Only me? Oh well. The warp speed and anti-subtle narratives really rubbed me the wrong way. And seeing Baelish go out like that....no thanks.
Flame away ;(
No. I'm in until the end.
shareIt has not affected my feelings towards seeing season 8 but there were things about season 7 that could have been done better, especially in the penultimate episode with the battle beyond The Wall.
If they had taken out the unrealistic and unsatisfying reunion of Jon and Benjen right at the end, at the brink of Jon's death, and just have written it so that Benjen met the group earlier on their travels, it would have helped to mend a few issues. It would have:
a) Meant that Benjen could have got more screen time to catch up with Jon.
b) Led to the character whose name I forget, using Benjen's horse to get back to Castle Black more quickly to send message, and therefore make that whole part of the plot, including the time it takes the dragons to fly out, a little more believable.
c) Meant that there'd be one more good fighter helping to fight the army of wights, and making that a little more believable.
d) Meant that we wouldn't have had the deus ex machina scene with Benjen appearing at the nick of time to save Jon, and his silly line about not having time to get on the horse, when there was plenty.
I liked S7 precisely because it finally moved quickly. The Sand Snakes were a waste that made me lose enthusiasm for the show.
shareNo. I enjoyed it, by & large, & look forward to the finale. But I was deeply troubled by the way Jon & Daenerys blithely accept Cersei's statement that she "hopes it will be remembered" that she joined the anti-white walker alliance near the end of the season finale.
That is just not Cersei. Not Lannister. & one need not be intimate with her to know that. She did blow up the Red Keep, after all. Her father, Tywin, destroyed a key component of Westeros culture when he rendered the custom of bread & salt utterly invalid at the Red Wedding ... Lannisters care only for Lannisters. Westeros could happily burn, or become an outpost to the living dead, if it suited Cersei in some way.
& there's no way Jon & Daenerys don't realize that. That they appear to have taken her at her word seems like clumsy writing for the sake of rhetorical convenience. Very troubling, imho.
Not completely neutered. Slightly dulled.
shareIts a different show now. You have to accept that to start to enjoy it again. Of course now the story lines and character interactions are almost the exact same as anything else you will see on tv. The characters with back story are still good because of that back story, but the new writing is just shy of soap opera level bad.
The most tragic part of the whole thing is how they took truly great characters like Varys and turned him into a paper thin character that no longer seems to hold a candle to anyone else. They did the same with Little Finger but mercifully killed him off before his character got down right unlikable.
If the show was still open ended and meandering on... then I would probably be losing enthusiasm, but since its wrapping up this season, I still have some excitement for whats to come.
I don't understand the hate. I thought it was fantastic and an improvement over the sixth season - which I still thought was awesome.
My only gripe was that I would have liked to have seen Baelish stick around and become a truly imposing threat between Sansa and Arya but nevertheless.