Remember when Tyrion told three different plots to three different people in order to keep them guessing and figure out who he could trust? Yeah, I miss that Tyrion, too.
Tyrion is playing dumb. He stopped following Dany when she barbecued Sam's family in cold blood after he begged her not to. Problem is he has nowhere to go. Can't go back to Cersei and if he leaves Dany then that's treason. She'll kill him where he stands.
@@vikingjedi573 You're giving the writers too much credit. I often thought that certain stupid moments would have pay-offs later, but these last 2 episodes aren't enough to put that all in. There is still a TINY chance that Bran will do something important with the Night King in the past, but even for that I have very little hope. I now mostly expect a 2-episode long big battle with lots of disappointments and random deaths. Hopefully they'll subvert our expectations once more, but this time in a GOOD way.
Ned Stark: Keeps Jon's heritage a secret to the grave. Sansa Stark: Tells one of the biggest secret revealers in a matter of hours. Doing the family proud there, Sansa.
No wonder Ned never tells the secret to his wife because remember Caitlyn was also a total bitch. I don't understand how anyone can like Caitlyn when she was a Karen along with her sister, Lyssa and even Cersei as the Westeros Karens who like to complain, whine, and also used their feelings over logic.
To Rian Johnson: to take a much-beloved thing and ruin it for everyone by 'subverting expectations'. To Chris Chibnal: to take a much-beloved thing and ruin it for everyone by making it an SJW borefest
It's called 'skill-based matchmaking'. In order to keep players on a lower skill pool from being unfairly(?) punished by better players, the game implements a system where after a particularly dominant match, the latter is penalized by being put in lobbies where they are at a severe disadvantage.
I used to think this show was going to be one of the greats(in tv series), but as of season 7 and season 8(so far) I'm sure that's not going to happen....which is truly disappointing and sad to see since the original potential and build up from seasons 1-5 has been brought to the ground through its shaky plot, poorly written script, time traveling/other major fallacies.
One would think that with an all seeing demigod and the perfect spy/assassin who single handed ended a thousand years old threat to mankind would be enough to kill Cersei. But you gotta go flying with your dragons in the front while closing your eyes
I also thought the cup could be some kind of awful advertisement or maybe the dozens of people who were in the scene and watched it before its release didn't care enough either way it's just sad
dlakodlak zero personality??? Dude is like a fucking rock star for fucks sake. When he killed Rhaeghal I half expected him to stick his tongue out at Dany and give her the double sign of the horns like Ronnie James Dio.
Jon Snow: "Hey guys! I'm really Aegon Targaryen, but shhh, don't tell anyone." Stark kids: "We'd love to react to this news, but writers felt this moment would be better if it didn't exist."
Ikr they should be like "HOLY SHIT SO OUR DAD NEVER FORGOT HIS HONOR AFTER ALL AND OUR MOM HATED YOU AND HIM FOR NOTHING !! WHAT A TRAGEDY" Instead we got:
Even my sister who is watching this final season despite not watching the others because she was bored pointed out that she wanted to see their reaction to the news but nope.
Is no one else questioning HOW they got Missandei? Euron's fleet sunk the ships from a distance. They never raided them. The survivors swam to the shore of Dragonstone, with the ships sinking in the background but no Euron fleet near the wreckage. Missandei was told to get to the skiff, so the directors could argue that she was caught rowing away or something, but she would've been heading towards Dragonstone where the others were swimming. We also never saw her get to the skiff, so we don't know if she even boarded it. So, skiff or no skiff, HOW did Euron get Missandei? How did they know where to find her among that fleet, and why capture her and not a bunch of Daenerys' soldiers just to bring her army down? If they could reach Missandei and capture her, surely they were close enough to just wipe out the remaining soldiers, who were struggling to shore. I also don't get how Grey Worm and the others figured out that she was captured. I honestly thought she had drowned, which would've been a more realistic death, given the circumstances. How can anyone, who just got away from a sinking fleet by swimming through rough waters, decide "Missandei's not here? Last seen on the sinking ship? Yeah, she was definitely captured by Euron." Doesn't make sense at all.
Totally agree here. On top of that, what was the scene with Tyrion jumping off the ship and getting hit by the mast from the ship - cut - and next scene he's fine?!
@@13fails Probably would've made more sense if he was captured instead. It was implied that he was knocked unconscious, so it would be more believable if Euron found him drifting in the sea or something, plus it would be much better to kill the hand of the dragon queen rather than her translator. It would hit her emotionally and it would also hinder her war plans, plus it would get rid of the man who was trying to keep her from doing anything stupid, which would thus let Daenerys snap without anyone holding her back. The whole thing with Missandei felt so random and was just poorly executed. I really think these writers don't care about the characters that much.
And no one is questioning why Euron+Cersei didn't lay a trap within Dragon Stone itself (seemingly unguarded), given they apparently knew she and her fleet were going there, and when? Hey, they could've even had a ballista hidden inside one of the towers, to take out any dragons that survived the naval attack.
I love how Bronn just walked into an enemy castle with nobody stopping him, and was lucky enough to find the two people he was looking for both together by themselves in a room with no guards. I has to one of the most contrived scenes ever written in a tv show.
Well yeah, he's distancing himself from the Starks. Arya doesn't have his dire wolf too, because it's like a symbol of her path. Although I feel like the writers just wanted him off the show for budget reasons.
To bad no one here recognized the symbolism of all of Jon’s closest supporters other than Sir Davos have left him. Sam, the wildlings, his whole family and even “his” Dragon who was named after his father. Jon is now alone in the south and the stark men have never faired well in the south as the constantly say.
The Bronn scene looked like it was written by Tommy Wiseau: Bronn: Oh hai Tyrion. Oh hai Jaime. I have from really far come to kill you!! Tyrion: What! I’ll pay you more! Bronn: haha, great don’t worry about it! Look at the time! I have to go. Bai Tyrion, bai Jaime!
I actually heard bronn in tommy's voice. Tyrion: i once knew this whore....she had about a dozen lords. One of them found out about it, flogged her so bad she ended up in a nursery in house gurerro.
Well said. I've never gone from being so engrossed in a character's storyline to being so completely apathetic about what happens to them. There's not a single interesting character to root for anymore. Hot Pie can take the throne for all I care
@@mdhamerly You were rooting for Hot Pie as well? We should form a club and start a petition to remake S8E6 with Hot Pie claiming the Iron Throne after tiptoeing over the corpses of all the characters we used to care about.
@@LucasBR702 To be honest, the secret was kept to protect Jon from Cersei and Robert Baratheon and probably other aspirers to the throne at the time. There's not many of those left, and the ones that there are either already want Jon dead or are allied with him.
I'm sorry but the absolute frustration in your voice made me laugh through my tears at how shit this show has become. I just love your voice. It represents the entire fandom at this point.
@@kakkarot045 And Bran. If he had more than double digits of IQ he would have remained silent if he truly believed it was Jon's choice. So either it's for plot convenience, Bran being retarded or Bran lying, but that wouldn't make sense, since we're being convinced he doesn't have personal motives. The only remaining explanation would be Bran simply not giving a Fuck.
@@Dungeontai And without Bran we wouldn't have had Hodor. Plus he was some excellent bait. Anyway, even though this entire show now sucks major donkey balls, I DO expect we will find out more about Bran and what he did during the battle. I do believe he still has a role to play although him saying that he now mostly lives in the past feels like a cheap way to tell us not to expect too much of him anymore.
No, Winter was there for Stannis;). And it snowed in King's Landing, but it seems it didn't stick, cause in the next episodes, it's clearly summer again.
@@francoochoa3176 "Winter is coming" is not actually a statement of the Night King coming and the snow is not caused by him (though he CAN cause snowstorms as seen in the final battle against him at Winterfell). It's an actual statement, known for generations by the northmen, that winters in Westeros are long and harsh. This winter was supposed to last ten years. Looks like it lasted ten seconds.
No azor ahai, no actual long night. No war against the dead, just a battle. All the writing gone to shit, Arya has gone full fan service to kill everything in the world. Just end it all HBO
@@xXAzarakXx Yeah cause being beaten to a swordfight by a 20 year old boy that's "the chosen one" would be much better. Just watch Matrix dude, it has exactly what you want
I hope they don't make any of the spinoffs and tarnish everything even more than what they already have. Ps. good job HBO/D&D GoT franchise was about to become a huge whale for you guys but now it's going to die and not live up to its potential.
Critical Drinker, your reviews are hilarious. I don't even watch Game of Thrones, I've watched season one and checked out. But your reviews are a must see, i feel excitement when I see you've put out a new one, as the shows fans are excited when new episode is out. This speaks a bunch about quality of your writing, I'd say.
