time spent debating if killing your aunt ok: half an episode 

Sophie Turner herself was first “informed” of the change from the books, which involved her character now being raped, as part of a joke that director Alex Graves made at her expense during filming of Season 4. As Turner explained in an interview with Entertainment Weekly a day after this wedding night scene aired: “Last season [Thrones director] Alex Graves decided to give me hints. He was saying, ‘You get a love interest next season.’ And I was all, 'I actually get a love interest!’ ” – Apparently Turner assumed they meant they were going to cast Harrold Hardyng for Sansa’s Vale storyarc in Season 5, to be her handsome and noble love interest as he was in the novels. Instead, Turner said, “So I get the scripts and I was so excited and I was flicking through and then I was like, "Aw, are you kidding me!?’”

[Neil Marshall, director of Blackwater] recalled that an unnamed executive producer repeatedly urged him to add more full-frontal nudity during filming. According to Marshall, this producer told him that “everyone else in the series [represents the] drama side. I represent the perv[ert] side of the audience, and I’m saying I want full frontal nudity in the scenes”

Season 4 onwards, there have been no female members in the creative team - that is, not production design, but those actually in a position to influence story adaptation decisions. There has only ever been one female staff writer on the TV series, Vanessa Taylor, who joined the writing staff in Season 2 and continued through Season 3, but then left to work on film projects. Jane Espenson also wrote one episode in Season 1, but she wasn’t a staff writer (that is, actively a member of the roundtable meetings at which the other 3-4 writers discuss adaptation decisions)

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“The finale combines the rejection of a radical change with an old anti-feminist motif at work in Wagner. […] In contrast to male ambition, a woman wants power in order to promote her own narrow family interests or, even worse, her personal caprice, incapable as she is of perceiving the universal dimension of state politics.

The same femininity which, within the close circle of family life, is the power of protective love, turns into obscene frenzy when displayed at the level of public and state affairs. Recall the lowest point in the dialogue of Game of Thrones when Daenerys tells Jon that if he cannot love her as a queen then fear should reign – the embarrassing, vulgar motif of a sexually unsatisfied woman who explodes into destructive fury.”

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“Daenerys as the Mad Queen is strictly a male fantasy, so the critics were right when they pointed out that her descent into madness was psychologically not justified. The view of Daenerys with mad-furious expression flying on a dragon and burning houses and people expresses patriarchal ideology with its fear of a strong political woman.”

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“Consequently, Jon kills out of love (saving the cursed woman from herself, as the old male-chauvinist formula says) the only social agent in the series who really fought for something new, for a new world that would put an end to old injustices.

So justice prevailed – but what kind of justice? The new king is Bran: crippled, all-knowing, who wants nothing – with the evocation of the insipid wisdom that the best rulers are those who do not want power. A dismissive laughter that ensues when one of the new elite proposes a more democratic selection of the king tells it all.”

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There were many ways how Daenerys could have been a villain and Jon could have killed her without making it misogynist or offensive

Don’t make them a couple and have them have a epic and fair fight

Don’t make him trick her with false promises and kisses before murdering her

Instead, Dany was demonized and killed a entire city for Jon Snow to look heroic while and after killing her. That’s fucked up. That’s sexist. And I’m not having it.

Also, Dany’s ideology has nothing to do with Nazism so it’s plain ignorance comparing the two

Nazism believed in Expansionism – conquering land – because Hitler wanted to create the “Lebensraum” (living space) for German people

Racism: Nazism believed the Aryan race (German people) to be a “master race”, superior to all others and ordered the genocide and enslavement of Jews, black people, homosexuals, gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, physical and mentally disabled, communists, etc.

Nationalism: Germany – the “Third Reich” (third empire) is superior to all other countries and must assure its dominance and supremacy over them

Did she ever execute people just because they were racially different from her? Did she ever make a speech about how the Valryians are racially superior to the Dothraki or the Andals or the First Men? 

D&D apparently don’t even know what they write. Dany’s ideology – kill the masters and free the people - is closer to Communism. They wrote her similar to Stalin in a way but if she was a true Stalinist her first action would have been killing Jon, Gendry, Sansa, Arya and everyone who meant competition to her power. Seriously, if you are going around throwing totalitarian regimes labels at least know what you are talking about.

Not only that. They most likely distorted Emilia’s words. She said she watched Hitler’s speeches to see if she can understand the idea of what his saying even if he speaks in a foreign language. You know, to see if she can pull it of during her speech in episode 6. They took her words, changed it and used it to compare Daenerys to Hitler. It’s so disrespectful. I’m from Poland, a country that SUFFERED A GREAT DEAL because of Hitler. So hearing them comparing my favorite character to such despicable person who killed millions of people (because they were “worse”) and destroyed my home country, makes me sick and furious. 

Thanks D&D for making badass warrior queen Yara/Asha remain quiet after being threatened by a child I guess? Go read the books, people. Asha has been killing her enemies and commanding fleets since before Arya was born.

Do I think Kit Harrington and Isaac Hempstead Wright have all the right to be angry that the fans and critics are trashing the season? Once again, yes, of course, but I don’t think their logic is entirely sound. Just because people worked hard on it, does not mean it is exempt from criticism. Effort does not equal an A but in the very most a C+ or B- (any teacher or student will tell you this). Game of Thrones season 8 as a whole does not deserve a “pass” from criticism because of “how much work was put into it.” It does not matter that everyone but D&D did their job perfectly when the finished project just wasn’t that great (quality wise). 

I think we should recognize the cast and crews’ efforts, but I think they should also recognize that this is the type of reaction fans and critics alike had while watching season 8:

D&D got A TON of money and prestige from this gig. And they completely bs'ed their last assignment. They did not work hard. It’s pretty clear they sat down for an hour and wrote the first thing that came to their minds because they have other writing assignments now that they care more about. That’s unprofessional and unfair to the fans. They deserve to be called out for it.

Kit Harington might not feel personally hurt but women and especially women of colour do. The ending followed all the tropes we’ve established in the last century (not to say other characters were treated well)