05-20-2019, 10:22 AM
(05-20-2019, 09:22 AM)CKwi88 Wrote: My gripes are the same as they've ever been. The individual points, like Dany's death, Jon going north of the wall etc. are all reasonable results to the overarching narrative that was being put together. But the way we got there was underwhelming, at the absolute best.
Broadly speaking, they DID finish the story. And I don't think anything was terribly unreasonable, although Bran is not a man and doesn't care about those things....except "I didn't get dressed up for nothing - I came here to become King". For the most part, they answered the big question and wrapped-up key character arcs. But, yeah, there's like 2 seasons of crap that happened off-screen to get there.
I don't think it would have mattered if they had 3-4 more years, or if RR finished the books. D&D didn't appear all that interested in anything other than a character drama - they write great dialogues and interactions. If we're being honest, they were rarely good at advancing an actual plot. The best example of that is the entire Night King arc - 8 seasons of build-up eded in one quick anti-climactic blade stroke. The NK didn't talk and there was no one to play off of, so you can see D&D didn't really know what to do with him. Frankly, the NK arc is a giant dud.
So they overplayed and oversold the NK arc, and then end the whole throne thing rather anti-climatically. I didn't hate the ending, nor did I hate this last season. But it was far from great tv. Peter Dinklage, by the way, completely carried the finale or it would have been a disaster.
