Season 8 TV Thread - Where Nerds Cry About Their Precious Book

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  1. Pelican

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    A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms was a really good episode and Jaime knighting Brienne was maybe one of my favorite moments from the entire series. Other than that I really have nothing good to say about season 8......and even that moment was pretty much ruined by the shitty writing later on in the season.
     
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  2. Nostradumass

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    That episode was great because it was deliberately paced, and let characters talk and be real, something the rest of the season or season 7 lacked
     
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  3. SugarShaun

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    That’s why I threw that episode out as my stopping point. It isn’t so bad if you just pretend the fight starts and they lose, then the night king moves South and continues to kill everyone.
     
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  4. pearl

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    Honestly, I would’ve watched the Civil War Show. The premise of the south winning the war is interesting to me.
     
  5. Nostradumass

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    There's a lot of great alternate history out there that explores the premise, if you're interesting in reading. Guns of the South is a classic.

    Or you can watch this really good summary that breaks down the overall picture (not necessarily characters and plots)





     
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  6. Biff Bridges

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    Started a rewatch at S5E1. Such great television for a while but things clearly started going off the rails in S7 with the corny montage of Sam gagging while emptying chamber pots and feeding them the stew that looked the same as their shit. Ed Sheeran? Foh. Then they went back to the jokey gross out cutting from Sam peeling grayscale to a shot of a meat pie that looked the same. Just lazy, shitty writing. I finished S7 and had no desire to go on which is such a shame watching them wreck an incredible franchise.
     
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  7. Xander Crews

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    maybe but not from those two tone deaf morons.
     
  8. Joe_Pesci

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    I'm not sure what sucked more between the actual ending and @dump spoiling the ending in the thread title

    I dont think I've ever seen a more pathetic display of attention-seeking behavior in my life. What a fucking miserable loser.
     
  9. BP

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    It still cracks me up at some of the answers the actors gave at what they thought about the ending, trying not to trash the writing.

    Edit found it
     
  10. Pelican

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  11. Nostradumass

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    and the best episode of the season was the shortest.
     
  12. Pelican

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    Rewatched Mockingbird and The Mountain and the Viper today. The scene with Oberyn and Tyrion is so fucking good. Some of the best dialogue in the show IMO.

    "Just a tiny pink cawk"

    Also S4 might have the best four or five-episode stretch in the entire series.
     
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  13. Aussie

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    The show really was great in that span.
     
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  14. cal

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    i think it took me like 6 weeks to get through season 4 of my watch simply because i couldn’t stop rewatching the mountain and the viper
     
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  15. bic

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    Fuck me, man. Just heard "The Night King" for the first time in probably a year or so and it's still a bit painful to think about how amazing that song was and how shitty the story it had to accompany was.

     
  16. Pelican

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    I actually don’t think I hated the way the Night King went down. Or maybe it’s just pretty far down my list of gripes from season 8. But either way that score is remarkable.
     
  17. ugafish

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    but why?
     
  18. Pelican

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    Mostly because I was expecting Jon or Dany to do it but still felt it made sense with Arya. I liked the setup with the Red Woman calling back to Syrio and the score made things intense as fuck as he slowly approached Bran. It wasn't perfect by any means but also not something I have too many complaints about considering all the other bullshit in the season.
     
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  19. Swamp_Monkey

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    I agree. I still wish Jon Snow would have had some kind of epic battle with him before Arya delivered Shitty AMC Show blow, though. It was being set up for most of the series. Instead, we got him hiding from a zombie ice dragon.
     
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  20. SugarShaun

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    Every time.
     
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  22. cal

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    the fact that there wasn’t a fight between them is bad, but nowhere near as disappointing as not seeing the fight between arya and the waif

    i yelled “what the fuck?!” about a hundred times when that scene just cut
     
  23. Aussie

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    The show did that time and again. They sucked at fight coordinating so they just skipped it.
     
