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05-15-2019, 03:35 AM #2071
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05-15-2019, 04:05 AM #2072
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05-15-2019, 05:25 AM #2073
seriously people are still commenting on this thread? what hopeless episode. i am sure it the worst of the lot.
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05-15-2019, 06:03 AM #2074
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whenever I go online and see GoT discussion they hate season 8, but when I talk to plebs in my class about it they love it - and believe that the "subversions"/twists or whatever you wanna call it are as good as earlier seasons (espsecially the daenerys going all Mengele on Kings Landing). Thinking back there wasn't really any "subversion" in earlier seasons, more like logical medieval consequences.
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05-15-2019, 06:38 AM #2075
In retrospect, watching Tyrion now, Tywin comes off as far more sympathetic and less of an outright villain as he came off as during those moments. Dude was right about everything. Tyrion is an absolute clown, a worse hand than Ned Stark and has been nothing but 100% irrefutably wrong with every single decision he's made over the past couple seasons, the ones this season just inexcusably so. If Dany retaliates against him next episode: She's not mad, he has been a train wreck and openly treasoned against her when he idiotically freed his brother. She'd be mad to forgive him.
Moving on: Anyone here watch the Shield way back? It's 15 years or more old at this point but even then I don't want to give spoilers to anyone who might not have watched it. Once GoT (GoT not GOT, folks. You don't cap words like "of"), once it wraps - might want to check it out if you want something to binge. It's a modern setting, cop drama, some of it rough around the edges, but lots of great stuff.
At the end, there was a complete heel turn of a main character, one that made perfect sense, but was a shocking moment when it happened nonetheless (to those who have seen it: The scene where the major character must confess their crimes), we'd been with them since the beginning, we knew who they were, yet we as an audience went along with it until that moment and when it was all laid out, particularly in the cold way it was, the hero instantly became the monster.
So, if anyone is keeping track: Turning the hero into a villain is nothing new and it's been done better many times, either a long, slow drawn-out process like Breaking Bad or even if they did it in an instant in the last season, then the Shield already had done this something like 20 years ago.
Subverting expectations can be brilliant but not if it's done clumsily and by lazy writers who don't seem to care and are looking more and more very overrated to begin with.All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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05-15-2019, 06:50 AM #2076
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05-15-2019, 06:59 AM #2078
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05-15-2019, 06:59 AM #2079
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05-15-2019, 07:02 AM #2080
This new thread makes it harder to show that I called Bronn to be on the throne ages ago.
And he's still kicking and safe from the fallout... he will just off whoever remains all Bronn likeyou should read this
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05-15-2019, 07:04 AM #2081
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05-15-2019, 07:07 AM #2082
With Cersei dead ... that makes no sense. Thats now assassins work: if your employer dies, who the fuk would pay you once you fulfilled your contract?
Cersei dead, Jaime dead, Tyrion is the only one alive who owes Bronn something. If anything, Bronn should be Tyrions bodyguard right now, he is his meal ticket.Banging in Hong Kong 2017, Europe Roadtrip 2018, planned: Mt. Kilimanjaro 2019. <- never happened, broke my leg, fml
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05-15-2019, 07:09 AM #2083
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05-15-2019, 07:15 AM #2084
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05-15-2019, 07:17 AM #2085
Of course they forgot. This is the show, where the writers kind of forgot about feudalism. Cersei will never and could never be queen in the books, it will be young griff. What's her claim? What do we even call her current dynasty? Who supports it? Oh that's right, we're never told. Seems if one monarch dies its like king of the hill, next ass on the seat gets a crown.
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05-15-2019, 07:26 AM #2086
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05-15-2019, 07:41 AM #2087
You're wrong. Right of conquest is a thing. There was no targaryen king until there was a conquest. Even aegon the conqueror had to wrestle with getting his rule legitimized by the faith and the maesters - just like in real life, Henry VIII and Charlemagne (we don't call him holy Roman emperor because he declared it for himself) had the church to contend with. The baratheon dynasty was legitimized by the major institutions of westeros. The targaryens are currently usurpers.
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05-15-2019, 07:44 AM #2088
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05-15-2019, 08:22 AM #2089
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05-15-2019, 08:27 AM #2090
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Pushing the spin-offs will likely be a big part of the finale, or just pushing the continuation of the story in some way. That would also fit the HBO formula: the penultimate episode is the big one, and the final episode sets up whatever follows
For people who have read the finale spoilers and are loling: the ending is supposed to be extremely similar thematically to what GRRM has planned for the books. So if the GOT finale is disappointing, I'd say it's likely GRRMs might be disappointing as well
It's tough to finish anything though, especially something that has spanned decades. And it's tough af to please people with an ending
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05-15-2019, 08:29 AM #2091
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05-15-2019, 08:34 AM #2092
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05-15-2019, 08:35 AM #2093
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05-15-2019, 08:42 AM #2094
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1. That's going to be a plot point for sure. Dany will confront Jon immediately I'd imagine.
2. Probably Jon. That's where the build-up is going.
3. We'll get something for Tyrion, Bronn, and Arya. We might get something for Bran. Gendry is probably gone. Sam is gone. We'll see Sansa and Yara when Jon fights Dany, I'm predicting.
4. All gone. I think we're going to see Brienne who arrives to fight Dany for Jon on Sansa's behalf. Sansa probably saw the Dany turn coming because she's supposed to be the smartest character in the show now. Grey Worm is going to die. Pod will be with Brienne.
5. Night's Watch is done. Daario is in Meereen. Nymeria is wild. The FM suck in the show. Sweetrobin is pointless. Meera is gone.
6. Why?
7. Why?
8. Predicting Dorne will show up in the final fight. Nobody running the show gives a chit about the Reach, Westerlands, Riverlands, etc.
9. He's dead. The White Walkers were a red herring. The true villains were Euron and Daenerys.
10. Did winter ever actually come?
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05-15-2019, 08:46 AM #2095
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Do you guys think anything will happen to Tyrion for Jaime's release? Tyrion's hope was that Jaime's release would result in KL's surrender and Dany's appreciation in the end, but Dany destroyed the city anyways. Tyrion gonna get burnt to a crisp for releasing Jaime? Will Dany be killed before that happens?
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05-15-2019, 08:49 AM #2096
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05-15-2019, 08:54 AM #2097
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05-15-2019, 08:59 AM #2098
finale is going to be a catastrophe, D&D aren't bad writers, they made some of the best dialogue sequences in the series (varys and LF), but they got lazy and want that star wars money and decided to intentionally butcher the series, massive dickheads irl too from what i've read (what they did to barristan selmy, also pretty much shut down any request from the actors, it's even possible they side lined Jon bc of it). Can't wait for the ****storm.
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05-15-2019, 09:04 AM #2099
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05-15-2019, 09:04 AM #2100
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