Game of Thrones Season Eight Thread

OldEvilleCat

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It was a great show but the finale was disappointing. Very disappointing

Pretty much sums it up for me also. Just seems as if there were a lot of missed opportunities, throughout the whole season, for a better ending/outcome.

Would've liked to have seen Jon Snow become the Master of Pushers and roll Bran off into the water when they had the Stark reunion down at the dock.
Jon - "Dude's creepin' me out."
 

Hank Camacho

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This last episode was ****. It made no sense whatsoever. Why is John on the wall?! There’s no reason for it!!!!

He's beyond the Wall and with the freefolk, free of all the duties that ruined his life. Pretty awesome ending for the series' best character, imo.

Things turned out all right for the Stark kids in the end.
 
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funKYcat75

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Starks rule the world.

King - check
The North - check
The Vale - cousin - check
Whatever "sit down, Uncle" Edmure runs now - check

Safe to say the realm would be pretty stable for a while.

I enjoyed the humor coming back a little bit. Laughing at Sam and democracy, sitting down Edmure, shooting the **** around the table. Good stuff.

Wonder what dude will bag Sansa in Hypothetiwesteros? Since the north is their own kingdom it wouldn't seem to be any southerners.

It was a good show and a great series.
 

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Pretty much sums it up for me also. Just seems as if there were a lot of missed opportunities, throughout the whole season, for a better ending/outcome.

Would've liked to have seen Jon Snow become the Master of Pushers and roll Bran off into the water when they had the Stark reunion down at the dock.
Jon - "Dude's creepin' me out."
 

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[laughing] At John Snow. What a dumbass. Could’ve saved millions of lives by just bending over the hot blonde begging for it. Now he is forced to live in the coldest **** hole of the world and only his wolf to lick his sack.

Starks dont normally f*** their aunts so of course he needed time to come to terms with it. she just couldnt give him space without becoming a mad queen


I thought this episode was awesome......... yeah Bran becoming king was .......... well it made since with what Tyrion said but its not what I wanted. the rest was good Starks rule the world now.... and I'm team King north of the wall ...
 

LadyCaytIL

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This last episode was ****. It made no sense whatsoever. Why is John on the wall?! There’s no reason for it!!!!

Actually he went north of the wall with the wildlings... where he wanted to be in the first place. The committee pulled one over on Greyworm.... making him think it was a big punishment but its a life that could make Jon happy in reality.

in the end... Bran is king of the 6 kingdoms, Sansa is queen of the north and Jon is obviously going to be king of the wildlings / north of the wall. Arya is an explorer...its a pretty good ending with a lot of characters getting what would make them happy
 
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Greyworm got a very poor ending.

Greyworm: "We demand justice. Tyrion and Jon must die and we will accept nothing less! I control the most powerful part of the military"

Everyone else: "No. You forget your place."

Greyworm: "Ok."

Talk about a weird flip. He went from murderous madman in the last episode to taking Jon prisoner after knowing he killed Dany AND just consented to Tyrion and Jon being let go?

Ridiculous.

Of course this is the same character they fabricated a love story for. And I'm pretty sure he died in that alley in the books.
 
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ky8335

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I'm sure. Which is ridiculous because 1) him murdering the queen with her guard down definitely doesn't fit his character. 2) No way the dothraki and unsullied just take him prisoner after.
I honestly don't think they let the dothraki in on much. And the unsullied are soldiers to the extreme. They probably don't pee without someone telling them to.

They probably asked Davos what to do with Jon.
 
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I honestly don't think they let the dothraki in on much. And the unsullied are soldiers to the extreme. They probably don't pee without someone telling them to.

They probably asked Davos what to do with Jon.

There's definitely validity to that with the unsullied. They follow their master. Not sure what they do if they don't have one.
 

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Actually he went north of the wall with the wildlings... where he wanted to be in the first place. The committee pulled one over on Greyworm.... making him think it was a big punishment but its a life that could make Jon happy in reality.

in the end... Bran is king of the 6 kingdoms, Sansa is queen of the north and Jon is obviously going to be king of the wildlings / north of the wall. Arya is an explorer...its a pretty good ending with a lot of characters getting what would make them happy

So Jon Snow is “banished” to the Nights Watch to satisfy Greyworm. Greyworm and his boys get one sailboats for Naarth.
If I’m Jon Snow I’m like “are they gone yet? OK , coming back down”
 

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Now that it's all over with, I'd like to feel some relief in the sense of having a beloved pet's health degrade rapidly in old age and putting it down to end the pain.

However, there is none to be felt as this story befell a fate far worse than any such as that. This was an abhorrent display of incompetence on every level from a writing perspective that, again, will be looked back upon as the greatest face plant in television history.

Instead of a clean, merciful, painless death...we witnessed the essence of this story being hit by a car, sped to a dark hospital room, forced to endure constant agony for weeks, and finally succumbing to its injuries in a final gasp of suffering.

Last night's finale fit well with this season. I had to slap myself a few times to confirm I wasn't watching a cheaply produced parody in an alternate universe.

It was sobering reading the denials from those who had read the spoilers and knew what was coming over the last month.

"HBO has been all over the leaks...I bet they allowed episode three to leak but the spoilers for 4-6 are there to mislead."

"Ya know, HBO has been all over the leaks...I bet they allowed episode three and four to leak but the spoilers for five and six are there to mislead. They have to be, no way it could end that badly."

"HBO playing the long game here...I bet they allowed everything to leak up to the finale and these spoilers for the finale are there to mislead. Seriously, it'll probably be ok."

"Holy **** it was all real."
 

Chuck Lorre

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Not sure what all the hate is about. They wrapped it up perfectly, just the way it should have been with all of the cool foreshadowing and stuff. Proud of Benioff and Weiss, those guys are solid. Fist pounds all around.

Peoples' expectations are just over the top. What did you expect? Can't please everybody. If you didn't think Dany was going mad, you haven't been paying attention to the foreshadowing.

I thought Bran becoming king was foreshadowed flawlessly. The foreshadowing job they did with Arya was awesome as well. The fifteen minute horse stare down representing she wanted to be free and all that and the horse represented freedom and she kinda reached out and grabbed it by the reigns you know, coming through the dragon attack (heavy communist symbolism there) bloodied but free. That's beautiful work.

Gonna buy those guys a drink at the Emmys, they deserve it.
 

JStaff21

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All of this could have been avoided if Jon just plowed his aunt before she stormed KL.

I’m not sure how to feel. The show was so good for so long. Season 8 was mediocre at best.

If Jon didn’t pat Ghost at the end, the season goes from mediocre to trash... because Ghost is the best boy.
 
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Very tough to nail a show from start to finish. Thinking about the ending, it does seem every character got what they wanted. Sansa can be a queen, Arya is the loner, sets out on her own, Jon gets to be brooding up in the North, The Hound confronted his brother, Theon was accepted by both families and died nobly. Melisandre proved there was something to the God of Light, redeemed herself.

This was never a show about happy endings. You'd think fans would have learned this when Ned, Robb and Oberyn were killed off.