At long last, we've made it through the trauma of Hodoring (yes, we're all crying); reaving, raiding and raping; gratuitous nudity and fierce costumes. We are now upon the season of finally: Finally Dany returns to Westeros, Finally Greyworm and Missandei link up, Finally J+D=screensaver, Finally the wall comes down, Finally Baelish gets fingered and it sticks (while being stuck with the pointy end), Finally the Stark kids reunite.
1. Cersei is literally the only person unimpressed by a wight, dragons & Dany's lacefront.
2. The Ed Sheeran cameo is less annoying the second time around, despite the international outcry
3. Much has been said about the writing/storytelling of Season 7, hard to tell if they're actually that much worse than GRRM- yes, GRRM is a genuis, but anyone who's read the books will admit that a Dance with Dragons was a tad repetitive and dare I say boring. Are we biased against Weiss and Benioff because we know they don't have the rich source material of the books to cull from? Possibly. But all the jokes about teleportation are founded. S5&6 just dragged on as though they were giving GRRM time to complete the Winds of Winter and by the time they realised he wouldn't they need to close the gap between where they left off and where they needed to get to. the Series finale could have easily been 13 episodes long and perhaps spending time to potentially craft a better story could be why they opted for the 7+6. In the end, the ridiculous plots, illogical and out of character decisions, cliched cliffhangers just seem like the work of writers who know full well who lives till the end, who lives and who dies in the end, the actual end but not how everyone gets to the series finale across 10 episodes. Cases in point: the whole proof - steal a wight-plot, the ice dragon (theses Dragons have been ducking and weaving for a while now and for some reason they're surprisingly susceptible to spears), the whole Dornish story, Arya being unnecessarily creepy and smug (dare I say Baelish?), Littlefinger's death, Jon being Jon.
4. Why did Lyanna name her son Aegon? Are all first born Targ males supposed to be called Aegon? Didn't she know her new hubby's other son's name? I really really don't get it. Yes, Rhaegar was really into the prophesy and perhaps he over enthusiastically tried to bring it to pass but marrying 'Ice' and perhaps Aegon was the name of the TPWWP? If Elia died postpartum as the maesters said she would, she would have been Nissa Nissa. Lyanna died anyway...She was Nissa Nissa.
and side bar...the tower of Joy was in Dorne...Your ex wife is from Dorne...and you decide to get that marriage annulled and then re-marry your Northern bride in Dorne and THEN hide your pregnant new wife in Dorne?
5. Jon sounds like Idris Elba trying to do Mandela...this kid can talk! we were all swooning the first time but the second time hearing these speeches...I'm not so into it.
6. GOT has always been about the dialogue, statecraft and political intrigue more than the magic and even though the past few season's have leaned heavily on the latter, the book's premise of being GRRM's commentary on the world and our lot as humans is probably going to be the summary of it all. Neither our oral histories nor written histories are reliable- turns out everything Old Nan said was true but no one cared. The citadel is filled with accounts that no one reads and the very purpose of the greatest structure of the known world is long forgotten. Humans don't always believe what their eyes tell them, let along what others tell them and we have VERY short memories, ever destined to repeat the actions of ancestors in a never ending cycle.
7. So here's my prediction: Everyone dies. S8 starts with a flashback because there's so much that's yet to be shown that's relevant to the plot. Mayhaps a journey back to Stonehenge? Jaime kills Cersei, fulfilling the prophecy, Jon kills Dany [(while pregnant) and she is reunited with Khal Drogo fulfilling the curse ] and he becomes the Last Hero/Azor Ahai/The Prince(ss) that was Promised because his is the song of Ice and Fire, he kills the Night King but becomes the Night King, because that's the part of the prophecy no one talks about- and banishes himself to the lands of Always Winter. Sansa lives to rule alongside Tyrion and a third person.Varys and Mellisandre die as she foresaw. Arya and Gendry sail off to WestAmerica. Sam lives on to write all about it. We spend the next millennia rebuilding the world, forgetting what happened and the cycle begins again. We zoom out, Macumba closes his eyes, goes to bed...
1. Cersei is literally the only person unimpressed by a wight, dragons & Dany's lacefront.
2. The Ed Sheeran cameo is less annoying the second time around, despite the international outcry
3. Much has been said about the writing/storytelling of Season 7, hard to tell if they're actually that much worse than GRRM- yes, GRRM is a genuis, but anyone who's read the books will admit that a Dance with Dragons was a tad repetitive and dare I say boring. Are we biased against Weiss and Benioff because we know they don't have the rich source material of the books to cull from? Possibly. But all the jokes about teleportation are founded. S5&6 just dragged on as though they were giving GRRM time to complete the Winds of Winter and by the time they realised he wouldn't they need to close the gap between where they left off and where they needed to get to. the Series finale could have easily been 13 episodes long and perhaps spending time to potentially craft a better story could be why they opted for the 7+6. In the end, the ridiculous plots, illogical and out of character decisions, cliched cliffhangers just seem like the work of writers who know full well who lives till the end, who lives and who dies in the end, the actual end but not how everyone gets to the series finale across 10 episodes. Cases in point: the whole proof - steal a wight-plot, the ice dragon (theses Dragons have been ducking and weaving for a while now and for some reason they're surprisingly susceptible to spears), the whole Dornish story, Arya being unnecessarily creepy and smug (dare I say Baelish?), Littlefinger's death, Jon being Jon.
4. Why did Lyanna name her son Aegon? Are all first born Targ males supposed to be called Aegon? Didn't she know her new hubby's other son's name? I really really don't get it. Yes, Rhaegar was really into the prophesy and perhaps he over enthusiastically tried to bring it to pass but marrying 'Ice' and perhaps Aegon was the name of the TPWWP? If Elia died postpartum as the maesters said she would, she would have been Nissa Nissa. Lyanna died anyway...She was Nissa Nissa.
and side bar...the tower of Joy was in Dorne...Your ex wife is from Dorne...and you decide to get that marriage annulled and then re-marry your Northern bride in Dorne and THEN hide your pregnant new wife in Dorne?
5. Jon sounds like Idris Elba trying to do Mandela...this kid can talk! we were all swooning the first time but the second time hearing these speeches...I'm not so into it.
6. GOT has always been about the dialogue, statecraft and political intrigue more than the magic and even though the past few season's have leaned heavily on the latter, the book's premise of being GRRM's commentary on the world and our lot as humans is probably going to be the summary of it all. Neither our oral histories nor written histories are reliable- turns out everything Old Nan said was true but no one cared. The citadel is filled with accounts that no one reads and the very purpose of the greatest structure of the known world is long forgotten. Humans don't always believe what their eyes tell them, let along what others tell them and we have VERY short memories, ever destined to repeat the actions of ancestors in a never ending cycle.
7. So here's my prediction: Everyone dies. S8 starts with a flashback because there's so much that's yet to be shown that's relevant to the plot. Mayhaps a journey back to Stonehenge? Jaime kills Cersei, fulfilling the prophecy, Jon kills Dany [(while pregnant) and she is reunited with Khal Drogo fulfilling the curse ] and he becomes the Last Hero/Azor Ahai/The Prince(ss) that was Promised because his is the song of Ice and Fire, he kills the Night King but becomes the Night King, because that's the part of the prophecy no one talks about- and banishes himself to the lands of Always Winter. Sansa lives to rule alongside Tyrion and a third person.Varys and Mellisandre die as she foresaw. Arya and Gendry sail off to WestAmerica. Sam lives on to write all about it. We spend the next millennia rebuilding the world, forgetting what happened and the cycle begins again. We zoom out, Macumba closes his eyes, goes to bed...
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