[0:00] if you could describe the season finale
[0:02] of Game of Thrones in one word how would
[0:06] you display it disappointing so Game of
[0:09] Thrones just ended and if we're being
[0:11] honest it kind of sucked despite what
[0:14] you may think by looking at the title of
[0:16] this video I actually used to like this
[0:18] show I read the first book back in
[0:20] middle school which I definitely should
[0:22] not have been allowed to do then I
[0:24] started the fourth book before I
[0:26] realized that I was making a mistake the
[0:28] books didn't really have numbers on the
[0:30] back then and I got confused alright but
[0:32] the point is that that was a long time
[0:33] ago and I never could have anticipated
[0:34] back then that these nerdy ass books
[0:36] would spawn the most popular show ever
[0:39] I mean it's so popular that Elmo even
[0:41] watches it I think this show is
[0:48] definitely a step above other shows of
[0:50] its type I mean think about it how many
[0:53] fantasy shows even come close to the
[0:55] quality of Game of Thrones but the
[0:56] problem is this show really dropped the
[0:59] ball like it really screwed up have you
[1:03] shot your final scenes yet and are you
[1:05] happy with how things ended this show
[1:19] fell victim to something I always warn
[1:21] about bad writing I talk about bad
[1:25] writing and like every video I've ever
[1:27] made and now that we've all seen the
[1:29] finale of this show I hope you realize
[1:30] why writing is important because this
[1:33] show has pretty good acting some pretty
[1:36] good cinematography incredibly
[1:38] impressive effects moments of really fun
[1:40] editing and yet everybody is mad because
[1:46] the writing is bad and honestly that's
[1:49] the only thing wrong with this show but
[1:52] it's so bad that it really makes it hard
[1:53] to appreciate the rest of the stuff you
[1:55] know how many movies our shows are saved
[1:58] by having good writing hell it's the
[2:00] only reason Woody Allen slash a career
[2:02] if you watch Game of Thrones all the way
[2:03] through from beginning to end it feels
[2:05] like everything that was important at
[2:07] first just kind of gets thrown away
[2:09] the show just morphs into something
[2:11] bizarre the themes an idea
[2:13] that were once important are now
[2:14] completely gone and replaced with more
[2:16] generic fantasy tropes something just
[2:19] don't feel right anymore and I'm not the
[2:20] only one who thinks that so let's take a
[2:22] look at why oh and by the way if it
[2:25] wasn't obvious now if you're a weirdo
[2:29] who's never watched Game of Thrones
[2:30] because you don't mind missing out on
[2:31] cultural media milestones I'll explain
[2:34] the general premise for you the story
[2:35] revolves around a bunch of families in
[2:37] the land of Westeros Westeros is a
[2:39] fantasy land with dragons and magic but
[2:42] dragons and magic are pretty rare the
[2:44] aforementioned families are all fighting
[2:45] one another because [ __ ] happens and the
[2:47] King dies and it's a series about
[2:49] political intrigue realistic complex
[2:51] characters and boobs however most of
[2:54] these concepts kind of get [ __ ] up by
[2:56] the end of the series it kind of stops
[2:58] being a show about characters and
[3:00] politics characters used to get by on
[3:02] their wit and creativity but now it's
[3:04] just fighting remember how I said magic
[3:07] and Dragons were pretty rare well not
[3:09] anymore when the writers don't know what
[3:11] to do we either get magic a dragon or a
[3:14] fight and sometimes we get all three at
[3:16] once and that's because the writers are
[3:20] not very good at writing this show and
[3:22] yes I know that sounds a little weird so
[3:25] I'm gonna explain the Song of Ice and
[3:27] Fire series is written by george RR
[3:29] martin and a good 80% of the show is
[3:31] adapted from these books and about 75%
[3:34] of that is actually really good
[3:36] now the show itself is written by David
[3:38] Benioff and DB Weiss or has a lot of
[3:41] people like to call them D&D now for
[3:43] what it's worth they are pretty good at
[3:45] adapting this material for the screen
[3:47] they have a good way of cutting the
[3:49] unnecessary stuff accentuating the
[3:51] important elements that might not be
[3:52] immediately important and presenting it
[3:54] in a fresh and engaging way now a lot of
[3:56] people [ __ ] on these guys because of the
[3:58] recent seasons but let's not forget that
[4:00] the good stuff is partly their work too
[4:02] so if these guys are pretty good at
[4:04] adapting existing material then what's
[4:06] the problem well the problem is that
[4:08] around season 4 & 5 they ran out of
[4:11] books see unfortunately for them the
[4:13] books aren't finished and when they
[4:14] signed on to do this show they probably
[4:16] thought the series would be over by then
[4:18] but then we all found out the hard way
[4:20] that george RR martin is kind of lazy i
[4:24] mean it's kind of hard to say that
[4:26] because you can't really get a
[4:27] the guy the first three books have a
[4:29] mere two years between each of them and
[4:31] that's about normal that's a pretty
[4:33] quick pace then there are five years
[4:35] between books three and four then six
[4:37] years between books four and five and
[4:40] book five came out eight years ago with
[4:42] no release on book six in sight and
[4:45] they're still supposed to be a book
[4:46] after that one now my personal theory
[4:51] has always remained that Jorge kind of