Tormund: I belong in the north. Jon: This IS the north. Tormund: No, the REAL north. Jon: By the way, will you take my dog with you? He belongs in the north.
Yeah, pretty weaksauce overall. Give Cersei and Qyburn a fortnight and they'll have a dozen fully operational mechanical dragons to conquer the skies and fire Scorpion bolts from their mouths instead of fire.
Yea it drives me nuts how it seems that for hundreds of years they use the same old weapons and technology hasn't seemed to advance much but of course qyburn invents a super weapon and dragons aren't shit. Nevermind her ancestors conquered Westeros with barely an army and three dragons. I guess they were just lacking dr Frankenstein and a crazy pirate back then. Very disappointed.
Ian Crossen As much as I know Qyburn pulled those scorpions out of his ass they have been in the history of Westeros for centuries. The reason why Dorne was never conquered was because queen Rhaenys dragon Meraxes was brained by a lucky bolt from one of those. They're not new, but they're still BS
RaggedyAnne Frank Even GRRM said that a scorpion shooting a dragon is a one in a million shot, it's practically impossible. Then Dollar Tree Jack Sparrow manages to hit a flying dragon three times in a row from a moving ship thousands of feet away.
Fun fact: Based on the leaks, Danny pretty much solos the entire KL with Drogon alone. Some would say that's kind of retarded based on how easy it was to kill Rhaegel... I say it's the best season ever.
At first I was sad this would be the last season. Now, I'm glad it is. And the spinoffs, nope, I'm good. What's also worrying is these two guys were essentially given a Star Wars trilogy.. Godssake!
Hey, it's not just them that was given the Star Wars trilogy. Rian Johnson has one too.. “As they finish Game of Thrones, they’re going to segue into Star Wars,” Kennedy said. “They’re working very closely with Rian.”
Rian is probably the one who told them to kill the NK in episode three instead of six and have Rhaegal die from stupid scorpions in episode four right after that.
@reignofrock Well, at least D&D can't do any worse with a Star Wars story than Rian Shitson did. They can do AS bad as he did, but it's impossible to do worse.
Everyone bemoaning them writing Star Wars, when people haven't stopped bemoaning that franchise since Return of the Jedi. As if it's just now going to get bad
Can we also note that Dany's fleet is mostly destroyed if not all destroyed from when the Unsullied were sacking Casterly Rock and the Iron Fleet wiped it out. The Unsullied had to spend quite some time to walk back to Dany. How is she transporting all of her troops now??? D&D really did kill this show.
@VideoGames4Days ! The spill proof lid. That's the piece I've been missing all this time. Not a prince, princess or an elephant. The show just might have a chance!
There's this thing called "linear time." It allows us to determine that with the amount of time left for the remaining episodes, they're already fucked beyond recovery.
I just found this channel now in 2022. Sure wish I'd been able to see it at the time. I was all alone, trying to see the damn dark episodes and then horribly disappointed at what I could make out. Thanks for this excellent critique of the ignominious death of an amazing collective cultural experience.
@@user-bm3ts2ql6s But they had to keep the secret from the entire population of Westeros in order to make Daenerys Queen. But they didn't cause they don't believe in her
@@trappnest4490 Jon didn't because it's not honorable to keep secrets THAT BIG. Both mad queen and Sansa/Arya want Jon to betray who he is. All for the throne.
@@user-bm3ts2ql6s You don't think there might be other people who might want to kill Jon once he revealed that info? Like. Y'know. Daenerys. Jon is a fucking moron. End of story.
Its very simple what happened. Weiss and Denisoff looked like geniuses when they were essentially copying shows word for word from pre-written books. The second the book material ran out, everything started to fall apart
Nope they started making changes early on in season 2, there was plenty of book left at that point!! Those small changes caused a massive ripple effect that essentially made it a completely new story with a few similarities to the original books. The thing that pisses me off the most is I have now been waiting YEARS for the next book to come out!! and now i don't even know if I will be able to stomach reading it as all my enthusiasm for the characters I knew is gone :'(
@@leesoarable I personally didn't mind the deviation from the book, I saw it as a positive. Season 4 was also my favourite season. They fucked up by writing poorly from season 4 forward.
@@xstoofpeer That's your opinion and that is totally fine :D I don't agree though and struggled with the changes (my partner is on your side of the argument). I was merely commenting that they deviated from the story well before the material from the books ran out!
S1 - meets girl S2 - gets number S3 - first date S4 - second date S5 - third date S6 - lots of kissing S7 - lots of foreplay Dis is getting goood mayne S8 - ready for sex but got drunk and came too fast
That's one of the biggest issues of the late-seasons of Game of Thrones. Euron. Since the scene of him getting introduced, he was nothing more than a pure plot device. He was always where the plot needed him to be, sometimes alone, sometimes with an entire fucking fleet, sometimes he was an unstoppable killing machine, sometimes just as weak as the plot needed him to be. His character simply didn't exist. He was just a device to steer the plot.
Jason Matthews yeah honestly the last few seasons shouldn’t really play into whether you like a character or not, characters’ motivations are only to move the plot
@Un-broken and victorious She is God now, basically she can teleport and kill the whole fleet and Cersei in a matter of seconds and make the Golden Company bow to her.
I'm legitimately glad I came to this show late and binge watched it. Now I've only wasted a few weeks out of my life versus dedicating years of being a fan and getting really absorbed into the show only to have it get run into the ground like this. I feel bad for long time fans
Same. Watched season 1 and then didn’t have Foxtel/Cable to watch any further for years. Then got the box set up to season 7 and binged. Have waited for season 8 just as long as everyone else. My disappointment has me heartbroken so I can imagine diehard fan’s disappointment being unfathomable.
I started watching in 2012, I rewatched the entire show last month, I redownloaded audible to listen to the books again. This new season has been absolutely horrible. The highest budget TV show in history and they cant get better writers than the low budget Olympus has Fallen underwater level (Hunter Killer)
Nonsense. This is the same ending that will be in the books if they ever arrive (according to martin himself). The original source material was really not as good as everyone lauded it to be. It was always going to dissolve into fantasy idiocy.
@@rdecredico It's possible that GRRM is either contractually obliged to say that, or that he wasn't even sure how the books would end and doubtful he'd ever finish them.
Then Brandon Stark wakes up, after realizing he has the ability to break the 4th wall and see alternative timelines. Terrified at the current direction, things go back a few seasons and start over properly. The writers are burned at the stake.
Wish that would happen.. Think it more likely at this point this has all been a Bran dream/nightmare since the end of season 1 ep. 1.. It really is impossible to salvage now.
Favorite part about this is that Bran can literally look into the past to see what happens, or go into a bird or something and see where particular people are armies are at, and they use him for Baelish and The White Walkers and decide not to use him at all against Cersei 😂😂😂.
I gotta dispute Sansa being the worst. Jon almost wiped out the Starks' ability to retake Winterfell by trying to lose the Battle of the Bastards. He tried to disarm himself while on his own mission to "kidnap a zombie." He handed Night King a dragon, and within the context of the show, its implied the Night King never actually had a way to bypass the Ice Wall before then. Pretty much everything he does post-resurrection is try to screw over his own side.
Arya needs to be nerfed, i hope the Mountain kills her; she helped outsmart Littlefinger, which was a completely unsatisfying end to him, and killed the ultimate magic badass the Nightking.
Arya spider monkeys 50 miles in a single jump whilst carrying the hound. Throws him at the mountain whilst drop daggering Cersei. Because she's a strong independent assassin who don't need no physics.
@@WayoftheDave LOL! AND... she gets close enough to do it by killing Qyburn and taking his face. Cersei offed by a Rian Johnson "drop dagger Qyburning!"
You guys shouldn't get too excited. They'll probably teleport directly into the throne room for the final battle and Tormund will save Briene with his dong right before Jamie attempts to kill her with a golden dildo on his right stump.
Top-Tier Woman Respektor -MAX LEVEL- that’s actually why I wanted him to die last week. I like beric and edd, but it’s more of a shocking death. Tormund would have hit much harder, yet Dumb cunt and dick fuck are too pussy to kill him off.
Yeah bittersweet. In a way I was glad they both left. It means: 1) they don't die a sad, pointless death (*cough* Rhaegal, Night King, Littlefinger *cough*) and 2) they don't have to be part of an increasingly miserable storyline.
@@blackskyirregular9876 Tormund has been one of the best characters for quite a while now and one of the most underused. Bronn is just plain irritating.
