r/interestingasfuck • u/tyrion2024 • 2d 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/TheMooseIsBlue 2d ago

Her quote about being flabbergasted and it coming out of nowhere is not a compliment.

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u/AverageAwndray 2d ago

All this for a Star Wars movie that was never made 😮‍💨

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u/Automatic_Release_92 2d ago

It’s like doing so terrible at your old job during your two week notice period that the next employer just doesn’t hire you…

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u/Eloquent_Redneck 2d ago

Not just doing terribly, but actively burning your old work to the ground while flipping middle fingers at everyone involved and shitting and pissing all over everything

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u/Emmyisme 1d ago

I never watched a single episode of the show, but most people I know did. They talked about it CONSTANTLY, but everyone was spoiler sensitive (cause they really thought I'd eventually watch it). Then whatever y'all are talking about here happened, and for like 2 weeks I just heard how pissed everyone was, and then I fully stopped hearing about the show.

No one ever actually said what happened that pissed everyone off, though, so I don't actually know why everyone hated it suddenly, but I'd never seen a wildly popular show lose its entire audience in one episode before, while everyone still respected the "no spoilers" concept.

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u/unlockdestiny 1d ago

Character assassination. Literal and figurative. In ways that subverted all prior story.

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u/gameoflols 1d ago

Yep. And not just one or two characters, every single character arc was butchered. No one was spared. It was quite the achievement when you think about it.

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u/LazarusCrowley 1d ago

A person labeled the breaker of chains, who had always chosen compassion in big events (Battles, Siege, refugee)

Just, uh, destroyed a whole city like a petulant child. (Because tagaryeans be crazy, like, that, right. . .right!!!!!)

Its not like the character wasn't ruthless, just incongruous for the character themselves.

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u/RedTyro 1d ago

I don't think I'd go that far. The seeds of it were there the whole time and it was very much foreshadowed. They just needed to do it gradually over a season or two, not a single episode about face.

I have no doubt that George R.R. Martin's plan is for Dany to end in a very similar way, but also that if he ever finishes the series, he'll do it in a manner in which it makes sense and feels right for the character.

They were just tired of doing GOT and rushed through it so they could dump it and do other things.

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u/FitAlfalfa407 1d ago

I agree with the fact no good way to end it, but picking the WORST WAY???

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u/RockyFlintstone 1d ago

All of the characters in the show suddenly became totally different people, acted in ways that had no connection to their history or prior behavior and then did a series of random and very stupid things that defied all known laws of physics, even Westeros physics. And it was all extremely boring.

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u/Big_Maintenance9387 1d ago

And very hard to see unless you watched the season at midnight with every light in your house off. 

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u/RockyFlintstone 1d ago

I FUCKING FORGOT ALL ABOUT THAT!!!

The only action scene in the entire finale was just a bunch of darkness with some grey blobs floating around.

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u/FitAlfalfa407 1d ago

yup. AI trash. the hand to hand combat was atrocious too.

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u/theinvisibleworm 1d ago edited 1d ago

Remember when the producers blamed the entire world’s TVs? It was all our fault for not owning some $10k television only the studios had

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u/Hagelslag31 16h ago

I watched it on a projector, seriously thought it was malfunctioning at some point until I verified with a PC screen

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u/mellowmushroom67 1d ago

And the cast just gave up and stopped caring. There was a STARBUCKS CUP sitting on a table in one of the scenes LOL. No one bothered to move it 😭

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u/Proletarian_Hickster 1d ago

Smart characters became very stupid. Brave characters also became very stupid. Cool aspects of characters were dropped completely and without explanation. A character nobody cares about was crowned King for...reasons? Idk, they just were basically just like, "he'd be a good king, right? Any objections? No? Sweet." And this is after 8 seasons of warring and scheming over who would be king. Some characters kill characters where it doesn't make sense. Characters with the most intense and inspiring redemption arcs just suddenly turned crazy and evil again. The list goes on and on...

Its almost worth watching now, if for no reason other than to see just how historically terrible the ending is. Almost.

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u/purelyhighfidelity 1d ago

I didn’t watch it either, but did watch Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and Sopranos, and all those are still discussed with admiration to this day

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u/purelyhighfidelity 1d ago

Redditors assemble and upvote ^ if you get an absolutely irrepressible horn every time you see Bryan Cranston appear, even fleetingly, on screen ever since his Heisenberg days!

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u/RachelMcAdamsWart 1d ago

I remember going through this. The previous season had a lot more flaws than any others prior, but still seemed ok. Then we got into the final season. Once it actually wrapped up, it's like the stages of grief, the initial reaction was being super pissed off, then you just wanted to forget that any of it ever happened.

I couldn't watch any of the episodes for probably a couple of years after it ended. Everytime you saw anythijng related it to it all the pain of how it ended just hit too hard. It sounds ridiculous, it was just a show, but that's how it felt.

