And that is what angered me the most about it.
Like I get that killing characters unceremoniously is kinda GoT’s deal, but come on.
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That’s… that’s… just awful, and hilarious.
Like when she dropped the dagger why didn’t he drop her grab sword and swing for the fences? That feels so stupidly forced. Not the mention that a dragon (what literally seems to make obsidian that kills the winter creatures) didn’t just breathe fire and watch everything melt?
I mean anything being turned into chunky kibble will illicit a giggle out of me because I get reminders of the Holy Hand Grenade but that’s felt really anticlimatic
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The evidence is there man!
- Joanna was Queen Rhaella’s lady-in-waiting for years.
- The Mad King was “in love” (as much as someone insane can be) with Joanna. Selmy told Dani this.
- Tywin left King’s Landing a year before Tyrion was born. The reason? Aerys insulted Joanna.
- Rhaella and the Mad King was brother and sister. The possibility of babies with birth defects is high.
- Tyrion dreams of dragons, he’s in love with dragons, and if this is also in the book, he’s one of three people that the dragons allowed to touch them without Dani forcing them to be nice.
- Tywin was constantly telling Tyrion that he’s not a Lannister, there’s no proof that he’s not his, and that he raised Tyrion as his son. Why would he say that? Also, his dying words were “you’re no son of mine.”
- Tyrion has one green and one black* eye and white blond hair, just like a Targaryen. There was also another Targaryen bastard with the same colored eyes.
- Then there’s the dragon with three heads that was never brought up again in the show.
* I could have sworn that was a quote from Cersei that said if you looked deep into that black eye that you could see colors of purple but I can’t seem to find it, which is why my reply took so long.
Edit: And I just looked up what insult Aerys said to Joanna and it’s extremely personal. Something along the lines of did having children mess up your boobs. That question implies he knew what her boobs looked like before kids messed them up.
This pretty much sums it up
I actually think he’s the exact opposite. His writing is all over the place. His first few books were long but I could read through them fast. His last few introduced a bunch of new characters and plots that are most likely meaningless and pointless. Reading the books became a chore.
I haven’t seen any of the shows yet, I usually read books first (they’re almost always better than the shows/movies they spawn) and was (am) still foolishly waiting for the end of the story in print before watching an adaptation on screen. I’m beginning to think this is another “Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time” situation.
And yes George R. R. Martin is sometimes repetitive and wordy, though not as much as Jordan, and nobody’s laid a glove on John Ronald Reuel Tolkien yet, but I’m a fan of all three authors (Tolkien still rules this genre).
OK, I looked her up in the role, in pictures at least; where are the bells? She has to have bells in her hair.
Sounds even worse than the Sylvanas Windrunner story.
And I watched the clip above, omg are all the story thread endings handled that badly?
That clip is from season 8 which is by far the worst season. Here’s a better clip to watch:
I don’t care what anyone else says, that entire sequence gave me chills.
OK, napalm, I’m old, Richard M Nixon was my Commander in Chief, I’m familiar with that stuff. 
Still looks to be a bit beyond the timeline of the story in the books, but a much better thought out scene. 
Yes. If I remember correctly, they partially went off on their own about half way into season 6 because they ran out of books. GRRM gave them some notes but there is a noticeable different between the show when they had books and the show when they were using footnotes.
I thought Season 1-6 were fantastic. Some of the best medieval fantasy I’ve ever watched.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one where Cersei got revenge on all those people.
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As far as I’m concerned, everything that happened after Jon Snow dying isn’t canon.
This is in my mind, the most convincing evidence that Tyrion isn’t a Lannister and is in fact Tywin’s son.
Tywin’s sister Genna (a character tragically cut from the show) even points this out.
Jaime, sweetling, I have known you since you were a babe at Joanna’s breast. You smile like Gerion and fight like Tyg and there’s some of Kevan in you, else you would not wear that cloak… but Tyrion is Tywin’s son, not you. I said so once to your father’s face, and he would not speak to me for half a year.
Jaime may have inhereted the martial talent of the Lannisters and Cersei the ambition, but it’s Tyrion who embodies the intellect and thus the power of Tywin himself.
There are too many similarities in character for them not to be related. Plus, Tywin’s death wouldn’t have been nearly as poetic if Tyrion was just another Targaryan bastard.
Lord knows we already have enough of them floating around.
I dunno… I don’t think GRRM would have wrote all that backstory about Joanna and Aerys if there wasn’t something to it.
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It’s GRRM.
Unnecessary exposition and GRRM go together like GRRM and not finishing his damn books.
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Ok that’s a fair point.
As someone who didn’t read the books and is willing suspend my cynicism to a degree for content I otherwise like, I mostly enjoyed GoT until S8. Even S8 had a few episodes I enjoyed, but the increase of irrational decision-making and behavior on the part of critical characters was a massive turn-off, and in the end S8 was a shameful way to end a show that had invested so much time, money, effort, and fan interest into getting there.
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Oh boy, just another anti-CGI comment #2,989,3245. You won the internet.
Not.
BTW I think the CGI in GoT is fantastic. I found them really impressive.
If you don’t like CGI, then you are an old fart.
Where’s the source?
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I didn’t say I didn’t like cgi, I said I didn’t like Game of Thrones cgi. I’ve seen better is all I’m saying