They've been exposed to them too much, she didn't use them strategically and now two of them are dead. Not weapons, living creatures that cannot be replaced or repaired. That is why you either use them as a last resort or use hit and run tactics to control the battlefield. Force enemies to relocate and attack from where you want them to attack from. Can't we Humans shoot Helicopters out of the sky with assault rifles if they fly too low or too close to a mountain? Though a dragon doesn't have to withdraw to arm itself, it can get tired or hungry. Not going to fight well on an empty stomach is it. What a waste, smh.
@@deleteexistence6175 the dragons are supposed to have scales so thick arrows and bolts bounce off of them. Going by the show and books own words here. So it makes no sense. Infact they said the only way to kill a dragon is to hit it in the eye with a bolt or spear. I saw none of that.
@@deleteexistence6175 also... all living creatures repair... its called healing. Hell we repair better than actual machines. Machines need specific parts and expertise. Living creatures just need food and rest.
@@BB-ce5ev 12 weeks of healing for me after a car crash, 2 of those in ICU unable to stand and I still never fully healed but this is war where people are getting limbs cut off etc. Westeros doesn't have the medical knowledge we have in reality. Machines can be repaired in a day or two depending on the issue. Or, replaced. If the dragons get injured, how would they treat their wounds. What if they had internal bleeding, how will they stop it? Who in the world has knowledge of treating injured dragons to help with the healing process. Check the spear tip again that was fired from the ballista. Wondered if it might be dragon glass or something but couldn't be bothered to watch it again. An injured dragon would be out of action for days, weeks, months. They're not going to run out of wood for ballistae or trebuchet or boats. They could be building replacements while the war rages on, there isn't a dragon farm anywhere breeding replacement dragons.
After season 7. I feared the worst but hopes for the best. after episode 3. I gave up and stopped caring. after Jon didn't even pet his dog. I now have active disdain for the show.
Petting the pooch probably would have costed a few million bucks in special effects. It would have been much better if they had let him die trying to save Jon.
@@MarcelNL For all I care, they could have had Kit pet a normal size dog and I would be totally fine with it. I don't demand perfection, I just expect more than trash.
I think it's hilarious since it sits in front of a young woman as she gets more and more pissed off at men! Like a true holder of a gender studies degree!
That cup is a literal visual representation of what has happened to this show. All checks and balances are gone and it's going straight to air without any revision.
kelvin webley Wring she listened to Varys and Tyrion. Since Cersei knew how Tyrion thinks she outsmarted him and Dany lost a lot because of it. Since then he’s been a constant idiot.
@@kelvinwebley6971 She had a pointless conversation with Cersei in season 7 and a pointless converation with Cersei in season 8 all because of her dumb adviser Tyrion. If they want to avoid killing the civilians maybe they should hire assassins.
It's no longer character driven plot where the plot moved from the actions and motives of the characters but rather forcing characters to act a certain way even if it is against their own motives, or logical thinking to make this and that happen. my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Calling Dany a millennial and then saying the signs have been there (and showing the starbucks cup again) is pure genius on several different levels. I laughed about this through this entire video!
I wanted to throw my tv out the window when fucking Gendry made it back to the wall in about 20 minutes through snow covered mountains. He's never even been in that climate before!!!!
“Oh, my sweet summer child. What do you know about fear? Fear is for the Winter, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep. Fear is for the the long nights, when the sun hides for years, and children are born and live and die, all in darkness. That is the time for fear, my little Lord; when the White Walkers move through the woods. Thousands of years ago there came a night that lasted a generation. Kings froze to death in their castles, same as the shepherds in their huts, and women smothered their babies rather than see them starve, and wept and felt their tears freeze on their cheeks. So is this the sort of story that you like? ... In that darkness the white walkers came for the first time. They swept through cities and kingdoms, riding their dead horses, hunting with their packs of pale spiders big as hounds...” O shit nvm false alarm we good. Anyway, what about the forthcoming elections?
*unlimited budget. unlimited time. unlimited episodes if they wanted - not negotiated, all offered.* a global shared pain the likes of which we will never know again. people from every walk of life watched this. from the comicons, to the natsec crowd, to law professors and judges, to improv nerds & comics, to clinicians & health associates: ive never known anything like it. & the redeeming feature is these videos, and twitr after every ep in that last season. fun to remember.
The negotiations between Tyrion and Qyburn were basically diplomatics in total war: medieval 2. Tyrion: i ve got an army coming. Why dont u surrender Qyburn: why dont U surrender Tyrion: No Qyburn: Me too. T&Q: negotiations are over.
The point of the negotiations was to the show the people of kings landing that they at least tried. They knew it would be pointless anyway, Cersei would've never listened.
Basically correct. MW2's diplomacy was horrendous. Control 40 provinces and have 2 million florins as well as 100 times (literally) the army of the guy you are at war with. Him: "Only peace if u pay me 1,4 million florins". Yeah..
To roughly quote another commenter in another GoT review of Season 8 Imagine if Denethor was the final conflict in LOTR, after they got done with Sauron... This is Season 8.
It's funny, the first thing I posted after Ep3 was, "Imagine if Commander Shepard handily defeated all the Reapers in the opening moments of ME:3, and you had to spend the rest of the game dealing with Councilor Udina's arrogant racism."
there probably was some eastern ruler of a sort but it is so unimportant we do not need to know about it good thing lotr is not a tv series......... yet................. oh...... gods...............
thank you for articulating my anguish and disappointment. Like watching a beloved friend you grew up with fall in to drug use and waste away before you're eyes.
I have not seen the show yet or the videos because I want to minimize spoilers(so maybe I should not be here), but could a possible answer be the dragons are just stupid? Like maybe they just fly around looking for food and need a direct order to attack something. Maybe the dragons don't understand war and human politics and who is the enemy. Maybe they have the intelligence of a cat or dog?
@@cellsec7703 understandable but not consistent. I can't remember which episode or season (I think it was s8 e1) when Danny and bitch tits Jon go on a joyride from winterfell. They( or at least Dany) can defo control them. Also, they are smart enough to understand what drakarys means so... This whole season has been such a huge disappointment. Close to 10 years for it all to end in a pile of donkey shit.
1 - meh, 2 - now we're starting to get somewhere, 3 - nah back to meh, 4 - ok, 5 - aw yeah, 6 - eh half of it was good I guess, 7 - hell fucking yeah, 8 - wtf?
You did when they were outside, but since, you know, there are warm fire's inside, it's going to be kind of hard for it to be cold... This comment made me laugh because you are complaining of the sake of complaining.
I mean I think the long winter may have something to do with the nightking himself, I think killing him will cut short the whole winter in the south thing.
This is a problem that haunts books and movies alike. How do you write plot and dialog for the word's most brilliant mind when you're only middling at best? Like when a musical drama builds up a song as fantastic or moving and then when the band finally plays it you go "meh, not bad but..."
"You think i listened to father for twenty years and learned nothing?" - cersei. "I dont trust you not because you are a woman... I dont trust you because you are not as smart as you think you are."- Tywin to cersei. See cersei...you father was again absolutely right!!! Have to respect that plot armor though.
Well, you're not seeing the big plot twist here .. Cercei becomes good and caring and wants to reconcile with Daenerys, after which Euron kills her and becomes lord .. of Lannister family even though he's not Lannister. Subverted expectations :D
@@949surferdude Logically I agree... but the question is did she really send Bronn or was it Qyburn on his own? Who cares anymore..... nothing we think even matter anymore because they are not using logic anymore.. you know.... Subversion of expectations is KING now!
When I first started watching got I was shocked at how little I could accurately predict. Later on I began thinking I was starting to wise up when in actuality the show was just getting watered down. Disappointing indeed.
Battle for Winterfell should have had more brutal deaths of some of the mains with the end being a defeat and retreat of the ones left with what little army. Then an awkward meeting with Cersi, basically saying "they are relentless. We couldn't stop them, and now they're coming for all of us". Then a weak truce with a major battle for Kings landing with some shock double crossing, deaths ect. Just anything else would have been more interesting really.
And how exactly would they retreat? They'd have no food, they'd be tired from battle and running but unable to rest or even stop because the dead never tire and have a seemingly unending blizzard following them. The north would be literally run down and killed. And dont even get me started on the white walker dragon. Cersei and her army couldn't help because their weapons would be ineffective. None of what you've said makes any sense... it's just a feel good ending.
Remember when Tyrion told three different plots to three different people in order to keep them guessing and figure out who he could trust?
Yeah, I miss that Tyrion, too.
Tyrion is playing dumb. He stopped following Dany when she barbecued Sam's family in cold blood after he begged her not to. Problem is he has nowhere to go. Can't go back to Cersei and if he leaves Dany then that's treason. She'll kill him where he stands.
Sansa got him covered on that
@@vikingjedi573 You're giving the writers too much credit.