[4:52] knew he wasn't gonna be able to finish
[4:54] the books in time for the show so he
[4:56] just decided to wait for the show to
[4:57] finish which is honestly the better
[4:59] marketing choice even though I don't
[5:01] know if he really cares about that I
[5:02] mean think about it what if the show was
[5:04] in like season six way after they're
[5:05] done adapting the books directly then he
[5:07] releases a book with completely
[5:09] different stuff in it who the [ __ ] is
[5:11] gonna read it now when the show is still
[5:12] on it would just be confusing to consume
[5:14] two stories named the same thing but
[5:17] with different [ __ ] happening I think he
[5:18] knows that the show is like the most
[5:20] popular thing ever and if he releases
[5:22] the book it's just unnecessary
[5:23] competition it's better to just do the
[5:25] books after the hype of the show has
[5:27] died down a bit but either way the point
[5:29] is that D&D ran out of books they had a
[5:32] few tidbits from George but that's about
[5:34] it
[5:34] but outside of those few elements the
[5:36] show just had to start making [ __ ] up
[5:38] and these guys aren't really good at
[5:41] that once they started writing original
[5:43] content we got some of the worst plot
[5:45] lines in Game of Thrones history we also
[5:47] got some of the worst dialogue not to
[5:54] mention fight scenes also start popping
[5:55] up randomly to distract the viewer and
[5:57] fill up time Game of Thrones used to
[5:59] have like one fight a season if you were
[6:02] lucky but in the later seasons it feels
[6:04] like fights just get added for no reason
[6:06] why doesn't he have a shirt on this
[6:08] whole scenario reminds me of Full Metal
[6:09] Alchemist
[6:10] where the original anime ran out of
[6:12] manga to adapt so they just started
[6:14] making [ __ ] up and it got pretty weird
[6:17] Game of Thrones went the exact same way
[6:19] except we don't have any books to show
[6:21] us what we're missing out on but if you
[6:22] ask me it's obvious yeah
[6:25] north of the wall and then back here
[6:28] again he climbed on the [ __ ] dragon
[6:30] unfucked
[6:31] what kind of person climbs on a [ __ ]
[6:33] dragon a madman what kind of person
[6:36] climbs on a [ __ ]
[6:37] I mean look at the whole Hodor reveal
[6:40] this is one of the last things that was
[6:41] based on material directly provided by
[6:43] George and it's so [ __ ] weird and
[6:46] cool and creative like bran sends his
[6:49] mind back in time and like time splices
[6:52] jung-ho doors mind so then he just
[6:54] damages his brain forever I can't even
[6:57] explain it properly it's so conceptual
[6:59] and strange that I know these goobers
[7:01] didn't make it up themselves
[7:02] unfortunately the show just stopped
[7:04] being creative once they had to do it
[7:06] themselves before it was a nuanced
[7:08] fantasy series that submerged your
[7:09] expectations in interesting ways the
[7:12] main character from season one is your
[7:13] traditional fantasy protagonist he's so
[7:16] righteous and good-natured that he
[7:17] almost solves all of the problems of the
[7:19] series right away and he can't have that
[7:21] so they kill him
[7:22] one trope inversion that I've always
[7:24] loved is with revenge and how the series
[7:26] deals with it in a traditional fantasy
[7:28] story were taught to root for characters
[7:30] that are driven by vengeance because we
[7:32] see it as justice you know if you do
[7:34] something bad you should be punished for
[7:35] it but A Song of Ice and Fire takes this
[7:37] and twists it vengeful characters are
[7:40] almost always punished kill them all
[7:45] every one of them kill them all
[7:50] we have to get the girls back and then
[7:55] we will kill them oh they're usually
[8:01] blinded by their lust for revenge and
[8:03] more often than not they pay a steep
[8:04] price for it Arya's whole deal in
[8:06] earlier seasons is about her wanting to
[8:08] exact her vengeance on the people that
[8:10] ruined her life and it's kind of
[8:11] childish every character she interacts
[8:13] with tells her that her goal is stupid
[8:15] and that it's not worth it and for most
[8:17] of her are key kind of looks like it's
[8:19] going to allow her to shed her old ways
[8:20] and give up on her petty quest but then
[8:23] the writers kind of forgot what they
[8:24] were doing with her and she becomes the
[8:25] [ __ ] Punisher she does eventually
[8:27] learn to give up on her quest but not
[8:29] because it's Petty and wrong but because
[8:31] everybody she wanted to kill is already
[8:33] dead everybody else is punished for
[8:35] vengeance but Arya gets to walk away
[8:37] scot-free
[8:38] in fact almost every main character is
[8:40] ruined by the end of this show the
[8:42] personal stories become forgotten and
[8:44] they kind of become the standard version
[8:45] of themselves it's like the writers took
[8:47] the base qualities of each character and
[8:49] just use those for the rest of the show
[8:51] and decided they didn't want to write
[8:52] any more character arcs I honestly can't
[8:54] think of a single character that has a
[8:56] good arc in this season aside from Theon
[8:59] the characters also become incredibly
[9:01] stupid I mean just listen to the writers
[9:03] explain why Danny couldn't see the fleet
[9:05] of pirate ships before her dragon gets
[9:07] shot down by them while Danny kind of
[9:09] forgot about they aren't fleet and
[9:11] Euron's forces she forgot yeah the
[9:14] characters are all stupid every single
