Dear Readers,

I don’t know about you guys but I am a super fan of Game of Thrones, it is my favorite TV show of all times perhaps, I pride myself on knowing all kinds of (pretty useless!) trivia and have thoroughly enjoyed almost every episode. I however have a serious bone to pick with Dan and Dave, the show’s writers. They have, in my and many other’s opinion destroyed the show, and with only one episode left as I am writing this, there is little chance of redemption. Honestly, The first three episodes of season 8 were very good and I could stand by them but episode 4 & 5 (Spoilers ahead) were just poor and written terribly compared to other episodes.

Firstly, why would Jon and Daenerys march south, separately, it doesn’t make any sense. Dany won’t be able to attack King’s Landing without her army so why split forces. It would make more sense for them to march south together, show a united front and it would give a chance for Dany to persuade people they meet that she would be a good ruler and show them her vision.

Disregarding the first fault, then the Targaryen fleet sails to Dragonstone without scouting it out first. Being practical, surely one of the smaller, faster ships with a dozen or so soldiers would be sent forward to secure the Island, make sure it isn’t being occupied or perhaps a large fleet isn’t hiding there, waiting to ambush and kill Dany’s dragons. It also made no sense how the Iron Fleet were able to capture Missandei, like what? Out of everyone that was in the water, Tyrion, Varys, Greyworm-the commader of Daenerys’ armies, they choose Missandei.

The thing that maddened me the most was them making Daenerys mad. Like, D&D keep saying that it was foreshadowed a million times that Dany would become mad and massacre innocents, but she has only ever wanted to execute her enemies, usurpers, people that opposed her, not innocents. Why would she go north, sacrifice herself, half her army and some of her closest companions, not to mention half her army, weakening the rest to save the entire human race, if she was just going to murder a million of them a couple of weeks later. People don’t just become mad, its a gradual progression. If they want her to become mad, do it over a season or two. Don’t change seven seasons worth of a character’s personality and ‘arc’ in one episode. Dany has been betrayed before and has lost people she loved before, it never made her mad, it made her strive to be better, its not a valid excuse.

Next, I want to talk about Cersei. Another character arc they ruined. Why would they spend eight seasons making Cersei the main antagonist and villain of the show, if they were going to humanize her and make her look like a scared mother fending for her unborn’s child’s life. She deserved a violent execution or burning alive, when you compare it to the likes of Catelyn Starks’s death and then compare their characters, like what???

Finally, why are D&D, making Arya the protagonist all of a sudden? She has been a secondary character for seven seasons but now she killed the Night King, we saw her perspective during the burning of King’s Landing and its likely she will, or at least try to kill Dany. Why bother centering the show around Jon and Dany with Cersei as the main antagonist, if you are all of a sudden going to make them secondary?

Thats all my ranting for now! Lets hope the season finale redeems the past two episodes and show goes out on a banger….Until next time,

Yours Affectionately,

Roe

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