I often thought that certain stupid moments would have pay-offs later, but these last 2 episodes aren't enough to put that all in.
There is still a TINY chance that Bran will do something important with the Night King in the past, but even for that I have very little hope.
I now mostly expect a 2-episode long big battle with lots of disappointments and random deaths.
Hopefully they'll subvert our expectations once more, but this time in a GOOD way.
@@vikingjedi573 He's being an utter idiot since season 7. Bad and stupid writing is the sole culprit.
What exactly did he say?
The starbucks cup was good because it subverted your expectations.
I know right. I love it also when cars subvert my expectations by not stopping at a red-light when i am crossing the road. :)
I bet it was a deliberate edit by the director in revenge of having to film such a bad script.
It was actually a cup of tea! Oh the subversion!
Genius writing.
But in a GOOD way!
So Joffry has the last laugh because he died before they could ruin his character lol.
“You either due an infamous legend, or live long enough to be villain.”
-My brain cells
Nope killed by a woman
I would say Tywin got the last laugh. He was after Joffrey and after his death the show started to sour
Oroborus And Tywin and Margaery. Sorry @TM. Just noticed your comment
Joffry turned out to be a bigger threat to the world than the Whitewalkers.
Arya: "We're the last Starks, we have to stick together."
5min later rides off to Kings Landing: "I'm not coming back."
The Mary Sue bitch...
The ending is almost even worse in that sense. Literally every Stark split up in the end
@@TehIdiotOne Indeed,. They probably kinda forgot the lone wolf dies but the pack survives, smdh lol.
The other Stark from another universe: Am I a joke to you?
@@ToddKeck98: To whom are you replying?
They needed an extra year just to write this crap....just let that sink in.
why remind us... :(
they should FIRE those fuckers. and just make it ALL AGAIN #dragarys
So the most dreaded villain in television history got outsmarted by a goddamn teenage tomboy assassin smh. At least give him the death he deserves😭😭
"extra year", damn, I see that Got writing staff getting the daily cocain dose is getting harder every year.
Hahahaha sunk deep lol cause they ruined Danarys
"there must always be a Starbucks in winterfell"
Clen O'Gallagher Starkbucks, my friend.
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Big mistake by the show runners: Dany ordered tea and got coffee instead!
you know nothing jon snow
Ned Stark: Keeps Jon's heritage a secret to the grave.
Sansa Stark: Tells one of the biggest secret revealers in a matter of hours.
Doing the family proud there, Sansa.
Heuch Gack and to a Lannister, I’m sure Ned is beyond pleased
No wonder Ned never tells the secret to his wife because remember Caitlyn was also a total bitch. I don't understand how anyone can like Caitlyn when she was a Karen along with her sister, Lyssa and even Cersei as the Westeros Karens who like to complain, whine, and also used their feelings over logic.
Rian Johnson has become a verb ...
David Orvik guy is fucking poison.
Fuck you, Brick and Looper are awesome.
I dont get it
Matthew thehuman Snoke,
the main villain, unceremoniously dying half way through the Star Wars saga. Rian Johnson decision
To Rian Johnson: to take a much-beloved thing and ruin it for everyone by 'subverting expectations'. To Chris Chibnal: to take a much-beloved thing and ruin it for everyone by making it an SJW borefest
The biggest slap in the face was when Jon just gave Ghost away, what an absolute farce.
TheAutistWhisperer just pet the damn dog
yah forever to be known as the Game of Groans
Yeah that broke me. Ghost was pretty much my favorite character. Not a joke. But they made a joke of him ever since like season 3.. poor boy.
What's even worse is John not patting his dog is the saddest thing that's happened all season.
really? it's a wolf...
Budget: looks a bit tight
Everyone : looks at rhaegal
rhaegal: what?
John Hutchins lol!!
*ghost walks up to rhaegal*
Yeah, only $15 million per episode this season. That's only $90M for 7 hours or $214k per minute. How will they ever make do with such a pittance?
*Plays laughing track
They could have borrowed some by the iron bank. ;)
How did euron manage to snipe rhaegal three times but his entire fleet couldn't hit drogon flying straight at them
He turned at the last moment with the speed and radius of an 18-wheeler.
so true the scene with raegal make the latter unbelievable
It's called 'skill-based matchmaking'. In order to keep players on a lower skill pool from being unfairly(?) punished by better players, the game implements a system where after a particularly dominant match, the latter is penalized by being put in lobbies where they are at a severe disadvantage.
@@KianoUyMOOP I suppose you comented the wrong video ?
@@KianoUyMOOP hilarious
Dumb & Dumber have driven the best show into the ground.
I used to think this show was going to be one of the greats(in tv series), but as of season 7 and season 8(so far) I'm sure that's not going to happen....which is truly disappointing and sad to see since the original potential and build up from seasons 1-5 has been brought to the ground through its shaky plot, poorly written script, time traveling/other major fallacies.
Could have been best tv series of all time ...instead its just a good tv show
I wouldn’t trust them to write a sequel to a Dr Seuss novel
Thank god i dodged a bullet with this and saved hundreds of hours watching this. I have yet to come across a show that comes close to breaking bad.
Dany has:
Starbucks, mad face, -1 dragon, powergrabby mesiah complex
Euron has:
teleportation, invisibility, infinite resources, wall-hack, aim-bot, Missandei GPS tracker, funny moustache, zero personality
😭😭😭😭
One would think that with an all seeing demigod and the perfect spy/assassin who single handed ended a thousand years old threat to mankind would be enough to kill Cersei. But you gotta go flying with your dragons in the front while closing your eyes
I also thought the cup could be some kind of awful advertisement or maybe the dozens of people who were in the scene and watched it before its release didn't care enough either way it's just sad
Euron needs to grow his mustache out so he can twirl it around. I don't think it's obvious enough that he's a stock bad guy.
dlakodlak zero personality??? Dude is like a fucking rock star for fucks sake. When he killed Rhaeghal I half expected him to stick his tongue out at Dany and give her the double sign of the horns like Ronnie James Dio.
Jon Snow: "Hey guys! I'm really Aegon Targaryen, but shhh, don't tell anyone."
Stark kids: "We'd love to react to this news, but writers felt this moment would be better if it didn't exist."
Goddamn did I find that maddening. And on top of that, they seem to be trying their hardest to squander any cool element of Bran being what he is.
Ikr they should be like "HOLY SHIT SO OUR DAD NEVER FORGOT HIS HONOR AFTER ALL AND OUR MOM HATED YOU AND HIM FOR NOTHING !! WHAT A TRAGEDY"
Instead we got:
Even my sister who is watching this final season despite not watching the others because she was bored pointed out that she wanted to see their reaction to the news but nope.
I was so pissed off that they just jump cut away from their reactions!!
plus 5 mins later we have Sansa dropping that little bomb on Tyrion and cut away again.
Is no one else questioning HOW they got Missandei? Euron's fleet sunk the ships from a distance. They never raided them. The survivors swam to the shore of Dragonstone, with the ships sinking in the background but no Euron fleet near the wreckage. Missandei was told to get to the skiff, so the directors could argue that she was caught rowing away or something, but she would've been heading towards Dragonstone where the others were swimming.
We also never saw her get to the skiff, so we don't know if she even boarded it. So, skiff or no skiff, HOW did Euron get Missandei? How did they know where to find her among that fleet, and why capture her and not a bunch of Daenerys' soldiers just to bring her army down? If they could reach Missandei and capture her, surely they were close enough to just wipe out the remaining soldiers, who were struggling to shore.
I also don't get how Grey Worm and the others figured out that she was captured. I honestly thought she had drowned, which would've been a more realistic death, given the circumstances. How can anyone, who just got away from a sinking fleet by swimming through rough waters, decide "Missandei's not here? Last seen on the sinking ship? Yeah, she was definitely captured by Euron." Doesn't make sense at all.
Totally agree here. On top of that, what was the scene with Tyrion jumping off the ship and getting hit by the mast from the ship - cut - and next scene he's fine?!
@@13fails Probably would've made more sense if he was captured instead. It was implied that he was knocked unconscious, so it would be more believable if Euron found him drifting in the sea or something, plus it would be much better to kill the hand of the dragon queen rather than her translator. It would hit her emotionally and it would also hinder her war plans, plus it would get rid of the man who was trying to keep her from doing anything stupid, which would thus let Daenerys snap without anyone holding her back. The whole thing with Missandei felt so random and was just poorly executed. I really think these writers don't care about the characters that much.
Apparently it's a fantasy, so fuck the logic.
@Cherry Muse Sorry to disagree but I've never seen her given any advise at all. She was just a pretty translator...
