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David Benioff, Troy
// Adapted from Homer, The Iliad
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of all the showrunners in the GOT/ASOAIF universe, ira parker is the one who respect george and his work the most, and it shows in the quality of AKOTSK. d&d respected him as well when they worked with him, i’m not saying otherwise, but the same cannot be said for condal (and hess).
condal has never been able to write good stories, let alone good characters, and it shows. take HOTD as a standout series, unrelated to the book, and you’ll notice how bad it is. it’s almost painful and cringe-worthy.
I need to vent about this because I feel like many fans don't understand where I'm coming from. My introduction to the ST universe wasn't the main show. It was The First Shadow stage play. That masterpiece was my first love, and it's the reason I fell in love with Hawkins int the first place. Because of this unique starting point, my perspective on the series is completely different. Here is why I hold the play in such high regard, why I refuse to watch the second half of Season 5, and why I would still choose the rewatch Game of Thrones Season 8 over certain ST episodes.
In the FS, Henry Creel is not just a monster. He is a deeply tragic, traumatized, and complex boy. You feel for him, you understand his pain, and you see the pure psychological horror of his mind. Then comes the second half of Season 5, and the show completely guts his character. They turned Henry - my favourite character- into a one-dimensional, monologuing Marvel villain standing in front of a green screen. The psychological horror was completely repleaced by cheap superhero tropes and forced comedic relief. There is zero horror tension. What hurts the most is that the main characters never learn about Henry's tragic past. They never try to save or redeem him. It's and insulted, wasted emotional arc.
Think about how insane and and dehumanized the show became by the end. In the series finale, Joyce Byers - who was Henry's hoght school classmate in the stage play - ends up brutally hacking him apart with an axe. She delievers 11 brutal axe strikes, completely decapitating him. Can you imagine actually sitting through and watching that level of cold, violence being treated like triumphant moment? Hnery's demise isn't treated like a tragedy; it's treated like a checklist item. Compare this to how GoT Season 8 handled Daenerys Targaryen. Daenerys committted unspeakable horrors and slaughtered millions of innocents people in King's Landing. Yet, when she met her end, tje story treated her death as a massive, devastating human tragedy. The framing, the music, and the weight of her fall remained true of the grim drama of the universe. ST, however, completely stripped Henry of his humanity and reduced his death to a gory, unfeeling spectacle.
In Season 2 and the stage play, the Mind Flayer was terrifying because it was a Lovecraftian, cosmic horror entity. It was an omnipresent mind, a dark entity that possessed and broke its victims from the inside out. You couldn't just punch it or shoot it. By the end of Season 5, they turned this brilliant, megabrain cosmic threat into a physical, giant CGI Kaiju monster that you can fight with flamethrowers and bombs. It destroyed the entire lore. They traded haunting psychological atmosphere for an unearned Avengers-style final fight.
This is why I literally cannot bring myself to watch the second half of Season 5. It feels like an insult to the characters and the tone set by the FS and Season 4. As fot The Lost Sister (2x07), I skip it for completely different reasons - it's just bizarre, useless, poorly written punk-cliché detour that has absolutely no place Hawkins mythos. I have never rewatched it and I never will.
People laugh when I say i'd rewatch any episodes of the infanously terrible GoT Season 8 that the second half of ST Season 5. But here is the truth: GoT Season 8 had a rushed, awful script, but it never changed its genre. The world of Westeros remained dark, grim, and visually stunning. Daeneys's burning King's Landing or the Battle of Winterfell might have frustrating, but they kept the show's core tone. It didn's suddenly turn into a Marvel or Disney family comedy. ST Season 5, however , completely lost its soul amd changed from a gritty horro-sci-fi into a soullness blockbuster.
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I still can't believe that this was actual dialogue D&D wrote to convince the audience that Dany was some kind of power hungry tyrant...
sometimes (most times) fanfic writers are better than actual, paid show writers bc we write from the heart. we pour out our emotions and experiences and time into something that literally gives nothing back, just bc we care so much. we dont give a shit about plot twists or looking smart or surprising the fans. we just care. and that's why we'll usually be better than them