[9:17] one of them it's like everybody dropped
[9:19] like 20 IQ points in these last two
[9:21] seasons so let's go ahead and look at
[9:23] all the characters and how the writers
[9:24] [ __ ] them up by the end of the show
[9:26] Daenerys Targaryen alright let's just
[9:28] get this girl out of the way early
[9:29] because most people are probably here to
[9:31] watch me [ __ ] on her Danny obviously
[9:33] suffers the most in this season she goes
[9:36] from being a slightly petulant but
[9:37] confident young ruler to a
[9:39] megalomaniacal tyrant in just a few
[9:42] episodes yes a few episodes now there
[9:46] are a few people out there saying that
[9:47] her fall to the dark side was
[9:49] foreshadowed and these people are not
[9:53] correct
[9:54] Danny's fall to the dark side is more
[9:57] abrupt and jarring than anakin
[9:59] skywalker's and somehow she still has a
[10:01] higher body count than him
[10:02] Daenerys this whole arc has been a
[10:04] about her proving that she can break the
[10:06] cycles of the world you know the name
[10:08] breaker of chains is supposed to be
[10:09] literal and figurative she wants to
[10:12] break the cycle of her family line her
[10:14] dad and brother were [ __ ] nut jobs
[10:16] and she wants to prove that she can be a
[10:17] powerful ruler without being a tyrant
[10:20] she knows that Westeros has been at war
[10:23] for a long time and that the people
[10:24] ruling the land have been corrupt and
[10:26] evil she wants to prove that the land
[10:28] can thrive under the right person she
[10:34] wants to end the cycle of suffering that
[10:36] everybody's been experiencing yeah they
[10:39] totally [ __ ] her up now I'll be honest
[10:41] I never really liked Daenerys part of
[10:43] the reason that I never finished the
[10:44] rest of the books is because I hate
[10:46] enjoying a chapter and then turning the
[10:48] page and seeing this [ __ ] she's the most
[10:50] boring character to follow but that
[10:52] doesn't mean I wanted her arc to get
[10:54] thrown in the dumpster she goes from
[10:55] being normal confident strong Daenerys
[10:57] in one episode to being kind of sad that
[11:00] nobody in Westeros is her friend -
[11:02] killing countless innocent people that's
[11:04] a pretty drastic jump if we're being
[11:07] honest now the current theory is that
[11:09] George told D&D that this is what was
[11:11] gonna happen to Daenerys by the end of
[11:13] the story and honestly I'm on board with
[11:16] that I think that's the case but if that
[11:18] is the case they should have known to
[11:20] actually cultivate this Ark from long
[11:22] before this because as it stands it
[11:25] comes out of nowhere actions speak
[11:27] louder than words and Dany has always
[11:29] talked a lot of [ __ ] but her actions are
[11:31] completely separate threatening your
[11:33] enemies with fire and blood is way
[11:35] different than killing innocent people
[11:36] indiscriminately if your only example of
[11:39] her having a dark streak is that she
[11:41] executes people who betray or disobey
[11:44] her well I got news for you every
[11:46] [ __ ] character does that in this
[11:48] world John does it all the time the
[11:50] first lesson that the series teaches us
[11:53] in the very first episode is that if you
[11:57] are an authority figure it's your
[11:58] responsibility to do what you got to do
[12:00] even if that means carrying out an
[12:02] execution this act is never shown as a
[12:05] bad thing in this series ever so no I do
[12:09] not accept it as a foreshadowing for her
[12:12] turning evil when at this point it's
[12:15] basically a societal norm
[12:17] now yeah if you really really really
[12:19] wanted to make her evil it's totally
[12:22] doable the seeds are there but they
[12:24] haven't grown into something that's
[12:26] convincing as far as we know based on
[12:28] everything that the show has actually
[12:30] shown us from her she's been nothing but
[12:33] kind and benevolent when it comes to
[12:35] innocent people I also want to point out
[12:37] that Stannis only killed one innocent
[12:39] child and every viewer of the show hated
[12:41] him for it he was seriously the most
[12:43] hated character on the show and yes this
[12:45] is the same show that has this [ __ ]
[12:46] kid
[12:47] I'm not tired a lot of people are saying
[12:51] oh well since she got to Westeros her
[12:54] friends have died and nobody nobody
[12:56] likes her okay
[13:00] Arya has lost more family and friends
[13:02] than Daenerys and she isn't a mass
[13:04] murderer okay well she kind of is but in
[13:07] a different way this is some of the most
[13:08] blatant character assassination that
[13:10] I've ever seen on a TV show and it's no
[13:13] wonder why everybody immediately turned
[13:15] on the show after this moment it's not
[13:16] just because women and children are
[13:18] being toasted by our main character we
[13:20] don't really care that something
[13:22] upsetting is happening it's Game of
[13:23] Thrones nobody really gives a [ __ ] about
[13:25] that the problem is that we're being
[13:27] told that this is a genuine character
[13:29] arc when it's really not in fact I can
[13:31] go ahead and fix most of these problems
[13:33] with just one solution if you completely
[13:36] removed the bells of surrender then the
[13:39] scene would make a little more sense
[13:41] think about it what if Daenerys was you
[13:43] know trying to take over the city but
[13:45] Cersei just wouldn't surrender like no
[13:47] matter what happened Cersei just