And no one is questioning why Euron+Cersei didn't lay a trap within Dragon Stone itself (seemingly unguarded), given they apparently knew she and her fleet were going there, and when? Hey, they could've even had a ballista hidden inside one of the towers, to take out any dragons that survived the naval attack.
I love how Bronn just walked into an enemy castle with nobody stopping him, and was lucky enough to find the two people he was looking for both together by themselves in a room with no guards. I has to one of the most contrived scenes ever written in a tv show.
that man is covered with plot armor
Season 1 Jon : Direwolf is the symbol of the starks, you were meant to have them.
Season 8 Jon : He doesn't belong here.
Well yeah, he's distancing himself from the Starks. Arya doesn't have his dire wolf too, because it's like a symbol of her path. Although I feel like the writers just wanted him off the show for budget reasons.
Anomander Rake Seriously. The symbol of Winterfell shouldn’t stay to defend the children of Winterfell. Yeah ok.
@Craig Unshallach Yeah Craig, the North remembers.....you tell em
To bad no one here recognized the symbolism of all of Jon’s closest supporters other than Sir Davos have left him. Sam, the wildlings, his whole family and even “his” Dragon who was named after his father. Jon is now alone in the south and the stark men have never faired well in the south as the constantly say.
@@pulkmees Did you see their budget? Was that ALL spent on dragons?? Lol, silly. They took the easy way out. Lazy writing and lazy season.
The Bronn scene looked like it was written by Tommy Wiseau:
Bronn: Oh hai Tyrion. Oh hai Jaime. I have from really far come to kill you!!
Tyrion: What! I’ll pay you more!
Bronn: haha, great don’t worry about it! Look at the time! I have to go. Bai Tyrion, bai Jaime!
hi doggy
I did not hit her! it's bullshit! i did NAAAAAAAAHT!Oh hai Mark
You're my favourite customer
I actually heard bronn in tommy's voice.
Tyrion: i once knew this whore....she had about a dozen lords. One of them found out about it, flogged her so bad she ended up in a nursery in house gurerro.
@@projekt84 bi doggy
I used to have several favorite characters (all of which are still alive), but now I have none, they're killing characters without even realising it.
Well said. I've never gone from being so engrossed in a character's storyline to being so completely apathetic about what happens to them. There's not a single interesting character to root for anymore. Hot Pie can take the throne for all I care
Drogon...I like Drogon...but they'll probably kill HIM off next episode.
Amen. They’ve... they’ve killed all of the characters while keeping them alive. Every growth and development down the drain.
@@mdhamerly
You were rooting for Hot Pie as well? We should form a club and start a petition to remake S8E6 with Hot Pie claiming the Iron Throne after tiptoeing over the corpses of all the characters we used to care about.
@@c1000101c Hot Pie throwing bread made out of dragon glass to kill the Night King would have been more believable than Arya teleporting.
I definitely think you're the cheery, optimistic type
Anyone who thinks that Ray's or Luke Skywalker's (the old Luke that is) character can be fixed is a VERY, optimistic guy.
Ned kept that secret for twenty years (even took it to his grave), Sansa couldn't even keep it for one day.
Females, am I right?
@@CapitalMort 🤔
Yea, something else they could have wrote better, her own father kept that for so long.
Keyser Soze Salsa is a bitch
@@LucasBR702 To be honest, the secret was kept to protect Jon from Cersei and Robert Baratheon and probably other aspirers to the throne at the time. There's not many of those left, and the ones that there are either already want Jon dead or are allied with him.
If that was the quality presented in season one the show would've been canceled.
@Un-broken and victorious i agree, after S4 the writing went straight downhill.
Season 1-4 were easily the worst. GRRM's writing is so dependent on shock value.
Well said, Sophia.
Yep. Season 5 was fast-forward button material
Not really, if you actually read the books you'll see how he really writes.
I'm sorry but the absolute frustration in your voice made me laugh through my tears at how shit this show has become. I just love your voice. It represents the entire fandom at this point.
"they leveled up enough to unlock fast travel"
lmao
"rian johnsoned my expectations to the ground" brilliant
I just heard that part as I read your comment!
Who's Rian Johnson again?
Brilliant
I call him “Ruin Johnson” the new “jump the shark” term
Not as good as his later "Arya decides to go to King's Landing to Rian Johnson the place."
John "i do not want to be king"
Also John "i'm going to reveal information that is going to make it harder for me to Not be king."
Catherine McPhee so you mean exactly what his father Ned did?
This actually is true to his character. ‘If everyone lies, then the world will only become filled with better and better liars’
@@kakkarot045 And Bran. If he had more than double digits of IQ he would have remained silent if he truly believed it was Jon's choice. So either it's for plot convenience, Bran being retarded or Bran lying, but that wouldn't make sense, since we're being convinced he doesn't have personal motives. The only remaining explanation would be Bran simply not giving a Fuck.
Jon's "honor" just makes no sense at this point.
@@williampoole1742 It gets better, he kills Dany. Lmao those writers.
@2:53 I thought I was the only one who felt that way about Sansa
My god, I have felt this way about her since episode one. So satisfying to hear someone else say it.
*sees season 8*
"Give me something for the pain and let me die."
Haha, classic!
I disagree that Sansa is the most useless character, I nominate Bran
Jon Snow at least deserves to be on the ballet.
Bran at least brought littlefinger down (some episodes too late, for what he already knew at the beginning)
Sansa is literally just there...
@@Dungeontai And without Bran we wouldn't have had Hodor.
Plus he was some excellent bait.
Anyway, even though this entire show now sucks major donkey balls, I DO expect we will find out more about Bran and what he did during the battle.
I do believe he still has a role to play although him saying that he now mostly lives in the past feels like a cheap way to tell us not to expect too much of him anymore.
Nevermind, he's just watching Viasat History all day long. He literally has an unlimited access to UAV's but refuses to help.
Bran: I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!
"There must always be a Starkbucks in Winterfell."
It’s emblem is a wolf-headed mermaid.
How on earth can you tell it’s a Starbucks cup
@@carmadme it's a joke bro.
"Plot armor so thick you could build battle ships over it" Yeah, pretty much sums it up
Theres a quote from the book about how hard it is to kill a fully grown dragon while its flying. Once you read it, this scene is shameful.
Which book?
@@OneBiteoftheCherry not sure, another youtuber referenced it in one of his videos.
Plus the dragon has only one weak point and it’s their eyes not the neck.
They made winter disappear in 3 episodes lol. Summer is apparently back xD
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No, Winter was there for Stannis;). And it snowed in King's Landing, but it seems it didn't stick, cause in the next episodes, it's clearly summer again.
Okay guys remember the Night King is dead. Winter is no longer here
@@francoochoa3176 "Winter is coming" is not actually a statement of the Night King coming and the snow is not caused by him (though he CAN cause snowstorms as seen in the final battle against him at Winterfell). It's an actual statement, known for generations by the northmen, that winters in Westeros are long and harsh.
This winter was supposed to last ten years. Looks like it lasted ten seconds.
Winter is cumming
after GOT s8
head: aching.
heart: broken.
soul: crushed.
whiskey: gone.
Coffee cup left
Hotel: Trivago
@@MegaCoyoteFilms you win the internet today
pet: unpeted
The feels, the absolute feels man.
Well if there's any justice benioff and Weiss will never work again
Yeah about that, they're doing a Star Wars trilogy.... Fuck
Hahaha! Clearly, you don't know how corporate works.
@@samuelh.2118 hahaha clearly shut the fuck up nerd
Kind of like BSG and ron moore
@@ZakJordan98
Not anymore!!!!!!
"Plot armor so thick you could build battleships out of it."
This sent me off the edge
*over the edge ;)
No azor ahai, no actual long night. No war against the dead, just a battle. All the writing gone to shit, Arya has gone full fan service to kill everything in the world. Just end it all HBO
At least we have 4 spin-offs to look forward to not written by GRRM.
@@xXAzarakXx Yeah cause being beaten to a swordfight by a 20 year old boy that's "the chosen one" would be much better. Just watch Matrix dude, it has exactly what you want
I hope they don't make any of the spinoffs and tarnish everything even more than what they already have. Ps. good job HBO/D&D GoT franchise was about to become a huge whale for you guys but now it's going to die and not live up to its potential.
@@vinnregi4882 >>the last jedi is that way
I am very very very afraid she is gonna kill Cercei too. Fuck off show
Bran wakes up and it's all a bad dream. He's actually not crippled and everything is fine.
The show has become so hilariously bad that at this point that would probably feel like a relatively satisfying ending. Fuck.....
Bran travels back to his fall and decides to just die!
That will probably happen that way seeing how shit it has become
@@simonmorgan6934 funny reply😂😂
That ending would, sadly enough, be better than the one we're getting according to some leaks...
