We Need to Talk About Game of Thrones I Guess
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Published 2019-06-28
We need to talk about Game of Thrones Part 2: • The Last of the Game of Thrones Hot T...
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All Comments (21)
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"I've got some feelings, and sometimes you gotta monetize them." Youtube's new tag line.
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It's ironic that they were banking on a controversial but memorable ending when not even a year later the show has almost entirely faded from the public consciousness
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"The ending was, in fairness, foreshadowed by other things being bad." Officer, I'd like to report a murder.
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Peter Dinklage, while delivering the "And who has a better story than Bran the Broken" line: "I'm just going to look into the distance, think really hard about my paycheck, and everything will be OK."
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"Sometimes you you've got some feelings and you just gotta monetize them." I lol'ed.
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“HOT FANTASY THAT FUCKS” RIP monetized feelings
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The point of a twist is to enrich a story, not to feel superior for outsmarting your audience.
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I feel really bad for the actors here too. They brought their A game to this show and dedicated long years to it. Imagine being Lena Headey and putting all of that effort into Cersai only to get crushed by a rock. Awful.
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"Sometimes you've got some feelings, and you've just gotta monetise them."
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“I will not be queen of the ashes” Curb your enthusiasm theme intensifies
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Seems like a similar problem that BBC Sherlock had, where the writers were actively contemptuous of and always wanted to be more clever than the fans
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The writers for the podcast The Magnus Archives said it best, I think: you should have some people who guess it perfectly, some people who get most of it, and some people who have no clue what's going on. Your big reveals have to be earned, they have to be built to. If literally no one could ever possibly see it coming, you failed.
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Changing your story because a fan guessed the outcome is idiotic Like George RR Martin said
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I really liked Alex Hirsch's take on this—he was like, "Yeah, people guessed the twists of Gravity Falls before the episodes released. Good! It's a mystery! Unsolvable puzzles suck. Who does that?" Not an exact quote.
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Forgot to mention one of the worst parts, in my opinion. How vintage Alan Cumming, a political mastermind, tried to manipulate two young girls for at least half a season and failed so badly that he died.
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Old Nan should have been made queen of Westeros she has way better stories than Bran.
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19:48 The dragon didn't burn the throne for the symbolism. It burned it because it saw that its mom was killed by a knife so it killed the knifes family.
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"themes are for eighth book reports" - - guess we should have got an eighth grader to write the finale
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Emelia Clarke has one of the most hilariously expressive faces when she's not acting, I love it.
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My favourite thing ever is the Game of Thrones Season 8 table read. All these brilliant actors who probably could have written a better ending (barring some exceptions) looking absolutely HORRIFIED while D&D revel in their own 'brilliance'. Nothing will beat Emilia Clarke literally sliding down her chair while trying to hide her upset and Conleth Hill just openly fucking hating the script as Lena Headey grieves silently.