[13:49] wouldn't do it
[13:50] then Daenerys has to make a choice she
[13:52] can either give up which she probably
[13:54] wouldn't do or just keep attacking the
[13:56] city which would put innocent lives at
[13:58] risk that's a much more natural and
[14:00] reasonable solution than her hearing
[14:03] that the whole city has surrendered and
[14:04] just deciding to kill them anyway but
[14:07] perhaps it's good that people see that
[14:09] Daenerys Stormborn made every effort to
[14:11] avoid bloodshed I'm ghost ride the whip
[14:14] crazy brand Stark bran is probably the
[14:17] biggest example of wasted potential in
[14:19] the entire series he becomes the most
[14:21] powerful being in the entire world but
[14:23] all he does is sit around and make
[14:25] people feel bad any personality that he
[14:27] once had is now stripped away which
[14:29] could be kind of cool but they don't
[14:31] actually do anything with it I honestly
[14:33] thought he was gonna reach his ultimate
[14:34] peak in the Battle of Winterfell because
[14:36] his story is completely tied to the
[14:38] White Walkers he has no purpose outside
[14:41] of that storyline but even there he
[14:43] doesn't [ __ ] do anything the writers
[14:46] don't want to get too weird so they just
[14:48] leave him be because they're not
[14:49] confident enough to write weird creative
[14:51] [ __ ] that revolves around him they never
[14:53] use his abilities in creative ways this
[14:55] is a guy that can see through all of
[14:57] time and space and the writers have no
[14:59] idea what to do with him and know him
[15:02] randomly becoming the king isn't exactly
[15:04] what I wanted either again I expected
[15:07] something a little bit more nuanced
[15:08] after doing nothing for a whole season
[15:11] him getting chosen as king feels kind of
[15:14] anticlimactic remember this is the
[15:16] ending that D&D were desperately rushing
[15:18] to get to and once you remember that it
[15:20] makes things seem kind of lame in fact
[15:23] the whole last episode feels like that
[15:24] it doesn't really feel like the finale
[15:26] at all it really feels like they just so
[15:28] desperately wanted to get to this point
[15:30] and it doesn't feel earned it just don't
[15:33] feel right Jon Snow so if we go off the
[15:36] fact that the writers have reverted to
[15:38] traditional fantasy tropes then we can
[15:40] say that Jon Snow is the hero of this
[15:42] story and the other seasons have very
[15:44] much supported that idea as well and to
[15:46] be honest I think that this is fine as
[15:48] the show has drifted away from George's
[15:50] story Jon has had kind of a hero's
[15:52] journey but now he just stands around
[15:55] either making this face or this face he
[15:59] also suffers from dumb [ __ ] syndrome
[16:01] like everybody else
[16:02] for some reason half the characters
[16:03] completely go brain-dead once they meet
[16:05] Daenerys and Jon gets it the worst after
[16:07] having sex with her one time he loses
[16:09] all agency as a character and I should
[16:12] probably mention right now that the Jon
[16:13] and Daenerys romance does not work as
[16:16] you probably noticed this show suffers
[16:18] from moving way too quickly and this is
[16:20] a problem that these writers have they
[16:22] write the ending and then the characters
[16:24] just start shifting around it so they
[16:26] can just get to that
[16:27] and this might work in a movie but in a
[16:30] slow-paced show like Game of Thrones it
[16:32] does not work and that's why John and
[16:34] Danny don't work the second that they
[16:37] meet they have romantic tension and this
[16:39] is in the second-to-last season these
[16:41] characters have never met before they
[16:43] meet and they fall in love in the span
[16:45] of just a few episodes now no it's not
[16:48] like they're giving each other goo-goo
[16:49] eyes from the first scene but as a
[16:51] viewer you immediately realize oh yeah
[16:54] they're gonna [ __ ] Danny going nutso and
[16:56] the events that unfold around that are
[16:58] all things that depend on their romance
[17:00] it's basically the most violent love
[17:02] story on television which could be kind
[17:05] of a cool story but there should be more
[17:07] to this story because John's whole
[17:09] purpose in this last season is oh my new
[17:12] girlfriend is kind of a dick he takes a
[17:15] very passive role into the literal last
[17:18] episode and you know what really
[17:20] wrinkles my balls the fact that this
[17:22] series does nothing with John's previous
[17:25] storylines why the [ __ ] did John come
[17:27] back to life what the hell are they need
[17:29] him for was killing Daenerys his entire
[17:31] purpose in the whole series but that
[17:34] isn't even the worst of it
[17:35] the worst is how John being the son of
[17:37] Rhaegar and Lyanna hits a complete dead
[17:40] end in the story the only thing that
[17:41] comes out of it is Dany getting mad
[17:43] about it the possibilities of this story
[17:45] thread are endless and the writers do
[17:47] absolutely nothing with it and what
[17:49] really confuses me is that the only
[17:51] reason these guys got the job to adapt
[17:53] these books into a television show is
[17:55] because they knew who John's parents
[17:58] actually were before it was even
[18:00] published in the books and he kind of
[18:02] wiped his hands clean on the napkin and
[18:04] he said so who do you think Jon Snow his
[18:08] real mother is this was a test it was it
[18:10] was a test absolutely a test question