The only positive from this is that no matter what books George RR Martin releases, there is NO WAY it could be as bad as this
I doubt you’ll ever find out. George R. R. Martin will take the end to his grave like Ned did with Jon’s parentage.
Critical Drinker, your reviews are hilarious. I don't even watch Game of Thrones, I've watched season one and checked out. But your reviews are a must see, i feel excitement when I see you've put out a new one, as the shows fans are excited when new episode is out. This speaks a bunch about quality of your writing, I'd say.
Tormund: I belong in the north.
Jon: This IS the north.
Tormund: No, the REAL north.
Jon: By the way, will you take my dog with you? He belongs in the north.
George double R obviously loves dogs. My bet is Dumb and Dumber have goldfish for pets?
@@prankishsquire2663 are you assuming they are smart enough to keep a pet alive?
They have polar bears.
@@Mark-qz8fu And they cut them with flaming swords on a daily?
John Appleseed Have to save vfx and shooting time
At least this episode taught me that dragons are no big deal, seems silly now that we thought they would amount to anything.
Yeah, pretty weaksauce overall. Give Cersei and Qyburn a fortnight and they'll have a dozen fully operational mechanical dragons to conquer the skies and fire Scorpion bolts from their mouths instead of fire.
Yea it drives me nuts how it seems that for hundreds of years they use the same old weapons and technology hasn't seemed to advance much but of course qyburn invents a super weapon and dragons aren't shit. Nevermind her ancestors conquered Westeros with barely an army and three dragons. I guess they were just lacking dr Frankenstein and a crazy pirate back then. Very disappointed.
Ian Crossen As much as I know Qyburn pulled those scorpions out of his ass they have been in the history of Westeros for centuries. The reason why Dorne was never conquered was because queen Rhaenys dragon Meraxes was brained by a lucky bolt from one of those. They're not new, but they're still BS
RaggedyAnne Frank Even GRRM said that a scorpion shooting a dragon is a one in a million shot, it's practically impossible. Then Dollar Tree Jack Sparrow manages to hit a flying dragon three times in a row from a moving ship thousands of feet away.
Fun fact: Based on the leaks, Danny pretty much solos the entire KL with Drogon alone. Some would say that's kind of retarded based on how easy it was to kill Rhaegel...
I say it's the best season ever.
At first I was sad this would be the last season. Now, I'm glad it is. And the spinoffs, nope, I'm good. What's also worrying is these two guys were essentially given a Star Wars trilogy.. Godssake!
Hey, it's not just them that was given the Star Wars trilogy. Rian Johnson has one too..
“As they finish Game of Thrones, they’re going to segue into Star Wars,” Kennedy said. “They’re working very closely with Rian.”
Rian is probably the one who told them to kill the NK in episode three instead of six and have Rhaegal die from stupid scorpions in episode four right after that.
@reignofrock Well, at least D&D can't do any worse with a Star Wars story than Rian Shitson did. They can do AS bad as he did, but it's impossible to do worse.
Everyone bemoaning them writing Star Wars, when people haven't stopped bemoaning that franchise since Return of the Jedi. As if it's just now going to get bad
@@jaysoniorg2950 Source?
Can we also note that Dany's fleet is mostly destroyed if not all destroyed from when the Unsullied were sacking Casterly Rock and the Iron Fleet wiped it out. The Unsullied had to spend quite some time to walk back to Dany. How is she transporting all of her troops now??? D&D really did kill this show.
At first, I wondered why the video kept cutting to an all black screen. Then I realized it was showing clips from 'The Long Night'.
Dimdark and full of tremors.
Well maybe you should wait until the series conclusion before you almighty judge that the starbucks cup has no place in the story.
@VideoGames4Days ! The spill proof lid. That's the piece I've been missing all this time. Not a prince, princess or an elephant. The show just might have a chance!
@@Alternative5ive 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I see a theory coming...
There's this thing called "linear time." It allows us to determine that with the amount of time left for the remaining episodes, they're already fucked beyond recovery.
Great user name. Funny comment.
I just found this channel now in 2022. Sure wish I'd been able to see it at the time. I was all alone, trying to see the damn dark episodes and then horribly disappointed at what I could make out. Thanks for this excellent critique of the ignominious death of an amazing collective cultural experience.
I love how Rian Johnson'd is a verb.
Secret about Jon
Ned Stark: Keeps secret 18 years
Jon,Sansa,Tyrion: Keep the secret 18 seconds
He only kept the secret because Robert would have killed Jon. No Robert, no need to keep the secret.
@@user-bm3ts2ql6s But they had to keep the secret from the entire population of Westeros in order to make Daenerys Queen. But they didn't cause they don't believe in her
@@trappnest4490 Jon didn't because it's not honorable to keep secrets THAT BIG. Both mad queen and Sansa/Arya want Jon to betray who he is. All for the throne.
Wasnt jon 14 years old when bed died?
@@user-bm3ts2ql6s You don't think there might be other people who might want to kill Jon once he revealed that info?
Like. Y'know. Daenerys.
Jon is a fucking moron. End of story.
Its very simple what happened.
Weiss and Denisoff looked like geniuses when they were essentially copying shows word for word from pre-written books.
The second the book material ran out, everything started to fall apart
Weiss and Benioff are terrible hack writers.
Nope they started making changes early on in season 2, there was plenty of book left at that point!! Those small changes caused a massive ripple effect that essentially made it a completely new story with a few similarities to the original books. The thing that pisses me off the most is I have now been waiting YEARS for the next book to come out!! and now i don't even know if I will be able to stomach reading it as all my enthusiasm for the characters I knew is gone :'(
@@leesoarable I personally didn't mind the deviation from the book, I saw it as a positive. Season 4 was also my favourite season.
They fucked up by writing poorly from season 4 forward.
@@xstoofpeer That's your opinion and that is totally fine :D I don't agree though and struggled with the changes (my partner is on your side of the argument). I was merely commenting that they deviated from the story well before the material from the books ran out!
everything goes back to normality
S1 - meets girl
S2 - gets number
S3 - first date
S4 - second date
S5 - third date
S6 - lots of kissing
S7 - lots of foreplay
Dis is getting goood mayne
S8 - ready for sex but got drunk and came too fast
Story of my life.
Want sex but got drunk and can’t even get it up in the first place. The ol limp dick ending
S7 shitty foreplay**
S8 - she asks you to marry her
Whoa there Nelly, too soon
S8 - Girl dies
That's one of the biggest issues of the late-seasons of Game of Thrones. Euron. Since the scene of him getting introduced, he was nothing more than a pure plot device. He was always where the plot needed him to be, sometimes alone, sometimes with an entire fucking fleet, sometimes he was an unstoppable killing machine, sometimes just as weak as the plot needed him to be. His character simply didn't exist. He was just a device to steer the plot.
Remember that Night King guy who was built up for 8 years? What happened to him? Lol
Jason Matthews yeah honestly the last few seasons shouldn’t really play into whether you like a character or not, characters’ motivations are only to move the plot
Arya: *KOBE!!!!!* (knife snipes him)
They really dropped the ball and kicked it into a ditch this season.
The Night King guy smirked a little at the end, and then died not long after. That's what happened.
@Un-broken and victorious She is God now, basically she can teleport and kill the whole fleet and Cersei in a matter of seconds and make the Golden Company bow to her.
I'm legitimately glad I came to this show late and binge watched it. Now I've only wasted a few weeks out of my life versus dedicating years of being a fan and getting really absorbed into the show only to have it get run into the ground like this.
I feel bad for long time fans
@Cherry Muse Functioning alcoholics seems a bit generous.
Same bro
Same. Watched season 1 and then didn’t have Foxtel/Cable to watch any further for years. Then got the box set up to season 7 and binged. Have waited for season 8 just as long as everyone else. My disappointment has me heartbroken so I can imagine diehard fan’s disappointment being unfathomable.
You did it right.
I started watching in 2012, I rewatched the entire show last month, I redownloaded audible to listen to the books again. This new season has been absolutely horrible. The highest budget TV show in history and they cant get better writers than the low budget Olympus has Fallen underwater level (Hunter Killer)
GOT has finally been crushed under its own weight. Like a 2 ton dragon with chicken legs.
Should have been called The Last of the Starbucks.
This great show turned officially into a f*cking medieval soap opera.
Hey, just like Vikings.
That's what happens when a show blows up and saves it's characters with plot armor
Nonsense. This is the same ending that will be in the books if they ever arrive (according to martin himself).
The original source material was really not as good as everyone lauded it to be. It was always going to dissolve into fantasy idiocy.
