I am neither man or child, and the show started out very good and got worse as it went along. Are you daft? Do you not understand things change over time?

It’s not really region locking. All carts work on all consoles and all consoles can set up all online stores. It’s just that each store is locked to local payment services and currencies and also some publishers, mostly in Japan, don’t localize their games and don’t bother uploading them to the foreign storefronts for…

I don’t disagree that the heel turn was coming. It’s just the show lacked the context and buildup to earn it. Try as you might, trying to argue that rightfully killing slavers somehow leads to the mass murder of smallfolk is not a good justification for a heel turn. Hell are we gonna forget that Tyrion literally…

I don’t think you understand what deconstruction is, I don’t think you understand narrative build, and I don’t think you have a strong critique.

And I’ve already said I was neither disappointed nor angry with the narrative beats, I just wish they were conveyed better. You can paint my reaction in whatever light you want, but I know what it actually was.

You haven’t read all the comments from people who think the show should have run forever and ever so they could get the perfect ending that they wanted it to be.

I don’t think the problem is merely aesthetic, because taking the time to examine motivations and consequences wasn’t just a surface element of the show’s deconstruction, it was the foundation upon which the deconstruction was built. It didn’t just point to Tolkien and go “nuh uh,” it explained and demonstrated in…

Let me ask you, though, why do YOU think people did engage with it as a deconstructionist work even though almost ALL the critiques are decidedly not in that lens but instead from a traditional fantasy narrative lens? (Unexpected heel turn, ruined redemption arc, Jon ends up being a little useless to the final…

I’m gonna echo what I said to someone else recently on another GoT thread: I absolutely agree that a significant portion of the show’s detractors had a problem with Dany turning evil and there’s no way it could’ve been done that would satisfy them. And there are definitely reasons why ‘But she only killed bad people…

But I really do think there is something about this narrative in particular that caused a lot of people to miss it being a deconstructionist work and engaging with it from that perspective.

Why do you think it is that people had little-to-no trouble with the panoply of complicated characters with complex and sometimes contrasting emotions, motivations and actions prior to season eight? Characters with at least as much going on as the surviving cast came and left during that period without any outrage or…

BUT the Family Unfriendly Aesop there is that NO ONE who believes they are the moral arbiter society can be trusted because once you are there that attitude and lack of skepticism/self reflection becomes a delimiter on the kinds of actions you can take. The show has her believe in a sense of justice and believe…

You keep saying that people didn’t get it. People understood what the show was doing, they just think it did a shitty job of doing it in the last season.

Bad storytelling is neither new nor daring.

I theoretically have a problem with when it ended. The only way they could have successfully told the story they were trying to tell would have been to spread it out over at least 10-15 more episodes. But that would have required a different creative team with different priorities.

7 seasons of set-up not enough?

I theoretically have a problem with when it ended. The only way they could have successfully told the story they were trying to tell would have been to spread it out over at least 10-15 more episodes. But that would have required a different creative team with different priorities. 

Too little setup, too little time spent on consequences, and character motivations which were muddled by the compressed timeline. Dany’s descent made sense conceptually, but not two episodes after her selflessness in the fight against the white walkers, which itself seemed to go from the biggest existential threat the…

Countless remakes prove that you can tell the exact same story to wildly different results. The problem was never with the plot beats (Dany, Jon, Bran and Arya’s respective “moments”), it was with their execution.