After 2-3 seasons of hearing how good this show was, I decided to wait until I could binge watch it all.
I started it 8 days ago & it didn't disappoint, I was totally gripped, staying up until 4am some nights!
Was so excited to watch the final season yesterday but found myself disappointed. It felt rushed and silly at times.
I wasn't expecting a fairytale ending, that's not GOT, but a lot of events seemed inconsistent with the characters we've been following. Maybe if it weren't so rushed, some storylines may have made more sense, such as Daenerys burning all the people she'd been trying to save, even after hearing bells of surrender. Love is blind but it seemed they'd given John Snow a personality transplant when he still backed her after that.
Bran was not Bran anymore, as he kept informing people, he was now the 3 eyed raven, yet he became king Bran. The Night King wanted to kill him, thereby killing the memories and history of the living, so he's pretty vital, yet they elect him as King, a position of high risk of assassination?! It makes no sense. Not to mention the fact, Bran/3 eyed raven is emotionless and lacks any sort of passion, hardly good traits for a leader and he said he now lives mostly in the past. It was shocking he was made king but in a silly laughable way.
It seemed like they were trying for shocks and going against expectations, probably imagining the social chatter afterwards etc, but to the detriment of the integrity of the show and it often went against the character and story arcs of the previous 7 seasons. I kept wondering if it was written by totally different people who hadn't watched the previous seasons.
A little thing along the same theme, one of my favourite things were the scenes and growing bond between Jamie Lannister and Lady Brian. It was understandable Jamie wanted to return to his Sister in the end, but the way they handled him leaving seemed wrong and unnecessarily cold.
I have some questions too, would John really have been punished? Technically he killed an invading self proclaimed Queen who had not been sworn it, plus she had chosen to burn about 1 million people after hearing bells of surrender. Also he was the heir, not Daenerys, why was he not more important than Daenerys after those facts were learned?
It had the feeling of being rushed which probably didn't help. The greatness of this show warranted a true and well considered ending, why they had to cram it in to so few episodes is a mystery and a disappointment.
I was getting excited at the thought of rewatching this again soon, right up until the last couple of episodes but that won't be the case after the ending unfortunately. Maybe I will, but I would stop after the Great War with the dead at Winterfell.
If I'd seen or heard how bad the ending was I would not have watched this show, I do feel slightly cheated. I won't be recommending it, which is a shame considering 95% of it was brilliant, but the ending is just as important, if not more so.
It's never been done before but considering the insanely low score on IMDb for the last 2 episodes, I really think it would be worth filming season 9 - the alternative ending. Maybe continuing on from the Great War. I think the investment would be worth it for its legacy and anyone buying box sets.
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