OFFICIAL Game of Holmes Season 8 Thread - A Dream of Flat Tops 4/14/19

[Stop_It_5]

 

[Piff Perkins]

The writing on this show has fallen apart. It's a waste of effort trying to dissect shyt. Lots of shyt made no sense and is filled with gaps and holes. Show has fallen off.

Nothing matters, basically. Every major character survived the "battle to end all battles" because...why not. Even with the crypts...what was the point of that scene? Nobody died outside of some randoms. Jon is literally the song of ice and fire...yet played a relatively minimal role in the battle and the NK seemed completely disinterested in him (despite seeing him kill an Other a few seasons ago). Bran is supposed to be important yet did absolutely jack shyt during the battle.


What is the Lord Of Light? In the books, Melisandre thinks Bran and the Three Eyed Crow must be working for the Great Other. In the show she doesn't meet Bran nor is even curious about a dude who can see the future and past?

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]

Just realized the massive L dothraki took they didn't even need to be in that country in the first place. Went all they way over there to get washed in 2 minute over some puss

 

[The Mad Titan]

Its also funny how that sense the show is ending soon the popular characters that didn't die last ep seem like they have plot armor. If this show had 5 more episodes left people wouldn't be so pressed. But peoples perception is that since they survived that big battle and there are only two episodes left then they are surviving the end of the show.

That's just not the case

 

[Knowledge]

Basically what I’ve learned is if we assembled about 10 faceless men, Westeros would have their own avengers

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

Just realized the massive L dothraki took they didn't even need to be in that country in the first place. Went all they way over there to get washed in 2 minute over some puss

The Dothraki and the Unsullied took eternal L's.

Left their homelands/continents to be used as human shields while the Europe-I mean Westerosi stand back and run into the castles

 

[Reece]

Bran actor on that last staredown with Night King


Here is Issac's (the actor who plays Bran) explanation for his long stare-down with the Night King. His explanation brings a whole new meaning to the scene and, when I re-watched that moment, I actually got goosebumps...

"What we tried to do with that moment, where The Night King arrives and stares at Bran and Bran stares at him, and this wasn't in the script, this was me and [director] Miguel [Sapochnik] coming up with this idea of Bran feeling sorry for him. Bran is looking at him and thinking, "I'm so sorry that they did this to you", because Bran was there and saw the creation of The Night King. He saw that shard of dragonglass pushed through this guy's heart. He was strapped to a tree. He didn't want to become this evil ice zombie. So yeah, what we thought was just a really beautiful moment where Bran is feeling sorry for this, this monster that's got out of control. He just can't stop killing."

It's just such an epic moment because these are two of the ancient beings of Westeros, The Night King and the Three-Eyed Raven. There have been many Three-Eyed Ravens. You know, the last Three-Eyed Raven was killed by the Night King, and that's all he wants to do. He wants to end the history, wants to destroy all memory of mankind, and civilization."

Bran & The Knight King stare scene:

Edit: Source: EXCLUSIVE: Isaac Hempstead Wright spills on THAT major Game of Thrones moment

Maybe there should have been more flashbacks of the Night King’s life to convey this on screen

 

[Osmosis]

i also don't get this argument, it's 100% D&D thrones like, the main character deaths we got in the past came from the books, GRRM...since we've passed them, they haven't killed a top tier character since. theon and jorah fit the bill of being more important, yet not tier 1, characters

and like someone else said, how were those other deaths main characters if it's actually the main character still alive at this point, 3-4 seasons later: jon, arya, dany, bran, sansa, jamie, cersei, tyrion

I don’t get the purpose of wanting those characters to die unless you watch this show with some sort of bloodthirst. Those characters are too important to be casualties of a battle. Now, I get it, it wasn’t just any battle but I think it would be a mistake for most of those characters to not survive the aftermath of the battle (I actually think Arya dying would have made sense narratively).

I just think it was foolish to show how insurmountable the odds were with the entire Dothraki getting wiped out and then have guys like Pod and Sam survive. Doesn’t really make sense at all and cheapens the battle. I could see why some would feel like there were no real stakes to the “Great War”.

 

[Reece]

A SONG of ICE and FIRE (the “song” being a prophecy about the child who saves the world) was never about the white walkers, it was always about Cersei and the throne

 

[Dorian Breh]

This nikka needs to stfu and sit the fukk down after that piss poor showing

 

[O.Red]

Its also funny how that sense the show is ending soon the popular characters that didn't die last ep seem like they have plot armor. If this show had 5 more episodes left people wouldn't be so pressed. But peoples perception is that since they survived that big battle and there are only two episodes left then they are surviving the end of the show.

That's just not the case

It's not about characters surviving, it's about the situations they were presented in.

Having Jamie, Brienne and Sam on the absolute brink of death for 30 min is Walking Dead level bad. A cheap cliffhanger that subverts the standard the show initially built.

You wanna keep Sam alive? I don't fukkin care but you gotta do better than him holding his own against hordes of wights while still finding time to lay down and cry mid battle. It's silly

SAME with a one handed Jamie who the show has broken it's back to remind you ain't the fighter he once was but now you got him killing hordes. Nikka aint never looked that good with the sword work.It throws everything previously established in the trash

It ain't about deaths for the sake of it, it's about making sense in accordance with the rules of your story

There's foreshadowing and there's telegraphing and the show has been regressing into sloppy telegraphing since last season

 

[itsyoung!!]

Those characters are too important to be casualties of a battle.

the hype built around the show is that no one is too important..

 

[Osmosis]

the hype built around the show is that no one is too important..

Not since these dudes started writing the show

 

[Osmosis]

This nikka needs to stfu and sit the fukk down after that piss poor showing

That’s a fanpage

 

[The axe murderer]

Where are these posts with this exchange because I ain't seen it

Making shyt up because you don't like criticism of the writing ain't it bruh