new plot arc and wrapped it up in the last episode as if it were a season unto itself. That's lame. It's not like it needed mountains of build up, but it needed something more than "Dany hears the bells and suddenly she's a completely different character" or pick any other character that was suddenly a different person out of nowhere or world-changing events consisting of 10,000s of people & 10,000s of miles & a decade of back-story wrapped up in 10 minutes of blurry action that's too dark to see what's happening anyway and maybe a lame dialogue or two that's so hamfisted you could squeeze it and the bacon grease would drip out.
I mean there's no accounting for taste. People are free to have their own opinions. But the take SE is giving is I think a minority opinion.
Nicker on 22/5/2019 at 18:14
The ending defied the traditional form of the hero's journey (where they win and all is right with the world, until next time).
What we got was something closer to reality, that tyrants start as saviors, then become the evil they claim to be fighting, that humanity is seemingly defenseless against crazy people in power and that after the flames die down, we muddle on in the new reality.
I am glad that a few good characters survived.
Mr.Duck on 23/5/2019 at 01:13
<3
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icemann on 23/5/2019 at 02:18
The first half of that was quite good until it went comedic.
Starker on 23/5/2019 at 04:08
I'll give it bonus points for using a Strong Bad reference.