The final episode of the final season aired and a story that has captivated audiences for over eight years has now ended. Game of Thrones is over and fans are sad. They are also angry and dissatisfied, but mostly they are sad. After all, there will be no more countdowns to any ‘next season’ or episode updates now.
Yes there old seasons and episodes to watch again and there will be new spinoffs as well according to the entertainment grapevine. However, Game of Thrones as we know it is history.
“I don’t know what to do with my life now”. Maybe that is a little too melodramatic. Or maybe you understand.
GoT set the benchmark for incredible cinematography, advanced and realistic VFX… there is no doubt that the series was visually brilliant on a scale unprecedented for TV.
GoT calls for considerable suspension of disbelief. Or maybe not so much?
If there was a coffee cup in a previous episode, there was a plastic water bottle in this one. Most people were more puzzled about this guy, though.
A lot of people subscribed to HBO (and Hotstar in India) just for GoT. Maybe they’ll unsubscribe now.
We know that there are likely to be spinoffs. This is as good an idea as any.
That's 70 hours of your life you wasted; 70 hours that are never coming back! When you think about it that way, the modified series logo doesn’t seem that unreasonable.
GoT has been violent, graphic, gory, explicit, shocking often not in a good way as this montage of shots from all the seasons proves.
One pet is really happy to see his master. Another ‘pet’ is distraught with what has happened to its ‘parent’.
Unceremonious deaths for a lot of principal characters, random plot twists without resolution, a coronation without cause… these are just some of the objections I had. Plus all the very valid questions this tweet raises.
The series is supposed to be medieval (?) in the way it thinks and dresses, so one may suppose that the idea of democracy sounds ludicrous. Samwell Tarly's thinking may have evolved to that point, but the others… not so much.
I suppose the writers could show a dragon as having the sense to make symbolic gestures while understanding concepts of justice and showing grief… because who knows how dragons think anyway.
There could have been many contenders for the now-melted iron throne. In the end, it was king-by-consensus.
Remember how fans were really angry that Jon left Ghost without so much as a farewell hug? Well, they are content now.
The end left a lot of people unsatisfied for various reasons – including me. So are you unhappy Game of Thrones ended? Can’t say it makes much of a difference to me, one way or another.
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