(May 17, 2019 at 6:16 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: To be fair - many people were going to hate the end of the show, however it played out. Massively popular high-budget shows tend to become victims of their own success. And this one needed at least a couple more seasons in order to feel not quite so terribly rushed - and even then large percentage of viewers wouldn't have their expectations met. But it seems that these last few episodes managed to upset more than their fair share of fans.
I don't know. I think it would have been a better move to have kept the season at 8 episodes rather than 6, and spent more time on the writing and planning the battle strategies so they didn't make the characters look like idiots.
Quote:The thing is - bleak, disappointing endings are kind of G.R.R. Martin's thing, and the standard of writing on the show has been going down for years, so I - for one - am not really surprised. And people throwing tantrums about it on the internet seem to have drastically differing opinions on what exactly they're mad about. Personally, while I have numerous problems with the show's writing, I must say I'm quite pleased, that we don't seem to be getting a fairy tale ending, with Jon and Dany getting married and living happily ever after.
I don't have an issue with not getting a fairy tale ending; I have an issue with getting an ending that doesn't present a conclusion that fits the themes of the story. So far, I'm unhappy with aspects of how they're telling the story but not necessarily with the where things look like they're heading. But there's still one episode left so I can't say 100% one was or the other whether I'm happy with the ending.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.