  24. Pelican

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    I didn’t really care that much about Arya and the Waif tbh
     
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  25. cal

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    i wanted that fight more than the mountain and the hound
     
  26. spagett

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    He went on a tirade attacking anyone who shit on the show only to like posts shitting on the show months later
     
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  27. Joe_Pesci

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    Yeah my take there was way too mean but I still think it was a shitty and completely unnecessary thing to do
     
  28. spagett

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    It's not like he never oversteps
     
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  29. ugafish

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    They should have saved the night king as the ulimate climax of the show.
     
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  30. Pelican

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    I liked the depth of the Cersei antagonist story far more than that of the Night King. But they obviously completely botched what happened in KL at the end.
     
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    Yep. In the books to come that will never be the KL part will be much different.
     
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  32. Aussie

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    I had to laugh at books to come.
     
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    Not just fighting. Most notable in Season 8 with Jon revealing the truth about his parents to Sansa and Arya. Oh Bran take it away, cut.
     
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  34. Mister Me Too

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    I think Shitty AMC Show of the NK wouldn’t have been so bad if the lead up to it was better, the NK staring at Bran for a long time was awful, Bran warging and doing nothing throughout the entire fight was shitty and Jon screaming at the dragon was spectacularly bad.

    Were it up to me, I would’ve shown that Bran warged Nymeria and just as Jon is about to get blasted by the dragon Ghost, Nymeria and her wolf pack arrive and give Jon and a group time to get to Bran.
     
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  35. Nostradumass

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    son of a bitch, the fucking AMC show's been off the air for a decade
     
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  36. Aussie

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    I still get a chuckle out of it when I see it. New people must be fairly confused when they see that.
     
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    I just wish we could type "Shitty AMC show" and have it autocorrect to "The KiIIing"
     
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  38. IanBoyd

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    Arya killing The Night King could still have been justified/salvaged if Jon's lineage was actually utilized as part of the plot in the last few episodes to give resolution to the biggest story line in the entire series.
     
  39. zeberdee

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    I love Arya but if Jon was going to kill Dany anyway why not make him fulfill the prophesy.

    Arya’s big moment should have been Cersei.
     
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  40. pearl

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    You mean Cersei should’ve been Jaime‘s big moment.
     
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    I think if you do that you can’t do Jon/Dany. too similar.
     
  42. pearl

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    It’s goes back to the prophecy she fears so much. That her little brother will strangle her to death
     
  43. IanBoyd

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    The entire 2nd half of season 8 is like if in Harry Potter Book 7 halfway through finding the Hallows, Dean Thomas or some shit just kills Voldemort with a gun, then Harry gets arrested for trespassing for that time they stole eggs from that farmer.
     
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  44. Daddy Rabbit

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    powered through a full rewatch.

    honestly, my bigger complaint than season 8 is how only khal drogo got a festering death and no one else did. jaime lost his hand in a slump camp, nothing. ayra getting stabbed and of course the hound.
     
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  45. Aussie

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    The Khal was essentially poisoned.
     
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  46. Daddy Rabbit

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    never thought of that. makes total sense now. i retract my statement.

    but i still havent done a full 180 on the show because of the last 15 or so hours of it.
     
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  47. IanBoyd

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    Season 6 was salvaged by the culmination of the fan service storylines, i.e. Stark children reuniting, battle of the bastards, Dany going HAM with her dragons on slavers and confirming R+L=J with some Arya killing fools montage but the quality already took a drastic dip since it started to run out of actual book materials to follow.
     
  48. IanBoyd

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    Varys and Little Finger in season 4: 2 of the most brilliant political maneuverers ever portrayed in media, using Ros, the Tyrells etc to position themselves favorably to manipulate Sansa.

    Varys and Little Finger in season 7/8: Dies because they didn't see a trap coming and dies because they straight up betrayed someone with dragons right in front of her.
     
  49. Nostradumass

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    With a few exceptions, I think season 6 played out like a cliff's notes version of the first half of Winds of Winter. All of season seven was made up bullshit and all of season eight but for the destinations of characters was bullshit too.
     
  50. IanBoyd

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    Come to think of it, the only plot significance of R+L=J is that it turned Varys into a moron and bandwagoned himself to get burned alive, and Dany turned insane because her nephew won't fuck her anymore and she burned down an entire city.