@@rdecredico It's possible that GRRM is either contractually obliged to say that, or that he wasn't even sure how the books would end and doubtful he'd ever finish them.
The show has became a pathetic formerly self of its onece a glorious show, now it has became a mockery of itself.
Then Brandon Stark wakes up, after realizing he has the ability to break the 4th wall and see alternative timelines.
Terrified at the current direction, things go back a few seasons and start over properly. The writers are burned at the stake.
Wish that would happen..
Think it more likely at this point this has all been a Bran dream/nightmare since the end of season 1 ep. 1..
It really is impossible to salvage now.
Sadly Bran takes the throne in the end so be prepared for that
I really like that last part.
we should make a Petition for that to happen 😂
Yeah, no. Bran becomes King of the 9 Realms with Bron on his high council.
Oh, and Jon rejoins the Night's Watch after killing Danny.
Best season ever
Favorite part about this is that Bran can literally look into the past to see what happens, or go into a bird or something and see where particular people are armies are at, and they use him for Baelish and The White Walkers and decide not to use him at all against Cersei 😂😂😂.
I gotta dispute Sansa being the worst. Jon almost wiped out the Starks' ability to retake Winterfell by trying to lose the Battle of the Bastards. He tried to disarm himself while on his own mission to "kidnap a zombie." He handed Night King a dragon, and within the context of the show, its implied the Night King never actually had a way to bypass the Ice Wall before then. Pretty much everything he does post-resurrection is try to screw over his own side.
“Deus Ex Arya” Coined, Minted, & put directly into Circulation. Well done.
Hey, they haven't totally jumped the throne yet......
Shouldn't it be Arya Ex Machina?
Been saying this for a while now actually. Arya Ex Machina of House Plot Armour.
Arya needs to be nerfed, i hope the Mountain kills her; she helped outsmart Littlefinger, which was a completely unsatisfying end to him, and killed the ultimate magic badass the Nightking.
Next episode - Uncle Benjen is a White Walker, rides in and fights off Cersei's entire army. Because unpredictable!
Wow that totally subverted my expectations!
EXPECTATIONS SUBVERTED
D&D here - how much do you want to write the prequel?
Arya spider monkeys 50 miles in a single jump whilst carrying the hound. Throws him at the mountain whilst drop daggering Cersei. Because she's a strong independent assassin who don't need no physics.
@@WayoftheDave LOL! AND... she gets close enough to do it by killing Qyburn and taking his face. Cersei offed by a Rian Johnson "drop dagger Qyburning!"
I cannot wait to hear your take on episode 5. The estrogen is stronger with this one.
Daenarys is really pissed. “Okay, how did that Starbuck’s coffee cup get there?”
At least Tormund and Ghost gtfo there. A small silver lining.
You guys shouldn't get too excited. They'll probably teleport directly into the throne room for the final battle and Tormund will save Briene with his dong right before Jamie attempts to kill her with a golden dildo on his right stump.
Top-Tier Woman Respektor -MAX LEVEL- that’s actually why I wanted him to die last week. I like beric and edd, but it’s more of a shocking death. Tormund would have hit much harder, yet Dumb cunt and dick fuck are too pussy to kill him off.
lmfao... and you think these horrible writers will let that stick
i can fuckin smell the last minute battle save from here
Yeah bittersweet. In a way I was glad they both left. It means: 1) they don't die a sad, pointless death (*cough* Rhaegal, Night King, Littlefinger *cough*) and 2) they don't have to be part of an increasingly miserable storyline.
@@blackskyirregular9876 Tormund has been one of the best characters for quite a while now and one of the most underused. Bronn is just plain irritating.
Danny: i have 3 dragons, they are mighy creatures
*spears exists*
I have 1 dragon... He is good at flying me around
No one in the show seems to be scared of the dragons anymore
They've been exposed to them too much, she didn't use them strategically and now two of them are dead.
Not weapons, living creatures that cannot be replaced or repaired. That is why you either use them as a last resort or use hit and run tactics to control the battlefield. Force enemies to relocate and attack from where you want them to attack from.
Can't we Humans shoot Helicopters out of the sky with assault rifles if they fly too low or too close to a mountain? Though a dragon doesn't have to withdraw to arm itself, it can get tired or hungry. Not going to fight well on an empty stomach is it.
What a waste, smh.
@@deleteexistence6175 the dragons are supposed to have scales so thick arrows and bolts bounce off of them.
Going by the show and books own words here. So it makes no sense. Infact they said the only way to kill a dragon is to hit it in the eye with a bolt or spear. I saw none of that.
@@deleteexistence6175 also... all living creatures repair... its called healing. Hell we repair better than actual machines. Machines need specific parts and expertise. Living creatures just need food and rest.
@@BB-ce5ev 12 weeks of healing for me after a car crash, 2 of those in ICU unable to stand and I still never fully healed but this is war where people are getting limbs cut off etc. Westeros doesn't have the medical knowledge we have in reality.
Machines can be repaired in a day or two depending on the issue. Or, replaced.
If the dragons get injured, how would they treat their wounds. What if they had internal bleeding, how will they stop it? Who in the world has knowledge of treating injured dragons to help with the healing process. Check the spear tip again that was fired from the ballista. Wondered if it might be dragon glass or something but couldn't be bothered to watch it again.
An injured dragon would be out of action for days, weeks, months. They're not going to run out of wood for ballistae or trebuchet or boats. They could be building replacements while the war rages on, there isn't a dragon farm anywhere breeding replacement dragons.
I never thought this episode could actually be worse than the last one but it actually happened. Congrats D&D
OMG! I nearly pissed my pants laughing at “Go Cavalry”. Absolute Gold! Keep up the great work.
Notice how the Baratheons love Stark women but they dont love them back 🤣
Echo Chambers good catch actually
Conclusion: Littlefinger is a Baratheon.
🤣he got shot down harder than the dragon did!
....Stark women are high maintenance.
He got off lightly Aryas no ravishing Beauty lol...
After season 7.
I feared the worst but hopes for the best.
after episode 3.
I gave up and stopped caring.
after Jon didn't even pet his dog.
I now have active disdain for the show.
Jon doesn’t deserve to pet Ghost. It’s Ghost that should be leaving Jon’s useless ass.
If the leaks are to be believed, you ain't seen nothing yet.
#Bestseasonever
Petting the pooch probably would have costed a few million bucks in special effects.
It would have been much better if they had let him die trying to save Jon.
Yeah, it became a lazy show. it seems like neither the writers nor the actors care anymore. They just want to be done and over with it.
@@MarcelNL For all I care, they could have had Kit pet a normal size dog and I would be totally fine with it.
I don't demand perfection, I just expect more than trash.
“Guess they leveled up enough to unlock fast travel” is so spot on
Never thought it would be possible to insert a millennial into a mideaval fantasy show... Rofl
The Starbucks cup is still not the most ridiculous thing in season 8 .
I think it's hilarious since it sits in front of a young woman as she gets more and more pissed off at men! Like a true holder of a gender studies degree!
@@Ezpazmic Ugh , have a day off with you women hating nonsense
That cup is a literal visual representation of what has happened to this show. All checks and balances are gone and it's going straight to air without any revision.
@@joeexotic2545 He doesn''t hate women. Only that gender studies degrees exist.
@@joeexotic2545 I don't hate women, I'm just pointing out that she looks like the stereotypical angry hipster in this clip.
Dany's judgment isn't failing her, her advisers and the writing are. "She forgot the Iron Fleet lol" THANKS D&D
Nah, she isn't listening to her advisers
As if Dany has anything resembling judgement
kelvin webley Wring she listened to Varys and Tyrion. Since Cersei knew how Tyrion thinks she outsmarted him and Dany lost a lot because of it. Since then he’s been a constant idiot.
@@kelvinwebley6971 She had a pointless conversation with Cersei in season 7 and a pointless converation with Cersei in season 8 all because of her dumb adviser Tyrion. If they want to avoid killing the civilians maybe they should hire assassins.
@@Namazuros I'm sure Arya will step in for that.
The Amy Schumer comment was fantastic!
They're just checking off plot points
It's no longer character driven plot where the plot moved from the actions and motives of the characters but rather forcing characters to act a certain way even if it is against their own motives, or logical thinking to make this and that happen. my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Rian Johnson: “I subverted expectations by delivering a half-baked story.”
D&D: “Hold my Starbuck’s.”
D&D? As in Dungeons and Dragons? They wish.
@@DogOfHades no Dumb and Dumber
Rian Johnson: *put starbucks on table*
@@Person01234 Wow, this guy cannot do anything right.
I never would have thought the most reasonable voice on the internet would be a pissed up scotchman. Well done sir.
You've managed to convey my thoughts on this season of Game of Thrones perfectly. They killed the show and not in a good way.
