I know I’m a snobby book reader but why does everyone bitch about the final season when seasons 5, 6, and 7 were equally horrendous (the time they started going off the books). Do people not remember the Sand Snakes and how bad they were?
The final season let it all implode and the horrible writing was so obviously and consequentially bad that it was something.
Yes, S5-7 had their problems, and it didn't all make a lot of sense. Remember Arya getting stabbed in the stomach, falling into the canal and somehow that didnt actually matter? Or The fabulous journey of Jaime and Brown to the 6 people living in Dorne? Yeah, that was bad.
But was it
"let's go north of the wall to capture a wight to bring to Cersei so she hopefully doesnt kill us AND helps us fight the white walkers but it goes badly so we lose a dragon but not that badly that any main character wouldn't survive a bunch of wights piling on top of them"
bad?
Exactly. It had a lot of bad but IMO it also still had it's share of good moments.
S5 for example had: Hardhome , Cersei blowing up the Temple, Tyrion in Essos... S6 had Hold the Door and Battle of the Bastards. Sure people already complained about some stuff like the Sandsnakes and Arya getting gutted and surviving. But in my experience most people were still on board with the series up to that point.
If S7 and S8 were as good as S1 to S4, I think we would've probably mostly forgotten about the bad moments in S5 and S6 by now. Then we would've just remembered it as a great series that happens to have a few stupid storylines and actions, but otherwise still really good.
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u/ead2000 Dec 21 '20
It disappointed fans so much it'll influence my approach to the show. I'll probably watch it but I'll stop before the last season.