Comic-Con-line. It was right there!

OK, buddy.

I refuse to believe that people don’t describe you as insufferable. 

It’s a strapless evening gown!

Better Call Saul

But, all of these endings make sense—Dany becoming mad queen, Jamie + Cersei dying together, etc. We’re just not getting the proper narrative progression needed to actually get to those points....which is frustrating.

Totally agreed, of course. And the thing is, I still enjoy watching the show. The spectacle and scope of the show are unmatched and they deserve ample kudos for what they’ve accomplished in that realm. And I’ve found a lot of discrete pleasures even on the writing and acting fronts, even in these last couple seasons…

I get it, you’ve bought in 100% and will excuse anything somehow or other. Gotcha

That was as disappointed in an episode of TV as I’ve ever been. Marvelous spectacle again (though not their high-water mark in that regard). But on a writing level, almost wall-to-wall disappointment.

Because the cleganebowl was the only storyline that went the way it was supposed to. His character had an arc and served a purpose. It is not bad to follow a storytelling formula, as well as the characters are well drawn. The formula serves a purpose and is satisfying. And it is not good writing simply because you…

They completely undid Jaime’s arc.

What an utterly baffling episode. It’s almost like this show got cancelled and the producers clapoed their hands and said, “Mm’k, let’s get this shit over with.” And then proceeded to finish the series out in the most basic way possible while ignoring 90% of the built of mythos of the books and the last 7 seasons

So Arya gives up her quest for revenge, which was the basis of her entire storyline, after a 5 second convo with The Hound? OK cool. At least there wasn’t other rushed stuff like Euron running into Jaime in the middle of the battlefield.

*draws red pen of past editor life; sallies forth; lays siege to that sentence-like thing*

He started with a paperclip.

You. Have. To. Set. The. Table. 

A lot of people are going to die next week. They wanted us to spend time with everybody, so the deaths will mean something.

My theory is that D&D added that part then so that during the Battle of Winterfell, Dany is going to have a moment when she has to choose to save Jon or let him die (or maybe even kill him herself).

The ending with Jon and Danny felt incredibly contrived. It struck me as similar to “24,” where they would need something big to happen at the end of an episode whether or not it made sense to the narrative.