Lmao I love the fact that you coined the term "Rian Johnsoned" when talking about intentionally tanking a characters development! Brilliant mate!
Calling Dany a millennial and then saying the signs have been there (and showing the starbucks cup again) is pure genius on several different levels. I laughed about this through this entire video!
"Guess they leveled up enough to unlock fast travel." Can't argue with that. 👏👏😂
I wanted to throw my tv out the window when fucking Gendry made it back to the wall in about 20 minutes through snow covered mountains. He's never even been in that climate before!!!!
Hahaha hello comrade!
-preamble
“Oh, my sweet summer child. What do you know about fear?
Fear is for the Winter, when the snows fall a hundred feet deep. Fear is for the the long nights, when the sun hides for years, and children are born and live and die, all in darkness. That is the time for fear, my little Lord; when the White Walkers move through the woods.
Thousands of years ago there came a night that lasted a generation. Kings froze to death in their castles, same as the shepherds in their huts, and women smothered their babies rather than see them starve, and wept and felt their tears freeze on their cheeks. So is this the sort of story that you like?
... In that darkness the white walkers came for the first time. They swept through cities and kingdoms, riding their dead horses, hunting with their packs of pale spiders big as hounds...”
O shit nvm false alarm we good. Anyway, what about the forthcoming elections?
*unlimited budget. unlimited time. unlimited episodes if they wanted - not negotiated, all offered.* a global shared pain the likes of which we will never know again. people from every walk of life watched this. from the comicons, to the natsec crowd, to law professors and judges, to improv nerds & comics, to clinicians & health associates: ive never known anything like it. & the redeeming feature is these videos, and twitr after every ep in that last season. fun to remember.
They couldn’t be arsed, because they got bored. They’ll regret it for the rest of their careers
The negotiations between Tyrion and Qyburn were basically diplomatics in total war: medieval 2.
Tyrion: i ve got an army coming. Why dont u surrender
Qyburn: why dont U surrender
Tyrion: No
Qyburn: Me too.
T&Q: negotiations are over.
The point of the negotiations was to the show the people of kings landing that they at least tried. They knew it would be pointless anyway, Cersei would've never listened.
Basically correct. MW2's diplomacy was horrendous. Control 40 provinces and have 2 million florins as well as 100 times (literally) the army of the guy you are at war with. Him: "Only peace if u pay me 1,4 million florins". Yeah..
ParleLeVu haha good memories
Oh wow! Medieval: Total War 2 is out! The first one is getting a bit stale.
LoooooL so true
To roughly quote another commenter in another GoT review of Season 8
Imagine if Denethor was the final conflict in LOTR, after they got done with Sauron...
This is Season 8.
Imagine if Draco Malfoy was the final conflict in Harry Potter, after they got done with Voldemort...
Denethor would be throwing chicken bones and half bitten cherry tomatoes at the army below.
It's funny, the first thing I posted after Ep3 was, "Imagine if Commander Shepard handily defeated all the Reapers in the opening moments of ME:3, and you had to spend the rest of the game dealing with Councilor Udina's arrogant racism."
The final conflict after Sauron was Saruman in The Shire, well, in the books.
Still shitty writing for season 8.
there probably was some eastern ruler of a sort but it is so unimportant we do not need to know about it
good thing lotr is not a tv series......... yet.................
oh...... gods...............
thank you for articulating my anguish and disappointment. Like watching a beloved friend you grew up with fall in to drug use and waste away before you're eyes.
7:23 Yes!! Why not just burn his fleet from behind?!? Jesus.
Mike D exactly what I said... along with, “DO NOT LEAVE GHOST! At least pet him?!”
maybe they can turn them arround? the weapon
@@madmigraineur3815 To make petting ghost look convincing probably would cost more than they wanted to spend
I have not seen the show yet or the videos because I want to minimize spoilers(so maybe I should not be here), but could a possible answer be the dragons are just stupid? Like maybe they just fly around looking for food and need a direct order to attack something. Maybe the dragons don't understand war and human politics and who is the enemy. Maybe they have the intelligence of a cat or dog?
@@cellsec7703 understandable but not consistent. I can't remember which episode or season (I think it was s8 e1) when Danny and bitch tits Jon go on a joyride from winterfell. They( or at least Dany) can defo control them. Also, they are smart enough to understand what drakarys means so...
This whole season has been such a huge disappointment. Close to 10 years for it all to end in a pile of donkey shit.
I’m shocked Arya didn’t jump from out of no where to save Rhaegal
Edit: and Missandei
a wandering assassin carrying a trampoline with her from town to town.
Aria: House Stark for life bitches!
A few moments later
Leaves Winterfell forever without saying goodbye to anyone.
"wearing plot armour so thique you could build a battleship with it" 😂
"Thique"... Really?
You spelt thick incorrectly
Would be no use against Euron's magic railgun ballista.
Indeed :)@@jacobhall979
@@TheBigjim1992 ik
I'm glad someone noticed the wierd clipping on Jon's speech. Really confusing
Seasons 1-6 amazing. Season 7 went downhill. Season 8 is a total disaster.
1 - meh, 2 - now we're starting to get somewhere, 3 - nah back to meh, 4 - ok, 5 - aw yeah, 6 - eh half of it was good I guess, 7 - hell fucking yeah, 8 - wtf?
Seasons 1-4 amazing the rest utter shite.
"Winter"
I dont think I saw anyone's frosty breath even once, and it looks like summer in kings landing.
You did when they were outside, but since, you know, there are warm fire's inside, it's going to be kind of hard for it to be cold... This comment made me laugh because you are complaining of the sake of complaining.
Summer?? It looks like dorne in Kingslanding. Apparently winter lasts about 2 months now. What happened to a long summer means a longer winter?
I mean I think the long winter may have something to do with the nightking himself, I think killing him will cut short the whole winter in the south thing.
@@sneezystudios5856 I mean the grass is brown now, which is what happens before and during winter.
Winter is coming... Maybe... 😏
The characters can only be as smarts as its writers
TY... Sadly the writers are not up to the challenge.
PesciVHS lmao. So true bro.
This is a problem that haunts books and movies alike. How do you write plot and dialog for the word's most brilliant mind when you're only middling at best? Like when a musical drama builds up a song as fantastic or moving and then when the band finally plays it you go "meh, not bad but..."
Could NOT agree more with you, mate. I just can't shake this shinking feeling that we haven't seen the worst yet....
1:43 - God's Sake
2:59 - God's Sake
4:56 - God's Sake
5:55 - God's Sake
7:38 - God's Sake
8:43 - God's Sake
Gendry went full Ted Mosby, you NEVER go full Ted Mosby.
Wilson Muñoz I appreciate this joke. 😂
I dont get it?
Damn thought you meant Ted from Scrubs
@@soywil how I met your mother AND tropic thunder
@@georgio3753 Right on the money.
Yeah there's no way Cersei would care about protocol. She would have killed Dany n friends right then and there.
"You think i listened to father for twenty years and learned nothing?" - cersei.
"I dont trust you not because you are a woman...
I dont trust you because you are not as smart as you think you are."- Tywin to cersei.
See cersei...you father was again absolutely right!!!
Have to respect that plot armor though.
Also, Daenerys can easily be portrayed as an userper by Cersei. It's the winners who write history. There's no honour for userpers.
Well, you're not seeing the big plot twist here .. Cercei becomes good and caring and wants to reconcile with Daenerys, after which Euron kills her and becomes lord .. of Lannister family even though he's not Lannister. Subverted expectations :D
She did send someone to kill them why not take the easy shot?
@@949surferdude Logically I agree... but the question is did she really send Bronn or was it Qyburn on his own? Who cares anymore..... nothing we think even matter anymore because they are not using logic anymore.. you know.... Subversion of expectations is KING now!
When I first started watching got I was shocked at how little I could accurately predict.
Later on I began thinking I was starting to wise up when in actuality the show was just getting watered down.
Disappointing indeed.
Battle for Winterfell should have had more brutal deaths of some of the mains with the end being a defeat and retreat of the ones left with what little army. Then an awkward meeting with Cersi, basically saying "they are relentless. We couldn't stop them, and now they're coming for all of us". Then a weak truce with a major battle for Kings landing with some shock double crossing, deaths ect.
Just anything else would have been more interesting really.
And how exactly would they retreat? They'd have no food, they'd be tired from battle and running but unable to rest or even stop because the dead never tire and have a seemingly unending blizzard following them. The north would be literally run down and killed. And dont even get me started on the white walker dragon. Cersei and her army couldn't help because their weapons would be ineffective. None of what you've said makes any sense... it's just a feel good ending.
Dragon taxis?