[18:12] they predicted it way back then but they
[18:15] didn't do anything with it
[18:17] jon has no significance in the story he
[18:19] has no stake in the events of the season
[18:21] and he doesn't do anything until the
[18:23] very end and then the ship is asked away
[18:25] forever Jon's entire purpose in these
[18:27] last few seasons was just to kill
[18:30] Daenerys remember when I said the
[18:32] writers wrote the ending first do you
[18:35] believe me now
[18:36] Cersei Lannister Cersei was one of my
[18:38] favorite characters in the whole
[18:40] Cirie's and then she turned into lex
[18:43] [ __ ] luthor before she had some
[18:45] subtlety to her character you never
[18:47] really knew what she was planning and
[18:49] what's important is that her goals were
[18:50] always a little justified the thing is
[18:52] the series has always prided itself on
[18:54] having characters that are not strictly
[18:56] good or evil and characters that are
[18:58] good or evil are punished even when
[19:01] Cersei or another character does
[19:02] something completely [ __ ] up we
[19:04] understand why but that is until she
[19:05] goes full Batman villain and bombs her
[19:08] own city this [ __ ] comes out of left
[19:10] field so hard and thinking back on it
[19:12] always makes me laugh a lot of people
[19:16] like this scene and yeah it's kind of
[19:18] cool but I don't know I don't really
[19:20] look back fondly on it on one hand I
[19:23] commend the writers for doing something
[19:24] batshit insane all on their own but on
[19:27] the other hand it doesn't really fit her
[19:28] character or the show for that matter
[19:31] once we started nuking cities in my
[19:33] medieval fantasy series I kind of
[19:35] started to mentally check out she was
[19:37] always a character of subtlety and this
[19:39] [ __ ] ain't subtle in the slightest
[19:42] instead of being cold and calculating
[19:44] Cersei just kind of turns into a dumb
[19:46] evil bad guy and I also should point out
[19:49] that I really don't like it when
[19:50] characters just die from rubble falling
[19:53] on top of them it's 2019 and we are
[19:56] still dropping buildings on characters
[19:57] like we did with Captain Kirk and if you
[19:59] know me I hate two kinds of deaths in
[20:02] media dying from rubble falling on you
[20:05] and dying by falling into a pillar of
[20:07] fire Sandor Clegane
[20:09] now this one's kind of short if you ask
[20:10] me this guy has no reason being in the
[20:13] show anymore
[20:14] eventually this show just decided to
[20:15] start bringing back characters just for
[20:17] fanservice
[20:18] what the [ __ ] is he even here for he
[20:20] decides to just join the good guys and
[20:22] keep fighting things his character
[20:24] continues to exist solely because the
[20:27] fans like him and that's never been how
[20:29] this series operates when a character's
[20:31] role in this story ends they're usually
[20:33] killed or kicked out yes the cleganebowl
[20:36] is a meme but it's not why I'm watching
[20:38] Game of Thrones the final battle between
[20:40] the Hound and the mountain is indicative
[20:42] and why I don't like this series anymore
[20:44] it used to be a very tightly written
[20:46] drama about characters with deep unseen
[20:49] motivations with a rich world in history
[20:51] but now I'm watching a guy
[20:53] came back to life fighting another guy
[20:55] who came back to life in a crumbling
[20:58] Tower while a dragon goes sicko mode
[21:00] above them this fight is so stupid
[21:02] it feels like the fight between
[21:03] Wolverine and Sabretooth from x-men
[21:05] origins wait a minute oh god damn it you
[21:08] wrote that to Tyrion Lannister now I
[21:11] used to joke that good old Tyrone
[21:13] Lancaster was the main character of Game
[21:15] of Thrones and he's a character that we
[21:17] can all relate to he's witty and he
[21:19] survives because he's [ __ ] smart but
[21:21] then once he teams up with Daenerys he
[21:23] gets a dose of the dum dum juice his
[21:25] whole plan for two seasons is to just
[21:28] reason with Cersei and seasons 1 2 3 and
[21:32] 4 he constantly talks about how you
[21:34] can't reason with her but now for some
[21:36] reason he thinks that he can just get
[21:37] through to her he tries like three
[21:39] [ __ ] times and it never works buddy
[21:42] listen she [ __ ] hates you from her
[21:44] perspective
[21:45] you killed her mom and her dad and her
[21:47] son and you ran away she will never
[21:50] listen to you and I don't understand why
[21:51] you think otherwise this is a series
[21:53] we're making mistakes gets you killed
[21:55] the red wedding isn't just some random
[21:57] [ __ ] that happened for the hell of it
[21:59] Tyrion hasn't made a smart choice in
[22:01] almost four seasons but he hasn't been
[22:03] punished even once
[22:04] in fact he gets rewarded I didn't even
[22:08] want him to die either I just wanted him
[22:10] to be smarter why is that so much to ask
[22:13] he's bringing all the dead people back
[22:15] to life and they put the women and
[22:17] children in a crypt with all the dead
[22:20] people so you're in he's smart but it's
[22:25] not that smart
[22:26] you're on Greyjoy Euron is honestly the
[22:29] funniest character in the whole show the
[22:31] writers decided to just add another
[22:33] person to the story way too late into
[22:36] the series and I can't even say he was
[22:38] ruined by the end of the series because
[22:39] everything about him just started off
[22:41] being stupid whenever he's in a scene I
