Game of Thrones Season 8 is the worst piece of crap ever written

Any complaints I had with the series were forgiven after the show's writers trolled all the idiot urbanites who named their children "Daenerys" or "Khaleesi."

The show ends with Trion riding off into the sunset on the back of a dragon.

Runningart2004 wrote:

dirtlord wrote:

Hopefully with the show done he'll finally finish writing a book.

Meh.

I’ve enjoyed the series. Apparently a lot of people have. The latest episode was watched by more people than anything other episode in the series. Haven’t read any of the books. I’m a cliff notes kind of guy.

The series started off with more shock value, tons of nudity, incest, etc.

At least it knows when to quit. I stopped watching The Walking Dead about half way through this season. It’s just a bunch of people no one is invested in now.

Alan

That's the equivalent of saying you're a McDonalds guy and then asking people why they are complaining about a Hungry Man TV dinner being served at formerly good restaurant. "Taste's like food to me!"

If you are a Cliff's Notes guy then you probably shouldn't be weighing in on a conversation about character development and plot nuance.....just sayin'.

notafatty wrote:

wow OP what an totally unique take.

The amount of hate people throw at TV shows and movies that don't go the way they want is hysterical. Ya'll are getting very worked up about a piece of fiction that you can simply choose not to watch. Why does everyone feel like they have to let everyone know how they felt about every show and movie they watch. Don't you have a friend you can complain to and spare the rest of us your uninspired opinion?

if people don't complain publically then we will get even more of this crap on screen. There are far too few good shows, so it's not like you can just switch to something equivalent.

If there wasn't a public uproar about lowering the quality of the show, then why would they even bother to try to make a good show next time. It's helpful that they know that the fanbase is disappointed, otherwise they would just look at the ratings and consider it an unquestioned success. But people are just watching this season to finish it out. If it had started this poorly in Season 1, they wouldn't have these kinds of ratings now.

It's funny that you say people should choose not to watch it and not complain publically, yet here you are, choosing to click on this thread and share your uninspired opinion publically.

Apparently most people who watch the show aren’t bothered by it, since more people watched the latest episode than any other. It’s not like Walking Dead where there’s been a huge drop off.

I will say that if this show, or any other show based on a written source, were true to the books it would be 4-5 seasons longer. A written source is always going to be deeper as far as character development and nuance.

If you don’t like the show don’t watch it. Just read the books.

Alan

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Ok, this season has its flaws, but come on, find something else to do with your time other than demand a new final season.

The viewership hasn't dropped because it is the final season and people have already invested 90% of the time required to see the whole series so are sticking it out. It doesn't mean they are enjoying it.

"Apparently most people who watch the show aren't bothered by it..."

Obviously, you are a fairly casual fan if you haven't noticed the widespread complaints and plummeting user review scores? this series was scoring close to 9/10 across various sites, .......here are the latest episodes scores:

MetaCritic:

ep3: 4.2/10

ep4: 4/10

ep5: 3.6/10 !

Rotten Tomatoes:

ep1: 92%

ep 2: 88%

ep3: 75%

ep4: 57%

ep5: 47%

Ouch!

it's unquestionably been a disaster except in the profit margins......so if people don't complain we will get more of this crap fest in the future.

not true, not true wrote:

it's unquestionably been a disaster except in the profit margins......so if people don't complain we will get more of this crap fest in the future.

AT&T bought HBO and is already on record as saying they want a lot more original content.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out if their pushing quantity, quality will suffer.

RIP HBO.

lol hoes mad

UJoh wrote:

Watching a beloved show fall from greatness to complete cliched crap in 8 seasons is so sad.

The show runners were always gonna get crap about how the show ended. Frankly, I dont care how it ends but I do care about the motivations and pacing and writing to get there. All have been terrible.

Delete "season 8" and you would be more accurate. Game of Thrones is among the worst pieces of crap ever written. Have probably watched a total of 20 minutes from various YouTube clips and am so glad I haven't wasted hours of my life over the course of several years watching it. Congrats to me.

Lost It wrote:

Did you watch Lost? The last half of the last season was hands down the worst piece of writing ever created. GoT has nothing on that show.

I heard House of Cards season 6 was the worst. I haven't watched it yet.

