Comment by iamsaitam
7 days ago
I think the hate that the last seasons get are mainly due to people's expectations of how the several arcs should "wrap up". I have yet to read any compelling argument or point of view why the last seasons were terrible. They were rushed, but that doesn't equate to bad.
>I have yet to read any compelling argument or point of view why the last seasons were terrible.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/the-rea...
https://archive.ph/KLoAq
https://archive.ph/g2mZJ
The worst, I think, is how they treated the secondary characters like Grey Worm and Missandei. Or Jon Snow calmly taking his boat to exile in the middle of Unsullied and Dothraki - he just killed their Queen and Liberation figure.
https://www.cbr.com/game-of-thrones-failed-unsullied-explain...
For me, it was the appearance of plot armor (starting with the end of season 5) that ruined the show.
Up to that point, you had a sense that anyone could die, no matter how important.
Seasons 6+ are full of meh tropes like last-second reversals, people popping out of water when they evidently should've drowned, the impossibly bullshit "blind girl kills trained assassin" moment, the WWE style end of the walkers, etc.
To me, that's just bad. Not rushed.
Yeah, it was bad. And then they really betrayed the story by trying to graft a happy ending on.
The only ending that makes any sense is "Everyone dies, the bad guys win, the end". It's right there in the story's motto: Winter is coming.
> mainly due to people's expectations of how the several arcs should "wrap up".
Well...yeah? The "how" is the very essence of good writing. "Frodo walked to Mount Doom and destroyed the ring" is one way to write Lord of the Rings. But no one would call it good writing. The journey is just as important as the destination.
> I have yet to read any compelling argument or point of view why the last seasons were terrible.
Logic, timing, characterization, pacing, tone, faithfulness to the source material or to earlier seasons. Characters doing dumb shit just because the story needs to get to a certain place.
I didn't need to read anyone's arguments to know the last seasons were terrible. I have eyes and ears.