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TV Best Posts: Game of Thrones - Season 8

  1. Johnny Guitar
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    Johnny Guitar

    May 13, 2019
    Honestly, this was not a story that could've been told in 6 episodes. After the 6th season, HBO should have ordered 3 more seasons that are regular length (10 episodes per season).
    D&D and HBO f----- up beyond belief, I don't understand why they decided to order only 13 episodes after season 6 and then absolutely f--- it up with fast pacing, quick and s-----y dialogue and fast travelling.

    Do they not like money? What was the f---ing point of rushing a decade long build up?

    Season 7 should've been Jon gathering allies for the war against the Night King, but instead of having half of the season having a slow pace and then suddenly one episode of them beyond the wall where a raven flies 1500 miles to Dragonstone and Daenerys flying that same distance back to Eastwatch and beyond the wall OVERNIGHT... pace it in a way that makes f---ing sense.
    Season 8 should have been all dedicated to the battle in the North against the Night King and his army of the dead
    Season 9 should have been all dedicated to the battle for the Iron Throne and Daenerys slowly losing her s--- in the span of a season and not 1 episode.

    The story makes sense on paper, but not on screen.
     
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  2. Worm
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    Apr 28, 2019
    That episode was incredible
     
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  3. Mothrfckr
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    Mothrfckr

    May 20, 2019
    professor drogon.png
     
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  4. Enigma
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    Enigma Civil liberties > Police safety

    May 20, 2019
    So like... how exactly did everyone find out that Jon killed Dany? Lol drogon was the only thing around when it happened & he took dany’s body after lol.
     
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  5. M Solo
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    M Solo Fresh Outta London

    May 19, 2019
    I think last episode was Top 5 in the series.


    That said- the finale was embarrassingly bad. Just.. Wow.
     
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  6. Rebeliant
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    Rebeliant

    May 13, 2019
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  7. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    May 13, 2019
    @Jakey @YNW Squiddy
    The ending is good (their story started with and ends with "the things I do for love), how it got there isn't. Jamie slowly became more morally "good" throughout the series (though I think he was always more good than he let on), and then in 30 min of screentime he gets with brienne (who he also clearly has had feelings for) then bounces. Like everything with the past two seasons, it's not even that how the story unfolds is bad, a lot of it just doesn't feel earned because they crammed in too much in too little time. There was no time to see Jamie contemplate and become on edge and then decide to go back to Cersei. I'd even be OK with the catalyst for him going back to cersei was him f---ing brienne and realize cersei's still who he loved but they didn't convey that that well imo.
     
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  8. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    May 6, 2019
    nahhhhhh man. They're rushing through the story so fast and flubbing it. It just shows that the showrunners don't know what the f--- they're doing without source material.

    Seasons 1-6 are all based directly upon the books (the 6th book may not be out yet, but hundreds (if not a 1000+) pages of manuscript are written for them to draw from and I'm sure GRRM had the plot all drafted out). 5 is the only one of those seasons that's kinda bad and that's because it's based upon source material that's kinda bad.

    Seasons 7-8 it's so clear all they had to go off of was a general outline of the plot. They coulda done almost anything—HBO basically handed them a blank check—but they're rushing through the story sooooo fast and it makes the pacing so weird. Like I said everything that happened in this ep woulda happened over like three episodes in previous seasons.

    I'm still entertained by it and of course I'ma watch till the end but the only episode of the season I thought was on par with the show at its best so far was episode 2.
     
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  9. eddie
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    eddie

    Apr 28, 2019
    What? Are you serious.... the show is called Game of Thrones ... not The Walking Dead hahha...

    I do agree it was a little cheassy to have the Night King go out like that... but There is still more to come... I thought the cinematography of this ep was crazy!!!
     
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  10. Worm
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    Worm Big Perm Big Worm

    Apr 23, 2019
     
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  11. joeyp363
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    joeyp363

    May 21, 2019
    Dexter finale might have actually been better...

    GOT will never be considered a top tier show. Season 1-4 were great. It never reached the heights of
    The wire
    The leftovers
    Breaking Bad
    Fargo 1-2
    True detective 1
    Etc
     
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  12. Rebeliant
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    Rebeliant

    May 20, 2019
    another one:

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  13. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    May 20, 2019
    1. Last two seasons were based on A Dream of Spring (aka the 7th book) which has very few pages actually written and just a rough outline of how GRRM wanted to end it.
    2. D&D s--- s--- at writing without source material (As a side note, the reason season 5 wasn't that great was because it was based upon the worst portion of the source material and has the most storylines made up by D&D. The reason season 6 is good is because it's based upon a book that, while hasn't been released yet, has lots of pages written for them to go off of).
    3. D&D wanted to wrap it up so they could go get their Star Wars bag. HBO essentially gave them a blank check and wanted to do two full length seasons.
     
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  14. Tone Riggz
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    Tone Riggz There's No Cure For Being A C*nt

    May 20, 2019
    Finale was trash. Show had some great moments and S1-4 were fire. D&D are off to ruin Star Wars now. RIP
     
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  15. marshmallow
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    marshmallow

    May 20, 2019
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    This is so dope
     
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  16. Worm
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  17. Sav Stanfield
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    Sav Stanfield

    May 14, 2019
    I know everyones pissed at the writing and pacing and plot and character turns and the starbucks cup but i am f---ing loving this s---.
     
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  18. marshmallow
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    marshmallow

    May 13, 2019
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    What happened with the golden hand :terry:
     
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  19. Lil Squeed
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    Lil Squeed French Montana Stan

    May 13, 2019
    I will admit that I hate how easy it was for Drogon and Dany to just wipe out like 80 scorpions considering how easy the other two dragons went down
     
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  20. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    May 8, 2019
    too far nothing is that bad

    i'd legit rather watch big b--- theory than dexter season 8
     
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