Personally I really enjoy Season 8; when episodes 3 and 5 were over, I was expecting the critics to be great.

I agree that many characters are under-used and some of their character build-ups kind of seem pointless now (ex: Bran), but there are so many characters at this point that I'd rather see the series focus a lot of time on a few of them instead of little time on all of them.

Although I wasn't 'happy' to see Daenerys turn on the dark side, I think it was a good move from the directors. If she wouldn't have done that, it would just be a usual corny ending where the good people defeat the bad and live happily ever after... which is not GoT. Plus, I think that it's a realist turn of events which can make the viewers reflect on the usefulness of war and the effects of revenge/power.

With that said, I agree that there has been many errors this season but overall I'm pretty excited each week to watch the next episode.

Am I some pretentious super nerd fan? Nope. I watch it every week though. I’ve rewatched season 1-7 two or three times. People are complaining because of how THEY think it should have gone. That’s their problem.

I’ve enjoyed this season just as much as most of the others, moreso in some ways.

Stop being a skinny jean fan boy and just enjoy the ending, or don’t, I really don’t care.

I will say they should have left the episodes at 60min. That would have given this season at least another episode and then add in another episode before the battle at KL. That episode could have been focused on Dany’s sadness and emotional state AND Arya and the Hound making their way to KL maybe diving into their reasons for vengeance.

So I think Jon will end up killing Dany, maybe accidentally. Maybe this episode will really show her mental state. Maybe realize Dothraki/Unsullied are her only real threat now and burn them all? And I think there’s another scorpion somewhere to take out Drogon.

Oooooor.....Bran wargs into Drogon and burns the Unsullied/Dothraki.

Alan

dougless wrote:

UJoh wrote:

Watching a beloved show fall from greatness to complete cliched crap in 8 seasons is so sad.

The show runners were always gonna get crap about how the show ended. Frankly, I dont care how it ends but I do care about the motivations and pacing and writing to get there. All have been terrible.

Ummm... Ever read Greg’s “tv pilot”

Now that was a fine work of art

Runningart2004 wrote:

Apparently most people who watch the show aren’t bothered by it,

since more people watched the latest episode than any other.

these two thoughts dont follow.

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I think you misunderstand what people are disappointed about......it's not always WHAT is happening...it's HOW.

It's far from just a matter of people being disappointed that the storyline THEY wanted isn't being followed, it's that the story that is being followed is being done so haphazardly and without skill.

A great example of this is the Jamie vs Euron fight. It was so horribly done it pretty much ruined the episode all by itself because it pulled the viewer right out of the episode because of how clunky it was done. The worst staged scene I've seen on a high budget show that I can remember.

It was basically Euron sitting on a rock, Jamie runs by and Euron says "Hey you, lets fight!"

thousands of sailors were on those ships and just one happens to wash up on the shore, it just happens to be Euron and he just happens to be waiting around when Jamie happens to run by? that's 3rd grade level writing.

No one had a problem with the WHAT..(Jamie fights and kill Euron))...it was the lazy , not even trying writing that pissed people off.

Kind of like the hookups between Jamie and Brienne and Ayra and Gendry in ep 2 (?). Just completely clumsy and thrown in purely to create social media chatter. I mean both those hookups could have been properly motivated and justified but they just decided to skip that part. They probably could have gotten away with one, but throwing 2 in the same episode was just blatantly lazy.

And yes I know there was some slight build up earlier for Jamie and Brienne, but that doesn't excuse the completely throw away way they handled it.

Then we are supposed to have enough of an emotional investment in those relationships that we care when Jamie and Ayra walk out 20 mins later? It ended up just being filler click bait.

Rhaegal's death was ridiculous he was sniped from behind a mountain by ballista on moving ships far beyond their effective range. Roman ballista had a maximum range of around 500 yards, but effective combat range for many targets was far shorter. Try hitting a moving target at significant elevation on a bobbing ship not once but 3 times in a row. Then all of a sudden they can't even scratch Drogon who was closer and is a larger target. Such plot armor! I realize there is magic etc but some semblance of reality would be nice. They could have conceived a dozen believable scenarios but were super lazy. That to me sums up part of why season 8 has fallen short of expectations the other half being poor story telling.