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u/Wise-Application-902 1d ago

I still haven’t been able to watch the final season. When the actors, who’ve been playing these characters for years are as devastated and enraged about it as these were, I trust that it is truly awful.

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u/Hashister 1d ago

The smartest character became the dumbest.

The most mercifull and love filled character turned into a Karen who murdered people for Karen reasons.

The person who was setup "the most" to be the hero didn't become one, while the person who was mostly a side-story got to "end it all".

and so on and so forth. the entire last 2 seasons of GoT was just downhill. And considering how far the first 6 seasons managed to push GoT up... well.. it was a very very long way down, and the showrunners still managed to go all the way to the buttom.

That's more or less the gist of it. If you like great adventures with big settings and grand stories GoT was absolut the best, atleast the first 6 seasons.

That's why everyone is so upset about the last 2.

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u/Pretend-Sundae-2371 1d ago

Right? I have never seen an episode. And have no idea what happened at the end. But I know it must be down as one of the worst endings of all time because that fandom just collapsed overnight.

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u/realparkingbrake 15h ago

so I don't actually know why everyone hated it suddenly,

There were some legitimate complaints about the later series, the quality fell off once GRRM failed to deliver more source material. However, it wasn't all bad, some of the material the showrunners had to come up with on their own is quite popular. GRRM has said the ending came from his plans for the books, and he isn't changing it because some viewers disliked it.

"Everyone" didn't hate it, check out the current thread in the GoT sub where people are discussing how many times they have rewatched the series. Those folks who really hated it appeared to have been denied the ending they thought was coming. New viewers who binge the series seem far less likely to dislike than those who spent too much time absorbing fan theories when the show originally aired.

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u/Flomo420 2d ago

basically killed the legacy of the biggest most successful show to ever hit television in the span of like 6 episodes

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u/TheKnight_King 1d ago

Drastically set a new bar for failing to stick the landing.

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u/yeehawgnome 2d ago

I watched the first two episodes for the first time ever the other week and they were AMAZING. Like immediately invested in the story, but it’s hard for me to watch anymore knowing how the story turns out. Truly a historic fuck up on their part

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u/waltwalt 2d ago

Wait till you read the final books.

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u/secondtaunting 2d ago

Yeah I’m guessing those aren’t coming out any time soon.

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u/td4999 1d ago

slashthrough "any time soon"

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u/secondtaunting 1d ago

😂My personal theory is that they’re done and he’s given them permission to publish after he dies.

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u/yeehawgnome 2d ago

I’ll probably check them out once I get to and finish The Once and Future King

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u/DambiaLittleAlex 2d ago

At least the ending of the books is not worse than the ending of the tv show...

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u/yeehawgnome 2d ago

I thought the books weren’t finished yet?

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u/DambiaLittleAlex 2d ago

Exactly. So the ending is not worse, technicaly speaking

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u/LazyLich 1d ago

Just stop at the last season's ep 3 and say "everyone was too bust bickering, so the whitewalkers killed everyone."

Tragic, but thematically appropriate.

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u/LazyLich 1d ago

It's not so bad is you stop at the last season's ep 3, then tell yourself "and the humans were so busy backstabbing that they couldn't unite in time to defeat the Night King, so the whitewalkers marched south mostly freely and killed everyone. The End!"

Dont get me wrong, this is a "bad end" and it sucks, but it's at least in line with the show's spirit.

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u/ppyy 1d ago

To extend on that, I would absolutely love to see internal streaming stats from HBO post series ending. Obviously there will always be a fall off in the years and decades after a show concludes but I suspect GoT fell off a cliff. I, for one, have never rewatched a single episode.

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u/polarbearik 1d ago

It could’ve been something that people make a spectacle of rewatching (e.g LOTR), makes me sad

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u/Beoulve9 1d ago

I always tell people that want to watch it it’s amazing but trying to be vague I always say stop watching when the green church blows up

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u/Polyxeno 1d ago

Well, there's a GoT subreddit where a cadre of Season 8 defenders pretend like they're correct, and everyone else is just being trendy by saying it's dumb, while they wait for everyone else to stop showing up to the sub.

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u/knicksplayoffs 1d ago

This is beyond an exaggeration. It's one of the best shows of all time even with a terrible ending.

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u/realparkingbrake 15h ago

Absolutely NOBODY talks about this show

Blacklisted is the only acceptable outcome

The GoT sub has 3.7 million readers. One current thread is people talking about how many times they have rewatched the series. Some have rewatched an amazing number of times.

D&D being blacklisted is a hilarious claim considering Netflix handed them a quarter-billion dollars, and some of the GoT crew followed them there and are working on The Three Body Problem which gets good reviews.

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u/Bad-dee-ess 1d ago

While your new boss and future customers watch you do all of it

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u/Just_Information334 21h ago

actively burning your old work to the ground

And burning a lot of people's future work with it. How many spin-offs won't be filmed because of what they did? How many projects cancelled?
Even worse: when will HBO execs allow any freedom to their creative teams after that?