Anakin has a clear motive, and a logical progression from naive to evil.
Danny just decides to lose her shit one day.
The ending of GoT will never stop being a sore spot for me. Some of the worst writing and abandonment (sabotage?) of character development I’ve ever witnessed.
The worst part is all the investment I had into it. Not just emotional investment but also time spend getting to know the lore and coming up with theories
You nailed it on the head
It’s a bingo!
Don’t worry, it will pay off when the books are finished!
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:(
there’s unfinished books, hope GRRM could finished it eventually.
your lore and theories you follow still matters.
Yeah but they had that big movie deal to get working on, had to put a bow on it.
The thing that still blows my mind is that they evidently could not comprehend that pulling this sort of bullshit would have sharply negative effects on their future in all of showbusiness. Like, they had a Star Wars movie signed. That’s still a bit of a thing nowadays, and when they got it, it was an even bigger deal. And they spiked it because they couldn’t be fucked to put in the effort to give one of the most popular TV series EVER a reasonably meaningful, satisfying, and well-written conclusion.
Even if we get nothing else from those last seasons, at the very least it’ll serve as a warning to show runners in future. You can be responsible for one of the biggest and best shows ever but if you don’t stick the landing people will never forgive you.
I wonder how they feel about it now, what a waste of an opportunity.
I hope it drives them to drink cheaply.
You’ve got it all wrong! It was actually an incredibly genius move, as the writers knew that after 7 seasons of twists, turns and surprises, the audience wouldn’t really be phased by any characters death anymore. We’d become so accustomed to sudden character deaths that watching GoT became the literal incarnation of “expect the unexpected” and you can’t shock people who are just waiting for it to happen. So what did the showrunners do? They did the only thing nobody expected, assassinated the only target they knew would still get a reaction out of people after all this time - they killed off the show itself.
I feel so sorry for the actors and other people who worked on the show, besides D and D of course. Imagine being part of the biggest TV thing ever and having incredible success, only for it all to fall apart towards the end, completely removing the thing from public consciousness.
Man, remember when they had the cast do that media blitz for the final season, and Peter Dinklage was just giving off Hide The Pain Harold vibes for the whole interview? That must have been rough :(
Yeah, that must have been brutal. Some of the actors let a couple of negative sentences slip during those interviews, but I’m sure they weren’t allowed to.
I don’t know if a single clip shows this better than the reaction of Varys’ actor to his characters death. Just imagine having to sit at a table WITH THE SHITHEADS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE for butchering an amazing character you should be remembered for, and not being able to say anything. Fuck.
It was so frustrating because the actors kinda obviously all gave a shit and wanted the show to be good, and D&D just… didn’t.
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Varys’ actor to his characters death
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Well sure, but you have to admit that’s a pretty low bar.
Are we including the Clone Wars? Because for me, that filled in a lot of gaps and made the movies more enjoyable.
haven’t seen this douche in a while. imho people should cover his stupid face with the face of whoever the meme is referencing 🤷♂️
This meme is accurate and I regret my decisions.
What did he do? I’ve never seen him outside of this meme.
He’s openly homophobic/transphobic. He refuses to debate his peers but sees nothing wrong with making his positions look artificially superior by choosing unprepared college students as his opponents, making up statistics to support his claims knowing that said opponents won’t have the data to disprove it off the top of their head, and simply editing out the times that his opponent does manage to correctly oppose his argument (allegedly).
Recently even his political constituents hate him after he whined at Daily Wire for, what he calls, treating him unfairly with a $50 million dollar contract. And to completely top off the shit-sandwich, there’s video evidence of him abusing his wife and she claims that he made physical threats.
Even after all that I’m sure I’m missing something lol
Damn what a sorry excuse of a person
BTW I did indeed remember something I missed. He made his studio a hostile work environment by abusing his employees and generally being a trashy person. His co-host supported the claims made by other employees in an interview, here’s the TL;DR (of the interview) I got from a reddit comment:
TL;DR: Crowder is a narcissistic and hypocritical bully. Included things like: screaming at Landau that he ‘owns him’ and that Landau ‘has no friends’, after Landau protested when Crowder changed his mind last minute after agreeing that he could have his comedian friend on. Having a ‘shut up’ light for Landau in studio. Crowder bitched about the Daily Wire term sheet’s clause about not being paid for days he didn’t do work (…) but gave Landau a clause that he’d be sent home without pay if he was 5 minutes late. Demanding that Landau’s family move even though he knew one member relied on their current job’s health insurance for a serious issue, imposing on his tour dates, and cutting the few seconds of the show where he’d pitch Landau’s tour from the contract the moment Landau got ‘too successful’ (saying that Landau now earned more than him, which Landau insists can’t be true).