[22:43] just never feel like he belongs there
[22:45] he feels like a guy who just wandered
[22:47] onto set from another show I honestly
[22:49] think the writers realise that they ran
[22:51] out of bad guys after killing the
[22:52] Bolton's his role is simply to extend
[22:55] the Greyjoy storyline a little bit more
[22:57] and to give Jamie someone to fight
[22:59] before he dies Brienne of Tarth Brienne
[23:02] is fine I actually I think she's fine I
[23:04] like her Jaime Lannister now this one is
[23:07] personal you see Jamie was my favorite
[23:10] character in this entire show he had so
[23:12] much depth and subtlety to his character
[23:14] in the early seasons the first thing he
[23:16] does is [ __ ] his sister and throw a
[23:18] little boy out a window so you might
[23:20] immediately think okay he's the villain
[23:23] but no that's not quite the case that
[23:26] assessment is completely intentional the
[23:28] series wants you to think that he's the
[23:29] bad guy because even the whole universe
[23:31] kind of treats him like a bad guy he's
[23:33] called the Kingslayer and not really in
[23:35] a nice way him killing the Mad King
[23:37] before the story started is kind of seen
[23:39] as a slimy event in the history of the
[23:41] world but if he hadn't killed the Mad
[23:43] King when he did everybody would have
[23:45] died anyway
[23:45] he knew that he wouldn't really go down
[23:47] as a hero but he did it because he knew
[23:49] it was the right thing he assassinated
[23:51] an evil dictator but since he did it in
[23:53] a backhand in manner everybody hates him
[23:55] this is meant to play on our initial
[23:57] perception of him his character is all
[23:59] about reputation we see his first act
[24:01] pushing a little wee boy out of a window
[24:03] and we immediately draw an assumption
[24:05] about him when in actuality he's a guy
[24:07] who constantly puts himself in harm's
[24:09] way to protect other people the things I
[24:11] do for love is a line that can sum up
[24:13] his entire character he's fine with
[24:15] putting his own ass in the fire if it
[24:17] protects somebody else he does
[24:19] dishonorable things for the honor of his
[24:21] loved ones his selflessness is
[24:23] self-destructive and it tears him apart
[24:24] this is arguably one of the most complex
[24:27] characters in the entire series but what
[24:30] do D&D do with this character well after
[24:33] he goes on a journey of self-discovery
[24:34] he [ __ ] Brienne for no reason then
[24:39] breaks her heart to go and die with his
[24:41] abusive partner awesome one of the last
[24:44] things he does is he beats Iran in a
[24:46] fight because for some reason the
[24:48] writers have decided that his new arc is
[24:50] just learning how to fight again him
[24:52] losing his sword hand is supposed to be
[24:54] significant for other reasons and this
[24:57] is a problem that's seen with the Hound
[24:58] as well now we have a show where the
[25:01] character resolution is seen in combat
[25:04] fight scenes are the ways that we finish
[25:06] up character arcs instead of the
[25:07] character actually learning something or
[25:09] becoming a different person by the end
[25:11] of it his whole arc up to this point has
[25:13] shown us that he's meant to leave Cersei
[25:15] forever he's supposed to shed that life
[25:17] personally I always thought he was
[25:19] destined to kill her that's
[25:20] common theory for a lot of people but no
[25:23] he intentionally breaks the heart of
[25:25] someone he cares about and then the
[25:27] ceiling kills him here's a line that he
[25:29] has in his last episode and it's a line
[25:31] that should solidify the entire problem
[25:33] with his character if not for yourself
[25:35] if not further and for every one of the
[25:37] million people in that city innocent or
[25:39] otherwise to be honest I never really
[25:41] cared much for them innocent
[25:44] or otherwise so you're telling me that a
[25:46] man who sacrificed his own honor by
[25:48] murdering the Mad King in an effort to
[25:50] save countless innocent people doesn't
[25:53] care about the people spendy commanded
[26:00] you to kill your own father
[26:08] did you guys even watch the show Sansa
[26:12] Stark now Sansa was okay I started
[26:15] writing this script around episode two
[26:17] and I really didn't have a problem with
[26:19] her up to that point like honestly it's
[26:21] really easy not to [ __ ] her up just let
[26:23] her be the strong independent woman but
[26:25] no even she's inconsistent first of all
[26:28] she has this really bad moment where the
[26:30] Hound is like hey I'm sorry all this bad
[26:32] stuff has been happening to you
[26:34] and she says no it's okay I like that
[26:37] all the bad stuff happened to me because
[26:38] now I'm a badass this really shows how
[26:41] these guys don't know how to write women
[26:43] because they just had one of their main
[26:44] female characters say yeah I'm glad I
[26:47] got tortured and sexually assaulted it
[26:49] made me [ __ ] cool so I'd go back and
[26:51] do it all again
[26:52] what the [ __ ] then to top it all off
[26:54] when Jon goes to her and says hey this
[26:56] is the most personal secret that I have
[26:59] Ned Stark your own father took this
[27:01] secret to the grave don't tell anyone
[27:05] she [ __ ] tells everybody Sansa
[27:11] spreading Jon's secret is the thing that
[27:13] caused all this [ __ ] so yeah go
[27:16] ahead and defend her actions but as far
[27:18] as I'm concerned this is her fault too
