Posted: Aug 14, 2019 9:50 pm
purplerat wrote:I'm willing to bet the vast majority of "Why GoT season 8 sucks" are from Youtubers who regularly post "Why _____ sucks" videos and not long time fans of GoT specifically.
Haven’t seen anything yet to suggest that (among the haters). Even less likely if we’re including ppl who were fans of the books first. I was a show-hater long before I got around to watching it in earnest (based mostly on plot points & clips). I tolerated up to mid-season 4, motivated mainly by a handful of decent performances. When I first gave up on it (after binge session #1) I outright hated the show. When I picked it back up for session #2, it was out of morbid curiosity for how it would end. Paradoxically, I thought that starting around mid-season 6, the show was at its strongest (starting with when it had progressed beyond the books).
IRT the general disappointment with Daenerys’s turn, I wasn’t disappointed, nor surprised. Yes, the books suggest the possibility - and in the books (#5) she hasn’t even left the east. By season 6 of the show, as she’s moving west her dialogues increasingly hint at it (especially with Tyrion), until it’s a frakkin fire alarm. That it follows naturally from the earlier book hints, tells me it aligned with grrm’s intended broad strokes. On this specific point, the hater fanbois weren’t paying attention imo.
But the general sense that the final 2 seasons felt “rushed” or “thin” probably would’ve benefited from bingeing. Weekly episodes don't serve a narrative of this kind well, especially with “mid season” gaps. I hope the concept gets phased out altogether.