In the same vein, they keep using the trope of “the villain gets off on a technicality while the police keep going after the vigilante hero.” This is so old and tired that the 1960's Batman regularly satired it.

Lord knows there are millions of different interpretations of The Shining, but I always thought it was interesting that, like what Kubrick always said about the movie being “optimistic”, the original movie has a weirdly happy ending.

100% this.

Thanks for taking the time to write your three theories out. I hate Bran getting the throne regardless of the reason, but #3 makes my hate justified so I’m going with that one. When the Night King touched Bran he seeped a cold darkness into him. That’s the version I’m gonna go with.

Serious question: What makes an edgelord an edgelord? I see this term a lot and it mostly appears to come out in place of “asshole” or “jerk” or some other ad hominem form. As far as I can tell, it’s just someone who rubbed you (proverbial) the wrong way. Is it like neck beard, where you (again, proverbial) just want…

It’s TLJ all over again. We’re all an edge lord to somebody. 

I posted this elsewhere, but I think the problem the writers had was they tried to keep her turn a secret from the audience until the very end. That’s how most GoT twists work, the audience is surprised along with the characters.

The point is, if you say it snarky, anything can sound dumb. I could just as well give you this article’s same headline, but swap the fan fic for what actually happened this season- and the conclusion that "this is ridiculous" would still be the same.

He also lived in a castle called The Dreadfort. You might as well have called Roose Bolton Lord Evil VonBadGuy.

Their examples as to why everyone else was “a fool” for not “seeing it ahead of time” are always very weak. She took pleasure in seeing her brother die. She killed slaveowners. She burned that weird tower in season 2, the people who were trying to kill her and take her dragons.

whatever. lets give them that victory. to be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to not be surprised by Mad Queen Dany. very subtle. Dany’s nihilistic outlook, woven into her characterisation, and so on.

But he was a master of realism and manipulation! He told us that over and over again. That should be all the evidence we need to rationalize his character’s obvious problems away.

Most of this could be fixed by having it be Jeyne Poole instead of Sansa. I guess they had to condense the storylines.

Honestly it would have been less clumsy to ‘Nikki and Paulo’ Jeyne Poole into the works in season 5 and have it Littlefinger faking her as Sansa while the real Sansa kinda just hung out in the Vale.

The claims that oh of course he wouldn’t know the worst of the Boltons always cracked me up. THEY HAD A FLAYED MAN ON THEIR HOUSE FLAG!!!

Speaking of Tyrion, literally every piece of advice that he’s given Danaerys has backfired in some way. The same Tyrion that helped win the Battle of Blackwater became a strategic dumbass for the sole purpose of accelerating the ending that D&D want. 

I was referring to the edge lords ruining it with their gloating.

Actually, this just points to the fundamental problem that so many of us can’t get over after that last episode. They did foreshadow her turn extensively and often. But every time it would come up before, they would quickly counter it by showing that she was still good, that she still wouldn’t visit death and…

As another reviewer put it so nicely, foreshadowing is the not the same thing as character development. Something can be foreshadowed and still be totally rushed/botched.

Yeah, I can’t remember if the show ever specifically referenced that, but the books certainly did.