[27:21] Arya Stark and finally we have my least
[27:24] favorite character in the entire series
[27:26] which is kind of sad because I used to
[27:28] really like Arya now she stands as a
[27:31] shining example of what I don't like
[27:33] about what
[27:34] this series has become she's the only
[27:36] character that the rules don't apply to
[27:38] I'm watching all the main characters
[27:40] struggling and fighting for their lives
[27:42] and then there's a hard cut to this [ __ ]
[27:45] so many people loved Arya and I
[27:47] legitimately feel like an [ __ ]
[27:48] whenever I complain about her because
[27:50] it's hard to argue these points without
[27:52] looking like a neckbeard but I just
[27:53] don't really think this super-powered
[27:55] version of her fits the story from the
[27:57] end of season 1 into season 2 she
[27:59] decides I'm gonna be a badass and I'm
[28:01] gonna learn how to fight and I'm gonna
[28:03] kill the people I don't like and that's
[28:04] just her character for the entire show
[28:07] she just makes a decision and then the
[28:09] world supports that decision and then
[28:11] that's just what happens to her and I
[28:13] don't really like using the term plot
[28:15] armor but when I see her get stabbed in
[28:17] the gut multiple times and then just
[28:19] walk it off
[28:20] there's kind of a problem there when
[28:22] King's Landing is being completely
[28:23] destroyed and Arya is the only person
[28:25] who survives then I start to see a
[28:28] problem she teleports from place to
[28:31] place she doesn't give a [ __ ] about
[28:32] anybody and she's just too strong she
[28:36] manages to sneak past all the zombies
[28:38] and all of the knight Kings generals and
[28:40] then she just jumps his ass and shanks
[28:43] him he dies faster than the mountain did
[28:45] they could have just sent Arya to kill
[28:48] Cersei after this there's no reason to
[28:50] believe that Arya would have had any
[28:52] trouble with it just sneak Aria into the
[28:54] city let her disguise herself as a maid
[28:56] or something and then just have her stab
[28:58] Cersei you guys have Batman on your
[29:00] payroll and you don't even care the
[29:02] problem with arias powerlevel is that by
[29:04] all accounts the show should be aware of
[29:06] how strong she is but they just act like
[29:08] this is completely normal and it creates
[29:10] a disconnect on the other hand though
[29:12] once the series takes a nose dive into
[29:15] Shitsville I do kind of like her little
[29:17] mini story where she decides that she
[29:19] doesn't like any of the [ __ ] that's
[29:20] going on anymore but to be honest this
[29:22] was in the last two episodes and I think
[29:24] I just needed something to latch on to
[29:25] so that's it
[29:27] that's literally every main character in
[29:29] the show and they've all been ruined in
[29:31] some way or another our conflict doesn't
[29:34] lie with an antagonistic force as much
[29:36] as it does with our main heroes just not
[29:38] agreeing with each other
[29:39] Sansa is mad at Daenerys because she
[29:41] just doesn't like her Daenerys is just
[29:43] mad at everybody
[29:45] is sad because everybody's mad at each
[29:47] other all these characters completely
[29:48] lose their sense of reason and at this
[29:51] point these people are only alive
[29:53] because they have cunning resilience
[29:55] they're only here because they're smart
[29:57] but the show just forgot that they were
[29:59] so we have a merry band of dumb asses
[30:02] that have been leading the show for a
[30:03] few seasons now and a lot of people look
[30:05] at Season seven when they bring up how
[30:07] the show lost its mojo Adult Swim even
[30:09] had a eulogy for the show after its
[30:11] climax episode and for good reason this
[30:14] is where the show really started going
[30:15] down a path that it could not recover
[30:17] from in the climax episode of season 7
[30:20] the characters come up with the dumbest
[30:21] plan I've ever heard the good guys know
[30:24] that the dumb ice zombies are coming to
[30:26] kill everybody really soon so they have
[30:28] to convince evil Lex Luthor to aid them
[30:30] in the battle but she doesn't believe in
[30:32] zombies so their genius plan is to go
[30:34] far north
[30:35] grab a zombie and bring it back to her
[30:38] to prove that they're real the plan
[30:40] itself is so outrageously stupid that I
[30:44] thought it was a joke at first
[30:46] I'm not kidding like when the characters
[30:48] bring it up I fully expected someone to
[30:50] say no that's ridiculous let's come up
[30:52] with a real plan but no this is the one
[30:55] plan and they all agree to go along with
[30:57] it so they all go north to the most
[30:59] dangerous place they could go they grab
[31:01] a zombie and all the main characters
[31:03] just safely escape but then once you get
[31:05] to the end of the show you realize that
[31:07] they didn't even really have to do this
[31:09] because Cersei didn't really give a [ __ ]
[31:11] about the zombie anyway by the end of
[31:13] the story they still have to fight
[31:15] Cersei when I watch this episode a
[31:17] couple years ago I realized that this
[31:18] show has really lost its marbles so when
[31:21] the final season began I was a little
[31:22] more critical of it than others episode
[31:24] 1 came out and it was kind of slow and
[31:26] nothing really happened and everybody
[31:28] told me hey man it's the first episode
[31:29] give it a break then the Battle of
[31:31] Winterfell happens and other people
