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Game of thrones season 8 [contains spoilers]

Everyone has an opinion, but to try and get a general feel of the fans' feelings, here are the current last episode ratings on IMDB:

Game of Thrones - The Iron Throne: 4.4/10

Breaking Bad - Felina: 9.9/10
I would say that with a series like GoT its not as if each episode is a stand alone thing. Its much more designed to be watched a season as a binge watch each episode back to back, so saying How Good Was The Final Episode doesnt really make sense...the final episode was the final season as a whole - or maybe the last three episodes at least. Thats how the writing is set up, and thats a good thing.

(the final episode wasnt all that )
 
I would say that with a series like GoT its not as if each episode is a stand alone thing. Its much more designed to be watched a season as a binge watch each episode back to back, so saying How Good Was The Final Episode doesnt really make sense...the final episode was the final season as a whole - or maybe the last three episodes at least. Thats how the writing is set up, and thats a good thing.

(the final episode wasnt all that )
The same applies to breaking bad.
 
I would say that with a series like GoT its not as if each episode is a stand alone thing. Its much more designed to be watched a season as a binge watch each episode back to back, so saying How Good Was The Final Episode doesnt really make sense...the final episode was the final season as a whole - or maybe the last three episodes at least. Thats how the writing is set up, and thats a good thing.

(the final episode wasnt all that )

People remember the ending of things. If it's shite, it does tend to tarnish the whole product.
 
Do you get full screen tv and subtitles?
I'm not sure what you mean by full screen but I get 1080p, which fills the screen. I don't have subtitles turned on but they're available if I want them. And if I want 4k, I download a 4k stream, but I generally just go with 1080
 
Breaking Bad was complete and utter fan service. Everything people wanted to happen did (unless they had some naive belief about Walt somehow living). They did it well, but it lacked a certain pathos for me, because of that.

I enjoyed the ending of breaking bad. It lacked pathos but it had something else. I didn't feel any sadness or pity for Walter White. What really stuck with me in those final few episodes was the neo nazis. they really disturbed me. They were utterly ruthless, no qualms about enslaving Jesse, murdering DEA agents and anyone else who gets in their way, and the final scene with Walter. They weren't monsters, they were scarily plausible human beings. It definitely made me feeling something, not pathos, but something deep and disturbing. Walter killing them all did not put and end to this feeling. I don't think it was the best finale I have seen but something from it did stick with me.
 
No it wasn't because if it was then why did he drink when the question 'you're a virgin' was asked? It was only implied he had a prodigious penis but never confirmed. Thought it was a clever little nod.

Podrick was drinking for briane because she didn't drink. So virgin question was about briane not podrick.
 
Podrick was drinking for briane because she didn't drink. So virgin question was about briane not podrick.

Over reading but I half thought he was drinking too to take the attention off her, knowing that she'd be uncomfortable about it. Pod being Pod and all.
 
What really stuck with me in those final few episodes was the neo nazis. they really disturbed me. They were utterly ruthless, no qualms about enslaving Jesse, murdering DEA agents and anyone else who gets in their way
The one scene I found deeply upsetting was when they murdered Andrea. More so than anything in GoT.
 
Brienne devotedly writing up Jaime's biography with a nice quill was the shittest bit and a massive let down of her character

It's a nod to the books where the shortness of Jaime's entrance in the book of knights (or whatever it's called) is noted and completely in character for Brienne who is obsessed with being a knight and with Jaime.

But as JimW points out she didn't blot it! I actually shouted at the tv when she did that.
 
The thing that sticks in my mind is Jesse's escape scene. Aaron Paul is amazing (looking forward to seeing him in Westworld III, and hoping that improves after the hopeless second season).

Damn. I'm going to have to continue with WW now after that shit second series. :eek:
 
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I realised what I've been missing from the last couple of seasons (Apart from decent writing) is a proper evil human baddy. We had Joffrey and then we had Ramsey, but then no one else to take the 'just gonna be nasty for fun' mantel.
 
Yeah, Euron Greyjoy was just too funny to be properly hateable, and he never did anything that struck me as particularly evil by the standards of Westeros and battle. Cersei felt like practically an afterthought especially in Season 8. The White Walkers ended up just being this murderous "big bad" (would have been nice to get some proper understanding of what they wanted - beyond Bran and beyond "to kill everyone" - in the form of some more back story from Bran, maybe? Will probably happen in the books...) that I didn't particularly care about.

And although, yeah, there was a dip in quality in season 7 writing, it didn't feel that bad compared to season 8. It had been dipping since season 4 ended, in my view, though, just much more noticeable as it raced to the ending.
 
Yeah, Euron Greyjoy was just too funny to be properly hateable, and he never did anything that struck me as particularly evil by the standards of Westeros and battle.
Joffrey and Ramsey were almost comedy relief. The real tension in the show was the personal dynamics between characters like Cersei, Tyrion, Littlefinger, Varys and Tywin in Kings Landing, the stresses between Jon, Stannis, the conservative branch of the Nights Watch and the Free Folk at the wall and between Danny and the old money in Mereen.
The tension did not drain out when Euron became the comedy villain. It was when Jon killed off the rebel Nights Watch, Cersei killed off most of the Tyrells and the Faith Militant, Danny sailed from Mereen and other characters had disperses from Kings Landing by the end of season 6.
At the end of season 6 most of the local conflicts had been eliminated so the show had to bring in forced conflict like Arya and Sansa, or Tyrion doing dumb stuff. As more and more character gathered into fewer locations there was less conflict. There interactions became less about clever plots and more about banter.
If anyone wants a bit of a laugh there is youtube set to Metallica For Whome The Bell Tolls up at the moment.
 
I have lost all interest in this show now. people need to stop talking about it. it's finished. move on. GOT is soo 2019. Hopefully it will quieten down like Breaking Bad.
 
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