HBO's "Game of Thrones"

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JCHateSteve said:
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They don't need ramps, just a new Mountain.

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Grand Vol said:
I'm sticking with my theory. He was contractually obligated to be in Season 8 and they didn't know what to do with him.

Of course, that could be said about a lot of characters this season...
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I think it’s just that’s he’s popular. There were a few moments this season that felt like pandering to the kind of viewer who watches a prestige drama in a bar.
 
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Found in a review - interesting proposal

"Honestly, it may have been most preferable to cancel the show after the sixth season finale—Cersei's sept explosion and coronation, Jon proclaimed king in the north, Daeny sailing for Westeros—and left the rest to the viewers' imagination while we wait for George R.R. Martin's last two books."
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
The ending was hyped as something "bittersweet" but it was just plain sugary sweet.

It's Miller Time for Jon and Tormund on the lake... I'm sure some hot and horny wildling chicks are waiting.

Arya gets to sail the world like a teenage heiress with the world at her feet. Why not put her in a jacuzzi with a margarita in hand to complete the picture?

Meanwhile, Sansa is queen of an independent north (damn, that was settled fast) and Bran is king of the rest.

I didn't think Game of Thrones would turn into Star Wars but it did... they might as well posed for a group photo with medals. All the "good guys" in the end got what they wanted... and they solved the problem of Dany by making her one of the bad guys (just before killing her). Isn't that neat?
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Bolded - you act as if the writers chose this story arc - hard to imagine GRRM had Dany remaining a "good guy". Blame GRRM.
 
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Weezer said:
The further I get away from it, the more unsatisfied I feel. Things could have been so much better, more fleshed out, and made more sense. I don't hate it, but I'm sad it didn't live up to what it could have and should have been if they hadn't rushed the storytelling. Still don't think Bran should be king, but the biggest weakness of all is the lack of actual story.
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The outcomes are fine with me (and actually make sense to me in the larger context of the SOFAI saga. Wish it had occurred over more episodes.
 
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volinbham said:
The outcomes are fine with me (and actually make sense to me in the larger context of the SOFAI saga. Wish it had occurred over more episodes.
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The outcomes are fine to you, but is "fine" what you expect from GoT? At this point, it is what it is, but are you saying you don't think some of the outcomes could have been better? That prior to the episode you didn't imagine and hope for better? Sure, they're supposedly following GRRM's blue print, but if GRRM has the same outcomes, he really needs to cover it with some outstanding writing that has them making more sense. I think most of us that are unsatisfied feel that way because we could think of a myriad of endings that would have been better.
 
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People would have literally rioted but a part of me wishes they had ended the show with most of the main characters watching in horror, mouths agape as Dany and Drogon burn Kings Landing while the Unsullied and Dothraki raze the place. The show just ends with all of the main characters being like ".....uh oh. I think we just made evrything worse" type vibe.
 
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volinbham said:
Found in a review - interesting proposal

"Honestly, it may have been most preferable to cancel the show after the sixth season finale—Cersei's sept explosion and coronation, Jon proclaimed king in the north, Daeny sailing for Westeros—and left the rest to the viewers' imagination while we wait for George R.R. Martin's last two books."
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Hard to disagree
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
The ending was hyped as something "bittersweet" but it was just plain sugary sweet.
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What?

The Starks have lost most of their family and they may well never see any of each other again. One of the shows main heroes went insane and had to be killed. Tyrion lost the only family he had left. And that's leaving out the fact that a significant amount of the population just died fighting the Night King or in King's landing.

And I'm leaving out Jon Snow effectively going into exile because I think going north is actually a happy ending for him.
 
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tvolsfan said:
What?

The Starks have lost most of their family and they may well never see any of each other again. One of the shows main heroes went insane and had to be killed. Tyrion lost the only family he had left. And that's leaving out the fact that a significant amount of the population just died fighting the Night King or in King's landing.

And I'm leaving out Jon Snow effectively going into exile because I think going north is actually a happy ending for him.
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If they don't see each other again, it will be by their own choice. There is nothing to keep them from it. Tyrion lost Jamie (which is big, for sure).... but good grief, the little guy sure lived a charmed life when it came to being incarcerated (with the potential for capital punishment existing) but then always landing on his feet as a free man - and even with some degree of authority.
 
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I wanna take the chance to plug my little adopted home town of Harlan...they filmed a movie here in Harlan in 2016 starring Emilia Clarke and Jack Huston of Boardwalk Empire, it also has Thora Birch and Jonny Knoxville. It is called Above Suspicion and was directed by Philip Noyce. The trailer is on IMDB and it looks really good, so check it out when you get a chance. The movie was filmed here in Harlan city and County, but it is a stand in for Pikeville Kentucky. My wife got to meet Clarke, Huston, Noyce and producers Colleen Camp and Linda Bruckheimer when she worked for a local State Park that provided cabins for them when they initially came to scout in early 2016. They were all extremely friendly to the staff and the local populace while here.


I need to add that the film has been held up from release because of a ridiculous dispute amongst producers and distributors according to the writer of the book Joe Sharkey.
 
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Now that we've reached the end, what is your favorite scene from the series?
Mine is Cersei and the Sept of Balor, no question.
The music is absolutely stunning. The way Ramin builds tension is so, so, so good. When the writing made sense, sigh.
 
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It was my favorite at one time, but I'll have to think on it. One of my favorite bits of dialogue was between The Hound and Polliver:



I tried 3 different links but every one won't play here because the person that posted it on youtube put a block on them.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
Now that we've reached the end, what is your favorite scene from the series?
Mine is Cersei and the Sept of Balor, no question.
The music is absolutely stunning. The way Ramin builds tension is so, so, so good. When the writing made sense, sigh.
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Best episode of television I've ever seen. Better than any movie I've seen.

And by the way, the ending of that episode was better than the end.
 
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I do think people are way too hard on the showrunners, too. Everyone loved Tywin's death, but no way it book readers would have accepted that scene if they hadn't read about it, first.
 
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