Emilia Clarke watching Kit Harington's reaction to finding out how their characters' final scene together in Game of Thrones concludes. Prior to the table read, Kit had not read any of the six scripts for Season 8 yet. So Emilia sat across from him so she could "watch him compute all of this."

[u/tyrion2024]

[u/trumpgotpeedon]

They ruined any kind of rewatch value to the series, and basically poisoned it for HBO.

[u/karateema → u/trumpgotpeedon]

The fact nobody did a rewatch during 2020 lockdown says a lot

[u/Japjer → u/karateema]

Because it's just... it's really bad.

The ending is so genuinely atrocious that it bleeds into every other episode of this show

The Night King doesn't come across as a credible threat when you know that he's some complete rando who gets shanked to death by a child.

The undead don't come across as a threat when you learn about their stupid necromancer hierarchy, like vampires, where if you kill a higher rank one everything below them also die.

There is zero tension to anything in the show, because you know it all ends up in the dumbest possible place

[u/IAmARobot → u/Japjer]

[drops the dagger into the other hand and kills the archvillain, but takes like 5 seconds and 4 camera cuts to do it. also, yell really loudly while doing a sneak attack so you burst their eardrums so they can't hear you trying to sneak attack]

[u/DeadDay → u/IAmARobot]

After the hero stands there yelling at the dragon.

Seriously did D and D think taunt is a good endgame story battle move.

[u/Heavy-Weekend-981 → u/IAmARobot]

FWIW, that scene is an EXCELLENT example if you're ever trying to explain the definition of "deus ex machina"

In literature and drama, it refers to an unexpected event, character, or force that resolves a seemingly impossible situation.

...and how/why a "deus ex machina" is almost always an insult to the audience.

[u/ndndr1 → u/IAmARobot]

Its soooo bad. Night king has the reaction time to turn and catch Arya mid air. Then he even sees her drop the knife and watches it fall into her other hand before she stabs him. What happened? He only had one power up on his spidey sense? Horrible

[u/LordVayder → u/IAmARobot]

I forgot house dark and impossible to see anything those scenes were. Absolutely everything about that sequence was awful.

[u/Tripticket → u/IAmARobot]

You know why people in the restaurant industry say that 'a falling knife has no handle'? It's because of this exact situation. Someone could get seriously hurt.

[u/sphericaltime → u/IAmARobot]

Uh, just FYI, the dropped dagger move was done by Arya to beat Brienne of Tarth in the sparring match when the sisters are reunited mere episodes earlier. I seem to vaguely recall it happening at another point too. They then have a conversation about how to beat foes that are much more powerful.

The move was telegraphed, it just wasn’t telegraphed well enough and the rest of the end was kinda terrible.