RE: Game of Thrones final season [spoilers]
May 17, 2019 at 6:16 am
(This post was last modified: May 17, 2019 at 7:26 am by Homeless Nutter.)
Yeah, fans sure are losing their sh*t. 
Season 8 has audience score of 41% on Rotten Tomatoes, compared with 97-87% that previous seasons have.
Over 750 000 people (so far) signed a petition: Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers.
Yeah, that's totally going to happen...
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.
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.
Season 8 has audience score of 41% on Rotten Tomatoes, compared with 97-87% that previous seasons have.
Over 750 000 people (so far) signed a petition: Remake Game of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers.
Yeah, that's totally going to happen...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.
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.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
