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RIP Doris Tarragon. SHE is wiv der angles now. 4 eva in are 🖤

Ha

That was well cack

Yeh that really sucked

So they all lived happily ever after. Lovely

Total shitehawk last episode.

Nothing makes any sense.

Botched.

So. Basically lord of the rings boat ending for a little bit. Less frolicking.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1130586738169188354

Sums it up tbh

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Ha, I have strongly disliked this season but I thought this episode was not as bad as the last few.

Lmao that is perfect.

Such an abysmal and unfulfilling ending. So many plot lines and character arcs that were made completely pointless by those last few episodes. Garbage.

At least the cast thought the same:
https://youtu.be/EA7UQOYskas

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The memes it's inspired are actually more enjoyable than the last series...

Ah it's a telly show. It's always been about tits and dragons.

I liked it.

Anyway - I quite liked it - better than the interminable books, which most people on the internet seem to think were written by Dostoevsky or equivalent.

I quite liked it

Yep, the audience ratings suggest you're spot on with that.
Quite liked it. Nothing special. 6.5/10

At the risk of sounding all fanboi, it's the change in style that people are complaining about.
Series 7 and 8 have been a jolly romp along. All plot driven with characters making uncharacteristically daft decisions, ditching past storylines at random and falling back on deus ex machina or glaring inconsistencies to hurry things along.

And of course, it's a fantasy world - so moaning that dragon fire being unable to burn the little rock Jon hides behind one minute, then causing a city to explode the next, or responding to losing 2 dragons to a javelin and a big arrow by flying directly at 100 more crossbows - could be seen as churlish.

Just annoying when a story is fairly carefully built up one way over 6 years, and then rushed through at the end.

Have been watching The Expanse lately. Sci fi based on a well received set of books. If that went all Star Trek Discovery next series I'd be similarly narked. Probably just about narked enough to comment on a thread specifically made for it on a bike forum, likely no more than that.

Peter Stringfellow's 'Lord of the Rings'

Just annoying when a story is fairly carefully built up one way over 6 years, and then rushed through at the end.

Yeah - I get that there's been a change in style. It's gone from something more considered to a something where every episode has to be statement TV.

I sympathise with the producers though - when they started there was one more book to go in the series to get an ending consistent with the style and vision of the author, which he then didn't produce.

Everyone on line seems to suggest that they should have thrown money at the problem by hiring a room full of writers to finish it.
That sounds kind of contradictory - the series based on Martin's writing were so good only because they were based on something that he crafted over 20 years. When you get to the series he didn't (couldn't?) write, well, just forget that only Martin could write the good stuff and replace him with a room full of other writers?

And don't forget that they'll be having to write something that the Master himself tied in knots and probably made unfinishable.

The thing that pissed me off the most is not the woosh wooh bang, but the "I have 1000 armour and 1000000 go, nothing hurts me". That was frustrating. The change in tone to something lighter and more acceptable may be linked to having to sit through the Bolton hatred for nearly 3 seasons.
It became a victim of its success right? It needed big stuff to keep people watching and so couldn't take the time continue plodding on at the pace of the books.

I enjoyed the silence of the first 10 minutes or so of the last episode. The wrapping up, yeah, it was cheesy and winks to camera, but fuck it. It showed the "wheel being broken but actually the game starts again and how can it be different if you've got the same sort of power structure behind it all?" Dude.

the interminable books, which most people on the internet seem to think were written by Dostoevsky or equivalent.

I read a few chapters as a Kindle sample.

Aren't they just such a puddle of bilge.

This is what I tell my client, Dan... It's shit, Dan, dragons and tits, just dragons and tits...

TBF, I'm an old fashioned guy and I love that corny shit...

There you go!
It's not groundbreaking telly! It's just telly.