Only 99%?

comment by Ole-Dirty-Baz ta’rd (U19119)
posted 17 minutes ago
Actually, 99% of marvels output tbf.
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You really have a thing for Marvel don't you?

I find anything Marvel pretty unbearable too tbf. Can just about tolerate X-men but even that's more for nostalgic reasons.

Horseshlt excuses. The writing is bad. The budget was never a problem if they were offered 10 episode extension. Priorities shifted for the writers and they just don't have the talent or capacity to write something satisfying or cohesive without source material or all of these complicated storylines.

It's 100% the writing.

And now the writers are in charge of the next Star Wars film. In Hollywood you tend to fail upwards

I'm still holding out a vain hope that the finale might actually be decent enough to make the whole season worthwhile.

This series has reminded me of recent Star Wars films tbh. I don’t mean that as a complement though!

They've been all over the place once George's material ran out.

Apparently D&D confirmed that George Martin agreed the deaths of the "main" characters in season 8 in line with his book. D&D had creative licence in how secondary characters died.
So Cercei and Jamie dying together under some bricks was not D&D

I would say 'let's do a bet' that it is most definitely not the way Jaime, Cersei, The Night King (there isn't a Night King in the books...yet) die, however, I don't think we will ever get a resolution and, if we do, too much time will have passed that either of us remember the bet

Of course GRRM won't finish the books. He gets to advise the TV show and then let someone else take all the flack when people are unhappy with the conclusions.

The guy is a prik.

amazing how the quality of a show can drop with the same actors and writers for the most part, my personal experience only one other show had this much of a drop off quality wise(the us office) and they had an excuse with the main character leaving, its sad thinking about how far down this last series (2series) have taken this programme

It's the same writers but they're weren't having to actually create the story and dialogue before.

Like having an amateur theatre group acting out Hamlet or something, but then asking them to add another half hour onto the end of their own material.

It’s a shame.

comment by Mike (U1170)
posted 26 minutes ago
It's the same writers but they're weren't having to actually create the story and dialogue before.

Like having an amateur theatre group acting out Hamlet or something, but then asking them to add another half hour onto the end of their own material.
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One thing this series does have going for it is the acting, and funnily enough knowing a majority of the cast weren't motivated by the material they're working with makes it even more impressive.

Emilia Clarke's been the show's weak link acting wise (IMO) for the past seven seasons, but she's really trying in this one with pathetically weak material to justify the character's future actions. It's one of Peter's best seasons acting wise IMO (maybe only topped by S4), he's getting across his own uncertainty about Dany & the future brilliantly/scene with Jamie in E5 was powerful stuff. Lena's not done much but what she has done she's knocked out the park, end of E5 - phenomenal stuff.

Miguel's direction of E3 was patchy, I won't blame the lighting issue on him as that's a post-production failure, but the quick cuts were a little bit much - though the dragon stuff was fantastic. E5 though, brilliant.

It's the writing that's let it down. Everything else is more than passable.
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I wonder how much say Peter Dinklage has in the general storyline? If as I've predicted Tyrion ends up being King then it would indicate that Dinklage has quite a lot of sway. His name always comes up first in the credits as well. Certainly in more recent seasons anyway.
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I believe he's the highest paid actor on the show (could be wrong), but GRRM did confirm he's the only actor who didn't have to audition.

Considering how this series has gone so far they can do ALOT worse than a Tyrion/Sansa King & Queen finish. Wouldn't make a lick of sense, Tyrion's smart enough to know he'll never be able to rule the way the public perceive him through Joffrey, Tywin & Cersci's propaganda, the fact he's a dwarf will never command respect, and there's the small matter of being The Mad Queen's hand lol. But f*** it. I'll take it at this point

best thing would be dorne rolling up and killing everyone

The ultimate troll ending would be best for all, in my opinion.

2) Jon kills the night king and midway through celebrations it cuts to him waking up behind a till in a local garden centre. The whole thing was just a dream and the cast are staff members. The boss is a mister Richard White-Walker and is a bloke Jon hates. Jon goes to clock off, waves goodbye to Dani in the pet section and goes home to his parents house, where his Dad Sean Bean makes a cameo appearance before he pops to the pub.

The final scene is Jon sat in his Dungeons and Dragons themed room looking miserable before switching off the light...screen goes black and credits roll
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Comment by EzioTyke before the series started.

You know what, I'll take it. Not even kidding

Right bunch on unsatisfied moaning gits

That’d be pretty good.

It’s got to the point where the writers have piiiissed off so many I’d just love to see them piiiiiss them off further by making a complete mockery of the whole thing with something like that. I’m quite sadistic, maybe it’s why I loved Ramsey.

Actually that ending's perfect for D&D.

Sean Bean lives in it = Expectations subverted

I’m quite sadistic, maybe it’s why I loved Ramsey.
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I was wondering the other day, would I have sacrificed "Battle of The B@stards" if it meant Ramsey took Euron's place as the underling villain on the show going into this series? Forgetting the writing, the motivations of each character, etc... just on sheer force of Ramsey's effective villainy over Euron's.

I'm really torn on that.

Ramsey and Euron tag team.

comment by Devil D.A. (U6522)
posted 11 minutes ago
I’m quite sadistic, maybe it’s why I loved Ramsey.
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I was wondering the other day, would I have sacrificed "Battle of The B@stards" if it meant Ramsey took Euron's place as the underling villain on the show going into this series? Forgetting the writing, the motivations of each character, etc... just on sheer force of Ramsey's effective villainy over Euron's.

I'm really torn on that.
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As good as Ramsey was as the villain, and he was brilliant, the battle of the baztards was one of the greatest hours of tv ever..

Shame they ruined the 'north remembers'