From what I recall in the books, it's not that prophecies are bullshit, it's that they get misinterpreted. Cersei believes little brother refers to Tyrion instead of Jaime.
The fuck? I am. I'm upset that it's an intentional deviation from the books' heavy foreshadowing that Jaime will end up strangling her to death, which would've been a much better and much darker ending for both their characters.
I think Dany absolutely goes crazy and tries to kill everyone in the books, but it will be better written. George has already said that the majority of the endings for the characters will be the same, just how they get there is different.
Pretty sure Varys straight up mentioned having her...
That was s2... doubt Dumb and Dumber had finalized how much they planned on changing about the ending at the time. Or winter actually comes. I don't know.
4* that retarded Dorne adventure from s5 was our first glimpse into the brilliance of Weiss and Benioff.
The ineffectiveness of the scorpions was ridiculous. Instead of having Dany triggered by success, why not have the scorpions work like the previous episode? Have them clip Drogon a few times...
Well now we know why the show writers didn't keep the prophecy about the valonqar. Somehow they thought destroying Jaime's entire arc was better. WAY TO SUBVERT EXPECTATIONS HURR DURR.
I love how Dany has somehow eclipsed the Mad King already. Imminent failure drove him to try and burn the city. Apparently resounding success triggers Dany? And also turns the best and last of the Northmen into traitorous rapists.
There's probably a huge part of the book ending being related to the magic of the world and the showrunners have cut it out completely to save money and not film the necessary seasons that it would require. They're just giving us endings for our characters. It's probably why the Horn of Joramun...
I agree with you, I'm sure they are taking the characters mostly in the directions GRRM plans to, but the way they're taking them is fucking stupid and shitty and fuck them.
Of all the dumb scenes in this episode, Arya turning him down without hesitation wasn't one of them. It made perfect sense - she said she's no lady back in season 1 and has never dreamed of being the wife of any lord like Sansa did.
I read those leaked spoilers for the last two episodes, and they don't completely piss me off, but the way we're getting there has been retarded since season 5. Someone quoted him a while ago saying they'd need 4 or 5 more seasons to do it properly. That's very apparent with how terribly this is...
Goddamn, switching out Dragonbinder for the scorpions continues to be such a terrible fucking decision by the showrunners. At least I'm hoping it's the horn that lets Euron fucks up some of Dany's dragons in the books.
What a piece of shit Jon is for not even petting Ghost goodbye. Why didn't Missandei grab Cersei and take her for a ride down the wall when she was whispering to her, especially when she straight up let her know she was about to die?
Could've sworn there was some award show announcer that butchered the fuck out of it years ago, saying something like "Tyrlon Nannister in Games of Bones!" but I just got a bunch of porn parody results when I searched for that.
That's been bothering me too, this episode was called the Long Night. Well, it lasted for one night. The original Long Night lasted for years ("a generation") plunging most of the world into cold and darkness. Hardly compares. Years ago I was under the impression the final season would...
I thought this season was pure ass compared to the first. Nice visuals, but not a goddamn thing happened besides Odin acquiring Gungnir, OH WAIT, Sweeney took that with him on that way out.
No. I'll keep watching this because it's still one of the best shows on television, but unless the writing quality somehow returns to seasons 1-4 quality I will continue to bitch when it gets retarded.
I got the exact opposite vibe from the BTS bit, as if they knew they wanted to have Arya kill the NK for the last 3 years. I doubt whatever battle goes down in the books (lol at us ever finding out) is anything like this at all. They've known Gurrm's ending since this all started.
His end...
Don't know how I feel about the episode really. Was definitely an experience to watch, though.
Dothraki getting snuffed out one flame at a time was great, as was the initial undead horde rushing into view afterwards. There were a lot of visually awesome scenes, especially the dragon fight above...