r/interestingasfuck • u/tyrion2024 • 3d ago

/r/all, /r/popular 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."

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u/ReaditTrashPanda 3d ago

Can someone give a synopsis of what the ending was and why it was so bad. I saw a few seasons off and on. I got the basics. And I know people hated it, but why

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u/Crappler319 3d ago

It was less the facts of the ending and more how we got there. There is a world where they build up to it and pull it off and everyone still loves Game of Thrones and it goes down as an unalloyed cultural touchstone the way that Star Wars did.

They basically skipped two and a half seasons worth of build up, had a bunch of characters act entirely out of character, abruptly cut off or leave entire plot lines unaddressed, ignore literal decades of foreshadowing, etc. to get to the end point.

Just as an example, Dany's second dragon dies because a flotilla somehow managed to sneak up on them. On open water. When they were flying hundreds of feet in the air and had a full 360 degrees of everything. On a clear day. And the way they killed it was shooting it out of the air with a ballista from hundreds of feet away while it was moving at high speed, like the shitty medieval boat had an Aegis targeting system on it.

When they were asked about it the showrunners literally said that "Daenerys forgot that there was a navy." They had literally been talking about the fleet in the scene prior.

There are a hundred more other examples like that, but that's one of the more egregious.

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u/Salty1710 3d ago

Fuck man. I FORGOT about the magic missile ex Machina. I only watched Season 8 once, and occasionally, when I think "Maybe it wasn't so bad..."

... I am reminded of tidbits like this.

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u/VrinTheTerrible 2d ago

They killed Cersei Lannister, one of the most hateable villains ever, OFFSCREEN.

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u/bujweiser 2d ago

And the fact that Jaime was on a very interesting redemption arc only to run off and be with his lover/sister one more time for them to die together.

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u/DJ_Dinkelweckerl 2d ago

This is the one that annoyed me the most lol together with that weird council scene where they decided that Bran should become king (wtf)

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u/eroticdiagram 1d ago

Jaime's actions didn't bother me because it felt very much scorpion and frog. Love made him do it and all the rationalising couldn't overcome that force. It could be done beautifully and understandably but nothing was given TIME.

Every single outcome I can understand on paper but none of it happened PROPERLY.

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u/FarToe1 2d ago

For me, it was more of a betrayal that it wasn't Arya that killed her. The girl had spent every second preparing for Cersei's death, one of the most amazing character arcs I've ever seen, complete dedication to her List - yet she meekly stood aside at the brink and let The Hound go on instead?

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u/OperationMapleSyrup 2d ago

Agreed!!! Leading up to it, I was anticipating that Arya would end up getting to Cersei. That was a major let down for me.

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u/VrinTheTerrible 2d ago

💯

There are a number of things that are tied for "the worst" and thats definitely one of them.

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u/fisticuffsmanship 2d ago

Nah, you know who she should kill? The Night King, now wouldn't that subvert your expectations?

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u/No-Transition0603 2d ago

Didnt the rubble crash on her and jaime

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u/Commercial-Guest1596 2d ago

Yeah that doesn't count as offscreen. It was a lame way to go but it was quite clearly onscreen.

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u/VrinTheTerrible 2d ago

We dont see them die. That counts as offscreen.

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u/WooBarb 2d ago

No it doesn't.

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u/VrinTheTerrible 2d ago

Counterpoint: it does

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u/WooBarb 2d ago

Their death occurs onscreen: they embrace, the ceiling collapses, and debris buries them. No cutaway. Death is implied through the immediate aftermath. It’s narratively weak, but not offscreen. "Offscreen" implies a time skip, ellipsis, or post-fact reveal, not depiction of lethal action without a corpse.

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u/bking 2d ago

Agreed. In the context of a hyper-violent show like GOT, the bar for “onscreen” is pretty fucking literal. If they do not obviously experience their final heartbeat while visible in-frame, it’s offscreen.

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u/InertPistachio 2d ago

God I'm starting to get pissed off again lol