Were you a Game of Thrones fan?
I say “were” because almost exactly 2 years ago the finale of the show came out and maybe you changed your mind when you saw the ending. Sheesh.
Each week I like to blog with whatever I find most inspiring right now, including things to help you:
- know what to do next.
- ignite your creative fire.
- make faster progress on your projects.
And right now I’m amazed that GOT ended 2 years ago, almost exactly.
My desire to rant on it is certainly lighting my fire–so maybe it’ll spread to you.
I’m working on my book Dark Legacies intently. I’m trying to make it part of a good series–unlike Game of Thrones.
So funnily enough I was thinking of GOT today and how badly it all turned out and I felt passionate enough to rant.
What did I not like about it?
I will put my Game of Thrones thoughts and spoilers below this so you can scroll down below the huge spoiler warning.
SPOILER
You can scroll to the next post and avoid this at all costs–your choice.
1. Why was the love scene between John Snow and Daenerys SO boring?
They are both rulers. Daenerys blasts cities with flames!
I was envisoning it like they start kissing and the passion is so intense, John pushes Daenerys against a wall, she pushes him back and is like, “No! I call the shots. John! Empress trumps King,” or, “He’s like, well it’s my castle so you don’t give orders to me, missy!” Then they have a moment where it’s like tug of war, and then maybe something else happens!
“What would happen?” I was thinking, “Who is going to be the ruler of their relationship, is it Daenerys? She is bossy? Is he? What’s going to happen?”
I was pretty dang excited to see what would happen after all that time.
In reality, when they finally have the very anticipated love scene, all I get to see is a TAME kiss while they are lying down in bed fully clothed, like they’ve been married a while. It’s just on a bed so when they pan away we assume they did the deed.
That’s it???! This is an HBO show.
Very disappointing. I miss John’s first girlfriend, the weird thing they had was much more fun.
2. Specifically Daenerys’s ending.
Ugh. And everyone says, “Of course, Daenerys goes crazy and murders innocents rather than spreads justice in the end. She was always crazy! they say, “You can see the signs.”
No.
She was awesome. You can’t just flip her whole motivation for doing things (helping people and not letting horrible people get away with being horrible) and rationalize that really her personality is actually the exact kind of person who could turn out to be horrible without MORE set up than that.
If the main final, most important theme was that liberators are at danger of becoming tyrants and we should be wary of that…then there should have been some foreshadowing of that as a theme.
There was none.
I feel like the writers want people to swallow what they gave when they did it in a sloppy way, like, “Oh it’s all part of this really deep theme that we never mentioned before, don’t you get it? Aren’t you smart enough to see how we, the writers, are really smart? Huh? Of course, she just became a tyrant herself! Mmm. Yeah. It makes sense.”
To me they just threw that in there because they didn’t know what to do with her in the end, wanted it to be super dramatic, and they just live for making anything at all becoming a twist.
It was dumb. And why the story ended there and rather than with overcoming the freaking White Walkers, I have no idea.
If they really wanted John out of the way he could have bowed out of a crown by choice instead of being ended in shame as a girlfriend/aunt murderer. Sheesh.
3. The ending of the last episode.
Frankly I’m mad at George R.R. Martin for not outlining his series! That’s probably why the ending didn’t make any sense.
I know, I know, he says he’s a special kind of writer, he’s a discovery writer and they don’t outline, they just discover the story that wants to be told.
But would he really have wanted the end of the movie to be a stuffy tent where every one decides to put Bran in charge since Bran is now basically an emotional-less robot? There isn’t even that much conflict about it.
That’s it? That’s the final solution. It could not be more anti-climatic.
And the final, final scenes are Sansa rolling around the castle as the new dark Queen of the North because she insisted the North demands to never be ruled by outsiders again–which, okay whatever. No one really cared about the fact that they get to be special, maybe because they killed all the White Walkers, but whatever, the North. Fine.
The North splitting off was pretty insignificant, so I don’t know why those final Sansa scenes of her becoming queen were given so much airtime. Like should I be thinking, “Hooray! She has everyone who survived bowing to her now”? The shots had such a dark BDSM club vibe–but maybe that’s just me.
I don’t get it.
THIS COULD HAVE BEEN PLANNED BETTER.
If I sold an HBO deal, you know, and it kept getting renewed I would have anticipated coming up with a better ending to the series instead of this one.
George R.R. Martin had years to be ready to just jot down some napkin notes or even hire a consultant.
He still hasn’t put out any more books for like a decade even though the HBO show has been running the story past the point of his books.
I don’t think he knows what the hell he’s doing, because he doesn’t outline and got himself in too deep.
I don’t like outlining, but I’ll do what I need to do. A hybrid of outlining and not outlining.
The discovery writer thing is an excuse at that point.
I bet there were 20 fanfic endings or fan theories that were better than this.
So wait, I’m mad at both George Martin because I know he never outlined an ending (because if he had I doubt it would be so bad) and also the team at HBO that wrote the ending because he was too lazy to, or refused to, or whatever–because it was crummy!
Why did they make the final season shorter than the rest of the series? That was rude.
Probably because the writers were over it and wanted to move on to their next project which was Star Wars and would be getting better paid. They really dropped the ball on the ending.
So anyway, I’ll try to make the endings and love scenes in my upcoming Blood Witch series better than Game of Thrones!
You can contact me and tell me what you think about GOT, I welcome that–but don’t tell me Daenerys deserves to be a crazy murder or I will breath fire on you!!!!
Until next time,
Sofia Wren