[31:33] start seeing the problems - the episode
[31:35] is like dark as hell you can't see
[31:37] what's happening the main characters
[31:38] somehow are totally invincible and can't
[31:40] die the big evil dragon that blew a hole
[31:43] in the wall last season doesn't even
[31:44] prove to be a threat anymore he can't
[31:46] even melt the rock that Jon Snow is
[31:48] hiding behind Daenerys manages to
[31:50] destroy an entire city later in the
[31:52] season but in this episode she can't
[31:54] really do anything against the zombies
[31:56] she just can't beat them you're telling
[31:57] me that this [ __ ] wouldn't
[31:58] worked on the zombies I mean give me a
[32:00] [ __ ] break plus much like last season
[32:03] our main characters decide that they're
[32:04] not done coming up with dumb plans in
[32:06] the episode before the Battle of
[32:08] Winterfell the characters decide that
[32:10] their plan to defeat the night king is
[32:12] to leave bran out in the open
[32:14] lure the night king out and then they
[32:18] literally never say what the plan is
[32:21] which causes me to not give a [ __ ] about
[32:24] what happens for an hour and a half
[32:25] because I knew everything was gonna be
[32:27] fine anyway I think we might live holy
[32:30] [ __ ] he was right the biggest threat in
[32:32] the series gets killed by arya and i
[32:34] always thought that the night king was
[32:36] gonna be defeated by something a little
[32:38] less traditional some people were mad
[32:39] that arya killed him because they wanted
[32:41] Jon Snow to do it and I don't really
[32:43] agree with that either the night Kings
[32:45] should not have been defeated by a
[32:46] normal person with a sword if it was
[32:48] that easy then he probably would have
[32:49] been dead a long time ago I personally
[32:52] wanted something more creative to happen
[32:54] I thought bran was gonna do some weird
[32:55] [ __ ] or something he always says that
[32:57] should he look on his face like he knows
[32:59] what's gonna happen I don't know I just
[33:00] expected something think about it why
[33:04] was the night king even in this story
[33:06] what narrative purpose does he serve
[33:08] tell me one reason one thing they
[33:12] contributed to the finale of this show
[33:14] if you remove the White Walkers entirely
[33:16] from this last season the last two
[33:19] episodes do not change at all now I know
[33:22] for a [ __ ] fact that George is gonna
[33:24] do things at least a little differently
[33:25] the White Walkers are the first thing
[33:27] you see in the whole series both the
[33:29] book and the show start with ice zombies
[33:32] so I like to think they're pretty
[33:33] [ __ ] important but as far as the
[33:35] show's concerned they just had no idea
[33:37] what to do with them
[33:39] we just rush past the biggest threat in
[33:41] the realm so we can rush past our main
[33:43] character turning evil and then we rush
[33:45] her getting punished for it and then the
[33:46] show just ends I don't even feel like I
[33:48] watched the ending of this show it was
[33:50] so unsatisfying to me this series has
[33:53] always been about breaking tradition or
[33:55] breaking cycles as I stated before the
[33:58] series itself is supposed to break
[33:59] traditions of fantasy story telling a
[34:02] story where a hero may die where you
[34:04] might find yourself rooting for people
[34:05] who do bad things in a series that push
[34:08] the idea that there are no good guys or
[34:10] bad guys we
[34:11] now have characters that are very
[34:12] obviously good and evil people are
[34:15] already comparing this to the ending of
[34:16] lost button lost every character got a
[34:19] fate that was satisfying and completed
[34:21] their arcs in meaningful ways and pretty
[34:23] soon they're gonna be a lot of think
[34:24] pieces about how this way of
[34:26] storytelling is genius because it
[34:28] subverts your expectations and that's
[34:30] that's dumb let's be real that's stupid
[34:32] because there's a way to subvert your
[34:34] expectations in a clever way and this
[34:36] series has done it before but now we're
[34:38] at a time where the writers think you're
[34:40] just supposed to do the opposite of what
[34:42] you expect and that's not how you're
[34:43] supposed to write a story you know if
[34:45] you've planned your book that the butler
[34:47] did it
[34:47] and then you read an intranet someone
[34:50] has figured out that the butler did it
[34:51] and you suddenly change in midstream and
[34:54] it was the chambermaid who did it then
[34:56] you screw up the whole book we hope to
[34:58] kind of avoid the expected and Jon Snow
[35:00] has always been the hero of the one
[35:02] who's in the Savior but it just didn't
[35:05] seem right to us for this for this
[35:06] moment so if you watch this series and
[35:09] you felt disappointed like me I guess
[35:11] you shouldn't be too upset because after
[35:13] all you do have multiple hundreds of
[35:15] pages of good stuff that you can enjoy I
[35:17] mean that's what I'm gonna do now and
[35:19] I'm sure in a few years we'll get the
[35:20] official canonical ending and then maybe
[35:23] like ten years after that we'll get a
[35:25] new series on a streaming service or
[35:27] something and it'll be called A Song of
[35:30] Ice and Fire
[35:31] the true adaptation will get our Game of
[35:34] Thrones Brotherhood and then this series
[35:37] will just be seen as the weird
[35:39] fanfiction that it is
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