I loved this series when it came out. What a different time. The only reason it stuck with me that Laura Linney was in it is because I was already familiar with her before the show aired. As much as I now love Paul Gross, I totally forgot he was in it because back then the closing credits were about the only way to…

Unfortunately she seems pretty adamant that she’s done, but I say never say never. I get the impression it’s entirely her choice — if she did want to do another, someone would produce it.

Good for you for having the fortitude to watch weekly. I just inhaled the entire season and I envy the Brits who were forced to wait a week for each new episode. When the episode 6 credits rolled and there was no “next episode” link at the bottom of my Amazon screen, I cursed the BBC out loud for their short season…

He was in the pool! He was in the pool!

Also — this guy’s personality is a little annoying but his GoT podcasts go deep into story structure. https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/game-of-thrones-podcast-script-analysis-season-8/

I really liked this twitter thread. I haven’t read this article yet, but the premise looks interesting. Nerdette’s GoT podcast with Peter Sagal was good too. There’ve also been some great conversations here on AV Club.

For all the gratuitous griping, there were also a lot of carefully considered analyses as to why this season often didn’t work from a narrative perspective. Some of them offered terrific insights into the mechanics of storytelling.

Oh I see. Thanks for the explainer!

I’m confused that it’s 1-10 Quaithe doesn’t re-appear but 5-1 that she does. I thought it was because I don’t understand how odds work, though.

There’s a joke about how a Phillies game was cancelled so the fans all went to the airport to boo landings.

If you boiled the fan theories down to their bare essence you’d get an endless recursion of Bran warging into Arya who’s wearing Bran’s face.

The meta-symbol for me is in season 1 when Arya throws rocks at Nymeria to make her want to run away for her own good. The showrunners are Arya, we’re Nymeria, and the rocks are the last 3 episodes. I’m definitely not as bummed about the show ending as I was two months ago.

The whole series was just Hodor shaking a snow globe.

Yeah, if Bran’s knowledge is informed by the past then he’s probably as thrown off as the rest of us by the sudden universal plummet in IQ and strategic ability.

I’ve had that song stuck in my head since Qyburn first brought him back. It’s been a rough few years.

Years and years ago I heard a beautiful piece on This American Life where a guy talked about how devastatingly disappointing  the Phantom Menace was — but he connected his compulsion to rewrite it in his head with his similar response to his mother’s death, which had happened around the same time.

Dog is god spelled backward. Also Goliath is an anagram for tail hog.

Or Sofia.

Ian McShane had a similarly tepid take on the Deadwood movie (“Yeah, it’s OK. Yeah, it’s good.”) which I’ve been trying not to think about, but this just dredged it up. Here’s hoping.