How amazing was the Game of Thrones final episode?

You are being sarcastic, right?

Season 8 was mired in mediocrity. The last episode was no exception.

I'm guessing it's amazing enough that some people don't even care if they get it spoiled or not. It's that miserable of a show.

5/10......best episode of the Season!

Certainly better than people make it out to be. This season covered what should have spanned too full seasons, not one 6 episode season, and the show has certainly lost it's "edge" since it passed the content writtin by george martin, but it was still good.

Fjabc wrote:

Certainly better than people make it out to be. This season covered what should have spanned too full seasons, not one 6 episode season, and the show has certainly lost it's "edge" since it passed the content writtin by george martin, but it was still good.

Agree. How the characters ended up shouldn’t be blamed on the show runners as GRRM gave them their end points. Really even the last season based completely on his books was just kinda ok. The best seasons for the show were 1-4.

Alan

Runningart2004 wrote:

Fjabc wrote:

Certainly better than people make it out to be. This season covered what should have spanned too full seasons, not one 6 episode season, and the show has certainly lost it's "edge" since it passed the content writtin by george martin, but it was still good.

Agree. How the characters ended up shouldn’t be blamed on the show runners as GRRM gave them their end points. Really even the last season based completely on his books was just kinda ok. The best seasons for the show were 1-4.

Alan

it's not where they ended up, it's how clumsily they got there that bothered most people.

you don't get it wrote:

Runningart2004 wrote:

Agree. How the characters ended up shouldn’t be blamed on the show runners as GRRM gave them their end points. Really even the last season based completely on his books was just kinda ok. The best seasons for the show were 1-4.

Alan

it's not where they ended up, it's how clumsily they got there that bothered most people.

surely you wouldn't blame the fine artist who restored this Jesus painting would you? they were simply following the lines of the original painting......

Runningart2004 wrote:

Fjabc wrote:

Certainly better than people make it out to be. This season covered what should have spanned too full seasons, not one 6 episode season, and the show has certainly lost it's "edge" since it passed the content writtin by george martin, but it was still good.

Agree. How the characters ended up shouldn’t be blamed on the show runners as GRRM gave them their end points. Really even the last season based completely on his books was just kinda ok. The best seasons for the show were 1-4.

Alan

Source? Show has been ahead of the books for at least two seasons and I've never heard the "end points" claim. Several characters are materially different than the books so hard to believe GRRM gave alternate plot directions.

The writing was down right awful this season. I feel emotionally betrayed. The finale was the worst episode in the series, and one of the worst episodes of any show I've ever seen.

tse wrote:

Runningart2004 wrote:

Agree. How the characters ended up shouldn’t be blamed on the show runners as GRRM gave them their end points. Really even the last season based completely on his books was just kinda ok. The best seasons for the show were 1-4.

Alan

Source? Show has been ahead of the books for at least two seasons and I've never heard the "end points" claim. Several characters are materially different than the books so hard to believe GRRM gave alternate plot directions.

Not going to look up a source but it's been known for years that he shared his direction for the story with the show writers a long time ago due to his age and the possibility of him dying before he could finish writing the series (at the time he was still planning on finishing the books if i recall corecctly)

robert678 wrote:

The writing was down right awful this season. I feel emotionally betrayed. The finale was the worst episode in the series, and one of the worst episodes of any show I've ever seen.

Lol worst episode of any show? Be more of a drama queen why don't you....

This is so funny. I always laugh when I see that restoration. The best thing about it is the restorer thought she did a great job. A perfect analog to most posters on this forum.

That said I liked season 8. People get all bent out of shape when a story doesn’t play out the way they think it should. If it did it would’ve been just like any another boring movie created by committee in Hollywood.

Sure it covered way too much ground for a single season. Sure the battle of winterfeld was shot way too dark, but over all pretty good.

Much better than I expected. The first half of the episode was pretty good, the scene with Tyrion and Jon in the cell was the best scene of the last couple seasons. The second half wasn't great.

The writing wasn't great, but I don't place all the blame on the writers, they had a lot of plotlines to finish and only six episodes to get it done. The second half of the finale was just them tying up loose ends.

I would have rather it ended after the dragon melted the throne. Who cares if all the loose ends get tired. If you don't like the way the make believe people ended up in the fantasy world, imagine it happened differently. You won't be any more right or wrong than the writers of the show.

And even thought I was not really disappointed with the finale, I wish I would have kept watching WWE Money in the Bank, the Becky Lynch/Lacey Evans/Charlotte Flair/Bayley ending had a better twist than anything GoT has done in a while.

It was awful. I feel bad because I hadn't jumped on the bandwagon after episodes 3, 4, or 5 saying wait until the end and then the last episode was the worst episode.

Jjjjjjn wrote:

tse wrote:

Source? Show has been ahead of the books for at least two seasons and I've never heard the "end points" claim. Several characters are materially different than the books so hard to believe GRRM gave alternate plot directions.

Not going to look up a source but it's been known for years that he shared his direction for the story with the show writers a long time ago due to his age and the possibility of him dying before he could finish writing the series (at the time he was still planning on finishing the books if i recall corecctly)

Yeah it was 5-6 yrs ago.

Now onto my next binge watch!

Anyone seen the AO on Netflix? I’m about halfway through the 2nd (of 2) seasons. It just got real dumb with the octopus alien thing.

Alan

Was there any explanation why or how Jon returned from the dead?

How long do dragons live? Where did it take dead Dani? Could there be areas with other dragons far to the east off maps that connect to where ayra was going? Why aren’t there maps if ships sail to the west?

I thought it was one of the best episodes of the entire show. The first half was really gripping. And while I get the criticism that the story was basically over halfway through the episode, I think it was actually important to give some indication of where people are headed. One of the big questions was always whether the "wheel would be broken" or whether the "game" would go on as it always had. If it ends right after the throne is melted, then we really have no idea. The show's answer was satisfying to me: There's no god-king hero who can create a paradise out of nothing, but people aren't doomed to an endless cycle of murder and tyranny either. Good people can cooperate to make incremental improvements in the world over the long term. (The joke about universal suffrage democracy was a little heavy handed, but the point was fair--one step at a time.)