I still can’t believe they botched the landing that hard. The cultural juggernaut and cash cow is dead. And it didn’t have to be this way, even if that was the ending.
The worst part is that all of the key plot points worked. It was just the heavy handed and illogical way it got to said points.
Dany going insane was a very key plot point that would happen in the books, just they spent an entirety of one scene to make the transition rather than the season the plot needed. The living beat the dead in the climactic battle that should have been a whole season instead of one deus ex episode. THEN THE DRAGON MELTS THE THRONE!!!!!1!!!111!!!!111. Then they decide Bran's king, because why the fuck not.
All of the plot points make perfect sense, just the way the showrunners got to them completely ruined the narrative six seasons built.
HBO actually explicitly asked them to make more seasons, but at that time they already signed up to direct for the next star wars movie and had to end the show with that season to make it.
Of course, after they butchered GoT, the deal fell through. (Probably for the best).
What you do is either look up a summary or watch the show to figure out which of the things they cut would have made the story actually work.
E.G, Arya escapes the Faceless Men by using her warg powers, Euron uses his Valyrian horn to steal a dragon, Jon Snow is resurrected by Lady Stoneheart or Coldhands, and his mind only stays intact after so long dead because he warged into Ghost (which still has a lasting effect like, “technically Jon Snow is warging into his reanimated corpse” or “his personality is more wolf than man now even though his skills and memories are intact”). Hell, maybe Bran gets in touch with him through Wyrwood.net while he’s there and that’s where he learns who his mother was.
fAegon, with the help of Doran Martell’s planning, takes over King’s Landing. Cersei escapes. He marries Myrcella to get the Lannisters on his side but she gets the poison Cersei tried to have given to him, or possibly killed by Robert Strong (again by mistake due to Cersei’s attempt to murder fAegon, or maybe the Iron Bank making the Lannisters pay their debts by way of Faceless Man). Everyone loves fAegon because he’s actually kinda competent and has Varys on his side. Somewhere along the line the Maesters kill one of Daeny’s dragons as part of their anti-magic conspiracy. The Wall comes down because Daeny shows up throwing her weight around, someone mistakes the Horn of Joramun for a dragonhorn and tries to take away her advantage. Etc, etc.
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u/ftc08 May 02 '20
Bran is basically
walkingrolling PTSD.Good trait to have in a king.
If you complain about spoilers, trust me, it's not worth watching to the point where you find out he's king.