#got 8.05

Me, when I realize Sandor is gonna have to kill himself too, with fire too:

(2/2) I think that people will still say Dany is still a great character who was ruined by two hacks and everyone is waiting day by day for GRRM to give us all the “real story” and people will see the last two seasons as badly written fanfic.

Right? Lol at least we’re in solidarity!

Yeah, it’s currently sitting at 49% on Rotten Tomatoes. No GOT episode has ever fallen so far; precious few fall below 90. It deserves to be lower, imo, because even though it was well-directed, that was a lot of gratuitous horror, some sexual assault for no point other than to just to go out the same way GoT came in, and some honestly poor CGI when the Dragon flew over the Iron Fleet. But Sapochnik did what he could with it, I guess, though I do not give him a pass for his role in it. 

So yeah. I, too, have a sense of schadenfreude when I see it falling so low. It’s what it deserves. I agree with you that Dany is a great character who deserves better, and my motto is “do it for her” right now. I don’t have a lot of hope for their prequels and won’t be watching unless people I trust convince me they’re excellent. 

It was just so bad. So bad. I can’t buy it–the show seems like it gaslighted Dany into insanity. There was nothing in the actual show to suggest Dany was going insane. The Viserys thing–well, Arya, Sansa, Jon, Ned, etc. were similarly cold when executing terrified people. Why were we to see Dany as different from those heroes? 

You can’t encourage your audience to see a character as a hero for ten years and then be like SURPRISE VILLAIN. It doesn’t work that way, especially when there is no logic to it, and when they so cruelly totted out the pregnancy red herrings.

I want to talk about this, because of how painful this is for me in particular. Red herrings only work in fiction when you have something more satisfying to offer your audience. To directly allude to a Jonerys pregnancy at least four times last season and to have the directors even laugh and comment “we’ll see about that!” when Dany says she can’t have kids in a commentary… they knew what they were doing. Why tease hope when you would have known by that point? 

Look, infertility is awful. I have not actively tried to have kids, but I most likely have endometriosis (you can’t confirm it except with surgery) which might make it hard to get pregnant, and I want to be a mom more than anything. Women without kids are often portrayed as crazy and evil in media, and this compounded that, and to tease us with a miracle, with the Breaker of Chains breaking the curse a witch set on her, teasing us so deliberately to the point where it wasn’t subtle at all that she would conceive a baby with Jon… and then to be like LOL NAH she’s insane. That hurts. That is cruel. 

I really hope this isn’t GRRM’s ending. I hope he’s an elaborate clown who will be like I LIED TO THEM BECAUSE I SAW THEM FOR CLOWNS HERE’S THE REAL ENDING because I will gobble it up if so. 

But I’m afraid this madness schtick might be GRRM’s last twist too. Could they really get away with changing that much? If they did, then justice for GRRM. But I’m not so sure. I do think that if Dany goes mad in his books, it’d be well written character wise since he is good with characters, but I am fairly critical of ASOIAF and always have been, and knowing this is a fave of mine’s fate would probably keep me from reading. Unless I hear it’s different from the fandom! There’s a ton of fat especially in books 4 and 5, a lot of sexual violence that isn’t necessary (Lollys Stokeworth I’m so sorry sweetie), and there is a bumbling structure that meanders too much. If Dany goes insane at the end of it, there… is absolutely no structure at all no matter how well he pulls it off, and I’m just. I’m tired. I don’t want another book about the infertile abused woman going insane just like her daddy and being put down like a mad dog by her lover. 

No matter what happened in got this series, I will never get over that shot of Grey Worm, Jon and Davos entering KL. Despite the context -- that shit was sexy :

I know that Dany said that she was gonna win the Iron Throne through fire and blood and if that meant enemy soldiers and Cersei etc. But in the entire fucking city??? If she wanted to burn something, she could have gone straight to the Red Keep and left the rest of the city intact. Not to mention the soldiers and city fucking surrendered!!! They keep saying that she's like her father, the Mad King, but he went slowly mad over decades whereas she went "mad" within two episodes. Even in the shit-show that was season 7 she was very clearly heard saying "I will not rule over ashes." There was absolutely no need to burn the entire city of Kings Landing leading to the deaths of millions of innocents. In past seasons, one of her main character motivations was to punish those who preyed on the weak and innocent but all of a sudden, just because she's lost a few people close to her, the lives of innocents mean nothing to her.

Why the hell did the writers fuck up her character so much??? Why the actual fuck did they think this sudden deviation from character was such a good idea?? They are complete idiots and now I'm just pissed. They've destroyed Dany's character - she's one of my favourite characters in the books but I started to dislike her so much in the show like season 5 onwards, and now I just hate her. The writers just have no respect for the source material and have heads so far up their own arses that they can't see to write anything even close to good. I'm glad there's only one episode left so I don't have to watch them destroy the beautiful concept that was Game of Thrones anymore after next week 😭

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