Well it’s mainly because D&D decided it’d be a great idea to do it mostly over the course of a single episode
they think shocking effect just for the sake of shocking is great, and always works for GoT.
NOPE.
Dany the compassionate and kind, snapped just in 1 episode to become his father, burrrn them all.
Jaime whole character arc become waste that he came back to Cersei after post nut clarity with Briene.
Jon Snow, the Ice and Fire, the prince who was promised, Azor Ahai, simping for muhh qweeen, yells at zombie dragon, while Arya stab the big bad Night King like it was just random villain.
Varys, Littlefinger, and Tyrion, those who always playing 4D chess, become so dumb that it hard to watch.
and the most shocking of all: “and who has a better story than Bran the Broken?” like what the fuck man, I thought Bran story become much sinister and dark that he is the Bran of All Time (Bran the Builder, Bran that become Night King, and other Bran, etc). Like, also why bother create a story about the connection between him (as three eyed raven) and the Night King, psychic bond between them when he wargs, etc. and no, it’s just “Westeros now are adopting Democracy, and Bran is the leader choosen by the council” thing.
suBvERtEd ExpEcTAtiOnS
Both were a bit crap in my opinion. Ok, Dany’s was Taco Bell volcano diarrhea level.
Exactly.
Danerys going crazy should have been set up YEARS in advance. She spends the first 7 seasons doing everything she can to avoid needless suffering and talking about how she’s going to “break the wheel.”
Then, over the course of only 3-4 episodes in Season 8, D & D flip her switch from “good” to “evil” like the Krusty the Clown doll and she slaughters an entire city. This is not “character growth.” This contradicts everything we’ve been shown about her character.
Might not be character growth… could be tumor in the brain growth.
Clone Wars did a great job portraying Anakin’s gradual slide. There was nuance and plenty of exposure of the good parts of his character. His friendship with Obi-Wan was in evidence. His relationship with Padme was believable.
The fact that post-pubescent prequel-Anakin was ever trusted by anyone is at best evidence of how the dark side clouds perception.
In the prequels, from EPII he continuously felt like someone who should clearly be a Sith being shoehorned into being a Jedi. His friendship with Obi-Wan existed in name only, and his “romance” with Padme was in fact not a better romance than Twilight. (And that’s saying something.)
OG fans waited decades to see Vader’s backstory, and what we got was about the least rewarding most hamfisted and uninteresting portrayal of that backstory that could have been achieved. Decades of fan appetite regarding that backstory, possibly the only time such a thing has been maintained in the history of cinema, or likely will be again, and Lucas gave us Jar-Jar, cringe dialog, limp acting, and endless CGI.
D&D royally fucked up with GoT, but using the prequels to shine a light on that reads like something from The Onion.
The whole point of it is that whatever you described is still somehow better than that disappointing bullshit of a last season
Agree, ending of GOT made of lot of people stop being long time fans.
Rushed and not that well tought out.
I just tell people that GoT is the best 4 season TV show in history.
I do appreciate season 5 for the sand snakes jail scene at least.
Any love for season 6? Those last two episodes were BOSS
same as star wars being the best 6+2 movies ever :p
just 6
meant episodes I-VI + solo and rogue one
The fuck does Dungeons and Dragons have to do with Star Wars?
It’s Dame of Dragons, the TV thing.
Is it?
There is House of the Dragon.
I can’t find anything about Dame of Dragons.
I will never not read D and D as Dungeons and Dragons, so this was highly confusing to me at first 😂
It’s like a hurdles race for toddlers. Its literally just a bar on the ground to hop over, and they still sometimes fail.
I don’t know. They both flipped on a dime into kid murdering.
I mean… I’m not saying that either one of them is good.
The prequels are hot garbage start to finish. But at least the ending makes narrative sense, if you squint and look at it sideways.
There’s just no way to look at the last season and make it make sense.
Anakin has a clear motive, and a logical progression from naive to evil.
…did he, though?
Anakin did not like sand, so therefore he had to kill all the younglings to win Padme’s love. It’s a very clear yet compelling character arc.
And you have to remember that he liked to spin as “it was a cool trick”.
I’d say so
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plucked from poverty and slavery, despite his mother remaining helpless, by a Jedi that was a part of an order that ultimately saw him as an unscrupulous means to an end of maintaining their power
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he felt as though he could make a bigger difference than he was allowed if stated order relinquished their attempt at controlling him
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this feeling was vindicated by his mother’s torture and subsequent death
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had his previously instilled beliefs challenged by two men he respected
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incredibly strong motivation to go against the Jedi’s wishes to save the one person he valued more than life itself
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There are people who think otherwise ??
